accuracy.org

Board of Directors:

Beth Schulman, President, is the Senior Strategist for Institutional Advancement at Public Campaign’s Every Voice Center. For over three decades, she has helped develop and nurture progressive policy and media organizations.

Pia Gallegos is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, whistleblower and overtime class action cases. She also represents activist organizations in not-for-profit and issue advocacy law.

Robert McChesney, Presente! is the author of six books on media and politics, Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press.

Deborah Toler, a former Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), has worked in Africa and has written extensively about international trade and development issues.

Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network.

  • Israel’s Attacks on West Bank

    “The Israeli army closed the West Bank completely, no movement is allowed. In H2 in Hebron, the Israeli army is imposing [a] curfew on the families. Many families left their homes and many communities from area C left too.”

  • UN Official Resigns, Calling Israel’s Attack “Genocide” — Will a Nation Invoke the Genocide Convention?

    “With the International Criminal Court refusing for years to hold Israel accountable and with the U.S. government blocking everything at the Security Council, the application of the Genocide Convention may be the only remaining legal mechanism to stop what Israel is doing. All that’s needed is a State Party to invoke it to start the…

  • Israel Bombs Refugee Camp; “No Human Being Can Exist”

    “At any moment, without warning, at any time of the day or night, any apartment building in the densely populated Gaza Strip can be struck by an Israeli bomb or missile. Some of the stricken buildings simply collapse into layers of concrete pancakes, the dead and the living alike entombed in the shattered ruins. …”

  • In “Grotesque Hoax” Biden Admin Not Just “Green Lighting” Israeli Ethnic Cleansing — “It’s Bankrolling It”

    “Supporting Israeli efforts to forcibly transfer Palestinians to Egypt would make U.S. officials liable for complicity in war crimes. Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes the ‘Deportation or forcible transfer of population’ as a war crime. Article 25 of the same statute defines individual criminal responsibility and states that…

  • Biden Damaging His Re-Election Chances with Policy Toward Israel

    In a story headlined “Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden,” the New York Times reports: “The Democratic Party’s yearslong unity behind President Biden is beginning to erode over his steadfast support of Israel in its escalating war with the Palestinians, with a left-leaning coalition of young voters and people…

  • Mental Health Practice and Palestine

    The Israeli state has used the mental health professions to further its occupation.

  • “The West Exempts Israel from Compliance with International Law”

    “In February 2024 the International Court of Justice will pronounce on the legality of this occupation. Hopefully this will pave the way for a new dispensation from which an independent Palestinian State will emerge. Until then the world will watch Israel’s assault with mixed feelings. Western Powers like U.S., U.K., Germany, Canada, France, Netherlands and…

  • * Gaza “Catastrophic Disaster” * Indigenous Struggle * On the Ground

    “Oxfam said Gaza is also virtually out of clean water, making some of the food that has been let in, such as rice and lentils, useless since people do not have clean water or fuel to prepare them. The group said Israeli airstrikes have hit bakeries and supermarkets, further straining the food supply. The electricity…

  • Palestinians in Gaza Do Have Somewhere to Go: Their Homes in Israel

    “Statistically, the majority of the persons killed in Gaza in the past two weeks must be from families displaced in 1948. Many more of their number are at risk of being killed in like fashion in the coming weeks.”

  • On Israel: Lawyer Who Applied Genocide Convention for Bosnia Recommends it Now for Palestinians

    The U.S. government has twice vetoed calls for a ceasefire during the current crisis at the UN Security Council. Al Jazeera reports: “Nearly 90 countries were on the speakers’ list for Tuesday’s debate including about 30 foreign ministers and deputy ministers, with many echoing calls for a ceasefire and a halt to attacks on Palestinian civilians…

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