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Following an overwhelming membership vote in favor of a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza the Council of the American Historical Association, in a blatantly undemocratic act, vetoed the decision. The Council’s cowardly actions are complicit in a pattern on institutional silence (and worse) within the U.S. academy in the face of the U.S. backed genocide by Israel. Daniel Johnson reports on the events and plans to challenge this decision

Netanyahu could live stream himself kicking a baby Palestinian off a cliff and telling the camera he did it because he wants to commit genocide, and the next day Tammy Bruce would respond to all questions about the incident by yelling the word “Hamas!” with her fingers in her ears.

Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire and then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide.

A United Nations investigation released on Thursday has concluded that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip by systematically targeting and destroying reproductive health care facilities.

The International Criminal Court is being urged to investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel is also preparing for the full-scale resumption of its genocidal war within 10 days if Hamas doesn’t accept its terms.

The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.

During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

“I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.”

Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.

Hamas official tells MEE that group remains committed to agreement but ‘manipulation’ of truce may cause it to collapse.

The U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza has led to a precipitous loss in the population’s life expectancy. Even as the ceasefire allows aid to enter Gaza, this profound demographic loss will take generations to revert.

The latest is the martyrdom of 31-year-old Thabat Ibrahim Muhammad Salim, a volunteer doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, on 5 January, 2025.

Over all, Washington has provided the regime with $310 billion in military and economic aid, which has been regularly adjusted for inflation, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, an American think tank.

Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report.

Human Rights Watch has issued a devastating report concluding Israel is committing the crimes of extermination and genocide in Gaza by focusing on one crucial issue: water.

Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical accountability of the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

“We must ask for no references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel as it’s a very sensitive topic in our area. If these topics are included it drastically changes our risk management plans for events. Thus for safety and harmony we kindly ask the guest speakers avoid these topics and any questions about it that come up.” – Sam Wallman and I received this message from our publicist, one day before an event at a suburban library about our coauthored book.

Amnesty International this week confirmed what many others have already said: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But the report goes to many lengths to prove one critical element in the case against Israel: that the genocide is fully intentional.