I am not saying this is enough or trying to minimize the damage done by IDF or ignore any of the seven myriad lives already lost to murder in the name of war. Maybe many times that, indirectly.

I can’t forget that.

They’re going to continue the attacks after the six weeks ceasefire.

😭💔

Apparently there are plenty of denialists about this online; outright liars if they say that the UN report says the opposite of what it actually does say. Get better news sources, folks.

And people think it’s weird that students are protesting.

Snopes.

But the video actually showed the opposite — Palestinians evacuating in a southerly direction toward Rafah in November 2023.

To our friends in the international community, I say: is your memory so short?

Over 2300 killed, 70% civilians.

Mira Fox writing in The Forward.

The inescapable images splashed across international news networks and social media of starving children and rubble in Gaza are not commonly shown on Israeli television or newspapers.

I’m no fan of revenge to begin with, even as I’m steeped in a culture founded on a punitive conceptualization of justice, and then from there taking the leap to this incredibly wack idea that if someone hurts us, we can kill someone * to make up for it.

What makes that wack idea even wilder that it’s so often paired with an idea of escalating revenge. Some sorta cockamamie “OK, we couldn’t get the right guy, but at least we killed 100 people with his eye color, that’ll do for now, more killing tomorrow” perspective.

Which brings us to the second point: Kan is not OK. They’ve been complicit in a propaganda campaign and misinformation bubble. Citizens of Israel have been deceived by them.

Now, I don’t watch the ERC very often so I don’t care either way. Exclude or include one of the countries or both or neither, in the end what I want is peace, and I want everyone to be safe and OK. A song isn’t the biggest problem when people are actually dying.

Jewish Currents interviewed two Biden staffers about why they each signed the November 14th ceasefire letter, why they have not yet resigned, and whether they think Biden is listening.

Oxfam writes:

“It is unimaginable that the international community is watching the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century unfold, while continuously blocking calls for a ceasefire.”

Using publicly available data, Oxfam calculated that number of average deaths per day for Gaza is significantly higher than any recent major armed conflict including Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8).

Sometimes statistics can obscure the human horror of events; hopefully it can also bring it to light so things can change.

What the actual heck 😭 How can this be real 💔

JC publisher:

Over the last week, it has often felt as though we are holding an impossible position, as the conditions for credibility in many of our communities seem to have become mutually exclusive. On some parts of the left, any reaction that foregrounded Jewish grief and reached quickly for condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities appeared to obscure the root of the violence in decades of subjugation, and to distract from the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. In some parts of the Jewish community, any reaction that did not fully and forcefully condemn Hamas’s violence and bear witness to the extent of Jewish grief appeared as a moral failure and a lack of concern for Jewish lives. On either side, the voices on the other have been received as unforgivable moral and political failures.