DrALJONES
Report
They burned people alive with 2,000-pound bombs. US supplied.
Survivors of the Israeli attack on the displacement camp in Rafah:
“The air raid burned an entire block. They burned people alive"
The attack used seven 2,000-pound bombs - a clear message from Israel & US that the massacres against displaced persons & children will continue, & that breaking international law will not stop.
At least 45 killed, 249 wounded
https://aje.io/jwe0qf?update=2928170
21.45 GMT MAY 25 AJ
DrALJONES
Interview
"Physician Back from Gaza: There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”
"Anybody who says, “Well, this is a complicated issue...,” I don’t think understands the scale of what’s going on.”
~ Dr. Khaled Dawas
https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/cambridge-trained-physician.html
DrALJONES
Report
"They burned people alive"
Survivors of the Israeli attack on the displacement camp in Rafah:
“The air raid burned an entire block. They burned people alive"
The attack used seven 2,000-pound bombs - a clear message from Israel & US that the massacres against displaced persons & children will continue, & that breaking international law will not stop.
https://aje.io/jwe0qf?update=2928170
21.45 GMT MAY 25 AJ UPDATES (+ 21.20 GMT)
DrALJONES
Analysis
Reed Brody, former war-crimes prosecutor, on why this week's ICJ ruling on Israel matters
https://aje.io/94x0rm?update=2924555
11.30 GMT MAY 25 AJ UPDATES
DrALJONES
Interviews
“Collective Punishment”: Israel Raids Jenin Camp in West Bank, "Shooting Everything”
The IDF murdered at least eight Palestinians, including a doctor shot dead on his way to work & a teenager riding his bicycle."
About a dozen others were injured. A witness described the ongoing attack on the camp; "They are shooting everything."
"The raid began just as Spain, Ireland & Norway became the latest European states to recognize the Palestinian state."
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/22/freedom_theater
#Jenin .
DrALJONES
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Opinion
On apartheid Israel
When apartheid South Africa came under growing international pressure at the UN, the General Assembly initiated boycotts.
It suspended South Africa, stripping it of its Member State rights & privileges.
The apartheid regime "could no longer be seated, speak or vote at the General Assembly & other UN organs.
"Apartheid South Africa changed course because it became a pariah & isolated regime"
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/20/ostracising-israel-at-the-un-should-be-a-priority
#ApartheidIsrael #UN #UNGA ....2..
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Just a bunch of plutocrats utilising their free-speech rights..
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Pro-Israel billionaires pushed NYC Mayor to use police on pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia University.
They donated to him & offered to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.
The group included Howard Schultz, Michael Dell, Bill Ackman & Joshua Kushner, with Daniel Lubetzky, Daniel Loeb, Len Blavatnik & Joseph Sitt also associated.
DrALJONES
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"Israel's Use of Palestinian Children as Human Shields"
Three boys say the IDF used them to shield soldiers from potential harm during an IDF raid on a refugee camp.
"They forced Karam to walk in front of them, open the doors to each room, & enter it before them. While they were walking, one soldier placed his rifle on Karam's right shoulder & fired two shots toward an apartment".
DrALJONES
Interviews
The first US faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment
At The New School in NYC, nearly two dozen academics pitched tents inside the lobby of the university’s main building.
"For the state violence our students were subjected to & traumatized because of, we could not stand on the sidelines any longer.... We have to get all war profiteers out of our universities.”
~ Suneil Sanzgiri, lecturer
DrALJONES
Analysis
"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"
Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.
Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.
"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."
DrALJONES
More false accusations of "anti-Semitism" about Columbia
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Judges boycott Columbia grads, calling the campus demonstrations "anti-Semitic".
13 Trump-hired U.S. federal judges said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University over so-called "anti-Semitism" at the university, calling the Manhattan campus an “incubator of bigotry”.
DrALJONES
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Oxford & Cambridge students launch Gaza encampment.
Cambridge for Palestine called for the university to disclose & divest “from its financial & professional support” of the war in Gaza.
DrALJONES
Interview with Hala Rharrit...
the third US State Dept official (& first diplomat) to resign publicly over US Gaza policy
"This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure"
"I could no longer be a part of the State Department & promote this policy. It’s an inhumane policy. It’s a failed policy that is helping neither Palestinians, neither Israelis"
DrALJONES
Report
In a first potential concession from a US university on student protests, Brown U reaches agreement with protesters.
Protestors would remove their encampment in exchange for the institution considering divesting from Israel.
5 students will be invited to meet with five members of Brown in May to present their arguments, & the board will vote on the proposal in October.
Note: "consider"; "vote in October"
DrALJONES
Interview with Naomi Klein:
"Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the False Idol of Zionism"
Thousands of Jewish Americans & allies gathered in Brooklyn just a block from the home of Chuck Schumer on Tuesday. Naomi Klein spoke:
"Zionism is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice & emancipation from slavery... & turns them into weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing & genocide."
DrALJONES
Report
As many as 300 protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for a “Seder in the Streets” to stop arming Israel.
The demonstration was held one block away from the home of Chuck Schumer & came just hours before the Senate overwhelmingly approved $14 billion in arms funding to Israel.
DrALJONES
Report
“Gaza Solidarity Encampment” entered its fourth day (its second day after the NYPD arrests), with dozens of protesters establishing a People’s University Student Fair.
Their chants included: "Minouche Shafik, you’re a clown, we demand that you step down,” & “Say it out, say it clear, liberation is here”.
DrALJONES
Analysis
Protests erupt in schools across the country in solidarity with Columbia students' Gaza campaign
"Columbia University made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters. It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands."
Dozens of students continued to camp out at Columbia on Friday.
National Students for Justice in Palestine called on all its chapters to join in solidarity actions.
DrALJONES
Interview with Peter Maass
"I’m Jewish, & I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”
Maass covered the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 over 4 years.
Israel is carrying out the same war crimes, he said, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines & besieging whole populations. Gaza could be even worse than Bosnia.
DrALJONES
Analysis
"The Cynical Reason Biden Let the UN Pass a Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution"
Biden had no intention of pressuring Israel to accept a cease-fire.
But "by allowing the resolution to pass, Biden is trying to convince voters he supports a cease-fire, even while he simultaneously prevents the UN from enforcing its resolution & provides Israel with the means to violate it."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-un-cease-fire-resolution
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