End New York’s complicity with Israel’s war crimes

End New York’s complicity with Israel’s war crimes

On May 31, many of my colleagues in elected office proudly marched in the annual “Israel Day on Fifth” parade in Manhattan. They marched in the same parade as Israel’s right-wing finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who calls for Palestinian towns to be “wiped out” and for Gaza to be “entirely destroyed.” Smotrich has described himself as a “fascist homophobe,” and his Religious Zionist Party recently pushed through a new policy that applies the d…