My students’ last request was to play, but then the school was bombed. I survived, and they became angels.
Israel’s war on Iran has buried our genocide in the headlines, but what Israel is doing in Gaza is a stain upon humanity. Don’t stop talking about it.
After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.
Palestinians refer to the locations where the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is distributing aid as “massacre sites” and “death traps” due to near-daily killings. But they are forced to visit because there is no other way to get food.
We called it the Gaza Sea even though it is part of the Mediterranean, because Israel isolated us from the world and made us believe that it was unreachable. The Freedom Flotilla broke that spell.
Israel has long used undercover forces posing as Palestinians to sow strife. Today, it is using this strategy again in Gaza in the form of the gangs taking control over humanitarian aid. The goal is to fragment and dismember Palestinian society.
At 2 a.m. local time, Israeli forces boarded the Madleen on its way to Gaza to deliver vital humanitarian aid. “To know there are people willing to break the siege is beyond words,” a Gazan who speaks to the boat’s crew daily told Mondoweiss.
For almost two years, activists across Canada have been demanding that Scotiabank divest from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Despite an ‘incremental divestment’, the bank has slowly been reinvesting in Elbit.
Netanyahu admits Israel is arming gangs and clan members in Gaza to counter Hamas’s influence, and new evidence shows Israel is using them to loot aid and implement its displacement plan. In response, the Hamas government set up the “Arrow Unit.”