Leo Strauss on Jerusalem & Athens: The perfectly just man, the man who is as just as is humanly possible, is according to Socrates the philosopher and according to the prophets the faithful servant of the Lord. The philosopher is the man who dedicates his life to the quest for knowledge of the good, of… Read More Netanyahu’s UN Speech to empty hall on September 7, 2025
Haaretz’s lead editorial Dozens of ships have been making their way through the Mediterranean Sea for weeks now toward the Gaza Strip. This is the Global Sumud Flotilla, an effort by hundreds of international activists to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. But it’s primarily aimed at drawing international attention to the humanitarian crisis, the hunger… Read More Israel Should Let the Aid Flotilla Reach Gaza or Risk Adding to Its Global Indictment
NB: I salute Italy’s workers and students. Only mass protest will stop the genocide of the Palestinian people Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity… Read More Italian workers’ strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country
Within a few months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, every major label either unilaterally removed their entire catalogue from Russia or closed operations entirely, implicitly or explicitly condemning Putin’s actions while donating to Ukraine. No such measures have been taken against Israel, or in support of Palestine, after decades of illegal occupation and 23 months into Israel’s accelerated genocide.… Read More No Music For Genocide
Perhaps what was behind it all is only that individual human beings did not kill other individual human beings for human reasons, but that an organized attempt was made to eradicate the concept of the human being. Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers on the Nazi death camps, December 17, 1946 (Correspondence, p 68) Gaza is… Read More Gaza and the Death of Conscience
NB: Imagine! what would Biden and Trump and good Christian MAGA faithful and Keir Starmer etc., say if this figure were registered for their citizens for EVEN ONE DAY, rather than 710 days? They have sunk so deep in the mire of blood and tears which they have created (since 1948, when they terrorised 760,000… Read More ‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000. By now, 321 Palestinians PER DAY have been killed or wounded
Joseph Gedeon in Washington Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel is acting on a systematic plan to destroy and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza to force locals to leave, and they say the US is complicit. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both members of the Senate foreign… Read More Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza
by Christina Macpherson via thefreeonline https://t.me/thefreeonline/ Depraved!- Only 14 of the 533 corrupt Congress refused to endorse and pay with public money for ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, bombing, kidnapping, starvation….. and sadistic murder of thousands of innocent kids. In a sane country with rule of international law ALL THESE 519 RULERS WOULD BE ARRESTED… Read More 519 out of 533 in US House of Representatives voted to continue sponsoring the Mass Murder of 2.4 millon Palestinians
Iris Leal It is, of course, not the first instance in history in which a regime builds a community of crime, as historian Adam Raz has described, and expands it to the entire nation: war crimes, annihilation of life-support systems, killing 20,000 children Smoke rises as a residential building collapses after an Israeli air strike,… Read More Israel’s War in Gaza Is Nothing but a War of Annihilation
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 members, passed a resolution with 86% support of those who voted, concluding that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. These scholars study genocide professionally, researching it, theorizing… Read More Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
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