Thursday, July 24, 2025

Common Dreams:
"Despite Board Capitulation, NEA Teachers Still Reject Anti-Defamation League.
NEA's commitment to free speech may be tested should the ADL object to teachers introducing lessons on the history of Zionist erasure of Palestine.

In a gut punch to the base, National Education Association leaders lickety-split dismissed a motion passed by a majority of the NEA’s 7,000 delegates not to partner with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for curriculum or professional development. ...

'The ADL is not a neutral body. It is a bully pulpit that is used to disrupt, dox, and target supporters of Palestine, and opponents of racism, transphobia, and oppression,' said Greenspan [Jewish Voice for Peace delegate]. 'We will continue to speak out and rise up in NEA until justice is served.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/adl-national-education-association

-->So far the NYT has not carried news about the NEA teachers' rebelling against their union leaders. There is a groundswell of support for Palestine, a country and a people being exterminated by the Israeli military. Why only tell half this story?

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Common Dreams:
"Pope Demands 'Immediate Halt to the Barbarity' of Israel's War on Gaza. Pope Leo XIV said the Israeli military's deadly attack on Gaza's sole Catholic Church was 'just one of the continuous military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship' in the Palestinian enclave. ...

Pope Leo's remarks came as the Israeli military issued expanded evacuation orders in central Gaza and killed more than 80 people across the enclave as they sought to obtain food aid amid an increasingly dire hunger crisis fueled by Israel's blockade. ...

The U.N. World Food Program said 25 trucks with aid had entered for 'starving communities' when it encountered massive crowds that came under gunfire. the outlet continued. Nafiz Al-Najjar, who was injured, said tanks and drones targeted people 'randomly' and he saw his cousin and others shot dead."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pope-leo-gaza

-->Is the NYT just holding this story for now? That is quite inexcusable, since it reflects on how millions of Catholics will perceive the holocaust of the 21 century.


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Z Network:
One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinise the government’s actions and statements, and challenge them robustly.

Instead, as Declassified UK has reported, Britain’s ‘obedient’ defence correspondents, including BBC journalists, are covering up British spy flights for Israel. The RAF has carried out more than 500 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023. The Ministry of Defence insists that the flights, undertaken by aircraft based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, are solely to assist in providing information about Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October 2023. But the British ‘mainstream’ media – which largely serves state-corporate interests, not the public interest – have not carried out a single investigation into the extent, impact or legal status of these flights. ...

This is surely a significant question that responsible journalists should be raising; particularly, the national broadcaster. But, as Declassified UK has observed, the BBC has essentially remained ‘silent’ on whether these flights are contributing to the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide and war crimes in Gaza."
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/burying-genocide-the-bbc-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-uk/

-->Corporate power is able to hide another war crime, this time committed by the British defense contractors. Most Western countries will end up with blood on their hands. Why isn't that news?