A man in Boston reportedly lit himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11, making him the third person in the U.S. to self-immolate outside an Israeli consulate since the Gaza genocide began nearly one year ago.
Man reportedly lit himself on fire outside Boston’s Israeli consulate to protest Gaza genocide
By Michael ArriaSeptember 13, 20241
Renegotiate Trade Agreements
Australia must push to renegotiate trade agreements that lock in neoliberal principles. By removing provisions like ISDS clauses, Australia can regain control over its economic policies and introduce reforms that help its citizens rather than multinational corporations.
Challenge Military Spending
Australians can call for a reduction in defence spending, especially in areas that directly help the U.S. military-industrial complex. By reallocating these funds to healthcare, education, and social services, the government can begin to address the needs of its citizens instead of prioritizing foreign military
Walling Off the Truth
Journalists in the US and UK have paid little attention to what is happening to their colleagues in Palestine. It is another indicator of the racial hierarchy by which western media assign the status of victimhood (see Sussman 2022). The state and mainstream media collaboration of the US and UK with the Israeli propaganda apparatuses and their operatives in Britain and America make a farce of the notion of “freedom of the press.”
Palestinian students arrived at the union’s office to submit their candidacy for elections. The administration slammed the door in their faces.
How Haifa University’s Students’ Union conspired against Palestinians
Israel was created as a rampart of “Western civilisation” in the barbarous east, but now the rampart is at risk of being overwhelmed.
A wave of censorship – Israel is the last collapsing rampart of ‘Western civilisation’
To hell with the “International Rule of Law” – praise the Lord and send more munitions, all in the name of “defence”.
It is hard to decide, taking the long view, which is the greater iniquity: the almost unspeakable atrocities being cast by the Zionist Government and the virulently pro-Zionist IDF upon the Palestinians, or the repercussions that will inevitably blight the future of Israel and Jews world-wide for many decades.
Appeasing Benjamin Netanyahu and his Zionist coterie is an appalling, inexcusable, malignant, immoral and utterly stupid action on the part of every government guilty of such malfeasance.
Of which the current Australian Government is one. Poor Fellow My Country, indeed.
What will it take for our government to stop parroting the ludicrous assertion that Israel’s genocidal erasure of Gaza and its people constitutes self-defence? When will our government fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention, and take meaningful, concrete measures to prevent further Palestinian deaths and ensure Israel’s accountability for its grotesque violations of international law?
In addition to billions in weapons, the U.S. military is renovating an air base in the south of Israel, according to a new contract.
A recent investigation by The Intercept disclosed that Site 512 is just one of more than 60 U.S. bases, garrisons, or shared foreign facilities in the Middle East. These sites range from small combat outposts to massive air bases in 13 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets
Mick Hall analyzes an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s story — 11 months into a genocide — on the Israeli military’s use of the Hannibal Directive to kill its own citizens
Belated Reporting on Oct 7 Helps Justify Genocide
September 12, 2024
Rosenberg adeptly summarises how Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has sold his soul (if he has one) to a coterie of extreme right wing, Arab-loathing powerbrokers (and their parties) in order to retain office. And to stave off the active prosecution of a set of serious corruption charges he faces.
A decision by the UK Government to curb arms exports to Israel has brought into question Australia’s reluctance to do the same.
UK arms curb exposes Australia’s role in Israeli war crimes
ISRAEL |
+ With Harris, it sounds like we will get Cheney’s foreign policy, AIPAC’s Middle East policy, Goldman Sachs’ economic policy, and Exxon’s climate policy.
+ The one thing Harris could have done was use the debate to condemn the killing of Americans (if she can’t bring herself to condemn the killing of Palestinians) by Israeli forces and announce her support for an arms embargo. This is, of course, the one thing she would never risk doing (and didn’t).
Reuters and the market research firm Ipsos found that 53 percent of voters who had at least some knowledge of the debate felt that Harris won. Just 24 percent said the same of Trump.
A CNN flash poll released shortly after the debate also showed a majority of viewers felt Harris outperformed Trump, and a YouGov poll showed 54 percent of those surveyed said Harris won compared with 31 percent for Trump.
Fifty-four percent felt one debate was enough. Meanwhile, 46 percent said they wanted a second debate.
Trump says there will be no more debates after first Harris face-off
Lumpy isn’t taking his debate loss very well, you guys.
The fake news-propagating former President is wrong. Shocking, I know. Even a Republican-sponsored poll shows that Harris curb-stomped Trump during the debate by a wide margin.
All States are under an obligation not to recognise as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It is for all States, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure that any impediment resulting from the illegal presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the exercise of the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end. In addition, all the States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have the obligation, while respecting the Charter of the United Nations and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention.
Changing the current dynamic, however, cannot be done by the Histadrut alone. It will require a significant political realignment, and more significant collaboration between the union and political forces that are committed not only to replacing Netanyahu and the extreme right-wing agenda his coalition has been leading for the past years, but to rebuilding the welfare state, empowering unions, and advancing a more progressive alternative to the neoliberalism that has only increased support for occupation and war.
The reality is that within Israel, much of the power to stop the war lies in the hands of groups that do not have a primary interest in Palestinian lives. Nevertheless, concern for the hostages held in Gaza has exposed deep fault lines within Israeli society. Factions committed to indefinite war, regardless of its costs, now stand against others that see pursuing such a path as unsustainable.
Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.
Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?
The winners and losers of Israel’s ideological and political war are most likely to emerge following the end of the Gaza war, the outcomes of which will determine other factors, including the very future of the state of Israel,
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