'Not in our name': US citizens take legal action over tax dollars fueling Gaza genocide
"…On May 14, the grassroots group Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), along with the National Lawyers Guild International Committee, submitted a legal filing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, charging the US government of enabling Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
The historic complaint states that US military and financial support for the Israeli apartheid regime has played a direct role in the destruction of Palestinian lives in Gaza.
The 135-page document includes sworn affidavits from Palestinian-American plaintiffs who lost loved ones in Israel's ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, where more than 53,000 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 120,000 injured over the past 19 months, as per official estimates.
The complaint names former US presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as well as members of US Congress, accusing them of funding and arming a genocidal campaign.
Huwaida Arraf, a civil rights attorney and Palestinian solidarity activist, announced the filing of the complaint in Washington, D.C.
Arraf, who also helped lead the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, drafted the petition and is serving as lead attorney on the case…"
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https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/05/18/748172/Not-in-our-name-US-citizens-take-legal-action-over-tax-dollars-fueling-Gaza-genocide
