Protesters alert major news media on Gaza Starvicide

A small group of protesters gathered on July 30, 2025 in front of the NBC, CSPAN, and Fox News stations close to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. They carried and displayed posters depicting the starving toddlers in Gaza, Israel.

Slogans read things like, "Let the Food Trucks In" "Israel did this" "Media Complicity in Genocide" "Let Gaze Live" "Your Tax Dollars Enable Israel to Do This" and "Israel Stop Starving Gaza."

The leaders were from well-known groups such as TruthAboutPalestine.com, and CodePink.

This reporter asked a CodePink tee-shirt wearing advocate about what they hope to accomplish, and what response they had received so far. Apparently, the news media were ignoring the group banging their pots and pans, blaring their sirens, and making noise below.

They only emerged from the building during noon hour and most of them blithely headed past the protesters, scowling at or ignoring the posters, so they could grab lunch on time. However a handful of passerbys and workers did stop to ask questions. By the end of the noon hour, a camera-man from NBC News was even setting up his camera.

There were a few police cars parked out front, and one Fox News media person talked with the police in his car, energetically gesticulating at the group, while his building security guard held up his phone camera to take footage of all the protesters (there were less than ten). Luckily the police did not do anything, since yellow tape already marked off the right-of-way protest boundaries, so protesters could not cross past the sidewalk.

The advocate told me that she would summarize what she would tell the media if she could confront them about their complicity in the genocide, something evident because of their lack of coverage, their self-censorship, and their even adopting the pro-Israel perspective justifying the genocide in Gaza: "Shame on you for allowing this to happen!"

But isn't the price of cheap gas and lower inflation and all the rest of the access to resources in the Middle East important for helping Make America Great Again?

No, the advocate believes, because it is costing human lives, and that is a crime. The killing must stop, and it doesn't matter about the rest, because it is irrelevant.

This kind of gallant philanthropic idealism is becoming rare in America today because we have a President who values riches, power, and glory more than anything else on Earth.

However here are a few facts from Truth About Palestine who handed out fliers to passersby:

"2 million people in Gaza are in Stage 5 of malnutrition, the effects of which are irreversible, even if food becomes available in the future."

"650,000 children under the age of 5 are on the brink of death due to starvation. At least 620 people have already died due to malnutrition, including at least 76 babies."

This is in addition to the at least 650 deaths due to the GHF relief center soldiers shooting at those who were crowding or standing too close together. In fact Truth About Palestine belives it is more like at least 1,000 people who have been shot.

They believe that denial of basic human rights, food and water, or using these as weapons of war, is cruel and inhumane. The blockade has restricted the entry of food, fuel, and essential daily necessities for babies and those with health needs.

"Over 9,000 humanitarian aid convoys are blocked and bombed, preventing desperately needed food from reaching Palestinian civilians. All major food aid organizations are banned from Gaza by Israel. Food is available and waiting to enter---but Israel is blocking it."

Truth About Palestine wants the American public, the media, and especially the legislators and decision-makers in Congress to end this "engineered starvation."

As the public, we can become the voice of conscience by contacting our elected officials from "Find Your Representative" at House.gov and Senate.gov, and let them know that we want this brutal crime and gross injustice to end. We can also break the silence by speaking out on social media, sharing images of the starving children and demanding that our leaders take action. We can tag influencers, celebrities, media personalities, businesses, and elected officials, telling them that we demand action now.

This is the second time that Code Pink has come out to speak about the atrocities going on in Israel this month. The last time was July 7th when Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu was at the White House, and the American Muslims for Palestine held a joint press conference outside the gates of Lafayette Park in front of the White House. Code Pink's Medea Benjamin was not afraid to denounce the Prime Minister and the complicity of the news media:

"It boggles the mind to think that we have been witnessing this for so many months, and the failures of our international institutions, the failure of Arab countries, the failure of course of our own government, which is so complicit in this. And it's not just a slogan to say that Netanyahu belongs in the Hague and not here in the White House..."

The Hague of course refers not just to prosecution by the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, where PM Netanyahu is indicted for crimes against humanity, but the Hague Penitentiary Institution of the Netherlands.

And this opinion was also repeated by Rabbi Dovid Feldman at the July 7th press conference. After all, it is not just the institutions that are becoming complicit, but all of our nation's leaders including President Trump, who may face charges at the ICC if this continues. Rabbi Feldman stated:

"According to Judaism, all of this is wrong. Killing, stealing, oppressing an entire people. These are not only crimes in international law. These are crimes in Judaism. We have to remember that anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism in any way. Judaism and Zionism is not the same. Judaism is a religion, while Zionism is a purely political movement..."

Later that afternoon, in the wake that followed, the Rabbi offered a prayer of peace to the crowd, recalling how in the early twentieth century, Palestine had no religious conflict:

"We should remember we can live in peace. We will live in peace. But this obstacle to peace, this cause to conflict needs to be removed. Removed in its entirety. And we pray to Almighty God that we can see once again the beautiful peace to everyone involved where Jews, Muslims, anyone regardless where we come from can live in Palestine in the Holy Land, peacefully with no oppression, and with no murder or killing."

As Truth About Palestine advocates, this targeting of food, including Israeli "destruction of agricultural land, greenhouses, and fishing boats, and crippling Palestinians' ability to grow or catch their own food," is a crime that must be condemned and stopped. Visit TruthAboutPalestine.com to learn more about what's happening in Gaza and about the genocide.