Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... We are joined by U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, who says Israel is committing genocide on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Facing accusations of antisemitism from Israeli and U.S. officials, Albanese is in New York to present her report, titled "Genocide as colonial erasure," which finds that Israel's genocide is founded on "ideological hatred" and "dehumanization" and "enabled through the various organs of the state," and recommends that Israel be unseated from the United Nations over its conduct. She argues that Israel's attacks on U.N. employees, including the killings of at least 230 U.N. staff in Gaza, its flagrant violations of U.N. resolutions and international law and the unique status of "the first settler-colonial genocide to be ever litigated before [an international] court" justify this measure. Israel's continued impunity, Albanese warns, "is the nail in the coffin of the U.N. Charter."
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In cynicism and power, the US propaganda machine easily surpasses Orwells Ministry of Truth.
Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
Americans are 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism | Noura Erakat | The Big Picture
Nov 13, 2024The Big Picture Podcast What is the link between Zionism, capitalism and the American empire? Fresh off the back of a deeply toxic, all consuming US election - one in which the issue of Palestine and the war in Gaza was largely ignored - we examine what it means to survive a system intent on silencing and marginalising dissenting voices. Despite the key role the Biden Administration has played in arming and supporting Israel, a position opposed by the majority of Americans, few political voices were interested in challenging or even speaking about this policy. A policy which mirrors the US’ own bloody history of colonialism, empire and exploitation. An environment in which voices who challenge the status quo have fewer and fewer platforms to express their dissenting views. This week on The Big Picture Podcast, Mohamed Hassan sits down with human rights attorney, legal scholar and professor at Rutgers University Noura Erakat.
Erakat is one of the boldest and most precise Palestinian-American voices in the public eye, and says despite speaking for years about the legal rights of Palestinians, she has always been sceptical of the law. In October she wrote a piece for The Nation titled ‘Nothing Will Ever Be The Same’, in which she says a year of genocide in Gaza has changed her as a person, as a Palestinian and as a legal scholar.
Nov 18, 2024 The story continues to fall apart. After an impassioned denunciation of "violent and intolerable antisemitism" supposedly victimising the Maccabi football fans, who, as events have shown, may have had ulterior plans for their trip to Amsterdam, the city mayor is now forced to denounce her own opportunistic statements claiming a "pogrom" had taken place.
n Live streaming on Nov 18, 2024 EDITOR—While the establishment media downplays the "collective Biden"s horrific decision to escalate even further the West's war against Russia, millions of people around the globe are well aware that this may indeed push the world closer to WW3, and that the population of the United States better communicate their concern to the Trump administration in unequivocal ways if humanity is to avoid a nuclear cataclysm. It's a complex situation any way we look at it, say the experts. The US ruling elites are currently fractured in their vision for the immediate strategic future. The State Department is far more willing to tempt fate with a nuclear confrontation than the Pentagon, which, surprisingly, is reluctant to risk an all out confrontation with the Eurasian powers.
METROPOLITAN CITY OF VENICE Sarah Friedland won Best Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival, accepting the Lion of the Future award in the Italian city at the weekend.
accepted the Luigi de Laurentiis prize for best first film for Familiar Touch.
She expressed her solidarity with the Palestinian people on the 336th day of what she referred to as “Israel's genocide in Gaza and the 76th year of occupation”. She stated that she believes it is the responsibility of film workers to use the institutional platforms they work through to redress "Israel's impunity on the global stage".