Filtering out the Nonsense, Aggregating Whatever's Left.
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The Jerusalem Post has retracted an article claiming Palestinians in the Gaza Strip used a doll to fake the death of a baby killed by Israeli attacks. When the mainstream Israeli media outlet made the allegation, pro-Israeli accounts quickly began to share the story, garnering tens of thousands of retweets. Despite the outlet’s half-baked apology for publishing a blatantly false story, this isn’t the first time such claims have been made.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Israel has a long history of taking Palestinian children captive, abusing and scarring them in the process. This mass incarceration of children living under occupation boils down to one thing: control and the deprivation of liberty.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel pushes people south to Rafah. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque Iman Shiekh Ekrima Sabri.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
CNN’s Jake Tapper failed to adhere to professional and ethical journalism standards in a story claiming to offer proof of sexual violence by Palestinian fighters on October 7.
Continue reading “CNN Report Claiming Sexual Violence on October 7 Relied on Non-Credible Witnesses, some with Undisclosed Ties to Israeli Government – Mondoweiss 12/1/23”
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In the past weeks, I’ve received numerous messages from readers asking for my thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Usually, I try to stay away from political issues because they’re, more or less, a puppet show and this site is mainly about the puppeteers behind it. However, in the case of the current Israel-Palestine conflict, there’s been some major puppeteering happening behind the scenes and, sadly, lots of people do not see it.
Source: Antiwar.com
Both candidates support Israel – no matter what.
In the weeks after October 7th, the Israeli government spent their time — and if you live in the US, your tax dollars — bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, refugee camps, and entire neighborhoods. Generations of families were wiped off the face of the earth. At one point, a Palestinian child was being killed every ten minutes. And through it all, one thing was made very clear: whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is in the White House, Israel will have a blank check to commit endless atrocities.
“I am a Zionist,” then-Vice President Biden told Shalom TV in 2008. “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
The open license to weaponize antisemitism against any and all critics of Israel must be revoked.
We live in a world where the actions and policies of any state are, and should be, subject to criticism. One would assume that this holds true and is to be expected, in particular when a state wages a war that kills thousands of innocent civilians and destroys hospitals, houses of worship, bakeries, and schools. Calling for a ceasefire, condemning the displacement of one million civilians, and calling out statements by that state’s politicians explicitly calling for annihilation are all what common sense calls for. Yet, there seems to be an exception.
Continue reading “This Open License must be Revoked – Bassam Haddad and Sinan Antoon 11/28/23”
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Since the beginning of its war on Gaza, Israel’s propaganda has been outrageous, but it has since crossed a threshold into the genre of dark comedy. The most recent episode of Israel’s “evidence”-saga has focused on the claim that Hamas uses Palestinian hospitals as bases, a narrative the US government has faithfully backed up.
Source: Unz.com
I’d recently mentioned that although I’ve encountered a multitude of so-called “conspiracy theories” on the Internet over the years, I’ve concluded that around 90-95% of them were false or at least unsubstantiated. However, the residual 5-10% were sufficiently well-documented and important that they had served as the basis for the lengthy American Pravda series I’d produced over the last decade, now numbering many dozens of articles and totaling well over a half-million words.
Unfortunately, the vast profusion of exciting but incorrect theories can often lead people astray. Sometimes a mainstream individual is so shocked to discover the reality of one or two stories he’d always seen dismissed by the media that he loses his bearings and begins carelessly swallowing many others as well, failing to properly separate the wheat from the chaff.
Continue reading “The Balfour Declaration and 116,000 American Lives – Ron Unz 11/20/23”
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Eyewitnesses to the October 7 hostage standoff in Kibbutz Be’eri have exposed Israel for misleading the world about the killings of 12-year-old Liel Hetzroni, her family and her neighbors.
Source: TheLastAmericanVagabond.com
As debate rages on about the current war between armed Palestinian factions and Israel, a prominent argument claims Israel is now facing “blowback” for its policy of aiding Hamas, the party that governs the Gaza Strip. So, did Israel create, fund, or promote Hamas?
Source: Unz.com
For nearly three weeks I’ve been suggesting with increasing forcefulness that the official figure of 1,400 Israeli deaths from the Hamas attack may have been considerably exaggerated. Here’s what I’d said last Monday:
Continue reading “Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Racialism – Ron Unz 11/13/23”
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Haaretz has yet to admit it jumped the gun when it dismissed The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for documenting crucial evidence that Israeli forces killed Israelis on October 7. But new reports by the same outlet show we were right all along.
Source: New.TheCradle.co
Washington is discreetly stepping up its military aid to Israel, Bloomberg reported on 15 November, citing a US Defense Department document.
Continue reading “US Secretly Boosts Arms Deliveries to Israel: Report – The Cradle 11/15/23”
Source: Antiwar.com
On Friday the UN said that it was no longer able to continue aid deliveries into Gaza as an Israeli fuel blockade of the enclave has led to a widespread communications blackout. The World Health Organization warned that the ending of aid deliveries means the “immediate possibility of starvation” for the 2.3 million people in Gaza.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Following Israel’s brutal attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces have set their sights on the Indonesian hospital, besieging it and shooting at anyone who tries to leave.
Casualties
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On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital.
The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context and no evidence, further contributes to the deteriorating credibility of Israel in international media and image worldwide.
Source: Antiwar.com
According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, 12,000 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the current Israel–Hamas war. While some people including President Biden have claimed the figure cannot be trusted, a senior U.S. official recently stated that the true death toll is likely even higher.
Continue reading “Who Should we Blame for Civilian Deaths in Gaza? – Noah Carl 11/20/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the “humanitarian” route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.
Casualties
Source: InformationLiberation.com
The “Israel on Campus Coalition” offered college students $250 “microgrants” to attend the “March for Israel” event in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
“The ‘Israel on Campus Coalition’ is funded by ‘pro-Israel’ billionaires such as Bernie Marcus, founder of Home Depot, and Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp,” Michael Tracey reported….
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More than 40 Columbia University student groups have formed a coalition to demand that the school divest from Israeli apartheid.
The launch of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) comes shortly after the administration suspended the groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) from campus. The coalition was announced on Tuesday night, at a protest that drew hundreds of faculty and students.
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The United States regime has picked sides in the Israel-Hamas war and has committed to funding Israel’s ongoing bombing of non-combatant men, women, and children in the Gaza strip. Northern Gaza’s infrastructure is now all but destroyed, with millions of Gazans displaced and homeless. Nearly ten times more Gazans than Israelis have now died in the conflict. Many Gazans have fled to the southern portion of Gaza, but homelessness and abject poverty awaits them there.
Source: Antiwar.com
We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities.
Most Americans share a general aversion to war, but tend to accept this militarized foreign policy because we are tragically susceptible to propaganda, the machinery of public manipulation that works hand in hand with the machinery of killing to justify otherwise unthinkable horrors.
Source: Unz.com
BEN NORTON: Why does the United States so strongly support Israel?
In this video today, I’m going to be explaining the geopolitical and economic reasons why Israel is such an important part of U.S. foreign policy and Washington’s attempt to dominate not only the region of the Middle East, but really the entire world.
For this analysis today, I had the privilege of being joined by the economist Michael Hudson. I will bring him in later to provide further details about this topic. But first, I want to highlight some very important basic context to understand this relationship.
It is crucial to stress that Israel is an extension of U.S. geopolitical power in one of the most critically important regions of the world.
Continue reading “Why Does the US Support Israel? – Michael Hudson 11/13/23”
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In my public presentations on the subject of Palestine-Israel, I am frequently asked to identify the force most responsible for the catastrophe we are witnessing today in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. Audiences are surprised when I say that the source is easily identifiable – it is Zionism.
Continue reading “The Catastrophic Roots of Zionism in Palestine – M. Reza Behnam 11/15/23”
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Al-Shifa Hospital medical staff forced to dig a mass grave to bury 170 bodies as the hospital can’t refrigerate bodies without electricity. Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich says “voluntary migration” is the only solution for Palestinians in Gaza Strip.
Casualties
*This figure covers the casualties from October 7 to November 12.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
All the hospitals in Gaza City are now out of service as Israel’s attack on healthcare continues, forcing medical staff to abandon their dying patients, including premature babies
Casualties:
11,078 killed*, including 4,506 children, and 27,490 wounded in Gaza
*The casualty numbers from Gaza have not been updated in at least 3 days, as the “collapse of services and communications” has made it nearly impossible for the health ministry to document and update the numbers
187 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
Casualties
Source: Mondoweiss.net
There have been wars and air campaigns that killed more civilians than in Gaza, but almost none match the intensity and deliberately criminal intent of Israel’s genocidal war.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Columbia University says its suspending two campus Palestine groups.
In a statement posted on the school’s website Senior Executive Vice President of the University and Chair of the Special Committee on Campus Safety Gerald Rosberg said the university is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) for the remainder of the fall term.
Continue reading “Columbia University Bans SJP and JVP – Michael Arria 11/10/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
UN agencies report that fuel shortages will force Gaza hospitals, desalination plants, and bakeries to close, indirectly killing many. “The situation is catastrophic. Civilians, especially children, continue to pay the heaviest price,” says Save the Children.
Casualties
Gaza
10,818 Killed, 4,412 including children
26,905 injured
West Bank
175 Palestinains Killed
Source: Antiwar.com
The governments of Israel and the United States are now in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s okay to kill. Last week – as the death toll from massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza neared 10,000 people, including several thousand children – top U.S. officials began to worry about the rising horrified outcry at home and abroad. So, they went public with muted misgivings and calls for a “humanitarian pause.” But Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear that he would have none of it.
Such minor tactical discord does little to chip away at the solid bedrock alliance between the two countries, which are most of the way through a 10-year deal that guarantees $38 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel. And now, as the carnage in Gaza continues, Washington is rushing to provide extra military assistance worth $14 billion.
Continue reading “Israel’s Military is Part of the US War Machine – Norman Solomon 11/8/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
South Africa recalls ambassador from Tel Aviv, and Jordan warns expelling Palestinians is “declaration of war”. Nearly one million Palestinians are still living in northern Gaza where fighting intensified between resistance fighters and Israeli forces.
Casualties
Gaza: 10,328 Killed, 4,237 of them children; nearly 26,000 Wounded
Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem: 163 Killed
Source: New.TheCradle.co
The complex, nuanced issue of Russia’s geopolitical neutrality in the Israel-Palestine tragedy was finally clarified last week, in no uncertain terms.
Continue reading “Russia’s Public Pivot to Palestine – Pepe Escobar 11/7/23”
Source: New.TheCradle.co
South Africa recalled all of its diplomats in Tel Aviv for “consultation” on 6 October in rejection of continued Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
Continue reading “South Africa Recalls Diplomats in Israel – The Cradle 11/6/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
An estimated 300,000 demonstrators shut down the streets of D.C. in the largest Palestine protest in United States history, calling for a ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Gaza.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizers estimate 300,000 people attended the rally and march, easily making the largest demonstration for Palestine in United States history.