Israel kills at least 88 Palestinians, including at least 63 aid seekers; 6 starvation deaths; overturned aid truck kills 20; Guillain-Barre syndrome in Gaza; West Bank news; Israel as a ‘leper state’ in US; 500+ journalists demand access to Gaza
Noticeably absent from US news coverage of Trump’s waffling over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is any mention of the child sex predator’s apparent ties to Israeli intelligence. A 13 July Nexis search of US news outlets found that, of the 383 stories unleashed by Trump’s broken promise to reveal everything Epstein, only a single article broached ties between Epstein and Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad – and then tried to undercut it
The Wall Street Journal described prominent individuals who spent time with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction as a sex offender, evidence that he preyed upon young women and girls, and while there were indications that Epstein’s behavior hadn’t changed. These meetings helped enable Epstein to recruit young women. The list includes Noam Chomsky, Ehud Barak, Woody Allen…
This week, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a memo closing the Epstein case, making this the latest MAGA betrayal.
I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Fransisco, for speaking out against racism that leads to genocide.
“The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump to demand air strikes & other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran… “
Dr. Rupa Marya of San Francisco is suing for discrimination after her university punished her for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
Jonathan Greenblatt seems to think that criticism of Israel’s brutal acts, not the acts themselves, could promote a violent response from observers abroad.
Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
U.S. media largely ignored The Great March of Return that lasted almost two years. PBS was perhaps the most egregious example. See the Frontline film that PBS refused to show Americans. Had this film not been blocked, quite likely vastly more Americans would have seen Palestinians’ courageous attempt to use nonviolence… and perhaps the desperate October 7th breakout would not have occurred.