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is creating a 1-kilometer “buffer zone” to the north and south of the road, similar to the zone it’s creating along the entire GenocideInc- border. According to The New Arab, among the structures likely to be demolished to build the road is the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which was shut down in November due to an GenocideInc siege that cut off fuel.
The construction will also require the demolition of Al-Aqsa University, several villages, amusement parks, and agricultural land. GenocideInc soldiers said the purpose of the road was to make it easier to launch incursions into Gaza, and it could also prevent the movement of Palestinians from the south to the north.

scheerpost.com/2024/02/21/isra

ScheerPost · Israel Demolishing Buildings to Construct Road in Gaza to Cut the Strip Into TwoThe construction demonstrates Israel’s long-term plan to occupy Gaza.

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Ms Bush also responded to Mr Nehl's comments, saying he was using the "kind of rhetoric that endangers Black lives."
"@RepTryoNehls just called my husband, a Black man and army veteran, a thug. And I'm the loud Black woman who needs to be silent in order to be safe from violence, or else”

The Independent · Ilhan Omar accuses Republican lawmaker of racist trope over Cori Bush chargesBy Graig Graziosi

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Victims of high-profile incidents have included six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was stabbed to death in Illinois; three university students shot and wounded in Vermont; and a New York City food cart vendor harassed by a former U.S. State Department official.
CAIR's Monday release comes as the death toll in Gaza has topped 26,600 people—including at least 11,500 children—with over 65,300 others injured and thousands more missing. The vast majority of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are displaced and hungry.
Despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordering Israel to "take all measures within its power" to prevent genocide in Gaza, the U.S.-backed Israeli assault on the besieged enclave continues, and fears of a wider regional war keep mounting.

ScheerPost · ‘Relentless Hate’: Late 2023 Saw a 178% Jump in Anti-Muslim Crimes, Discrimination“The way to stop the hate is to end the apartheid, occupation, and genocide occurring in Palestine,” said one CAIR leader.

: Reaction to the ongoing Israeli military action in is shaking campaigns from the White House to City Halls... She is telling voters she is making progress against homelessness, public drug use and property crime in a city that has seen a spate of unwelcome publicity about vacant downtown offices and stratospheric housing prices.

: Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, an organization that has planned protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, told the newspaper that Breed’s statement amplified “dangerous, racist, well-worn anti-Arab tropes that seem to completely disregard our community.”

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AP News · Amid tough reelection fight, San Francisco mayor declines to veto resolution she criticized on GazaAmid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza. The first-term Democrat said the debate over the resolution left the city “angrier ... and less safe.” In a statement, she also faults the board for veering into foreign policy matters in which its members have no legal authority. She writes that “antisemitism in our city is real" and that vetoing the resolution likely would have led to more divisive hearings and “fan even more antisemitic acts.” She says Jewish residents are fearful of vandalism and intimidation.
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Will Bunch for the Philadelphia Inquirer- Simply put, it wasn’t “a Black guy” — or a slew of Black guys, or women, or any other nonwhite hires — behind the new wave of airline safety concerns. It was the shortsightedness of late-stage capitalism. And capitalism’s obscene winners like Musk and Ackman have suddenly become economic Charles Stuarts, calling the modern 911 of social media to blame the financial crimes of their world on African American hiring.

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Bree Newsome Bass on Democracy Now- And this effort to use the church, not just the Black church, but the site of racial violence, of a mass murder, to deflect from the fact that Joe Biden himself is bombing churches, bombing mosques, bombing places of worship and many , people who have sought shelter in those places, it just exposes the complete hypocrisy of this entire situation and the vacuum of moral leadership at the top. And that’s why I took offense to it. I think that’s why many people who watched it took offense to it. I’m very glad that the young people stood up and protested, because even though they were few in that audience, they represented the majority of people worldwide. L


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: Biden and Netanyahu are in this together. They need each other. Biden gives Netanyahu cover internationally to purge and the . Netanyahu gives Biden legitimacy as a defender of Israel in the run up to the 2024 election, especially in those constituencies sensitive to Israel’s concerns.
The Biden Administration and the Netanyahu government are cooperating in advancing a textbook case of genocide against Gazans, in full view of the entire world, daring anyone to step in the way.


The Kucinich Report · Can Israel Survive if There is No Ceasefire?By Dennis Kucinich

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his lies are making the rounds of city council resolution hearings from Santa Cruz to Richmond as genocidal Jews and their Rabbis along with most members of the anti Palestinian bigoted elected legislature, purchased by AIPAC, take on civil society including Jews like Jews for Peace and If Not Now: So far, not a single supposed victim of what one Associated Press headline insisted were “‘widespread’ sexual crimes by Hamas” on October 7 has come forward to publicly testify about the allegations. But this has not stopped senior US administration officials from accepting Israeli claims at face value.

ScheerPost · Washington Post Erases Israeli Minister’s Farfetched October 7 Rape Claim at His RequestA note explaining the retraction of the claim that Hamas militants had specific orders as to “which commander should rape which soldiers” indicates the publication censored itself at the behest of …
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The Conversation- These laws were to shape the course of Magubane’s life.
They included the Group Areas Act (1950), which dictated where people were permitted to live based on the colour of their skin, the Population Registration Act (1950), which classified all South Africans by race, and the Native Laws Amendment Act (1952), which required all Black South Africans to carry a “passbook”. Referred to as the “dompas”, the document was used to control and restrict the movement of black South Africans.

In 1955, Sophiatown was demolished, and its 60,000 residents were forcibly removed. Magubane’s family were forced to relocate to Soweto. His images focusing on life in the township were later to form the subject of several of his books.

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There’s an ink here to read the full SA application before the ICJ- useful when talking to the in Congress.

: Two other genocide cases are on the busy court’s docket. The case filed by shortly after Russia’s invasion accuses Moscow of launching the military operation based on trumped-up claims of genocide and accuses Russia of planning acts of genocide in Ukraine.
Another ongoing case involves Gambia — acting on behalf of Muslim nations — accusing Myanmar of genocide against the Muslim minority.
In a past case brought by Bosnia, the court in 2007 ruled that Serbia “violated the obligation to prevent genocide … in respect of the genocide that occurred in in July 1995.”

PBS NewsHour · Read the full application bringing genocide charges against Israel at UN top courtBy Mike Corder, Associated Press

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: one glaringly obvious truth persists: (on the traditional sacred and ancestral land of the Massachusett)will always protect . In suppressing pro-Palestine students, President Gay was doing the job of a Harvard president (profiting from donors who accumulated wealth through slave trading (Epstein), plantations, machiladoras, textile sweatshops worked by people in various levels of bondage) and carrying out the University’s commitment to white supremacy. But ultimately, when she failed to do this well enough, she became a victim (scalped in the words of supremacists) of the same racism she had tried to uphold. The interdependency of anti-Black racism and Zionism cannot be more clear than through President Gay’s tenure and resignation- Aaryan Morrison




Mondoweiss · On white supremacy and Zionism: a reflection on Claudine Gay’s tenure as president of Harvard UniversityAnti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.

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: It’s not an accident that in the same news week that ultimately brings us the resignation of Claudine Gay, Nikki Haley was on tape being a slavery denier. I mean, this is the debate we’re having in this country about whether you can actually be honest about the country in all of its complexity. No one is saying that is the whole story, that all the terrible things that happened in the past are the only thing that matters. But the truth is that in half the states — let me repeat — you can’t teach that. And the way things are going now, you won’t be able to teach it at private universities, either- Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Democracy Now! · From Plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on How a <span class="caps">GOP</span> Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine GayBy Democracy Now!

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: We should understand that the campaign to take down Dr. Gay is one that will continue until diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is destroyed. We saw it with Nikole Hannah-Jones and the University of North Carolina. We saw it in the striking down of affirmative action and lawsuits against Black-focused businesses and even maternity programs. And the indignity of these takedowns will chafe even more in an election year featuring a Teflon Donald Trump, who has broken every norm and rule of a president and gets a pass from his supporters and the GOP establishment to do it all again.

TheGrio · Claudine Gay was pushed out to send a message about who really has power in AmericaBy Natasha S. Alford
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: Ackman responded that he was “not rightwing”, and reiterated the claim that there had been calls for genocide against Jews on campuses.
Hasan replied: “Nobody was calling for the genocide of the Jews. You’re echoing Stefanik’s lies and stunts, which is another reminder of why you’re on the right, like she is. Have you ever criticized Stefanik’s open antisemitism (great replacement, support for Trump, etc) btw? If not, why not?”

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Finkelstein- Mass expulsion has been gaining its share of adherents as well, and it is a position that is today represented within Israel’s coalition government. As has the idea that “transfer" should include Palestinian citizens of Israel. Avigdor Lieberman for example, several years ago Israel’s Minister of Defense, is an advocate of not only emptying the and Strip of , but of getting rid of Palestinian of Israel as well. As one might expect from a minister in charge of the Israeli military, he is also an advocate of “beheading” disloyal Palestinian citizens of Israel with “an axe”.


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has revealed, yet again, the colonial foundations of international law, and uncovered the moral turpitude of the systems built on this basis.  A captive Palestinian population of 2.3 million faces indiscriminate bombardment — already killing over 17,000 Palestinians as of the time of writing, mass forced , , , and a host of other international crimes — while being deliberately deprived of their most for survival, all of it live-streamed. The application of international law and so-called “universal rules” undoubtedly meet a hard stop before being applied to .

Mondoweiss · Are human rights really universal? Palestine and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 years laterThe system of international law affords impunity to the strong, while the weak are lectured on humanity, which they are denied, and the value of the rule of law and human rights, which do not seem to apply to them.