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Jacobin | Despite facing a uniquely flawed opponent, Kamala Harris is still running neck and neck with Donald Trump. To shore up support among key constituencies, she needs to champion popular pro-worker policies — and stop underwriting Israel’s genocide.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor | Since the beginning of its large-scale attack against Lebanon, the Israeli army has committed more than 20 massacres of civilians, and has attempted to legitimize and justify them under the pretext of targeting military targets or carrying out military or political assassinations.
The Guardian | Exclusive: Investigation reveals how intelligence agencies tried to derail war crimes prosecution, with Netanyahu ‘obsessed’ with intercepts
People's World | C.J Atkins | Some traders at the New York and Tel Aviv Stock Exchanges (NYSE and TASE) apparently knew in advance that Hamas militants were about to launch their attack on Israel before Oct. 7th and that a war would follow.
Belgian transport workers have refused to load and unload weapons going to Israel. The boycott that began on Tuesday accompanied growing international pressure for a ceasefire.
A giant coalition of over 50 pan-Canadian labor, civil society, peace, and justice organizations have signed a joint statement demanding that the federal government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau call for an immediate ceasefire of all hostilities in Gaza.
Canada is seeing broad grassroots community and labor unity around the demand for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war against the Palestinian people.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged continued U.S. support to Israel Thursday even as its military devastated the Gaza Strip with air strikes and prepared for a possible ground invasion.
Al Jazeera | International response after Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in decades with hostages taken and many killed.
The brave and pioneering Independent Jewish Voices was the first to cry “Whoa, boy!” at Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s pusillanimous response to Israel’s projected annexation of much of the occupied West Bank.