Promising signs that Palestine advocacy is building political power in Washington

MitchellPlitnick

August 8, 2024

The defeat of Cori Bush in her primary election on Tuesday left a lot of advocates for Palestinian rights in the United States despairing. It’s an understandable feeling.

 

 Upwards of 400,000 Pro-Palestine protestors take the streets in a national march in Washington DC to show support for Palestinians and call for a ceasefire and end the genocide in Gaza, January 13, 2024. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)

Israeli MP condones sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Helen McCue

August 7, 2024

What democracy would accept a member of parliament agreeing that it was permissible and acceptable for its soldiers to sexually abuse political prisoners by “putting a stick up their rectum” and reinforcing this torture and war crimes by saying, “Yes, with these people everything is acceptable. Everything”. That so called “democracy” is Israel. It has for years boasted about it’s military being the “most moral army in the world” when in fact it is now the most immoral army in the world run by a fascist, brutal, extremist, rogue government dominated by messianic settlers.

As war widens, US assets become easy targets

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan

August 7, 2024

During a White House press conference on 31 July, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby underscored the US commitment to maintaining readiness to protect its security interests in West Asia. 

  

Bloody water looks like map of Iran!

What Is Behind England’s Riots

John Wight

August 7, 2024

The series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England’s vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold.

نخستین روز مدرسه

زمانی‌ که انسان به سن خاصی‌ می‌رسد جزوی از تاریخ می‌شود. تاریخ شرح وقایع گذشته است، و تک‌تکِ هر لحظهٔ هست را به بود تبدیل می‌کند! پاره‌ای از زندگی‌ خاطرات جالبی‌ هستند که می‌توان آنها را داستان نامید. در زیر دو داستان می‌آیند که به دلیل استثنائی بودن، و یا حداقل کمی‌ متفاوت بودن آنها، به داستان تبدیل شده‌ا‌ند. نخستین داستان در شش سالگی من روی داد که به تفصیل در اینجا می‌آید. سپس به داستان دیگری می‌پردازم که در همان سال اتفاق افتاد و آن آغاز ورود من به مدرسه و تحصیل بود. این دو داستان را تا به آنجا که به خاطر می‌آورم نقل می‌کنم.ا

The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff

August 6, 2024

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No matter how many times that is repeated, it is simply not true and never was. Indeed, it is much more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites. To see why, you have only to look at capitalism as a production system where employees enter into a relationship with employers, where a few people are the boss, and most people simply work doing what they are told to do. That relationship is not democratic; it is autocratic.

 

'Beyond Horror': Israel Kills Mostly Children in Fresh Attacks on Gaza Schools

Jake Johnson

August 5, 2024

Israeli forces killed dozens of displaced Palestinians—mostly children—on Sunday with attacks on a pair of United Nations-run schools in the Gaza Strip as diplomats in the region worked to prevent all-out war from breaking out in the aftermath of Israel's latest assassination spree.

  

Rescue teams recover the bodies of those killed in an Israeli attack on schools in Gaza City, Gaza on August 4, 2024.(Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)

At least 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on two schools in Gaza

Nils Adler and Maziar Motamedi

August 4, 2024

 

A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl at the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City [Screenshot via Reuters]

Israel launches overnight air raids on Lebanese-Syrian border area

News Desk

August 3, 2024

Israeli warplanes launched at least two air raids on the Lebanese-Syrian border area late on 2 August, targeting the Matraba crossing in the town of Al-Qasr and later the village of Hosh al-Sayyed Ali.

 

After 300 Days of Israeli Assault, Many Gazans Too Malnourished to Donate Blood

Jake Johnson

August 2, 2024

As Palestinians and humanitarians around the world marked 300 days of horror in Gaza, an aid organization highlighted a pernicious consequence of Israel's nearly 10-month assault: A hospital in the northern part of the enclave was forced to turn away many who arrived to give blood to help those wounded by bombs and bullets because the potential donors themselves were too malnourished and sick.

 

Palestinians wait to donate blood at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

دلایل ترور اسماعیل هنیه -تحلیل

نوشته رمزی بارود نویسنده شهیر فلسطینی

برگردان و تنظیم سپیده دم 

۱۰/۵/۱۴۰۳

جولای ۳۱، ۲۰۲۴

ترور رئیس دفتر سیاسی حماس، اسماعیل هنیه، توسط اسرائیل در دهم مرداد مطابق با سی‌ و یک ژوئیه در تهران بخشی از جستجوی ناامیدانه کلی تل آویو برای درگیری گسترده تر است. این یک عمل جنایتکارانه است که بوی ناامیدی می دهد.ا

Israeli jets rain fire across Gaza on 300th day of genocide

News Desk

August 1, 2024

Several people were killed in indiscriminate Israeli attacks across Gaza on 1 August as the besieged strip marked the 300th day of Tel Aviv’s genocidal war. 

 

‘Genocide Olympics’: Israeli soccer team plays in Paris as IDF bombs school in Gaza

Dave Zirin

August 1, 2024

On the same day that Israeli forces bombed a girls’ school in central Gaza, killing at least 30 people and injuring over 100, Israel’s soccer team was allowed to compete without sanctions at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Even though Paraguay defeated Israel 4-2, TRNN’s Dave Zirin reports that “Israel actually won this, because they were allowed to play at all.” In this on-the-ground report from Paris, Zirin covers the protests and politics surrounding Saturday’s soccer match.

 

Fans with Flag of Palestine open a banner written 'Genocide Olympics' during the Men's group D match between Israel and Paraguay during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France on July 27, 2024. Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Olympics banned Russia for Occupying Ukraine, but not Israel, which Occupies Palestinians and has Killed 39K

Mohammed Samaana

July 31, 2024

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nagham Abu Samrah was 24 years old Palestinian karate champion from Gaza. She had the potential to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic games. Unfortunately, an Israeli attack on her home killed her sister and left her seriously wounded . Unconscionably, Israeli authorities delayed her permission to leave Gaza for treatment, and when she finally reached an Egyptian hospital, she died soon thereafter.

War Crime: Israelis Circulating Degrading Sexualized Photos of Palestinian Prisoners

Human Rights Watch

July 30, 2024

Israeli forces have been publishing degrading photographs and videos of detained Palestinians, including children, a form of inhumane treatment and an outrage on their personal dignity that amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. 

Palestine Is a Core Election Issue, and We Won’t Let Our Politicians Ignore It

Shireen Akram-Boshar

July 29, 2024

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Health Ministry declares polio epidemic in Gaza

Umut Uras

July 29, 2024

Humanity Has Two Choices: Unification or Mass Suicide

Sovaida MaaniEwing

July 29, 2024

The intensifying cascade of global crises including intractable wars, massive human rights atrocities, nuclear proliferation, climate change and environmental degradation, the growing inequality between the rich and the poor, recurring bouts of global financial instability, and the increasing risks of pandemics to name but a few, call to mind the warning sounded by Arnold Toynbee, one of the most highly-regarded authorities and foremost experts on international affairs and world history in the 20th century, that humanity would be faced with an existential crisis followed by his recommendation as to what we, the family of nations, should do in response.

 

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No More Silence

Patrick Lawrence

July 27, 2024

I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months of reciting to one another the most appalling of the news bulletins from Gaza that come our way from a great variety of sources. It is rather miserable to think life has come to this, reading aloud daily accounts of atrocities, but there is no turning away from the depths to which terrorist Israel has dragged the whole of humanity.

Die-in protest of the Israel Independence Day celebration, Washington, D.C., May 23, 2024. (Diane Krauthamer, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)