Richmond, California, is a city led by democratic socialist Mayor Eduardo Martinez. Local issues have receded in the background and conversations are more intensely focused on Israel's genocidal war in Palestine's Gaza and West Bank districts. Typical of the Zionist reaction to ANY criticism of an ultra-religious fundamentalist racist ethnic cleanser Zionist government, local Zionists are accusing Mayor Martinez of Jew-hating (under the stale all-encompassing buckshot accusation of antisemitism) because his criticism of Israel is illegitimate and antisemitic.
Stephen London, a dual US-Israel national and a Zionist resident of Richmond complained that the city became the first in the country to pass a ceasefire resolution over Palestine. London's complaint questioned why city leadership is focused on a war thousands of miles away, ignoring in passing that his own concerns, as resident of Richmond, California, also appear obsessed with defending a criminal Zionist regime thousands of miles away. Which raises the eternal question of loyalty of Zionist citizens around the world to their own country or to the Zionist colony in Palestine.
Why is AIPAC (America-Israel Political action Committee), for example, allowed to operate and subvert American domestic policies on both sides of the political divide - it pays off both democrat and republican candidates to secure the winner's support for the criminal Zionist regime thousands of miles away, at the rate of several billion dollars worth of grants and weapons per year.
Vice Mayor at large Eduardo Martinez at a news conference in Richmond, California.
London said his family lives in Israel and that he has visited the country a few times, including volunteering on a kibbutz (for those who don't know what a Kibbtuz is: A Communist-Socialist collective village whose economy operates on the soviet Sovkhoz and Kolkhoz model of communist villages). London admits that he keeps the Israeli citizenship out of ideological obligation toward Zionism (He hasn't been to Israel in several years because he fears for his life), but also the American citizenship just in case Zionists have to flee their declining colony.
The resolution, passed in October 2023, declared Richmond's solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and accused Israel of carrying out "a campaign of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment," according to a page on the city's website.
The resolution became a flashpoint for Zionist residents of Richmond, like London, who falsely argue (per the traditional intellectual dishonesty of Zionist propaganda) that thr resolution was aimed more at defending the Palestinian militant group Hamas than criticizing Israeli policies.
In August 2025, Mayor Martinez participated in the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, where he wore a hat that said "DD TT IDF," an acronym for "death, death to the IDF." (IDF stands for Israeli Death Forces). The mayor also spoke at the conference, where he compared himself to Palestinians, saying he understood the Palestinians' struggle because he was bullied as a child.
"If Palestine were a schoolyard playground, I would be a Palestinian, and that part of me, that part of me that couldn't endure the abuse anymore, would be Hamas," Martinez said.
In one of his posts, Martinez said in reference to the terrorist attack against Zionists in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, "RIP to all of the victims of Israel's false flag attack. The hero that disarmed the attacker was a Syrian-born Muslim man. That doesn't help the narrative that Israel is trying so hard to push." The same post accused Israel of "trying to manufacture fear and hate." Another post said that "the root cause of antisemitism is the behavior of Israel & Israelis," and was captioned, "They know it. We know it. Everybody knows it..."
Again, faced with the brutal truth and reality of what Israel is doing in Palestine - apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide all have been documented by every Human Rights organization - Zionist propaganda declares Martinez's posts as "dangerously antisemitic, deeply offensive, and wholly unacceptable — particularly coming from a sitting mayor, and reflects "a consistent and deeply troubling disregard for the safety and dignity of Jewish people."
Vice Mayor at large Eduardo Martinez at a news conference in Richmond, California.
London said his family lives in Israel and that he has visited the country a few times, including volunteering on a kibbutz (for those who don't know what a Kibbtuz is: A Communist-Socialist collective village whose economy operates on the soviet Sovkhoz and Kolkhoz model of communist villages). London admits that he keeps the Israeli citizenship out of ideological obligation toward Zionism (He hasn't been to Israel in several years because he fears for his life), but also the American citizenship just in case Zionists have to flee their declining colony.
The resolution, passed in October 2023, declared Richmond's solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and accused Israel of carrying out "a campaign of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment," according to a page on the city's website.
The resolution became a flashpoint for Zionist residents of Richmond, like London, who falsely argue (per the traditional intellectual dishonesty of Zionist propaganda) that thr resolution was aimed more at defending the Palestinian militant group Hamas than criticizing Israeli policies.
In August 2025, Mayor Martinez participated in the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit, where he wore a hat that said "DD TT IDF," an acronym for "death, death to the IDF." (IDF stands for Israeli Death Forces). The mayor also spoke at the conference, where he compared himself to Palestinians, saying he understood the Palestinians' struggle because he was bullied as a child.
"If Palestine were a schoolyard playground, I would be a Palestinian, and that part of me, that part of me that couldn't endure the abuse anymore, would be Hamas," Martinez said.
In one of his posts, Martinez said in reference to the terrorist attack against Zionists in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, "RIP to all of the victims of Israel's false flag attack. The hero that disarmed the attacker was a Syrian-born Muslim man. That doesn't help the narrative that Israel is trying so hard to push." The same post accused Israel of "trying to manufacture fear and hate." Another post said that "the root cause of antisemitism is the behavior of Israel & Israelis," and was captioned, "They know it. We know it. Everybody knows it..."
Again, faced with the brutal truth and reality of what Israel is doing in Palestine - apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide all have been documented by every Human Rights organization - Zionist propaganda declares Martinez's posts as "dangerously antisemitic, deeply offensive, and wholly unacceptable — particularly coming from a sitting mayor, and reflects "a consistent and deeply troubling disregard for the safety and dignity of Jewish people."
The problem for Zionist propaganda is that it proposes such extremist views that it puts itself in corner from which it cannot escape. To Zionist propagandists, Jew=Israeli= =Zionist. You can't criticize one without criticizing the other two.
If you criticize Zionism, you are immediately tagged as an antisemite who hates Jews, when this is not necessarily true. And when you shield your Zionism behind Judaism, you are now using Judaism as a human shield against any critique of Zionism.
Furthermore, by equating all three terms - Jew=Israeli=Zionist - any terrorist or militant who has a bone to grind with Zionism (but not against Judaism) is automatically labeled a Jew-hating antisemite.
Richmond, California, was the first California city to pass a resolution in support of the Palestinian people. The Richmond City Council also accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing."
Residents of Richmond say the mayor is standing on the right side of history by opposing colonial Zionism. Martinez is preparing for his re-election bid and is aligned with both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), a powerful coalition that has had influence over politics in the city for years.
Richmond, California, was the first California city to pass a resolution in support of the Palestinian people. The Richmond City Council also accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing."
Residents of Richmond say the mayor is standing on the right side of history by opposing colonial Zionism. Martinez is preparing for his re-election bid and is aligned with both the Democratic Socialists of America and the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), a powerful coalition that has had influence over politics in the city for years.
A Jewish LGBTQ+ leader in the Bay Area, Tyler Gregory, warned that the Jewish community has to strike a balance between being "really careful not to cry wolf" and keeping the public's attention on the issue.
Pro-Palestine activists hold banners during a protest commemorating Nakba Day - The commemoration of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by foreign Zionist settlers - on May 15, 2025, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The questions raised in Richmond regarding the ongoing Zionist rape of Palestine are witnessing a sharp rise in the political discussions leading to the midterms. The US-Israel war against Iran is a corollary of the central question of our time: The Question of Palestine. The question on many Americans' minds is: Should we continue to blindly support the last foreign colonial occupation and abuse of an indigenous country? Hasn't Israel run out of arguments (biblical garbage and otherwise) to justify its barbarity as a foreign colonial rapist and occupier of an indigenous people? When enough is enough?
Pro-Palestine activists hold banners during a protest commemorating Nakba Day - The commemoration of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by foreign Zionist settlers - on May 15, 2025, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The questions raised in Richmond regarding the ongoing Zionist rape of Palestine are witnessing a sharp rise in the political discussions leading to the midterms. The US-Israel war against Iran is a corollary of the central question of our time: The Question of Palestine. The question on many Americans' minds is: Should we continue to blindly support the last foreign colonial occupation and abuse of an indigenous country? Hasn't Israel run out of arguments (biblical garbage and otherwise) to justify its barbarity as a foreign colonial rapist and occupier of an indigenous people? When enough is enough?
Across the country, the Question of Palestine refuses to disappear from the conversation as much as Zionists like London wish it to disappear because "it is thousands of miles away". Isn't Iran thousands of miles away too? Why has the US assumed the task of being a bouncer for the rapist Zionists? The Zionists cannot have it both ways: Either Israel is a foreign settler that has no business implanting itself in a region where it does not belong, or it should find civilized ways to live as a polite guest who should be grateful for having been initially welcomed as refugees from an antisemitic West by the Palestinians? Instead, the crazy Zionists are trying to erase Palestine from the maps and erase everything that pertains to a Palestinian identity, not to mention the daily physical extermination of Palestinian men, women, and children by rabid fundamentalist Jewish barbarians squatting and stealing Palestinian lands.
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