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The genocide in Israeli prisons

[email protected] June 10, 2024 prisoners, torture

Whistleblower testimonies detail practices to which Palestinian prisoners have been subjected, including being strapped down to beds while blindfolded and made to wear diapers, having unqualified medical trainees conduct procedures on them without anesthesia, having dogs set on them by prison guards, being regularly beaten or put into stress positions for offenses as minor as peeking beneath their blindfolds, and having zip-tie wounds fester to the point of requiring amputation…

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Israel accused of releasing Palestinian detainee with amputated legs to evade treatment

[email protected] June 8, 2024 amputation, evasion, explosion, israeli soldiers, responsibilty, Wafaa Jarrar

Israeli prison authorities have released a wounded Palestinian detainee soon after her arrest to evade responsibility for her serious medical condition resulting from her detainment, her family and a rights group told Middle East Eye.

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Biden policies: Rudderless, incompetent and complicit

[email protected] June 7, 2024 arms sales, Biden Administration officials, China, famine, gaza pier, humanitarian aid, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, saudi arabia, superpowers, US complicity in genocide, US Congress

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…

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American Media Keep Citing Zaka — though its October 7 atrocity stories are discredited in Israel

[email protected] June 5, 2024 exploitation, false claims about Oct 7, fanciful accounts, fund-raising, Israeli search-and-rescue organization, kibbutz be'eri, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, lack of evidence, new york times, Nova festival, podcast, sexual predators, using our imagination, western media whitewash, yossi landau, zaka

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.

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Mixed messages from Israel on ceasefire plan; US optimistic – Day 240

[email protected] June 3, 2024 ceasefire, childhood malnutrition, famine, israeli government, Jabaliya, maldives, West Bank

Israel has signaled acceptance & rejection of ceasefire plan, as Netanyahu hangs in the balance; number of bodies recovered in Jabaliya after IDF departure rises to 120; “worst of the worst levels of malnutrition” in Israel-created famine; northern Gaza declared disaster area; NYC Parade, Chabad, Michael Douglas, ADL support Israel; West Bank death; Maldives stands with Palestine, more…

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How Israel twists antisemitism claims to project its own crimes onto Palestinians

[email protected] May 29, 2024 antisemitism, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Palestine, podcast, zionism

In the wake of the proliferation of pro-Palestine student encampments on American college campuses, accusations of antisemitism are back at the center of U.S. and global political discourse.

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Netanyahu tries to explain away Rafah massacre: “we tried” – Day 234

[email protected] May 28, 2024 collateral damage, genocide, humanitarian aid, international criminal court, Netanyahu, palestinian prisoners, rafah massacre, war crime

Netanyahu claims civilian deaths in Rafah were “tragic” mistake; how limited is the “limited operation” in Rafah?; Rafah bombing is “the crime of crimes” – genocide; Amnesty Int’l and Reporters Without Borders call for war crimes investigations by ICC; US response to Rafah attack, more

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Israeli soldier threatens mutiny – “We want to annihilate them” – Day 232

[email protected] May 26, 2024 campus protest germany, captured israeli soldiers, evacuation, famine, gaza hospital, gaza pier, genocide, international ourt of justice, Jabaliya, mutiny, podcast, rafah crossing, tel aviv, torture, West Bank

Israeli strikes kill Palestinians just trying to survive; more evacuations; Israeli torture methods; Gaza hospitals in crisis; Israel searches for loopholes in ICJ ruling; 2nd grade Jewish girls meet with White House officials; Hamas rockets hit Tel Aviv; Gaza pier can’t take the rough seas; Hamas claims it captured Israeli soldiers, Israel denies; EU visits West Bank, condemn settler violence; campus protests in Germany, more…

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Unpacking the Israeli campaign to deny the Gaza genocide

[email protected] May 21, 2024 Counting bodies, engineered famine, Gaza Health Ministry data, genocide denial, Holocaust deniers, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Chronicle, podcast, reuters, smear campaign, Tablet Magazine, times of israel, US President Joe Biden, Western media discourse

A recent media flurry over the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza amounts to nothing more than genocide denial. This campaign to discredit the Gaza health ministry is simply a strategy to allow the Gaza genocide to continue.

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