Report: After Promising to Halt Bomb Shipment, Biden Moving to Send $1 Billion More in Weapons to Israel
Mother Jones; Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After officials repeatedly warned that they would consider stopping the flow of weapons to Israel if it pressed forward with a ground invasion into Rafah, the Biden administration announced it would nonetheless attempt to…
Samantha Power Confirms Famine Is Likely Underway in Parts of Gaza
Habboub Ramez/Abaca/ZUMA; Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Famine is likely already underway in parts of Gaza, Samantha Power, the top US humanitarian official, said publicly for the first time on Wednesday. While testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Power, administrator of…
Biden Administration Rejects Growing Accusations of Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a hearing on Tuesday that the US lacks evidence that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza.Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United States on Tuesday rejected charges that Israel is…
With Famine “Imminent,” Israeli Military Kills Seven Aid Workers Delivering Food to Gazans
Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week, Israel fired three missiles at an aid convoy for the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing seven workers delivering…
The UN Top Court Just Ruled Israel Must Prevent Genocide in Gaza
Judges at the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled Friday that Israel must immediately work to prevent genocide in Gaza, but stopped short of calling for a ceasefire as requested by South Africa last month.Remko De Waal/ANP via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the…
Black Activists Began Traveling to Palestine in the 1960s. They Never Stopped.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As a teenager, Rachel Gilmer, a Black and Jewish activist, was recruited to join Young Judaea, a Zionist nonprofit for Jewish youth. “They were offering scholarships to go to summer camp and I’m one of six siblings, so my…