West Bank

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 ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Screenshot from Caitlin's Newsletter, July 23, 2025 (substackcdn.com) There’s no justification for aiding a genocidal state By Caitlin Johnstone, co-authored by Tim Foley. Reposted from Caitlin’s Newsletter. Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hsJoSZ4T_qY?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0 The Democratic Party’s Instagram-friendly progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has voted with the overwhelming majority of House representatives against withholding $500 million in missile funding for Israel, despite previously saying that Israel is committing “a genocide of Palestinians” in Gaza with US support. The only lawmakers v...

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...