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"Do not save Goyim in danger of death." JEWISH TALMUD Hilkkoth Akum X1 An injured child is brought to the Nassr hospital after the Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 19, 2023.  (Photo by Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images). If we’re serious about preventing violence, we need to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang. Sending more bombs, warplanes, guns and bullets won’t solve the problem. PHYLLIS BENNIS The violence in the Middle East is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. We need an immediate ceasefire right now. Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law. But if we’re serious about preventing such horrors in the future, we have to go beyond condemnation. ...

"Do not save Goyim in danger of death." JEWISH TALMUD Hilkkoth Akum X1 Jewish Americans and allies are lined up after being arrested during an October 18, 2023 protest calling for a cease-fire in Gaza at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.  (Photo: Ariel Gold/X) "Cease-fire is the first step to stop the ongoing genocide by the Israeli military of the over 2 million Palestinians in besieged Gaza," asserted Jewish Voice for Peace. BRETT WILKINS Hundreds of Jewish Americans and allies were arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday during a protest demanding members of Congress push Israel for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, where nearly 3,500 Palestinians have been killed over 12 days of relentless Israeli bombardment. Thousands of protesters led by members of Jewi...

A Palestinian woman reacts as family members and hospital staff stand around the bodies of seven children from the Bakri, Omran, and Abu Naja families, killed in Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis and Rafah, Gaza on October 19, 2023.  (Photo: Ahmed Abed/AFP via Getty Images) "Our entire family has been destroyed," said one survivor of an Israeli bombing in the besieged Palestinian territory. BRETT WILKINS As Israel's assault on Gaza continued Friday with 4,100 Palestinians—including over 1,600 children—killed and at least 13,000 others wounded by relentless bombardment that's destroyed or damaged nearly a third of the besieged strip's homes, Amnesty International shared "damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families." Amnes...

Injured child is taken to Suheda al-Aqsa Hospital (Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital) in Deir al-Balah, Gaza as Israeli attacks on Gaza continue on the 15th day on October 21, 2023.  (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images). "Collective punishment of two million people is a war crime and a moral outrage," said one head of a medical relief group. "The siege must end, a ceasefire must be secured, and aid must be allowed to reach any who need it." JON QUEALLY Emergency aid groups and relief experts denounced the tiny "trickle" of humanitarian supplies that were finally allowed to pass through the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Saturday, especially as what was described by human rights watchdogs as a "loss of civilian life at a scale we have not seen in the modern history of Israel...

Dear John,  On Tuesday, Al-Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip was bombed, killing over 500 sick and injured Palestinians, doctors, nurses and refugees sheltering from apartheid Israel’s ongoing bombardment. Israel’s war on Gaza has now left over 3,500 Palestinians dead, and over 13,000 injured.   Amid this horrific loss of life, the UK government and opposition are failing to demand a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed, uphold international law and protect Palestinian lives, or even to call out Israel for its war crimes. John, will you demand that all UK political leaders call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel’s deadly siege of Gaza?  STOP THE SLAUGHTER Israel’s apartheid regime is carrying out militarised violence on the Palestin...

BY JEREMY APPEL Yonatan Ziegen, whose Israeli-Canadian mother Vivian Silver was kidnapped by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, said Silver would be “mortified” by Israel’s attack on Gaza. (X/Channel 4 News) On Oct. 12, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described calls for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine, which were made by Democratic Reps. Ayanna Presley, Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib, as “repugnant” and “disgraceful,” underscoring the extent to which the U.S. is complicit in the horrors unfolding in Gaza. This stands in stark contrast to the views of some of those who lost loved ones and survived the vicious Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel, who are refusing to have their grief weaponized by Israel’s far-right government to commit even more dastardly acts ...

BY PHYLLIS BENNIS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The violence in the Middle East is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. We need an immediate ceasefire right now. Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law. But if we’re serious about preventing such horrors in the future, we have to go beyond condemnation. A lesson we ignore at our peril is that oppression undermines not only the rights, dignity, and lives of the oppressed but eventually the security of the oppressors as well. The apartheid system that’s been suffocating Palestinians for so long is now also undermining the safety of Israeli civilians. Since 2007, Gazans have lived under siege, prohibited from leaving their open-air prison by a hig...