Rep. Jared Huffman's Secret Fundraiser Gets Public Voter Feedback

Photos: Leon Kunstenaar

Representative Jared Huffman has earned a reputation as a political chameleon, easily shifting views to accord with the prevailing wind. He consistently scales new heights in self promotion as he proclaims legislative triumphs for minor regulatory adjustments. So far, he is playing it safe as he sticks with Biden's enabling of Israel's war crimes while, of course, sympathizing with the victims.

His "private" (read only rich benefactors) fundraiser at the Petaluma plant of the Lagunitas Brewing Company was surrounded by private security that sealed off all the plant's ample parking lots in the industrial "park." It was also closed to the press. Undeterred, over a hundred demonstrators crowded the public sidewalk to call out his support for the genocide of Palestine. A little girl led the slogans for Palestine liberation. For the occasion, "genocide Jared" was added.

On April 20th, Congressman Huffman voted to lavish Netanyahu’s extremist government with an additional $17 billion in unconditional military aid. Despite everything. Huffman does this despite reports that the very water that the people of Gaza depend on for survival is at risk of destruction. Not what we would expect of a politician who prides himself on his environmental record. This is ecocide, and Huffman is directly complicit.

Huffman sends more aid to the Israeli military as it bombs more homes, and forcing millions from their homes, living in crowded camps in Rafah, where the Israeli military will soon escalate its attacks. This is domicide, and Huffman is directly complicit.

Huffman sends weapons to Israel even as it impedes international and U.S. aid from reaching starving Palestinians. Beyond the brutal murder of the World Central Kitchen workers, the Israeli military has slaughtered over 100 Palestinian aid workers. The starvation of Palestinian civilians is a matter of Israeli policy. Congressman Huffman, despite promises to the contrary, voted to ban U.S. aid to UNRWA, that has the infrastructure vital to providing aid to Palestinians. Further, it is against U.S. law to send military aid to a state involved in impeding humanitarian aid, but Huffman instead bows to political expediency rather than follow the law. No one is above the law, not even a Congressman from Marin.

It is now clear that the whole of Netanyahu’s policy in Gaza amounts to the crime of genocide. Congressman Huffman is directly complicit in this genocide. Huffman’s empty words of concern do not matter when his actions that directly make possible these crimes are before us. Huffman chose not to join 37 of his Democratic Party colleagues, including moderates, and vote against this gift to the Netanyahu regime. We are then left with no choice but to expose the moral bankruptcy of Huffman’s support for Netanyahu.

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