The Israeli military have started it's ground offensive against Rafah by the border of Egypt by air, artillery and tanks.
There are reports of heavy bombings and classes by the border, with no reaction from the Egyptian military despite loud warning about such acts just a few weeks ago.
@immibis@israel@palestine@plink@Double_Ogre no you don’t. Germany rejected an amendment by nutcases that would have tied a German passport to an “explicit affirmation” of Israel’s right to exist.
@plink@palestine@israel since their prime motive seems to be to make remaining life in Palestine insufferable, merely seeing carefree children playing will be sufficient trigger to blow them all to kingdom come.
And it’s not a war. For a war, you need two sides that are more or less equally matched, both fighting.
It’s a bombardment ending in a massacre, with genocidal intent.
@plink@palestine@israel@SteveSilent As Cornell faculty members, we are outraged by the University administration’s suspension of six students who participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. The six suspended students have represented the encampment in conversations with the Administration. The Cornell administration has targeted these students specifically for being the alleged leaders of student protests. It has unilaterally and summarily imposed this retaliatory sanction without any due process. LIEBERWITZ | Faculty Petition Against Student Suspensions https://cornellsun.com/?p=15253963
Going through my social media, it seems like Gaza doesn't even exist.
It's all about student protests and police brutality in US.
In the mean time, the stories of Maas Graves, mass execution of healthcare staff and mutilated bodies of palestinians in Khan Yunis have all but disappeared from the news.
No news about starvation.
No news about murder of aid workers by IDF.
No news of bombing tent cities with fire bombs.
No news of Netanyahu ignoring the peace proposal.
No news that Biden keep sending weapons and money to Netanyahu.
I guess it's good that we see the student protests are spreading, but it should not be forgetting WHY they are protesting and what over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live every day.
@faab64
Personally i feel its because some of the protesters are there just for themselves and others wanting to feel better by thinking their group is helping.
Change do to protests takes years. History is clear on this.
So please march, Hold up signs, Hold speeches and Write your politician.
Just don't scare off the people you need to convince by doing big acts, thinking one act will stop it all. @palestine@israel
The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
Gaza protest t-shirt - I came up with the design, and a vendor on Etsy produces and sells it. Still for sale on Etsy - see link below. (Full disclosure - I get no material benefit from sales, only the vendor does.)
@plink@palestine@israel
regarding Mastodon censorship ... it is worlds of disheartening to know that what I post may very well be censored. it is frustrating and I'm not certain why I've been singled out. this is not my first round with censorship however, it is still a very frightening occurrence.
Palestinian resistance in Gaza used one of the unexploded 500 pound bombs dropped by an American provided F-16 to blow up a building they have lured in a group of Israeli soldiers.
So far Israel has admitted to 4 dead and 5 injured, but the Palestinians claim the numbers are much higher.
Multiple #helicopters seen landing in the area to carry the injured and the deads back to #TelAviv.
This is the 4th such #ambush by #Palestinians in the past 2 weeks, followed by massive indiscriminated bombing of civilian targets by #IDF.
Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
from #AlJazeera - #FaultLines
New full-length documentary from Fault Lines,
‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
Fault Lines worked with journalists in #Gaza to profile three families as they try to survive the war.
From air strikes to field executions, Fault Lines investigates the killings of civilians by the #Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the #UnitedStates in the war.