On COI #668, Kyle Anzalone updates the latest news from Ukraine and Israel.
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UK Continues Use of Anti-Terrorism Law to Arrest Palestine Defenders
At least a dozen police officers raided the home of British pro-Palestine activist and journalist Sarah Wilkinson on Thursday over “content that she has posted online” that allegedly ran afoul of the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism law.
“The police came to her house just before 7:30 am,” Wilkinson’s son, Jack Wilkinson, said on social media. “There were 12 of them in total, some of them in plain clothes from the counterterrorism police… Her house is being raided and they have seized all her electronic devices.”
Police – who later freed Wilkinson on bail – did not disclose what content she posted that led to her arrest. Wilkinson has been a tireless critic of the U.K. government’s support for Israel and has posted many images of the death and destruction in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed and wounded more than 144,000 Palestinians. Israel is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice.
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In CNN Interview, Harris Dodged Gaza Genocide and Damaged Her Election Prospects
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza. Polling shows that a pivot toward moral decency would improve her chances of defeating Donald Trump. But during her CNN interview Thursday night, Harris remained in lockstep with President Biden’s unconditional arming of Israel.
Two weeks ago, YouGov pollsters released findings in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, three swing states now on a razor’s edge between Harris and Trump. “In Pennsylvania, 34 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7 percent who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference,” the new journalism site Zeteo reported.
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Conflicts of Interest: Is Israel Trying to Remove Palestinians From the West Bank?
On COI #667, Kyle Anzalone discusses the Israeli military operations in the West Bank.
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Hanging On with Gaza
Originally appeared on World Beyond War.
During a week of action focused on UN potential to end Israel’s genocidal attacks, I was part of a coalition that met with twelve different permanent missions to the United Nations. We urged that if countries that are parties to the Genocide Convention or the Geneva Conventions stop trading with Israel as international law demands, (cf. the July 19th advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice), the genocide will end quickly.
In each encounter at a Permanent Mission to the UN, its staff asked if we, as U.S. citizens, have addressed our government’s unwavering support for the genocide against the earth’s most desperate people.
War Is the Enemy
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
America has two war parties, Republican and Democratic, ensuring the death of democracy since war is the most insidious enemy of freedom and liberty.
When I wrote recently about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a longtime reader sent me this insight:
People just don’t realize how ugly war really is and how ugly everyone at war gets to be, and that goes for us as well as the Japanese.
How true! Ugliness is everywhere in war because war actuates the very worst impulses of the (in)human condition.