We are calling Fremont County, Wyoming to make an explicit stance against the genocide happening in Palestine.

We are a group of Fremont County and Wind River Indian Reservation community members who believe that violence against Palestinian people is legally unjustified and morally shameful. As a coalition of citizens with identities ranging from Jewish, Indigenous, Christian, LGBTQ2S+, folks who have experienced the abuses of the US prisons/immigration systems, and white allies, we understand that Zionism is a racist, Islamophobic, colonial project that co-opts a carefully-fabricated Indigenous Jewish identity to justify the mass killings and displacement of Indigenous Palestinians. To condemn Zionist violence is not anti-semetic; conversely, we believe it is anti-semitic to conflate the two– as Judaism has always existed far beyond, and often well outside the scope and intention of Zionist ideals, especially when manifested in the form of ethnic cleansing.

The US has been funding Israel’s violence against Palestinians for decades, under presidencies from Truman to Biden. Right now, our military budget gives an average of $3.4 billion to Israel every year. Our call to end the violence in Palestine is not about condemning Hamas, but instead, condemning the violent, colonial forces that created the organization in the first place. The United States has fueled Israel’s industrial-scale development and distribution of weaponry, border security technologies, and training from Israeli military/policing organizations. We cannot be complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people, just as we cannot be complicit in the racist and colonial war against Black, Indigenous, and migrant populations occurring right here on North American lands. The continued violence, over policing and disenfranchisement, and the dishonoring of sovereignty that occurs against Native community members right here in Fremont County are all direct consequences of these systems of industrialized prejudice. 

We have long been spoon-fed information (from politicians and on all major American and western-colonial news broadcasting sources) that supports this genocide and conflates the violence as a justified war between Israel and Hamas, when in reality the Palestinian people do not have a centralized military, nor a single centralized representative government. 

We refuse to be silent on this crisis. We will not be made complicit in the ongoing colonial genocide against Palestinian people, just as we will actively resist the daily violence against Indigneous and LGBTQ2S+ people in Fremont County. Our local governments did nothing when an anti-semetic, anti-LGBTQ2S+, white supremacy group called the Patriot Front showed up to a local Wind River Pride gathering this past June. Further, our Wyoming At-Large Representative, Harriet Hageman, just voted to censure the only Palestinian person in the US House after speaking out against the violence. Our local governments need to do better. We demand that our local and state governments publicly oppose genocide against Palestinians. We demand a full ceasefire. We demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Indigenous Lands. We demand that those complicit and silent in this violence take responsibility, and strive to do better in securing a better, more dignified and equitable existence for all. 

We are calling Fremont County, Wyoming to make an explicit stance against the genocide happening in Palestine.

Will you join us in this call?