Israel

‘We’re Witnessing This Global Tidal Wave Of Repression’

October 27, 2024 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! First Amendment, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Repression

As media critics, we look to Palestinians to represent Palestinian views, but it’s crucial that we not see the present moment as something happening to other people somewhere else. The repression of simple anti-genocide calls, the censorship, the firings, the disinformation, the malforming of concepts like antisemitism—these are problems for all of us, about all of us, that will influence all of us forever. Defending Rights & Dissent, online at RightsAndDissent.org, have started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday. Chip Gibbons is policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent. He’s a journalist, researcher and a longtime activist.

Iran ‘Successfully Confronts’ Israeli Attack On Tehran Military Sites

October 26, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Iran, Israel, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism, West Asia

Iranian air defenses successfully confronted an Israeli attack on military targets near the capital of Tehran in the early hours of 26 October, semi-official Tasnim News reported. The Air Defense Base issued a statement saying that “Iran’s air defenses intercepted and successfully confronted the acts of aggression” carried out Saturday by “the criminal, illegitimate and fake regime of Israel.” The statement added that Israel sought to escalate tensions in the conflict by launching attacks on military sites in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan, and Ilam, resulting in only “limited damage.” The Iranian army later issued a statement announcing that two soldiers were killed in the attack. The statement said they were “martyred during confrontation with the projectiles fired by the criminal Zionist regime."

US Tries To Entice Israel Into Minimizing Its Attack On Iran

October 26, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Biden administration, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Lebanon, Middle East, US Aid To Israel, Wars and Militarism

On October 15, two American officials told the Associated Press that they “believed” the White House had gotten assurances from Israel that it would not strike Iran’s oil or nuclear facilities when it launched its eventual retaliation for the October 1 missile barrage that Iran had fired at Israel. The officials’ cautious tone reflected their lack of confidence in Israel’s verbal agreements. Nothing was in writing, and Israel had made no public declaration about limiting its options regarding Iranian targets. Given Israel’s long history of defying and deceiving its credulous benefactor, it’s remarkable that it’s taken this long for Washington to display this kind of caution with Israel’s promises.

Media Hawks Make Case For War Against Iran

October 26, 2024 Gregory Shupak, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Iran, Israel, Media, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy. Just as they have done with Hezbollah (FAIR.org, 10/10/24), prominent conservative media opinionators misrepresent Iran as the aggressor against an Israel that practices admirable restraint. Under the headline, “Iran Opens the Door to Retaliation,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board (10/1/24) wrote that Iran’s October 1 operation against Israel “warrants a response targeting Iran’s military and nuclear assets. This is Iran’s second missile barrage since April, and no country can let this become a new normal.”

Israel’s Genocide Day 384: Israel Ethnically Cleanses Northern Gaza

October 25, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

The Israeli army forcibly expelled Palestinians in northern Gaza from their shelters, as relayed by eyewitness accounts, news reports, and video footage released by Israeli sources. On Wednesday, Israel’s Kan satellite channel aired video footage of Israeli military trucks transferring dozens of blindfolded Palestinian detainees. Kan claimed that the Palestinians were arrested “for interrogation.” The Israeli army also released aerial video footage on Wednesday showing hundreds of Palestinians walking amid the rubble, surrounded by Israeli tanks as they all head in the same direction after being gathered in a destroyed square. The Israeli army reportedly said that it had “evacuated” 20,000 Palestinians from Jabalia.

Hamas: ‘Intensive Political Campaign’ Underway To Halt Ethnic Cleansing

October 25, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Displacement, Ethnic cleansing, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestine

Hamas said in a statement on 24 October that it has launched an “intensive” diplomatic and political campaign aimed at thwarting the General’s Plan, through which Israel is trying to empty out northern Gaza via extermination and expulsion and transform it into a military zone. The statement said Hamas has warned, in the contacts it is making, of the “scale of the massive daily massacres that have reached the most heinous levels that humans can imagine, including terrorism, killing, and the execution of children and women in cold blood, as well as the organized displacement of about one hundred and fifty thousand people.”

Palestine Action Activists Receive Non-Custodial Sentences

October 25, 2024 Palestine Action. Resist! Elbit, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Action, Palestine Solidarity

This afternoon, Wednesday 23rd October, the 4 Palestine Action activists on trial for blockading the gates of Elbit’s Leicestershire drone factory, were convicted on one charge, and received non-custodial sentences. The 4 activists were found guilty by District Judge MC Wilkinson, having earlier been cleared of the charge of Obstructing Lawful Business. They were each sentenced to 18 months conditional discharge, and ordered to pay £300 court costs. Locking-on was only made a criminal offence under the Public Order Act 2023. The judge told them: I’m satisfied you took these steps out of desperation, for people trapped in suffering not of their own making.

Chris Hedges Report: The Escalating Crisis In The Middle East

October 25, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Gaza, Genocide, Islamophobia, Israel, Middle East, Propaganda

Decades of Islamophobia, relentless propaganda campaigns and heavily financed lobbying efforts have made it difficult to understand the political realities of the Middle East. John Mearsheimer, prominent political scientist, University of Chicago professor and self-proclaimed realist, has consistently demonstrated the courage and ability to bypass the noise, delivering honest and well-informed analysis on global affairs. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to lay out what’s happening in the Middle East, from Israel’s genocide in Gaza to its escalating attacks on Lebanon and Iran.

War And The Constitution

October 25, 2024 Andrew P. Napolitano, Consortium News. Educate! History, Iran, Israel, US Aid To Israel, US Imperialism, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before war is waged? These questions should be addressed in a national debate over the U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel. Sadly, there has been no debate. The media are mouthing what the C.I.A. is telling them, Congress is in lock-step, and only a few websites and podcasts — my own, “Judging Freedom” on YouTube, among them — are challenging the government’s reckless, immoral, illegal and unconstitutional wars.

Israelis Call For Global Pressure On Israel For An Immediate Ceasefire

October 25, 2024 The Guardian. Resist! Ceasefire, Genocide, International Solidarity, Israel, Palestine

We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel and Palestine and the peoples of the region and for their rights to security and life. Many of us are veteran activists against the occupation, for peace and mutual existence in this land.

Israel’s Assault On North Gaza’s Last Functioning Hospital

October 24, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians across northern Gaza have been forced on a death march by the Israeli army since Monday, October 21. Northern Gaza is being emptied of its inhabitants, and one of Israel’s strategies in achieving this goal is to take out the area’s few remaining social institutions: hospitals. As part of its ongoing offensive on northern Gaza, the Israeli army has been trying to clear out the entire area north of Gaza City for the past 18 days. At least 200,000 people continue to stay there, many of them fearing, according to local testimonies, that they will be targeted on the way south or in Israeli-designated “safe zones,” which have been consistently bombarded over recent months.

An ‘Assembly For Palestine’ Showed The Power That People Can Have

October 24, 2024 Maddison Wheeldon, The Canary. Organize! Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Against the backdrop of a seemingly endless genocide with absolute impunity provided from Israel’s Western partners, it can feel like the fight is hopeless as fatigue sets in. Fatigue is human, and arguably it is what our governments are counting on as they drag their feet in opposing the murder and brutalisation of an entire population – indiscriminate of guilt, age, or gender. We have to prepare for this fatigue and restore our energies both individually and collectively if we want to realise an end to arm sales and an unconditional ceasefire, especially when Lebanon is now facing the same threat of destruction and Israel’s attempts to plunge the West into an unjust war across the Middle East.

Veterans For Peace Applauds Israeli Soldiers Who Refuse To Fight In Gaza

October 23, 2024 Veterans For Peace. Resist! Anti-War, GI Resistance, Israel, Palestine, Refuseniks, Veterans

Veterans For Peace applauds the Israeli military reservists who are calling for a ceasefire and the release of hostages, and who say they will not participate in genocide. You are doing the right thing. Your courageous stance may be answered by official threats and even imprisonment. But you will never regret refusing to kill innocent Palestinian men, women and children. Palestinian Lives Matter. Yet Palestinians are being systematically slaughtered before the eyes of the world. The ongoing US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza is unacceptable. It is a stain on human history. And it must be ended. Veterans For Peace has consistently called for an end to the genocide in Gaza, for a permanent ceasefire, and most importantly, for an end to US arms shipments to Israel.

Black Muslim Leaders Shun Harris For US President

October 23, 2024 Umar A. Farooq, Middle East Eye. Resist! Biden administration, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lebanon, Lebanon Solidarity, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Protests, US Aid To Israel

A group of approximately 50 Black Muslim leaders have signed a statement urging Black and Muslim American voters to shun Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House and instead back candidates who support a ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel. The new statement, first reported by Middle East Eye, is the latest effort from Muslim community leaders - from imams to scholars, to activists to politicians - telling voters not to choose Vice President Harris in the upcoming November election over her unwillingness to commit to policy changes that would hold Israel accountable for its ongoing war on Gaza and now Lebanon, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese people.

Leaked Report Finds Israel Targeting United Nations Troops In Lebanon

October 23, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Chemical Weapons, Israel, Lebanon, Report, UNIFIL, United Nations, Wars and Militarism, White Phosphorous

Israel’s military has attacked UNIFIL troops deployed on the Lebanon–Israel border a dozen times, including possibly with white phosphorus, the Financial Times (FT) reported on 22 October. According to a confidential report prepared by a country contributing troops to the UN mission, Israeli forces forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and are suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus, injuring 15 UN soldiers. Israeli forces began targeting UN troops shortly after launching ground operations across the border into Lebanon on 1 October. UNIFIL has called the attacks “deliberate” and a “flagrant violation of international law.”

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