The essay below is one of a number posted in this week’s mailing from “We Are Not Numbers” in Gaza. WANN takes its cue from Arundhati Roy: “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” It describes its project in this way…
Brian Whitaker’s latest analysis of the activities of UK Lawyers for Israel focuses on their increasingly risible attempts to shut down any expression of sympathy for Palestinians which might offend Jewish or Israeli supporters of the ongoing genocide.
Tom London provides a useful commentary on the latest UN Report which is a formal declaration of famine in Gaza.
David Lammy responded to the Report saying: “The confirmation of famine in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhood is utterly horrifying and is wholly preventable. The Israeli government’s refusal to allow sufficient aid into Gaza has caused this man-made catastrophe. This is a moral outrage.”
And what is to be done? “We urge the Israeli government to change course and halt its plans.”
The cynicism of the Starmer government is beyond belief.
What follow are extracts from Forensic Architecture’s latest publication The architecture of genocidal starvation. Indeed they are just extracts from the summary, the report itself being a magisterial 161 pages long. The summary is full of maps which we have not been able to reproduce here, but the story is nonetheless clear below. Israel has …
Hagai El-Ad, Israeli journalist and director general of Israel’s premier human-rights organisation, B’Tselem, for a decade from 2013, writes about the idea of “transfer” in Zionism and the Zionist left’s intransigent opposition to it in the nineties.
That was then.
Now he predicts, in the face of threats of expelling “the Arabs”, called euphemistically “voluntary emigration”, it won’t do anything to stop it.
How does one go on being Jewish in a world in which Judaism is equated with genocide, embraced and pursed openly by a self-declared Jewish state?
This is a question which many have grappled with long before the existence of the current genocide.
Bertell Ollman’s conclusion is tempting, as expounded in his 2004 Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People (see here).
Others prefer a more theological approach, saving Judaism from itself from within, as it were, drawing on the rich Jewish prophetic tradition.
Israel’s targeting of Palestinian media workers has been a feature of Zionist attempts to deny Palestinians their reality over decades, violently accelerated over the past 22 months. Two Western journalists in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues explain how global media help Israel get away with it.
Israel is paving the way for new Jewish colonies in Gaza, says Chris Hedges, committing Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians on the way. And the West sits by and wrings its hands, drawing the lesson from the Holocaust “Never Again – but we don’t care”. The Gaza City Hedges lived in is already no more …
Ken Loah joins demonstators wearing T-shirts saying
“Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare, a joint investigation finds.” This standfirst from +972 Magazine’s report says it all. Israel’s serial denials that civilians have been unduly affected by the war …