Geography Archives: Israel

MSNBC ‘s move seems to give yet another proof of media censorship and bias in covering the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians, trying to force them out of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The U.S. and EU support Netanyahu’s scorched-earth war on the “entire nation”, and the State Department ordered diplomats not to call for peace, de-escalation, or a ceasefire.

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.

An Israeli source told Seymour Hersh that Hamas forces are believed to live underground, rendering the Leningrad approach more effective as it would avoid a ground offensive.

Israel has already dropped more bombs on Gaza in six days than the U.S. dropped on Afghanistan in a single year. Now, the Israeli military is ordering over one million Palestinian civilians to flee their homes. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.

The White House confirmed on Wednesday evening that President Joe Biden’s claim that he had seen photos of Israeli children beheaded by Hamas fighters is false.

NO-ONE should cheer the slaughter in Israel. Those Israeli families in their homes, the young people at the music festival deserve to be alive. The small Israeli boy taken hostage and videoed being tormented deserves to be home and safe.

After pushback from Republicans and right-wing groups Secretary of State Blinken deleted a tweet calling for a cease-fire in Palestine.

An Israeli MK called for nuclear weapons to be used on Gaza.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk calls on the global community to defuse the “explosive powder keg” situation in Palestine.

Israel is slowly cutting off Gaza’s communications with the outside world, because it wants to prevent us from revealing the massacres it is committing.

In a statement concerning today’s rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces, the Communist Party of Israel (MAKI) and Hadash blame the criminal occupation policy of the far-right Netanyahu government, underlining the grave dangers that it poses for the peace in the region. 

Undercover Israeli forces deliberately killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy after he saw them sneaking into the Jenin refugee camp during a military incursion on September 19, a human rights group said.

Amazon, like other tech giants, is selectively banning and deplatforming pro-Palestine content on its Merch on Demand platform, while racist and inflammatory merchandise continue to be sold.

A climate of fear is stifling free speech, academic research and student activism about Palestine at British universities.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq paved the way for the systematic looting and destruction of countless ancient artifacts and manuscripts–with the UAE and Israel playing a significant part in the ongoing theft and global smuggling of these items.

In June, members of the Sierra Club unit of the Progressive Workers Union (PWU) passed a resolution pledging solidarity with the Palestinian people as the environmental organization pushes forward with its planned trips to Israel.

The problem for Palestinians is not just that of Israel’s violence, but also the lack of international will to hold Israel accountable.