Tag: genocide

George Washington U bans student commencement speaker from campus after speech calling to divest from Israel

Story by Andrew Lapin  May 22, 2025 (JTA) — George Washington University says it will ban a student commencement speaker from campus after she used her graduation speech to decry “genocide” in Gaza and urged her graduating class not to donate to the school until it agrees to divest from Israel. Pro-Israel students and alumni had urged the […]

Israel ‘live-streamed genocide’ against Gaza — Amnesty International

TRT World April 28, 2025 Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe. In its annual report issued on Monday, Amnesty charged that Israel had acted with “specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, thus committing […]

Guest Opinion: “Gaza today is no less than a Nazi concentration camp”

Ahmed Najar April 24, 2025 ‘I know the weight of these words. I don’t write them lightly. I write them because I’m tired of euphemisms. Tired of pretending this is a conflict when it is clearly a massacre.’ It’s hard to explain the feeling of watching your homeland shrink into a cage. To know your […]

‘Global Sadism’: British actress blasts West’s silence on Gaza genocide

TRT Global [The] ‘UK, US, much of Europe is just standing watching this and turning away,’ says Juliet Stevenson. Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is “the most extreme humanitarian disaster of our time” and a reflection of “a kind of global sadism,” according to famed British actor Juliet Stevenson, a vocal critic of Israeli actions […]

Most Thought Provoking Reader Comments of the Week

From Moon of Alabama Blog: From Caitlin Johnstone article this morning: “Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has published an explicit statement of genocidal intent toward the people of Gaza, threatening civilians in the enclave with collective punishment in the form of “total devastation” if they do not find a way to overthrow Hamas and free […]

Israel carrying out ‘fastest starvation campaign in Gaza in modern history’: UN

TRT World 8 hours ago The UN special rapporteur on the right to food warned that Israel is carrying out an unprecedentedly rapid campaign of starvation in Gaza, calling it “the fastest in modern history.” “How is Israel able to starve 2.3 million people so quickly and so completely?” Michael Fakhri asked in a joint […]

Germany’s Annalena Baerbock – The Debility of Evil?

Tarik Cyril Amar Feb 22, 2025 At this years Davos meeting of our global non-elites (or would that be “anti-elites”?), the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, already widely known for her frequent blunders and faux pas, has surpassed herself. Most likely carefully done up by expensive stylists, comfortably seated on a shiny white chair on […]

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