Aid trucks enter Gaza unmolested; destruction stats; wasted negotiation time; Israel kills 10 Palestinians in bloody military assault on Jenin camp; Jenin is being ‘Gazafied’; Lebanon; Elise Stefanik’s Zionism
Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $125,000 to Zaka, the Israeli organization that is the source of most of the disinformation used to dehumanize Palestinians; Sheryl Sandberg, a key figure at Facebook, created a promotional documentary for Israel; Guy Rosen, the most senior person making decisions around what content is allowed on Meta, is Israeli, served in the IDF’s Unit 8200…
The hope is that Abu Safiya will not suffer the fate of his colleague, the former head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital. After four months of abuse at Ofer prison, Bursh was dumped by guards in its yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding and unable to stand. He died a short time later.
“The refusal of the New York Times to run paid ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth” – AFSC
Aid groups are running out of options; Israel blocks probe into Hamas rape allegations to avoid investigation of Israeli sexual crimes; ceasefire, or no ceasefire?; “Generals Plan” mastermind says military efforts won’t work; Israel kills 3 Palestinians in West Bank; Israel destroys Araqeeb village for 234th time; Amnesty Int’l suspends Israel branch; Ireland joins ICJ genocide case against Israel; Michael Moore on Gaza and pro-Israel propaganda
Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli attacked and threatened the American nonprofit organization, which has defended Americans of all faiths.
David Rovics recounts being censored on the world’s largest music streaming service… “My most popular new album, the one that sought to document the first three months of Israel’s ongoing Palestinian holocaust, is gone – erased, disappeared, unmentioned in end-of-the-year statistical wrap-ups as if it never existed.”
Those turning to the Sunday news shows to understand events or shape political priorities for the coming week were fed a consistent diet of superficial moralizing, softball interviews with US and Israeli officials, and entirely one-sided empathy and humanization since October 2023.
More than 57 years after the attack, the FOIA lawsuit revealed new details and, more importantly, it made it clear that the US government is still refusing to release hundreds of pages of documents concerning the assault.
Northern Gaza hospital ICU destroyed; Human Rights Watch on water; winter in Gaza without shelter, aid; Hamas replenishes its ranks; ‘We kill civilians and count them as terrorists’; West Bank death; Israel “abuses” Lebanon ceasefire; Australian foreign minister scolded by Israel; another US State Dept resignation