THE POLITICS OF GENOCIDE

Ben Thomson, a nephrologist at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, is suing Mackenzie Health for more than $1.5 million. Mackenzie Health, which has not yet filed a formal response, says it

Dr. Ben Thomson, a nephrologist at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, has posted opinions on social media about the war between Israel and Hamas. Along with threats to his safety, earlier this month he was suspended for one month, but the health authority denies he 'was suspended for his views.'

Joe Biden’s enabling of a genocide in Palestine was in keeping with a career spent pushing bloody war in the Middle East. His action and inaction on Gaza was brutal, unjustifiable, and unforgivable.

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Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal on almost entirely the same terms as a proposal that fell apart in the summer.

Will it lead to a permanent end to the bombing? Did Trump really make it happen? Why couldn’t Biden get it done eight months ago? Here's what we know.

The deal is slated to begin on Sunday, Qatar’s prime minister said, beginning with a 6-week cessation of hostilities.

Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to break with the Biden administration's support for Israel's assault on Gaza cost her millions of potential Democratic voters. Will the Democratic Party learn from this and listen to its voters who want leaders to oppose sending more weapons to Israel? #Gaza #ElectionImpact

Qatar’s PM announced in a press conference that Israel and Hamas had reached a comprehensive three-phase agreement on a ceasefire and captives-for-prisoners swap

The announcement of a cease-fire deal in Gaza is a welcome reprieve after over a year of genocide. But it does nothing to remedy Israel’s numerous violations of international law that produced untold misery among Palestinians and led to the war in the first place.

As negotiators from Israel and Hamas continue discussions in Qatar about a possible Gaza ceasefire, we speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, who spoke at a press conference of Gaza media workers last week urging the international press to speak up for their Palestinian colleagues. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023. “The world just keeps turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is happening,” says Abed from outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “It’s completely enraging and unacceptable.” His recent article for Drop Site News is headlined “What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza.”

Outside of a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, a hundred people with PAL-Awda NY/NJ, a local Palestinian rights organization, gathered to protest an Israeli real estate event taking place there on Nov. 13. The protesters accused the realtors from My Israel Home, an Israeli real estate company based outside of Jerusalem, of marketing Palestinian land. They also said that the company was discriminating against event attendees by religion, effectively excluding everyone except especially religious Jews. According to PAL-Awda, the protesters were attacked by counter-protesters, including an organizer of the event, armed with pepper-spray and tactical flashlights wielded as bludgeons.

On Dec. 10, Israeli military officials, weapons manufacturers, and American venture capitalists gathered at Tel Aviv University for the first ever

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Palestinian news outlets have suffered a drop in audience engagement after being hampered by Facebook, research has found. BBC News Arabic compiled engagement data on the Facebook pages of 20 prominent Palestinian-based news organizations in the year leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and in the year since. The data showed a 77% decline after the attacks. Meanwhile, journalists at Palestine TV have shared statistics showing a 60% drop in the number of people seeing their posts.

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland for the 80th annual

“This is an alarming erasure of the suffering of the Palestinian people,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Nine health care workers at UCSF report punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians, or simply wearing a pin.

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Move by international criminal court puts Israeli PM at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries

The Biden administration again used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council to block a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional, and permanent cease-fire in Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip.

Today, US senators will be forced to record for posterity whether they condone US enabling of the genocide in Gaza.

Nine progressive House members endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders' resolutions to block U.S. weapons sales to Israel over Gaza.

The results are in and the clear winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election is undeniably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Netanyahu is now freer than ever to pursue his genocidal campaign against Palestinians; demolish Lebanon; create more illegal settlements on the West Bank; and even annex the West Bank itself if he chooses to do so.

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More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war

While rallying support for Kamala Harris, Clinton echoed some of Israel’s most eliminationist talking points.

The Palestinian reporters in Gaza who fill the void often pay with their lives. At least 128 journalists and media workers in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, have been killed and 69 have been imprisoned, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, marking the deadliest period for journalists since the organization began collecting data in 1992.

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