U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said his administration is weighing the Australian government's requests to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been deprived of his freedom since 2010 and is currently jailed in London's notorious...
World Marks Six Months of ‘Relentless Death and Destruction’ in Gaza
Peace and human rights advocates on Sunday renewed calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and an increase in lifesaving humanitarian aid for its starving people as the embattled enclave marked six months since the start of Israel's genocidal retaliation for the...
Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes
A doctor at an Israeli field hospital inside a notorious detention center where hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are temporarily held is sounding the alarm about torture and horrific conditions at what some human rights defenders – including Israelis – are calling...
80+ Groups Urge Biden to ‘Reverse Course Before Thousands More Die’ in Gaza
More than 80 U.S. Muslim, Palestinian, and allied groups on Wednesday implored President Joe Biden to pursue a "concrete change in policy" that includes the suspension of arms transfers to Israel as it wages a genocidal war on Gaza. "The National Security Memorandum...
Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday published a draft report that found "reasonable grounds to believe" that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a move that came on the same day as the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate...
US State Department Claims It Hasn’t Seen Reports of Israel Torturing UNRWA Staff
A Biden administration spokesperson on Monday attempted to avoid addressing allegations by employees of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees that they were tortured while in Israeli detention by claiming the U.S. State Department has not seen any media...
Protests and Parody Paper Decry New York Times‘ Pro-Israel Bias in Gaza Coverage
More than 100 pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested Thursday after staging a protest at The New York Times' Midtown Manhattan headquarters, where activists handed out copies of a satirical knockoff of the newspaper that skewered what organizers called its biased...
Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children
In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage upon kids in the embattled strip, as detailed by a Save the Children report published...
Bullets Found at Gaza Flour Massacre Site Belie Israel’s ‘Stampede’ Claim
Bullet wounds caused by the same type of large-caliber ammunition used in several Israel Defense Forces rifles and machine guns undercut Israeli officials' dubious claim that most victims of last week's "Flour Massacre" near Gaza City died in a stampede, one human...
200+ Unions Launch Network To Push for Gaza Ceasefire
Seven national and over 200 local labor unions in the United States on Friday announced the establishment of a coalition to promote a cease-fire in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. The American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the Association of Flight Attendants, the...