The author and academic Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work titled “If I Must Die” tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change.
Israel’s killing continues, including a journalist, mayor, and its own hostages; Palestinian Authority kills a Palestinian for Israel; campus protestors face possible 7-year sentences; more.
Palestinian bodies are being shredded, evaporated, starved; hospital systematically destroyed; Israel is enabling famine, and on and on.
Staggering levels of childhood malnutrition in Gaza; Israel kills humanitarian aid workers, journalist, fishermen, prisoners, Lebanese; Australia supports Palestine in the UN
The Wikipedia entry on Alison Weir is among the items targeted by Israel partisans. It contains numerous false claims and misinformation. Below is a point by point rebuttal. It is crucial that Wikipedia correct this.
Israel’s message is clear: regardless of who governs Syria, Israel will ensure it does not possess the basic military capacity to defend itself. (Israel has targeted Syria since the 1950s.)
Israel is targeting Gaza’s doctors; Israel launches ‘largest air attack in its history’ on Syria; Israel pounds Lebanon in latest ceasefire violations; Refaat Alareer; campus protests and pushback against free speech; Brian Mast to lead House Committee on Foreign Affairs; more.
An unprecedented 19 senators opposed a recent arms sale; we’ll soon find out whether that sentiment is growing. Some other signs times are changing. Three 2024 pre-election polls showed that likely voters, and not just Democrats, favored conditioning or even halting aid to Israel, including arms transfers.
Israeli attacks kill at least 30 Gazans; Israeli forces strip and line up prisoners in northern Gaza; 2 West Bank deaths; Israel unleashes hell across Syria
As winter approaches and blankets are in short supply, Israel destroys an aid truck; Pope Francis amplifies call for peace in the Holy Land; Netanyahu extends ‘hand of peace’ to Syrians as Israeli jets strike Damascus; Israel continues to violate ceasefire in Lebanon; Israeli settlers run the Wild, Wild West Bank.