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Denying Gaza’s Starvation Is No Less Vile Than Denying the Holocaust

July 27, 2025

Denial is legitimate in Israel, it’s consistent with local political correctness – there is no hunger and descriptions of deliberate starvation in Gaza are an antisemitic conspiracyBy Gideon Levy (Haaretz, Jul 27, 2025) There aren’t many meaner phenomena than the denial of the Jewish Holocaust. Deniers have claimed that it never took place, and that […]

The Disgrace of Deliberate Starvation

July 25, 2025

To my mind, this is an important example of some honest, journalistic commentary that continues to survive in a society that continues, in the 21st Century, to behave as did those Polish and German citizens who denied knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust. — Terry Bell By Gideon Levy, July 24, 2025 Israel’s plan for the […]

Plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

July 20, 2025

In 1967, aware of what the proclaimed Aryan Nazis had done in Germany, the Israeli polymath and philosopher, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, warned of the danger of Judea-nazism emerging in the Zionist state. As Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy points out today (July 20) history is clearly repeating itself, along with an horrific irony: before the slaughter of […]

The Guernica of Israel’s war of extermination

July 13, 2025

Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. We now have a modern filmed version from Gaza. This report by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, July 13, 2025 First, you hear the screams, the kind that makes your blood run cold. The camera […]

Hebron hell: ‘voluntary’ ethnic cleansing

July 11, 2025

By Gideon Levy & photographer Alex Levac (Haaretz, 11/07/2025) The market square is empty, as the iconic song about another Old City – the one in Jerusalem – goes. Hebron’s main marketplace has been almost completely deserted for years. Anyone who wants to understand why, need only gaze upward: Hanging from the metal grilles Palestinians […]

The massive financial cost of warfare

July 3, 2025

This is a lightly edited Haaretz report on the Iranian response to the US backed attack on Iran. Such details, important as they are, have not had much publicity because the Israeli military continues to censor and block information. 500 Missiles, 200 Interceptors, $1.5 Billion: Numbers Behind Iran’s Attacks on Israel The IDF reported 36 […]

Barbara Bell (1939-2025)

July 1, 2025

A socialist, educator, researcher and activist died in Cape Town in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday, June 28 after a a debilitating illness. Co-founder, with husband Terry, of the primary division of the ANC school, Somafco, in Tanzania for the children of exiles, she qualified as a preschool teacher in Johannesburg and […]