Senator Lindsey Graham slams Palestinians as ‘radicalised’ in social post

US lawmakers have leaned into anti-Palestinian rhetoric as Israel’s war in Gaza continues and the death toll rises. “Events like this make me more determined than ever to stand with Israel, de-radicalize the Palestinian people, and march toward a better and more stable world.” The comments are the latest in a string of anti-Palestinian remarks from the Republican senator, who previously suggested that Israel would be justified in using nuclear weapons in Gaza, where it has led a deadly military campaign since October. “I am taking part in this campaign to support their struggle for liberation, and because we must end all US support for the Israeli apartheid regime.” More than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war on October 7, following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas that killed 1,139 people. In October, a six-year-old Palestinian American boy named Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed to death by his neighbour, who allegedly yelled, “You Muslims must die!” Al-Fayoume’s mother was also injured in the attack. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart, and we should not be trying to hide it,” Palestinian American Representative Rashida Tlaib said on the floor of the House of Representatives.⁠ “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead.”