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Two things in America create “bipartisanship”: support for Israel’s apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. — Ali Abunimah, October 16, 2019.

I live in the heart of the heart of the imperial core: Kansas. In September 2019, I was sitting at my Sidewalk Museum of Congress (SMoC) studio outside our then-1st District Rep. Roger Marshall’s office embroidering portraits of the Palestinian al-Farra family, most of whom were killed during “Operation Protective Edge,” “Israel’s” savage 2014 assault on Gaza.

Today, five years and eight months later, as the bipartisan support for “Israel’s” apartheid regime has morphed into an endless live-streamed US-armed genocide in Gaza, Ali Abunimah observes, “The deteriorating situation in the US underscores how unconscionable it is that @KamalaHarris @joebiden and @TheDemocrats threw their supporters to the cruelty of Trump just because they could not for a moment give up on their unshakeable commitment to murder Palestinians.”

I first occupied the SMoC space—a small stretch of pavement by the front door of Marshall’s office—in September 2018, in response to the killing of fellow Kansan Theresa Joyce-Wynne’s son Dominique White, who was shot in the back by Topeka police officers Michael Cruse and Justin Mackey in 2017. I parked myself at SMoC for roughly two years, and advocated or protested every domestic policy issue you can think of, from women’s rights to police violence, to immigration rights, and more. And, every now and then, the local anti-Trump folks would show up in welcome support, signs in hand, along with other, more creative protest tools.

But when I began protesting Washington’s bi-partisan support for........

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