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07/21/2024

Tell me what defensible military objective is achieved by shooting children in the head? You can't. These atrocities committed by Israel are paid for by your U.S. tax dollars whether directly or indirectly. And yet Biden, Schumer, McConnell, Johnson, Jeffries et al. are going to welcome Netanyahu with open arms for a joint address to Congress this week. A man who the ICC has issued arrest warrants against. Does this make you uncomfortable? It should. Let them know it.

American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.

06/01/2024

Call or write to your member of Congress asking them to boycott Netanyahu from addressing Congress (even if they will disregard it). This invitation is the U.S. Congress thumbing its nose at the ICC and the rule of law that they all love to talk about.

Israeli prime minister set to deliver address to Congress despite growing anger over his government’s abuses in Gaza.

05/09/2024

"Israeli security forces are not just unlawfully killing Palestinians in Gaza, but have been killing Palestinians without a legal basis in the West Bank, including deliberately executing Palestinians who posed no apparent threat,” said Richard Weir, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch. “These killings are taking place at a level without recent precedent in an environment in which Israeli forces have no need to fear that their government will hold them accountable...

"Palestinians have been at risk of being killed by Israeli security forces throughout the West Bank, whether traveling to and from work or in their own neighborhoods. Children on their way to school have been fatally shot, as Human Rights Watch documented in August 2023. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz found that in 2022, in only 45 percent of incidents in which Palestinians were killed did the Israeli military even allege that the victims were armed or that there were “clashes in which there was an exchange of gunfire.”

Israeli security forces have unlawfully used lethal force in fatal shootings of Palestinians in the West Bank. Research into eight deaths in four incidents between July 2022 and October 2023 concluded that Israeli forces wrongfully fatally shot or deliberately executed Palestinians who posed no appa...

04/29/2024

Gut wrenching. Monstrous. Words fail. Are you still spewing that venom about Israel having a right to defend itself? Do you still think that Israel is doing all it can to avoid civilian casualties? 🪁

On Friday, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed the daughter and grandson of the prominent Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December. Shaima Refaat Alareer died Friday along with her husband and 2-month-old son. Shaima had recently written a message on F...

04/14/2024

Biden’s ‘ironclad’ backing of Israel is coming into conflict with stated US goal of averting regional war, analysts say.

03/30/2024

While other countries have resumed funding UNRWA, the U.S. will withhold funds for another year, all while it continues to provide arms and funding to Israel and feigns concern about Gazans.

Some donors pledge funds to aid agency in exchange for reforms, while others await outcome of investigations

03/13/2024

The election is still 8 months away. If you're arguing about Biden vs. Trump, redirect that energy to getting Biden to stop supporting genocide.

03/06/2024

Donations to Anera for Gaza and Lebanon relief doubled up to $50K this Ramadan

Your support is critical to displaced and vulnerable communities.

02/29/2024

Massacre of those waiting for food amid mass starvation. Where does it end? Contact your government representative.

Desperate residents under Israeli attack while trying to get flour for families as famine stalks the strip.

01/01/2024

Happy New Year. Put on your dancin' shoes!!! 🎵📻🎷

12/25/2023

12/24/2023

Female Israeli soldiers had warned for months that Hamas was planning something. They weren’t taken seriously

Female Israeli soldiers had warned for months that Hamas was planning something. They weren’t taken seriously.

12/22/2023

"One in four households in Gaza is in Phase 5, which means catastrophic famine-like conditions. Phase 5 is defined as: “Households have an extreme lack of food and/or other basic needs even after full employment of coping strategies. Starvation, death, destitution, and extremely critical acute malnutrition levels are evident. For famine classification, the area needs to have extreme critical levels of acute malnutrition and mortality.”

One in four Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip — over 570,000 people — are starving due to the Israeli siege, according to a report using data from the UN and other aid agencies that was released Thursday. The report, published by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), said ...

12/09/2023

has asked Congress to approve the sale of 45,000 shells for Israeli tanks to be used in Gaza. And the U.S. vetoes a UN Security Council resolution because it doesn't condemn Hamas & Hamas still holds hostages. Meanwhile, rocket attacks target U.S. embassy in Baghdad while Israel carries out air strikes in southern Syria.

NGO makes statement after security council resolution for immediate humanitarian truce fails on US veto

12/05/2023

Tell the Squad and your member of Congress to vote against H. Res. 894 which states, among other things, "that anti-Zionism is antisemitism" Jewish Voice for Peace IfNotNow US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Text for H.Res.894 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world.

12/02/2023

The Rutgers University Center for Security Race and Rights has been holding Teach Ins on . You can register for upcoming sessions & listen to recordings of past ones. Please follow them on social media & donate to support their work.

11/27/2023

Senator Schumer: Call for a permanent ceasefire and stop funding war crimes!

Senator Chuck Schumer represents New York. But he is not representing the majority of New Yorkers who support a ceasefire in Gaza. Add your voice to a petition that we will deliver to Senator Schumer, from New Yorkers all across the state, saying loud and clear: Call for a permanent ceasefire. Stop....

11/27/2023

Write to your NY state representatives & ask them to co-sponsor the Not On Our Dime!: Ending NY Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act (A6943/S6992) notonourdime.com/takeaction. Thanks to
for sponsoring this legislation

Write to your New York state representatives now and ask them to co-sponsor the Not On Our Dime!: Ending NY Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act (A6943/S6992)

11/13/2023

Notice sent to Congressional members on 11/3 by the Center for Constitutional Rights, National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal that voting for the emergency military aid package to Israel creates the possibility of criminal and civil liability for aiding & abetting genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity under the International Criminal Court.

https://ccrjustice.org/legal-organizations-put-members-congress-notice-complicity-genocide?fbclid=PAAaZr3GQPY4setOF0xHFM5Lc7nL2DEykMdEaIzGW8OM1hvz2S33nRIHUWk14_aem_Ac8DVYHJ5CFFXCV3DsZf101pASnNZjVPvClA2oddxBXfney_vm0rsMX535LJCMJCzXk

November 3, 2023RE: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL LEGAL LIABILITY FOR AIDING, ABETTING, INCITING, OR CONSPIRING TO COMMIT GENOCIDE THROUGH CONGRESSIONAL ACTS, AND DEMANDDear Congressional Representatives: We un

10/28/2023

Yesterday the U.S. voted against a successful UN GA resolution that called for, among other things:

- an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities
- unhindered humanitarian access
- any attempts at forced transfer of Palestinian people to Southern Gaza
- immediate and unconditional release of all civilians illegally held captive

10/21/2023

"A group of 55 prominent artists and advocates in the entertainment industry have signed an open letter to President Joe Biden, urging for a call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.

"The signatories include names such as Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Jon Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Mahershala Ali, Riz Ahmed, Ramy Youssef and Quinta Brunson."

55 artists, including Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett, Ayo Edebiri and more, have asked President Biden to order a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.

10/19/2023

Yesterday, the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. Earlier in the week, the U.S. voted against a resolution calling for a ceasefire. Now is not the time for silence or complacency. Demand the Biden Administration and call for a and

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. The failure by the Council to make its first public intervention on the Israel-Gaza crisis followed the rejection of a Russian-ba...

10/19/2023

If you're ashamed, outraged at Biden hugging Netanyatu and basically giving Israel a green light to commit genocide, here's a small way you can let the world know that isn't what YOU stand for. Organized by .

10/17/2023

Representatives Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez introduced a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and for humanitarian assistance to be allowed to enter Gaza.

Write to your members of Congress now and ask them to prevent further atrocities and massive loss of life.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ceasefire-now?clear_id=true

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10/11/2023

Strongly recommend this powerful 2019 documentary written, directed, and narrated by Abby Martin which can be viewed on YouTube. See link in bio on IG. It documents, among other things 1) the plight of average Palestinians living in Gaza with high unemployment, lack of access to water, food, electricity, medical care, building supplies, and freedom of movement, caused by Israel's lockdown; 2) the murder by Israel Defense Forces of unarmed Palestinian children, disabled, press, medics, and the IDF's use of explosive bullets and lethal gas, all of which violate UN conventions, during the Great March of Return 2018-19 where Palestinians of all ages protested at the border their inability to return to the lands from which 700,000 of them were expelled by Israel in the 1948 Nakba; 3) the distorted narrative that flows from mainstream U.S. media; and 4) an extended segment with interviews of family and colleagues of Razan Al-Najjar, a 20 year old female medic who was murdered by the IDF while attempting to evacuate the injured and whose death the IDF then distorted as being evidence of her being a human shield for Hamas.

09/04/2023

I named my radio show The Tiki Bar having in mind the kind of escapism and good times that it connotes, something Jimmy Buffet personified. His untimely passing (on the day after I retired) was a reminder that life is finite and bittersweet. So live life fully and enjoy it!

08/05/2023

I still have cassette tapes of The Lion and the Cobra and I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. They both got played a lot in our home. Saw Sinead perform at the GW Smith Center after the latter came out. She opened with Feel So Different. She did an Irish jig to I am Stetched On Your Grave. The tiny bald woman with the big voice. Siochain.