RAZ SEGAL—Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel. But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry, the weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid.
-
-
DON HANK—During the early days of the ISIS’s rise, Turkey’s open border policy was instrumental to foreign terrorists flooding into Iraq and Syria. In fact, Turkey’s involvement with ISIS runs so deep that in 2016 David Phillips, an ex-State Department and Columbia University researcher, published a comprehensive study on Turkey’s support for ISIS. The study found evidence of Turkey providing military equipment, transport and logistical assistance, training, medical care to ISIS fighters. But that’s not all. The study determined that Turkey supports ISIS financially through purchasing oil and assisting ISIS recruitment. The report also said Turkish forces fight alongside ISIS fighters (specifically referring to the Battle for Kobani). Phillips attributes all this to the idea that Turkey and ISIS share a common worldview. Saudi Arabia — another U.S. ally — covertly supports ISIS while publicly opposing the terror group.
-
EDITOR—Until the Gaza conflict, most people outside of Palestine had never heard of nor understood the degree of murderous psychosis that the vast majority of Israelis are infected with toward Palestinians. But, as Miko Peled explains, the vast majority in Israel believe in the annihilation of all of the people in Palestine. Mike Peled on the ‘horrific and racist’ discourse and parallels with the Holocaust.
-
JAY JANSON—China at the World Court said: “Palestinians have the right to ‘armed struggle’ against Israelis”
On the fourth day of public hearings at the International Court of Justice on Palestinian representatives’ accusation that Israel is creating a permanent and illegal occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, China argued that Palestinians have the right to engage in “armed struggle” against Israel…Chinese Foreign Ministry legal adviser, argued that “in pursuit of the right to self-determination” the Palestinian people have the right to the “use of force to resist foreign oppression and to complete the establishment of the Palestinian state.”
-
EDITOR—Sabby comments on the grotesquely disproportionate complaints and whining proffered by Zionist apologists over a speech that, wile well-intentioned, and even courageous, considering the venue, was nowhere near clear and strong enough to convey the main points. Jonathan Glazer didn’t even utter the word genocide. Instead, he nervously read something that sounded like classic “bothsidism”.
