Withdraw foreign aid to Egypt, Israel; more humanitarian aid
Withdrawing foreign aid to Egypt, Israel, and any other countries violating the human rights of subjugated peoples. Increasing humanitarian aid to poor and vulnerable peoples around the world.
Enabling international peace by highlighting ecological sustainability, abolishing nuclear weapons, and promoting diplomatic processes.
Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website CornelWest24.org
, Aug 7, 2023
Stop all foreign military aid; close the bases; disband NATO
End the Wars: Bring our troops home and invest those trillions of war dollars into American communities.
Support veterans, stop all foreign military aid, close the bases, disband NATO, and ban nuclear weapons globally.
Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website CornelWest24.com
, Jun 16, 2023
Pro-Palestinians are accused of being anti-Semitic or naive
If you are fundamentally identified with the Palestinian cause, not in a way of putting Jews down but in a way of hating occupations, in a way of loathing domination there is a certain kind of consensus that it's a taboo issue, and somehow to raise
the issue means you're either anti-Semitic or don't understand the complexities of the Middle East, or all the different rationalizations that lose sight of the humanity of Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Source: The New Yorker magazine on 2024 Presidential hopefuls
, Mar 9, 2022