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This Is Not 1938: The Misuse and Afterlives of the Munich Agreement

– by Martin Wein – 23/6/2024   This is not 1938. It’s 2024. Since 1938, historical events have been called the 1938 equivalent, specifically in Israel. The year 1938 is usually a reference to the Munich Agreement, in which Western powers tried to “appease” Hitler and allowed for the breakup of Czechoslovakia, leading up to WWII. It is […]

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“Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire

– from Democracy Now! – 20/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Ami Dar, an Israeli social entrepreneur based in New York, who supports the exchange of hostages and prisoners and a permanent […]

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“War Is Not the Answer”: Meet the Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed Oct. 7

– from Democracy Now! – 18/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Maoz Inon, a prominent Israeli activist whose parents were killed during the Hamas attack on October 7th. He discusses how the […]

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Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed

– By Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport   – 11/6/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how op Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe.

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How Israel twists antisemitism claims to project its own crimes onto Palestinians

– By Amos Goldberg and Alon Confino  – 9/6/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how Israel and its supporters accuse Palestinians of exactly the crimes that Israeli officials are openly declaring and the Israeli army is perpetrating in real time. In the wake of the proliferation of pro-Palestine student encampments on American […]

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Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Gaza, Israel’s “System of Domination” and U.S. Complicity

– from Democracy Now! – 6/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Nathan Thrall, a distinguished Jerusalem-based journalist who was recently awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, “A Day […]

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Meet Lily Greenberg Call, First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign over Gaza

– from Democracy Now! – 2/6/2024 This article was originally published on Democracy Now! and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report of an interview with Lily Greenberg Call, the first known Jewish appointee to resign from the Biden administration over the war in Gaza. She discusses […]

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The Writing Was On The Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners

– by Janan Abdu  – 28/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics. For months, revelations have emerged about the nightmarish transformation of Israel’s Sde Teiman army base, located […]

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How do we tell the story of the Nakba when the plot hasn’t ended?

– by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani  – 19/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses literary representations of the Nakba and the way Elias Khoury’s new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities. In 2013, Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese […]

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Israel Is Blocking All Aid From Gaza, Risking Shutdown of Remaining Hospitals

– by Sharon Zhang – 12/5/2024 This article by Sharon Zhang was originally published by Truthout and republished here in accordance with licensing regulation. It discusses how life-sustaining systems in Gaza are under threat of collapse due to Israel’s blockade. With its takeover of the Rafah border crossing on Gaza’s Egyptian border, Israel is now blocking […]

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Report from Rafah: Israel Seizes Border Crossing, Blocking Humanitarian Aid, as Ceasefire Talks Continue

– from Democracy Now! – 7/5/2024 This article was originally published on democracynow.org and is shared here in accordance with Creative Commons licensure. It is a transcript of a live report by journalist Akram al-Satarri in Rafah and discusses the recent invasion of the city by the Israeli military and the blocking of humanitarian aid […]

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Is there a link between Gaza and the Shoah?

– by Martin Wein – 30/4/2024  It’s now eight decades since the Shoah and nearly the same after the First Nakba of 1948. The Shoah has been the textbook case of genocide, and the most documented and well-researched case — although probably not the largest, even if we add the millions of Christian victims, specifically […]

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