Call with Pat Ryan yesterday:

The statement by Kristina Hwang took everyone's breath away. She calculated that the congressman had accepted funds from AIPAC amounting to exactly $6.50 for each Palestinian child killed since October. She asked him how he felt about valuing human life that way and how his own children will one day feel about their father.

There were many other powerful statements made on the call, including by Palestinian-Americans whose families have been forced from their homes, maimed and killed-- not just these past months but for decades.

It was clear that Ryan was carefully avoiding the word ceasefire. He used elaborate dodgy substitutes but would not pronounce the word -- as if he had been muzzled.

How have we lost so much human rights ground here in the US? How have we managed to normalize attacks on hospitals and demonize the word ceasefire?

It would be great if we could gather the written statements in one place.

~Katherine