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Source: Mondoweiss.net
The Anti-Defamation League is fueling war with its attacks on those trying to stop Israeli assaults on Palestinians, and its pernicious charge that “anti-Zionism is genocide.”
Continue reading “The Anti-Defamation League is Fueling War – Emmaia Gelman 10/18/23”
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Nowhere is safe in Gaza as Israel commits massacres in the areas it designated as “safe zones” for civilians. People fear that Joe Biden’s visit will give Israel the green light to wipe Gaza off the map.
Continue reading “The Israeli Army Told us to Flee South to Avoid their Airstrikes. Then they Bombed us There, Too. – Tareq S. Hajjaj 10/17/23”
Source: TheGrayzone.com
The New York Times surreptitiously edited its article on the politically motivated murder of a Muslim American child to remove a lawmaker’s condemnation of the media’s role in the lethal hate crime. And after inciting a wave of anti-Palestinian hysteria, Biden and corporate media pundits feigned sorrow.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Rank-and-file members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union are appalled by union leadership’s refusal to honor members’ majority vote to condemn the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Editor’s Note: The Harvard Graduate Student Union Rank-and-File issued the following statement on October 17, 2023.
Continue reading “Harvard Grad Union Rank-and-File Denounce Suppression of Voices Against Israel’s Ongoing Genocide in Palestine – Mondoweiss 10/18/23”
Source: TheGrayzone.com
The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs.
On the morning of October 16, counter-terror police in Glasgow Airport detained journalist, whistleblower, human rights campaigner, and former British diplomat Craig Murray upon his return from Iceland. After grilling him intensively about his political beliefs, officers seized Murray’s phone and laptop.
Source: Antiwar.com
It’s not a real war. The bloody carnage in Israel and Palestine that we now witness is a large prison uprising being crushed by Israel’s military might.
M-16 lightweight rifles against Merkava tanks; home-made rockets (little more than flying pipe bombs) versus U.S.-state of the art F-15 and F-16 fighter bombers; a few thousand Hamas fighters versus 600,000 or more Israeli soldiers and police backed by drones and heavy artillery.
Continue reading “How Much Longer will Palestinians be a Martyr People? – Eric Margolis 10/16/23”
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The ancients were wise to make war a god. Violent, unpredictable, destructive, seductive, brutal, and capricious. And of course very, very powerful in its hold on the human mind.
Continue reading “War Destroys History: The God of War Consumes All – Bill Astore 10/12/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
The Biden administration could restrain Israel from carrying out possibly genocidal plans in Gaza. Instead it is egging them on.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
The Palestinian struggle brings to the forefront the colonial relations that underpin today’s world, and that the West, and its media, work tirelessly to hide.
With every Israeli massacre in the besieged Gaza Strip, the double standards of Western media and governments become palpable. This time, however, the targeting of Palestinians and their supporters, especially across Europe, seems to be more violent and coordinated than ever before. On October 10th, the UK Home Secretary sent a letter to Chief Constables in England and Wales, encouraging the police to broaden the grounds on which they can arrest Palestine supporters. The letter encourages the police to consider chants such as ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ as an “expression of violent desire” and Palestinian flags as “intended to glorify acts of terrorism.” Yesterday, the German police attacked supporters of Palestine on Sonnenallee, arresting some of the protestors. In Vienna, the police banned a Palestine protest and issued fines to as many as three hundred protestors. In France, the police banned Palestine protests.
Continue reading “On Western Media and the Erasure of Palestine – Hashem Abushama 10/14/23”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
In Gaza City, Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent, said, “Forget about food, forget about electricity, forget about fuel. The only concern now is just if you’ll make it–if you’re going to live.”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
Israel orders 1.1 million people to flee Gaza City within 24 hours to carry out ethnic cleansing and genocide. Meanwhile in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Palestinians took to the streets in a “Day of Rage.”
Israel is preparing to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its northern residents. Early on Friday, October 13, Israel ordered the United Nations that it should start evacuating the 1.1 million Palestinians who live in northern Gaza, including Gaza City and North Gaza. The UN has stated that moving over a million civilians in under 24 hours was “impossible” without devastating humanitarian consequences and that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip had reached “lethal lows.”
Source: Mondoweiss.net
U.S. reporters are providing breathless around the clock coverage from Israel, but none are reporting from the destruction of Gaza. The result is that Palestinians are dehumanized and Americans are missing the story.
As Israel struck Gaza in a massive bombing campaign, CNN today featured what appeared to be drone footage of Gaza City reduced to rubble, but the reporter on air was in Israel, Jeremy Diamond in Ashdod.
MSNBC was little different. Josh Lederman was in Tel Aviv. Ali Velshi was in Ashkelon. So was Raf Sanchez.
PBS News Hour last night featured both anchor Amna Nawaz and reporter Leila Molana-Allen — reporting from Tel Aviv.
Source: LewRockwell.com
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
~ Noël Coward
Oh, where to begin? The world is changing continually, and what began as an alternative voice of truth as opposed to the mainstream propaganda and lies, is morphing into a big business, large audience, popularity contest, where money and fame are sought. Invariably, this serves to weaken the honest message in favor of rhetoric, biased personal opinion, and in some instances, is meant for purposeful opposition to the truth, although this is not always the case. There is a fine line in intentionally working against a particular element of truth, and taking sides without clear thought. When one immediately takes sides without consideration of the big picture, the whole truth as it were, is lost, as is all credibility. What is spewed in this state of plotted or emotional opinion, is at once in favor of, whether intentional or not, the real evil. This is happening in a very dangerous situation today, in the so-called “war against Hamas” by Zionist-controlled Israel.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
During an October 10th briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called progressive congress members who have called for a ceasefire in the Middle East “disgraceful” and “repugnant.”
Source: New.TheCradle.co
The White House on 11 October was forced to backtrack a statement US President Joe Biden made earlier in the day, in which he claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures” of Palestinian militants “beheading children” in Israel.
Later in the evening on Wednesday, a National Security official told NPR that Biden was “referring to media reports” when he made that remark. At the same time, CNN cited a White House official saying that “neither Biden nor the administration had seen these images.”…
Source: New.TheCradle.co
French police have banned two rallies scheduled for 12 October in solidarity with Palestinians being slaughtered in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces.
The protest ban was implemented “taking into account the risk of disturbance to public order,” according to French media citing police officials.
The decision was taken two days after security forces violently repressed a pro-Palestine rally in France’s second city of Lyon, using tear gas and batons to break it up.
Source: New.TheCradle.co
Iraqi resistance faction Kataib Hezbollah issued a stern warning on 11 October, threatening to strike at US bases in Iraq and surrounding areas if the US intervened in the ongoing war between various Palestinian factions and Israel.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
U.S. and international media outlets are repeating unsubstantiated claims that Palestinian fighters “beheaded” babies. These unverified assertions aren’t just sloppy journalism — they are being used to justify a massacre.
One story has been dominating the U.S. and international media cycle for the past 24 hours. It has been repeated by pro-Israel activists, Israeli government officials, reporters, and anchors throughout the U.S. media and even alluded to by the President. The thing is — this story has not been confirmed in any way. It appears to come from a single source with a history of espousing calls for genocidal violence against Palestinians.
Source: Mondoweiss.net
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Source: New.TheCradle.co
Resistance missiles have continued to rain down on several occupied cities and settlements into 11 October, as the Israeli air force continued its violent blitz against the Gaza Strip’s civilian population.
Over 1,200 Israelis have been killed, and around 3,000 injured, Hebrew media reports.
Source: Antiwar.com
When Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations spoke outside the Security Council on Sunday, he said: “This is Israel’s 9/11. This is Israel’s 9/11.” Meanwhile, in a PBS NewsHour interview, Israel’s ambassador to the United States said: “This is, as someone said, our 9/11.”
While the phrase might seem logical, “Israel’s 9/11” is already being used as a huge propaganda weapon by Israel’s government – now engaged in massive war crimes against civilians in Gaza, after mass murder of Israelis by Hamas last weekend.
Source: Antiwar.com
The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart retch.
Not because it is not awful that Israeli civilians are dying and suffering in such large numbers. But because Palestinian civilians in Gaza have faced repeated rampages from Israel decade after decade, producing far more suffering, but have never elicited a fraction of the concern currently being expressed by western politicians or publics.
Source; New.TheCradle.co
Israeli warplanes continued to pummel the besieged Gaza Strip for a fourth consecutive night, with the Palestinian death toll reaching at least 950, including 260 children, with about 5,000 injured as of 11 October.
Moreover, at least 260,000 people have been displaced by the carpet bombing campaign, with more than 175,000 taking shelter in 88 UN schools.
Tuesday’s night blitz demolished the entire neighborhood of Al-Karama, as Israeli jets leveled eight 12-story towers while people were still inside their homes, reportedly used internationally banned white phosphorous in the process….
Source: New.TheCradle.co
Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance on 9 October warned the US against getting directly involved in the war between Israel and Gaza, saying that such a move would spark a “regional war.”
Source: New.TheCradle.co
Israeli warplanes pummeled the Gaza Strip with more than 200 air raids overnight on 10 October, raising the death toll past 700, including 140 children, and about 4,000 injured.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Tuesday morning that mass displacement escalated over the past 24 hours across Gaza, reaching 180,000 people.