News Releases
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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. …
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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.”
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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.’
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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 undocumented as well as legal immigrants.
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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.”
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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 impunity.”
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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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Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine
“Dehumanization is the first step in genocidal incitement. However, counter-annihilation is also a key feature of settler colonialism. It is the belief and practice that colonial society must annihilate Native people; otherwise, the colonizers, in turn, will be annihilated in a zero-sum calculus. It is a pre-emptive ‘self-defense’ against any real or imagined anti-colonial attack. It makes invasion look like ‘self-defense.’ It is why the chorus of Western media outlets repeat the mantra: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself.’ But the colonized are never granted the authority of self-defense or the right not to be annihilated.”
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“Israel is Turning Northern Gaza into a Killing Cage”
Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. See his articles and interviews he has given, including “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” recently published by the New York Times.
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As Israel Targets the North, Doctors Back From Gaza: “I Saw Maggots Coming Out of a Patient’s Wound”
“The doctors, nurses, and administrators that we met at the Indonesian hospital are by far the most admirable and heroic people that I’ve ever met in my life. They felt they had no choice but to stay at the hospital and provide care for the community because they could not fathom there being no health care services left for those in need.”