Children are being killed by the thousands in Gaza. Both our role as educators and the Jewish values we were raised with demand that we support a cease-fire.
Source: We Are American Jewish Educators, and We Demand a Cease-Fire
Category: Israel Crimes
More than thirty independent experts appointed by the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations said Friday that arms exports to Israel must cease immediately, given Israeli violations of the international laws of war and the government’s announced intention to invade Rafah in south Gaza, which would create a further humanitarian catastrophe.
Israel has disparaged and attacked the UNRWA, the WHO, the HRC and any UN agency in general and even tried to establish sufficient doubt about the integrity of the rest of the world. Now they have turned their guns on another “antisemitic enemy” Medecins Sans Frontieres. Next it will be those bloody Jew haters in space
Israeli attacks on the supposed ‘safe areas’ have continued. On Wednesday, a shelter run by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) in al-Masawi was targeted by Israeli forces.
In the Illegally occupied West Bank
Since October, Mahmoud Amer’s village in the occupied West Bank has been under an effective blockade. He can’t leave by car, and every time he wants to leave on foot — whether to visit a relative or run an errand — or invite a guest into the village, he has to ask the adjacent Israeli settlement for permission.
“I call the settlement security coordinator every time the children go to school, or when my sister comes to visit,” Amer told +972 and Local Call. “We were told that if we left on foot without telling them, they would cause us problems.”
Source: Settlers and army blocking West Bank roads to Palestinians
It is a minimal ask. A minimal recognition of Palestinian humanity.
Despite Israel cutting power and internet, Palestinians have managed to livestream a picture of their own genocide to a world that allows it to continue.
But history will not lie. It will record that Israel perpetrated a holocaust in the 21st century.
Source: History will record that Israel committed a holocaust | The Electronic Intifada
“Gaza has become very fast one of the most dangerous places to be an aid worker in,” one UNRWA official said.
Source: In Likely Illegal Attack, Israeli Navy Fired on UN Food Convoy in Gaza
This century has seen a shift in the term Antisemitism. Away from Jews, as the victims of Germans, to Palestinians. They are the victims of Israel’s adoption of more aggressive policies since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin the Nobel Peace Prize-winning moderate PM who was assassinated by the avaricious extreme right coalition of minority parties currently holding power united in exchange for driving their extreme policies. The policies a Jewish Apartheid State in control of the Judiciary Education and Army to realign control over all of Palestine from the “river to the sea”
To have the appearance of a Democracy the fully formed Fascist State must ensure of an Institutional Jewish voting majority. This means the priority to the ethnic cleansing of the current number of Palestinians, the creation of an even more regulated Apartheid State, or as their final solution the one the Germans had. If not gas chambers in the short term then a guaranteed form of birth reduction in the long term.
Proposals for an occupation of Israel would require sovereignty to be redefined. Current definitions foster violence. Borders must be protected by force of arms. Within those borders, states such as Israel claim entitlement to defend themselves even by attacking people in lands they occupy.
Shmuley an absolute maniac calls this a “debate”? If he regards himself as a self appointed representative of Israel in America does Israel want to even acknowledge him. If he is the leading example along with Michael Rapaport of the current state of the Israeli mentality it’s no wonder Israel is going to the dogs.
Dr Finkelstein has a Political Science doctorate from Princeton. While Shumley is little more a performing monkey. The Rabbi who has gained attention with his Trump-style salesmanship and performances. Just say anything an everything and hope something sticks. The Rabbi is a Republican an ultra-conservative Zionist who believes Trump was “the most pro-Israel president in history”.
Of the three Finkelstein was a man of facts and considered rationality Morgan a typical anchorman forcing answers to questions that needed a framework for a more rational answer to a gotcha question. While Shumley was a total MAGA-minded Jew. He was a man locked in a barn blasting away and missing everything that a blind man might hit. A man who still believed he was the only one on target.
June 8, 1967, Another Date That Lives in Infamy
Sacrificing Liberty, by TruHistory Films, a documentary directed by Matthew Skow. It reveals recently uncovered information, new interviews as well as provocative theories for the attack. Watch the trailer on YouTube or purchase the documentary by visiting SacrificingLiberty.com.
The Day Israel Attacked America, an Al Jazeera documentary directed by Richard Belfield. Watch on YouTube.
Source: Former US Navy Pilot: The Day Israel Attacked the USA – ScheerPost
For the past 56 years, survivors and the families of the Israeli attack as well the families of the dead have petitioned our government in the most civil and respectful terms for a reopening of the investigation into the attack on the Liberty. Each and every plea has gone ignored and unanswered. Funds are currently being raised from the public to help sustain their continuing efforts for justice and recognition of their suffering. Each year, some of them die and the rest “soldier on.” To assist them financially in this worthy endeavor, please visit https://ussliberty.com.
https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/– 4 Episode Docuseries
Australia’s ALP Government is in favor of People Smuggling
Thousands of families in Gaza have evacuated to Egypt, mostly dual nationals, but also those who could manage the necessary money for bribes to border officials.
Source: Starting over with nothing in Egypt | The Electronic Intifada
Given the extent of the destruction of Gaza, many lower-level U.S. officials have come to question U.S. policy, fearing that it has been a moral failure. Hundreds have formally protested U.S. actions to the Biden administration, with some even resigning their positions.
Source: U.S. Officials Acknowledge Moral Issues at Stake in Gaza
How the West was spun,
One Palestinian human rights group called Israel’s evacuation orders “a pretext to push Gaza’s population closer to the border with Egypt in preparation for their mass deportation.”
Source: Israeli Plan to Evacuate Rafah by Force Sparks Warnings of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
UNRWA are just the latest example of what journalist Jeremy Scahill says is a “deliberate propaganda campaign” to justify its brutal assault on Gaza. “This is one of the most epic frauds in modern history, reminiscent of the lies told to explain and justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq,” says Scahill, senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept.
https://democracynow.cachefly.net/democracynow/360/dn2024-0207.mp4?start=2517.0
Gazans are now eating grass and drinking polluted water to stave off death. By choosing not to resume its financial support for UNRWA during this pivotal time, Canada is intensifying its complicity in potential genocidal acts.
It’s time to reinforce, not weaken the UNRWA. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged governments to resume funding, otherwise UNRWA will be forced to shut down operations by the end of February — not only in Gaza, but across the region.
Source: Israel isn’t Complying with the International Court of Justice Ruling – What Happens Next?
Pledge to end foreign interference proves hollow.
The Israel Lobby in action in the EU revealed. The conspiracy in clear sight. Israel has the funds to pull every trick in the book. This was never going to be an equal fight just a moral one Hames knew they couldn’t win. However, suprisingly they now know they will go down in history as if they did
Source: EU lawmakers fail to declare freebies from Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada
Germany is pursuing a “McCarthyist” policies that suppress the freedom of expression. Germany is increasingly isolating itself internationally with its positioning in the Gaza conflict. The double standards are simply too obvious: while the German government has repeatedly insisted on international law with regard to the Ukraine war, this no longer seems to play a role when it comes to an ally like Israel.
Source: Gaza, the German Far-Right and the Hypocrisy of the Ruling Class – ScheerPost
What even the bulldozer drivers failed to hide.
Palestinian officials on Wednesday demanded an international inquiry after the decomposing remains of dozens of blindfolded and handcuffed bodies were found at a northern Gaza school following the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Israel Claim “we are only defending ourselves” has never rung true historically
After warning the flotilla to end its attempt to proceed to Gaza, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) sent an elite commando unit to board the Mavi Marmara and other vessels in order to stop their progress, impound the vessels and detain all the protestors (with the assistance of Israeli Navy vessels). The activists were not armed with guns but some used bars (and the IDF said knives) to fight back against the IDF personnel boarding from helicopters and ships. The IDF commandos came armed with guns, tear gas and stun grenades. Nine protestors were shot dead (peppered with bullets according to the Guardian) and around 30 were injured. Several IDF soldiers were injured, some seriously. Mankell was not injured, but along with hundreds of other, he was detained in Israel and then deported to Sweden. Mankell died of cancer in 2015, aged 67.
Source: The state of Israel: A critical Swedish assessment – Pearls and Irritations
The only reason they wore their disguises was so they couldn’t be charged. Its what Israelis have always done. They used Australian passports in Dubai. Israel has normalized assassination in the eyes of the world. If Russians do it or North Koreans its front page news for weeks.
When Israeli forces invaded a Jenin hospital dressed in medical outfits and killed three Palestinians, they probably violated laws against perfidy and executing protected individuals.
Source: Here Are the Laws Plausibly Broken by Israel in Its Raid on a West Bank Hospital
We urge donor states to reaffirm support for the vital work that UNRWA and its partners do to help Palestinians survive one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of our times. Countries must reverse these funding suspensions, uphold their duties towards the Palestinian people and scale up humanitarian assistance for civilians in dire need in Gaza and the region.
https://aje.io/av8a82?update=2660615
Families of the captives also slammed this conference [calling for building illegal settlements in Gaza], saying the ministers who were dancing there, were “dancing on the blood” of 136 Israelis who are still being held inside of Gaza.
Protests [for the release of captives] are taking place on a near-nightly basis with the families trying to block roads, and holding signs that say, “Give up anything”, to get the captives back.
They have been reiterating this for around 115 days, saying that Israel’s government is simply not hearing their plight. They do not feel heard or seen.
They feel that the government is not keeping in line with what they have previously told them and they say that any deal that is on the table, any concession that needs to be given up [to get the captives back] – the time to do so is now.
British Justice applied to “he said, she said” allegations by Israel who’d been severely chastised by the ICJ for blocking aid to Gaza and told to stop. So it seems to have put pressure on their Western allies to cut aid rather than help increase it as the ICJ directed. Israel is making fools of governments and using them to assist in Gazan’s suffering. In the meantime, Doctors, Medical Professionals, UN Aid agencies, Reporters, Academics, and teachers have all had their turn being called Hamas operatives, antisemites, Jew-haters, and rapists and targeted for elimination. Meanwhile, Israel trains conscripts and brainwashes its children claiming they are being maligned for protecting Israelis dining in restaurants from genocide.
“One million displaced people are currently taking refuge in and around UNRWA buildings. They are the ones who will suffer as a result of this decision,” said Mr Gunness, adding: “The curtailing of UNRWA services will also destabilise the region at a time when Western governments are trying to contain a regional conflagration.”
“The UK is appalled by allegations that UNRWA staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned,” the UK Foreign Office said in a statement.
“The UK is temporarily pausing any future funding of UNWRA whilst we review these concerning allegations,” it added.
Source: UNRWA claims: UK halts aid to UN agency over allegation staff helped Hamas attack – BBC News
The question is much broader than that much broader. What does it mean for the teaching of Australian History? Like the current Israeli Settlers Australian Squatters simply ignored any higher authority and ran riot killing for the land illegally occupying territory well past the “Limits of Location”. Australian and British inglorious colonial history is rarely taught and one the LNP do not want taught in our schools The Frontier Wars were claimed by squatters, like Israel, to be their “right of defense”. However, the indiscriminate killing of indigenous Australians suggested very much otherwise.
The ICJ has found decisively that Israel may have a case to answer for genocide in a preliminary judgement whose orders will reverberate around the world. What now of Australia’s support for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu? Farah Abdurahman reports.
Source: International Court of Justice finds against Israel in genocide case – Michael West
Residents of al-Dahra forced to evacuate by Israeli army and then fired on, as Khan Younis relentlessly targeted by Israeli strikes and snipers shoot at Palestinians leaving al-Amal Hospital.
At least 26,083 people have been killed and 64,487 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
“This is the case with respect to the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts identified in Article III, and the right of South Africa to seek Israel’s compliance with the latter’s obligations under the Convention.”
It is clear from the ruling that the court is fully aware of the magnitude of Israel’s crimes. This makes the decision not to call for the immediate suspension of Israeli military activity in and against Gaza all the more distressing.
But the court did deliver a devastating blow to the mystique Israel has used since its founding to carry out its settler colonial project against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. It made the word genocide, when applied to Israel, credible.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) refused to implement the most crucial demand made by South African jurists: “the State of Israel shall immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza.” But at the same time, it delivered a devastating blow to the foundational myth of Israel. Israel, which paints itself as eternally persecuted, has been credibly accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinians are the victims, not the perpetrators, of the “crime of crimes.” A people, once in need of protection from genocide, are now potentially committing it. The court’s ruling questions the very raison d’être of the “Jewish State” and challenges the impunity Israel has enjoyed since its founding 75 years ago.
Source: Chris Hedges – It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped – Brave New Europe
Determined Ethnic Cleansing, the killing, and wounding of 100,000 plus, turning Gaza into a car park, what is that but anything other than intended genocide? Post Gaza, will Israel rebuild the strip as the Americans did Germany post WW11? Israel once agreed at the UN to restore 70% of the destruction after their last massive attack and have done nothing for decades. That’s an Israeli promise! They left it to the rest of the world and the Palestinians to try and clean up. Why is the BDS so outlawed it needs to be implemented, and implemented in the strongest possible terms now.
Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza has already killed over 24,000 Palestinians. But the environmental effects of the war — from pollution of groundwater and soil to destruction of Gaza’s olive trees — will have devastating impacts long after the bombing stops.
The Global Nth created Israel it now sustains it
To speak of a “sustainable ceasefire” while arming Israel or to speak of “democracy promotion” while backing anti-democratic governments now defines the hypocrisy of the Global North’s political class.
The Israelis say that they will continue this genocidal war for as long as it takes. As each day goes by of this war, the legitimacy of Israel deteriorates. But behind that violence itself is the much deeper end of the legitimacy of the NATO project, whose sanctimonies sound like nails being dragged across a bloodied chalkboard.
Source: Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It – CounterPunch.org
The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine since October 7 has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state, and must be treated as such by the international community.
Time is the biggest threat to all oppressors because in time the real facts come out.
A new, in-depth timeline of efforts to help Samer Abu Daqqa reveals that Israel was repeatedly pressed to allow for his rescue, but kept emergency crews at bay for hours.
Source: Israel Blocked Evacuation of Al Jazeera Cameraman Hit by Airstrike
Netanyahu insisted that once the war ends, Israel’s IDF will remain in control of Gaza. He said that Israel will have “overall security responsibility” over the Gaza Strip. “IDF forces will remain in control of the Strip, we will not give it to international forces.” In addition, Netanyahu has, in the words of The New York Times, “made clear he has no intention of resigning after the war in Gaza ends.”
Control signifies victory. Such control involves the further “concentration” of a shrinking Palestinian population and habitable land area. Israel may likely be forced to establish a quasi-permanent military presence – an unofficial “occupation force” – in preserve “security.” This also assumes, for example, that the U.S. will not cut a deal with Egypt to absorb the forced displacement of, say, one million Palestinians or those of the West Bank to Jordon.
From “Israel has the right to defend itself” the worm has turned to “In Israel’s pathetic defense” History might excuse Russia’s creep into Ukraine but not Putin and his method. Partly the result of the NATO offensive and America’s support. However, Israel stands alone in its genocidal attack on Palestinians living in the man-made Israeli concentration camp.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges Israeli leaders to avoid harming civilians as it presses its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Administrative detention, long weaponized against Palestinians under occupation, is gradually being directed toward those with citizenship too.
Source: Israel is using a notorious military tool to arrest its own Palestinian citizens
When Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, Politicians, and Rabbis say it, its what the sociopathic leadership of Israel demands. They assassinated their own Prime Minister and demanded Genocide, and Ethnic cleansing for years and Netanyahu was there back then.
On Thursday, Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli ambassador to the U.K., said the quiet rabid part out loud when she argued Israel must destroy all of Gaza because “every school, every mosque, every second house” sits on a tunnel – even though most tunnels in Gaza were built decades ago by Israel – thus offering up on British national radio what critics agree is now an alarmingly common, clear “call for genocide.”
Abbey Zimit says otherwise
I was taught as a child to save money to plant trees in a desert called Israel, an imaginary place where a people without land discovered a land without people. Now I understand the killing myth, an anathema to faith. I want the money Jewish children save to go to the people of Palestine for five hundred years. I want all the years of the U.S. payments, $318 billion to Israel, to pour into Palestinian hands as reparations. We must return what was stolen, heal what was harmed, apologize for every life ended. Let the next trees planted be peace groves, be olives and oranges watered by indigenous hands; protected by safe, loving, hands, tree-tending hands.
Let us learn from them how to live again on holy land.”
Source: Further | All This For A Myth: We Have Lost Everything Beautiful | Opinion
How is the tail wagging the dog?
US officials suggested that Israel would have to shift to a “lower-intensity” campaign in Gaza from the new year. But Joe Biden is still unwilling to apply any serious pressure, even if his support for Israel’s war threatens to hand victory to Donald Trump.
Source: Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza
They are such nice boys they’re not filming it because it would destroy the myth that the IDF are really a bunch of Paskudnyaks (A cruel person, one who enjoys making others suffer.)
The IDF Spokesperson said that Palestinians in Gaza were being detained “for involvement in terrorist activity,” and that “detainees who were found not to have been involved in terrorist activity and whose continued detention is not justified are returned to the Gaza Strip at the first opportunity.”
Regarding allegations of ill-treatment and torture, the IDF Spokesperson said that “any allegations of improper conduct in the detention facility are thoroughly investigated. The detainees are handcuffed according to their risk level and health condition, according to a daily assessment. Once a day, the military detention facility holds a doctor’s lineup to check the medical condition of the detainees requiring it.”
The detainees who spoke to +972 and Local Call, however, said that they were examined by a doctor only upon their arrival at the facility, and they did not receive any subsequent medical treatment despite their repeated requests.
The South African Foreign Ministry reportedly expects other countries to follow suit soon and express support for its case at the World Court. By Julia Conley Common Dreams South Africa is no longer alone in bringing its claim of genocide by the Israeli government to the International Cour
Source: Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
Last week, Israel’s Channel 12 released previously unseen footage of an Israeli tank firing at a civilian home in the settlement, just a few miles east of Gaza. The new evidence shows that the Israeli commander on the scene, Brigadier General Barak Hiram, lied to a top Israeli journalist about what happened in the kibbutz that day, after Palestinian resistance fighters launched a large-scale assault on Israeli military bases and settlements across the boundary from Gaza. This amounts to an attempted cover-up by a senior military officer, with media complicity.
Source: Israeli General killed Israelis on 7 October and then lied about it – Pearls and Irritations
In clearing the rubble with their bulldozers how many bodies did the Israelis hide the real forensic evidence and body count?
The reverse makes greater sense the West USA, UK, and Australia should open their doors to Israeli asylum seekers and watch the outflow of victims of Israel’s Orwellian world be liberated from the oppression their government forces them to exert on others. Israeli youth have been brutalizing women and children shooting and breaking the bones of Palestinian men daily for years. If they don’t kill they break the bones and spirit of a people who once shared their land with this newly-armed and dominant minority of historic refugees called Israelis.
At a meeting of his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) faction in the Knesset on Jan. 1, Ben Gvir called for “encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza” as the “correct, just, moral, and humane solution,” and echoed Smotrich’s call to reestablish Jewish settlements in the Strip. This comes after two Knesset members from Netanyahu’s Likud party published an article in the Wall Street Journal in November titled “The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees.”
An Israel supporter walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it.
Israel supporter: [Walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it.]
Guy: Hey!
Israel supporter: What?
Guy: That’s my sandwich!
Israel supporter [still eating]: Sandwich? What sandwich?
Guy: Right there! You’re eating it right now!
Israel supporter: No I’m not.
Source: The Israel supporter and the sandwich – Pearls and Irritations
This is a list only during 5 years of this century. The list has many more conducted since 1948. The strategic targets and “collateral damage” runs into the 1000s. It didn’t start on Oct7 Oct7 Oct7
What we are witnessing in Gaza must not be separated from the UN’s deafening silence since 1948.
World’s Decades of Silence on Israel’s Colonial Violence is being Reaped in Gaza
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