Addendum: Mondoweiss thinks upon the unequal nature of the latest Israeli attack on Gaza. All of the 49 (including 17 children) dead were Palestinian, Israelis suffered, at worst, a few scratches from shrapnel. 460 Palestinians were wounded. Being an “Open Air Prison” meant that the people of Gaza had nowhere to go where they could …
We’ve got a beautiful collection of photos from the demo here on the 15th (JVP Philly and Swarthmore were part of a big coalition that organized it). The three photos here and the photos at the Flickr link are all by Joe Piette. Link to the Nakba 74 March on Joe Piette’s Flickr site.
I put up a post on the killing of the Palestinian-American Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh and got a bit of pushback from someone who felt that the investigations aren’t complete and I shouldn’t be so hasty to assign blame. My answer was taken from what I know about snipers. They have telescopic sights …
Hamas, in charge of Gaza since 2007, has apparently decided that any attack on Palestinians by Israel, especially in Jerusalem, now requires a response from them. In May 2021, an Israeli attempt in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem to evict Palestinians from their homes provoked Gaza to launch rockets at Israel. The conflict became …
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Making liquor stores stop carrying Russian liquor is the latest tool among governors to show solidarity with Ukraine. No problem with that. But those same governors opposed the highly similar BDS strategy. Wonder what the difference is?
In what we call soccer, but in what the rest of the world calls football, a player wore a t-shirt “Sympathise with Gaza” and was punished for it. Two English football teams wore Ukraine colors and that was okay, meaning it’s not “politics” that football regulators are against, it’s certain varieties of politics! The Canada …
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