The mainstream media has failed us after 7 October
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/07/mainstream-media-israel-denies-palestinian-freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/07/mainstream-media-israel-denies-palestinian-freedom
Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/opinion/bidens-moral-failure-in-israel.html
Conventional wisdom has generally held that Israel’s government lacks a strategy for the Gaza Strip beyond toppling Hamas. …
The university’s new advisory group on antisemitism elevates political concerns over academic integrity. …
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Expulsionist sentiment is common in Israeli society and politics. To ignore the warning signs is to abdicate responsibility. …
Pundits express surprise when antisemitism and Zionism overlap, but the ideologies share much in common—and many adherents. …
In a speech yesterday, Joe Biden condemned Donald Trump’s handling of the wildfires devastating the American West and pledged to “put our nation on the road to net-zero emissions by no later than 2050.” That’s good news. But it was Biden’s first speech on the subject, even though California, Oregon, and Washington State declared states of emergency almost a month ago. He still hasn’t visited the devastation. …