US citizen brutally beaten to death in West Bank town of Sinjil Dear Supporter, Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been murdered in the West Bank since October 2023. That’s a slight window into the horror of daily life under a violent apartheid regime. Settlers, backed by the Israeli military and U.S. political and financial support, kill with impunity. Just today, they murdered two more Palestinians (including one with American citizenship). 20-year-old Saif Musallet was brutally beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil, and hours later, Mohammed al-Shalabi was shot in the chest and left to bleed for hours in cold blood. Their crime? Protesting the establishment of yet another illegal outpost on Palestinian land. This is part of a broader strategy to seize land in phases and expand illegal settlements. It’s a coordinated ethnic cleansing, point blank, and it’s being rolled out and broadcast in real time to the entire world.  America’s complicity runs deep. U.S.-based nonprofits funnel millions of dollars (with tax-exempt status) to Israeli settler organizations building illegal outposts and arming extremists. These groups are directly funding the displacement and terrorization of Palestinian communities, all while breaking tax laws and receiving full legal shelter from the U.S. government. And while this is happening, the U.S. is actively targeting nonprofits that fight back - those working to expose and end apartheid - sending an unmistakable message: funding ethnic cleansing is tolerated, but fighting for justice is a punishable offense. Saif and Mohammed were both so young. They had entire lives ahead of them, families who loved them, friends who will never stop mourning them, futures stolen in an instant simply for daring to protest their own dispossession. One of them held a U.S. passport, so we ask: will Trump demand justice for him the way he did for Edan Alexander? Will he uphold his “America First” promise when it’s a Palestinian-American whose life was taken? Or will he once again bow his head to Israel, no matter the cost in blood? Saif and Mohammed are not the first, and they won’t be the last, until Israel is finally held accountable. And let’s be unequivocally clear: whether a Palestinian holds American citizenship or not, every single murder committed by this regime must be explicitly prohibited, punished, and condemned. Human life is not negotiable merely because the victim is Palestinian, and American citizenship is not a condition for justice. Palestinians have every right to defy their occupier. Every right to protest the theft of their land without being murdered or imprisoned for it. The West Bank, Gaza, and all of historic Palestine are not Israel’s to steal. Every outpost built is illegal. Every Palestinian life taken is a life stolen with full U.S. backing. There is no neutral stance here. Continuing to fund and arm Israel while pretending to care about Palestinian lives is cowardice. It’s beyond complicity and partnership. We demand an immediate halt to all military aid, full sanctions on the Israeli government, and real accountability for the crimes being carried out with our tax dollars. This is the bare minimum. Anything less is a betrayal of justice and of the so-called “peace” this administration keeps preaching while enabling mass murder. AMP has been advocating for settler accountability for years, calling out this violence long before it made headlines. Last year, after relentless pressure, the Biden administration finally sanctioned a handful of settler groups. It was a small but significant step. We won’t stop until full accountability is delivered; until every settler, every official, and every backer of this apartheid regime is held responsible. In solidarity,
American Muslims for Palestine | 
