Friday, February 2, 2024

Informed Comment daily updates (02/02/2024)

 


US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza”

US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans and the Palestinian human rights group al-Haq against President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for their involvement in an Israeli genocide against […]

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN agencies. Reducing access to food is being used as a weapon in Gaza by the Israeli government. Denying food to a civilian population is a tactic that has been used […]

“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com) – Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency and Israel’s war on Gaza (not to mention the flare-ups of global climate change), the U.S. has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting […]

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Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry

Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed





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