This take kills me.

See Palestinians? We care about life, and we are happy. You on the other hand, are at the bottom of the list. Maybe time to care about your own lives more than about killing us?

They’re at the bottom because you’re killing them, you blockhead!

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

Over 2300 killed, 70% civilians.

Joanna Chen writes.

For two weeks after October 7, I was unable to focus on my translation work. […] My volunteer work with Road to Recovery came to a full stop. […] Two weeks after the present war began, I took the plunge and again began driving children to hospitals.

Translator who also volunteers driving West Bank kids to hospitals.

Timeline of Gaza “evacuations”, also.

Analyses by CNN, The New York Times, and Sky News all found that Israel had bombed areas it had previously told civilians to evacuate to. The Sky News investigation also concluded that Israel’s evacuation orders had been “chaotic and contradictory”, NYT found that Israel had dropped 2,000-pound bombs in those areas, while CNN stated it had verified at least three locations Israel bombed after telling civilians it was safe to go there.

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.

This situation is so messed up. More than most people have the capability to psychologically handle without making it worse. Great comic.

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.

The time of monsters is liminal, a time of chaos. In Palestine/Israel, the old world of steady but slow dispossession and unshakeable oppression, locked in an iron grid of international constraints and local stalemate, is dead. While we cannot see the new world yet, it is evident that the inseparability of Palestinian and Israeli existence, which is the intellectual raison d’être of this journal, is gaining now its most macabre expression, when anxiety over being annihilated by the other side eclipses the possibility of imagining a common future.

Yeah, the timing of this journal is grotesque. The world is in a different place now.

Palestine/Israel publishes studies in the humanities and the social sciences that emphasize the social, cultural, economic, and political dynamics between the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine/Israel from the nineteenth century until the present.

Antisemiter klandrar befolkningen i Israel men det är orättvist av massa anledningar; dom har ex vis ett helt skevt medialandskap där. Dom vet inte hur många som deras armé dödar på andra sidan. Infokalypsens tidevarv är här.

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.

It’s curious how the two-state

“right-wing