B'Tselem's Executive Director, Yuli Novak, addressed the UN Security Council this evening by invitation of the Slovenian President of the Security Council to provide an expert review of the state of human rights in Israel/Palestine following the war.

BREAKING: Israel's Likud Party Parliament Knesset Member Tally Gotliv calls for the execution or life imprisonment of Human Rights Activist Yuli Novak following her speech at the UNSC yesterday It's like a freaking Mob rule across the world

Just think about this: Israel has ensured a polio outbreak in Gaza because of its deliberate and methodical obliteration of society, housing, infrastructure, water supply, sanitation and hospitals there. The liberal West has enabled this led by the United States which has

Excellent principle this, charging the father who provided the weapon for the Georgia mass shooting. Of course, the same principle would see Joe Biden indicted for Israel's Gaza genocide nytimes.com/live/2024/09/0…

Oh, I'm sure the US will demand that her killers investigate themselves...

Is a settler-colonial project nurtured and enabled by the British Empire. Of course, back then, its leaders were not shy about proclaim the colonial nature of their project, and the uber white supremacist Winston Churchill recognized the colonial kinship

Naomi Klein: "Zionism was an antisemitic idea from the start", reminding that the only British official opposing the Balfour declaration was the only Jew, Edwin Montagu, because he saw it as antisemitic.

Israel is a settler colonial state, which is why it so uses the exterminationist racist language of Western colonialism. Israel's leaders are operating like it's the late 19th century, and expect the West -- given its own colonial history -- to bless and arm it

Jewish filmmaker Sarah Friedland accepts award at the Venice Film festival. “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation…I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for liberation.”

The Onion never misses.

MUST WATCH - Burmese scholar delivers a powerful masterclass on the reality of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. He offers a lucid and unequivocal denunciation of the "ecosystem of genocidal methodologies" employed against the Palestinians as a people, combining contextual

“Israelis only feel a level of security when Palestinians are completely and totally insecure.” Palestinian analyst Diana Buttu on why an Israeli podcast calling to “erase Gaza” is not a surprise.

You know how in Mob movies you see the criminal enterprise evolving to look legitimate business? That's what Israel's US-enabled settlement enterprise is. matthew cassel demonstrates the point instagram.com/reel/C_fTONZNl…

Anyone else wondering how it's considered normal that US presidential politics is largely conucted through TV ads, and the occasional "debate" staged on for-profit entertainment media platforms? nytimes.com/2024/09/08/bus…

Rachel Corrie's parents speak to AJ+ about Israel's murder of another young American volunteer, Aysenur Eygi instagram.com/reel/C_vDY75ID…

It is a small thing compared to having your body ripped apart, but somehow this detail, of the 13 yo Jenin boy who had his Playstation stolen by IDF troops, is such a gut punch. In the Drop Site dispatch by Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي

Big-picture takeaways from ABC's Harris-Trump show: * US presidential politics is entirely an exercise in marketing. Pace Neil Postman, the US has amused itself to death * For most of the rest of the world, U.S. power offers nothing positive for the foreseeable future

JD Vance is skunk puke

The shameless colonial racism of the US approach to Palestine is a reminder that the US is part of the problem, not the solution. US policy denies Palestinians’ right to self determination, or even to speak for themselves, while enabling their annihilation

"The way in which international norms, law... is being trampled underfoot, with American complicity & culpability... what does that to an already fragile intl system, that should have every citizen everywhere in the world quaking in their boots" Daniel Levy spot on as usual.