Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
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Ghassan Abu Sittah calls out German state as ‘accomplices to crime of genocide’
“Accomplices in a crime try to hide the evidence, and silence the witnesses.” British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who has become known for his work in Gaza’s hospital, spoke outside of the German embassy in London after being detained and deported from Germany while trying to attend a conference where he would present evidence on the war in Gaza and his witness statement as a doctor working in its hospitals.
“Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians
As Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank were prevented from reaching Jerusalem for Good Friday to walk the Via Dolorosa, the path Jesus is said to have followed on the way to his crucifixion more than 2,000 years ago. Meanwhile, Jesus’s birthplace of Bethlehem is uncharacteristically empty of tourists this year as Israel’s assault on Gaza and crackdown on the West Bank escalate. “Nothing can wash the blood from your hands,” said the Reverend Munther Isaac at an Easter vigil for Gaza on Saturday, about Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Isaac is a Palestinian Christian theologian and the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss the history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, Israel’s occupation of Bethlehem and its strangling of freedoms in the West Bank, U.S. Christians’ support of Israel and more.
How Israeli universities are an arm of settler colonialism
Maya Wind’s new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel’s university-military-industrial complex.
‘Gaza’s Newton’ is lighting up his family’s tent | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
A 15-year-old Palestinian boy has been dubbed ‘Gaza’s Newton’. He’s successfully generated electricity, using scrap items to light up his displaced family’s tent.
The palestinian Analyst Mouin Rabbani Exposes Why ICJ Means Big Trouble For Israel
This is the truth about the ICJ ruling against Israel that most of our media is not talking about, with Mouin Rabbani, interviewed by Owen Jones.
South Africa presents its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (Video and Verbatim Record)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel.
Prof Hennie Strydom unpacks case brought by SA against Israel at International Court of Justice
Interview with Hennie Strydom, president of SABILA and professor at the University of Johannesburg on the subject of the ICJ referral against Israel.
Prof. Francis Boyle on the South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice
Francis Boyle is an American human rights lawyer and professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
Palestine Is Still The Issue [2002] John Pilger Documentary
Classic John Pilger documentary about the decades long occupation of Palestine and subjugation of the Palestinian people.