Pastor Haynes says Free Palestine.
Justice Democrats
We’re less than one week away from the Texas Democratic primary and the opportunity to add a new anti-AIPAC champion for human rights and peace to our team in Congress.
Reverend Frederick Haynes III has been saying it from the pulpit for years, and he’s still saying it now as a candidate for Congress in TX-30: Free Palestine.
Pastor Haynes was a leading member of a coalition of Black pastors who lobbied for a ceasefire in Gaza in January 2024.
The progressive Senior Pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Texas gave a powerful sermon on Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestinians in 2023:
“The Palestinians, who don’t have the weaponry of Israel, the Palestinians don’t have the financial backing from the United States that Israel has, and so they throw their rocks and shoot their arrows, and Israel is able to bomb them and kill them. Watch in the news a disparity between Palestinians being killed and Israelis being killed. It is totally unfair, but this country is going to stand on the side of apartheid because that’s its track record. It stood by apartheid in South Africa, because it created apartheid in this country.”
Unlike so many AIPAC-backed, establishment Democrats in Congress who tiptoe around the issue and give mealy-mouthed statements, the Rev. is committed to:
- Refusing any support from AIPAC or the Israel lobby.
- Condemning the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and apartheid in the West Bank.
- Ending taxpayer-funded U.S. military support for the killing of Palestinians, and instead redirecting those resources to programs that will uplift our struggling communities.
- Calling for an arms embargo on Israel and a “Marshall Plan … to rebuild Gaza, to rebuild Palestine for the indigenous people.”
In solidarity,
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