The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Read critical background left out of breaking news alerts…
Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.
The Intercept tracked how AIPAC’s massive political spending is changing the balance of power in Congress – AIPAC has spent money on more than 80% of the 469 seats up for reelection this year…
Israeli legislature votes to ban critical UN humanitarian aid group – Day 387
Urgent call for doctors in northern Gaza; Israel votes strongly in favor of UNRWA ban, US is disappointed; Marwan Barghouti beaten severely in prison; South Africa adds thousands more pages of evidence to Int’l Court of Justice genocide case against Israel; UN official calls for total weapons embargo on Israel; massive cultural boycott against Israel; more.
Israel has killed over 1,000 in northern Gaza – Day 386
Horror in northern Gaza; more carnage in Lebanon; deaths in West Bank and Israel; Israel’s precarious position at UN; Canada; LA Times; more.
Israel wipes out healthcare in northern Gaza; what’s true and false about Israel’s attack on Iran – Day 385
Northern Gaza’s sick and injured have no options; don’t believe everything you read about Israel’s attack on Iran; Lebanon endures more horrors from Israel’s military; more West Bank deaths.
Israel’s latest targets include children, hospital patients, journalists – Day 384
Israeli forces storm northern Gaza hospital, assassinate Lebanese journalists; Israeli legislature poised to ban primary humanitarian aid org in Gaza; some US voices try to erase Palestine from discourse; more.
In northern Gaza, “We are just waiting for death to come. Or a miracle.” – Day 383
Israeli military cruelty knows no bounds, as another school-turned-shelter is bombed, children are abused, hospitals are depleted, and famine is descending.
The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank
Few people are aware of the religious intolerance that motivates the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlers on the West Bank. Consider the statement of one of their heroes, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel: “The only reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve Jews.”
Israel tags Palestinian journalists for assassination – Day 382
Israel’s hit list includes truth-tellers in Gaza; northern Gaza collapsing under Israeli violence as Lebanon is hit hard; Netanyahu won’t publicly deny ethnic cleansing plan; UPenn Palestine activists raided by militarized cops; more.
Police escalate the British state’s war on independent journalism
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism – except the UK government’s. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Israel’s genocide.
The West’s collusion with Israel creates constant discrepancies between press freedom and censorship.
U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields”
The Western media’s double standards when it comes to Israel and Palestine are hardly new. The discourse around “human shields” — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme, by letting Israel deflect the blame for mass civilian deaths.