The Intercept:
"Long before 9/11, Zionist groups like the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for counter terror legislation that singled out Palestinians, a new report reveals.
Last October, as protests against Israel’s war on Gaza swept U.S. campuses, two prominent pro-Israel groups wrote to nearly 200 university and college administrators urging them to investigate their students for possibly violating federal law by promoting pro-Hamas, anti-Israel messaging.

The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law suggested that members of Students for Justice in Palestine, the largest Palestine solidarity campus organization in the country, may have been violating a law that prohibits people from providing 'material support' — a broad category that includes money as well as services or other assistance — to U.S.-designated terror groups. 'We certainly cannot sit idly by as a student organization provides vocal and potentially material support to Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,' the ADL and the Brandeis Center wrote.

There is no evidence SJP has ever provided material support to Hamas, and the letter prompted widespread condemnation. The American Civil Liberties Union called on leaders in higher education to 'reject baseless calls to investigate or punish student groups for exercising their free speech rights.' "
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/21/adl-palestine-terrorism-legislation/

-->Maybe the NYT will be covering this story, but it hasn't yet. Will our newspaper of record expose the Anti-Defamation League as a danger to free speech, as it most certainly is?

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Common Dreams:
"The New York Civil Liberties Union revealed Friday that it warned Columbia University of plans to take legal action if two suspended student groups opposed to Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip aren't reinstated by March 1.

Amid a crackdown on criticism of Israel at educational institutions nationwide, Columbia leadership in November bypassed existing procedures for campus organizations and unilaterally suspended the university's chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) for an 'unauthorized' protest of the war.

'Universities should be havens for robust debate, discussion, and learning—not sites of censorship where administrators, donors, and politicians squash political discourse they don't approve of,' NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman said in a statement. 'These student groups were peacefully speaking out on a critical global conflict, only to have Columbia University ignore their own long-standing, existing rules and abruptly suspend the organizations,' she continued. 'That's retaliatory, it's targeted, and it flies in the face of the free speech principles that institutes of higher learning should be defending. Students protesting at private colleges still have the right to fair, equal treatment—and we are ready to fight that battle in court.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-university-suspends-student-groups

-->Is Columbia University illegally restricting freedom of speech on campus? But why isn't this story being covered in the NYT? You have the Civil Liberties Union preparing to sue a major university. Isn't that newsworthy?

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Common Dreams:
"Lawsuit Accuses German Leaders of Complicity in Gaza Genocide. 'This lawsuit sends a clear message to German officials: You cannot continue to remain accomplices of such crime without consequences.' ...

The criminal complaint, filed Thursday with federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, accuses Scholz, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, and Economy Minister Robert Habeck of 'complicity in the genocide in Gaza' by approving the export of approximately $350 million worth of military aid to Israel.

The suit also lists the German government's diplomatic support for Israel and its suspension of payments to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East—even as Israeli forces have killed and maimed over 100,000 Palestinians, forcibly displaced around 90% of the besieged strip's 2.3 million people, obliterated the territory's infrastructure, and pushed hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the brink of starvation."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667351559

-->This story is so important because it details the responsibility of states in enabling the genocide in Gaza. Well, the Republic of Germany certainly is responsible, with $350 million worth of military aid sold to Israel. Maybe the story is a bit too inclusive; will the people of the world start thinking along these lines about the United States, the real enabler of this slaughter of the Palestinians? So far, however, no coverage by the NYT.

The NYT:
"A Tunnel Offers Clues to How Hamas Uses Gaza’s Hospitals."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/12/world/middleeast/gaza-tunnel-israel-hamas.html

-->That's the NYT headline. It would seem that Hamas was using tunnels under hospitals, and the article is about just how they did it. What evidence is there you might ask? "Classified Israeli intelligence documents, obtained and reviewed by The Times, indicate that the tunnel is at least 700 feet long." Later, the NYT is not so sure: "The Israeli military, however, has struggled to prove that Hamas maintained a command-and-control center under the facility. Critics of the Israeli military say the evidence does not support its early claims."

The article goes on to present more supposed evidence. "the Israeli military showed a video on Nov. 5 of what it said was the entrance to 'a tunnel that was being used for terror infrastructures' on the hospital’s grounds. But the video appears to show something else: a water storage area built in 2016, when the hospital was constructed, according to engineering plans and images from the hospital’s construction reviewed by The Times."

So what evidence do we really have in this story, besides Israeli secret documents, some of them reviewed by the NYT and American officials? Is an army committing genocide really to be trusted? Instead of "A tunnel offers clues," the article's title should read "Israeli intelligence claims tunnels under hospitals were used by Hamas." This is a good example of news being twisted to support Israel. The title on the front page is misleading, but one has to read the whole article to recognize the scam.

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Counterpunch:
"[Lets] examine how donor nations responded to a sister UN organization, the Peacekeeping force, when staff faced accusations of misconduct. In 2021, the UN Secretary-General concluded that it was credible that 450 members of the Peacekeeping force in Gabon were guilty of child rape and sexual exploitation. Unlike UNRWA, however, the US and other donors did not suspend funding to the UN agency when reports of sexual abuse emerged, more importantly, they continued the funding even after the allegations were verified. ...

Yet, immediately after Israel raised, yet to be verified, allegations against a very few of UNRWA staff, Canada and other donors preempted any investigation and froze funding to an organization that currently provides vital humanitarian assistance to a population enduring siege and relentless bombing. ...

[The] incongruent response to the two UN Agencies reveals that Western virtue is gaged by the identity of the victim and victimizer. In response to the more than 2000 allegations of sexual abuse, the accusers were from Africa and Haiti. In the second case, the unverified allegations against the 12 individuals came from Israel. The disparity in the two UN cases is a stark illustration of the evident Western bias, and how it’s driven by the victims/victimizers’ racial characteristics rather than a commitment to genuine fairness."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/14/defunding-unrwa-the-last-phase-of-israeli-genocide/

-->What Western media would dare expose the racist response of much of the white, Christian world? Children are dying of starvation in Gaza. But they are only Muslim; so let's not worry about them.

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Common Dreams:
"Israel Defense Forces officers brought Israeli civilians into detention centers and allowed them to watch and film Palestinian prisoners being tortured, according to survivor testimonies published this week by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Prisoners held at detention centers in Zikim on the northern border of the Gaza Strip and at a site in southern Israel affiliated with Naqab Prison 'told Euro-Med Monitor that the Israeli soldiers had purposefully presented them before Israeli civilians, falsely claiming that they were fighters affiliated with Palestinian armed factions and that they had taken part in the October 7 attack on Israeli towns,' the group said.

The former detainees said groups of 10-20 Israeli civilians were brought in and allowed to record torture sessions in which the men, stripped nearly naked, were beaten with metal batons, electrocuted, and had hot water poured over their heads. The ex-prisoners said some of the Israelis laughed while filming their torture."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-torture

-->Needless to say, this story was not picked up by any US media. It is just too much for our citizens to see. After all, stories like this indicate that the US is aiding and abetting a genocide.

The Guardian:
"Food shipment for 1.1 million Palestinians stuck at port due to restrictions from Israeli authorities, says UNRWA

A food shipment for 1.1 million Palestinians is stuck at an Israeli port due to recent restrictions from Israeli authorities, says the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.

The Associated Press (AP) report that UNRWA’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Friday that a convoy of food donated by Turkey had been sitting for weeks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The agency said that the Israeli contractor they work with received a call from Israeli customs authorities 'ordering them not to process any UNRWA goods'."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/10/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah-latest-news

-->Last week, the NYT covered a story about food aid being stopped in Northern Gaza. Nothing so far about the million starving people huddled at the Southern boarder with no place to go. All the news that the Israel Lobby sees fit to print.

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Common Dreams:
"The Minneapolis City Council voted on Thursday to override Mayor Jacob Frey's veto of what advocates say is one of the strongest cease-fire resolutions in the country.

The measure, which first passed 9-3 on January 25, with one abstention, calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military aid for Israel, the release of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners held indefinitely in Israel. The motion to override the veto also passed by nine votes. ...

With this override, Minneapolis becomes the latest U.S. city to call for a cease-fire, joining at least 60 other localities including San Francisco; Oakland; Atlanta; Seattle; Detroit; Dearborn, Michigan; Albany, New York; Akron, Ohio; and Providence, Rhode Island. Chicago became the largest U.S. city to pass a cease-fire resolution on January 31."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/minneapolis-cease-fire-veto

-->The NYT seems blind to this growing effort to have local governments pass ceasefire resolutions. It didn't print this story.


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Common Dreams:
"Around 100 Jewish American and allied activists were arrested in New York City Wednesday after they blocked President Joe Biden's motorcade route to protest U.S. complicity in Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people and to demand an immediate Gaza cease-fire.

The group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) led the Upper East Side demonstration, during which activists sat down in the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, where the president was attending a nearby fundraiser. 

'As Jewish New Yorkers we want to make crystal clear that President Biden is not welcome in our city while he continues to fund and arm the Israeli government's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,' said JVP's Jay Saper."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-protest-cease-fire

-->Amazing that the NYT didn't cover this story. How often does a presidential motorcade get blocked? Isn't that newsworthy? Or how about the story that the blockers were none other than Jewish Voice for Peace activists? Not reporting news like this is indicative of how our major media is still under the sway of the pro-genocide lobby.

Mondoweiss:
"The British Guardian has just published an extraordinary, thorough confirmation of what we already suspected — that CNN’s bias about reporting Israel’s war on Gaza is no accident, but a conscious and complex policy directed from the very top of the network. ... CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over editorial policies they say have led to a regurgitation of Israeli propaganda and the censoring of Palestinian perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in Gaza. You get the impression that CNN spends just as much time distorting the news as it does actually gathering it. Here’s a quick summary:

'Daily news decisions are set by a flow of directives from the CNN headquarters in Atlanta that have set strict guidelines on coverage. They include tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel government statements are taken at face value. ... In addition, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.'

This is exactly how authoritarian regimes control their news output. [CNN insiders reported] that the network’s bias 'resulted, particularly in the early weeks of the war, in a greater focus on Israeli suffering and the Israeli narrative of the war as a hunt for Hamas and its tunnels, and an insufficient focus on the scale of Palestinian civilian deaths and destruction in Gaza.' "
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/the-guardian-exposes-how-cnn-slants-the-gaza-news/

-->Do you still believe that our media does a good job in reporting the news from Palestine? This Guardian story wasn't covered in the NYT, or in any other major news source in the US. The Zionists simply own much of our national media.

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Common Dreams:
"The nation's leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as 'Bigoted,' 'Islamophobic,' 'Racist,' and 'Reckless.' A Wall Street Journal opinion piece published on Friday afternoon read 'Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital.' And on Saturday, The New York Times published a piece by long-time columnist Thomas Friedman titled 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom.'

The Islamaphobic article was written by Steven Stalinsky, who is a commentator 'on terrorism' and has served as executive director of the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, DC. ...

Friedman's piece in the New York Times entitled, 'Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom,' posited Iran as a metaphorical 'parasitoid wasp' with proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria as caterpillars. Friedman claimed, 'We have no counter strategy that safely and efficiently kills the wasp without setting fire to the whole jungle,' suggesting that the US militarily destroys the entire Middle East to annihilate Iran and its allies. He concluded that he could 'contemplate' the Middle East by watching Animal Planet."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/outrage-over-bigotry-islamophobia-in-wall-street-journal-new-york-times

-->Our major newspapers are not afraid to print bigoted and hateful opinions, maybe because these same ideas are held by our ruling class of warmongers and racists.

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Truthout:
"calling on the United States to 'end its complicity in the nightmare unfolding in Gaza,' U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday said he would introduce an amendment to remove more than $10 billion from the foreign aid supplemental requested by President Joe Biden.

The $10.1 billion has been proposed to pay for offensive weaponry funding for the Israeli government, which has killed at least 27,131 Palestinians in Gaza so far—including at least 11,500 children—and displaced 1.9 million.

'Twenty-seven thousand dead—two-thirds of them women and children,' said the Vermont Independent. 'Sixty-seven thousand wounded… 70% of housing units damaged or destroyed. And now, hundreds of thousands of children facing starvation.' ”
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-moves-to-block-funding-for-israeli-weapons-as-aid-bill-looms/

-->Our supposed "newspaper of record" didn't even cover this story. The NYT was busy promoting racists and warmongers like Thomas Freedman.