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Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
Flour ambushes in Gaza: Chaos and starvation are weapons used by the occupation against civilians in the Gaza Strip
Joint Fact sheet by Bisan Center for Research and Development and AMAN Coalition: Flour ambushes in Gaza
Israeli Troops Separated a Gazan Grandma From Her Family. Her Death Will Haunt Her Descendants
Did the Israeli soldiers shoot the Gazan grandma? Did she die of hunger or thirst, bedridden, completely alone? Did she suffocate in the smoke or was she burned to death?
Statement on the Situation in Israel and Palestine
The International Sociological Association (ISA) expresses its deep concern about the horrific events of October 2023 in Israel and Palestine as the human carnage there is unfolding in plain view. There have been far too many victims in this and previous cycles of violence. War and violence are never acceptable solutions and are against all the values we uphold. We stand by and respect the UN resolutions concerning this situation and share the call by many of our Palestinian and Israeli colleagues for an immediate release of hostages, exchange of prisoners, and the ending of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Yanis Varoufakis: My Berlin speech on Palestine that German police entered the venue to ban – and whose publication here led to my being banned from Germany!
Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:
Rebuilding Hope – Gaza Initiative: to Enable University Students in Gaza to Continue Their Studies
Birzeit University’s initiative to support and resume higher education in Gaza.
Gaza: Israel’s Imposed Starvation Deadly for Children
Devastating Accounts from Doctors, Parents; Reports of ‘Imminent’ Famine
Ghassan Abu Sittah calls out German state as ‘accomplices to crime of genocide’
« Accomplices in a crime try to hide the evidence, and silence the witnesses. » British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who has become known for his work in Gaza’s hospital, spoke outside of the German embassy in London after being detained and deported from Germany while trying to attend a conference where he would present evidence on the war in Gaza and his witness statement as a doctor working in its hospitals.
Germany blocks ‘Gaza hero’ Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah from attending Berlin Palestine conference
Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah was barred entry into Germany to speak at a Palestine solidarity conference taking place in the capital Berlin today.