Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Every year, Jews recite the entire Pentateuch aloud in synagogues. It is divided in weekly portions. This week’s […]
Ascending the Temple Mount: Political Act in a Site of Holiness
The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
SCOTT RITTER: A Farewell to Truth
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As Albert Schweitzer would say, what we seem to have lost is “a sense of the sacredness of life,” something our own indigenous people would understand and approve.
‘Our other face’
The Americanisation of Australia: how we’re rapidly losing our cultural sovereignty
Aug 18, 2024
Like a tsunami, America’s influence has been spreading to most regions of the globe. While some countries are willing to…
Linda Reynold’s mother testified that it was very hard for her daughter going from “being universally loved and respected to becoming a pariah.”
Undoubtedly it would be a very hard thing when this happens to a person. Although, in the interests of clarity, I must say that I’m having trouble remembering my respect and love for the woman. I guess that must just be one of those things that happen with age when you forget someone who meant so much to you and it’s very, very distressing for them… not so much for you, because you can’t remember them and you don’t understand why they’re having heart palpitations and all those people who still remember how much they love them are worried that they may not last the night… which would be terrible because they have a speech the next day!
Anyway, notwithstanding my inability to remember the Linda Reynolds that I loved universally, I must say that I’m a little confused by much of the testimony at the trial. Perhaps wiser legal heads than mine can explain why Senator Reynolds health is of so much importance in this trial…
A Doctors voice vs Israeli Hasbara
Dr Adam Hamawy has worked in many war zones, and in May he volunteered at the European Hospital near Khan Younis, Gaza. He tells Jacobin about conditions there — and why the vast suffering among children makes it worse than anything he’s seen before.
Dr Adam Hamawy: I’ve Never Seen Devastation Like in Gaza
08.16
The probability and fear of killing Israeli hostages runs high except for Netanyahu
A group of Israeli settlers has shot dead one man, and critically wounded another, during a rampage through a village in the occupied West Bank. The attack, captured on CCTV footage, has drawn widespread condemnation.
Israel’s Forgotten Secret is the Illegally Occupied Golan Heights
Israel’s exploitation of a rocket attack in Majdal Shams is the latest chapter of the Syrian Jawlan’s ‘forgotten occupation,’ says activist Wael Tarabieh.
‘The Golan won’t accept any killing or regional war in our victims’ names’
Nahal Toosi at Politico reported on Wednesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi […]
Saudi Crown Prince fears Assassination if he Recognizes Israel without getting a Palestinian State
Today, American troops are on the ground in Ukraine showing Ukrainian forces how to use American weapons to kill Russian troops and in Israel showing the Israeli Defense Forces how to kill civilians in Gaza.
This was done by secret presidential orders that have never been publicly acknowledged. Russian troops and Gazan civilians pose no threat whatsoever to life, liberty or property in America.
Why do American presidents kill? Because they can get away with it.
Prisoners have recounted being paraded before the Israeli public in cages, being spat at and having bananas thrown at them. Human rights and recent press reports detail instances where soldiers inserted a mobile phone into a prisoner’s anus and then called it, laughing as it rang inside his body. Soldiers have also taunted prisoners by claiming they were playing soccer with their children’s heads in Gaza. These instances provide only a glimpse into the sadistic behaviour exhibited by Israelis against Palestinians during times of genocide.
Sadism as a Tool of War in Gaza
Israel’s war has never been about 7/10 it’s been ongoing since 1948 and it began with the Zionist terrorist project that began long before that while the West closed a blind eye and subsidised it for their own interests oil.
Long neglected by the Jerusalem Municipality, Kufr ‘Aqab residents now receive only a few hours of water a week — and the authorities refuse to help.
The taps have run dry in Jerusalem’s largest Palestinian neighborhood
By Noa Pinto
The Ultra-Orthodox object to Jews praying at the Temple Mount because it is the holy site of the Second Temple and for Jews to pray there before the Messiah comes is impious and defiles holy land. The official Israeli Rabbinate also holds this stance.
The controversy between the Ultra-Orthodox and fascist wings of Judaism comes on top of a building crisis between the Ultra-Orthodox community and the Netanyahu government over the conscription of the Ultra-Orthodox into the Israeli army.
Ultra-Orthodox Threaten to Bolt Netanyahu’s Government over Prayer at the Temple Mount
Having painted itself into a corner by launching a war that has killed 40,000 Palestinians and failed to defeat Hamas, Israel has doubled down, provoking a wider war with Iran and Hezbollah to bring in the US against enemies it cannot vanquish alone.
If Jews Are Concerned About Anti-Semitism Then They Should Stop Acting As a Moral Alibi for Extermination, Torture and Famine
The Board of Deputies has made British Jews Accomplices to Genocide in Gaza
A significant justification for Israel’s existence relies on the narrative that, because of the alleged inherent and rabid antisemitism of Arabs and Islam, the Jews of the Middle East never had a home. Without Israel, it is said, these Jews would be left on the fringes of Middle Eastern societies, marginalized for an irrational prejudice against their religion and ethnicity by Muslims.
Historian and author Avi Shlaim details in his book, “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew,” through personal experience and historical analysis the lies that this narrative is constructed upon.
“There was no history of antisemitism in the Arab world. Antisemitism is a European disease,” Shlaim tells Chris Hedges. “In the 1930s, antisemitism was exported from Europe to Iraq in particular, and it’s striking that there was no antisemitic literature in Arabic. So antisemitic literature had to be translated from European languages into Arabic…”
The Chris Hedges Report: The Arab Jew Experience Exposes the Myths of Middle Eastern Antisemitism
Making tents out of aid parachutes, waiting days for a tin of beans, re-digging graves to bury more martyrs: here’s what Palestinians have to overcome.
The daily battles to survive the Gaza genocide
With army incursions and airstrikes deepening Palestinian resentment, Israel’s West Bank campaign is driving recruitment for militant groups.
In Jenin and Tulkarem, Israel’s war on Palestinian armed resistance is failing
Washington’s economic contribution to UNRWA is now halted after accusations surfaced that UNRWA personnel had participated in the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel.
In October 2021, Israel outlawed six Palestinian NGOs arguing they were controlled by the PFLP. Among them were organizations such as Al-Haq or Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P). The Israeli government underestimated the strong connections between these six NGOs and large international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which stood up for the Palestinian NGOs. Key European countries also continued to work with the NGOs targeted by Israel. A staffer at the NGO Al-Haq told Bhungalia that “Israel did not expect this outcome.”[3]
Israel miscalculated the effects of the move against the Palestinian NGOs. This, Bhungalia argues, has much to do with Israel’s nervousness over the ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for possible Israeli war crimes. The targeted NGOs had been providing evidence to the ICC to document the case.
Israel moved against the six Palestinian NGOs soon after it became known that they had been targeted with Pegasus, the spying malware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. For Israel, one of the goals for banning the NGOs was to retroactively justify the espionage they had suffered. Since The Guardian’s revelations two months ago, we also know now that Israeli intelligence agencies have been spying on the ICC for nine years.
Washington’s economic contribution to UNRWA is now halted after accusations surfaced that UNRWA personnel had participated in the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel.
In October 2021, Israel outlawed six Palestinian NGOs arguing they were controlled by the PFLP. Among them were organizations such as Al-Haq or Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P). The Israeli government underestimated the strong connections between these six NGOs and large international organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which stood up for the Palestinian NGOs. Key European countries also continued to work with the NGOs targeted by Israel. A staffer at the NGO Al-Haq told Bhungalia that “Israel did not expect this outcome.”[3]
Israel miscalculated the effects of the move against the Palestinian NGOs. This, Bhungalia argues, has much to do with Israel’s nervousness over the ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for possible Israeli war crimes. The targeted NGOs had been providing evidence to the ICC to document the case.
Israel moved against the six Palestinian NGOs soon after it became known that they had been targeted with Pegasus, the spying malware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. For Israel, one of the goals for banning the NGOs was to retroactively justify the espionage they had suffered. Since The Guardian’s revelations two months ago, we also know now that Israeli intelligence agencies have been spying on the ICC for nine years.
What will the Israeli’s do to him on his return?
Fadi Deeb is a shot putter who was paralyzed by an Israeli sniper and who lost at least 17 relatives to Israel’s onslaught.
Israeli forces detained Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Football Association upon his return from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and handed him a summons for questioning next Thursday
Palestine’s Lone Paralympian
August 14, 2024
No focus was examined on the language used by Zionists like Rabbi Lior, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, or the educational texts of the State of Israel
“Extremists incite, threaten, forge social (dis)alignments, propagate hatred, and more through language. These texts often spread rapidly online, reaching and radicalising vulnerable individuals. By analysing the language, we can develop more effective strategies to counteract extremist narratives and prevent the spread of harmful ideologies.”
Patterns of identity attacks in extremist language uncover their violent intentions
Plastic bags of human remains, children dead with multiple high powered sniper wounds, the sanctioned abuse of detainees in jails, destroying reservoirs, killing leaders in political assassinations at presidential inaugurations abroad – you’d think that would be enough now. That something like this could happen for ten months straight. How could a people sustain such overt and total destruction on another? You would think in a modern world that these stories come out of some fictional dystopian tale about what humans need to remember to avoid something like this happening in the future – but it’s happening now – and it’s staining the hearts and minds of all who live on this earth. It has to stop, but it’s probably not going to.
Israel’s genocide of Palestine is an irreconcilable stain on humanity
Hundreds of Australians’ family members holding valid Australian visas are being prevented from fleeing devastated Gaza – by the Israeli military, and the impotence of the Australian government.
Benjamin Netanyahu is not deterred by diplomatic tough talk behind closed doors. The only thing that can defeat him politically is the end of the war itself — something the United States has the power to make happen.
Benjamin Netanyahu Does Not Respond to “Tough Talk”
08.14
The richly violent musings of Ben-Gvir and his circle of sanctified terror have even proven indigestible for some members of the war cabinet. Defence Minister Gallant, not immune from the urge to dehumanise the residents of Gaza, accused his national security counterpart of being a “pyromaniac”. On the X platform, he declared his opposition against “any negotiations to bring him into the war cabinet – it would allow him to implement his plans.” The same Gallant, however, was also in celebratory mood about the assassinations.
Even outside the war cabinet, the views of Ben-Gvir, not to mention his overall influence, travel with toxic rapture. In the background, incandescently inspiring, is Rabbi Dov Lior, a figure of glowing nationalist fury. It was he who incited members of the Jewish Underground to conduct various terrorist attacks in the 1980s against Palestinians. (The same group also unsuccessfully plotted to blow up the Dome on the Rock.)
This, as former UK diplomat Alastair Crooke observes, is the State of Judea doing battle against the State of Israel. He quotes Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, former Chief of Staff of the IDF, who sees such bloody eschatology as resting on a fundamental concept: “Jewish supremacy” or “Mein Kampf in reverse”. For Rabbi Lior, the next big war cannot come soon enough, one, he anticipates, that is bound to feature Gog and Magog.
Believing that “our lives are more important than their lives,” Israel Defense Forces soldiers have widely used Palestinians including civilians as booby trap detectors in Gaza, according to a new Haaretz investigation, the latest of numerous reports detailing IDF use of kidnapped Gazans as human shields.
Investigation Details IDF Use of Gaza Civilians as Booby Trap Detectors
According to Israel history began on 7/10.
Applying the Israeli historical yard stick Palestinians could just as reasonably say their history began when Israel dropped the first bomb. Or when Netanyahu refused any further ceasefires or prisoner exchanges in November 2023.
However, a more meaningful context would be when Jewish migrants once asylum seekers became a Zionist terrorist force in Palestine and upsetting the balance in the then British Mandate of Palestine. Until then some individual Jews only had purchased 1-2% of Palestinian land and might be regarded as “migrants” the majority though “asylum seekers” prepared to become Palestinian citizens should the territory have become a Palestinian State. Only a minority were then politically motivated Zionists and largely Polish rather than German.
In 1933 the Zionists signed an agreement with Hitler that resulted in 60,000 German Jews being deported (exported) along with their wealth (confiscated) by both Germany and the Zionists in Palestine in an agreed exchange for the export of German goods. Had this historical collusion of self-interest not occurred Hitler’s government would have been bankrupt by 1934
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