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Open Letter to United Nations Security Council, Israel is Starving Palestinians in Gaza, Act Now to Save Gaza – Sanction and Expel Israel from United Nations

Posted on | Al-Haq

Since Israel’s breach and rejection of the ceasefire, and resumption of aerial bombardments on Gaza, Israel has escalated its mass killings (at least 50,810 Palestinians have been killed and 115,688 injured since 7 October 2023), mass forced displacements, and total destruction and annihilation of Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza seeking their total erasure in what has been described as “the fastest starvation campaign in modern history”.

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30 Years Ago, the Qana Massacre Shook Israel; Today, It Would Be Another Drop in the Ocean

Posted on | Gideon Levy | Haaretz

In the past two weeks Israel has carried out a “Qana” nearly every day in the Gaza Strip, and no one is calling for it to stop. The Qana nightmare has evaporated. There is no longer any need to be make sure not to kill dozens of innocent civilians. No one cares. The IDF spokesperson no longer needs to lie, the prime minister no longer needs to be sorry. The world and Israel’s conscience have melted away.

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AMPAS members respond to the lack of support for filmmaker Hamdan Ballal from AMPAS leadership

Posted on | Members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

On 26 March 2025, the leadership of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences emailed its membership a statement with the subject line, “Our Global Film Community.” The statement was ostensibly responding to the detention of Palestinian filmmaker and 2025 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winner Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of “No Other Land,” although it failed to mention either Ballal or the film by name, nor did it describe the events it was responding to.

The statement by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for. Therefore we are issuing our own statement, which speaks for the undersigned members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.