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Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist – antisemitic, if you prefer – to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel’s crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s war crimes, even if the Israel ...[Read more]
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Today’s cease-fire is a victory and a relief for Palestinians. But with Palestinians still under siege, the struggle against ethnic cleansing and occupation isn’t over. For Democrats, “progressive except Palestine” still won’t cut it. ...[Read more]
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Two weeks later, she was unceremoniously fired by the news outlet after conservatives resurfaced old social media posts that drew attention from Republicans as prominent as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. In Wilder's eyes, her firing is the latest example of ri ...[Read more]
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The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the Unit ...[Read more]
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As Israel again wields brutal military power on a captive Gaza, trapped Palestinians seem numb with resignation. Tweets from the ground reveal Palestinians preparing for the worst, scrambling to gather their entire families so they can all die together. T ...[Read more]
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Last week, Alshaer’s pregnant cousin was killed in an airstrike. While Alshaer herself remains “physically OK,” Alshaer said on Monday that her family in still not safe from Israeli airstrikes. A street going to the nearby Al Shifa hospital has been ...[Read more]
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The Israeli military has admitted that its bloody crackdown on unarmed Palestinian protesters was “accurate and measured.” The Israel Defense Forces, which shot hundreds of Gazans with live ammunition, likewise said, “we know where every bullet land ...[Read more]
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The both-sides-have-their reasons-but-Israel-is-the-victim stories follow an expected pattern. Israeli Jews, still living in the shadow of the Holocaust, return to their rightful homes and then fight for every inch of what is justly theirs. They are repea ...[Read more]
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The U.S.-backed, armed, and funded extreme right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is currently engaged in a systemic collective punishment campaign against the people of Gaza. More than two million of them are trapped in an open-air prison camp with ...[Read more]
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During a press briefing on Tuesday, US State Department spokesman Ned Price discussed Israel’s latest all-out assault on the Gaza Strip — dubbed Operation Guardian of the Walls — which had begun the previous day and quickly dispensed with thirty Pal ...[Read more]
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The mainstream media is habitually attached to diverting almost every conversation about the death of Palestinians toward Hamas and its rockets. On the morning of May 11, the head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, was on BBC Newsnight, e ...[Read more]
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