News Releases

  • Hezbollah Claims It Hit “Israel’s NSA” Which Conducts Assassinations

    “The claims that there was a plan to target Tel Aviv, or targets within the city of Tel Aviv, or Ben Gurion Airport are false allegations”


  • DNC Platform: Anti-BDS, Outhawks Trump on Iran

    See news conference from Chicago: “What I Saw Was ‘Unfathomable’: Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel.”


  • U.S. Citizen Shot by Israel

    “Amado Sison, an activist from New Jersey with the solidarity group Faz3a, joined fellow demonstrators near the West Bank village of Beita. In an interview with Drop Site after being discharged from the hospital, Sison said he was taking part in a ‘protective presence’ exercise aimed at defending Palestinian citizens living in the West Bank from settler and military violence. ‘The Palestinians were holding a rally and doing chants, when Israeli soldiers at a nearby outpost started shooting tear gas and aiming weapons at us,’ said Sison. ‘This was only my second demonstration, but some of the more experienced demonstrators…


  • The DNC Platform on Israel “Reads as if AIPAC Wrote it”

    Prem Thakker reports that as Biden was speaking: “Audience members at the DNC in Chicago unfurl banner that says ‘Stop arming Israel.’ After audience sees the banner, they begin chanting ‘We love Joe.’ Man tries to rip banner away. Stadium lights over this spot then dimmed and banner was ripped away.”


  • Christian Zionism 101

    The Christian Zionist movement mobilizes Christians in the U.S. and abroad to build support for an authoritarian agenda.


  • Former Soldier and Historian of Genocide “Deeply Disturbed” by Visit to Israel

    “The majority, it seems, do not even want to know what is happening in Gaza”


  • Over 100 Journalists to Blinken: Stop Arming Israel

    News outlets, press freedom organizations, and more than 100 journalists, including four Pulitzer Prize winners, have written to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the U.S. to immediately cease sending weapons to Israel amid the country’s widespread killing of journalists in Palestine. The letter (which can be found here) was initiated by the Courage Foundation, Defending Rights & Dissent, and Roots Action. “Israel’s military actions are not possible without U.S. weapons, U.S. military aid, and U.S. diplomatic support,” the journalists write. “By providing the weapons being used to deliberately kill journalists, you are complicit in one of the gravest…


  • Israel’s Assassination Program and Its Ties to U.S. Intelligence

    “For decades the U.S. and Israel have had highly secret intelligence-sharing arrangements that have included ‘frameworks’ dealing with the topic of providing assistance for assassinations”


  • Activists Demand Action from UN to Stop Genocide

    “As many members of the UN Security Council said in their meeting on Tuesday, they must move to action. The Algerians and Palestinians talked about sanctions. We have a resource page on that and have been urging states to take bilateral necessary actions. Of course, the U.S. government’s veto prevents the Security Council from doing its job to maintain peace and security. The remedy for this is for the UN General Assembly to use Uniting for Peace to assert meaningful action, like sanctions.” Jereski highlights a new piece by UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber: “The ICJ finds that BDS is not…


  • No Harbour for Genocide in Greece

    “All UN Missions with Mediterranean ports were formally advised on August 6 in a letter signed by dozens of top international legal experts that permitting these vessels to transit through their territorial waters or to provision them at ports within their jurisdiction amounts to complicity in grave violations of international law, including apartheid and genocide. This advice was substantiated with reference to recent rulings made by the International Court of Justice, actions taken by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and statements made by U.N. Special Rapporteurs.”


  • The Right-Wing Litigation Group Attacking Public Health

    Recent reports found that a corporate-aligned litigation group with ties to right-wing petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch is suing officials and agencies in the Biden administration, alleging that the administration influenced content moderation decisions made by social media companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The case centers around the administration’s efforts to get Americans vaccinated, with the…

  • Could Israel’s “Illegal” Nukes Trigger Cutoff of Aid?

    n 2021, Grant Smith wrote to members of “The Squad” and other members of Congress who have been critical of Israel: “I believe your coalition has far more influence on the matter of foreign aid than it may realize. In 2016 and 2017 we sued the administration(s) over violations of the Arms Export Control Act,…

  • The “Final Moments of Northern Gaza,” Israel Barrs Medical Workers

    “Despite the superficial request of U.S. leaders to Israel to make a change in the next 30 days, Netanyahu has intensified his lunatism and has cut off the north completely from any medical supplies or food. … We are witnessing the final moments of Northern Gaza.”

  • A Critique of BRICS: Economically Enabling Israel

    He notes: “Since August, South Africa has become the number one coal supplier to the genocide and Russia number two, now that Colombia and Turkey have declared Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. …

  • Understanding Hamas

    “The killing of Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar are the sort of decapitation attempts that fading colonial powers use. This was highlighted in one of our conversations that the book is based on, with the Dutch expert Jeroen Gunning, one of the founders of critical terrorism studies.”

  • Sinwar Reported Killed in South Gaza as Israel Accelerates Genocide in North

    Gazans, irrespective of age or physical condition, were ordered to depart on short notice under circumstances in which they would be deprived of means of sustenance. The World Health Organization denounced the evacuation scheme as a ‘death sentence.’

  • Misinformation about Immigrant Voters

    Organizations that track misinformation have observed an acceleration of racist lies in social and mainstream media targeting immigrants and Latino voters. Such misinformation includes the claims that noncitizen immigrants are illegally voting in droves and the lie, popularized in fringe groups but amplified by Donald Trump, that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. The misinformation targets…

  • War and Media: Has Nothing Been Learned?

    “The media — despite some good reporting by many individual journalists in the field — has treated the IDF onslaught against Gaza, the West Bank and Gaza as reasonable conflicts rather than mass murder.”

  • Demands for Arms Embargo on Israel

    “As the genocide and massacres continue .. the Israeli regime and its enablers have reached new levels of depravity. Civilians, hospitals, schools, and vital infrastructure are being systematically obliterated, in direct contravention of international laws meant to protect human life. The world is witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe that the Israeli government is perpetrating with clear…

  • Corporations Undermining Democracy

    The International Trade Union Confederation released a list of seven corporations undermining democracy. Big Tech, Big Oil, and private equity firms all made the list.

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