In his speech at the UN, Marc Lamont Hill said ‘we must advocate and promote non-violence’ [Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters] Hill was accused of anti-Semitism after he called for ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’ at UN meeting.American Cable News Network (CNN) has severed ties with Marc Lamont Hill, a recurring political contributor, after he delivered a speech at …
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A Palestinian rocket fired at Israel’s occupied territories over the weekend during the outbreak of the Gaza-Israel War. (Fars Media Corporation, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) In 2012 the U.N. determined that without “herculean action” by the international community, by 2020 Gaza “will not be livable,” writes Phyllis Bennis. The year 2020 has come and gone. The most recent eruption of violence in …
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The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, which the US announced will move closer to the eastern Mediterranean to provide Israel with additional military equipment and ammunition (Reuters) The US announcement to move an advanced aircraft carrier closer to Israel would not be the first time that US or European ships were dispatched to protect colonists in PalestineOn the …
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An Israeli soldier rests his head on the gun barrel of an armoured vehicle as Israeli soldiers take positions near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on 9 October 2023 (AFP) The military is a source of Israeli national pride, perceived as an unassailable force that guarantees the sustainability of the Zionist settler-colonial project. No longerThe recent military operation against …
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, hug after attending an agreement-signing ceremony in New Delhi in January 2018 (AFP) In recent years, Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians has become the Indian benchmark in its own fight against minorities and KashmirisIn a flash, the aura of invincibility was shattered. Images of Israeli commandos and soldiers being seized and …
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There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, the immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’ Palestinian civilians in wait as rescue efforts continue among the rubble of the Ebu Dakka building, destroyed by Israeli fighter jets in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 7 October 2023 (Reuters) The current outpouring of …
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