NB: Nothing conveys the shameless racism of the American Empire better than Trump’s use of words like ‘cleaning out’ Gaza, as if Palestinians are a pile of trash. Coming after the actions of Biden, who is responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, and who presented 30 billion dollars to the… Read More Trump’s Gaza proposal rejected by allies and condemned as ethnic cleansing plan
Cherien Dabis’s drama, spanning nearly 75 years in one Palestinian family, is a heart-wrenching, if sometimes blunt, portrait of displacement… The framing for this Arabic-language family saga, spanning from 1948 to the near-present, evinces the film’s primary modes – lived-in, propulsive, multifaceted drama with a fraught, ardent sense of place, and heart-on-its-sleeve, direct plea for… Read More All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma
The ceasefire deal clinched on Wednesday may end the latest episode of mass slaughter in Gaza, but it won’t halt the structural genocide of Palestinians Muhannad Ayyash The ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is, first and foremost, a welcome relief for the Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering from a most brutal and horrific… Read More Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide?
January 18, 2009: Ceasefire after Operation Cast Lead had killed about 1400 Palestinians, destroyed 46,000 homes and left 100,000 homeless. Just before Barack Obama’s inauguration. Norman Finkelstein on the “ceasefire agreement” between Israel and Gaza A visual guide to the destruction of Gaza January 18, 2025: Ceasefire after the IDF has killed at least 46,913… Read More Norman Finkelstein on the “ceasefire agreement” between Israel and Gaza / A visual guide to the destruction of Gaza
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The Chris Hedges Report With Richard Solomon and Prahlad Iyengar “You can’t just sit there and build drones and not talk about who it’s serving and who does it help,” says Richard Solomon, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and member of the Coalition for Palestine at MIT. On this episode of… Read More America’s Academic Gulag (w/MIT Student Activists)
‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child. These accounts of indiscriminate killing… Read More ‘No Civilians. Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
The Biden administration has repeatedly undermined international institutions and law to shield Israel. This will come back to haunt them Mohamad Bazzi Donald Trump wants to revive American imperialism. For weeks, the president-elect has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal, possibly by military force. And he promised supporters that he would pressure Canada, through economic warfare,… Read More Biden has paved the way for Trump’s egregious flouting of international rules
After talking about ‘total victory’ for months, Netanyahu folded under Trump’s pressure. The emerging deal means Israel will forgo the obliteration of Hamas’ regime, leaving the terror group free to entrench its position in Palestinian society – but there is no choice: the hostages and soldiers being killed in Gaza for no reason are out… Read More Israel Will Have to Pay a Heavy but Inevitable Price for Hostage-release Deal
Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65 Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was about 40% higher than numbers recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.… Read More Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds
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