Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed. We’ll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess and protect the settlers busy with their pogroms. We’ll visit Joseph’s Tomb, Othniel’s Tomb and Joshua’s Altar in the Palestinian Continue reading »
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The recently concluded summit of the five member states of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed to expand membership to include from next January Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the UAE. Western media and commentators’ responses have been a farrago of sneering at the unlikely hodgepodge of countries that Continue reading »
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush called for a ceasefire and were attacked by AIPAC-aligned centrists. Democratic leadership stayed silent.
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Periods of Israeli–Palestinian violence have regularly resulted in the corporate suppression of Palestinian social media users.
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“It’s been about four days since this incredible and tragic escalation of violence and the level of misinformation — even disinformation — seems near unprecedented.”
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One of the most important developments in economics is something in which economists had no hand: the identification of the environmental limits which humans, busily producing and consuming, cross at their peril. Earth has existed for about 4 billion years and humans have lived on Earth for about 200,000 years. For almost all of that Continue reading »
Since when do we praise Occupiers for brutal oppression? Words are used to confuse, obfuscate and detract from the truth of Palestine-Israel. Words such as terrorist, enemy, militants and murderous are often used to describe Palestinians who are, in essence, victims, freedom fighters, oppressed, occupied and ignored. Settler-colonial occupation! What strange words to be using Continue reading »
“Deescalation is not possible when they are taking hostages,” the Massachusetts Democrat said — both acknowledging the hostages and disregarding their fate.
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Years of impunity for Israeli crimes against civilians have bred a culture of disregard for international law.
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The Biden administration’s policy of ignoring conditions in Gaza contributed to this weekend’s explosion of violence.
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