HRANA update:
• Civilian fatalities: 1,172 (including at least 194 children)
• Military fatalities: 176
• Unclassified fatalities (civilian/military): 284
"It should be noted that these figures should be considered minimum estimates."
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
We appear to be at the planning and preparation stages of what would be an act of aggression of considerable gravity and scale, in manifest violation of the UN Charter.
A thoughtful piece by my colleague Amahl Bishara addressing what often feels ineffable about trying to hold both the anxieties of terror at home in the US, and the continued horrors in Palestine at the same time: www.972mag.com/fascism-amer...
Over 11,000 people, mostly women and children, are missing in Gaza. The vast majority of them are likely dead. That puts the total number of Palestinians killed directly in Gaza at over 80,000.
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
Former provost Jonathan Cole calls on CU administration to make restitution for the injustice done to students who demonstrated against the war on Gaza. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics /
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
Let it truly be over, let it never be forgotten
Scenes from an occupied American city
Such joy
Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:
We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Vogue calls for the film to receive the Golden Lion. www.vogue.com/article/the-...
Poster for the film The Voice of Hind Rajab
Kaouthar Ben Hania's "Voice of Hind Rajab" received an unprecedented 22-min ovation at the Venice film festival. The reviews from both Variety and Hollywood Reporter seem to mark a watershed in film biz engagement with Gaza, as both reviewers openly speak of apartheid and genocide.
A reflective break, a sigh, from the wonderfully talented Avin Ahmadi:
Louisiana!
What was telling about the exchange (with Coates, who very clearly called him on it) was that it showed how much Klein/many liberals have internalized the notion that critics of genocide are in some essential way "pro-Hamas."
More or less it was a performative statement. He probably doesn't really think of any of the guests as individually being pro-Hamas, but it was a stock formulation that meant "I talk to everyone" that just fell out of his mouth.
Part 3, denouement: Trump takes credit for forcing a ceasefire, but takes advantage of the degradation in international standards brought about by Israel's impunity to promote hitherto unimagined challenges to the post-WW2 order:
Part 2, tension: The gambit, if there was one, fails miserably. Harris loses due to disgust among dem voters for her fealty to the pro-genocide policy.
You’d be welcome!
