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Amid the ongoing destruction of Gaza and the slaughter of Palestinians, the identity and authenticity of Jewish people calling into question the actions of Israel are being tarnished. A greater discussion of what it means to be Jewish, what it means to have a Jewish state, and what Judaism has historically taught people is taking place among Jews around the world.
In this case, when Israel, the ally of the US and the West in the Middle East commits war crimes, editors at the big media corporations seem to feel that their job is to paper over these atrocities to protect an ally. Let’s not forget that old video showing President Joe Biden proclaiming in the Senate “[Israel] is the best 3 billion dollar investment [the United States] made…were there not an Israel, the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region (Middle East).”
Source: Systemic Journalistic Malpractice: How Western Journalism Failed in covering Gaza
Citing Israeli “terror” allegations, the BBC plans to broadcast an attack on prominent British Palestinians in a television program presented by pro-Israel reporter John Ware.
The Electronic Intifada has learned that the episode of Panorama is likely to be based partly on “confidential evidence” which has almost certainly been provided by Israeli spies.
The BBC and Panorama declined to comment when asked a series of detailed questions about the forthcoming program.
Source: Planned BBC smear on UK Palestinians will rely on Israeli spy source | The Electronic Intifada
Germany only burnt books, Israel Destroys Culture
Dr. Ahmed Alhussaina of Israa University joins Natasha Lennard to discuss Israel’s attacks on academic life in Gaza.
Source: Deconstructed Podcast: No University Left Standing in Gaza
It seems that not a lot has been learned when we view the ongoing crisis in Palestine/Israel, where since the late 19th Century Zionists have sought to colonise, take back the land promised to Abraham by God in the book of Genesis. Since 1948 the explosion of the Palestinian peoples has been an ongoing activity, culminating in what we currently see, the devastation of Gaza and the perpetual dehumanisation of those living on the West Bank, with the rhetoric from the Israeli Prime Minister quoting Biblical calls to destroy the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8-15) for the annihilation of Palestinians.
It really does seem that the laws, you shall not kill, you shall not steal only apply to those who are ‘God’s People.’
Source: God’s people and colonialism – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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.
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Australia’s shame is supporting this insanity while acting against Ben Roberts-Smith. It defies logic or any excuses that might be made. War crimes are war crimes but not so it seems where foreign policy is concerned. VC winner justifiably lost his award for killing the innocent and Australia justifiably applauded. We are now supporting the mass killing of innocents and are applauding
Israeli forces have surrounded Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis for more than two weeks, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis.
Source: Palestinian Aid Worker Describes 18-Day Siege Inside Gaza Hospital
The Hannibal Directive is in Play fuck the Hostages. Netanyahu has simply ignored the relatives.
“There is a deal on the table: Free the hostages, end the war. But Israel won’t take it,” said the U.S. Jewish-led group IfNotNow on social media. “Every day without a cease-fire means death for hundreds of civilians, starvation for millions, and safety for nobody. It has to stop. Biden MUST use his leverage to end the bloodshed.”
Source: Israeli Groups Demand Gaza Cease-Fire as Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Deal
A lie travels around the world before the truth puts on its boots. 120 days since the Australian Jewish Association AJA, alleged pro-Palestine, antiwar protesters chanted “Gas the Jews”, the truth arrives with boots and all.
The NSW Police investigation into the chant “Gas the Jews” has now delivered their conclusive findings that there is no evidence that it was said. The lie that “Gas the Jews” was chanted by the pro-Palestine protesters at the Opera House on October the 9th 2023, was let fly by AJA without inhibition. They posted a subtitled video, alleging that a ‘Muslim mob of hundreds” had chanted, “Gas the Jews”. The protest organisers rejected this allegation.
Source: Police debunk Pro-Israel NSW premier’s false “Gas the Jews” claim – Pearls and Irritations
Many people are unhappy about some recent pensées from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, headlined “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal KingdomOpens in a new tab.” Friedman explains that “Iran is to geopolitics what a recently discovered species of parasitoid wasp is to nature.” He informs us that Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq are like caterpillars in which this wasp lays its eggs, and those eggs are the “Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas and Kataib Hezbollah.”
This is imperialistic blather straight out of the 19th century, except horribly written — imagine Rudyard Kipling after an anvil fell on his head. But the column is useful because it reconnects us to a 1982 incident that illustrates how, when it comes to the Middle East and Israel, the management of the Times has sometimes been to the right of Friedman.
The same thing is true for the Times itself. Somehow it is simultaneously the worst and best newspaper on earth. On the one hand, it runs crimes against human cognition about the insects living in the Middle East. On the other hand, it also regularly produces brilliant investigative reporting, sometimes even about IsraelOpens in a new tab.
This complexity is extremely cold comfort for the people who are brutalized by the U.S. and its allies. Nonetheless, it’s important to comprehend if we’re trying to understand reality — something we should want to do, no matter how difficult and frustrating it can be.
Source: Thomas Friedman and Journalism’s Red Lines on Israel–Palestine
According to the ubiquitous Hasbara Brigade, if you criticise Israel, you’re an anti-Semite — and if you’re Jewish, you become a “self-hater”.
In this article from 2012, Dr Evan Jones looked at how apologists for Israel invoke the spectre of the Holocaust to deflect criticism of its actions in Palestine.
Source: The Hasbara cover for Israel’s crimes: FLASHBACK 2012
HAVE THE Israelites reached the Promised Land yet? Long in preparation, Operation Pillar of Cloud has followed Operation Cast Lead as the latest episode of the Israeli pastime of shooting Arab fish in a barrel, or rather in the world’s largest open-air prison. Iran is presently in the too-hard basket. Israel’s military and political “strategists” evidently know their Old Testament, even if their intelligence and humanity are seriously deficient.
But no worries. The Hasbara Brigade is ready to spring into action 24/7. Pencils are still sharp from the victory after Operation Cast Lead in converting the laboratory experiment with white phosphorus into a triumph of good over evil. On cue, courtesy of a media whose collective masthead is “Might is Right” (with marginal concessions to dissenters from the official script).
The unchallengeable truth coming out of Gaza speaks of daily planned bloodbath of the civilian population and forced displacement of 1.9 millions to make Gaza another occupied entity of Israel facilitating futuristic exploration of gas and oil in the Mediterranean region favoring Israel and the US interests. Is Israel attacking Gaza for oil and gas? There are reportedly huge gas and oil fields in Gaza and West Bank, reports Muhdan Saglam. Media reports disclose Israeli strategic plans to change the geography by creating another canal from Gulf Of Aqaba to undo the Suez Canal impacting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan accessibility to the Red Sea.
Netanyahu dismissed the pleas of the hostage relatives begging him to let the hostages he hasn’t killed so far to come home
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge.
Source: Israel rejects truce, Hamas says Netanyahu set on genocide
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
Hundreds of videos filmed and shared by Israeli soldiers in Gaza show troops bulldozing houses and mocking Palestinian victims, according to research by the New York Times. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has distanced itself from the content, some of which violates its code of conduct.
The NYT said it reviewed hundreds of videos, including more than 50 clips of Israeli engineering troops using bulldozers, excavators, and explosives to destroy homes, schools, and other civilian structures. Some footage reportedly shows soldiers “vandalizing local shops and school classrooms” and “making derogatory comments about Palestinians.”
Source: IDF troops filmed ‘cheering Gaza destruction’ – NYT — RT World News
He then told us that in order to be allowed to pass through the checkpoint unharmed, we had to chant slogans against the resistance: “The people want the overthrow of Hamas,” and “God is sufficient for us, and he is the best disposer of affairs against Hamas and the Qassam Brigades” (appropriating a line from the Qur’an). The officer insisted on the repetition of these slogans; only after more than 45 minutes did the soldiers permit women and children to pass, while men were kept behind.
He then told us that in order to be allowed to pass through the checkpoint unharmed, we had to chant slogans against the resistance: “The people want the overthrow of Hamas,” and “God is sufficient for us, and he is the best disposer of affairs against Hamas and the Qassam Brigades” (appropriating a line from the Qur’an). The officer insisted on the repetition of these slogans; only after more than 45 minutes did the soldiers permit women and children to pass, while men were kept behind.
Qdeih emphasizes that many of the people repeated the slogans merely to comply with the soldiers and safely cross the checkpoint. “Our hearts are with the resistance in all its actions, and with the steadfastness on the ground, despite being displaced from one place to another,” she added.
“Several days ago, tanks bombed the UNRWA Training College, which was very close to where we were staying,” Bakr continued. “We saw the tents of other displaced people burning, people screaming because of injuries, and people who were killed. It was a shock to us. A safe area is suddenly transformed into a war zone; they were not told to evacuate.
Habib reported that between Jan. 21-Feb. 1, the hospital received approximately 157 martyrs and 450 wounded people, while many more dead and wounded are lying on the streets out of the reach of ambulance crews who are being targeted by the Israeli army if they leave the hospital.
Source: Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’
In another “egregious” incident in October in Tulkarem, two eyewitnesses interviewed by Amnesty described Israeli forces opening fire from a watch tower on a crowd of at least 80 people who were holding a peaceful protest in solidarity with Gaza.
IDF soldiers opened fire on journalists wearing clearly visible “Press” markings as well as on a Palestinian man who was riding past the protest on a bike.
By carrying out such attacks, said Amnesty, Israel is violating international standards including the U.N. Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials.
Source: Amnesty Condemns Israeli Military’s ‘Shocking’ Violence Against West Bank Civilians – ScheerPost
Israel’s peace negotiations
Israeli forces have killed at least 14 Palestinians in air strikes as they press their onslaught in Gaza’s main southern city of Khan Yunis.
Source: Israel continues its Gaza onslaught as US pursues ceasefire
Channel 4 noted Monday that all 13,000 of UNRWA’s Gaza employees’ names “have been checked against the U.N. terrorism list and, as recently as last May, were vetted and approved by Israel.”
The UNRWA quickly fired nine of the employees named by Israel. On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres established “an independent review group to assess whether the agency is doing everything within its power to ensure neutrality and to respond to allegations of serious breaches when they are made.”
The Daily Beast also obtained a copy of the Israeli dossier and — similar to Channel 4 — reported Tuesday that it “includes little evidence to back up” Israel’s allegations against UNRWA employees.
Ashish Prashar, a spokesperson for Gaza Voices, said in response to the new reporting that “we now know that the document used to suspend funding to UNRWA ‘provides no evidence.’”
“This is the latest campaign in a decades-long attack on UNRWA by Israel and a subset of the broader campaign to eliminate the Palestinian refugee issue,” said Prashar.
“People in Gaza are starving, and because of spurious allegations made in a dodgy dossier, they will experience worse hunger. This scandal should lead to resignations from officials in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and elsewhere who all suspended funding to a besieged people experiencing a genocide as a result of a baseless accusation by the génocidaires themselves.”
Jeremy Scahill, a senior correspondent at The Intercept‘s criticized the Biden administration and The Wall Street Journal for characterizing the dossier as “some smoking gun.”
Source: Israel’s Claims Against UN Relief Agency Lack Evidence
It’s the way Israel wants it
Listen to this story2 minIsrael struck a Mosque in Gaza yesterday, a kindergarten too, fired rockets into Lebanon and raided the West Bank, but if you read today’s mainstream media headlines, the Middle East might as well be at peace. Like the war in Ukraine, it’s no longer front-page news in Australia.
Source: War, what is it good for? Not for news anymore, it seems – Michael West
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
BDS
Israel is slowly losing the political battle for Palestine in the global community as it publicly carries out its genocidal designs. The future of global justice has become intrinsically linked to Palestine. The question is whether Israel—the last of the settler colonies—will be allowed to continue pursuing its apartheid policies and conduct itself as a rogue state. International organizations and institutions have the powerful tool of isolation and a number of consequences they could impose on Israel to end its cruel and destabilizing imperialist project. If not now, when?
Israel is accused of using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the delivery of humanitarian aid, food and medical supplies to millions inside the besieged territory. “It is not possible to create a famine by accident,” says Alex de Waal, an expert on the subject who serves as the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University. Despite months of international warnings calling on Israel to open up aid channels, de Waal says famine in Gaza is “inevitable” as those warnings have been ignored and Israel’s war on Gaza is poised to continue.
Source: Israel’s Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War Brings Gaza to the Brink of Famine | Democracy Now!
The American Jewish Committee, going back to 1917 in the United States, expressed grave warnings that a Jewish state could oppress non-Jews in Palestine.
Mainstream Jewish organizations knew endless violence and oppression would result from imposing a Jewish state in Palestine against the stated wishes of its non-Jewish inhabitants. This has proved accurate, most recently in Israel’s methodical destruction of the means of life for millions in Gaza, and increasing state and settler terror against residents of the occupied West Bank.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz met his French counterpart on Monday, warning him that “time [is] running out to find a diplomatic solution in Lebanon,” and indicating that his country was prepared to go to war if diplomacy fails.
Source: On the brink of disaster: Israel threatens Lebanon with war – what could go wrong? — RT World News
“The fanatics who lead the Israeli government don’t understand the dynamics around the world,” he said. “They think that no matter what, they will escape punishment.”
Source: Israel shirked accountability for decades. Is the ICJ breaking its armor?
The Gaza Strip – which the plan assumes would be conquered and controlled by Israel – would be divided into two zones. In the northern zone, Palestinian collaborators would be permitted to live in relative comfort, while those who refuse to serve and obey their Israeli masters would be banished to a southern “area of terror.”
The Electronic Intifada has seen a copy of this so-called “day-after plan.”
Source: Revealed: An Israeli businessman’s post-genocide plan for Gaza | The Electronic Intifada
So many double standards. So much hypocrisy. Biden and Blinken can’t lie straight in bed
50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determinationOpens in a new tab related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
Blinken responded with a determination that the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces were guilty. “Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,”
Source: State Dept Finds ”Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Refuses in Gaza
The Israeli leadership is currently engaged in an undoubted genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza. A complementary mopping up operation continues (if in slow motion) in the West Bank.
During World War II, a certain genocide took place. More than one if one counts the attempted genocide by the Nazis, consciously on racist grounds, of millions of slavs and Poles.
Source: Palestinians are the new Jews – Pearls and Irritations
With insufficient aid and skyrocketing prices across Gaza, Palestinians in the overcrowded city of Rafah are struggling to feed their families.
Source: ‘My children are crying from hunger. This is a war of starvation’
Journalist Sylvain Cypel grew up in a labor Zionist family and served in the Israeli military before becoming disillusioned. In an interview, he speaks about Israel’s unsparing war in Gaza and what it will take to end the occupation.
Source: Israel Has Undermined Itself
Max a Jew on the Israeli wanted dead or alive list
Max Blumenthal, who disproved so many of the claims in Gettleman’s article that he believes Gettleman engaged in journalistic malpractice, shares his thoughts on the event.
Max Blumenthal: NYT Pulls Hamas Rape Podcast Over Internal Conflict on Shoddy Reporting
Lets Talk “Terrorist & Terrorism” . Ben Gvir was designated a “Terrorist by the State of Israel”. He is now their Minister for National Security. How is that?
Israel’s “Proud Boy” openly prefers Trump for President and says he won’t be dictated to by Netanyahu or America. It really is a case of the tail wagging the dog.
He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated transferring Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party, which was eventually designated as a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Israeli government.[16][17] When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background.[18][15]
Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticized US President Biden’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, arguing that the situation would be “completely different” if former President Donal Trump was in power.
“Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel (to Gaza), which goes to Hamas,” Ben-Gvir told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “If Trump was in power, the US conduct would be completely different.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was appointed as a National Security Minister in December 2022, is known for his far-right views. He previously called for the occupation of Gaza and the expulsion of the Palestinian population from the enclave. He also threatened to bring down Netanyahu’s governing coalition if the PM is too soft on Hamas.
Source: Israel’s national security minister prefers Trump in power — RT World News
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.
More than 800 government officials in the United States and Europe released a letter Friday criticizing their countries’ leaders for providing unconditional military and diplomatic support to Israel as it inflicts disaster on Gaza’s population.
Israel demands aid be stopped while the world demands Israel’s military funding be stopped.
the funding withdrawal was “collective punishment – like cutting funding to the NHS because of the actions of Lucy Letby”, a British nurse convicted of murdering seven newborn babies.
More than 26,000 people have been killed in Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry said. With flows of aid like food and medicine just a trickle of pre-conflict levels, deaths from preventable diseases as well as risk of famine are growing, aid workers say.
The Republicans created the UN’s debt crisis America is in arrears by over $ 1 billion and now refuses to pay the UNRWA.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving forward next week with legislation to permanently defund UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the primary vehicle for humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Source: Republicans Move to One-Up Biden and Permanently Defund UNRWA
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
Prof Juan Cole Informed Comment talks with Robert Scheer
European-spawned-Holocaust fueled the migration of European Jews to Palestine and the ouster of the inhabitants there who had nothing to do with the German-led barbarism against the Jewish people.
While much has been made of the differential coverage of Palestinian versus Israeli suffering over the past several months, by far the greater asymmetry is to be found when comparing coverage of the weeks of kinetic violence after October 7 versus the decades of structural violence before.
Source: How the news cycle misses the predominant violence in Israel-Palestine | +972 Magazine
Israel’s attitude is “What you fucking gonna do about it?”
Last Friday, the International Court of Justice directly ordered Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza and allow humanitarian aid. With its attack on UNRWA, Israel is blatantly violating that order, and the Biden administration has also put itself in the dock.
Source: Israel Is Brazenly Defying the Order to Prevent Genocide
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
As Israeli atrocities persist – storming hospitals, forcing evacuations, patronizing a right-wing confab bent on expulsion of Palestinians, defying a Hague verdict denouncing their genocidal designs and targeted assassination in a hospital – critics do what they can to right the wrongs. A group of advocates has issued a War Criminals deck of cards to help “etch into collective memory” those responsible, and a Palestinian restaurant held a massive free Shabbat dinner to “break bread and barriers.”
This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the trajectory of the U.S. long war in the Middle East with Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and a longtime writer and commenter on the region. Cole discusses the basis of the ongoing U.S.–Israel security relationship, the perspective of anti-Israel militant groups in the region, and the prospects of the expansion of the war despite the Biden administration’s stated desire to keep it contained.”
Source: Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted”
The suggestion that Russia or China interfere in America’s election creates a thunderous tsunami of complaints, Israel no problem it’s the way they do Democracy. Besides how is it possible with a $100 M investment you can get a return of $10B in one year and that’s just from your parent company whose been feeding you for 75 years
Since the war on Gaza began, the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has reaped $90 million in fundraising. The organization is using that massive haul to lobby against a cease-fire.
Source: AIPAC’s War Chest Is Growing as the War on Gaza Rages
The Sword of Damocles Mr Fish
IS REALITY
There is no effective health care system left in Gaza. Infants are dying. Children are having their limbs amputated without anesthesia. Thousands of cancer patients and those in need of dialysis lack treatment. The last cancer hospital in Gaza has ceased functioning. An estimated 50,000 pregnant women have no safe place to give birth. They undergo cesarean sections without anesthesia. Miscarriage rates are up 300 percent since the Israeli assault began. The wounded bleed to death. There is no sanitation or clean water. Hospitals have been bombed and shelled. Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza, is “near collapse.” Clinics, along with ambulances – 79 in Gaza and over 212 in the West Bank – have been destroyed. Some 400 doctors, nurses, medics and healthcare workers have been killed — more than the total of all healthcare workers killed in conflicts around the world combined since 2016. Over 100 more have been detained, interrogated, beaten and tortured, or disappeared by Israeli soldiers.
The dehumanization of Palestinians is lifted from the playbook of all settler colonial projects, including our own. This racism, where people of color are branded as “human animals,” is coded within the DNA of our institutions. It infects those chosen to lead these institutions. It lies at the core of our national identity. It is why the two ruling parties and the institutions that sustain them side with Israel. It feeds the perverted logic of funneling weapons and billions of dollars in support to sustain Israel’s occupation and genocide.
History will not judge us kindly. But it will revere those who, under siege, found the courage to say no.
Source: Chris Hedges: The Silence of the Damned – ScheerPost
Take all of your anxiety about what a second Trump presidency could do to the country and the world, take all your anger that what’s going on in the Middle East could lead to that outcome, and direct it at Joe Biden in the form of the most important message anyone on the planet can be delivering right now — the message he needs to hear, loud and clear, every time he opens his mouth in public:
Cease-fire now.
Source: Biden Is Backing Israel’s Genocide — and Risking Reelection
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