'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid, نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון yaniv kubovich יניב קובוביץ and Bar Peleg write for Haaretz.com haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

"I'm literally dizzy from hunger, thirst and the heat ... Gaza is going through the worst famine, we haven't eaten, and we can't even find a piece of bread."   "We are camped by the sea. Where else can we go? Are they going to ban the air from us next?" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

"In order to "evacuate" two million people from their country, you need a plan. Israel has been working on one. The first stage involves transferring much of the population into a concentration camp in order to facilitate an efficient deportation." haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

"... Gaza's health ministry again published the list of the dead. ... The latest list spans 2,086 pages and contains 58,380 names, including 953 who died before the age of one and 17,921 who died before the age of 18. This truth will not be obscured." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

It's clear – Israel now has a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza | Opinion | Gideon Levy haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

Alex de Waal on how Israel has deliberately chosen and calculatedly planned to inflict genocide by starvation in spite of the ICJ orders on humanitarian aid.

Israel's "moral abyss" of "dehumanization": "Adult Gazan men aren't even considered to be people who might be innocent, or whose lives have any value. The killing of women, children and even babies is consistently viewed as acceptable collateral damage". haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

Shaw:  “The philosophers have interpreted the world; the point is to change it,” ...Today, genocide scholars, the serious press and even voters have interpreted Gaza as a genocide — but the point is to stop it. Until we do that, we are still in denial. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-d…

Levy: "This deliberate starvation has turned this war into the most horrific of Israel's wars, certainly the most criminal of them. We have never starved two million people this way. "[But] worse [is] the indifference with which it is received in Israel." haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

"It pains me deeply to hear what you are enduring, knowing that I'm powerless to help, ease the situation or change it. I'm ashamed ..to eat, to write, to share. Every action feels unbearable when it takes place in the shadow of this human catastrophe." haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It sounds inconceivable. But it’s the truth. Israel is taking deliberate, coordinated action to destroy the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Explicit statements by Israeli officials, combined with a consistent policy of destructive attacks

The final nail in the coffin of genocide denial: UN Commission of Inquiry concludes on reasonable grounds that Israel have committed and is continuing to commit the following actus reus of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

"The Commission finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in #Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children."

‘Under the genocide convention, states must not only punish genocide but prevent it. That threshold has now been crossed [it was 23 months ago - ed.]. To continue with symbolic sanctions is not just morally indefensible - it is complicity.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Two years into Israel’s genocide, the US movement in solidarity with Palestinians is far weaker than it should be. To cut off American arms to Israel, we need to build a powerful movement oriented to ordinary Americans beyond activist circles. jacobin.com/2025/10/palest…

Building the most effective antiwar movement possible requires leftists to leave their comfort zone as a powerless opposition confined to expressing our moral outrage online and build a broad movement with people we disagree with: jacobin.com/2025/10/palest…

This! 1000%

Bashir Abu-Manneh: Contestation among Palestinians about favored outcomes is legitimate, but instead of entering that terrain of debate, solidarity movements should uphold one thing: unconditional support for the Palestinian right of self-determination." jacobin.com/2025/10/palest…

Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is often dismissed as unrealistic, said to depend on limitless abundance and no need for people to perform different kinds of work. These objections are based on a misinterpretation of his view. jacobin.com/2025/10/marx-t…