Week in Review
11/22/25
Jewish communities must confront their complicity in Israel’s genocide
After more than two years of war, Jewish support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza requires accountability, moral clarity and an urgent reckoning across Israel and the Diaspora
There’s a desperate need for a moral reckoning among the global Jewish population after more than two years of Israeli-inflicted horrors in Gaza.
From the mass starvation of Palestinians to AI- and cloud-enabled killing, Jewish complicity, both in Israeland across the Diaspora, has been a profound moral failure.
I write this as a Jew who has spent decades opposing Israel’s suffocating hold on the Jewish Diaspora, and as a man whose family was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza and the West Bank/East Jerusalem - November 15, 2025
Please read and share widely. The genocide is far from over. Pay attention to latest scandal in APHA!
UN to vote on Gaza stabilisation force plan that references Palestinian state
Netanyahu faces pressure from far-right ministers after Saudi insistence on ‘credible pathway’ to statehood
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faced with a backlash from within his own government over the clause, said at his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that he did not need encouragement from anyone to express his opposition to a Palestinian state but that the clause was necessary since “no country was eager to join the multinational force in the Gaza Strip”. …
The US, as reported by the Guardian, is however planning for the division of Gaza into a “green zone” under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a “red zone” to be left in ruins. A joint statement of support for the US stabilisation force proposal has been issued by nine countries including Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, the key countries from which troops are likely to be drawn, though unease about the Trump plan remains among Muslim countries. UAE and Jordan have both said they cannot supply troops while Israel has vetoed Turkey joining the force on the basis that Turkey is too close ideologically to Hamas.
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Palestinian factions reject US Gaza plan ahead of UN vote
Palestinian factions urged Algeria to oppose a US draft on deploying international forces in Gaza, calling it a new form of occupation.
11/17
Wonderful reception, presentation, and conversation with friends, advisors, and supporters of the Dorothy Cotton Institute, founded to honor and promote the work of civil rights leader, Dorothy Cotton, and to work for human rights. I discussed my work and challenges facing us in this time of great danger to democracy and human rights at home and in Israel/Palestine.
Lively book reading and conversation about my memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, NY
Health Care Workers Spoke Out for Their Peers in Gaza. Then Came Backlash.
Reports of health care workers being silenced for Palestine-related speech began to emerge almost as soon as Israel launched its attack on Gaza in October 2023, even in spaces with a stated commitment to anti-racism or health equity.
...faculty at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (HMS) invited Alice Rothchild to speak on their campuses. Rothchild, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist, has visited Gaza several times and grew up in a traditional Jewish family, experiences that she said strengthened her commitment to speaking out against Israel’s genocide: “The horrific thing for me as a Jew is that it’s being done by a country that quote, unquote ‘speaks for the Jews,’ although it obviously doesn’t speak for all Jews,” she told Truthout. “I grew up shortly after the Holocaust ended with ‘never again, never again, never again,’ and here it is happening.”
Rothchild’s scheduled talks, titled “Health and Human Rights Consequences of the War on Gaza,” at Dartmouth on May 16 and “The Impact of War on Maternal and Newborn Health in Gaza” at HMS-affiliated Brigham & Women’s Hospital on May 21, 2024, had to be moved off campus just days beforehand after administrators at the institutions withdrew support for the events, according to emails reviewed by Truthout.
Geisel School of Medicine did not respond to a request for comment before deadline. HMS and Brigham & Women’s Hospital declined to directly answer questions about their involvement.
Western militaries can’t afford to boycott IDF’s battle-tested Gaza tactics - analysis
What we mean when we say weapons and tactics are field tested on the bodies of Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump’s UNSC Resolution 2803: Repackaged Colonial Rule
Notably, the resolution does not refer to the genocide of the past two years, nor does it address accountability for it. Instead, this policy memo shows how the resolution repackages colonial control over the Palestinian people in Gaza, rewards the US—a co-perpetrator of genocide—with control over Gaza and its potentially lucrative reconstruction process, while simultaneously relieving the Israeli regime of all of its responsibilities as an illegally occupying power. Rather than advancing justice, the UN has once again undermined its own legal principles under US pressure.
A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction
This was an extraordinary book.... Award well deserved. I encourage everyone to read it...