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Apple Matches Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege

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Apple employees and shareholders demands the tech giant stop matching employee donations to organizations with ties to the Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip and ongoing illegal settlement development in the West Bank. The letter, building on a previous demand by Apple employees for a ceasefire in the conflict, calls on the company to “promptly investigate and cease matching donations to all organizations that further illegal settlements in occupied territories and support the IDF.”

organizations on Apple’s matching contribution list appear to include support for religious extremism or back activity in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law. The One Israel Fund, for example, includes on its website a talk titled “The Arab Takeover of Judea and Samaria: Who Is Behind It; What Can Be Done?” — invoking the religious name of the territory that is deemed to be part of a future Palestinian state under international law. HaYovel, a Christian Zionist organization, states on its website that its goal is to help further the “prophetic restoration” of a region that “many incorrectly refer to as the West Bank.” The charitable status of the Jewish National Fund has come under criticism in both the U.S. and European Union due its historic involvement in the “systematic discrimination” against Palestinians since the founding of the state of Israel, as well as ongoing support for dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank. 

Source: Apple Matches Donations to IDF and Illegal Settlements, Employees Allege

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Claudia Sheinbaum’s Radical Jewish Heritage

Anti-Zionist wins in Mexico

The Right attacked Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum for being a “Jewish foreigner” and communist during her campaign. Her grandfather and his brother, emigrants from Lithuania, were both of these things.

In this sense, neglecting to mention the Sheinbaum family’s Jewish-communist history could reflect a realistic reading of what the Mexican electorate finds acceptable in 2024.

Source: Claudia Sheinbaum’s Radical Jewish Heritage

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UN Security Council overwhelmingly backs peace deal

The war in Gaza has forced of Palestinians to flee their homes.

The UN Security Council has endorsed a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The resolution was supported by 14 of the 15 council members, with Russia abstaining.

Source: UN Security Council overwhelmingly backs peace deal

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“Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire Deal | Democracy Now!

We speak to Ami Dar, an Israeli social entrepreneur based in New York, who supports the exchange of hostages and prisoners and a permanent ceasefire deal. “Let’s get all the hostages back, and if that means that every single detainee and prisoner, Palestinian, is freed, then so be it. Life comes first,” says Dar, the executive director of Idealist.org. We also hear more from Maoz Inon, an Israeli peace activist whose parents, Bilha and Yakovi Inon, were killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. “We are not going to compromise for anything less than a lasting peace,” he says.

Source: “Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire Deal | Democracy Now!

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Netanyahu’s Botched Hostage Rescue Killed 270, failed to prevent Collapse of his War Cabinet

It is probably enough of a knock on the operation that it killed nearly 300 children, women and men and wounded nearly 700. The Biden administration and the US military appear to have been drawn into Netanyahu’s atrocity, which reflects poorly on the US as a superpower and on President Joe Biden’s judgment.

Source: Netanyahu’s Botched Hostage Rescue Killed 270, failed to prevent Collapse of his War Cabinet

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Nuseirat Massacre: Inside the Carnage of Israel’s Hostage Rescue

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“The street was filled with civilian body parts and many injuries bleeding out without ambulances being able to reach them.”

Source: Nuseirat Massacre: Insid1e the Carnage of Israel’s Hostage Rescue

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Complicity in Genocide – CounterPunch.org

How have the international legal institutions addressed complicity in other cases of genocide? Could the complicity provisions apply to the United States and its leaders for assisting Israel in a war on Gaza that has cost so many thousands of civilian lives?

When the time comes for accountability, Biden, Blinken and Austin could find themselves charged with complicity to genocide under the ICC, the ICJ and/or U.S. federal jurisdiction.

Source: Complicity in Genocide – CounterPunch.org

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“I Heard All of My Friends’ Last Breath”: Testimonies From the Nuseirat Massacre – ScheerPost

Source: “I Heard All of My Friends’ Last Breath”: Testimonies From the Nuseirat Massacre – ScheerPost

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Israel/Palestine: my personal experience and conversion – Pearls and Irritations

Israel and Palestine - National flag on Brick wall

The impression I formed then, and which has been confirmed by subsequent events is that there was and is a deep, shared psychosocial illness infecting Israel but not Jews more generally.

gross mismatch between population size/growth rate and sustainability is shared with all the surrounding countries, especially Egypt. There is therefore no solution along Israeli’s suggested line to shift the Gazan population elsewhere. Indeed, there is no solution as long as the world pursues the impossibility of economic growth rather than a sustainable future within the bounds of a finite planet. In the meantime, the human slaughter in Gaza and the enormous waste of resources on armaments to further that genocide could be stopped by refusing any more aid to Israel.

Source: Israel/Palestine: my personal experience and conversion – Pearls and Irritations

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UN: Israel-caused Famine to encompass all Gaza by July, killing as many as 19,800 a Month

Given a population of 2.2 million, one in 10,000 would equal 220 persons. If more than 2 per 10,000 died daily, that would imply at least three. That figure would yield a death toll of 660 per day dying of starvation. That death toll would equal 19,800 per month.

Source: UN: Israel-caused Famine to encompass all Gaza by July, killing as many as 19,800 a Month

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Why do Egomaniac Leaders Wage War on Humanity?

I think the only answer is transcending war!! War begins with — and is not possible without — dehumanization. “These are human animals,” as Yoav Gallant said.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/159801-leaders-war-humanity/

The American-Israeli collaborative war on Gaza and its immediate consequences made the Western world and all of its institutions shamefully redundant and void in the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom

Leaders who can not think as normal human beings choose war

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Ben-Gvir Sets Sights on Israeli War Cabinet After Gantz Quits | Common Dreams

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, surrounded by security

The National Unity leader delayed his departure due to an Israeli military operation that rescued four hostages but killed at least 274 people in Gaza and wounded 698 others.

Source: Ben-Gvir Sets Sights on Israeli War Cabinet After Gantz Quits | Common Dreams

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Four rescued Israels equals over two hundred dead Palestinians whilst we continue to support a rogue state – Pearls and Irritations

Deir El Balah, Palestinian Territories. 06th June, 2024. Relatives mourn over the bodies of people killed after an Israeli airstrike on a UN school housing displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat, at a hospital ground in Deir el-Balah. Image:Alamy/Omar Naaman/dpa/Alamy Live News

The number dead has risen to 274. Also, 3 hostages are claimed to have been killed

To rescue four Israeli hostages Israel massacred two hundred and ten or more innocent Palestinian souls to prove that the War on Gaza was worth it, just to prove their machismo.

Source: Four rescued Israels equals over two hundred dead Palestinians whilst we continue to support a rogue state – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the USA – ScheerPost

There are nine basic criteria used to diagnose the personality disorder, and I would argue that the United States currently meets all of them. Let’s have a look:

Source: Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the USA – ScheerPost

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Hamas claims three hostages killed, Gantz quits govt

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz says he is withdrawing from Israel's unity government.

Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades claims in a video posted on its Telegram channel that three hostages were killed, including a US citizen, in an Israeli military operation in which some hostages were freed.

The group did not release the names of those said to be killed but the video showed what appeared to be three unidentifiable corpses using censor bars over their faces.

Meanwhile, Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s nationalist-religious coalition

Source: Hamas claims three hostages killed, Gantz quits govt

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Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation – Pearls and Irritations

Nuseirat, Gaza. 08th June, 2024. The bodies of Palestinians killed during Israeli attacks on Nuseirat Refugee Camp, al-Bureij Refugee Camp and al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, are seen at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Photo by Hatem Al-Rawag/UPI Image: UPI/Alamy Live News

At least 210 Palestinians were killed and 400 others were injured in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday after Israeli forces carried out a “rescue operation” to retrieve four captives. Reports of U.S. involvement in the operation have sparked backlash.

Al Jazeera quoted Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan with Doctors Without Borders as saying the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … It looks like a slaughterhouse.”

“The images and videos that I’ve received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood … their limbs have been blown off,” she told Al Jazeera, adding “That is what a massacre looks like.”

It is reported that there are 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip, including 43 who have been killed since October, many reportedly by Israel’s own forces.

Reported U.S. involvement in the attacks on central Gaza on Saturday, and the alleged use of the pier in the operation, has sparked intense criticism and outrage online.

 

Source: Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation – Pearls and Irritations

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Don’t Forget the USS Liberty’s Dead and Wounded – ScheerPost

Alas, the coverup has continued for 57 years. The anniversary is tomorrow. Please remember these guys. Support their continued calls for an investigation that is required under U.S. law.

Source: Don’t Forget the USS Liberty’s Dead and Wounded – ScheerPost

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600 killed and injured in the rescue of 4 in good Health

While Israelis celebrated the release of four captives secured by the military in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinians mourned hundreds of people killed during the daytime operation.

Palestinian officials said that more than 210 Palestinians were killed and 400 injured in central Gaza on Saturday, including in the area where the Israeli military says it rescued the four captives from two separate apartments blocks in a residential area of Nuseirat refugee camp.

Palestinians massacred in “rescue” operation lauded by US

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Israelis’s saved in good health, not so 200 Palestinians
200 Gazans die as Israel rescues four hostages

4 Israelis who survived the Israeli Apache Helicopter barrage and the Hannibal Directive in October 23 have lived to be whisked away in good medical health to be debriefed and tell a tale. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s Hasbara units will make the most of constructing the news and that tale without any independent reports allowed. One wonders why their captors deemed “monsters” didn’t kill them?

200 Gazans die as Israel rescues four hostages

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Further | To See Our Humanity | Opinion

Palestinians mourn more deaths from an Israel airstrike on UNRWA school in Nuseirat Refugee Camp,

Up to 6,000 people were reportedly sheltering at the school. After the assault, many still milled in the courtyard near balconies hung with washing; with nowhere else to go, most plan to remain. Over 450 Palestinians have been killed, and nearly 1,500 injured, in Israeli attacks on about 170 UNRWA buildings, the “vast majority” former schools become shelters; almost every time, Israeli military officials say they’re targeting Hamas and using “precision” weaponry. In this case, they claimed “20 or 30” Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were using the site as an operations center; they offered no evidence, and both Hamas and UNRWA disputed the claim, noting the IDF is given the coordinates of all U.N. facilities and “knew it was a school.” Still, Israel argues Hamas tries to use UN facilities as “their Iron Dome, and they will not have a safe place.” Despite guerilla warfare” with still-active Hamas units in north and central Gaza, Israel insists, “Any negotiations would be conducted only under fire.”

Source: Further | To See Our Humanity | Opinion

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Partners in crime: Germany, Israel and Genocide – Pearls and Irritations

Demonstration of Palestinians against Israel, Frankfurt 03.02.2024 Frankfurt, Willy-Brandt-Platz. With a sign that reads:

Germany doesn’t seem to have changed since WW2. Yes, they admitted that an error was made in gassing white European Ashkenazi Jews. Therefore, they feel obliged to support Israel or at least the Europeans in Israel. However, seems they are still racists today and haven’t changed. They are still ready to target people of colour and support the Zionist project of colonizing Palestine, beyond and removing lesser-than-human coloured populations. They did, after all, kill 2M Gypsies with a scant apology or reparation today. Certainly not the kind of apology made for killing white European Jews.

immediately after October 7th, with little public fuss or pushback, Germany began to practise the unthinkable. In the name of combatting ‘anti-semitism’, pro-Palestinian rallies are now regularly broken up by riot police. Commemorations of Nakba, wearing keffiyehs and displays of Palestinian flags and colours are discouraged or prohibited. Gatherings of liberal and leftist Jewish citizens who despise Netanyahu are banned because (police say) they are misused by troublemakers of ‘Palestinian origin’. Springer and other employers enforce oaths of loyalty to Israel. Germany’s dockyards have long supplied Israel with nuclear-tipped U-boats while last year German arms sales to Israel increased ten-fold. Even the Bundeswehr comes to its defence. In early February, without a Bundestag mandate, the warship Hessen sailed from Wilhelmshaven, headed for the Red Sea, carrying an unspecified number of ‘Seebataillon’ naval infantry troops mobilised to deal with the anti-Israel, Yemen-based Houthi ‘terrorist’ militia.

Source: Partners in crime: Germany, Israel and Genocide – Pearls and Irritations

Truth in Humor

The Strangest Things About The Liberal Party This Week! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

At least he’s safe from a spill for the simple reason that nobody wants the job. And at least he can content himself that he’ll be able to run a better campaign than Rishi Sunak, who announced the election in the rain and managed to get himself photographed standing under an exit sign.

Source: The Strangest Things About The Liberal Party This Week! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP, LNP Policy

Peter Dutton proposes decades of delay on climate: Federal Liberals still with no climate plan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“The federal Coalition has not heeded the message of the nation on climate. They must do better.”

Source: Peter Dutton proposes decades of delay on climate: Federal Liberals still with no climate plan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

and

“Scientists tell us if we delay urgent climate action we guarantee that global temperatures will keep rising. That would condemn Australia to face summers like Black Summer on a regular basis, if not worse. It is beyond belief that the Opposition Leader thinks that is an acceptable future for this country.”

Bushfire survivors call out Peter Dutton’s abandonment of communities on the frontline of climate change – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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As Gaza Starves, Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls to Reduce Humanitarian Aid | Common Dreams

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir

Anti-refugeeism, Anti- Aid, is pure Zionist Ideology and has been for since the beginning of the doctrine. They opposed any Red Cross assistance given to Jews during WW2 and promoted deals with the Nazis and Mussolini to betray the British in Palestine in exchange for the forced transference of Jews from labour camps to Palestine. Aid delays any project and today it does the same. Its why UNRWA the UN and any other volunteer agencies are so fiercely attacked. Ben Gvir was a terrorist at 16 and still remains an unashamed terrorist today.

“In our opinion Israel should withhold fuel from Gaza and reduce the humanitarian [aid] that enters,” Ben-Gvir said on social media, adding that he would not support a cease-fire deal put forward by Israel because it “would endanger the future of the state of Israel.”

Source: As Gaza Starves, Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls to Reduce Humanitarian Aid | Common Dreams

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I’ve seen every Jerusalem flag march in last 16 years. This one was the ugliest – Pearls and Irritations

2XABNHR Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, surrounded by Security officers, speaks as he stands outside Damascus gate In Jerusalem, Thursday June 5 2024. Tens of thousands of young religious Ultra nationalists Zionist men and women, have paraded through Muslim parts of the Old City of Jerusalem in the annual Jerusalem day Flag march, an event that threatens to trigger further violence in the Israel-Hamas war. Jerusalem day marks the reunification of the city during the Six Day War and IsraelOs capture of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, JudaismOs holiest sites. Photo by Eyal Alamy

The Flag March on Jerusalem Day is an accurate thermometer of the condition of Israeli society. It measures the levels of hatred, racism and violence in the religious Zionist society and the tolerance of the police and the rest of society to these traits. This year’s diagnosis is terminal. Wednesday’s march was one of the most violent and ugliest I have seen – and I have witnessed every single one over the past 16 years.

Fifty-seven years after Jerusalem was united and eight months since the outbreak of the war, the Israeli leadership that passed through Damascus Gate on Wednesday has no relevant answer for the future and for the people of Jerusalem and Israel. They have no plan, no solution and no hope to offer. Instead, they hope we will make do with revenge.

Source: I’ve seen every Jerusalem flag march in last 16 years. This one was the ugliest – Pearls and Irritations

America's Shame

Vijay Prashad: The No-Rules International Order

The U.S. government was enraged. On June 11, 2020, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13928, which authorised his government to freeze ICC officials’ assets and ban them and their families from entering the United States.

In September 2020, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Bensouda, a national of Gambia, and senior ICC diplomat Phakiso Mochochoko, a national of Lesotho. The American Bar Association condemned these sanctions, but they were not revoked.

The U.S. government eventually repealed the sanctions in April 2021, after Bensouda left her post and was replaced by the British lawyer Karim Khan in February 2021.

In September 2021, ICC Prosecutor Khan said that while his office would continue to investigate war crimes by the Taliban and the Islamic State in Afghanistan, it would “deprioritise other aspects of this investigation.”

This awkward phrasing simply meant that the ICC would no longer investigate war crimes committed by the United States and its allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The ICC had been sufficiently brought to heel.

Source: Vijay Prashad: The No-Rules International Order

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Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel

“NSO might be crippled, but the technology it engineered is not.”[3]

ource: Pegasus: The Zero-Click Threat to Democracy and Human Rights from Israel

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‘Historic, But So, So Late’: Israel Added to UN’s Child-Killing ‘List of Shame’ | Common Dreams

Palestinian children wounded by Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp at Gaza hospital

“It took a genocide that killed 15,000 children and maimed and scarred thousands more but the U.N. has finally and rightly added Israel to its List of Shame,” said one Palestinian observer.

Source: ‘Historic, But So, So Late’: Israel Added to UN’s Child-Killing ‘List of Shame’ | Common Dreams

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US weapons parts used in Israeli attack on Gaza school: Al Jazeera analysis | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Parts recovered from an Israeli attack on Thursday, which killed 40 Palestinians, made by US manufacturer.

Source: US weapons parts used in Israeli attack on Gaza school: Al Jazeera analysis | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

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US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp – ScheerPost

Collective punishment

Eyewitnesses say the attack on the Nuseirat school was horrific, with Israeli forces releasing two bombs on the building that was sheltering 6,000 Palestinians who had been displaced multiple times over the course of Israel’s genocide. At the site of the attack, the smell of blood hangs heavy in the air, reported Palestinian journalist Hind Khoudary.

“We were inside the school and suddenly we were bombed, people here turned to pieces on a harsh night … this building housed families and young people, and the shelling took place without warning,” survivor Anas al-Dahouk told Al Jazeera.

The school is one of the many UNRWA facilities that have been targeted by Israeli forces since October. According to Lazzarini, 180 UNRWA buildings have been attacked, killing at least 450 Palestinians in UN facilities alone.

Source: US Bombs Used in Israeli Massacre of 40 in Gaza Refugee Camp – ScheerPost

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More strikes on Gaza with no ceasefire in sight

A Palestinian boy stands among rubble from a UN-run school that was housing displaced people in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, and was hit during an Israeli bombardment.

Israel doesn’t even know if any of the 40 killed were Hamas. Yet they are prepared to make the excuse that it was a legitimate precision strike because the 30 Hamas militants they were targeting were holding 6000 Gazans hostage. (Old Dog)

On T hursday, Israel hit a Gaza school building with what it said was a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the UN site.

Israel’s military said it had identified nine of 30 militants targeted in the strike. The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said its school was being used as a shelter for 6000 displaced people at the time.

Source: More strikes on Gaza with no ceasefire in sight

ALP Government,

Lockheed Martin hides Australia’s complicity in Gaza bombings

The world’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, has deleted from its website details about Australia’s key role in building F-35 fighter jets, which Israel is using to bomb Gaza.

Source: Lockheed Martin hides Australia’s complicity in Gaza bombings

ABC

Laura Tingle and aliens at the ABC

Managing editor Michelle Pini delves into whether Laura Tingle may represent the last ABC journalist prepared to report the truth.

Source: Laura Tingle and aliens at the ABC

ALP Government,

New figures destroy Australia’s tradie shortage myth – » The Australian Independent Media Network

A CFMEU analysis of Jobs & Skills Australia occupation and internet job advertisements data busts the myth peddled by employer groups that there is a worker shortage which must be addressed through migration.

The vast majority of building and construction-related jobs have an indicative vacancy rate below 1%.

In February, there were just 56 ads for plasters – a profession employing 27,600 people nationally.

There are 30,000 bricklayers and stonemasons employed in Australia, yet only 111 job ads, which indicates a vacancy rate of 0.4%.

Vacancies for plumbers, tilers, fencers, carpenters and joiners, insulation and home improvement installers were all lower than 1%.

CFMEU National Secretary Zach Smith said:

“We have exposed the blatant lie that Australia is suffering from a tradie shortage that must be fixed through migration.

Source: New figures destroy Australia’s tradie shortage myth – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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End of an Era: Pro-Palestine Language Exposes Israel, Zionism – CounterPunch.org

Failing to push back against the pro-Palestine narrative, the French government has, on May 31, decided to disinvite Israeli military firms from participating in one of the world’s largest military expos, Eurosatory, scheduled for June 17-21.

Even countries like Canada and Germany, which supported the Israeli genocide against Palestinians until later stages of the mass killings, began changing their language as well.

The change of language is also happening in Israel itself and among pro-Israeli intellectuals and journalists in mainstream media. In a widely read column, New York Times writer Thomas Friedman attacked Netanyahu late last March, accusing him of being the “worst leader in Jewish history, not just in Israeli history”.

Source: End of an Era: Pro-Palestine Language Exposes Israel, Zionism – CounterPunch.org

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Bombing the UNRWA School
A United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school

Israel Used US-Made Bombs in Deadly Attack on UNRWA School

The Biden administration approved the transfer of more than 1,000 of the Boeing-made munitions to Israel in early April.

Jake Johnson

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The West Bank : The war less noticed
A bulldozer between buildings in a badly damaged Palestinian refugee camp

Many houses are not fit to live in after an Israeli invasion of Nur Shams refugee camp. Read more about  

Gloom grips the West Bank

Fayha’ Shalash 6 June 2024

 

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Israel Is Waging Genocide in Open Defiance of the ICJ

By continuing its military assault on Gaza, massacring civilians in Rafah, and intimidating opponents into submission, Israel is taking rogue action against the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Convention — and the US is enabling it.

Source: Israel Is Waging Genocide in Open Defiance of the ICJ

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How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

Biden’s passive-aggressive approach to Gaza is working against him on two fronts. His unqualified support for Israel alienates many progressive voters in the US (including Jews), who recognize the atrocity at hand. Yet he is so patronizing towards Jews that his policies prompted a Jewish employee of the Interior Dept. to resign in protest. In a column in The Guardian, Lily Greenberg Call said, “The president has weaponized the idea of Jewish safety to justify the atrocity in Gaza. I could no longer stand by. I resigned on Wednesday, 15 May – the 76th anniversary of the Nakba – because I could no longer serve at the pleasure of a president who refuses to stop another catastrophe.” She added, “Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the Shoah – which, in turn, reminds me of the Nakba: the tragedy that occurred in 1948 when  . . . 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland for the formation of today’s modern Israel. Shoah and Nakba mean the same thing in Hebrew and Arabic: catastrophe.” Meanwhile, the current Israeli offensive has displaced over 1 million people. This podcast of Lily Greenberg Call encapsulates many of the objections to Biden’s management of the crisis. She said, “We’ve seen the president continue to express unconditional support for Israel in Gaza, and using my community, the Jewish community as the justification for that – saying, ‘what’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza is necessary to keep the Jewish community safe. . . . It’s also disastrous for the Jewish communities around the world.”

Source: How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

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‘Horrific’: Israel’s War on Gaza Also Destroying the Climate, Study Finds | Common Dreams

man pushing bicycle in the distance, amid rubble

“While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the humanitarian catastrophe, the climate consequences of this conflict are also catastrophic,” Ben Neimark, a co-author and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, toldThe Guardian.

Source: ‘Horrific’: Israel’s War on Gaza Also Destroying the Climate, Study Finds | Common Dreams

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Growing pro-Gaza movement is exposing the hypocrisy of US leadership – Pearls and Irritations

USA and Israel flags on puzzle pieces. Political relationship concept. 3D rendering Image:iStock: klenger

Despite a string of foreign policy mishaps, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US continues to see itself as the guardian of the global order. But the Gaza crisis may prove different. The US’ unwavering support of Israel’s ruthless war against the Palestinians is galvanising the world. As the UN vote shows, the US is facing growing isolation on this issue and more on the international stage.

Source: Growing pro-Gaza movement is exposing the hypocrisy of US leadership – Pearls and Irritations

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Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case

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“Appellants have moved to disqualify me from participation in this case based on my attendance at a judicial education conference in Israel in March,” Nelson wrote in a brief order. He disputed the merit of plaintiffs’ allegations of potential impartiality.

“They cite no comments I have made about any issues related to this case. Thus, it is far from certain that an objective observer would reasonably question my impartiality,” he wrote. “That said, out of an abundance of caution, the best course in this specific case (which may not apply in other cases) is to recuse.”

Source: Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case

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Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

Spain’s foreign minister announced Thursday that the country had applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, just over a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries.

Source: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

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