Saddened that we are apparently not allowed to criticize DOUCMENTED #StateSponsored #violence and #landtheft in the case of Israel, but #Islamophobic commentary is just fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/professor-suspended-assignment-mentions-palestinians?CMP=share_btn_url

"Tellingly, the Davos slideshow just briefly mentioned basic services like water, electricity, and sewage for Palestinians in war-decimated Gaza. Kushner’s presentation mentions Palestinians in the context of “demilitarization principles,” claiming this process will be “led by Palestinians, internationally verified.” The Palestinian public were not involved, not even consulted, in the drafting of these visions. Almost every decision about where they will live, how they will move, and what kind of life they may rebuild was made without them. “From the private sector,” Kushner added, “there will be amazing investment opportunities.”

The reality on the ground in Gaza could not be further removed from these fantasies. The Master Plan does not address how to remove the estimated thousands of tons of unexploded ordnance embedded across the territory or the 61 million metric tons of debris that the U.N. estimates must be cleared before Gaza can begin rebuilding for the long term. Some 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings are destroyed or damaged, forcing much of the population to live in makeshift tents. The territory’s drinkable water is polluted, its agricultural sector all but wiped out. There are thousands of amputees in need of prosthetics and rehabilitation, thousands with permanent hearing damage, thousands of burn cases, and thousands requiring specialist treatment outside Gaza who are unable to leave.
(...)
Seven months into the cease-fire that went into effect in October, violence is still a daily reality. “We’ve gone from a hundred people killed a day to a few killed a day,” she said, “which is considered okay.” Drones menace the remaining buildings. Warships advance suddenly toward the shore without warning."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-board-of-peaces-plot-to-eliminate-gaza.html

#Palestine #Israel #Genocide #StateTerrorism #SettlerColonialism #LandTheft #LandGrabbing #Trump #BoardOfPeace #Imperialism

Wouldn't "Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian #EVICTION from Gaza will go ahead" be more accurate?

Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/israels-defence-minister-says-large-scale-palestinian-migration-from-gaza-will-go-ahead?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#NetanyahuAdministration #EthnicCleansing #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Palestine #LandTheft

Today in Labor History May 16, 1862: President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. As a result, 84 million acres of public (i.e., Indigenous) lands were opened to settlers. Any citizen who had never taken up arms against the U.S. (i.e., northerners), including women and freed slaves, could file for a federal land grant. Consequently, great swaths of Native American land and natural resources were usurped by settlers. Additionally, much of the land was acquired by businesses, not individual citizens. For example, most of the rainforest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company through illegal claims under the act.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #LandTheft #homestead #indigenous #NativeAmerican #lincoln

Here we go again: Western mass media justifying state terrorism and genocide, not to mention the erasure of a past grounded on land theft and settler colonialism...

"For my new book “How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza,” I attempt to demonstrate, beyond a reasonable doubt, that U.S. media coverage of the war on Gaza was one-sided, racist, dehumanizing, and often veered into outright incitement.

I examined over 12,000 articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Politico, Axios, USA Today, and The Associated Press, along with 5,000 TV segments that aired on CNN and MSNBC. The focus is on center-left media outlets influential with the Biden administration during the first year of the conflict — with an emphasis on the first few months, when Israel firmly established its narrative justifying the genocide, rendering mass death inevitable.

Here are seven statistical findings that prove the U.S. media’s bias against Palestinians.

Israel’s “Right to Defend Itself”

The media’s penchant for invoking a nation’s “right to defend itself,” typically followed by the rationalization of mass civilian killing, was reserved almost exclusively for Israel. On CNN and MSNBC, guests, anchors, and reporters mentioned the right to self-defense for Israel 94 times more than they did for Palestinians. In print media, Israel was afforded this right over 100 times more frequently than Palestinians in Gaza."

https://theintercept.com/2026/05/12/gaza-media-coverage-israel-bias/

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #StateTerrorism #Propaganda #Ideology #News #Media #USA #Journalism #Genocide #LandTheft

Somehow I don't think a singing competition is going to swing the World back into supporting Israel...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/palestinian-family-seized-property-listed-on-booking-com

#FreePalestine #WestBank #Genocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #Zionism #Israel #Eurovision

Good news - The sanctions against Albanese for highlighting the #NetanyahuAdministration #EthnicCleansing and #LandTheft in #Gaza and the #WestBank were an appalling abuse of power by #MarcoRubio and the #47Adminstration.

Federal judge blocks US sanctions against UN expert on occupied Palestinian territories
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/un-francesca-albanese-sanctions?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other