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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
April 5, 2024
"The Biden administration's ongoing support for Israel's genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza, including hundreds of our colleagues and their families."
Palestinian journalists this week issued an appeal to their U.S. counterparts urging them to boycott the April 27 White House Correspondents' Association dinner over the Biden administration's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.
"In the past six months alone, the Israeli military has executed over 125 Palestinian journalists in Gaza—10% of Gaza's community of journalists," notes the appeal, which is being organized with the help of Adalah Justice Project and the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. "The year 2023 marked the bloodiest year for journalists worldwide in over a decade, with over 75% of killed journalists targeted by Israel’s attacks on Gaza."
"As Palestinian journalists, we urgently appeal to you, our colleagues globally, with a demand for immediate and unwavering action against the Biden administration's ongoing complicity in the systematic slaughter and persecution of journalists in Gaza," the authors wrote.
"We bear the enormous burden of exposing the realities of Israel's genocidal campaign to the world while living through it in real-time. Israel has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians as we watch on," the journalists said. The death toll in Gaza now exceeds 33,000—mostly women and children—with at least 75,550 other Palestinians wounded since October 7.
The appeal continues:
In Gaza, journalism is synonymous with putting our lives on the line as Israel methodically targets us in its desperate bid to silence our voices and obscure the grim reality of its genocidal actions and its project of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. For Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the blue press vest does not offer us protection, but rather functions as a red target.
The Biden administration's ongoing support for Israel's genocidal policies implicates it directly in the relentless targeting and massacring of journalists in Gaza, including hundreds of our colleagues and their families.
"Western media has played an integral role in manufacturing consent for Israel's ongoing violence against the Palestinian people, while obfuscating U.S. complicity," the journalists continued. "Over the past six months, the mainstream press has become the mouthpiece of the homicidal Israeli regime, promoting dehumanizing anti-Palestinian propaganda and platforming genocide apologists and perpetrators, while simultaneously ignoring, downplaying, and underreporting Israel's war crimes against Palestinians."
"The White House Correspondents' dinner is an embodiment of media manipulation, trading journalistic ethics for access," the appeal argues. "For journalists to fraternize at an event with President [Joe] Biden and Vice President [Kamala] Harris would be to normalize, sanitize, and whitewash the administration's role in genocide."
"As journalists reporting from the belly of the beast, you have a unique responsibility to speak truth to power and uphold journalistic integrity," the Palestinians implored U.S. journalists. "It is unacceptable to stay silent out of fear or professional concern while journalists in Gaza continue to be detained, tortured, and killed for doing our jobs."
The appeal's authors noted that American media professionals have demanded justice for journalists like Palestinian American Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh—who numerous probes found was intentionally killed by Israeli forces in 2022—and Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Washington Post columnist gruesomely murdered in 2018 by Saudi Arabian operatives in Turkey.
"It is past time journalists take action for journalists in Gaza," the Palestinians asserted. "We call on all journalists of conscience to stand with us and uplift our call to boycott the White House Correspondents' dinner."
#white house correspondents' association dinner#joe biden#u.s. foreign policy#journalism#israel hamas war#genocide#adalah justice project#jamal khashoggi#shireen abu akleh#u.s. campaign for palestinian rights#israel#gaza#palestine
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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević."
- Anthony Bourdain on Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)
#henry kissinger#u.s. foreign policy#vietnam#cambodia#warmonger#war criminal#murderer#rot in hell#about damn time#thank god that son of a bitch is finally dead#good to know jimmy carter will get to outlive that scumbag piece of shit#somewhere in heaven anthony bourdain is smiling
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Mary Louise Kelly: Tell me when you started thinking about resigning?
Hala Rharrit: Well, honestly, it was quite a long process. I've been a diplomat for 18 years, really my entire adult life. But the policy really became unacceptable. I was holding out, hoping to try to change things from the inside until I realized at one point that this policy was undermining U.S. interests, it was destabilizing the Middle East, and it was indeed a failed policy. And with that, I decided that I could no longer be part of the department and decided to submit my resignation.
Kelly: Was there a specific moment? I mean, what was your breaking point?
Rharrit: There was no real specific moment, it was just a build-up. We were undermining our entire credibility with this policy. The double standards that we were having, we could no longer talk about human rights when we were in allowing and enabling the mass killing of civilians. We could no longer talk about press freedom when we remain silent on the killing of over 100 journalists in Gaza. Everything that we had stood for was no longer relevant. I did experience a lot of silencing. I was ostracized. And it came to a point where I decided it was not possible anymore.
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Kelly: I mentioned you are the third public resignation from the State Department. You're the first diplomat, the first foreign service officer serving overseas, to resign. Out of the department of thousands, how widespread do you believe anger to be within the State Department?
Rharrit: I can only tell you about what I've experienced, right? But it's a very strange time in the State Department, I would say. Something that I've never experienced before in my 18 years of service, where people are just extremely uneasy about our policy and also extremely uneasy about the ability to speak about our policy internally. And I've never faced that before. We've always been able to talk about what's working, what's not working. We've been able to have very open and frank conversations. This has felt very, very different.
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More at the link.
To the "anarchist" blogs suddenly following me. You might want to following Rharrit on social media. She's obviously a threat to national security and the global order.
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Except for Palestine Paperback Release
Except for Palestine Paperback Release
On May 31, the paperback version of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by myself and Marc Lamont Hill will be released. If you were waiting for the paper version to get your copy, well, your time has come! Order it here from Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books, Marc’s independent bookstore. If you already have one, tell your friends to buy it now.
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#Ahmad Abuznaid#BDS#Cornel West#Except for Palestine#Gaza#Khaled Elgindy#Lara Friedman#Marc Lamont Hill#Palestine#Peter beinart#Rashid Khalidi#U.S. Foreign Policy
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Unveiling the Secret World of Privacy Breaches and Espionage Among Allies
**Introduction:**In a world where the lines between ally and adversary blur, the recent revelations of Google’s $5 billion settlement for infringing on user privacy and the intricate web of espionage among friendly nations have ignited a global conversation. This article delves into the clandestine world of privacy breaches and espionage, unearthing the uncomfortable truths that define our modern…
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I don't know what comic this panel is from, but it speaks the truth about U.S foreign policy
#u.s. foreign relations#u.s. foreign policy#foreign policy#usa news#comics#comic#cartoons#cartoon#made in usa#usa#united states#unitedstateofamerica#unitedsnakes#united states of america#unitedstatesofhypocrisy#amerika#americans#native american#america#class war#classwar#humanrights#fascism#imperialism#fuck the gop#fuck the police#fuck the supreme court#fuck the patriarchy#ausgov#politas
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How The World Sees Us ...
How The World Sees Us …
We’ve all heard people say that the United States is “the leader of the free world”, right? We grew up being told that we were that shining example of democracy that other nations hoped to emulate. Looking back, I don’t know if that was ever quite true, but I strongly suspect that at one point we were respected more than we are today. Until last night, I don’t recall ever reading anything by…
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#Christine Emba#Fareed Zakaria#Fred Upton of Michigan#Iraq War#January 6th attempted coup#Senator Bernie Sanders#the Big Lie#U.S. foreign policy
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At Davos, Blinken calls a pathway to a Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the need for a “pathway to a Palestinian state” during a talk Wednesday at the World Economic Forum’s annual ...
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Why isn't "just move out" an acceptable answer to America's bad city planning?
"Just move" is, in general, a terrible answer to any large-scale economic/political problem, because it assumes where you live is totally fungible and moving is relatively low-friction--which ignores the cost of moving, of being separated from your social networks, assumes you are equally employable anywhere in the country, etc., etc.
But in this case--move where? Aside from a handful of cities, mostly in the northeast (which even then have in many cases been affected by similar urban planning issues, if not to the same degree--Robert Moses did tons of damage in NYC), every city in North America underwent a period of rapid expansion when the fiscally-unsustainable transport-neglecting school of urban planning was dominant such that every city in the country has the same issues. Some cities can endure the resulting condition a little better, for now, as a result of particular local circumstances--Nashville was one of the fastest-growing cities in the country for many years, and may still be (IIRC Sun Belt cities have in general had pretty good immigration numbers for the last decade at least)--but that doesn't make their planning policies wise. They could be doing a lot better!
And I know I've been accused of being some European snob who thinks everybody should do things the way they're done over here, but really, I don't think that dense, walkable, well-connected city planning in the US would necessarily result in cities that were carbon copies of European ones. The U.S. is different, has different cultural inclinations, and different geographic constraints--U.S. cities are always going to look different from cities in Europe, for the same reason they look different from cities in East Asia or w/e. But right now U.S. city planning is a major drag on both the economy and local government, and while shooting itself in the foot and somehow staggering on despite the injury is a very American thing to do, I want more for the U.S. and its people!
#sometimes i really do think americans could actually earn their smugness and sense of superiority#if they tweaked just a few things about city planning#government#and foreign policy#the U.S. could be a force for enormously positive change in the world!
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A newly released memo shows federal officials warned last spring that expanding a bilateral refugee pact to the entire Canada-U.S. border would likely fuel smuggling networks and encourage people to seek more dangerous, remote crossing routes.
Officials feared the development would also strain RCMP resources as irregular migrants dispersed more widely across the vast border.
The April memo, made public by Public Safety Canada through the Access to Information Act, was prepared in advance of a Cross-Border Crime Forum meeting with American representatives.
Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, implemented in 2004, Canada and the United States recognize each other as havens to seek protection.
The pact has long allowed either country to turn back a prospective refugee who showed up at a land port of entry along the Canada-U.S. border — unless eligible for an exemption — on the basis they must pursue their claim in the country where they first arrived. [...]
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid
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Genuinely baffling to me how so many people seem to conflate Zionism and Judaism, seeing as the vast majority of Zionists in the U.S. are Christian...
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On this date in 1973.
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The Absurd Plot: When International Espionage Meets Comedic Irony
In a world where reality often surpasses fiction, a recent U.S. indictment reads like a dark comedy script. Picture this: an Indian intelligence officer orchestrates an assassination plot, only to accidentally hire an undercover DEA agent as the hitman. The target? A Sikh separatist in New York. You can’t make this up!#### The Shadowy World of Espionage: Not So Smart After All?It’s a narrative…
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