Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen’s was one of them.
If you ask me how I feel a year after Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination, I would tell you that I feel angry because both Shireen and I died under the tree that day. Shireen awaits justice from heaven, while I wait for it down here on earth.
Nakba survivors, activists, and Rashida Tlaib addressed an overflowing event to commemorate the Nakba despite Kevin McCarthy and pro-Israel groups’ attempts to cancel it. “Let the headlines read ‘McCarthy tries to erase Palestine but fails’,” Tlaib declared.
A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists shows the Israeli military has killed 20 journalists since 2001 and not one soldier has been put on trial.
A year after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the killers remain free, shielded by a broken international judicial system. But a light can be glimpsed in those who carry forward Shireen’s memory.
The Biden administration says it will release a new report on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh after making some “technical” changes to its contents. Sen. Chris Van Hollen says any alteration “would violate the integrity of this process.”
“The antisemitism that these people who canceled my show are talking about is my continual, incessant criticism of the government of the state of Israel,” Roger Waters, says of Frankfurt canceling his show. “I’m so happy to be in the ring with these assholes.”
The State Department’s annual human rights report accepts Israel’s dubious story on Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.
Danny Ayalon, a vigorous advocate for Israel and former ambassador to the U.S., says he is worried about the growth of Jewish anti-Zionism in the United States.
“The New York Times” realized it had to report the year-end casualty statistics for Palestinians in the West Bank, the highest toll since 2005.
So it looked for a way to shift attention away from the major perpetrators — the Israeli military and Jewish settler/colonists — and put it on the Palestinians.