400,000 humans is quite literally an incomprehensible figure. There are whole countries with smaller populations. This number of casualties in such a limited region is unprecedented in human history.
Think of all the horrific images you’ve seen from Gaza.
Now think of what worse carnage and murderous depravity Israel must be inflicting now to cut off the internet.
MEP Rima Hassan has refused to change her prison clothes and directly joined the anti-genocide voices in Paris upon her arrival.
Hassan had written "Free Palestine" on the walls of her cell inside Israeli prisons and refused to sign the deportation papers after she was abducted.
Israel, the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons which is currently committing a genocide against Palestinians, is bombing Iran to start a war and sabotage U.S.-Iran diplomacy.
The definition of a rogue state.
Nasser Hospital, the last important referral hospital left in Gaza, risks imminent destruction.
This is not a war, this is the systemic annihilation of a people. This must be stopped!
As the Madleen was reportedly intercepted and seized by Israeli forces in int'l waters, the UK gov must urgently seek full clarification and secure the immediate release of the vessel & its crew.
The Madleen must be allowed to continue its lawful humanitarian mission to Gaza.
The BBC is shocked when Israeli soldiers – illegally occupying Syria – identify its film crew, point guns at their heads, strip-search them, then blindfold and interrogate them.
Might it encourage the BBC to report the systematic murder of 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza?
The Israeli quadcopters approach our tents every day, but today—right now, as I speak to you—they have come much closer. They started emitting the sound of an ambulance, then changed it to the vicious barking of dogs, and then to the screams of Palestinian mothers. After that, they flew away into the distance.
Every day, we live in a state of indescribable terror. My home—or rather, my tent—is now about two kilometers from the apartheid wall. Every day, they try to intimidate and terrify us in every possible way. But I am not sure if I can tell you that I am still capable of living under such conditions. The hope inside us remains, yet it is beginning to fade—just as my friend’s body was shattered into pieces, pieces I try to collect every day.
My family and I carry on our backs a sorrow, grief, and anguish heavy enough to build a mountain of tears.
But I also know that their brutality is a sign of their fear. They are afraid—even of the Palestinian flag I have raised above my tent.
Death lives among us, but fear lives within you. What a disgraceful occupation you are.
What is ‘pro Hamas activity’? How does the administration define it? How does it constitute a crime?
Or is it just an all encompassing speech and thought crime now? Is the first amendment dead? Are we in 1984?
Let the students learn a little something about American racism and US-backed genocide by bearing witness to how the US treats students that speak out against it.
Let the students learn a little something about the power of being part of community, and about guiding change.
This too, is education.
The students need to learn from the real world as well, because they are also the future policy-makers and if current policy-makers had involvement from a young age perhaps we wouldn’t be living this era where genocide is normalized.
Not only is the content of this video from @ChrisMurphyCT excellent but the very fact that he is doing regular videos and explainers like this should inspire other Dems to follow suit in this insane fascistic age of Trump Mark II
The Columbia encampment -- often held up as Ground Zero for the supposed anti-Semitism driving the protests against the US-funded Israeli war -- had a large presence of Jewish students to the point that they had Sabbath dinner inside the encampment every Friday night.
NEW: Columbia has begun notifying faculty of cancelled grants.
From an internal source there:
“Grant cancellation notices flowing in now. Labs shutting down. Layoffs imminent. Faculty apoplectic at Katrina Armstrong for letting it get to this point. She has to fix this fast.”
.@Hind_Gaza: "We're talking about a population that went for 15mths of war, they lost everything, they lost their income, their jobs, and they rely on food assistance & aid"
Today is the 10th day Israel is blocking all food & aid from entering Gaza.
Israeli forces have raided the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem for the second time in a month.
This is not just an attack on one bookshop. It is an act of cultural erasure, and a campaign to stifle speech challenging the occupation of Palestine.
Selling books is not a crime.
I need people to understand this kind of response would not have happened if people didn’t demand it. I cannot stress this enough. We need to be constantly vigilant and continue to push at every level of government.