The Guardian:
"Since 7 October, commentators have been ringing the alarm that a growing protest movement in solidarity with Palestine signals not just the end of a 'golden age' for American Jews – as Franklin Foer recently put it in the Atlantic – but for American liberal democracy itself. ...

Foer [is] right that American democracy is imperiled. But as the draconian crackdown on non-violent student protests makes clear, accusations of antisemitism are not themselves evidence of liberal decline, but rather the tip of the spear in a frightening illiberal project serving the agenda of an emboldened, autocratic right wing.

The months since 7 October have seen shocking attacks on freedom of expression and assembly on campus. Even before the stunning display of police brutality in recent weeks, campuses have been home to canceled speakers and events, arbitrary disciplinary hearings, and outright censorship. The University of Southern California has canceled its entire commencement ceremony rather than let its valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, deliver a message of Palestine solidarity in her speech.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/11/us-university-protests-antisemitism-free-speech

-->This assault against free speech is not really being covered by the US mainstream media. One must go the a foreign press to read what is really happening here at home. Our media is just too corporate owned to report this story.

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The Guardian:
"Three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp in the Negev desert offered horrifying accounts of the treatment of Palestinians held there, telling CNN that the facility's doctors have amputated limbs due to handcuffing injuries, allowed detainees' wounds to rot, and carried out vicious beatings.

A medic who worked at Sde Teiman's field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped 'of anything that resembles human beings' and that the harassment and torture are done not to 'gather intelligence' but 'out of revenge' for the October 7 attacks.

Israel has detained thousands of Gaza residents since October, with many of them held under a recently amended law that empowers Israeli authorities to imprison people indefinitely without charge or due process. Human rights organizations have documented Israeli forces' brutal and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees, including women and children.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-torture-palestine

-->Where is this story in the NYT? CNN first reported this abuse of injured Palestinians, but our Zionist newspaper of record didn't think the story was fit to print.

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Common Dreams:
" 'What Israel has done over the last seven months is not just gone to war against Hamas—it has gone to war against the entire Palestinian people, and the results have been absolutely catastrophic,' [Bernie Sanders] told NBC.

Sanders went on to outline some of that catastrophe: a death toll that surpassed 35,000 on Sunday, with two-thirds of the dead women and children; the destruction of around 60% of all housing; the devastation of infrastructure such a as water and sewage as well as the healthcare and education systems; and the fact that hundreds of thousands of children are now at risk of starvation.

Sanders referred to Section 6201 of the Foreign Assistance Act: 'Any country that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid is in violation of law and should not continue to receive military aid from the United States,' Sanders explained. 'That is precisely what Israel has done.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-israel-war-palestinian-people

-->The NYT doesn't do Bernie Sanders. Not what he writes or what he says. That is especially true now that Bernie is expressing what most of us feel, that Israel's cruelty and crimes against humanity have gone off the rails.

Freedomflotilla.org:
"On Thursday afternoon, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition was contacted by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry (GBISR), requesting an inspection of our lead ship. This was a highly unusual request as our ship had already passed all required inspections; nevertheless, we agreed. ...

Sadly, Guinea-Bissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate starvation, illegal siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is showing the world the extent to which it will go to deny Palestinians the aid they need to stay alive, in direct contravention of International Humanitarian Law, UN Security Council resolutions, and two orders of the International Court of Justice. Israel is only allowed to get away with this because we have an international order where law does not apply equally, where people are not valued the same, and where might equals right.

The US has hijacked international law and is violating its own laws to protect Israel at every turn. A recently-leaked USAID memo states that 'famine in Gaza is inevitable,' and that 'changes could reduce but not stop widespread civilian deaths.' It also states that the government of Israel does not currently demonstrate necessary compliance with U.S. law required to receive U.S. military aid. Nevertheless, last week, the U.S. Congress passed and Biden signed a $26 billion aid package for Israel. It is this kind of naked impunity, over decades, that has brought us to this point where Israel can carry out a genocide, that includes a public declaration by Israel’s leaders that it is going to deliberately starve children, and not only face no consequences, but also involve a majority of world governments in its crimes."
https://freedomflotilla.org/2024/04/27/press-conference-under-israeli-pressure-guinea-bissau-moves-to-withdraw-flotilla-flags/

-->Children are dying, while 100 internationals try to sail a relief ship to Gaza. Of course, the NYT doesn't cover this story. Our "newspaper of record" is a pro Israel, pro genocide rag.

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Common Dreams:
"Government aggression and the rise of Big Tech are threatening the rules-based international order and global human rights, Amnesty International warned in its annual State of the World's Human Rights report, released Wednesday.

The organization expressed particular alarm over Israel's war on Gaza and the inability or unwillingness of its allies to rein in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from bombing civilian populations, displacing more than 1.9 million people, and restricting the flow of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip. This and other conflicts, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, had led to a 'near breakdown of international law,' Amnesty said.

'For millions the world over, Gaza now symbolizes utter moral failure by many of the architects of the post-World War Two system; their failure to uphold the absolute commitment to universality, our common humanity, and to our 'never again' commitment,' Amnesty International's secretary-general Agnès Callamard wrote in the preface to the report."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2023-near-breakdown-international-law

-->No major US news source covered this story. When it comes down to reporting, our media comes out in favor of the war criminals, not their Palestinian victims.

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Counterpunch:
"Israeli bombs continue to fall on Gaza, killing Palestinian civilians with abandon. Al Jazeera published a story about the destruction of 24 hospitals in Gaza, each of them bombed mercilessly by the Israeli military. Half of the 35,000 Palestinians killed by Israel were children, their bodies littering the overwhelmed morgues and mosques of Gaza. The former United Nations assistant secretary-general for human rights Andrew Gilmour told BBC Newsnight that the Palestinians are experiencing 'collective punishment' and that what we are seeing in Gaza is 'probably the highest kill rate of any military, killing anybody, since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.'

Meanwhile, in the West Bank section of Palestine, Human Rights Watch shows that the Israeli military has participated in the displacement of Palestinians from 20 communities and has uprooted at least seven communities since October 2023. These are established facts.

Yet, these facts—according to a leaked memorandum—cannot be spoken about in the 'newspaper of record' in the United States, the New York Times. Journalists at the paper were asked to avoid the terms 'genocide,' 'ethnic cleansing,' and 'occupied territory.' Indeed, over the past six months, newspapers and television shows in the United States have generally written about the genocidal violence using passive voice: bombs fell, people died. Even on social media, where the terrain is often less controlled, the ax fell on key phrases; for instance, despite his professions of commitment to free speech, Elon Musk said that terms such as 'decolonization' and phrases such as 'from the river to the sea' would be banned on X."
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/elites-in-the-global-north-are-scared-to-talk-about-palestine/

-->Our major media supports the genocide in Gaza. Not such a surprise because our government is paying for it and even protecting it at the UN.