Israeli society is prepared to process the failures of Oct. 7 in technical terms – military intel, army, logistics – but refuses to confront its own moral blindness. This is where the ‘other Israel’ must step in Eran Rolnik “The other Germany” is a phrase that entered public discourse in Israel in the early 1950s,… Read More In the Rush to Move On, Who Will Make Israel Face Its Moral Failures?
Dragged by her hair, incessantly punched and kicked, stripped naked, wrapped in an Israeli flag, sexually humiliated in her own language (lilla hora, “little whore;” hora Greta, “Greta whore”), threatened with gassing (revealing detail, this), uniformed guards all the while taking “selfie” photographs as they stand next to her laughing and jeering: What is this about,… Read More This is how the ‘most moral army in the world’ treated Greta Thunberg / The Liberal Abandonment of Greta Thunberg
The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement. NB: The US/UK/Israel bloc is a murder machine which will not stop its genocidal actions until they have wiped out the Palestinian population. The whole world’s population is assumed… Read More The Truth About Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ for Gaza: permanent slow motion genocide
Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Khalidi notes that while the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is an old tactic to stifle academic scrutiny of Israel,… Read More Chris Hedges and Rashid Khalidi: Inside America’s Academic Gulags
They make a desert, they call it peace: These plunderers of the world [the Romans], after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth & indigence with… Read More The shameless racists who perpetrated Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland
IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble. As the number of WCNSFs – ‘wounded child, no surviving family’ – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them A UN commission report concluded Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Jason Burke The… Read More Gaza in ruins: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory / No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans
NB: More self-serving bufoonery by a corrupt war criminal. Brittania rules – if not the waves, the graveyard of murdered Palestinians. Blair and Trump make a good circus. They and their chums among the Arab despots are the vultures of our time, circling scenes of human devastation caused by their ally Israel; and looking out… Read More Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East
NB: I respect this writer and this film maker for speaking the truth as far as their resources allow. The term community of crime is something terrifying because it reflects the truth about the fragility of human conscience; and the power that ideologies possess to pervert the conscience into its opposite; to literally create communities… Read More Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’
Itamar Katzir From his home in New York City, Peter Beinart watched in amazement as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets during the first “day of disruption” in August. Peter Beinart – “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” | The Daily Show The 54-year-old Jewish American journalist and commentator… Read More Peter Beinart: ‘What Israel Is Doing in the Name of the Jewish People Is a Desecration’
They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others: Turkish activist ErsinÇelik Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Damian Carrington in London The environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in… Read More Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
