The National Press Club of Australia cancelled Chris Hedges’ talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel, writes Chris Hedges.
Axios reported that the changes infuriated Arab officials involved in the negotiations, writes Dave DeCamp.
Israeli leaders’ threats to treat flotilla activists as “terrorists” is, paradoxically, a powerful acknowledgment of the international solidarity movement’s growing influence, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Israeli authorities and security forces “committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” says a new U.N. report.
Former Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says that so-called aid distribution in Gaza is a trap for Palestinians intended to drive them into concentration camps.
Dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors and trade unionists, along with humanitarian cargo, are preparing for departure.
The presence of U.S. aircraft alongside RAF spy planes raises questions about whether British intelligence assisted Israel’s targeting of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, writes Iain Overton.
IDF soldiers admit to committing war crimes in Gaza, with one officer revealing they not only kill military-age men, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs …[and] pissing on their graves.”
Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call interviewed six soldiers released from active duty who gave detailed accounts of how they attacked civilians in Gaza.
U.K. nationals are fighting on the frontline in Gaza, helping Israel’s military enforce its “total siege” over millions of Palestinians, writes Hamza Yusuf.