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Where to go when 89 percent of Gaza is a war zone? – Day 315

[email protected] August 18, 2024 campus protest, dnc protest, evacuation orders gaza, gaza safe zone, israeli espionage, twins killed in gaza, water in gaza, west bank deaths, zawayda attack

Doctor astounded by number of “eye amputations” he had to perform on children in Gaza; leaked documents indicate Israel knew it was breaking laws in US; attack kills 15 in one family during ceasefire talks; 11% of Gaza is “safe”; Israeli evacuation shuts off 10 wells, worsening water crisis; 2 Palestinians assassinated in West Bank; the murder of newborn twins; pro-Palestine campus activism plans for fall; protests in Chicago this week at DNC; more.

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Gaza records first polio case in 25 years – Day 314

[email protected] August 17, 2024 arms embargo, ceasefire, DNC, freedom flotilla, from the river to the sea, humanitarian aid, icc arrest warrant, Jayson Gillham, Mark Smith FCDO, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, pogrom, polio, safe zone, UC Irvine, uncommitted movement

Polio epidemic begins; new flyers about Gaza to distribute; just 11 percent of Gaza for Gazans; Israeli settlers carry out pogrom; Gaza Freedom Flotilla drawing near; Israeli leaders mull how to dodge ICC arrest warrants; German courts grapple with the meaning of “from the river to the sea”; Dems want ceasefire and arms embargo, but will Kamala listen?; senior UK diplomat resigns over Gaza; “Blue Vote Red Line” movement continues to gather signatures; more

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Official Gaza death toll passes 40,000; over 92,000 injured – Day 312

[email protected] August 15, 2024 genocide, hatch act, humanitarian aid, israel attacks on schools, israeli settlement, mask ban, minouche shafik, US made weapons, West Bank

Food aid in southern Gaza next to zero; Israel has killed over 2,000 Palestinian babies; Israel’s intensifying attacks on Gaza’s schools; West Bank violence; Israel approves new, punitive settlement – on a World Heritage site; Gaza is covered with scars from US-made bombs; US Justice Dept used Hatch Act to bully an employee; Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigns; mask ban in NY targets Palestine protesters; more.

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I reported a piece for the New York Times on antisemitism. I found a major error, but the Times didn’t care.

[email protected] August 11, 2024 antisemitism, hillary goldberg, journalistic malpractice, new york times, Teaneck NJ

An elected official reported an antisemitic break-in. Police say it didn’t happen, but the New York Times won’t issue a correction.

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Israel has killed 1.8% of Gaza’s population – using American weapons – Day 308

[email protected] August 11, 2024 american weapons in gaza, gaza school bombing, genocide, occupation, uncommitted movement

The staggering death toll Israel has imposed on Gaza; update on horrific school bombing that killed 100: American-made weapon, Israel issues fake “terrorist” list, accuses Hamas of inflating fatality numbers; Israeli leaders speak openly about permanent occupation of Palestinian territories, tell US to mind its own business, support rapists over law; Uncommitted Movement says “arms embargo now”; more.

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As Gazans starve, Israeli rhetoric grows more and more radically anti-Palestinian – Day 306

[email protected] August 9, 2024 AIPAC, ceasefire, Cori Bush, ethnic cleansing, humanitarian aid gaza, kamala harris on palestine, polio in gaza, rape of palestinian prisoners, sanctions, tim walz on palestine, torture of Palestinian prisoners

In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not rapists, but the one who filmed them, to make rape of prisoners official policy, to make Nablus in West Bank “look like Rafah,” to legalize Israeli settlement in Gaza, to end US sanctions on violent settlers; Biden admin ok’s more war after prisoner swap (risking ceasefire deal), condemns not AIPAC’s purchase of congressional candidates, but Cori Bush’s warnings against AIPAC; Kamala Harris indicates no tolerance for pro-Palestinian protesters’ message; Walz’s track record on Palestine is not nearly as moral as Dems painted it…

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Israel prevents entry of 1M life-saving polio vaccines into Gaza – Day 305

[email protected] August 8, 2024 AIPAC, Bezalel Smotrich, cori bush defeated, genocide, polio in gaza, torture of Palestinian prisoners, west bank detentions, world central kitchen

Polio threat looms large over Gaza – but not over Israel; condemnation of Israeli soldiers’ sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners and Smotrich’s call to starve Gazans reverberate worldwide; another World Central Kitchen staffer killed in airstrike; Israeli detentions of West Bank Palestinians surpasses 10,000; AIPAC money talks as another Squad member is defeated in primaries; American politicians’ full-throated support for Israel’s genocide; BDS victory in UK; more.

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Welcome to Hell

[email protected] August 5, 2024 administrative detention, btselem, itamar ben gvir, torture

Israeli prisons, in which every Palestinian inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto torture camps. Report by B’Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories.

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Israeli massacres, evacuation orders, torture continue unabated – Day 302

[email protected] August 5, 2024 ceasefire, evacuation orders, freedom flotilla, Gaza education, humanitarian aid, israeli mass surveillance, israeli settler violence, massacre, palestinian prisoner torture, pope francis

Bombs without warning, Gazans on the move again; more reports of prisoner torture; Gaza’s kids have lost one full school year; Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque; Israel adds new conditions to ceasefire proposal; Amazon provides storage for Israeli military mass surveillance; US military build-up in Middle East; VP contenders Shapiro & Pritzker are Israel partisans…

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Israel has killed over 600 in West Bank since October 7th – Day 301

[email protected] August 4, 2024 Bram Settenbrino, hamas, home demolition, israeli attack west bank, israeli settlement, josh shapiro, netanyahu lying, neturei karta

Israel rains death & destruction on Gaza & West Bank; anti-Zionist rabbis attend Haniyeh’s funeral; Israeli-American soldier posted videos of Gaza homes, mosque being detonated; Kamala Harris VP contender Shapiro has ties to Israeli military; US aircraft carrier has eyes on Iran; US official says Biden figured out Netanyahu has been lying to him.

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