Photographs coming out of Gaza since October 2023 have communicated the severity of the destruction: collapsed buildings, bodies in shrouds, dead and maimed children, and bombed-out hospitals and shelters. But none of these galvanised the public as much as the photographic evidence of Israel’s systemic starvation of Gazans. Sara Oscar and Cherine Fahd The […]
Israel is not the only government in history to cut off access to food and water as a tool of war. As an Indigenous scholar who studies Indigenous history, I know that countries – including the United States and Canada – have used starvation to conquer Indigenous peoples and acquire their land. Rosalyn R. LaPier, University of […]
Gaza is infinitely small when judged by its geography, economic worth, or political import. Yet, it has proven to be the most significant global event defining this generation’s political consciousness. By Ramzy Baroud August 17, 2025 Via Common Dreams The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of […]
We have endured more suffering and psychological pain than mountains could bear. By Muhammad Jihad Ismael Aug 08, 2025 Via Common Dreams Since this war began, I am living a life like Robinson Crusoe’s. He faced an existential ordeal on his island, but fought brilliantly for his survival: Here in the ruins of Gaza, […]
Mike Johnson said at the event that the Judea and Samaria mountains are the legal property of the Jewish people. He criticizes Israel’s “friends” who call for the recognition of a Palestinian state. By Brett Wilkins Aug 04, 2025 The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson on Monday led a high-level […]
To challenge the atrocity of enforced famine, we must also dismantle the economic and political order that finds in crisis not failure, but opportunity. By Peter Bloom Jul 31, 2025 In Gaza, starvation has become strategy. According to the United Nations and humanitarian groups on the ground, two key famine conditions now exist in Gaza and are […]
Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The reports accuse Israel of intentionally destroying Palestinian society in Gaza, and “deliberate and systematic destruction” of the health care system. Groundxero | July 28, 2025 Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for […]
Israeli society cheers on the Gaza slaughterhouse and sees in genocide not a crime, but a utopian fantasy. Chris Hedges Jul 26, 2025 Israelis do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs — designed […]
India, once the beacon of non-alignment and a moral compass for the Global South, has embarked on a perilous journey, abandoning its global justice paradigm for narrow interests that threaten to leave it stranded in a geopolitical desert, devoid of respect and true allies. by Ranjan Solomon The world watches in horror as Gaza […]
Through its involvement in Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion contract awarded by Israel to Google and Amazon—Google has played an active and central role in supporting the genocide in Gaza. Google is providing Israel with the instruments of genocide. By Masood Haque Jul 16, 2025 Common Dreams Sergey Brin, the billionaire cofounder of Google, recently accused […]
The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law. CHRIS HEDGES July 10, 2025 When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and […]
As economists we stand, today, with Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur under attack by the US and Israeli governments because her recent report throws indescribably important light on the political economy of Israel’s occupation and genocide. Groundxero | July 8, 2025 A group of world-renowned economists, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, […]
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide. CHRIS HEDGES Jul 2, 2025 War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and […]
Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine. CHRIS HEDGES JUN 29, 2025 Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the […]
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled. Over the past 20 months, the IDF has repeatedly slaughtered Palestinians trying to access food assistance, including at hubs recently set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) following an Israeli blockade on aid. By Jessica Corbett Jun 17, 2025 […]