American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on July 31 after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the crew of a ship headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on July 26.
The pro-Israel Hudson Institute hosted Johnnie Moore (the Chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) this week, but didn’t bother to ask him about the 1000 deaths at his Gaza sites. So I asked him myself.
As the famine in Gaza becomes undeniable, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has relied on strategic communications specialists to reassign blame and push a narrative of success.
“It seems incredibly hypocritical to suddenly be shocked by these images [of starving children] when every humanitarian agency has said no one can replace UNRWA.”
26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons’ sales to Israel – but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators.
Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.
The blame campaign intensified last week, courtesy of the Israeli army and the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. But it’s Israel’s government and the IDF that are responsible.
“What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland,” says Anthony Aguilar, a retired U.S. soldier who worked as a subcontractor.
The reality for many Palestinians in Gaza: they eat what they can scavenge, while thousands of tons of food sits just out of reach, blocked by Israel.
The current hand-wringing by Western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along and are complicit in the genocide in Gaza. In 2024, two US government departments concluded that Israel was deliberately blocking aid, which legally required the administration to stop supplying weapons. This was overruled by Joe Biden’s team.