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Green Groups That Have Backed Palestinians Offer Justifications, Silence After Hamas Attacks

In 1948 when Israel was re-established, there were 700,000 so-called “Palestinians.” Now there are 7 million.

From The Daily Caller News Foundation

NICK POPE

CONTRIBUTOR

Several environmentalist groups that have advocated for the Palestinian cause have had little to say about the massive terror attacks launched by Hamas over the weekend.

The Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future and 350.org have variously supported the Palestinian cause and “decolonization” movements in the recent past, but have not yet released their own statements regarding the massive Hamas terrorist attack against Israel over the weekend. Some environmentalist groups view climate change and “decolonization” as inextricably linked because, in their view, the colonial era established unjust and exploitative economic systems that have subsequently evolved to drive climate change, according to The Club of Rome, an international policy think tank.

The Sunrise Movement, an environmental and social advocacy organization, has reposted a statement from an organization called IfNotNow, which says that “we cannot and will not say today’s actions by Palestinian militants are unprovoked” and that “every day under Israel’s system of apartheid is a provocation.” Hamas’ Saturday surprise attack has resulted in at least 700 deaths and numerous abductions, according to Axios, with Americans among the dead, prompting Israel to declare war against Hamas in response as reports of atrocities surface. (RELATED: ‘Squad’ Dems Weigh In After Terrorists Murder Hundreds In Israel)

In May 2021, when Israel last fought Hamas for an extended period of time, the Sunrise Movement posted a video comparing Palestinians to Black Lives Matter protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, and to environmentalist protesters in Standing Rock, North Dakota. “We must fight for collective liberation for us all, or we will never be truly free,” the video’s caption reads.

Fridays for Future, another prominent youth eco-activism organization inspired by Greta Thunberg, has made several statements in favor of the Palestinian cause in the past 12 months. “As an international anti-colonial, climate-justice movement, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation,” the group stated in November 2022.

The group has also called to “free Palestine from the River to the Sea,” a common refrain of Palestinian activists that calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state spanning from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. This slogan is also popular among violent Palestinian groups, as it implies the erasure of the Jewish state and, in some cases, the Jewish people inhabiting the area, according to the American Jewish Committee.

350.org, an international climate advocacy group, stated during the May 2021 conflagration between Israel and violent Palestinian groups that “now needs to be a time of solidarity & community across borders. From Palestine to Colombia to Myanmar and beyond, people are working for their liberation.” 350.org has not yet issued a statement disavowing the Hamas attacks, but it has tweeted about “migrant justice” and the work of a Brazilian graffiti artist in the days since Hamas murdered hundreds of Israelis.

The Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future and 350.org all did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

JP Morgan CEO calls on governments to seize land for wind and solar

There is nothing to keep governments (federal, state, or local) – egged on by green groups — from seizing on the idea and targeting rural landowners who will be forced to disgorge their property in the name of combatting climate change.

From CFACT

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. 

Jamie Dimon, CEO of Wall Street investment behemoth JP Morgan, is calling on governments to use the power of eminent domain to seize private property for wind and solar farms, as a means to reach the goal of net-zero emissions.

In his most recent annual letter to shareholders, Dimon addressed what he sees as the threat posed by climate change, revealing the extent he is willing to go to have his agenda carried out. Noting the time it takes to obtain permits for renewable energy projects, Dimon said, “Permitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way.”

Going far beyond what even the Biden administration has been willing to do – so far, Dimon stated, “We may even need to invoke eminent domain – we are simply not getting the added investments fast enough for grid, solar, wind, and pipeline investments.”

“The need to provide energy affordability and reliability for today, as well as for the needed investments to decarbonize for tomorrow, underscores the inextricable lengths between.

Open Season on Landowners

Enlisting such a powerful legal tool in the service of an industry sector favored by the ruling class has, to date, been “a bridge too far” even for the powerful climate cartel. No more. Dimon has now declared open season on rural landowners. There is nothing to keep governments (federal, state, or local) – egged on by green groups — from seizing on the idea and targeting rural landowners who will be forced to disgorge their property in the name of combatting climate change.

Dimon claims he wants energy that is “affordable and reliable.” But wind and soar power are “affordable” only because they are heavily subsidized by taxpayers. And neither wind nor solar is the least bit reliable, because they are completely dependent on weather and thus operate with breathtaking inefficiency. Without the government subsidies and renewable-energy mandates in many states, there would be no solar arrays or wind farms anywhere in the U.S..

Under Dimon’s scheme, land that would otherwise be producing food will instead be hosting wind turbines and solar panels. The JP Morgan CEO may have noticed, as his colleagues at Goldman Sachs have already acknowledged, that wind and solar power have failed to fill the gap from the shuttered coal-fired power plants – soon to be followed by shuttered natural-gas plants. Rather than admit the errors of his ways, Dimon wants to blanket the country with eyesores, and trample on property owners in the process.

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  • Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.
  • Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments.
  • Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Busines Daily, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, The Hill, The Epoch Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, and dozens of other newspapers around the country.
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  • He has testified before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. Dr. Cohen has addressed conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Bangladesh.
  • He has a B.A. from the University of Georgia and a Ph. D. – summa cum laude – from the University of Munich.