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Marcy Newman
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Member @jvp.bsky.social & @ijan-us.bsky.social | Author: "The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans" & "Beyond Slash Burn & Poison."

Blog: https://bodyontheline.wordpress.com
Student counseling: https://www.mudita.co.in
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The West is in panic as Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza pulls the rug out from under their cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...
Israel's plan for 'full control' of Gaza heralds a new Nakba - so the West is panicking
Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under their cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution
www.middleeasteye.net
August 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Above all, Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza." interc.pt/46WVBXW
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Today in @thenation.com, we have another piece by
@mohamhawish.bsky.social that's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. This one's about the pain of being exiled from your homeland, possibly forever.

Anything Mohammed writes is a must-read. So please read this.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We Left Gaza. But Our Pain Came With Us.
Palestinians who escaped the horrors of Gaza face a new trauma: the dislocation of exile from our homeland.
www.thenation.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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In a historic letter, 123 doctors from around the world who've served in Gaza demand international action to stop the horrors their Palestinian colleagues & Palestinian people face.

“We reject the violence of silence and supposed neutrality while our colleagues are starved and shot at by Israel.”
EXCLUSIVE: 100+ Doctors Who Worked in Gaza Demand Global Action as 'Colleagues Are Starved and Shot by Israel'
Many Palestinian health workers 'suffer from hunger, dizziness and fainting episodes while performing operations and triaging patients,' reads an open letter signed by the healthcare professionals.
zeteo.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I have come to expect this sort of framing from centrists, and occasionally those further on the left. It is a willful refusal to correctly locate the agents of violence.
Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...
LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It
Adam Schiff and centrist concern trolls have it completely backward: Trump’s immigration crackdown is the source of pervasive violence.
theintercept.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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NEWS: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition are in plans to "absolutely" send more ships to Gaza, says organizer Huwaida Arraf — despite the bombing of a ship last month & Israel intercepting the flotilla yesterday.

“…Let it not be one boat. Let it be hundreds or thousands of boats breaking the siege.”
EXCLUSIVE: Gaza Aid Flotilla Organizer Says 'Absolutely' More Ships Planned
Huwaida Arraf, who was not on the Madleen, gives Prem and Zeteo an update on what happened to Greta and co, and her coalition's plan to send more aid boats to Gaza.
zeteo.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980
Israel kills 32 Palestinians seeking food at ‘death trap’ Gaza aid sites
Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
aje.io
June 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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"Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Programme (WFP), rejected Israel’s claims that Hamas is stealing aid entering the Gaza Strip on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday."

youtu.be/1wcfqoxmFhc?...
WFP director says Hamas is not stealing aid and Israel has only let ‘drop in the bucket’ aid pass
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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May 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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‘Andreessen Horowitz has a web page dedicated to “DoD Contracting for Startups 101”. Pitching to the Pentagon requires patience, it warns, but “defence contracts offer not just funding, but also long-term sustainment.”’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on US defence spending: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Laleh Khalili · Collective Property, Private Control: Defence Tech
In 2022 Pfizer received $16.7 billion to provide Covid vaccines for US forces. But the rest goes to the development of...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
Gaza ‘hungriest place on Earth’, all its people at risk of famine, UN warns
UN says its mission to help Gaza is ‘most obstructed in recent history’ as its entire population is at risk of famine.
bit.ly
May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.

mondoweiss.net/2025/05/huma...

#Palestine #Israel
Humanity is being buried in Gaza. We must rise up to save our collective future.
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Gaza aid is mere ‘teaspoon’ of what is needed, says Guterres, amid widening starvation and destruction across enclave.
UN chief says Gaza entering ‘cruellest phase’ of war as Palestinians starve
Gaza aid is mere ‘teaspoon’ of what is needed, says Guterres, amid widening starvation and destruction across enclave.
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Palestinians searched for bodies after an Israeli air attack leveled a building in Jabalia, as Israel ramped up its Gaza offensive.

At least 16 people were killed on Friday as aid trickled in for the first time in two months.
May 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"The Worst It's Ever Been": U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault
“The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault
We speak with Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been on three medical missions to Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the territory. She joins us from Nasser...
www.democracynow.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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What do you call the actions of a state that's destroyed another people's hospitals, blocked all food and water reaching them, and is now denying entry to foreign doctors to treat the sick, wounded and starving?

Is it a war?

Is it eliminating terrorists?

Or is it genocide?
May 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Zionists in the west: “too much press coverage of dead Palestinian children is a new form of “blood libel” against Jews.”

Zionists in Israel:
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The "Judeo-Christian" Zionist alliance has been turbo-charged in Trump's second term. @benlorber8.bsky.social reports on Israel365, whose decades of outreach to Christian Zionists has made them a power player from the World Zionist Congress to the White House.
jewishcurrents.org/the-group-fo...
The Group Forging a “Judeo-Christian” Zionism for the New MAGA Age
Israel365’s decades of outreach to Christian Zionists has made it a power player from the World Zionist Congress to the White House.
jewishcurrents.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Israel may have launched a major ground operation into northern Gaza, specifically Beit Lahia. Poet Mosab Abu Toha says he’s hearing from families in Beit Lahia who are already surrounded by Israeli tanks.

Journalist Younis Tirawi shared the following earlier. ⬇️
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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"According to international law, forced starvation is a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide. Yet US complicity and unconditional support over the years have ensured that Israel can attack and kill civilians with impunity."
Israel Is Attacking Aid Ships to Gaza — Again
Israeli forces bombed a humanitarian aid ship in international waters, carrying activists and supplies to Gaza, amid a brutal blockade starving Palestinians.
buff.ly
May 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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UN: Israel's plan to deliver aid to Gaza's population 'does not meet' humanitarian standards - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-israels-plan-deliver-aid-gaza-does-not-meet-standards
UN: Israel's plan to deliver aid to Gaza's population 'does not meet' humanitarian standards
<article data-history-node-id="422332" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-israels-plan-deliver-aid-gaza-does-not-meet-standards" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-warns-israels-plan-deliver-aid-gaza-does-not-meet-standards" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN: Israel's plan to deliver aid to Gaza's population 'does not meet' humanitarian standards</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A UN spokesperson has sounded the alarm and warned that Israel's plan to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza's population "does not meet the minimum bar for principled humanitarian support."</p> <p>"It will not deliver aid to people in need based on independent needs assessments – the globally tested and donor-demanded minimum requirement," according to a statement by the United Nations Office for the Coordination Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).</p> <p>"As the Secretary-General has made clear, the UN will not engage in any arrangement that fails to uphold the humanitarian principles: humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.</p> <p>"Concerns over the risk of aid diversion – for which no further evidence has been provided – cannot justify the shutdown of a life-saving humanitarian operation.</p> <p>"The UN is confident that, as a result of strict monitoring systems put in place by the UN and its partners, no major diversion of the aid over which it has oversight has occurred."</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
May 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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When Israel bombs Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, it’s “self-defense.” When Yemen fires back, it’s suddenly “antisemitism.”

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
May 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM