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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…
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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.”
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Christian Zionism 101
The Christian Zionist movement mobilizes Christians in the U.S. and abroad to build support for an authoritarian agenda.
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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”
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Over 100 Journalists to Blinken: Stop Arming Israel
News outlets, press freedom organizations, an…
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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”
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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…
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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.”
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Routines of State Control in Israel: Imprisonment, Torture and Mass Death
“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.”
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Public Universities and Gaza
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.
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn