An interfaith campaign is confronting one of the most powerful groups driving unconditional support for Israel and the genocide in Gaza with spiritual resistance. Jaisal Noor ( Waging Nonviolence ) – At lunchtime on July 1, as the Senate prepared to vote on Trump’s deeply unpopular “Big Beautiful Bill,” the cafeteria line at the Rayburn […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Gunfire Communication with “Zombie Hordes”: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the IDF
by Dr Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) – It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the […]
In Too Much of the US, Israel’s Gaza Genocide Has Been Made Invisible
With only rare exceptions, U.S. news media and members of Congress continue to dodge the reality of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, normalizing atrocities on a mass scale. By Norman Solomon | – ( Commondreams.org ) – Whatever the outcomes of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the […]
EU: Suspend Trade Agreement with Israel (HRW)
Unions, Other Groups Urge Trade Pressure Amid Escalating Atrocities Human Rights Watch – (Brussels) – The European Union should immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel as long as Israel’s atrocity crimes persist, Human Rights Watch and over 110 organizations and trade unions said in a joint statement on June 19, 2025. This would be the first measure […]
Checks and Balances? Dream on in the Age of Trump!
( Tomdispatch.com ) – “I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s governors to discuss the ongoing Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place nationwide in response to […]
Israel continues to Starve, Target Gaza Civilians in ongoing Genocide
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The fascist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage war on Gaza civilians, in the longest and most intense violation of the Geneva Conventions, the Rome Statute and other elements of International Humanitarian Law in this century. The United Nations Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian territories […]
The Gaza Genocide is still far from being condemned in the West’s Rhetoric
( Middle East Monitor ) – While more rhetoric but barely any pressure is raised against the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) and Israel using the distribution hubs as kill zones, the genocide in Gaza reflects an earlier trend of pinpointing violations into manageable disturbances. That way, Israel’s violence can remain unchecked and the genocide in […]
Paris: Legal Complaint filed against French-Israeli Snipers over Killings of Civilians in Gaza
( Middle East Monitor ) – The International Federation for Human Rights (an international organization based in Paris with the French acronym of FIDH) and five associations have filed a complaint with the Paris Judicial Court against Israeli snipers of French origin, accusing them of deliberately killing civilians in the Gaza Strip. It quotes Shawan […]
Siamese Criminals: Trump and Netanyahu
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Convicted felon Donald Trump is now trying to intimidate the Israeli Judiciary into cancelling the three criminal trials of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. To that end, Trump and Netanyahu have become global running mates, campaigning with and for one another in their re-elections. The two men have […]