Far-left activists from Code Pink are being accused of exploiting tragedy after linking California’s devastating wildfires to the conflict in Gaza, claiming both are fueled by policies targeting indigenous lands and broader environmental neglect.

Code Pink organizer Olivia DiNucci led a protest outside Sen. Alex Padilla’s California office on Wednesday, using the state’s raging wildfires as a platform to promote the group’s radical agenda. 

Slamming Congress’s support for Israel “to continue to bomb and obliterate people in Gaza,” DiNucci alleged that California’s fire crisis is part of a global pattern of destruction, tying the environmental devastation to the conflict in Gaza, where Hamas rules.  

“We are drawing the parallels where people in communities in California are being evacuated from their homes, and people in Gaza have been evacuated from their homes for the past 15 months,” DiNucci stated.

“Every bomb that goes off is being tested and built on sacrifice zones in this country, on indigenous lands,” she claimed, arguing that U.S. priorities are creating both ecological harm and human suffering. “We need that money for climate reparations, for health care, for housing, instead of going to further climate collapse and further the devastation and genocide of the people in Gaza.”

Code Pink, a self-described “anti-militarist, internationalist & feminist environmental movement,” is urging the redirection of federal funds toward climate reparations, housing, and health care rather than programs it says exacerbate crises at home and abroad.  

“We are here today making the connection between the climate crisis, between endless militarism, that genocide is ecocide, and that we need to put that money into constituents and communities here at home,” the radical peace activist continued.

The group’s claims immediately drew widespread outrage, with many accusing Code Pink of exploiting the California fires for political theater.  

“Fires are raging in Los Angeles, and thousands are losing their homes. Naturally, Code Pink goes through the halls of Congress with, ‘How can we make this all about Gaza?’” said commentator Joel M. Petlin.  

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