Mondoweiss:
"Israel’s destruction of Gaza grinds on without pause or limit. The army has confirmed plans to invade Gaza City and occupy it, forcing Palestinians to choose between yet another round of displacement or staying to face certain attack. In neighborhoods like Shuja’iyya — once home to 120,000 people — there is nothing left to return to.

This is not a temporary escalation or a breakdown in diplomacy. As Qassam Muaddi reports, Netanyahu’s government is openly preparing for the permanent occupation of Gaza, dangling the prospect of ceasefire talks only to stall criticism and buy time. The U.S. political establishment still treats these theatrics as if they were genuine steps toward peace. They are not; they are covering for more killing.

Even Donald Trump has been forced to acknowledge the Israeli-created famine killing thousands in Gaza. But famine here is not an accident of war; it is a weapon, wielded with intent. As Ahmad Ibsais writes, genocide depends on silencing its witnesses, and Western governments and media have not only ignored it, but they have enabled it."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/weekly-briefing-u-s-protection-keeps-israels-genocide-alive/

-->This analysis of a planned and executed genocide never makes it to US news outlets. The purpose of this war is to eradicate two million, but our media can't quite say that.

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Consortium News:
"When I arrived in Guatemala in 1983 to cover the wars in Central America, which I would do for the next five years, the regime of General Efraín Ríos Montt was carrying out a scorched earth campaign, especially in the highlands of Quiche, Huehuetenango and Baja Verapaz. [Chris Hedges]

The campaign was modeled on the kill-anything-that moves tactics employed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, an effort to eradicate and control the civilian population in areas dominated by the insurgents, who until 1983 were beating back the Guatemalan army.

The Guatemalan military savagely carried out massacre after massacre in the highlands against indigenous, including the wholesale murder of women, children and the elderly, and razed some 600 villages and towns. The number of disappearances and killings averaged 3,000 per month. President Jimmy Carter had cut most military aid to Guatemala in 1977. Israel, however, filled the void. It equipped the Guatemalan military with Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns.

Israel advisors, estimated to be between 150 and 200, provided surveillance and interrogation training to police and military units. They assisted Ríos Montt in carrying out the 1982 coup that brought him to power. They helped plan Guatemala military sweeps that resembled their own erasure of Palestinian villages and massacres carried out in 1947 and 1948."
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/09/chris-hedges-report-israel-also-sponsored-a-genocide-in-guatemala/

-->The NYT published an elaborate article about 37 Guatemalan women who were raped during this genocide. In all the pictures and the descriptions of the victims, the US is mentioned only once, and Israel gets no recognition at all.

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Medecins Sans Frontieres:
"Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March.

Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in lifesaving goods, citing that these organisations are 'not authorized to deliver aid.' In July alone, over 60 requests were denied under this justification.

This obstruction has left millions of dollars’ worth of food, medicine, water, and shelter items stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt, while Palestinians are being starved."
https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-threatens-ban-major-aid-organisations-starvation-deepens

-->Israel is blatantly starving two million people. That's the basic fact that no major media has the stomach to report.

Common Dreams:
"Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia . 'Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?' Sanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. 'Somebody got it wrong.' ...

On the latest leg of his Fighting Oligarchy Tour, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders headed to West Virginia for rallies on Friday and Saturday where he continued to speak out against the billionaire class's control over the political system and the Republican Party's cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and other social programs for millions of Americans—and prove that his message resonates with working people even in solidly red districts. ...

Sanders spoke to the crowd about how President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was supported by all five Republican lawmakers who represent the districts Sanders is visiting this weekend, could impact their families and neighbors. 'Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare,' Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts that are projected to amount to more than $1 trillion over the next decade. 'Cuts to nutrition—literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids. ... Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to estimates.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates

-->Of course, this revolution will not be covered by the NYT. Burnie is speaking truth to power, and our newspaper of record will have none of that.

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The Intercept:
"How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image. Columbia University President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands. ...

Shortly after Columbia University made broad concessions to the Trump administration, the school’s acting president Claire Shipman struck a triumphant tone. 'Columbia retains control over its academic and operational decisions,' Shipman wrote in a July 24 email to the entire university community. In an interview with the campus newspaper, she said the topic of disciplinary action had not even come up in negotiations with the Trump administration.

The claim struck critics of the university’s recent actions as odd on its face. The school had agreed to pay a $200 million fine and make significant changes to its academic operations, disciplinary proceedings, and oversight — including giving the Trump administration access to vast swaths of previously private university documents and data.

Critics of the deal with the Trump administration also noted that Shipman’s claim — that disciplinary action wasn’t discussed — was far-fetched. The announcement of the deal came on the heels of the suspensions and expulsions of almost 80 students who had participated in a sit-in and protest in Butler Library on May 7 — in a newly formulated disciplinary process that hewed closely to government demands."
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/

-->Try to find this analysis in the mainstream media. Our corporate controlled press just can't bring itself to admit that Trump has taken control over most political decisions being made for higher education. And most citizens are still denying the fascist take over our colleges and universities.

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-->Common Dreams:
"Oslo’s Promise Was Always a Lie, Its Legacy Is Starving Palestinians. The blueprint for Gaza’s starvation was laid in the 1993 Oslo Accords and operationalized in 2007, when Israel calculated the minimum number of calories needed to keep Palestinians in Gaza alive. That slow violence has now reached its lethal apex.

Back in 2005, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) signed an agreement intended to ensure the flow of goods and people between Gaza and the West Bank. But instead of improving access, the policy became a tool of restriction. Before 2006, 400 trucks entered Gaza daily. Israel then imposed a limit of 107 trucks, and by 2007, only 67 trucks per day were actually allowed in. ...

What’s unfolding in Gaza today is the result of a strategy decades in the making. The Oslo Accords appeared to offer Palestinian self-rule but, in reality, denied any true sovereignty. Israel maintained full control over borders, security, and the movement of people and goods, while delegating limited responsibilities—like health and education—to the PA. What seemed like a step toward statehood instead institutionalized forced dependency."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oslo-legacy-gaza-starvation

-->More truth to power when it comes to Gaza and the forced starvation of tens of thousands of children. The article is particularly interesting because it describes how the NYT subtly tries to cast doubt on the reports of starvation.

Common Dreams:
"Bloomberg reported on Friday that FBI officials earlier this year redacted the name of U.S. President Donald Trump from the agency's files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.


 

Three unnamed sources confirmed to Bloomberg that the FBI had redacted the names of Trump and other prominent public figures even before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that 'no further disclosure' of the Epstein files 'would be appropriate or warranted.' ...

The reviewers applied two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions to justify their redactions, according to the report: One that 'protects individuals against 'a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy' and another that protects against disclosures that 'could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/epstein-files-trump

-->So far this story is being reported on by very few news outlets. Where is the NYT?

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Intercept:
"The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence. Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade on Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

During its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas steals aid and that restricting it will help the two parties achieve a ceasefire. The U.S. and Israel pointed to that argument in May when they handed aid operations over to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a contested American nonprofit that funnels Gazans to limited aid sites where the Israeli army has repeatedly opened fire on starving civilians. At each turn, the New York Times dutifully printed the official justifications.

Then the Times published an article on Saturday reporting that there was 'no proof' that Hamas was stealing aid from the United Nations, citing four anonymous Israeli sources. The story noted that the U.N. aid system, which provided the bulk of the aid to Gaza, was 'largely effective,' and there was no evidence that Hamas regularly stole from the U.N., though the unnamed sources claimed that Hamas did steal from smaller organizations.

But in 61 articles related to Gaza’s hunger crisis the Times published since January, 23 included Israel’s accusations that Hamas was stealing aid. Nine of those stories did not include opposing statements refuting Israel’s claim. Twelve articles of the 61 analyzed by The Intercept cited concerns about Hamas diverting aid without an explicit accusation. At the time of publication, the Times had not added a correction or update to these stories to indicate that the claims were false."
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/new-york-times-hamas-aid-israel-gaza-famine/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

-->We are lucky to have news outlets like the Intercept to keep the NYT honest. But the lies spread by the NYT has perpetuated the carnage and starvation in Gaza.

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Common Dreams:
"And, in a certain sense, this debate is not really about Israel. It is about the United States of America, and whether we will abide by U.S. and international law, or whether we will continue to contribute billions of dollars to an extremist government in Israel, which has caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza. This debate is over whether or not the United States of America will have any moral credibility on the international scene. Whether or not we will be able, with a straight face, to condemn other countries who commit barbaric acts if we don't stand up tonight. That is what we are debating.

M. President, the vast majority of the American people and the world community understand that the Netanyahu government in Israel has gone well beyond defending itself from Hamas. Over the last 21 months, it has waged an all-out, illegal, immoral and horrific war of annihilation against the Palestinian people.

This war has already killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000 — most of whom are women, children and the elderly. In a population of just over two million, more than 200,000 people have been killed or wounded since this war began. That, M. President, is 10% of the population of Gaza."
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-sanders-forces-vote-to-stop-arms-sales-to-israel-amid-starvation-in-gaza/

-->Why wouldn't the NYT quote part of Bernie's recent speech to the Senate? It is so moving and so true. It is most certainly "fit to print" if any story is.
 

Mondoweiss:
"The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff. [The paper] has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism.

We are putting The New York Times on notice. Since the Zionist genocide in Gaza began over 20 months ago, the 'paper of record' has run cover for Israel’s war crimes. We have witnessed the Zionist entity drop 2,000 pound bombs on displaced Palestinians forced to survive in tents, massacre starving Palestinians at aid sites, arrest and torture Palestinians accused of fighting back or administering care, destroy Gaza’s entire healthcare system, obliterate almost every one of its schools and universities, damage over 90 percent of residential buildings, and block food and supplies from entering the besieged strip. But New York Times journalists have chosen to ignore, whitewash, distort, or justify each one of these crimes. As much as any weapons manufacturer, The New York Times is a part of the machinery of war — producing, in the realm of public opinion, the impunity that enables and sustains Israel’s ongoing genocide."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-new-york-times-commitment-to-zionism-begins-with-its-own-staff

-->The NYT is moving, as is NPR. But were have they been over the last year and a half? They have been covering up for Israel's genocide. And congratulations to the NPR "roundtable" which had its first Palestinian on the program today.

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Common Dreams:
"ADL-Backed Bipartisan Bill Threatens to Censor Israel Criticism on Social Media. The bill’s lead sponsors described it as part of an effort to prevent antisemitic hate. But their comments during a press conference on the measure suggest it will also target critics of Israel. Free speech advocates are raising concerns that a new bipartisan bill would force social media companies to censor criticism of Israel on their platforms.

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) rolled out the bill, called the Stopping Terrorists Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities (STOP HATE) Act, at a press conference Wednesday, alongside Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ... Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald—a critic of government efforts to regulate 'misinformation'—suggested that the bill flies in the face of the right's supposed commitments to free speech. 'There was [a] full consensus on the Right for the last decade that Big Tech censorship was a great evil, especially if pressured and demanded by the U.S. government,' he said on X. 'All that changed [when] it came time to censor for Israel.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/adl-bill-censors-israel-criticism

-->The NYT is playing it safe when it comes to media and Israel. Of course, the paper should have covered this story.

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The Intercept:
"It was Tuesday, June 10 when Khalil heard from neighbors that an aid truck had arrived a few kilometers from where he lived in Deir al Balah, Gaza. By then he had already lost about 45 pounds since the war began in 2023. With his brothers and a friend, Khalil set off on foot. On the walk over, the 26-year-old could hear intermittent shelling, but the promise of food, he felt, was worth the risk. ...

When they arrived around 6:30 a.m., a huge crowd was gathering at the aid point in Netzarim. 'People start heading there before sunrise because the lines get impossibly long,' Khalil said. Thousands had clearly gotten the same tip. The sheer amount of desperate, hungry people was overwhelming. Khalil said, 'I hadn’t eaten properly in days. I was dizzy and weak.'

Khalil quickly noticed military presence. 'We saw the Israeli soldiers in full military uniform standing next to their armored vehicles. We arrived knowing the place was dangerous. But, there was no clash, no threat to them,' Khalil said. ...

He stood in line with hundreds of others. There were children, women, and elderly men. 'Some were barefoot, some had been waiting since the night before,' he recalled. As his group inched closer to the point where they hoped they would be able to grab a parcel of items, gunshots rang out. Khalil ran for his life. 'They began shooting directly at unarmed civilians,' he said. 'The bullets were chasing us as if we were targets on a shooting range, and not just hungry people. We scattered under a hail of bullets."
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/21/israel-gaza-famine-food-aid-starvation/

-->Too bad, the NYT can't bring itself to tell this story. It provides some similar stories, but continues to blame the starvation on Hamas and price gouging by sellers.

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?

World News:
"LONDON (AP) — More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.

A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend."
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/world-news/ap-more-than-40-arrested-at-london-protest-in-support-of-banned-group-palestine-action/

-->This seems to be a non story in the US. Maybe that's because UK demonstrators are being arrested for flying flags and chanting. The common thread is the use of criticism of Israel as part of the arrest warrants. That is coming to our shores very soon.

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The Guardian: UK
"Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism. The 'humanitarian city' Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation. ... 'It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,' he said, when asked about the plans laid out by Israel Katz last week. Once inside, Palestinians would not be allowed to leave, except to go to other countries, Katz said.

Katz has ordered the military to start drawing up operational plans for construction of the “humanitarian city” on the ruins of southern Gaza, to house initially 600,000 people and eventually the entire Palestinian population.

'If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said. That would be 'the inevitable interpretation' of any attempt to create a camp for hundreds of thousands of people, he said."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert

-->The NYT isn't interested in what Olmert has to say. This story gets eliminated because it honestly portrays what is going to happen to the Palestinians.

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Common Dreams:
"Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: ...
'If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration,' said one U.S. group.

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health and cousins of Sayfollah Musallat—also known as Saif al-Din Kamel Abdul Karim Musallat—said Friday that Israeli settlers beat the dual U.S.-Palestinian citizen to death while he was visiting family in the illegally occupied West Bank.

A spokesperson for the ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told Agence France-Press that 23-year-old Musallat 'died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon.'

Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya, said that 'the young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The [Israeli] army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank


-->The NYT did a typical coverup for Israel. Its headline reads "Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers." According to the NYT, there had been "a violent exchange on Friday between Palestinians and Israeli civilians." And why the delay in printing this story?

Common Dreams:
" 'The Trump regime is gutting scientific research into climate and atmospheric science for political reasons, at the very time we need a much better understanding of it,' said one environmentalist. 'This is so reckless and dangerous.'

Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.

Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-texas-flooding

-->The NYT didn't say much about the failure to forecast this disaster. Why not? The NYT spent a lot of ink on the obvious. But why not a headline about who is responsible? Maybe the newspaper has something to gain from omitting the story.

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Jewish Currents:
"An April 29th report from the Harvard University task force on 'combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias' at the school has revealed that the university is contracting Project Shema to instruct students, faculty, and staff on antisemitism. In an appendix section nearly 200 pages into the 311-page report, the task force notes that various campus departments and offices have held such workshops with the group since October 7th. Altogether, Project Shema has led or co-led at least ten events regarding Jewish identity and antisemitism at the university in the last 20 months, according to the task force report and event listings reviewed by Jewish Currents, and has plans for more programming at Harvard in the coming school year.

On a campus that has been a focal point for political battles over Palestine-related activism, antisemitism allegations, and DEI in higher education, Project Shema’s trainings have mostly flown under the radar, stirring little controversy. But they have received some criticism: In October 2024, a group of Harvard faculty signed an ultimately unsuccessful petition to cancel an antisemitism and Islamophobia workshop organized by the school’s DEI office and co-led by Project Shema. The petitioners accused Project Shema of conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism and called out the group for previous collaborations with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
 
Since 2021, a progressive campaign has pushed institutions to 'drop the ADL' as a partner due to its strident Israel advocacy, and the ADL’s increasingly hawkish post-October 7th posture, including its initial support of the Trump administration’s deportations of student protesters, has turned off even some liberals who were once sympathetic."
https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-new-group-giving-antisemitism-trainings-at-harvard

-->No mention of Project Shema, the thought police training for Harvard University students and faculty. This should be a hot topic because it is such a transparent tactic of the McCarthy Era. Come to think of it, The NYT required its reporters to sign Loyalty Oaths in the 1950s.

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The Progressive Newswire:
"SEVILLA, Spain - In response to Spain, Brazil and South Africa’s new global coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Oxfam Tax Justice Policy Lead Susana Ruiz said: 'We welcome the leadership of Brazil, Spain and South Africa in calling for taxes on the super-rich.

People around the world are pushing for more countries to reject the corrupting political influence of oligarchies. Taxation of the super-rich is a vital tool to secure sustainable development and fight inequalities. The wealth of the richest 1% has surged $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to end annual poverty 22 times, yet billionaires only pay around 0.3% in real taxes.

'This extreme inequality is being driven by a financial system that puts the interests of a wealthy few above everyone else. This concentration of wealth is blocking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and keeping over three billion people living in poverty: over half of poor countries are spending more on debt repayments than on healthcare or education.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/oxfam-reaction-to-spain-brazil-and-south-africa-launching-a-new-coalition-to-tax-the-super-rich

-->The Guardian carried this story. But I couldn't find it in The New York Times.