The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Read critical background left out of breaking news alerts…
Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war
Commentary: AntiSemitism? God’s ‘Chosen’ People Have Bombed to Death 25,000 Women and Children
The world, especially the Global South, watches as U.S. continues to enable Israeli annihilation of a captive militarily occupied population of Palestinians officially referred to by Israel’s highest officials as ‘human animals.’
Nationwide, Palestine supporters demand their free speech rights – Day 204
Protests and repression throughout the US; Israeli airstrike kills family members of revered poet; more UNRWA cases closed; Palestinians to be represented in Olympics; ceasefire talks; Gaza water crisis; State Dept memo: Israel may be violating int’l law; Biden snubs Muslim American voters…
US backs down on plan to sanction Israeli battalion, in spite of US law – Day 203
US won’t follow through on sanctions on IDF units; Netanyahu calls for crackdown on American students; Emory president defends police violently arresting female prof who tried to stop police beating students; Gazan dead show signs of possible organ theft; Israeli police arrest rabbis marching to Gaza; Israel gives Hamas a “last chance” before Rafah invasion; UNRWA employee case closed; Freedom Flotilla…
Manipulation Politics: Israeli Gaslighting in the United States
Although the pro-Israel camp and their allies continue to dominate and influence Congress and the executive branch, they have slowly begun to lose control of the narrative.
‘Our Future Was Here’: Christians in Gaza
Like all Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of Christians living in the Strip found themselves with nowhere to hide once the war with Israel began after October 7, Israeli forces often targeting churches…
Final count: bodies of 392 Gazan Palestinians discovered in mass graves – Day 202
Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker & son, 7; premature baby girl has died; another US State Dept employee resigns; military-industrial complex profits from weapon sales to Israel; “Biden has betrayed the soul of our nation”; Freedom Flotilla: Israel plays dirty (again); nonviolent campus protests spread, met with violence
A statistic 1,000 times too small doesn’t warrant a correction in the NY Times
Four days after a major error about Gazans was published in a front page article, the Times has still failed to publish a correction, even after editors determined a correction was required.
Biden announces: $26B in US tax money to Israel will “make the world safer” – Day 201
Biden signs over more aid to Israel, as its military may be using internationally banned weapons, burying civilians alive, killing another journalist, enabling famine and disease, and preparing to invade the most densely populated region of the world; meanwhile, teenager killed in West Bank, Turkiye is being pressured to stop a massive aid shipment from sailing to Gaza; meanwhile, college campuses’ growing outcry against the genocide in Gaza, and more
Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years
“This isn’t the first time that the occupation raided Nur Shams,” camp resident Baraa al-Ghoul told Mondoweiss, “but this time it was different because the occupation forces used unprecedented violence.”
US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200
More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov’t; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more