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Posted by: John Phoenix Screenshot of the Channel 2 interview with Haim Saban (L) and Sheldon Adelson. In 2015, billionaire Sheldon Adelson hosted a summit to battle the nonviolent boycott movement for Palestinian rights (BDS). All participants in the event pledged at least $1 million to cover the costs of “demonizing the demonizers…” Participants, true to the maxim that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, declined to discuss any financial pledges…. by The Forward and Nathan Guttman, reposted from Ha’aretz June 9, 2015Pro-Israel activists headed home from Las Vegas last weekend [June 2015] resting easy that raising money to fight boycott and sanction campaigns on campus just got a lot easier. Although checks have yet to be writt...

Posted by: John Phoenix  CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   Gaza (photo) The Jewish state was defeated because its politicians and public officials are causing 2.3 million human beings to go hungry and thirsty. by Amira Hass, reposted from Haaretz, June 4, 2024 Israel was defeated and is still being defeated, not because of the fact that at the start of the ninth month of this accursed war, Hamas has not been toppled. The emblem of defeat will forever appear alongside the menorah and flag, because the leaders, commanders and soldiers of Israel killed and wounded thousands of Palestinian civilians, sowing unprecedented ruin and desolation in the Gaza Strip. Because its air force knowingly bombed buildings full of children, women and the elderly. Because in Israel pe...

Posted by: John Phoenix Al Aqsa Hospital admits a neverending stream of injured victims as well as corpses, while also hosting hundreds of sheltering families. (screenshot) Catastrophic famine; MSF says latest massacres illustrate disregard for Palestinian lives; statistics in Gaza on Day 250; ceasefire proposal confusion; bodies as bargaining chips; shooting in Jerusalem’s Old City; West Bank; Israel says “no innocent civilians” in Gaza; the Day After; Hezbollah; Gideon Levy on Israel’s lost conscience; more By IAK staff, from reports. FAMINE IN NORTHERN GAZA HAS REACHED A CATASTROPHIC POINT: A government official in the coastal enclave has spoken to Al Jazeera about the situation in the northern part of Gaza. Here are his translated comments: The fami...

Posted by: John Phoenix   Palestinians wait for aid trucks to cross in central Gaza on May 19. (photo) Fighting in the north and south has deepened Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and reversed recent gains by aid groups in staving off starvation and disease. By Kareem Fahim, Louisa Loveluck, Loveday Morris and Mohamad El Chamaa, reposted from The Washington Post, May 22, 2024 More food had finally started to reach famine-racked northern Gaza earlier this month, pushing down prices in the Jabalya refugee camp, where doctors like Yehia Abed were trying to save a legion of malnourished patients. Then came “another attack,” he said. Israeli military operations this month against Hamas in Gaza — from the last, desperate refuge for Palestinia...

Israel, The ICC, And The Disintegration Of Our Species  CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan (photo) The rule of law, appropriately applied (that is, equally across the board) keeps us from chaos. But when some think they are above the law, the rest pay dearly. Gaza is a case in point. by Kathryn Shihadah, reposted from Patheos, May 23, 2024 So you probably heard that on Monday, the International Criminal Court announced that it would be seeking arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant. Prosecutor Karim Khan has reasonable grounds to believe that these two Israeli leaders “bear criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes a...

By: Richard Falk ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announces his request for arrest warrants on 20 May 2024. (photo) Israel is offended by the ICC’s supposed “equivalence” between Israel and Hamas, but seemingly has no defense against the actual allegations by Richard Falk, reposted from Middle East Eye, 22 May 2024 The International Criminal Court (ICC) this week made the first truly historic move since its establishment in 2002, with its chief prosecutor recommending arrest warrants against two top Israeli officials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three prominent Hamas leaders. As expected, both sides have denounced this ICC action in the strongest possible language. Because of western media bias, the...