Human Rights

Posted by: John Phoenix The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Zikim area in the northern Gaza Strip are seen lying on the ground at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on July 20, 2025. (Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images) No foreign military, no matter how close the alliance, should receive blank checks from the U.S. government when there is credible evidence they are violating international humanitarian norms and committing war crimes. by Dr. Mark Brauner, reposted from Common Dreams The Leahy Law is not a fringe idea. It is settled United States law, enshrined in bipartisan legislation that prohibits American tax dollars from funding foreign military units that commit gross violations of human rights. Its purpose is sim...

Posted by: John Phoenix The US media and entertainment industries line up with Israel Who says politicians can’t be funny? Nearly everything that President Donald Trump says cannot be taken seriously which means it is intended to be a joke and now it is also being reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to an observation that there is a lack of free speech on podcasts in the United States by feigning surprise and saying in apparent astonishment “What? You’re regulated? You should be able to say anything you want!” The irony is, of course, that Netanyahu and his proxies in the US Israel Lobby have done more to strip Americans of their free speech than any other group, demanding inter alia that certain things cannot be said about the state of Is...

Gaza Nazi Holocaust Day: 658 Posted by: John Phoenix The dead body of 6-month-old baby Zeyneb Abu Halib, who died due to malnutrition, is seen at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on July 25, 2025. (Abdallah F.s. Alattar – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 90 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, including at least 9 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 1,092 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here). Among the dead is photojournalist Adam Abu Harbid, whose death raises the journalist death toll during Israel’s war on Gaza to 232. At least 10 more Palestinians have died of forced starvation in Gaza, includin...

US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians [An audio version of this article is available here] The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate. The secret consortium appears to have been seeking practical ways to realise US President Donlad Trump’s “vision” of Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”: transforming the small coastal enclave into a playground for the rich and an enticing investment opportunity, on...

Posted by: John Phoenix Some 17 years ago an Israeli general and government minister threatened Gaza with a “Shoah” – a word until then reserved for the Holocaust. The trajectory in Gaza has been unwavering ever since There are too many pundits, like the interminably dim-witted Piers Morgan, who are slowly, oh-so-slowly coming round to the idea that Israel might be committing a genocide in Gaza. But of course, they are still dismissing as “antisemites” those of us who pointed out from the start that it was a genocide. They hope to get away with this face-saving ploy only because the establishment media continues to ignore what happened before 7 October 2023, events that over many years had made clear Israel was readying to commit genocide – and would grasp a pretext when...

Posted by: John Phoenix It's the dog that didn’t bark... Israeli leaders incited the genocide of Gaza by lying outrageously about imaginary Hamas atrocities. Just three days after the October 7th raid, the Israeli Foreign Ministry promoted absurd claims that Hamas fighters had “beheaded 40 Jewish babies.” David Ben Zion, a fanatical settler, was the original source of the “headless babies” claim, while Asher Moskowitz swore he witnessed babies who had been “roasted in ovens” (presumably with apples in their mouths). Western media trumpeted those lies in screaming banner headlines, while senile American president Biden gibbered and drooled about having supposedly witnessed photos of headless Jewish babies. Those claims evaporated when Israeli casualty lists proved th...

Posted by: John Phoenix Reform Jewish leader Rick Jacobs speaking to JVP members at the Presbyterian Convention in 2014. (social media) For supporting Palestinian human rights, Rabbi Alissa Wise received ‘vitriolic hatred’ from the Jewish community: ‘death threats, sexually threatening emails, voicemails and even letters delivered to my home.’ She’s now decided to stop her humanitarian work ‘for the sake of my children being Jewish,’ and has ‘decided to dedicate my life to the Jewish people.’ (A leading Zionist writer says 97 percent of Jews worldwide support Zionism) By Philip Weiss, reposted from Mondoweiss When you are Jewish and come out as an anti-Zionist, you get excommunicated. That is how the Jewish community works to support Israel. The Jewish community ...