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Remembering this little act of evil by the Biden administration on its way out when it definitionally had nothing to lose
New report on the controversy within the Biden administration over the retraction of a U.S.-funded report warning of famine in northern Gaza that was ordered to be deleted
Great job fuckers @nytimes
Right, right, “The hunger crisis is the result of human failings,” that explains it.
This is cover your ass posturing because she's been 100% on board with this mass murder campaign the entire damn time, and now she senses that it's about to become an utter catastrophe.
.@SenAmyKlobuchar: "Acute malnutrition is rising. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks while seeking food, most in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites and others on the routes of aid convoys. This is simply unacceptable."
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
Remember when it came out Josh Shapiro had made several racist comments about Palestinians and Arabs in an OpEd in college, and he didn't even apologize but said his "views have changed."
Ok buddy.
.@JoshShapiroPA chides @ZohranKMamdani for not condemning other people’s antisemitism: “He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.” jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh-s…
Images out of Gaza today are the worst I've ever seen. Children piled on a hospital floor, bloody, injured, dying, dead. A toddler with her intestines outside her body while another screams in terror, reaching out for safety. I can't express this feeling. The rage, the shame.
Israel imposed its total siege in Oct ‘23. US cut UNRWA funding in Jan ‘24. The fact that 2 million are starving now was not only foreseeable, it was deliberately planned and executed. Obfuscating this is genocide denial
ABC, NBC, CBS News ran token reports on Gaza starvation yesterday and had all the tropes: -“Hamas-run health ministry” -Centering Israeli denials -Framing it as the unfortunate result of a new “military offensive” -Zero mention of open Israeli starvation and de-population plans
“Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.” Everything we’ve been warned about when it comes to censorship is happening right now. They don’t want you to know what Israel is doing to Palestinians. theguardian.com/education/2025…
This would not have been possible without the delegitimization of the UN’s aid system and the false incitement campaign laundered through mainstream media organizations
Israel is starving Gaza to death, it’s widely reported in the Western press, and it doesn’t seem like the “civilized” world is doing fuck all about it
Israel is starving Gaza to death, it’s widely reported in the Western press, and it doesn’t seem like the “civilized” world is doing fuck all about it
Assuming this is true: what would it mean if a clear majority of Jewish voters, in the most Jewish city in America, in the traditional Jewish party, voted for a candidate who the Jewish establishment orgs told them was antisemitic? Hard to think of a more forceful rejection.
At Hampton Synagogue this morning, Andrew Cuomo said he "didn't debunk" Mamdani enough. Cuomo added that Mamdani got "more than 50 percent" of the Jewish vote. "Those young people, the under-30 people, they are pro-Palestinian, and they don't consider it being anti-Israel."
I’m just watching @AnasAlSharif0 break down live about how everyone around him is collapsing from hunger. He can barely hold himself up. What world do we live in.
People are collapsing & dying from starvation in Gaza. Over the last 24 hours, 18 people have died as a result of famine, according to the ministry of health. Those who try to get food are gunned down by the Israeli military. At least 73 killed in aid massacres today. Genocide
Urgent | Gaza Health Ministry: 71 children have died due to hunger and malnutrition.
My friends @shaabiranks, @elgindy_ & others have already explained at length why the iron dome is essential to Israel’s shield of impunity. What I find insane is that one could call what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide and still vote to fund their military in the same breath.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Respectfully, Representative, you have just voted to send weapons to a regime that the ICJ and all human rights organizations have affirmed is an apartheid regime, that is on trial for genocide in the ICJ, and the leaders of which are indicted by the ICC for crimes against…
85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.