We are devastated to learn of the deaths of six Israeli hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose family is known to many in our community. 1/

Biden is to the right of Gallant on the Philadelphi corridor and Netanyahu is using Biden as a shield against agreeing to the terms to end this

AOC criticizes Jill Stein on Instagram, saying her Green Party presidential campaigns are “not serious” and “predatory.” “What does this person do to grow power?”

You just want our families to die. Stop going against what majority of Israelis and hostage families want. You do not represent or speak for us. We want a deal, and you need to stop lying to the diaspora going against our wishes.

Anyone who is pushing for a military solution to get our families back is encouraging them to die. The diaspora has a choice, either stand with the propagandists who lie to you about Netanyahu's regime or you stand with the majority of the Israeli population.

The UAW stands in solidarity with the tens of thousands of Israeli workers who withheld their labor today in support of an immediate hostage deal. It is long past time for an end to this war, and on this US Labor Day, we stand with workers in Israel who withheld their labor.

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The silence of the international community only emboldens these actions. For the sake of these children—and every child—this must stop. The illegal occupation and annexation must end - now.

😥 Rachel Goldberg at her son Hersh’s funeral: “Okay, sweet boy, go now on your journey. I hope it's as good as the trips you dreamed about. “Because finally, my sweet boy, finally, finally, finally, finally you're free!”

The confident assertions that Starmer would be worse (from a left perspective) than the previous Tory government on this issue suffer another blow. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

They were supposed to be home, alive. Their names were on the list.

UK arms sales to Israel are tiny. Practically it will have little/no effect. But diplomatically, and possibly legally, it is a very significant decision:

In his cruel, deceptive press conference just now, Netanyahu officially killed the negotiations for a hostage deal. He also got the date of Hamas' massacre wrong, "October 9". Well, not like anything important happenned, just 1200 Israelis murdered and 250 kidnapped on his watch.

yeah somehow mostly everyone else saw that one coming

Here's the thing: Churchill was a huge fuck up, screw ball and all round villain who was wrong about just about everything: wrong about World War I, wrong about Gallipoli (a major disaster of his making), wrong about Ireland, wrong about India, wrong about the gold standard,

"Opponents [of a ceasefire deal] recently decided to portray a continued Israeli presence in Gaza's Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors as critical to our security, even though both were virtually never mentioned during the previous 18 years." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Hmm what if, instead of asking American Jews to write op-eds about what should happen in Gaza after the war is over we asked... Palestinians??? Palestinian writers and politicians?? You know, the ones who should be strengthened to one day lead a Palestinian state??

Seriously. This is not 5-dimensional diplomatic chess. Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice both Palestinian and Israeli lives to preserve his own power, and will keep doing that until his cost/benefit calculation changes, which only the US can do, and which Biden refuses to.

The former POTUS's son goes to school here and we are on day 3 of a university-wide printer outage.