Notices by Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social), page 2

When a Jewish man protests your hijacking his Jewishness & the Holocaust to justify your occupation, & your response is to (loudly, repeatedly & falsely) tell everyone that what he has actually done is renounced his Jewishness, guess what?

You are hijacking his Jewishness to suit your occupation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-gaza-israel-judaism/

#Oscars #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide

@KimPerales

Let's keep calling, people!

Call the White House & your reps. Tell them you want Biden to re-fund #UNRWA & suspend military aid until Netanyahu allows sufficient aid into Gaza to stop starving 2.3 million people. He needs to end his siege. Biden needs to clearly state all weapons aid will end if he moves against Rafah.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/

U.S. House of Representatives Switchboard is (202) 225-3121

Senate Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

https://www.uua.org/justice-programs/advocacy/26877.shtml

(June 8, 2006) Ha'aretz:

Prof. Israel Charny, director of the Institute on the Holocaust & Genocide: "History proves that among all the nations, there has not been a society that was incapable of the mass murder of unarmed innocents."

"The study of the Holocaust is not only learning about being the victims, but also about knowing that this potential exists in us, too."

"I think that 10,000 is genocide," said Charny. "If that's not genocide, what is?"

https://www.haaretz.com/2006-06-08/ty-article/how-many-murders-constitute-a-genocide/0000017f-dbd4-d3a5-af7f-fbfe8da90000?lts=1699323129903

"Prof. Rudolph Rummel of the University of Hawaii...estimates that a total of 174 million people were murdered in the 20th century in some 8,200 incidents of massacre & genocide."

Rummel "called regimes that murdered more than a million people "super-murderers." Fifteen such regimes murdered 151 million people in the 20th century."

"Man is a murderer by nature, to the point of genocide," said Charny. Otherwise, he asks, "Why would millions take pleasure in every instance of genocide?"

"Prof. Yair Oron...heads the staff of lecturers in the Open University's genocide course"

"What do Israelis know about acts of genocide? Oron writes about a study conducted among 800 Israeli students by researchers Eyal Naveh & Esther Yogev in 1996. The students were asked to assess their knowledge of the gypsy genocide, the murder of the gypsies by the Nazis... Some 85% answered that they had minimal or no knowledge at all. Only 1% (fewer than 10 students) said they knew the subject well."

"In 1996-2004 the study's questionnaire was distributed among some 500 students in an elective course on genocide - students who had expressed an interest in this subject. The results were similar. Some 85-90% of the students said they knew nothing or very little about both the gypsy genocide & the Armenian genocide.

Also noteworthy is that the Education Ministry did not approve a curriculum on genocide that Oron prepared in 1994."

"Charny says that the Truman Institute at Hebrew University was founded in the 1970s to research the subject of genocide, but very quickly changed its goals. Throughout the world there are a number of university departments that grant degrees in the Holocaust & genocide. In Israel there are Holocaust studies, but the Open University is the only one that specializes in genocide studies. Charny says that initiatives to teach genocide at other institutes were quashed."

"Those of us who wanted an awareness of genocide of other peoples were often treated as rebellious & non-conformist," said Charny"

Oron says that genocide researchers claim that denial "is the final and 'ultimate' stage in 'successful genocide.'" In other words, the murderers will always want to deny the crime or at least its dimensions, to downplay its importance & terribleness and to lay the blame on the victims, all in order to deflect blame from themselves."

@pvonhellermannn @aral

Best case scenario is that 1.7% of Gaza got one meal, one time, on one day. The other 98.3% can go to hell hungry. Hurrah./s/

At least 10 children have starved to death according to hospital records, WHO says. I'm sure it's much, much more.If after 5 months of being ignored by the world, my precious child died of starvation, I highly doubt I'd take them to the hospital, every one of which in Gaza has been bombed by the IDF, many of them multiple times.

38,000 meals? Is this a joke?

2.2 million people in Gaza are eating on average less than once a day.

"U.S. C-130s dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza"

Unanimous criticism from aid community shows this is essentially PR distracting from the US's failure to pressure Israel to allow aid.

Former US ambassador to Syria said airdrops in Gaza represented a “humiliation” of the U.S. by Israel.

“obvious absurdity that...the top American aid recipient, & our special ally in the Middle East, is blocking this same humanitarian aid...an American aid recipient that acts with impunity because there is no American pressure applied, beyond verbal pleading”

(Feb 27, 2024)

"We have never seen a civilian pop made to go so hungry so quickly & so completely, that is the consensus among starvation experts. Israel is not just targeting civilians, it’s trying to damn the future of the Palestinian people by harming their children."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

#Gaza #CeaseFire #ListenToMichigan

Palestinian "children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen."

"This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded.

@melanie_ward speaks with @IsaCNN about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel's blockade is causing in #Gaza

Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.

These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/famine-looms-in-gaza-israel-war-intl/index.html

“They are weak now, they always have diarrhea, their faces are yellow,” El Jamara, whose family was displaced from northern Gaza, told CNN on January 9. “My 17-year-old daughter tells me she feels dizziness, my husband is not eating.”

"displaced civilians and health workers told CNN they go hungry so their children can eat what little is available. If Palestinians find water, it is likely undrinkable. When relief trucks trickle into the strip, people clamber over each other to grab aid."

"Children living on the streets, after being forced from their homes by Israel’s bombardment, cry and fight over stale bread. Others reportedly walk for hours in the cold searching for food, risking exposure to Israeli strikes.

Even before the war, two out of three people in Gaza relied on food support, Arif Husain, the chief economist at the World Food Programme (WFP), told CNN. Palestinians have lived through 17 years of partial blockade imposed by Israel..."

Israel's siege since October 7 has forced the entire 2.2 million into certain starvation.

"Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”

UN human rights experts have warned “Israel is destroying Gaza’s food system & using food as a weapon against the Palestinian people.”

"Mohammed Hamouda, a physical therapist displaced to Rafah, remembers the day his colleague, Odeh Al-Haw, was killed trying to get water for his family."

Al-Haw was queueing at a water station in Jabalya refugee camp, in northern Gaza, when he and dozens of others were struck by Israeli bombardment, Hamouda said.

“Unfortunately, many relatives and friends are still in the northern Gaza Strip, suffering a lot,” Hamouda, a father-of-three, told CNN. “They eat grass and drink polluted water.”

"Communication blackouts stifle efforts to report on starvation and dehydration in the region.
...
several Western countries have suspended funding to the main UN agency in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)...

[Jordan, a US ally, pleaded with Western nations:] UNRWA was a “lifeline” for more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza & that the agency shouldn’t be “collectively punished” over allegations against a dozen of its 13,000 staff

"Gihan El Baz [tries to comfort] her children & grandchildren, who she says wake each day “screaming” for food.

“In the shelters, there is not enough food, the sun sets on us, & we haven’t even had any lunch,” El Baz, who lives with 10 relatives inside a weather-worn tent in Rafah, told CNN. She nurses her husband, who...fell & broke his arm while dizzy from exhaustion.

“There are no drinks, no clean water, no clean bathrooms, the kid cries for a biscuit & we can’t even find any to give her.”