The Electronic Intifada:
"An Israeli child completely incinerated at Kibbutz Be’eri was killed by two tank shells shot by Israeli forces at the end of an hours-long gun battle, a survivor of the same carnage told the Israeli state broadcaster Kan earlier this month.
Yasmin Porat, taken captive with at least a dozen other Israeli civilians on 7 October, told Kan Radio that a fellow captive, 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni, survived to the end of the battle and only died when Israeli forces fired two tank shells at the house where they were held hostage by Hamas fighters. ...
A day after Porat’s revelation on live radio that Liel Hatsroni had been torched to death by tank fire, an Israeli official confirmed that she was not nearly the only person incinerated by Israel on 7 October and in the days that immediately followed. ...Meanwhile, Hatsroni’s death is being used by Israeli politicians to incite and justify Israel’s vengeful slaughter of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza."
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-child-burned-completely-israeli-tank-fire-kibbutz/41706
-->Few sources beside The Electronic Intifada are fact checking Israel's propaganda and war lies. Do I always trust The Electronic Intifada? No. But sometimes their interviews are authentic, and reading this publication adds a little balance to the pro-Israel reporting I see in much of the US media.
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Common Dreams:
"The Nation Publishes Gaza Genocide Article Killed by Harvard Law Review. The Nation this week published a piece about Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip that the Harvard Law Review commissioned from a Palestinian scholar but then refused to run after several days of internal debate, a nearly six-hour meeting, and a board vote.
The essay—'The Ongoing Nakba: Towards a Legal Framework for Palestine,' by Rabea Eghbariah, a human rights attorney and doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School—begins: 'Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling.' The controversy over Eghbariah's own piece helps prove his point. ...
Eghbariah wrote in an email to an editor: 'This is discrimination. Let's not dance around it—this is also outright censorship. It is dangerous and alarming.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/harvard-law-review-gaza-genocide
-->The NYT didn't print this story. I think the story reveals the pro-Israel narrative that gets promoted by both our premier newspaper and our premier university. They have both hurt their reputations in trying to defend the genocide in Gaza.
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Aljazeera:
"Leaders of major emerging economies called for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza on Tuesday, and for a cessation of hostilities on both sides to ease the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
In a virtual summit chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians, within Gaza or outside the territory, 'war crimes.'
'We condemned any kind of individual or mass forcible transfer and deportation of Palestinians from their own land,' a chair’s summary read. The group, which did not issue a joint declaration, also 'reiterated that the forced transfer and deportation of Palestinians, whether inside Gaza or to neighbouring countries, constitute grave breaches of the Geneva conventions and war crimes and violations under International Humanitarian Law.' ”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/21/brics-condemns-israel-war-on-gaza-in-signal-to-the-west
-->The NYT covered this story, but under a questionable title: "At BRICS Summit, Countries Diverge Slightly on Israel and War in Gaza." This story in the NYT emphasizes "divergent positions" and "subtle differences," rather than a universal condemnation of Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Thursday, November 16, 2023
The Intercept:
"On October 27, several thousand Jews and their allies shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour in New York City, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, the activists at the peaceful sit-in wore black T-shirts that read 'Not In Our Name.' 'It’s the largest sit-in protest the city has seen in over two decades,' Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman said. About 400 people were arrested, including rabbis.
The Anti-Defamation League has classified the event — and dozens of other protests led by Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow — as 'anti-Israel,' according to an analysis by The Intercept, and added them to their database documenting rising antisemitism across the U.S.
'We’re seeing a genuine rise in antisemitic attacks and white nationalist, white supremacist, antisemitic hate and violence,' Eva Borgwardt, the national spokesperson for IfNotNow, told me. 'When white nationalism is on the rise, to cheapen the accusation of antisemitism by applying it to Palestinian rights advocates, including Jews, is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.' ”
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/11/palestine-israel-protests-ceasefire-antisemitic/
-->The US media has done a poor job in reporting on the Anti-Defamation League. Why isn't this right wing Zionist group facing more exposure for cheapening the meaning of antisemitism?
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The Chris Hedges Report:
"DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced to evacuate to southern Gaza. He left his camera behind. He trained it on Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex.
It is night. Israeli tanks fire directly towards the hospital compound. Long horizontal red flashes. A deliberate attack on a hospital. A deliberate war crime. A deliberate massacre of the most helpless civilians, including the very sick and infants. Then the feed goes dead.
We sit in front of the monitors. We are silent. We know what this means. No power. No water. No internet. No medical supplies. Every infant in an incubator will die. Every dialysis patient will die. Everyone in the intensive care unit will die. Everyone who needs oxygen will die. Everyone who needs emergency surgery will die. And what will happen to the 50,000 people who, driven from their homes by the relentless bombing, have taken refuge on the hospital grounds? We know the answer to that as well. Many of them, too, will die."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-horror-the-horror
-->Voices like Chris Hedges will not be televised, or put on the radio either. The brutality of Israel is mind numbing, and our compliant media just won't report on the worst of it.
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Common Dreams:
"The American Postal Workers Union on Wednesday became the largest U.S. union to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, joining a growing labor movement mobilization against Israel's assault on the Palestinian enclave. Leaders of the APWU, which represents more than 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and close to 2,000 mail workers in the private sector, said in a statement that their union is 'shocked and saddened by the tragic and ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine.'
'As a union that stands for equality, social justice, human and labor rights, and international solidarity, we unite with unions and people of goodwill around the world in calls for justice and peace,' the APWU said. ...
'We join the calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less,' concludes the union's statement, which was signed by APWU president, Mark Dimondstein. ..."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/postal-workers-gaza-cease-fire
-->Labor Unions are the latest group calling for a cease fire. Where was the NYT for this story?
"On October 27, several thousand Jews and their allies shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour in New York City, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, the activists at the peaceful sit-in wore black T-shirts that read 'Not In Our Name.' 'It’s the largest sit-in protest the city has seen in over two decades,' Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman said. About 400 people were arrested, including rabbis.
The Anti-Defamation League has classified the event — and dozens of other protests led by Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow — as 'anti-Israel,' according to an analysis by The Intercept, and added them to their database documenting rising antisemitism across the U.S.
'We’re seeing a genuine rise in antisemitic attacks and white nationalist, white supremacist, antisemitic hate and violence,' Eva Borgwardt, the national spokesperson for IfNotNow, told me. 'When white nationalism is on the rise, to cheapen the accusation of antisemitism by applying it to Palestinian rights advocates, including Jews, is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.' ”
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/11/palestine-israel-protests-ceasefire-antisemitic/
-->The US media has done a poor job in reporting on the Anti-Defamation League. Why isn't this right wing Zionist group facing more exposure for cheapening the meaning of antisemitism?
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The Chris Hedges Report:
"DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The Al Jazeera reporter in northern Gaza, because of the intense Israeli shelling, was forced to evacuate to southern Gaza. He left his camera behind. He trained it on Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest medical complex.
It is night. Israeli tanks fire directly towards the hospital compound. Long horizontal red flashes. A deliberate attack on a hospital. A deliberate war crime. A deliberate massacre of the most helpless civilians, including the very sick and infants. Then the feed goes dead.
We sit in front of the monitors. We are silent. We know what this means. No power. No water. No internet. No medical supplies. Every infant in an incubator will die. Every dialysis patient will die. Everyone in the intensive care unit will die. Everyone who needs oxygen will die. Everyone who needs emergency surgery will die. And what will happen to the 50,000 people who, driven from their homes by the relentless bombing, have taken refuge on the hospital grounds? We know the answer to that as well. Many of them, too, will die."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-horror-the-horror
-->Voices like Chris Hedges will not be televised, or put on the radio either. The brutality of Israel is mind numbing, and our compliant media just won't report on the worst of it.
=====
Common Dreams:
"The American Postal Workers Union on Wednesday became the largest U.S. union to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, joining a growing labor movement mobilization against Israel's assault on the Palestinian enclave. Leaders of the APWU, which represents more than 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and close to 2,000 mail workers in the private sector, said in a statement that their union is 'shocked and saddened by the tragic and ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine.'
'As a union that stands for equality, social justice, human and labor rights, and international solidarity, we unite with unions and people of goodwill around the world in calls for justice and peace,' the APWU said. ...
'We join the calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less,' concludes the union's statement, which was signed by APWU president, Mark Dimondstein. ..."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/postal-workers-gaza-cease-fire
-->Labor Unions are the latest group calling for a cease fire. Where was the NYT for this story?
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Common Dreams:
"US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo. It was the 31st straight year that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the crippling U.S. blockade on the socialist nation. ...
By a vote of 187-2 with one abstention, the U.N. General Assembly approved a Cuban draft resolution affirming the 'necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial, embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.' The U.S. and Israel cast the only votes against the resolution, while Ukraine abstained.
Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla called the embargo an 'illegal, cruel, and inhumane policy' and 'an act of economic warfare in times of peace.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-embargo-on-cuba
-->The US mainstream media tries to hide these UN votes from the general public. Both the US and Israel are pariah states, recognized as such by an overwhelming number of the world's nations. Our propaganda driven media likes to leave such conclusions out of their news coverage.
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The Guardian UK:
"Leftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty of human rights abuses to challenge the Biden administration’s emergency military aid program for Israel.
Members of the Democratic party’s progressive wing say the $14.3bn package pledged by the White House after the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis breaches the Leahy Act because Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians. An estimated 9,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, among them 3,700 children, according to the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.
The act, sponsored by the former Democratic senator Patrick Leahy and passed in 1997, prohibits the US defence and state departments from rendering security assistance to foreign governments facing credible accusations of rights abuses. The law was originally designed only to refer to narcotics assistance, but was later expanded, with amendments covering assistance from both state department and Pentagon budgets."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/israel-aid-democrats-leahy-act-congress
-->The NYT left this story out, as did most of the US media. Congress is breaking their own law about funding nations that abuse human rights. But why remind Americans of how dysfunctional the US Congress really is?
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Middle East Monitor:
"Member of the US House of Representatives Rashida Tlaib has criticised the US’ unconditional financial support of Israel’s policies of apartheid which, she said, contribute to the continuation of the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
'I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day,' Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, said in a statement in which she also called for 'dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
'As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government [Israel], this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,' she added.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-us-congresswoman-tlaib-slams-us-for-funding-israels-policies-of-apartheid/
-->Why can't the NYT print Rashida Tlaib's words when she criticizes US and Israeli war crimes in Gaza. We get stories about a video being made, about the failure to censor her in Congress, and what genocide really means. Her actual speech is so much more compelling. And that's why most of it didn't make it into our paper of record.
"US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo. It was the 31st straight year that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the crippling U.S. blockade on the socialist nation. ...
By a vote of 187-2 with one abstention, the U.N. General Assembly approved a Cuban draft resolution affirming the 'necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial, embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.' The U.S. and Israel cast the only votes against the resolution, while Ukraine abstained.
Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla called the embargo an 'illegal, cruel, and inhumane policy' and 'an act of economic warfare in times of peace.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-embargo-on-cuba
-->The US mainstream media tries to hide these UN votes from the general public. Both the US and Israel are pariah states, recognized as such by an overwhelming number of the world's nations. Our propaganda driven media likes to leave such conclusions out of their news coverage.
=====
The Guardian UK:
"Leftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty of human rights abuses to challenge the Biden administration’s emergency military aid program for Israel.
Members of the Democratic party’s progressive wing say the $14.3bn package pledged by the White House after the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis breaches the Leahy Act because Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians. An estimated 9,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, among them 3,700 children, according to the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.
The act, sponsored by the former Democratic senator Patrick Leahy and passed in 1997, prohibits the US defence and state departments from rendering security assistance to foreign governments facing credible accusations of rights abuses. The law was originally designed only to refer to narcotics assistance, but was later expanded, with amendments covering assistance from both state department and Pentagon budgets."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/israel-aid-democrats-leahy-act-congress
-->The NYT left this story out, as did most of the US media. Congress is breaking their own law about funding nations that abuse human rights. But why remind Americans of how dysfunctional the US Congress really is?
=====
Middle East Monitor:
"Member of the US House of Representatives Rashida Tlaib has criticised the US’ unconditional financial support of Israel’s policies of apartheid which, she said, contribute to the continuation of the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
'I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day,' Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, said in a statement in which she also called for 'dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
'As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government [Israel], this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,' she added.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-us-congresswoman-tlaib-slams-us-for-funding-israels-policies-of-apartheid/
-->Why can't the NYT print Rashida Tlaib's words when she criticizes US and Israeli war crimes in Gaza. We get stories about a video being made, about the failure to censor her in Congress, and what genocide really means. Her actual speech is so much more compelling. And that's why most of it didn't make it into our paper of record.
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
The Intercept:
"On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning what it called 'anti-Israel, pro-Hamas student groups' across the country following a day of walkouts. Hundreds of students, led by Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, walked out of classes at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, and dozens of other colleges in what they described as a demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and end to U.S. military support to Israel. The Senate resolution condemned student groups for ostensibly supporting Hamas as part of a broader government and corporate pushback on protests over the war.
As the conflict intensifies, disputes are spilling over from campuses and government into many workplaces as well. Recent weeks have seen pressure by government officials against student activist groups, the creation of public blacklists in multiple industries, and a wave of politically motivated firings over people’s publicly stated views on the conflict.
'We are seeing people being fired from their jobs, being investigated by HR over their social media posts or conversations with colleagues, and having job offers rescinded. There is a clear trend that people’s jobs are being targeted right now,' said Dima Khalidi, the founder and director of Palestine Legal, an advocacy organization that seeks to preserve the civil rights of supporters of Palestinian rights in the United States."
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/palestine-israel-free-speech-retaliation-senate/
-->The NYT ran a story about how Biden's pro Israel stance is hurting his reelection chances. But few US media outlets have covered the powerful backlash to pro-Palestinian speech. The Israel Lobby is attempting to destroy America's First Amendment rights, first by banning boycotts, and now by outlawing criticism.
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Common Dreams:
"With more than 7,300 Palestinians killed so far in Israel's three-week bombardment of Gaza, a series of reports this week have exposed how U.S. weapon-makers and billionaire donors are enabling what legal scholars say could amount to genocide.
After Israel declared war in response to Hamas killing over 1,400 Israelis and taking around 200 hostages, the stocks of major American and European war profiteers soared. A Thursday report from Eyes on the Ties—the news site of LittleSis and Public Accountability Initiative—targets five U.S. firms with a record of providing weaponry to Israel.
The outlet stressed that while announcing a supplemental funding request that includes $14.3 billion for Israel, U.S. President Joe Biden last week invoked 'patriotic American workers' who are 'building the arsenal of democracy and serving the cause of freedom,' But it's the defense company CEOs who rake in tens of millions a year, and Wall Street shareholders, who are the real beneficiaries of warmongering."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-weapons-to-israel
-->The US media doesn't really want to talk about the massive profits the US firms are seeing from the butcher of Palestinians. For that story, you have to go to Common Dreams.
"On Friday, the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning what it called 'anti-Israel, pro-Hamas student groups' across the country following a day of walkouts. Hundreds of students, led by Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, walked out of classes at Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, and dozens of other colleges in what they described as a demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and end to U.S. military support to Israel. The Senate resolution condemned student groups for ostensibly supporting Hamas as part of a broader government and corporate pushback on protests over the war.
As the conflict intensifies, disputes are spilling over from campuses and government into many workplaces as well. Recent weeks have seen pressure by government officials against student activist groups, the creation of public blacklists in multiple industries, and a wave of politically motivated firings over people’s publicly stated views on the conflict.
'We are seeing people being fired from their jobs, being investigated by HR over their social media posts or conversations with colleagues, and having job offers rescinded. There is a clear trend that people’s jobs are being targeted right now,' said Dima Khalidi, the founder and director of Palestine Legal, an advocacy organization that seeks to preserve the civil rights of supporters of Palestinian rights in the United States."
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/palestine-israel-free-speech-retaliation-senate/
-->The NYT ran a story about how Biden's pro Israel stance is hurting his reelection chances. But few US media outlets have covered the powerful backlash to pro-Palestinian speech. The Israel Lobby is attempting to destroy America's First Amendment rights, first by banning boycotts, and now by outlawing criticism.
=====
Common Dreams:
"With more than 7,300 Palestinians killed so far in Israel's three-week bombardment of Gaza, a series of reports this week have exposed how U.S. weapon-makers and billionaire donors are enabling what legal scholars say could amount to genocide.
After Israel declared war in response to Hamas killing over 1,400 Israelis and taking around 200 hostages, the stocks of major American and European war profiteers soared. A Thursday report from Eyes on the Ties—the news site of LittleSis and Public Accountability Initiative—targets five U.S. firms with a record of providing weaponry to Israel.
The outlet stressed that while announcing a supplemental funding request that includes $14.3 billion for Israel, U.S. President Joe Biden last week invoked 'patriotic American workers' who are 'building the arsenal of democracy and serving the cause of freedom,' But it's the defense company CEOs who rake in tens of millions a year, and Wall Street shareholders, who are the real beneficiaries of warmongering."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-weapons-to-israel
-->The US media doesn't really want to talk about the massive profits the US firms are seeing from the butcher of Palestinians. For that story, you have to go to Common Dreams.
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