My analysis of Israel’s increasing international isolation, as a number of western countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Portugal and France, have finally recognized the State of Palestine, as pressure mounts on FIFA to ban Israel from international football, and as calls also increase for it to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest. In addition, just two days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu also faced an almost total walkout when he visited the US to address the UN General Assembly....| Andy Worthington
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This past summer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines when he falsely claimed at a Christian conference in Jerusalem that there was “no starvation in Gaza.” A less noted, but also telling, moment came after Netanyahu’s remarks, when Yossi Dagan, a leading advocate for Israeli ambitions to annex Palestinian territory, presented evangelical minister Paula […]| Mother Jones
By any measure, Yael Eckstein is an incredibly effective advocate for Israel. As the president and global CEO of a massive Israel-focused philanthropy, she oversees humanitarian relief, security programs, social services for elderly Holocaust survivors, and Jewish resettlement. On her weekly podcasts, she ties biblical teachings to modern Israel and personal stories from her own […]| Mother Jones
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Last week, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine and the Guardian into an Israeli military intelligence database from May this year, indicating that 8,900 militants had been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, suggested that, based on the official health ministry death toll of 53,000 at the time, that meant that over 83% of those killed were civilians. This is a startling statistic, but as another investigation, by Adam Rzepka for CounterPunch explained, the true death toll is considerably...| Andy Worthington
Today, as I report, the UN’s mechanism for assessing famine, the IPC (the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) confirmed, in a brand-new report, that the most severe famine conditions are occurring in the Gaza Strip, that this is an “entirely man-made” disaster, deliberately engineered by the State of Israel, and that it can and must be “halted and reversed”, via an immediate ceasefire “to allow humanitarian aid to reach everyone in the Gaza Strip.” The UN’s Tom Flet...| Andy Worthington
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Israel’s deliberate campaign of mass starvation in Gaza has finally prompted outrage in western political and media circles, putting pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to finally lift the deadly siege on all supplies into Gaza that has been in place for nearly five months. This seems like positive news, but, predictably, Netanyahu is seeking to provide nothing more than “minimal” aid — enough, he hopes, to placate his critics, but, crucially, not enough to address the desperate crisis unf...| Andy Worthington
‘Whoa tie a yellow ribbon ’round the old oak tree. It’s been three long years, do ya still want me?’| Dick Callahan | Writings from Juneau
My new article has one purpose: to highlight the fact that Israel is now engaged in the “mass death” phase of its genocidal assault on the trapped civilian population of the Gaza Strip, brought about through a ban on all supplies of food (and water, fuel and medical supplies), in place since the start of March, and, since May 26, through the replacement of the well-established aid systems provided by UNWRA and other international aid agencies with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a...| Andy Worthington
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Barely a month has passed on President Trump in the White House as 47th President of the US, yet the| Watani
Less than a month has passed on Donald Trump in the White House, in his second term as President of| Watani
The political question of moment is why, rather than fundamentally altering the Western view of Israel, the events of...| London Review of Books
The inescapable truth is that Israel cannot extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence, any more than the...| London Review of Books