Most Americans know little or nothing about the people of Gaza – or Palestinians in general. Here is a small step toward closing that knowledge gap.
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Gaza-Israel: Latest news and statistics (the first 25 days)
New info and stats about the ongoing situation – updated regularly – also provides background & history. (This is pinned to the top – see additional new posts below.)
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) again sides with human rights abusers over free speech on campus
The ADL wants to see the continuation of Israeli abuse of Palestinian human rights – and the repression of free speech on American campuses – rather than cause discomfort among Jewish students.
No more “shrinking map of Palestine” – it’s gone
As Israel enjoys impunity on every front for every action, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped into a whole new realm of chutzpah – and the world didn’t bat an eye when he signaled that Palestine has vanished, or at best is irrelevant.
Israel kills six Palestinians in two days
Tuesday and Wednesday saw Israeli military violence in several regions of the occupied Palestinian territories, causing many Palestinian deaths and injuries.
Forest Against the Trees: Zionist monocrops erase Palestinian history
One diaspora Palestinian describes her journey to find her family’s destroyed village of Ibdis – and offers a fascinating lesson in Israel’s history of covering up its crimes to help us understand what she found.
This year, Israel denied life-saving health care to ‘two Palestinian children a day’ in Gaza
Almost 400 sick children from Gaza were deprived the chance to leave the besieged enclave for health care in the West Bank in six months, according to Save the Children.
Big truths that RFK Jr ignores in his eagerness to support Israel
Longtime journalist Chris Hedges offers a partial inventory of Israel’s documented human rights abuses of Palestinians – massive abuses that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. chooses to ignore: the crimes of apartheid, and the targeting and torturing of civilians, to name a few. As Hedges reminds us, to support this Israel is to “justify the unjustifiable”; and to protest Israeli policy is “a political death wish.” (part 3)
Expert reveals Israel’s abuse of Palestinians was premeditated
Longtime journalist & former Middle East bureau chief Chria Hedges provides a brief but powerful description – much of it firsthand – of Palestinians’ devastation at the hands of Israel. He then provides proof that this is exactly what Israel’s founders had in mind. (part 1 pf 3)
Recent news from Israel and Palestine that you probably missed
The news cycle never ends in Israel and Palestine, but coverage by mainstream can be extremely spotty. Here are a few recent stories from the region.