Abby Zimet: No One Cares We Grieve When We Bury Our Children
Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call “only the beginning.”
Noelle Canin: War Watching
I know what blood looks like, she said.
I know what a home looks like
after a bomb.
Joy Gaines-Friedler: Guest Appearance
In the end, grenade pins sparkled in the desert sun
outside the packed then blown-to-pieces shelters,
miles of machine gunned cars,
(drivers plastered against glass & rubber),
babies killed in their cribs & bunk beds
Robert F. Barsky: Noam Chomsky at 96
The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence.
Rose Mary Boehm: Words for the Unspeakable
Ghosts are already rising, singing their silent song
of loss; accusing, whispering, searching, blinded,
for their olive tree.
Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump Is the Clearest Sign of US Decline Imaginable
Trump’s victory in 2016 should have instantly been seen as a crucial sign of the weakening and potential collapse of this country’s position in the world translated into domestic politics.
Jewish Voice for Peace: Divest from death. Invest in life.
You can tell what a society’s priorities are by how it spends its resources.
Julia Conley: Biden’s Own Policy Requires US to Stop Arming Israel
Amnesty International was one of 25 human rights groups telling the administration to follow its own guidelines.
George Yancy: The Violent “Othering” of Palestinians
Anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and political racism overlap in othering of Palestinians, says Palestinian scholar Yasmeen Daher.
Francesca Albanese | UN: Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity
Torture and sexual violence in Israel’s Sde Teiman prison are grossly illegal and revolting, but only represent the tip of the iceberg.
Abby Zimet: Unspeakable | We Are Swimming In A Pool of Blood
Israel’s blithe defiance of both world censure and ICJ rulings goes on apace.
Joshua Frank: You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide
Israel has quickly become a pariah of its own making, something that never had to happen, and from which there may be no turning back.
Brett Wilkins: News of Chomsky’s Ill Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude for ‘Lion of the Left’
“So many thousands of people have stories about how he has changed their lives,” said one admirer. “He certainly changed mine.”
Brett Wilkins: New ICC Complaint Over Journalists Killed by Israel in Gaza
Reporters Without Borders says it has “reasonable grounds for thinking that some of these journalists were deliberately killed and that the others were the victims of deliberate IDF attacks against civilians.”
