Writers Against the War on Gaza, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, Palestinian Youth Movement:
On October 13, 2023, the Israeli occupation army ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. Four days later, a missile exploded at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. Nearly five hundred people, many of whom had been seeking shelter there, were martyred in the blast.
After early reports laid the blame for the explosion at Israel’s door, the IOF—with the full collaboration of the U.S. government—launched an aggressive campaign of finger-pointing and disinformation. Israeli and American officials spread tales about “Hamas tunnels” under the hospital and attempted to discredit the casualty figures.
As a direct result of this hasbara campaign, the @nytimes apologized for its initial reporting having cited the Gaza Ministry of Health. As a corrective, the paper published an op-ed by columnist Michelle Goldberg who brushed aside the idea that Israel was deliberately targeting Palestinian healthcare workers. She warned against “accepting incendiary claims of Israeli atrocities at face value” because it was “impossible… for outsiders to know what is happening in the… war between Israel and the Palestinians.”
That New York Times essay did its damage. And the forced debates, the competing visual and forensic investigations, worked to cast doubt. Doubt that would lay the blueprint for Israel’s bombing and wholesale destruction of hospitals over the year to follow, leading to today: Israel has bombed and either partially or wholly destroyed every single hospital in Gaza.
Three days ago, on October 14, Israel carried out its latest attack, this time at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, where patients were burned alive. By now, there was no doubt about who the perpetrator was. But it didn’t matter—the subject was no longer deemed to be newsworthy.
Today, allow us instead to read the transcript issued by the Palestinian healthcare workers from that “press conference at the end of the world,” its transcript copied above. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and his colleagues surrounded by the bodies, a man resting his head on the podium holding a martyred child, the dead, already shrouded, behind the hospital staff.
We won’t forget and we won’t forgive.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBPPzmbykG8/
On October 13, 2023, the Israeli occupation army ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. Four days later, a missile exploded at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. Nearly five hundred people, many of whom had been seeking shelter there, were martyred in the blast.
After early reports laid the blame for the explosion at Israel’s door, the IOF—with the full collaboration of the U.S. government—launched an aggressive campaign of finger-pointing and disinformation. Israeli and American officials spread tales about “Hamas tunnels” under the hospital and attempted to discredit the casualty figures.
As a direct result of this hasbara campaign, the @nytimes apologized for its initial reporting having cited the Gaza Ministry of Health. As a corrective, the paper published an op-ed by columnist Michelle Goldberg who brushed aside the idea that Israel was deliberately targeting Palestinian healthcare workers. She warned against “accepting incendiary claims of Israeli atrocities at face value” because it was “impossible… for outsiders to know what is happening in the… war between Israel and the Palestinians.”
That New York Times essay did its damage. And the forced debates, the competing visual and forensic investigations, worked to cast doubt. Doubt that would lay the blueprint for Israel’s bombing and wholesale destruction of hospitals over the year to follow, leading to today: Israel has bombed and either partially or wholly destroyed every single hospital in Gaza.
Three days ago, on October 14, Israel carried out its latest attack, this time at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, where patients were burned alive. By now, there was no doubt about who the perpetrator was. But it didn’t matter—the subject was no longer deemed to be newsworthy.
Today, allow us instead to read the transcript issued by the Palestinian healthcare workers from that “press conference at the end of the world,” its transcript copied above. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and his colleagues surrounded by the bodies, a man resting his head on the podium holding a martyred child, the dead, already shrouded, behind the hospital staff.
We won’t forget and we won’t forgive.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBPPzmbykG8/
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Forwarded from Resistance News Network
BESIEGE THE EMBASSIES.
A popular call is gaining traction, particularly to our people in Egypt, the Gulf, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, the Emirates, Bahrain, Turkey and to all the free people of the world everywhere.
The northern Gaza Strip is undergoing a genocide in every sense of the word, which has been allowed due to lack of action.
The least that can be done is the besiege the embassies of the enemy and complicit states. This is a simple ask. Head to the zionist embassy or consulate, the American embassies, German, French, and British embassies. Besiege them.
Share this post and the hashtags. Encourage action in all places. If not now, when?
#BesiegeTheEmbassies
#NorthernGazaGenocide
#شمال_غزة_يباد
#حصار_السفارات
A popular call is gaining traction, particularly to our people in Egypt, the Gulf, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, the Emirates, Bahrain, Turkey and to all the free people of the world everywhere.
The northern Gaza Strip is undergoing a genocide in every sense of the word, which has been allowed due to lack of action.
The least that can be done is the besiege the embassies of the enemy and complicit states. This is a simple ask. Head to the zionist embassy or consulate, the American embassies, German, French, and British embassies. Besiege them.
Share this post and the hashtags. Encourage action in all places. If not now, when?
#BesiegeTheEmbassies
#NorthernGazaGenocide
#شمال_غزة_يباد
#حصار_السفارات
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📍University of Minnesota
Students take Morrill Hall at the UMN, now renamed Halimy Hall
https://x.com/umnsds
Students take Morrill Hall at the UMN, now renamed Halimy Hall
https://x.com/umnsds
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Forwarded from WOLPalestine
The crackdown on our constitutionally protected speech is a worrisome development at any moment in time but in particular right now as social movements confront the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli war on Lebanon, and the general global trend toward fascism.
Palestinian prisoners are at the heart of the broader struggle for Palestinian national liberation. The use of the law to criminalize and delegitimize freedom fighters from Indigenous, Black, Puerto Rican and other liberation struggles has a long history in this country.
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL!
You can read the National Lawyers Guild's statement here: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-condemns-the-us-government-attack-on-samidoun/
All copy in this post is verbatim from their statement.
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Palestinian prisoners are at the heart of the broader struggle for Palestinian national liberation. The use of the law to criminalize and delegitimize freedom fighters from Indigenous, Black, Puerto Rican and other liberation struggles has a long history in this country.
AN ATTACK ON ONE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL!
You can read the National Lawyers Guild's statement here: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-condemns-the-us-government-attack-on-samidoun/
All copy in this post is verbatim from their statement.
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Cornell University announced that it has suspended 15 students & banned 5 from campus without investigation. These students now face imminent eviction.
Among those impacted is a student who was suspended for "repeatedly blowing into a kazoo" at a career fair disruption.
Among those impacted is a student who was suspended for "repeatedly blowing into a kazoo" at a career fair disruption.
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Forwarded from WOLPalestine
TODAY! ALL OUT TO MOMA TO PROTEST RONALD S. LAUDER AND THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS. New York City’s most prominent art institution is allowing genocidaire Ronald S. Lauder to host his Zionist organization’s annual assembly this evening. A MoMA trustee since 1977, Lauder was the president of the settler-colonial “non-profit” known as the Jewish National Fund from 1997 to 2007, and has since served as Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of its board; he became the president of the rabidly pro-Israel World Jewish Congress in 2007. Because of his extensive political and financial support for Zionist occupation, Lauder's company, Estee Lauder Cosmetics, is a longstanding BDS target.
In his speech at last year’s assembly, Lauder said, “The vast majority of Americans support Israel and stand with the Jewish people,” before quoting former president George W. Bush, whose invasion of Iraq killed over a million Arabs, as saying, “There’s only one villain in this conflict, and it's not Israel.”
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In his speech at last year’s assembly, Lauder said, “The vast majority of Americans support Israel and stand with the Jewish people,” before quoting former president George W. Bush, whose invasion of Iraq killed over a million Arabs, as saying, “There’s only one villain in this conflict, and it's not Israel.”
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