Week in Review
9/13/25
Imagine if Gaza City was London.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
The real questions before us are: What is the responsibility of intellectuals committed to fighting fascism and genocide? How do we refuse and resist complicity when our own institutions are complicit? And what might we learn from earlier antifascist and anticolonial struggles?
LEAKED: Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research
Urgent Health Update: Consequences of war on Gaza, West Bank/East Jerusalem - September 6, 2025
Please read and share widely, take action, come to our webinar and others! Every day the genocide becomes more dire and the silence of the US government and US medical institutions and journals more of a serious ethical breach from our role as healers.
Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown
If only Congress could wake up and oppose Trump’s outrageous misuse of power.
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
In a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian, Yuval Abraham reveals that, according to classified Israeli intelligence data from May, Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza. Measured against the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll of 53,000 — which the army itself considers reliable — that figure implies a civilian death rate of at least 83 percent, a proportion with few parallels in modern warfare.
Vast majority of Israelis believe there are 'no innocents' in Gaza, says poll
Survey comes amid rising racist attacks against Palestinians in occupied territories and Palestinian citizens of Israel.
The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza
The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the titles they hold. It is whether they speak when human beings are starved, bombed, and erased as a people. By that measure, some of America’s most visible academics have failed.
International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948); Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population; Calls upon the government of Israel to comply with the Provisional Measures orders of the International Court of Justice. See full report: here
Palestine Center for Human Rights Report on the targeted killing of journalists and media institutions during the Gaza genocide.
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth
Ahmed Alnaouq discusses his new book, co-edited with Pam Bailey, We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth.
Google is in the middle of a 6-month/ $45 million contract with Netanyahu’s office to amplify propaganda. Publicly available government contracts show that Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. Israel’s paid advertising spending spree has also yielded tens of millions for YouTube, X, Meta, and other tech platforms.
Anthony Aguilar, a retired Green Beret, recalls his harrowing experiences in Gaza serving as a subcontractor for UG Solutions — from witnessing high tech surveillance to indiscriminate murder.
Leaked documents detail Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
A leaked document details the Trump administration’s plan to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza. Included in a "relocation package" would be $5,000, four years of rent subsidies, and a year of food subsidies.
New Banksy Work Seen as Comment on U.K. Crackdown on Palestine Action
In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up.
The difficulties they face denying a reality live-streamed to their domestic populations grow more acute by the day – and not just because emaciated children across Gaza are dying in ever larger numbers.
Last week, the international association that represents genocide scholars voted overwhelmingly that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.
Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop
More New Yorkers say their sympathies lie with Palestinians rather than Israel in the long-running conflict in Gaza, according to a New York Times/Siena poll.
The yawning gap of perspectives toward the conflict — 44 percent of registered New York City voters sympathized more with Palestinians; 26 percent sympathized more with Israel — is particularly stark given that the city is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. The poll also found that voters broadly think that criticizing Israel is not inherently antisemitic, 51 percent to 31 percent.
This is a major shift in public opinion! Democrats take note.