Israel and Genocide: Not Only In Gaza

MarkLewis Taylor

December 22, 2023

It was on the streets of Guatemala City in 1987 when I began awakening to Israel’s partnership with the USA in facilitating genocide.

 

My Own Brush with Death Has Intensified My Opposition to U.S. Imperialism

TedGalen Carpenter

December 22, 2023

Many readers of Antiwar.com have wondered why they have seen no new articles from me in more than 6 weeks.  The answer is that I was battling heart and other health issues that nearly took my life.  At one point, my principal cardiologist told my wife that I was unlikely to make it out of the hospital.  Subsequently, I spent 3 weeks in the Intensive Care Unit trying to prove him wrong.  Fortunately, I survived the crisis and am now on the road to (a slow) recovery.

 

Gaza’s health crisis ‘catastrophic,’ say Palestinian experts

Ibtisam Mahdi

December 20, 2023

Untreated sewage and overcrowding are leading to the rapid spread of disease, while three-quarters of the Strip’s hospitals have stopped functioning.

Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live tracker

AJLabs

December 19, 2023

The latest death toll stands at 19,968 Palestinians and about 1,139 people killed in Israel since October 7.

 

Israeli and American Jews Speak Out Against Horrors in Gaza

Ralph Nader

December 18, 2023

In the midst of Netanyahu’s annihilation of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, many of them children, women and the elderly, there is a rising urgency from many Israeli and domestic Jewish groups for an immediate ceasefire and greatly increasing the flow of humanitarian aid.

 

Channeling Hitler, Trump accuses migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country”

Jacob Crosse

December 18, 2023

In a campaign speech Saturday night and again on his social media platform following the event, ex-President Donald Trump accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”

 

‘The hostages weren’t our top priority’: How Israel’s bombing frenzy endangered captives in Gaza

Yuval Abraham

December 17, 2023

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Contrary to initial claims, the Israeli army carried out relentless strikes with little intelligence of Israeli hostages’ whereabouts or precaution for their safety, a +972 and Local Call investigation shows.

IDF Kills 3 Shirtless Israeli Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in Hebrew

Common Dreams Staff

December 16, 2023

'Palestinian civilians don’t stand a chance.'

 

U.S. Impedes Global Efforts to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

December 14, 2023

As the sole veto to a UN Security Council resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire," the US stands alone in its support of wanton death and destruction in Gaza.

Zionism Has Lost Young America

As`ad AbuKhalil

December 13, 2023

A specter is haunting U.S. college campuses, and it is the specter not of anti-Semitism but of opposition to anti-Semitism.

 

From Kishinev to Gaza

YakovM. Rabkin

December 13, 2023

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pogrom. This Russian term denotes a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring Jews and destroying their property. One of the deadliest pogroms (50 Jews were killed and nearly 600 wounded) took place in Kishinev a hundred and twenty years ago, in April 1903. But the trauma of Russian Zionists facing the oppression in Tsarist Russia over a century ago continues to inform Israel’s political culture.

 

As Israel’s genocide continues: 9 in 10 Gazans report lack of food

AndreDamon

December 12, 2023

As Israel continues its bombing, starvation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza, hunger has reached epidemic proportions. Nine in 10 people in Gaza reported going to bed hungry, the United Nations’ World Food Program reported.

The Moon's man-made problems

Arion McNicoll

December 11, 2023

Humanity is now the dominant force influencing the Moon's future, according to scientists calling for a formal declaration of a new geological epoch called the "Lunar Anthropocene".

 

‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school

IbrahimMohammad
December 11, 2023
Refusing Israel's orders to evacuate northern Gaza, Palestinians are filling every available space amid growing threats of airstrikes and service collapse.

Tlaib Says Biden Admin 'At Serious Risk' of ICC Prosecution

JakeJohnson

December 11, 2023

"Our district didn't send President Biden to the White House to have him facilitate the killing of innocent civilians," said the Michigan Democrat.

 

Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

JuanCole

December 10, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving.

 

Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress

Ralph Nader

December 8, 2023

The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers.

Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza blindfolded, stripped to underwear

Al Jazeera Staff

December 8, 2023

At least 100 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces have been stripped to their underwear, blindfolded and made to kneel on a street in northern Gaza, according to images and videos widely circulated on social media and confirmed by the Israeli army.

 

What Time’s 2023 Person of the Year reveals about the West

RachelMarsden

December 7, 2023

Taylor Swift’s victory, and her mostly unimpressive competitors, is a PR disaster for the establishment

 

'Staggering' Rise in Reports of Islamophobia During Gaza War

Jessica Corbett

December 7, 2023

"People and institutions have spent the past two months weaponizing Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias to both justify the ongoing violence against Palestinians in Gaza and silence supporters of Palestinian human rights."

 

 Six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen times in an alleged hate crime committed by their 71-year-old white landlord in Plainfield Township, Illinois on October 14, 2023.

(Photo: Family photo)