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05.05.2024 - 12:00 [ Spencer Ackerman / New York Times ]

Where Is America’s ‘Rules-Based Order’ Now?

(10.04.2024)

U.N. resolutions that are written without enforcement measures obviously cannot force Israel to stop what its leadership insists is a justified war necessary to remove Hamas and prevent another Oct. 7 massacre. But it’s just as obvious what entity can make Israel stop and isn’t doing so: the United States.

Whatever the Biden administration might have thought it was doing by permitting the resolution to pass and then undermining it, the maneuver exposed the continuing damage Israel’s war in Gaza is doing to the United States’ longstanding justification for being a superpower: guaranteeing what U.S. administrations like to call the international rules-based order.

05.05.2024 - 07:31 [ Fox News ]

More than 2,100 arrested at anti-Israel protests nationwide as police clear college encampments

– The initial arrests sparked a movement on college campuses across the country, including at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

– More than 2,100 protesters have been arrested at colleges and universities in recent weeks, including students, faculty, and outside agitators.

03.05.2024 - 06:00 [ Common Dreams ]

Biden Condemned for Ahistorical and ‚Politically Suicidal‘ Attack on Campus Protests

„Biden‘s claim that ‚dissent must never lead to disorder‘ defies American history, from the Boston Tea Party to the tactics that civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and anti-apartheid activists used to confront injustice.“

29.04.2024 - 22:35 [ theConversation.com ]

College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right

For now, Trump has called the recent protests “antisemitic” and “far worse” than the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Biden has similarly condemned “the antisemitic protests” and “those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” (…)

Like their association of civil rights and peace demonstrators with communism throughout the Cold War, politicians on both sides of the aisle are now broadly hurling claims of antisemitism against anyone protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, many of whom are Jewish.

The purpose then, as it is now, is to intimidate administrators into a false political choice: Will they protect students’ right to demonstrate or be seen as acquiescent to antisemitism?

05.02.2024 - 12:00 [ theHill.com ]

Democratic and Republican elites fear RFK Jr.’s growing path to victory

As noted on the Archives website: “The House of Representatives elects the President from the three (3) Presidential candidates who received the most electoral votes …”

Now, we come back to that magic number: 34.

If Kennedy were to get 34 percent of the vote, there would be a great deal of pressure on the House of Representatives to “do the right thing.”

“Impossible” yet again?

I give you Donald J. Trump being elected our 45th president in 2016 as evidence as to why such a scenario is entirely possible.

21.01.2024 - 07:22 [ Washington Post ]

Growing number of Senate Democrats question Biden’s Israel strategy

(19.01.2024)

The growing willingness of establishment Democrats to criticize or push back on Israel — a move that would have come with serious political ramifications just a few months ago — signals a shift in the politics of the party since the war in Gaza began more than 100 days ago. Senators from swing states, including Georgia, Wisconsin and Minnesota, have signed on to some of these measures as polls show a notable drop in support for Biden among young, Muslim and Arab American voters over his handling of the issue.

21.01.2024 - 07:15 [ Times of Israel ]

Group of Jewish Democrats in US House slam Netanyahu for rejecting Palestinian state

(20.01.2024)

The list of 15 Jewish Democrats who issued Friday’s statement was significant for including at least seven lawmakers endorsed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s affiliated political action committee. AIPAC discourages open disagreement with Israeli governments on security issues.

Those seven are Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts, Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, Dan Goldman of New York, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mike Levin, Adam Schiff and Brad Sherman of California.

21.01.2024 - 06:42 [ Ynetnews.com ]

US Democrats push Biden over possible displacement of Gaza Palestinians

(19.01.2024)

The letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, led by U.S. Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Jamie Raskin, was signed by 60 Democratic House of Representatives members, reflecting concern, especially on the left, over the steep toll on Palestinian civilians of Israel‘s campaign against Hamas.

(…)

Separately, a group of Democratic senators said on Friday that 18 Democrats in that chamber support an amendment that would require that any country receiving funding in the supplemental use the money in accordance with U.S. law, international humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict.

16.01.2024 - 21:20 [ Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Independent candidate for President of the United States / Twitter ]

Like his father and Martin Luther King Jr., RFK Jr. believes that violence abroad is linked to violence on our streets and in our schools. Only when America ceases its endless wars will we restore peace at home.

16.01.2024 - 20:36 [ Gallup.com ]

Biden and Trump Evenly Matched in U.S. Favorable Ratings

(January 9, 2024)

The same poll measured Americans’ overall impressions of Trump’s chief rivals for the Republican presidential nomination — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — as well as independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy easily tops the list with a 52% favorable rating, while Haley and DeSantis are each viewed favorably by about a third.

16.01.2024 - 20:21 [ turnto10.com ]

Poll shows RFK Jr. with highest favorability in 2024 race

Who is the most favorable candidate running for president this year?

According to the latest Gallup poll, it’s not either of the current party frontrunners, President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

16.01.2024 - 20:16 [ Politico.com ]

Spoiler alert? Poll has RFK Jr. grabbing 22 percent against Biden and Trump

(11.01.2024)

A recent poll shows him with 22 percent support in a hypothetical three-way race against President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Biden, by contrast, would take 39 percent of the vote, and Trump would come away with 36 percent, according to the Quinnipiac University’s survey

03.01.2024 - 14:00 [ March4Gaza.org ]

What We Want

1. An Immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

We demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Over 21,000+ Palestinians have been killed, 70% were women and children since October 7th. With 54,000+ injured, and approximately 1.8 million displaced in the last 3 months, the indiscriminate targeting of civilians by Israel must stop.

2. Stop the unconditional US funding of Israel’s genocide against Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.

It is abundantly clear that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is funded and supported by the United States. The hundreds of millions of dollars in ammunition transfers since October 7th, the back-and-forth shuttling of top-level US officials to Israel, the positioning of American aircraft carriers and the use of mercenaries has all been facilitated by the United States to bolster Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza. We also firmly oppose current proposals in Congress to send an additional 14.3 billion dollars worth of weapons to Israel while it massacres Palestinian children daily. We demand an immediate and complete end to all US weapons transfers to Israel.

3. Hold Israel accountable for war crimes committed against the Palestinian people and their continuous violations of international law.

Israeli leaders have been very explicit in their intent to commit genocide in Gaza. Top ranked officials such as Netanyahu to lower rank government officials such as Galit Atbaryan have all called for the erasure of Gaza and the elimination of the Palestinian people. We call on the International Criminal Court to investigate and charge Israeli leaders with crimes against humanity for their intent and committal of well-documented atrocities against the people of Gaza and Gaza’s civilian infrastructure such as homes, schools, hospitals, mosques/churches, universities, roads, water and power infrastructure.

We also call on the US government to end their participation and complicity in Israel’s crimes against humanity and demand full and swift accountability for US and Israeli officials involved in this genocide.

03.01.2024 - 11:55 [ March4Gaza.org ]

Endorsers

ACT UP NYC
African People’s Socialist Party
African People’s Solidarity Committee
Al-Awda: The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition
Al-Awda, Palestine Right of Return Movement
Al-Nahda Center
Alpha Lambda Mu Fraternity
American Civic and Humanitarian Coalition
American Human Rights Council
American Muslim Public Affairs Committee & #AbandonBiden
American Student Union
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Arab American Association of New York
Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL)
Arab Chicago
Baltimore Nonviolence Center
Baltimore, MD Phil Berrigan Memorial Veterans For Peace
Bianca For San Francisco
BiH United
Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations
Borderlands for Equity
Bronx Anti War Coalition
Capoeira Angola DC
Carolina Peace Center
Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy
Christians United for Palestine
CIOGC
Claudia Jones School for Political Education
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
CODEPINK
Communist Party USA
Community Not Cages
Community Peacemaker Teams
CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition
DAG- Doctors Against Genocide
Dar Al-Hijrah
DC Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (DCAARPR)
DC Communist Party
DC Young Communist League
Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights (DelPHR)
Diáspora Pa’lante Collective
Direct Action for Rights and Equality
Dissenters
Drew’s Students for Justice in Palestine
Emerald Project
Empowered Minds Psychological Center, LLC
Environmentalists Against War
Equality Labs
Foundation for Economic and Social Justice
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Friends of Sabeel North America( FOSNA)
Friends of the Bowen Branch Library
Front Royal for Palestine
Georgetown Law Students for Justice in Palestine
Hands Off Uhuru Fightback Coalition
Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Counteroffensive Campaign
Honor the Earth
Hood Black & Educated Consulting Group
Howard County for a Free Palestine
Indonesian Muslim Society in America
International Action Center
International Museum of Muslim Cultures
International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement
Islamic Center of Morris County
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
J4P Actions Enablement Network
Jewish Voice for Peace – DC Metro Chapter
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine (U.S.)
Labor Today International (WFTU)
Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights
Making Mensches
Masjid Al Falaah
Masjid Muhammad, The Nation’s Mosque (MMNM)
Michigan Task Force for Palestine
Michigan Women for Democracy
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC)
Mondoweiss
MPower Change
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC)
Muslim Civic Coalition
Muslim Delegates & Allies Coalition
Muslim Journal
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Muslim Women’s Giving Circle
Muslims for Just Futures
Muslims for Social Justice
National Arab American Women’s Association (NAAWA)
National Students for Justice in Palestine
North Carolina Green Party
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition
One BiH
ONE DC
P4DA Florida
Pakistan United Parade Committee
Palestine Advocacy Project
Palestinian American Community Center
Palestinian American Community Center in Greater Memphis
Palestinian community of metropolitan DC
Palestinian Feminist Collective
Palestinian Youth Movement
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Party of Communists USA
Peace Action Network of Lancaster
Peoples Power Assembly
Progressive Democrats of America – Arizona
Project Hajra
Queer Muslim Solidarity Network
Queer Shia Collective
ReThinking Foreign Policy
Rising Together
Rockland for Palestine
RUYIDD SD
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine
Savage Daughters
Seeding Sovereignty
Socialist Unity Party
Socialist Viewpoint
Solidarity w/Cuban Revolution
South Florida Coalition for Palestine
Southwest Coalition For Palestine
Springfield Eugene Anti-Imperialist Coalition (SEAIC)
StandWithKashmir
Struggle for Socialism/Struggle la Lucha Newspaper
Students for Justice in Palestine at Denison University
The Freedom BLOC
The Key Palestine
The Mosque Foundation, Bridgeview IL
The Peace & Justice Coalition of Prince Georges County Maryland
The People’s Forum
The Red Nation
UAW Labor for Palestine
Uhuru Solidarity Movement
United American Indians of New England
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
Vermonters for Justice in Palestine
Veterans For Peace
Virginia Coalition for Human Rights (VCHR)
Virginia Muslim Political Action Committee
Visualizing Palestine
Voices for Justice in Palestine
WBAI 99.5 FM Equal Rights & Justice productions
WESPAC Foundation, Inc.
West Suburban Peace Coalition
Westchester for Palestine
Women in Struggle
Workers World Party
World BEYOND War

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03.01.2024 - 10:45 [ March4Gaza.org ]

Let’s start 2024 on the right track, Marching on Washington for Gaza

On January 13th, 2024, the American Muslim Task Force for Palestine in partnership with the ANSWER Coalition, will host the March On Washington for Gaza. We call on all our supporters to join us for this monumental event and make sure their demands for justice are met.

Date: Saturday, January 13th, 2024 | 1:00 PM

Location: The National Mall | 1600 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20004

03.01.2024 - 09:31 [ Council on American-Islamic Relations ]

CAIR Says President Biden Is ‘Ignoring the American People and Enabling Genocide’ After Bypassing Congress to Arm Israel Again

(31.12.2023)

President Joe Biden once again bypassed Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel, despite growing domestic and international outrage over Israel’s mass killing of more than 21,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and including hundreds of UN workers, journalists and medical personnel.

[NOTE: Yesterday, CAIR welcomed the launch of a case by South Africa in the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.]

03.01.2024 - 08:27 [ Common Dreams ]

Biden‘s Faith and Support for Genocide in Gaza

We and many other organizations and peaceful protesters in our country have worked in vain to persuade President Joe Biden to use his influence to have the Israeli regime agree to a ceasefire that would allow hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks daily into the devastated graveyard that is now the Gaza Strip. Biden regularly begs Israel to let in more trucks, paid for by the U.S. At the same time the Biden administration exercises veto power on the U.N. Security Council blocking a cease-fire, truce, or negotiations toward a permanent two-state resolution. A cease-fire would at least allow aid to reach the besieged.

03.01.2024 - 07:55 [ Al Jazeera ]

Biden under pressure to act amid new fears of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

“The United States remains firmly opposed to any forced or enduring displacement of Palestinians from Gaza,” a State Department spokesperson told Al Jazeera in an email on Monday evening, without commenting specifically on the Israeli ministers’ most recent remarks.

31.12.2023 - 17:58 [ El Pais ]

Iran, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, West Bank… Israel says the Gaza war is now being fought on seven fronts

On Tuesday, Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant told the Israeli Parliament’s Defense Committee that the country is fighting on seven fronts and has responded to attacks in six of them thus far. In addition to the Gaza Strip, where nearly 21,000 people have already died, and the West Bank — which Gallant referred to as “Judea and Samaria” and where incursions occur almost daily — the minister said that hostilities have spread to Iran, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. “I’m saying it here explicitly,” Gallant warned during his speech. “Anyone who acts against us as a potential target will not be immune.”

30.12.2023 - 21:16 [ Justin Amash / Twitter ]

Congress, not the White House, is the legislative body of the United States. The Biden administration’s abuse of emergency authority to sell weapons to Israel—or any foreign country—is unrepresentative, irresponsible, and unethical.

30.12.2023 - 20:05 [ Leroy Green / Twitter ]

Where did Blinken get the authority to approve foreign aid packages? Where are the checks and balances? Why is Congress sitting idly by? This total mob rule.

30.12.2023 - 19:57 [ Associated Press ]

The Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel

“Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer,” the department said.

25.12.2023 - 21:45 [ Haaretz ]

Biden and Netanyahu Hammer Out a War Deal: Israel Can Fight as Long as Gaza Gets Aid

Christmas has arrived and the IDF is still fighting on the ground in Gaza. The early forecasts in Washington, and to some extent in Jerusalem, were that the Biden administration would demand that Israel end the high-intensity phase of the ground offensive against Hamas by the close of the year …

25.12.2023 - 21:09 [ Al Jazeera ]

Israeli air strike in Syria kills top Iranian military adviser

An Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to reports from Iranian state media.

25.12.2023 - 17:50 [ Mohammad Alsaafin / Twitter ]

An Israeli airstrike on the cemetery in the Maghazi Refugee Camp just killed five people helping bury some of the 70+ killed by yesterdays Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi Refugee Camp

25.12.2023 - 17:32 [ Historia Fotografią Pisana / Twitter ]

25.12.2023 r. – Palestyna: Dziś w nocy, w 50 nalotach, żydowska armia dokonała masakr w obozach dla dla uchodźców Al Nuseirat, Al Bureij i Al Maghazi w środkowej Gazie.

25.12.2023 - 17:26 [ Thomas Portes / Twitter ]

L’horreur continue. Dans le camp de réfugiés Al Maghazi à Gaza l’armée israélienne vient de commettre un nouveau massacre. Des dizaines de civils, dont de nombreuses femmes et enfants, sont mortes. Le nettoyage ethnique se poursuit dans un silence assourdissant de la communauté internationale. Il faut arrêter ces criminels de guerre.

25.12.2023 - 17:19 [ mikel ayestaran / Twitter ]

Hilo del día 80 de guerra en #Gaza 1- #Israel castiga los campos de refugiados en #gaza y el último objetivo ha sido Maghazi. El ataque deja decenas de muertos y destrucción

Foto @Reuters

25.12.2023 - 17:10 [ Potere al Popolo / Twitter ]

Per #Israele i Palestinesi non hanno diritto neanche alla tregua di #Natale. Stanotte il campo profughi Al Maghazi, centro della Striscia di #Gaza, è stato bombardato. Si contano almeno 70 morti, decine ancora sotto le macerie, moltissimi i bambini. #FreePalestine #CeasefireNOW

25.12.2023 - 16:50 [ AFP News Agency / Youtube ]

AERIAL SHOTS: Destruction in Gaza‘s Al-Maghazi camp following Israeli bombardment | AFP

Aerial shots show the extensive destruction in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, following deadly Israeli air strikes. The Gaza health ministry said an Israeli air strike killed at least 70 people on Christmas Eve at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. The army said it was „reviewing the incident“, adding it was „committed to international law including taking feasible steps to minimise harm to civilians“.

25.12.2023 - 16:39 [ Younis Tirawi | يونس / Twitter ]

Maghazi Refugee Camp, Gaza | Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy!

Up to 70 Palestinians slaughtered. Many women and children after a triple Israeli airstrike a while ago on Mosallem, Sesalem and Nawajreh families’ houses.

The death tolls is expected to increase!

25.12.2023 - 15:03 [ Reuters ]

Israeli airstrikes kill 100 in one of war‘s deadliest nights, Gaza officials say

Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra said many of those killed at Maghazi were women and children. Eight others were killed as Israeli planes and tanks carried out dozens of airstrikes on houses and roads in nearby al-Bureij and al-Nusseirat, health officials said.

Medics said an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100.

24.12.2023 - 12:00 [ Washington Post ]

Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza

The Washington Post analyzed satellite imagery, airstrike data and U.N. damage assessments, and interviewed more than 20 aid workers, health-care providers, and experts in munitions and aerial warfare. The evidence shows that Israel has carried out its war in Gaza at a pace and level of devastation that likely exceeds any recent conflict, destroying more buildings, in far less time, than were destroyed during the Syrian regime’s battle for Aleppo from 2013 to 2016 and the U.S.-led campaign to defeat the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria, in 2017.

23.12.2023 - 04:41 [ APNews.com ]

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say

In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the U.S.-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Islamic State group.

22.12.2023 - 22:43 [ Mother Jones ]

How Joe Biden Became America’s Top Israel Hawk

Both before and after October 7, the empathy Biden is known for has rarely extended to Palestinians. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, said such statements are missing “to the degree that I don’t really think he sees the Palestinians at all.” In contrast, Khalidi added, Biden sees Israelis “as they are very carefully presented by their government and their massive information apparatus.”

A former Biden administration official shared a similar perspective with me. “The President does not seem to acknowledge the humanity of all parties affected by this conflict,” this person said. “He has described Is

22.12.2023 - 18:48 [ Semafor.com ]

US abstains on UN vote, allowing Gaza aid resolution to pass

The resolution, sponsored by Arab states, called for a major increase in aid to desperate civilians in the Gaza Strip, dropping calls from an earlier version for a suspension of hostilities.

The U.S. did not vote in favor of the resolution, but rather abstained, allowing it to pass. As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and a “no” vote would have killed the measure.

22.12.2023 - 18:43 [ click2houston.com ]

UN to vote on watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities

Council members met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss a revised draft resolution, then delayed the vote so they could consult their capitals on the significant changes, aimed at avoiding a U.S. veto. A new text with a few minor revisions was circulated Friday morning.

22.12.2023 - 18:39 [ CTVNews.ca ]

As the death toll passes 20,000, the UN again delays a vote on aid to Gaza

The United Nations says more than half a million people are starving in Gaza because not enough food has entered the besieged territory as Israel keeps up its blistering campaign of airstrikes and ground operations.

Palestinian officials said Friday that the death toll has now exceeded 20,000 — around 1% of the territory‘s prewar population.

22.12.2023 - 18:26 [ Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ]

GAZA STRIP: Hostilities leave the entire population highly food insecure and at risk of Famine

Between 24 November and 7 December, over 90 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.08 million people) was estimated to face high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). Among these, over 40 percent of the population (939,000 people) were in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and over 15 percent (378,000 people) were in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).

Between 8 December 2023 and 7 February 2024, the entire population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.2 million people) is classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). This is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country