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.”

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

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

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…

“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”

“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…

“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.”

“When you read the 94 pages of the B’Tselem report, which causes you to lose sleep, you understand that it wasn’t an exceptional incident, it’s the routine of torture, which has become a policy.”

A tenured political science professor at Indiana University was suspended from the university, potentially as retaliation for his criticism of the administration’s immediate response to October 7. Sinno’s suspension reflects the climate at public universities across the country. A law was passed this spring by the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state legislature, effectively abolishing tenure by subjecting tenured faculty at public universities to tenure review every five years. 

Israel’s failure to comply with international treaties and humanitarian law signal an acute need for other countries to organize weapons embargoes, cease trade deals, and provide support for civilian peacekeepers to bring about a permanent ceasefire.