Urgent Health Updates: Health consequences of war on Gaza - March 4, 2024
The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council is sharing information on the health implications of the attacks. We will update in a week. Please use this information to organize & educate. As the Israeli government threatens an all out assault on Rafah, increasing the risk of further massacres & genocide, & multiple countries move to defund & destroy UNRWA, this is a time to make your voices heard.
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 150: Israel is ‘engineering famine’ in Gaza
Amnesty International says Israel is “engineering famine” in Gaza. Organization head Agnes Callamard adds, “all states that cut UNRWA funding, sold weapons and supported Israel bear responsibility too.”
Demeaning airdrops over Gaza are humanitarian aid theater
What is being marketed as benevolent assistance amounts to humanitarian aid theater that does nothing to end the systematic and intentional campaign of starvation Israel and its American and European allies, with the complicity of regional regimes, are waging against Palestinians.
Lives Ended in Gaza
The human beings killed in Gaza.
The New York Times Has an Ugly Anti-Palestinian Bias
The New York Times may be the most prestigious daily newspaper in the English-speaking world. But as one of the reporters who collected a Pulitzer for the paper last year, Mona Chalabi, has pointed out, one of the areas where that reputation is hardest to square with reality is the Times’s coverage of Israel/Palestine.
Even as Palestinian deaths dwarf Israeli deaths — current estimates of the number of Israeli civilians killed on October 7 are in the hundreds, while tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been killed during Israel’s many months of brutal retaliation — the Times has consistently devoted more coverage to Israeli deaths. In fact, the chart shows, the disconnect actually increased at the very time that Palestinian deaths were skyrocketing.
In Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is advancing
In Georgia the march towards the stone age continues with an attack on the American Library Association.
If I must die
by Refaat Alareer
sung by Rachel Lynn
The Threat of Community and The Impact of Surveillance
Important analysis of the recent Muslim Mental Health Conference at Stanford University and the impact of silencing and surveillance. It is fascinating to me that the words of a Palestinian psychiatrist from East Jerusalem (Dr. Samah Jabr) and a Jew (me) felt so threatening to these folks....I wonder who and what are they protecting, what alum or donor applied pressure, what are they afraid of?
I am so grateful for your advocacy. I look forward to your Sabbath Substack, although the truth can be very hard to read. Thank you from a Bryn Mawr classmate.
thank you for adding to the diversity of my news sources.