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U.S. media downplays and ignores ICJ ruling declaring Israeli occupation illegal
The New York Times and the rest of the U.S. mainstream media downplayed, covered up, and even ignored the historic ICJ opinion declaring the Israeli occupation illegal.
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The Shift: Columbia suspends deans for ‘antisemitic’ text messages
News items often seem to slip through the cracks at this point in the summer, and the media’s current focus on the Democratic Ticket has understandably dominated domestic headlines.
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Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence
Israel ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.
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Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22
Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement.
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The mainstream media is setting the stage for an Israeli war on Lebanon
An unsourced article in the British Telegraph claiming Hezbollah is storing weapons in Beirut’s airport is the latest example of the mainstream media setting the groundwork for an Israeli war on Lebanon.
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Ten Holocaust survivors condemn Israel’s Gaza genocide
Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.
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The U.S. power structure is blindly dedicated to Israel
When the board of the Columbia Law Review clumsily censored a pro-Palestinian article it revealed the degree to which pro-Israel ideology is enmeshed in the U.S. power structure. Luckily, a generational shift is changing this before our eyes.
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Gaza resistance sources say fear is rising U.S. pier will be used for forced displacement of Palestinians
Critics warn the U.S.-constructed pier off Gaza’s coast is being used for military purposes. Now a source in the Gaza resistance says there are indications it will be used to facilitate the forced displacement of Palestinians.
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How Israeli prison doctors assist in the torture of Palestinian detainees
Israeli doctors share prisoners’ medical information with interrogators to “greenlight” torture, teach interrogators how to inflict pain without leaving physical marks, and even actively engage in acts of torture themselves.
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Pro-Israel groups vs. student democracy at McGill
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.
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How the New York Times fights America’s wars
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.
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‘Come out, you animals’: How the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened
During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.
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Germany is becoming a police state when it comes to Palestine activism
The German state is taking extraordinary measures to clamp down on pro-Palestinian activism, including arresting activists in their homes in the middle of the night.
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‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians
Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.
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Over 2/3 of Jewish Israelis oppose humanitarian aid to Palestinians starving in Gaza
A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”
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Love, but not for the colonized: Responding to the repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
Our panel for a conference on equity and antiracism at CUNY’s Lehman College was canceled because it included the word “intifada” in the title. Instead of promoting antiracism, CUNY participates in the demonization of Palestinian resistance.
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Why we have to make the Jewish Ghetto comparison
The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel’s current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.
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On white supremacy and Zionism: a reflection on Claudine Gay’s tenure as president of Harvard University
Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.
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A letter to my son on his first birthday in Gaza
I did everything I could to throw my son Qais the birthday party he deserved, even after we witnessed a bloody massacre on the same day he turned 1.
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Gas, Gaza, and Western imperialism
Control of Mediterranean gas fields is not the reason for the current attack on Gaza, but the theft of Palestine’s natural resources has long been a goal of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its Western sponsors.