Holocaust

Doctors Without Borders sent a distress call through an advertisement published by New York Times to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, calling for an immediate and sustained ceasefire and quoting a doctor’s testimony on the catastrophic conditions in Gaza in light of the barbaric Israeli bombing that has been waged on the besieged Strip for 68 days. The organization stressed in its announcement that “there is no safe place in Gaza, the bombing does not stop, and there is barely any food or clean water. This humanitarian catastrophe must be ended urgently.” The organization reiterated in a statement by its branch in Canada the call to respond to its demands, quoting a doctor from Gaza named Ruba as saying, “Airstrikes are raining down on us every day and night, and t...

As the US-backed Nazi genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 69 on Thursday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and level whole blocks and homes and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women. The Nazi occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza last night and in the morning. The Palestinian Information Centre (PIC) reporter said that a number of wounded civilians, including a paramedic, were rushed to the Nasser Hospital after the Nazi occupation forces (NOF) carried artillery attacks on the central areas of Khan Yunis. He added that an Nazi army drone continued to open fire at shelter centres in Khan Yunis refugee camp in order to terrorize and kill displaced citizens living inside them. ...

Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil BY CHARLOTTE DENNETT Aerial View of Haifa oil refineries. Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed. It was the sign that got to me. I was standing with protesters outside the Burlington (VT) City Hall at a rally organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. To my left I spotted a man, grim-faced and silent, holding aloft a piece of cardboard with these words scratched in black: “Jews against Genocide.” “So it has finally come to this,” I said to myself. Why, I wondered, would Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden administration risk their standing in the world and ignore calls for a ceasefire? Did they have an unspoken agenda? As  a chronicler of the endless post-9/11 wars in the Middle East, I concluded that the ...

BY JOHN WHITBECK The UN General Assembly has now voted on the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel/Gaza conflict which the United States vetoed in the Security Council. The result: YES: 153; NO: 10; ABSTENTIONS: 23 Joining Israel and the United States in voting “no” were Austria, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Liberia, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Paraguay. The 23 abstainers were Argentina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Romania, Slovakia, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uruguay. It is noteworthy that only two European countries voted with Israel and the United States and that only eight members of the...

Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the movement fighting for agrarian reform has worked with Brazil’s federal government to send food aid to the besieged enclaveDecember 11, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch MST sends another shipment of food aid to Gaza. Photo: MST Another shipment of food produced by members of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) left Brazil on December 6 for families suffering under the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s almost complete blockade of the enclave. In total, the MST sent 11 tons of food, in its latest contributions to international humanitarian assistance efforts. “We are making the second donation of food to the Palestinian people, as we believe in international solidarity. The Palestinian people, as wel...