While Israelis celebrated the release of 4 captives by the military, Palestinians mourned hundreds of people killed during the operation. Mangled bodies of men, women and children were strewn about… the floating pier built by the US appears to have been used in the raid… Feigning civilian status, as Israeli forces seem to have done, may violate int’l law… some captives said to have been killed during the assault
Washington’s diplomacy on Gaza is held hostage by a domestic political narrative on Palestine that has long been divorced from reality and reason… Countries around the world no longer look to the US as a responsible actor…
Israel bombs UN school, strips children of their clothes, pushes a million Gazans toward famine, kills civilians with drones; Israelis stage provocative Flag March; Israel targets US lawmakers with fake news; mysterious files on Netanyahu; “disinfo” Israeli company; much more…
Long after Landau’s emotional recollections were replayed, repeated, cited, and quoted in the global media, a problem emerged: No one could find any evidence that the two massacres ever took place — in Be’eri or elsewhere.
The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed
In “Our Palestine Question,” Geoffrey Levin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish studies at Emory University, recovers the voices of those Jews who first called for an honest reckoning of the plight of Israel’s Palestinian population.
A political entity that is committing the most egregious crimes in the world isn’t being “unfairly targeted” by those mobilizing against it.
3,000 aid trucks wait at the border to enter Gaza, 100s of medical patients wait to exit; Israel assassinates Gaza police; as Israel destroys northern Gaza, more troops also head to southern Gaza; Israeli settlers attack aid trucks bound for Gaza; Israel wants US to withdraw support for two-state solution; president of Iran killed in helicopter crash; Netanyahu controls cabinet’s access to US leaders, doesn’t want to end war; Glasgow Univ rector investigation incited by Gnasherjew website; NYPD overreacts to peaceful Nakba protest in Brooklyn
Israel defends its attack on Rafah with lies; UN commemoration of the Nakba emphasizes Israel’s options for Palestinians: “displacement, subjugation, or death”; as Gaza pier (paid for by US) becomes operational, US denounces Israel’s refusal to open land routes for aid; West Bank deaths; University of California academics authorize strike for Gaza; more
Inside Higher Ed: Under pressure from donors & politicians, some college administrators are increasingly punishing student activists with suspensions, expulsions & arrests’