A look at the history of Israel’s Film and Theater Review Board reveals its major role in shaping the cultural image of the young state – and our worldview too
Banning Arab and Anti-occupation Films, This Censorship Agency Shaped Israel for Decades
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Commentary: AntiSemitism? God’s ‘Chosen’ People Have Bombed to Death 25,000 Women and Children
The world, especially the Global South, watches as U.S. continues to enable Israeli annihilation of a captive militarily occupied population of Palestinians officially referred to by Israel’s highest officials as ‘human animals.’
US backs down on plan to sanction Israeli battalion, in spite of US law – Day 203
US won’t follow through on sanctions on IDF units; Netanyahu calls for crackdown on American students; Emory president defends police violently arresting female prof who tried to stop police beating students; Gazan dead show signs of possible organ theft; Israeli police arrest rabbis marching to Gaza; Israel gives Hamas a “last chance” before Rafah invasion; UNRWA employee case closed; Freedom Flotilla…
Manipulation Politics: Israeli Gaslighting in the United States
Although the pro-Israel camp and their allies continue to dominate and influence Congress and the executive branch, they have slowly begun to lose control of the narrative.
‘Our Future Was Here’: Christians in Gaza
Like all Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of Christians living in the Strip found themselves with nowhere to hide once the war with Israel began after October 7, Israeli forces often targeting churches…
Announcing the Harvard University Liberated Zone
Harvard students have established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a demonstration of their love of justice, their hope for a free Palestine, and their dream of a liberated future for all.
Biden announces: $26B in US tax money to Israel will “make the world safer” – Day 201
Biden signs over more aid to Israel, as its military may be using internationally banned weapons, burying civilians alive, killing another journalist, enabling famine and disease, and preparing to invade the most densely populated region of the world; meanwhile, teenager killed in West Bank, Turkiye is being pressured to stop a massive aid shipment from sailing to Gaza; meanwhile, college campuses’ growing outcry against the genocide in Gaza, and more
US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200
More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov’t; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more
‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage
It’s a decades-old power imbalance: When a teenage Israeli was killed (after Israeli soldiers had killed a Palestinian shepherd), decades-old settler violence reached new levels
Blinken claims State Dept has no double standard favoring Israel – Day 199
Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of Rafah; having a baby in Gaza; final report on UNRWA says Israel never offered evidence of wrongdoing; West Bank death; flurry of actions in solidarity with Palestine on US college campuses, more