Holocaust

Posted by: John Phoenix Image by Ash Hayes. While global attention remains fixed—yet helpless—by the horrors of the genocide in Gaza, a quieter but equally bedeviled Israeli plan is being implemented in the occupied West Bank. Under the fog of war, and aided by a willful placid Western media—Israel has intensified a second front of dispossession: bulldozing homes, and displacing families to reshape the demography in the West Bank. Armed Jewish settler mobs—Zionist Youth—have been unleashed, burning homes, olive groves, torching cars, and killing Palestinians, including American citizens. Last February, bulldozers stormed the village of Khalet Al-Dab in Masafer Yatta, razing nine homes, leaving residents searching for their belongings amidst ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Netanyahu Says It's Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities ([screenshot]) By Caitlin Johnstone, Reposted from Caitlin’s Newsletter, June 27, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/embed/bQ6ypM-jDZ4?si=50iVSBHWl5nznon3 Sometimes I’ll write a headline that looks odd on its face, but then I’ll lay out facts and arguments that allow the reader to understand the validity of the claim by the end of the essay. This is not one of those times. This headline is just me saying the thing that happened. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz are publicly denouncing a report from an Israeli newspaper quoting Israeli soldiers who describe atrocities they were ordered to commit in the...

By: John Phoenix Iran hits Israel with massive drone strike (Quds News Network) A missile strike in the town of Tamra killed four civilians and revealed the lack of Israeli government-provided shelters in Palestinian communities Reposted from The New Arab, June 17, 2025 Dozens of Palestinian citizens and foreign workers have been denied entry to shelters as Iranian missiles rained down across Israel. Four members of one Palestinian family were wiped out in the northern town of Tamra after a rocket struck their home late on Saturday. Locals said the family had no warning or anywhere to hide. The strike on Tamra, located in the Lower Galilee region near Haifa, marked one of the deadliest single attacks on Palestinian citizens of Israel since the...

Posted by: John Phoenix Armed and masked Palestinians secure trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, on Salah al-Din Road east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. ((Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)) By empowering criminal gangs and weaponizing aid provision, Netanyahu seeks to fracture the Strip into rival fiefdoms, allowing only chaos to reign. By Mahmoud Mushtaha, Reposted from +972 Magazine, June 12, 2025 Since late 2024, Gaza has undergone a transformation that defies traditional frameworks of war or occupation. What is unfolding is not mere military conquest but engineered disintegration — one in which Israel actively cultivates Gaza’s collapse by empowering criminal militias, fragment...

Posted by: John Phoenix A series of Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks across the Gaza Strip on Friday killed at least 78 Palestinians, including 12 aid seekers. (Mohammed Asad) Israel has successfully engineered a famine, causing the Gazan population to endure violent starvation, and there is no sign of a truce coming to light. By Maureen Clare Murphy, Reposted from The Electronic Intifada, June 27, 2025 Whether there will soon be a truce in Gaza is the big question after the US president unilaterally declared a ceasefire between Iran and Israel beginning on June 24, ending 12 days of confrontation. While it attacked Iran, Israel carried on with its daily massacres in Gaza, targeting displaced people sheltering in tents and starving people attempti...

Posted by: John Phoenix Charity organizations distribute food to Palestinians at Nusierat Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on June 26, 2025. (Hassan Jedi/Anadolu) Hundreds killed seeking aid in Gaza as famine deepens and limited food access leaves hundreds of thousands starving and malnourished. Reposted from Al Jazeera, June 29, 2025 Since May 27, at least 583 Palestinians have been killed and 4,186 injured while waiting for food at aid distribution sites operated by the Israeli- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health. The killings have occurred daily as famine looms over the besieged enclave. International organisations have warned for weeks that Gaza’s 2.1 million residents face catas...

Posted by: John Phoenix Protesters gather to demand no abductions, no deportations, arms embargo on Israel, end to repression and genocide in Gaza and release all the arrested students, on April 12, 2025 in Chicago, USA . ( [Jacek Boczarski – Anadolu Agency]) Reposted from Middle East Monitor, July 01, 2025 The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved a $510 million arms deal in favour of Israel. The US Department of State said on Monday that the approved deal includes over 7,000 guidance kits for two different types of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). In a statement, the state department said: “The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national security interests to assist Israel to develop and ma...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilus visits the Church of the Flagellation to see a statue of Jesus which was vandalised by a Jewish man in Jerusalem, 4 February 2023 (Reuters) (photo) Emboldened by an ultranationalist government promoting Jewish supremacy, young Israelis are increasingly targeting Christians in the holy land with hate crimes By Lily Galili in Tel Aviv, Israel, reposted from Middle East Eye Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, was taken by surprise when he learned that Pope Francis elevated him to the high rank of cardinal last month. The archbishop, who recently warned against rising Israeli attacks on Christians in the birthplace of Christianity, interpreted i...