Common Dreams:
"As the Palestinian death toll from Israel's 10-week annihilation of the Gaza Strip passed 20,000, warfare experts said this weekend that the retaliatory campaign ranks among the deadliest and most destructive in modern history.
 
Gaza health officials said Friday that 390 Palestinians were killed and 734 others wounded in the besieged strip over the previous 48 hours, driving the death toll from 77 days of near-relentless Israeli attacks to 20,057, with another 53,320 people injured. More than 6,000 women and over 8,000 children have been killed—approximately 70% of all fatalities. ...

'The scale of Palestinian civilian deaths in such a short period of time appears to be the highest such civilian casualty rate in the 21st century,' Michael Lynk, who served as the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories from 2016 to 2022, told The Washington Post on Saturday."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bombing-gaza

-->This careful analysis of the horrendous bombing damage didn't make it into the NYT. Most of the US media followed, choosing to ignore just how horrible these war crimes are. How long can our corporatized media hide all this bloodshed from the American people? And when will we demand, at long last, that the US led holocaust end?

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Jacobin:
"Across the country, pro-Israel groups and billionaires are trying to stop the antiwar movement pushing for a cease-fire in Gaza by bringing down its elected leaders, including Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. These are fights the Left can win with popular support.

Socialists in elected office are standing up for Palestinian rights and demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. A handful of billionaires, rejecting this progressive and popular agenda, are trying hard to take down these antiwar lawmakers. As well, many conservative and centrist Democratic candidates are launching primary challenges against them, hoping to be the recipients of big campaign cash from the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and similar pro-Israel groups. AIPAC and its allies — like-minded organizations and big donors — told the New York Times that they are going to spend big, probably far more than in previous election cycles, to defeat anyone standing up for Palestine. Many of their targets are members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) or close allies of the organization. ...

The call for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza is broadly popular, as are the economic justice issues these officeholders champion, so these should be winnable fights if the Left can stay organized. A 61 percent majority of likely US voters believes the United States should support a cease-fire, while only 28 percent oppose such a move — even though only sixty-two members of Congress have publicly called for one so far.
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/pro-israel-billionaires-socialists-dsa-aipac-gaza-cease-fire-israel-war?mc_cid=917d570ade&mc_eid=487355f8cb

-->Zionists are trying to destroy any hope for positive change in our government. Israel stands right with the White Supremacists on this one. Israel is the mirror of the neofascist and racist movements in our own country. But no US media is going to help
the US public see these links. Our media is as bought off as most of our elected representatives.

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Open Letter to Colleges and Universities:
"We write as a group of educators to denounce the increasingly repressive climate on our campuses across the US. As educators invested in developing and upholding constructive learning environments, critical engagements with knowledge building, and transformative pedagogical discussions, we refuse to adhere to the censorship, policing, and the circumventing of our academic work and mission as educators.

On December 14, upper-level administrators at Syracuse University surveilled, harassed, and intimidated SU undergrads peacefully gathering for a study-in in support of Palestine. Charging students with bullying and harassment, the administrators threatened students with academic sanctions for carrying signs that included the Arabic word intifada, calling in armed campus police to curtail the assembled students. They claimed that the word intifada, which in Arabic means uprising, 'has been deemed by SU to be threatening' and that it can be 'reasonably interpreted' as a 'call to the genocide of Jewish people.'

We assert that the 'interpretation' of the word intifada as 'a call for the genocide of Jewish people' is baseless and dangerous. Intentionally criminalizing the Arabic language implies that the language itself, and therefore Arabic speakers generally, are inherently violent and genocidal. Furthermore, such 'interpretations' are based on reactionary, political, and often anti-intellectual administrative assumptions about these words and their meanings. We will not cede our expertise to administrators who broadly and selectively interpret terms, ideas, and concepts as they please, in the service of their political and economic gains and military investments. While administrators claim to be acting in the interest of students who feel threatened and endangered by such words, their actions prioritize the interests of a specific political ideology over their commitment to education, learning, and safety."  
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGdLpRTC7ZiixBx7B1-3vgyHCpqJdSomph0Rafy7a83L6mnw/viewform

-->Over 900 academics from all over the country have signed this letter. If you are in this category, please sign. The lack of coverage of this most important issue of censorship in higher education, is just another reflection of how corporatized our academic institutions have become. Sign this letter and join the resistance!