Petitions, Group Chats, and Resignations: Inside the Artist’s Fight to Stop the War on Gaza
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the spring of 1966, as college students protesting the Vietnam War organized teach-ins to educate their peers on the war, the poet Robert Bly knew they needed backup. “If you went to an audience [at that…
Senior US Official Appears to Endorse Collective Punishment of Gazans
Brett McGurk in 2019.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a summit in Bahrain on Saturday, a US official stated that far more humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza if Hamas released the hostages it is holding. In doing so,…
ADL Celebrates Elon Musk’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Speech
Avalon.Red/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, Elon Musk endorsed a post on his social media platform that accused Jews of pushing “dialectical hatred against whites” and failing to realize that the “hordes of minorities” who were “flooding their country” didn’t actually like…
Israel’s Fuel Blockade is Strangling Gaza
Bashar Taleb/APA Images/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said on Saturday that Israel is only allowing “half of the daily minimum” amount of fuel…
A Leading Think Tank for the Democratic Establishment Calls for a Ceasefire “Now”
Patrick Gaspard during a 2018 event in New York.Riccardo Savi/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Center for American Progress has now said the word that the Biden administration and most Democrats in Congress have been most unwilling to utter since Israel began to bomb Gaza: ceasefire.…
To Make a Documentary About Abortion, They Had to Fight the Right’s War on Information
Mother Jones; Photos courtesy of Tracy Droz Tragos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2019, when Tracy Droz Tragos started filming Plan C, her new documentary about a network of activists and medical providers helping Americans access abortion pills—which are approved by the FDA…