“Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic.
Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations
But to avoid bad luck, a word of advice for the next Persian president: be careful when getting on a helicopter, especially if your country is in a cold war with Israel, which has already blown up gas pipelines in Iran, assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and less than two months ago bombed its embassy in Syria. Perhaps, due to technical problems or bad weather, a fatal accident could occur.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/159809-media_hypocrisy/
In an egregious violation of press freedoms and First Amendment-protected activity, a New York City video journalist was arrested on felony hate crime charges Tuesday for allegedly being present during and documenting a pro-Palestine protest action.
According to the charges, Sam Seligson, a credentialed independent videographer, filmed a small group of people last June graffitiing the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s director, president, and two other museum officials with pro-Palestine, anti-Zionist slogans.
The Outrageous Case of a Journalist Charged With a Hate Crime for Recording a Gaza Protest Action
Ultimate show of respect
Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade won gold this week, and her American competitors won hearts with their sweet show of respect on the first all-black gymnastic podium.
Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles, who won silver and gold respectively, spontaneously bowed down to Andrade.
Biles later said, “She’s so amazing. She’s queen.”
“And first, it was an all-black podium, so that was super exciting for us.
“But then Jordan was like, ‘Should we bow to her?’ And I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ So we’re like, ‘Are we gonna do it now?’ And then, that’s why we did it.”
Ravil Mingazov’s 22-year ordeal in detention from the U.S. notorious detention facility at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan to the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to solitary confinement in the United Arab Emirates ended this week with his repatriation to Russia, his son, Yusuf, told The Intercept.
A gaunt Mingazov was flown directly into Russia on Wednesday morning from the UAE and dropped at his elderly mother’s doorstep, to her shock and disbelief, according to Yusuf.
Ex-Guantánamo Detainee Forcibly Repatriated to Russia Despite Fears of Torture
In a series of highly ideological 5-4 decisions – most notably, Citizens United v FEC – the supreme court swept away key limits on big money, launching the era of Super Pacs and opening the door for dark money in our campaigns. Lawmakers have done nothing to respond to these rulings, repeatedly failing to update the law to limit the damage from the court’s decisions or respond to new developments in campaign fundraising, like using email, the web and other technologies for appeals and advertising.
Unregulated money continues to corrode US politics. Reforms are needed
Israeli abuse of Palestinians at the military prison has been reported for months. The U.S. is asking the Israeli military to investigate itself.
Video of Sexual Abuse at Israeli Prison Is Just Latest Evidence Sde Teiman Is a Torture Site
The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the functioning of the Israeli prison system, in which it concludes that Israeli authorities are now routinely using torture on Palestinian prisoners.
B’Tselem accuses Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of Palestinian Prisoners
Israeli society is divided over the arrest of 10 soldiers for the brutal gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner caught on video.
The video, which has been verified by Al Jazeera, shows the prisoner being selected from a larger group lying bound on the floor. The victim is then escorted to a wall, where guards, using their shields to hide their identity from the camera, proceed to rape him.
“Look, the question really isn’t about rape,” Ori Goldberg, a Tel Aviv-based political analyst, told Al Jazeera. “The question is – can Israel, or Israelis, be reproached for anything they do in defence of the state?”
‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape
Major media face a reassessment of their Israel coverage after the ICJ judgement, writes Mick Hall.
“I don’t think the ICJ presents an imperative for media outlets like ABC to change their language. The Australian state is a close ally of the U.S. and Israel and their economic interests are deeply interwoven. Western states and media institutions, contrary to their own assertions, are largely anti-democratic in nature and strive, first and foremost, to protect the political and economic interests of their ruling class.”
Ruling Challenges Media Stance on Palestine
August 8, 2024
Israel didn’t even exist
In an astonishing “Fuck you” to the survivors of the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, several Western countries including the US, Australia, Canada, France, Italy and the UK have just dropped a bombshell: reportedly announcing their ambassadors are shunning this week’s commemorations in solidarity with Israel.
Last week the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, rescinded Israel’s invitation to the annual peace ceremony. It was a gentle but pointed diplomatic message: Lest we forget what it was – and still is – all about.
The Israel lobby built its strength on the fact that its opposition was politically weak. Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro and the massive cost it took to defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush show this is no longer the case.
Promising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in Washington
Israel’s anti-Palestinian racism is a glaring example of the dehumanization that racism entails and the murderous brutality racism enables. This is what the world has seen play out in Gaza these last ten months. There could be no better example, right now, of why Israeli racism should not get a pass in the U.S., nor anywhere, ever again.
A second Trump Administration would have dire consequences politically, socially and economically, bringing about the downfall of the USA.
America’s gathering storm: The consequences of a Trump dictatorship
DONALD TRUMP |
Such addresses as those given by Burgess generate their own sinister code. That code promises further surveillance and control, a call for increased monitoring and cocooning of the Australian body politic and broader society from a wicked world. While ASIO is tub-thumping about the dangers of increased radicalisation, the absurdly named office of the e-Safety Commissioner wages war against the offending defilements of the Internet. With these officials in charge, the world will be made safe for censorship and docile thought.
The ASIO Astrologers: Terror Threats and Radicalisation Down Under
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll comes as Israel braces for retaliatory attacks from Iran and its allies following an assassination
Poll: Americans Oppose Sending US Troops to Defend Israel
August 7, 2024
The Biden administration has instead supported Israel at every turn, while at the same time haplessly protesting what Israel is doing or not doing.
To make matters worse, neither Congress, nor Republican leaders, nor the mainstream media, has pushed the Biden administration to pressure Israel to change its behavior in any meaningful way.
This disturbing situation raises the obvious question: why?
The answer: the awesome power of the Israel lobby.
How do we continue with business as usual after another friend, and another icon of Palestinian journalism, was brutally killed by Israel for doing his job?
In memory of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, Gaza City’s voice to the world
While efforts may have been made to mount a defense of assassinations such as that of Hamas’ Haniyeh, there is a simple truth: Lethal force is highly restricted, and assassination is never legal.
Assassination is always unlawful – Regardless of who is Killed and on whose Orders
Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.
Three Israeli army refusers: ‘We will not participate in genocide’
By Oren Ziv
Israel began as and Agent of America to maintain order and American interests in the Middle East. They now need an escalation of war in the region to prove that an Eretz Israel is necessary. However, in doing so they have jumped the gutter and become the enemy and are bringing America down.
Gaza genocide enters month 11 as Israel provokes regional war
Maureen Clare Murphy 7 August 2024
We see politicians, religious leaders and the most powerful, and the wealthiest people on the planet try to wind the clock back, trying to restore the power lost or gain more than has ever been achieved.
It seems in the long view of history, history is repeating itself as no lessons are learned.
Medea Benjamin responds to the pro-Israel lobby’s second “win” of the U.S. campaign season.
AIPAC Hijacks US Elections
August 7, 2024
Bush was early calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Then AIPAC came after her with millions of dollars
Future Madam President Kamala Harris’s rallies, compared to Donald Trump’s in the same arenas, have ended with the same results. The felon gave a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday evening, and you could clearly see a lot of empty seats, but Kamala’s rally was filled to capacity. Trump tried to explain that previously with a bonkers conspiracy theory, so I can’t wait to hear how he explains the comparisons with the rallies in Philly.
Compare The Felon’s Rally With Empty Seats Vs. Kamala’s Filled Arena
Silicon Valley’s right-wing history goes back over 100 years; Donald Trump is a perfect avatar for their power play.
Donald Trump has taken to tech like a fish to water because it’s an industry led by right-wing warmongers and con men. And now he isn’t just like them; he is them. As much as Thiel or Musk or Altman or anyone else, Trump is the Valley’s avatar — whether or not he’s ever actually used a computer.
Viscount Christopher Monckton has become notorious for his climate change denial, despite scientific evidence proving him wrong time and again. Steve Bishop writes.
Despite Monckton’s climate denial, the world is still burning
CLIMATE CRISIS |
The fatality figures started to stall in the spring, around the time Israel completed its destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and kidnapped much of the enclave’s medical personnel, writes Jonathan Cook.
Israel’s Barbarism Is Grossly Minimised
August 6, 2024
“IDF source” says:
“The 100 unit has been assigned to guard the prisoners. Their job is supposed to be to intervene when there is disorder. They are rough people. So they are guarding the prisoners. You are letting animals guard animals without supervision and in nightmarish conditions.”
Israeli rape of detainees is the result of a society that sees Palestinians as ‘human animals’
The bombing on Sunday was not the first time that the Israeli army has targeted the tents of the displaced people in Gaza. Just last month, an Israeli airstrike targeted tents housing displaced Palestinains in the al-Mawasi area outside of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing 90 people. Two weeks ago, an Israeli strike targeted a tent housing journalists inside the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, killing one person.
“Rapists as heroes,” Gideon Levy said in Haaretz newspaper last week. “Heroically sodomizing shackled and helpless men. How can we dare to complain about their Nukhba? [Hamas’s elite fighters, some of whom are accused of rape on October 7th].
“Even the shocking number of prisoners who have died in detention and the number of amputees do not tell the story of the evil and the sadism of Sde Teiman in full. The brutality, torture and inhumane conditions were, insofar as is known, accompanied by various kinds of sexual violence.
At least 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank on Monday and Tuesday, marking some of the deadliest violence in the occupied territory for months.
Three men and a 14-year-old child were killed by Israeli forces in the Tubas governorate on Monday. On Tuesday, five people were killed in Israeli air raids in Jenin, two were fatally shot in Kafr Qud in the northern West Bank, and a young man was killed in Bethlehem.
Israel has been known to carry out FALSE FLAG operations to pursue their goals. The US Liberty springs to mind with 214 dead and injured American sailors and Israel blaming Egypt. They want the US to engage in a wider war. How would they go about that? They have proved to be unreliable allies
An Intercept investigation found 63 U.S. bases, garrisons, and shared facilities in the region. U.S. troops are “sitting ducks,” according to one expert.
The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked.
People often object to criticisms of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocity in Gaza by saying, “Well what SHOULD Israel have done in response to October 7 then?” They say it like the question should confound you, as though it’s some kind of thought-terminating unanswerable Zen koan or something.
“Well What SHOULD Israel Have Done After October 7?”
By Caitlin JohnstoneAug 7, 2024
The back-to-back assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran were acts of either strategic folly or willful pyromania. While Israel has claimed responsibility for the former and remained cryptic about the latter, there is little doubt that it orchestrated both — and even some of its allies believe that, this time, the Israelis went too far.
We’re already in a regional war. Only a Gaza ceasefire can end it
Erdogan Is a Member of NATO and is expressing an opinion. Israel is dictating as it is to the UN, ICJ, ICC, and sounding yet again threatening like a tail trying to wag the dog.
“In every classroom in Israel there is a map,” says Nadav Weiman. “But it is a map without any green line and without any names of Palestinian villages or towns. Between the river to the sea it’s only Israel.”
Weiman is the executive director of Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers who have served in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem since September 2000 and who seek peace, an end to the Israeli occupation and the release of Israeli hostages.
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