The human shock over what happened on October 7 has not been replaced by a similar shock over what Israel is doing in Gaza. Why is that? Because we’re Jews and they’re not? Can’t human kindness cross borders and blur national affinities in the face of destruction? “Please do not disturb, we are still in… Read More Will Not One Israeli Say: End the War for Gaza’s Sake?
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor, killing nine of her 10 children while she was on duty at her hospital. Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Thaslima Begum Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at… Read More Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
NB: This is the simplest and most incisive statement after 18 months of racist bloodshed by the IDF: “After a year and a half in which you killed 19000 children, 53,000 residents, destroyed all the universities and the hospitals, you feel there is no political win, that’s why you go crazy. Why are you sad?… Read More Israeli MP forcibly removed from podium after blasting Gaza war / The Bloodied Emirates: How the UAE Fears a Free Muslim World
We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. Gideon Levy; May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces… Read More Israel’s Military Leaders Are Not ‘Only Obeying Orders.’ They Could Have Stopped the Gaza Massacre
The United Nations estimated that the Netanyahu government’s continued starvation of more than 2 million Palestinians could kill up to 14,000 infants in the next two days without a serious influx of aid. By Julia Conley / Common Dreams News outlets have reported since Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed five aid trucks carrying baby… Read More UN Warns 14,000 Babies in Gaza Could Die in 48 Hours Without True Lift of Israeli Blockade
Sanam Vakil Nineteen months on from the 7 October Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza, Israel is under a new wave of international pressure and increasingly isolated from its partners and allies. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government recently announced its intention to reoccupy Gaza yet again, and called up Israeli reservists. In tandem, the illegal expansion… Read More International opinion has rounded on Israel, but it’s not enough to force Netanyahu’s hand
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in recent days as the Israeli military has launched a new phase of its assault on the Strip, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots.” On Sunday, the IDF announced it was conducting “extensive ground operations” in northern and southern Gaza, and medical sources told Al… Read More Israeli Strikes Kill Hundreds in Gaza as IDF Announces ‘Extensive Ground Operations’
Yousef Al-Bayouk weeps over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli strikes, as mourners attend their funeral at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters what about Gaza? What about its sacrifice? How have we reached a situation in which no Zionist politician can come out in its defense? Not one righteous… Read More Israel’s New Gaza Operation Should Be Called ‘Chariots of Genocide’
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said Friday that “Malnutrition is … on the rise. More than 9,000 children have been admitted for treatment of acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year.” At least 10 NGO aid kitchens have closed in recent weeks for lack of food, and 25 UN… Read More Juan Cole: As Israelis Blockade Food to Gaza, 9,000 Children have been Admitted for Acute Malnutrition
In terms of a population-adjusted equivalence, Gaza has experienced a 9/11-equivalent every five hours, or over four population-adjusted 9/11s every day for the last year and a half. If the US had experienced the same per capita death toll, population-adjusted deaths would number 8,350,000. (This number arrived at by applying Gaza (population 2.2 million death… Read More The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine
After the truth-shower 