Tag: Israel-Gaza War
What It’s Like on the Front Lines of Gaza’s Hospital Hell
Talking to Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan.
One of the first posts on @GazaMedicVoices, a social media page that provides firsthand accounts from healthcare workers on the ground in Gaza, was shared on October 12, 2023. It presented the testimony of a consultant surgeon in Gaza, dated to just three days into Israel’s extermination campaign—before, to many, it was recognizable
Students Are Rejecting the Country’s Culture of Death
May 14, 2024
For the economic and political establishment, the students protesting Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza constitute a control issue, potentially writ large.
Students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine at George Washington University with other area universities in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2024.
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The Gaza Crisis We’re Not Talking About
There is disturbing evidence of a sustained Israeli campaign of sexual violence against men and boys.
Demonstrators gather in Times Square in support of Palestinians on April 5, 2024.
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Over the last few months, I’ve settled into a new morning routine. I heat the tea kettle, arrange the mint teabag and a sliced lemon on the counter, then take a seat at the small table in my kitchen. There, I open
Palestine Is Everywhere, and It Is Making Us More Free
George and I began writing to each other in the late summer of 2023. Our correspondence grew from a shared exasperation with a status quo that treated Palestinian suffering as integral, intractable, and invisible. We felt torn—compelled to both defend our history against erasure while yearning to transcend it. Together, we wondered—what future is imaginable, at this late hour? Seventy-six years after the Nakba, what would it take to break the cycles of violence, and violent indifference, which foreclose … Read more
A New Jewishness Is Being Born Before Our Eyes
The future of our people is being written on campuses and in the streets. Thousands of Jews of all ages are creating something better than what we inherited.
Jews calling for a cease-fire in Gaza demonstrate at Grand Central Station in New York City on October 27, 2023.
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Last Friday evening, amid the national panic over the campus protests in solidarity with Gaza, I met fellow Jews in downtown Los Angeles
The Student Protesters Are Demonstrating Their Bravery, Not Antisemitism
May 10, 2024
The real threat to American Jews comes not from students but from the MAGA Republicans who are shouting about antisemitism the loudest.
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Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of
Rafah Is in Panic as the Israeli Invasion Begins
Israel’s long-threatened invasion of Rafah has begun. Under cover of intense aerial bombardment Tuesday morning, Israeli forces moved into Gaza’s southernmost city, which has become a shelter for 1.5 million Palestinians with nowhere else to go. This is the moment they most feared, carrying the potential for a catastrophe greater than anything we’ve seen so far. Gazans counted on the world to stop this invasion, and the world let them down.
Residents of Rafah have long been in a state … Read more
Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness
Our narcissistic media elite doesn’t understand why their lies have made young people wary.
The first important fact about Peggy Noonan is that she belongs to the media aristocracy: a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (for whom she coined the famous phrase “a thousand points
Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage
The magazine has unleashed its top writers on the Palestine student movement. The results have been as dire as you might imagine.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
(PBS)
During the wave of moral panics and racial paranoia that crashed through the 1990s, one media-powered social myth that stuck was “wilding.” The term first surfaced in earnest to characterize the alleged sociopathic, thrill-seeking conduct of the five Black and brown teenagers whom the police and the press falsely
War, Genocide, Violence, and the Gospel’s Response
The following sermon by Bishop William J. Barber, II was delivered on April 26 at the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As we are gathered together on the edge of a university campus this evening, protests are interrupting the end of the school year at colleges and universities across the country.
As scenes of conflict in places we’re familiar with fill our screens, people are arguing about tactics, about the responses from administrators and local law enforcement, … Read more