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NEW ISSUE IN THE WORKS!!!Theme: How food is a community tool and what that has represented for Asian America. Email gidr...
11/04/2025

NEW ISSUE IN THE WORKS!!!

Theme: How food is a community tool and what that has represented for Asian America.

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By Arno RosenfeldMarch 8, 2024More than 450 rabbis called on President Joe Biden Friday to end the war in Gaza, adding m...
09/03/2024

By Arno Rosenfeld
March 8, 2024
More than 450 rabbis called on President Joe Biden Friday to end the war in Gaza, adding momentum to growing calls for a ceasefire among liberal American Jews who have become deeply uncomfortable with Israel’s military operation.

“There is no military solution to this conflict,” the rabbis, including leaders of large synagogues, stated in a letter organized by T’ruah, a rabbinic human rights group. “A ceasefire is the only reliable, proven means for securing the release of the remaining hostages and ensuring the provision of desperately needed humanitarian relief to Gaza.”

J Street, the so called “centrist” Zionist org, finally calls for a ceasefire. We’re not going to make a snarky comment....
07/03/2024

J Street, the so called “centrist” Zionist org, finally calls for a ceasefire. We’re not going to make a snarky comment. The center shifting is noteworthy. “The issue is that the war on Gaza is not about Israel defending itself. Fighting Hamas … on October 7th would have been self-defense although, thanks to Netanyahu’s failed “security” apparatus, the people of southern Israel were essentially defended by nobody. And after October 7th, when the bombing of Gaza began, Israel was not engaged in “defending” itself but in vengeance, and in all too many cases killing for the sheer joy of it.”

Vote undecided during the primaries. But think about the fact that if Trump becomes elected, he will have to swayed star...
06/03/2024

Vote undecided during the primaries. But think about the fact that if Trump becomes elected, he will have to swayed starting from scratch. Biden’s been at least a little swayed. Swaying Trump would be worse than talking to a brick wall.

Some funding has been resumed. Canada has also resumed funding.
04/03/2024

Some funding has been resumed. Canada has also resumed funding.

Netanyahu is crouching in a corner that he painted himself and Israel into. The US can pull the plug on aid to Israel. T...
04/03/2024

Netanyahu is crouching in a corner that he painted himself and Israel into. The US can pull the plug on aid to Israel. The emergency aid is still stuck in limbo. Biden can make the call to completely stop any transfer of armaments, weapons, and parts. “While the IDF tries not to address the issue publicly, Major General Eliezer Toledano admitted last month that the IDF is reducing air attacks, emphasizing the necessity to “manage the economy of armaments” because the war will last a long time. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also commented on the matter, stating that “we need three things from the U.S.: armaments, armaments, armaments.” At a press conference two weeks ago, Netanyahu announced that Israel is preparing the Israeli defense industries to “cut off dependence on the world,” a goal that is not realistic in any way.”

Even Germany is not buying Israel’s lying excuses. “Germany and France have joined widespread condemnation of the deaths...
01/03/2024

Even Germany is not buying Israel’s lying excuses. “Germany and France have joined widespread condemnation of the deaths of over 100 Palestinians yesterday while they were gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza during an incident in which Israeli troops opened fire. Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock demanded Israel’s army “fully explain how the mass panic and shooting could have happened”, while her French counterpart, Stéphane Séjourné said “there will have to be an independent probe to determine what happened”. Earlier French president Emmanuel Macron said he felt “deep indignation at the images coming from Gaza where civilians have been targeted by Israeli soldiers.”

The ICJ’s interim ruling on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is fueling political movement. It’s also stirred cour...
01/03/2024

The ICJ’s interim ruling on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is fueling political movement. It’s also stirred courts in E.U. countries to order a halt to weapons sales/transfers to Israel. “More than 200 MPs from 12 countries have committed themselves to trying to persuade their governments to impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, arguing they will not be complicit in “Israel’s grave violation of international law” in its assault on Gaza. In their letter the politicians argue that, after the international court of justice ordered Israel to ensure its forces did not commit acts of genocide in Gaza, “an arms embargo has moved beyond a moral necessity to become a legal requirement”. This week, UN experts made a similar pronouncement, claiming “any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in Gaza is likely to violate international humanitarian law and must cease immediately”.

Organizers for the “uncommitted” vote were hoping for 10,000 votes. They ended up with over 100,000. Keep protesting. Ke...
29/02/2024

Organizers for the “uncommitted” vote were hoping for 10,000 votes. They ended up with over 100,000. Keep protesting. Keep resisting. Change may seem slow. But the tide and compass have forever changed. There has been more criticism of Israel in two weeks than there has been since its violent, catastrophic founding.

An end to the war is inevitable. The fall out after the war will reveal the true cost to Israel that Netanyahu and his e...
26/02/2024

An end to the war is inevitable. The fall out after the war will reveal the true cost to Israel that Netanyahu and his extremist ministers feverishly and vengefully chose. Global public and diplomatic opinion has been forever swayed for a Palestinian state. “Israel’s dignity will indeed be damaged, Hamas will be crowned the winner of the war – a dubious winner but a winner nevertheless (except that it had already crowned itself such on October 7). Even if Benjamin Netanyahu’s “total victory” were to be achieved, which will, of course, never happen, Hamas has won the war. Therefore, it is better to put an end to it.

We have to put aside the clichés and tired slogans Israelis have been fed and calmly consider important questions: Is the deal really that bad? In what way? Is there a better one?”

“The ICJ’s influence on the tribunal was undeniable, triggering a more sympathetic approach among judges and significant...
24/02/2024

“The ICJ’s influence on the tribunal was undeniable, triggering a more sympathetic approach among judges and significantly influencing the Dutch court’s proceedings,” said Lex Takkenberg, Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine with the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), in an interview with The New Arab.

“The prima facie case recognised by the ICJ has undoubtedly put other parties, especially Israel’s backers, on notice,” he added. “The deterrent effect is unmistakable.”

“Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused the UN Human Rights Council of collaborating with Hamas on Saturday, after a group...
24/02/2024

“Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused the UN Human Rights Council of collaborating with Hamas on Saturday, after a group of UN rights officials called for an arms embargo on Israel, saying that any export of weapons or ammunition to the Jewish state for use in Gaza was “likely to violate international humanitarian law.”

In the statement, issued under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the rights experts said that all countries have a responsibility not to sell weapons “if it is expected, given the facts or past patterns of behavior, that they would be used to violate international law.” The same thing went for military intelligence.”

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