Informed Comment daily updates (05/06/2024)

 

Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Sunday condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to ban the Al Jazeera news network in Israel. The network’s office was closed and its equipment was confiscated. Israeli cable channels were forced to delete Al Jazeera from their offerings, and even its website has been blocked […]

Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply Written by Natacha Danon More than 100 journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel since it launched its deadly war on the strip, following Hamas’s incursion into Israeli soil on October 7, 2023. Reporters Without Borders has filed multiple complaints with the International Criminal Court to investigate “intentional homicides” of several Gazan journalists. But […]

Why are U.S. Sanctions against Iran’s Oil Exports Ineffective? By Kian Sharifi ( RFE/RL ) – Iran is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world. But restrictions imposed by the United States have largely failed to stymie Iran’s oil exports, the backbone of its flailing economy. U.S. sanctions have cut off Iran from most of its traditional customers, forcing Tehran to find […]

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Tens of Thousands of Israelis Demonstrate against Netanyahu, Demand Hostage Exchange Deal, New Elections Why Scapegoating the UN Relief and Works Agency — Which Helps Palestinians — Must Stop New EPA Rules will force Fossil Fuel Power Plants to cut Pollution Netanyahu as Lord of the Flies: He has wounded, sickened or starved all 600K Palestinian Children in Rafah Plastic is Climate Change in a Bottle – So let’s put a Cap on It Columbia Students are Sick at Heart, just as we were in ’68 Top Ways MAGA and Right Wing Zionism Converge, and Why Smotrich is Embracing Trump

Informed Comment daily updates (01/31/2024)

 

Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Let’s face it. Israel under PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), isn’t helping the fight against global Antisemitism, and is fueling the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) Movement. The war crimes in Gaza have been augmented by a recent conference led by Bibi, to re-colonize Gaza with renewed Haredim settlements. […]

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency by Dr Binoy Kampmark Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice.  In a case brought by South Africa intended to facilitate a ceasefire and ease the suffering of the Gaza populace, Israel received the unwanted news that it had to, among other […]

Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the misfortune of being born in the wrong place — Cambodia or Gaza, Afghanistan or Ukraine — at the wrong time. They die due to happenstance, choosing to shelter indoors when […]

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Huge Israeli Conference in Jerusalem Plots Squatter-Settlements in Gaza once it is Ethnically Cleansed Most Palestinians in Gaza are now Displaced at least Twice Over. They have a Right to Choose where to Return Ruling by UN’s Top Court means the U.S. and Canada could be liable for Complicity in Gaza Genocide How Biden inherited the War with an Iraqi Shiite Militia from Bush, Trump and Netanyahu How Trees and Forests Heal us and make for Well-Being, As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments can’t Afford any other Priority From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist Mentality