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Massive London March Demands Israeli Arms Embargo After Police Drop Restrictions
Protestors take part in a National March for Gaza

Massive London March Demands Israeli Arms Embargo After Police Drop Restrictions

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Interview With UK Journalist Under House Arrest on Terrorism Charges After Covering Gaza

Interview With UK Journalist Under House Arrest on Terrorism Charges After Covering Gaza

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UK doctor: ‘80% of Gaza victims I treated were children’

This UK doctor has just returned from Gaza and says she was shocked by the number of children she operated on.

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“Beyond Catastrophic”: U.N. Issues Dire Warning on Gaza as Israel Hinders Polio Vaccination Drive

StorySep 06, 2024

“Beyond Catastrophic”: U.N. Issues Dire Warning on Gaza as Israel Hinders Polio Vaccination Drive

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Israel’s War on Gaza created Ideal Environment for Polio Virus, Limiting Clean Water and Sanitation

Israel’s War on Gaza created Ideal Environment for Polio Virus, Limiting Clean Water and Sanitation

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UN Expert Fears ‘Almost the Entire Population’ of Gaza Exterminated If Israel Not Stopped
Eleven-month-old Abdul Rahman Abu al-Jidyen

UN Expert Fears ‘Almost the Entire Population’ of Gaza Exterminated If Israel Not Stopped

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Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan
Israeli security forces destroy a house in Silwan, February 14, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

The government has accelerated plans to depopulate the East Jerusalem neighborhood, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents this year.

Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan

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Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a human rights activist, was protesting an illegal West Bank settlement when she was reportedly shot in the head by Israeli soldiers.

Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?

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Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.

Compare the response to Israel’s murder of a US citizen in the West Bank to the response to Hamas’s killing of a US citizen hostage last week, and the takeaway is clear: arming Israel is more important to Joe Biden than even the life of an American.

Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.

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ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him Over Israel Arrest Warrants

ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him Over Israel Arrest Warrants

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A movement to suspend Israel from the UN needs a country to take the lead

Mokhiber described Israel as holding “the world record for breaching UN resolutions”.

In the United Nations General Assembly, the Israeli ambassador at the time, Gilad Erdan, used a paper shredder to destroy pages of the UN Charter, saying that countries who back Palestine’s bid to join the UN are “shredding the UN Charter with your own hands”. (May 10, 2024) Meanwhile, a push by some Palestinian civil society groups to suspend Israel from the UN lacks a key element: A country to lead the initiative. Yet, the calls to oust Israel may intensify during the opening session of the General Assembly in September.

A movement to suspend Israel from the UN needs a country to take the lead

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Why Limiting Israel Arms Sales Doesn’t Absolve the UK

Each day the Labour government delays banning all arms to Israel – not just a few – the more Britain contributes to Israel’s crimes against humanity,

Why Limiting Israel Arms Sales Doesn’t Absolve the UK

September 6, 2024

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A Leftist Analysis of Antisemitism

Disingenuous antisemitism charges are keeping left-wing critics of Israel on the back foot. Meanwhile, right-wing antisemitism is rising. Rather than play defense, the Left should advance an analysis of antisemitism that doesn’t conflate Jews with Israel.

A Leftist Analysis of Antisemitism

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 335: Israeli objective in West Bank is not to ‘mow the lawn,’ but ‘pull out the roots’

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 335: Israeli objective in West Bank is not to ‘mow the lawn,’ but ‘pull out the roots’

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From ‘Defense’ to Destruction: The Evolution of Zionist Aggression

From the very arrival of Zionists in the Middle East Defense was never their agenda. The land and its Colonization was the project defense the smokescreen

Similarly, the state of Israel was instituted under the propagandized premise of ‘self-defense’, yet now as then, as its leaders threaten nuclear war in the Middle East and by extension the world, its offensive aggression is clear and criminal. In contrast, Palestinian people have the full right to defend themselves against Zionist aggression by any means necessary.

From ‘Defense’ to Destruction: The Evolution of Zionist Aggression

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What was Netanyahu’s map and ‘plan for Gaza’ all about?

Israeli prime minister presented a plan and map that showed an annexed West Bank and Gaza under Israeli army control.

Netanyahu expains to the World the UN the IJC and ICC what the plan is moving forward. Leaving out that in the New World-Based -Order the World the UN,the IJC and ICC will be ignored .

What was Netanyahu’s map and ‘plan for Gaza’ all about?

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War on Children – Gaza Kids Are Unvaccinated, Hungry and Orphaned 

War on Children – Gaza Kids Are Unvaccinated, Hungry and Orphaned 

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The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe
Displaced Palestinians near the sea in Deir al-Balah, June 20, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Toxic waste, water-borne diseases, vast carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the myriad harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems.

The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe

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Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’

How an evidence-free smear is being used to suppress those fighting for justice in Palestine.

Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’

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Israeli Intelligence on the Current Extremist Gov’t: Damage Indescribable: Global Delegitimisation

Ben-Gvir and his ilk are fully aware of the historic opportunity that is now available to them as they hope to ignite the much-coveted religious war. They also know that if the war in Gaza ends without advancing their main plan of colonising the rest of the occupied territories, the opportunity may never present itself again.

The far-right Ben-Gvir’s rush to fulfil the religious Zionist agenda contradicts the traditional form of Israeli colonialism, predicated on the “incremental genocide” of Palestinians and the slow ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities from East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Israeli Intelligence on the Current Extremist Gov’t: Damage Indescribable: Global Delegitimisation

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4 Dead in Mass Shooting in Georgia dominated Media; 42 dead in Mass Bombardment in Gaza Ignored

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The ongoing carnage wrought on ordinary Americans by this country’s bizarrely permissive gun laws dominated the cable news networks for […]

4 Dead in Mass Shooting in Georgia dominated Media; 42 dead in Mass Bombardment in Gaza Ignored

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Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Either

Knowledge Is Power. Gaza War Supporters Don’t Want Students to Have Either

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Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension of Arms Export Licenses to Israel

Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension of Arms Export Licenses to Israel

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IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior”

The ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza has triggered tense, at times hostile, reckonings across American tech companies over their role in the killing. Since October 7, tech workers have agitated for greater transparency about their employers’ work for the Israeli military and at times vehemently protested those contracts.

Guidelines, endorsed by the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2011, stress that “Some operating environments, such as conflict-affected areas, may increase the risks of enterprises being complicit in gross human rights abuses committed by other actors (security forces, for example).” The document further notes that such conflict zone abuses may create corporate liability before the International Criminal Court, which in April charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with crimes against humanity stemming from the Gaza assault. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, which also sell technology services to the Israeli military, similarly say they subscribe to the voluntarily, nonbinding U.N. guidelines.

IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior”

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Gaza happened because we forgot Korea

History didn’t start on 7 October. True that. To get a deeper sense of why the shocking destruction in Gaza is happening, we have to revive the forgotten war that the US waged against North Korea in the 1950s. In many ways, it was the template for all that followed.

Gaza happened because we forgot Korea

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Israel Official: Without US Aid, Israel Couldn’t Sustain Gaza Operations for More Than a Few Months

Israel Official: Without US Aid, Israel Couldn’t Sustain Gaza Operations for More Than a Few Months

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Stop Genocide: Israel’s Final Solution to the Palestine Problem


This article is about three topics: immediate measures to stop the genocides (particularly Israel’s “final solution” against Palestinian people, and also applicable to other current genocides in Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Myanmar, DRC. Secondly, I describe the measures that have not been effectual, that have not prevented one murder, and Third – offer some interpretive comments.

Stop Genocide: Israel’s Final Solution to the Palestine Problem

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As the Israeli army tries to wipe out civilian institutions and services, Palestinian solidarity steps in.

For months, Israel has denied preventing the administration of human services. Netanyahu specifically admits that’s their aim is to prevent the administration of all Humanitarian Services in Gaza no matter what they are and not simply eliminate Hamas’s military capacity

As the Israeli army tries to wipe out civilian institutions and services, Palestinian solidarity steps in.

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Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza call for independent inquiry


Recently, Netanyahu admitted Israel’s aim was not to just defeat Hamas but to disable all civil services in Gaza. Zionism has always had a strict “no-aid” policy. During WW2 they tried preventing the Red Cross from delivering Aid to Jews trapped in Ghettos pre and during WW2. Zionists needed Jews in Palestine to make the numbers. Aid only supported the reluctant ones to stay in Europe. The German Jews and their wealth needed to be pushed out and a deal was struck with the Nazis. If and when they forced out, the Zionists simply confiscated their wealth to buy goods from Germany in a secret “trade agreement” made with the Nazis which prevented Hitler from going bankrupt.

Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Andrzej Szejna, has demanded a criminal inquiry. WCK has also called for an independent investigation, saying: “The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza

“The State of Israel says the murder was an accident. So we were surprised not to have had any contact or condolence from Israel’s ambassador to the UK in London or from any Israeli official,” the statement said.

Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza call for independent inquiry

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Netanyahu Is Blocking a Hostage Deal

Who’s to blame for the failure to bring Israeli hostages home safe? Israeli officials have been telling us for months it’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu Is Blocking a Hostage Deal

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Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners: the worthy and unworthy
Heavily guarded border between Palestine and Israel

The twisted language hides a reality rarely noted
By contrast, Palestinian citizens’ “bring them home!” cry concerns the estimated 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, who are also hostages in Israeli jails, including as many as 200 juveniles.

Israeli hostages, Palestinian prisoners: the worthy and unworthy

By Stuart Rees

Sep 5, 2024

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Warning of ‘Genocidal Violence’ on the West Bank

As the Israeli military’s largest assault on the West Bank in decades continued into its second week, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said the “writing is on the wa

Warning of ‘Genocidal Violence’ on the West Bank

September 4, 2024

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Inside the brutal siege of Jenin
Israeli military forces seen during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, September 2, 2024. (Flash90)

The Israeli army is destroying civilian infrastructure, blocking medical access, and conducting mass arrests in its largest West Bank operation in years.

Inside the brutal siege of Jenin

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Israeli forces using ‘war-like’ tactics in occupied West Bank: UN

Israeli forces using ‘war-like’ tactics in occupied West Bank: UN

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Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years

The continued violence in Gaza and the renewed violence on the West Bank points to a dark future for the Middle East, particularly for Israel, Lebanon, and the Palestinian community. Israel has become increasingly isolated in the international community, and the ultra nationalism of the right wing is increasingly dominating Israeli politics. For the past thirty years, the Israelis have hidden behind false gestures of support for a two-state solution and now the possibility of a cease fire in Gaza in order to maintain military and economic support from the United States. Sadly, it is working, and Israel shows no interest in pursuing any alternative to an endless war.

Israeli Treatment of Palestinians Remains Unchanged Over 75 Years

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The Gaza conflict: Nothing comes out of the blue
Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, October 7, 2023.

Neither 7 October nor the devastating retribution that has followed came out of the blue. Perhaps neither can be justified, but both should be contextualised. The violence of the oppressed and that of the oppressor cannot be equated. After all, not even the most ardent Zionist could fail to distinguish between the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 and the Nazi reprisals, or separate the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Prague the previous year from the annihilation of Lidice.

The Gaza conflict: Nothing comes out of the blue

By Mahir Ali

Sep 4, 2024

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Aren’t Palestinians Human?

Israeli strikes killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza in one 24-hour period between Saturday and Sunday, receiving not a fraction of the attention Western officials have given six Israeli hostages, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

Aren’t Palestinians Human?

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Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day
Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day

Ceasefire Needed: Israel still Bombing areas where Health workers are vaccinating Children for Polio for Part of Each Day

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Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide
Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

Thousands of Palestinian Children in Gaza are the Principal Victims of Israel’s Genocide

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The indignities of humanitarian aid in Gaza Opinion September 3, 2024

Humanitarian aid in Gaza seeks to preserve human dignity, but dignity cannot be achieved without liberation.

The indignities of humanitarian aid in Gaza Opinion

"For Coal", Israel, Israel Crimes

Lethal Israeli assault destroys 70 percent of Jenin’s streets

“Mini-Gaza”

Calls by Israeli leaders to turn the West Bank into “mini-Gaza” are “translating into military operations,” the United Nations human rights office warned on Monday.

“Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole,” stated Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the West Bank and Gaza.

“There is mounting evidence that no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s unfettered control.”

Albanese warned that “apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion.”

“The long-standing impunity granted to Israel is enabling the de-Palestinization of the occupied territory, leaving Palestinians at the mercy of the forces pursuing their elimination as a national group.”

Lethal Israeli assault destroys 70 percent of Jenin’s streets

Tamara Nassar 4 September 2024

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Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza

However the hostages died—Hamas initially indicated they were killed by Israeli gunfire, the Israeli army says they were executed at close range just before an attempt was made to free them—the blame for their deaths has settled firmly on Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-right-wing clique that props up his government.

Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza

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Beyond Bombs and Bullets: The Full Tally of Gaza’s Dead

Beyond Bombs and Bullets: The Full Tally of Gaza’s Dead

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Hersh is gone, sacrificed on the altar of Israel’s ‘total victory’

The parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin pleaded for their son’s release. But Netanyahu chose to cling to power and spill rivers of blood in Gaza instead.

Hersh is gone, sacrificed on the altar of Israel’s ‘total victory’

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Massive Demonstrations, National Strike in Israel as Crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of Hostages

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that tens of thousands of Israelis participated on Sunday evening in […]Al Jazeera English Video: “Israelis hit the streets en masse to demand captive deal”

Massive Demonstrations, National Strike in Israel as Crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of Hostages

Juan Cole

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Palestinian dies an hour after Israel arrests him from occupied West Bank

Palestinian dies an hour after Israel arrests him from occupied West Bank

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Jewish critics of Zionism have clashed with American Jewish leaders for decades


For over a century, some American Jews have modelled the idea that unqualified support for Israel and Zionism was “not in our name.” They prioritized justice as a Jewish value and were motivated not by self-hatred or antisemitism but by abiding commitments to human rights and to Jewish safety and community.

Jewish critics of Zionism have clashed with American Jewish leaders for decades

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U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan.

U.S. universities spent the summer strategizing to suppress student activism. Here is their plan.

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The Albanese Government has consistently ignored advice about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza

Since the onset of the Gaza War, many Australians have urged the Albanese Government to speak up in condemning the Netanyahu regime’s constant breaches of international law and to act urgently to protect innocent civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Albanese Government has consistently ignored advice about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza

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Tony Greenstein’s Blog- Gaza’s Genocide Proves that the Terms ‘Liberal’ & ‘Right-wing’ Zionist are a Distinction Without a Difference

Gaza’s Genocide Proves that the Terms ‘Liberal’ & ‘Right-wing’ Zionist are a Distinction Without a Difference