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.
American lawyer and political activist Ralph Nader states that the genocide is being committed by Israel and funded by US taxpayers’ money is exponentially worse than we think.
“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.”
While it continues its conflict with its neighbors, Israel is fighting another war just as intensely, spending gigantic amounts of money bombarding Europe with propaganda.
Rev Canon Dr Richard K. Toll writes an open letter to the bishops, priests, deacons, and lay leadership of the Episcopal Church amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.
“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.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined with Democrats to become the first member of the Republican Party to call the crisis in Gaza a “genocide.”
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.