"The UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its 'double-tap' bombing of Nasser hospital, which killed 20 people including five journalists, yield results and ensure accountability. ...
Israel twice struck Nasser hospital on Monday, the last functioning public hospital in southern Gaza."
~ Jem Bartholomew
"If Israel values the work of journalists and wants the truth told, then they should let journalists cover this conflict. They should take great pains to avoid harming journalists in the field. They claim, against much evidence, to do the latter. They don’t even pretend to do the former."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Israel#Gaza #hospitals #journalists
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https://jill.substack.com/p/propaganda-warfare-and-the-war-on
"I suspect Israel’s right-wing government believes this helps them control the narrative. I think it only implicates them, and that the public is all the worse off for it."
"Those defenders that remain of Israel’s conduct in this war tend to lean on a few stock responses in the wake of stories like this. Gaza casualty numbers can’t be trusted, they say, because the authority reporting them is tied to Hamas."
~ The Bulwark
#Israel#Gaza #hospitals #journalists
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
"And whatever civilian casualties do occur can be blamed only on Hamas, which hides behind civilians, prompted the war with its October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel, and refuses to end the war by releasing its remaining Israeli hostages.
Such arguments have rung hollow for a while. But they truly fall apart in the face of a story like this."
Ben Jennings' cartoon commentary on Israel's attacks on journalists
Journalism professor and Jewish thinker Peter Beinart asks Ismar Schorsch, chancellor emeritus of Jewish Theological Seminary,
"Do you feel that what Israel is doing in Gaza represents a kind of a breaking, a violation of that berith that covenant between the Jewish people and God?"
Dr. Schorsch replies,
#Israel#Gaza #starvation #genocide#Judaism
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https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/a-stain-on-judaism-itself
"Yes, I do because I think the human life that is destroyed in order to regain possession of the West Bank and in order to annex the West Bank and Gaza — I think the ethical cost is far too great and it will make it very difficult to embrace Judaism qua religion long after this period of history is over.
Peter Beinart then says,
"One of the things that I've often wondered about is how did it become the case that in so many Jewish communities, so many synagogues, the test of whether you are a Jew in good standing, whether you're a good Jew, is whether you support Israel, basically right or wrong, not whether you keep Shabbat, not whether you keep kosher, not whether you lay tefillin, not whether you give tzedakah or visit the sick or wash the bodies of the dead."
"Was it always this way? And why has it become that this idea of what makes you a good Jew is your support for the state of Israel rather than these much much deeper things that are in our tradition?"
Two camera operators wearing blue helmets and vests clearly marked with the word "PRESS," video cameras still in their hands, lie face down amid rubble, presumably dead. Between them, Benjamin Netanyahu stands shrugging, saying "They were trying to shoot us!"
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