Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared, on October 9th, “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed…We are fighting human animals.”
Bernie Sanders issues scathing statement directed at Netanyahu over campus protests
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused US college students protesting against the war in Gaza of being antisemitic.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu’s office released a video of the US-born Israeli leader attacking the student-led protests that have taken over campus spaces at numerous universities. In the video, Netanyahu referred to the protesters as “antisemitic mobs” and accused them of physically attacking Jewish students and faculty.
Amnesty International: Global Breakdown of Int’l Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond
Amnesty International has released its annual report assessing human rights in 155 countries. The report highlights Israel’s assault on Gaza with evidence of war crimes continuing to mount, as well as U.S. failures to denounce rights violations committed by Israel. It also points to Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, and the rise of authoritarianism and massive rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the University of Massachusetts Amherst in response to a complaint that alleges that the school took months to address the harassment of Palestinian and Arab students.
A SUMMARY OF REMARKS SUPPORTING A GAZA CEASE FIRE RESOLUTION: THE WEST LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL
I am ashamed to live in a community where the city council is unable to endorse a simple resolution calling for an end to the bombing, starving, and killing of civilians (perhaps half children) in Gaza. Their inaction reflects a kind of "moral numbness" that is inexplicable. (April 24, 2024).
Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations To Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes
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A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses.
Tennessee Volkswagen employees overwhelmingly vote to join United Auto Workers union
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union. During a watch party, employees said they were emboldened by the union’s successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers last year. (AP video by Kristin M. Hall)
IN Rape crisis center opens to reduce assault cases, heighten attention
According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, in eight out of ten rape cases, the victim knew the person who sexually assaulted them. (Adobe Stock)
The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All
With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Middle East.
‘Egregious:’ A legal perspective on Columbia University’s mass arrests
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Palestinians as “The Others”
Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire’s predatory policies with slanted coverage.
Such is the case with the U.S. global and the Israeli regional empires. The U.S. federal government and the mainstream media often move in lockstep.
ACTION ALERT: NYT’s War on Words: Avoid ‘Palestine,’ ‘Genocide,’ ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Featured image: The New York Times Building (Creative Commons photo: Wally Gobetz)
New York Times editors issued a memo to staffers that warned against the use of “inflammatory language and incendiary accusations on all sides”—but the instructions offered by the memo, which was leaked to the Intercept (4/15/24), seemed designed to dampen criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and to reinforce the Israeli narrative of the conflict.
‘Brutal’ Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence
A FAIR study finds that since October 7, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal have overwhelmingly applied the term “brutal” to violence committed by Palestinians rather than by Israelis. In doing so, journalists helped justify US support for the assault on Gaza and shield Israel from criticism, particularly in the early months of the onslaught.
Under Cover of Gaza War, Assault on West Bank Accelerates
Header Image: A family walks to a checkpoint to enter Israel at the Qalandia checkpoint outside of the city of Ramallah on December 10, 2023 in Ramallah, Palestine. Source: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
Indianapolis, IN - Today, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released final regulations and interpretive guidance on understanding and realizing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which went into effect on June 27, 2023. Today’s rules go into effect June 18, 2024, and provide key protections for interpreting the PWFA including:
Dead on Arrival: Israel’s Blowback Genocide
Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Advocates: Ease of access to contraception could lower accidental pregnancies
The Indiana Department of Health 2022 Pregnancy Termination Report showed March as the month when the most abortions were performed. (Adobe Stock)
Can't we get a nationwide gag order against Trump's violent threats?
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump thanks supporters after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
On Christmas Day in 1170, as the story goes, King Henry II, exasperated by his disputes with Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said something along the lines of “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” Days later, Becket was dead, murdered by knights who had heeded his majesty’s call.
‘Punishments for Corporations and CEOs Are Just Paltry’:
Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman about the Boeing scandal for the March 29, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
‘You Are an Inspiration,’ Sanders Tells Hotel Workers
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to a crowd of unionized hotel workers and allies in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2024.,Bryan Giardinelli/Hello@BreatheNewWinds.com
The World’s Moral Failure in Gaza
JOHANNESBURG – The relentless siege on Gaza is a dark reflection on humanity. Well over 100,000 Palestinians have been declared killed, injured, or missing over the past six months, and the overwhelming majority are innocent civilians who bear no responsibility for Hamas’s appalling attack on October 7, 2023.
The Right Has a New Playbook to Crush Unions and Enshrine Corporate Power
State lawmakers seeking to dismantle unions and implement anti-worker laws have just been handed a new state-by-state roadmap by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate-funded bill mill popular with Republican legislators.
Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
IN legislators pause on federal environmental plan
InsideClimatenews.org ranked U.S. Steel's Gary Works, in Gary, Indiana in 2022, as the largest greenhouse gas emitting iron and steel plant in the U.S. (Adobe Stock)
'Unprecedented In Modern History': U.S. Aid Experts Warn Gaza Likely Already Experiencing Famine
U.S. Aid Experts Warn Gaza Likely Already Experiencing Famine
A group of U.S. government humanitarian experts on Tuesday privately warned fellow officials that the spread of hunger and malnutrition in Gaza amid the U.S.-backed Israeli offensive is “unprecedented in modern history,” famine is likely already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip and the pace of hunger-releated deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”
José Andrés Condemns Israel For Killing Aid Workers: ‘Stop Using Food As A Weapon’
"This Happens in War" - Benjamin Netanyahu
IN research: Federal workers defy 'deep state' stereotype
Researchers say U.S. federal workers are generally high-performing, impartial and minimally corrupt compared with other countries' civil servants. (Adobe stock)
UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want
The editorial boards of the nation’s major media organizations must have been frantic last week.
Academic app supplements college admissions information
The Indiana College Readiness Report showed 61% of women and 46% of men in the state who go on to college attend an Indiana-based school. (Adobe Stock)
A Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
Some of many reasons why there must be a permanent ceasefire in Gaza