Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Guardian:
"Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition. Sunday’s decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.

Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza that it suspects of having links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention. Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death. ...

In the 2-1 ruling, the justices said they found 'indications that the current food supply to prisoners does not sufficiently guarantee compliance with the legal standard'. They said they had found 'real doubts' that prisoners were eating properly, and ordered the prison service to 'take steps to ensure the supply of food that allows for basic subsistence conditions in accordance with the law' ”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/israels-supreme-court-says-government-is-not-giving-palestinian-prisoners-enough-food

-->Israel is starving its Palestinian prisoners. It is not so unexpected since Israel is also starving millions to death in Gaza. Yet our pro genocide NYT didn't print this story.

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Mondoweiss:
"Activists and residents are banding together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago in which case, they are absolutely aware.

The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and hand out flyers reading: 'MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, EASY AERIAL & CRYE PRECISION, LOCAL WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS IN OUR BACKYARDS.' Most passersby honk their horns, ring their bells and shout their praise; some others gawk at the commotion or scoff in disapproval. But all who pass know that the Brooklyn Navy Yard houses genocide-profiteers. ..

The landlord in question is the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit developer charged with managing business leases at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by the City of New York. DBNY’s demands are simple: evict Easy Aerial and Crye Precision from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and establish a policy of no weapons manufacturers."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/activists-and-residents-are-banding-together-to-force-companies-complicit-in-the-gaza-genocide-out-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/

-->This is a story that is so big that the NYT didn't cover it. Student activists joining community groups to oppose shipping to Israel is new. And now that the workers and even public relations businesses are starting to come around, our newspaper of record is starting to get anxious.

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Middle East Eye:
"The Global Sumud Flotilla is already on the move. More than 50 vessels, the largest civilian aid convoy ever assembled for Gaza, have set sail from ports across Europe.

Part of the flotilla has already docked in Tunisia, where it was welcomed by thousands of supporters, before heading to join the rest of the fleet. It is scheduled to set sail from Sidi Bou Said port on 10 September, following weather and logistical delays.

It would not be an exaggeration to call this the boldest humanitarian civil society mission in recent history, destined to take its place alongside some of the most prominent non-violent civil disobedience actions, such as Gandhi's Salt March."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/global-sumud-flotilla-when-states-fail-humanity-sets-sail

-->Another great story, but another failure of our newspaper of record. The NYT is locked up someplace in an Israeli jail. And all its readers are starving for information as the result of its everlasting attempt to hide the American Genocide.