Drop Site can report that the Knight Foundation worked to conceal its funding of a truly maniacal organization called “Honest Reporting” which puts targets on the backs of Palestinian journalists who are then executed by Israel.
Knight initially denied making the grant, but later owned up to it.
Knight’s claim to defend press freedom can not be taken seriously until they account for how this happened.
The British may have left, but their colonial bureaucratic mindset remains. The Assistant Commissioner of Kahuta visited the PERA office on a red carpet in the rain.
I think it says a lot about the state of things in the Democratic Party when the left’s litmus test was “no weapons for Israel’s war crimes, which have killed over 3% of Gaza’s population,” and the center’s was “disavow that Twitch streamer.”
Well it’s underrated because you’re dishonest. You equate liking Obama with supporting all his policies whereas most Democrats want different policies than his now. That’s just the natural passage of time and progress dude.
📽️ On the Makdisi Street podcast, Ta-Nehisi Coates points to Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and his interview with Rep. Ro Khanna to highlight how dominant political and media narratives restrict what even progressives understand about Palestine.
Coates recounts Scahill pressing Khanna on whether Palestinians have the right to attack soldiers and military bases of an occupying power. Khanna refused to grant the right, invoking King and Gandhi, even as he conceded that Israel’s US-backed assault amounts to genocide.
Coates reads Khanna’s evasions as ignorance rather than malice, arguing that he seemed unaware the issue of resistance to occupation has long been settled under international law.
“Our greatest weakness,” Coates says, “is just how little we know.”
🔗 Full episode linked in reply. Credit: @MakdisiStreet
The fact that drone operators can make out the hairstyles of their victims before firing is an extremely haunting thought, given how many children have been hit with drone strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.
Some person saw the child and pressed fire anyway.
🇵🇸 Israeli prison guards have beaten a 71-year-old Palestinian doctor, tear-gassed his overcrowded cell and denied him vital medication, according to testimony published by Haaretz.
🔹For decades, Dr. Mazen Al-Rantisi, widely known as the “Doctor of the Poor,” has treated low-income Palestinians at his small Ramallah clinic, charging symbolic fees, regularly waiving payment and providing free medicine to patients who cannot afford it.
🔹Israeli forces raided his home before dawn on June 21 and imprisoned him. Prosecutors indicted him not for violence, but for chairing the Union of Health Work Committees, a Palestinian healthcare nonprofit registered with the Palestinian Authority that Israel later outlawed.
🔹Al-Rantisi told a lawyer from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel this week that guards force blindfolded prisoners to walk bent over, beat him and other detainees during repeated raids and fire tear gas into their cells. Younger prisoners surround him during the beatings in an effort to shield him.
🔹Israel withheld all of his regular prescriptions for his first 10 days at Ofer Prison and continues to deny him one medication. His requests to see a doctor have been ignored, and his lawyer said he has lost significant weight.
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