"'We talk about the media being complicit in Israel's violence… but they also, it would appear, actively obscured the reality of what's happening, [Dr. James Smith] says, pointing to coverage of Israel’s massacre of more than 270 Palestinians in Nuseirat that occurred just after he left Gaza. …
'I truly don’t think that any of the major media outlets have captured the barbarity of this violence.'”
@messaroundmarx@palestine@israel
I thought it was a gift, since I asked for it that way. Maybe it expired, since I selected it a few days ago.
Sorry about that, and thanks for creating another alternative.
"From air strikes to field executions, #FaultLines investigates the killings of civilians by the #Israel|i military in #Gaza and the role of the United States in the war. [..]
"Fault Lines worked with journalists in Gaza to profile three families as they try to survive the war."
Everyone who says "I refuse to vote for Biden" is saying "it's fine with me if violent religious extremists like Tsav 9 destroy all the food going into Gaza. Let the Gazans starve. It's not my problem."
They should be treated like they said that, because they did.
Hi, I have heard references to Mastodon censorship on Israel but I haven't seen any examples. Could you give me some? Because that is very concerning to me.
@plink@palestine@israel
Hi Mr. Link:
Here is a screen grab of one of several I've received from Mastodon, Every one of my posts deleted by Mastodon are critical of Israel. screen grab -
"It's a nightmare at Al-Aqsa," said Samuel Johann, #MSF coordinator in #Gaza. "How many more men, women, and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?"
Jaroslav Lukicv reports that two far-right members of Netanyahu's governing coalition, finance finister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, are threatening to withdraw from the coalition if Netanyahu follows through with Biden's ceasefire proposal.
“I saw bodies everywhere. Children burning. I saw heads without bodies, the injured running around in pain, some alive but trapped inside burning tents.”
~ Zuhair, a lawyer sheltering in a tent in Rafah with his family, on the Israel attack on the tent camp
"Where is Joe Biden’s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies? Politicians parroted untrue rumors that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies. When the children are Palestinian, they shrug."
John Ganz, who says that loving books has always been the definition of Jewishness for him as a Jew, reflects on images of Israeli soldiers burning books in light of Heinrich Heine's oft-quoted statement that where people burn books, they'll end up burning people. Heine's observation took on gruesome meaning when the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror by burning books.
"The killing of at least 45 Palestinians in a humanitarian zone near Rafah has caused anger that reaches far beyond the Middle East. And yet Israel’s offensive is expected to continue, with several Israeli tanks spotted in the centre of Rafah on Tuesday, witnesses told Reuters news agency."
"It comes after the international criminal court sought arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant, along with three senior Hamas leaders – all for alleged war crimes. …
Netanyahu may describe the airstrike as a tragic accident, but that cuts little ice after more than seven months of constant Israeli attacks that have killed an estimated 35,000 Palestinians and injured about 80,000, with as many as 10,000 more people reported missing, presumed dead."
Jacqui Lewis speaks of the carnage now occurring in Rafah:
"What if these were my children; how could I go on breathing? Then another thought comes quickly: All these children belong to all of us. As James Baldwin wrote 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'”
@wdlindsy Nooooo, that is not what I meant!!! What happened in Israel is not right and I felt what is happening in Gaza seemed heartbreaking too. And it is not stopping. I hate terrorism and wars.