With more than 100 media professionals – nearly all of them Palestinian – killed in Gaza since October, a group of 50 reporters from 13 international organizations this week shared the results of a new investigative journalism initiative aimed at exposing the deadly...
UN to Warn Half a Million Gazans Facing ‘Catastrophic’ Food Insecurity
More than 1 in 5 people in the Gaza Strip are "facing catastrophic levels of food insecurity" amid Israel's relentless assault and siege against the Palestinian territory, according to a draft report set to be published Tuesday by the United Nations' hunger monitoring...
‘Manufacturing Obituaries’: Media Falsely Reports Noam Chomsky’s Death
Some popular media outlets and international political figures came under fire Tuesday for falsely reporting the death of U.S. academic and social critic Noam Chomsky, who is fighting to recover in Brazil after suffering a massive stroke last year. "Chomsky did not...
NAACP Joins Growing Chorus Demanding Biden Halt Arms Shipments to Israel
Citing Israel's killing of over 36,000 Palestinians in Gaza and its defiance of a World Court order to stop attacking Rafah, the NAACP on Wednesday joined the hundreds of human rights and civil society organizations urging the Biden administration to halt weapons...
‘What Are They Afraid Of?’: Columbia Law Review Board Shuts Down Website Over Nakba Article
The Columbia Law Review's board of directors temporarily shut down the prestigious legal journal's website on Monday following its publication of an article arguing for the establishment of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Palestine to establish and...
Nagasaki Mayor Withholds Israel’s Invitation to Peace Ceremony
The mayor of Nagasaki said Monday that he is withholding Israel's invitation to the annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack on the Japanese city and will call on the country's far-right government to accept an immediate cease-fire in Gaza....
Maldives Bans All Israeli Travelers Over ‘Genocidal Acts’ in Gaza
Citing the Gaza genocide, the Maldives said Sunday that it will ban all Israeli passport holders from entering the Indian Ocean archipelago nation, in which income from tourism accounts for nearly 30% of the gross domestic product. Acting on a recommendation by his...
‘The New McCarthyism’: NY Hospital Fires Nurse for Empathizing With Gaza Mothers
A nurse was fired earlier this month from a New York City hospital for a speech lamenting the anguish felt by Palestinian mothers whose children were killed during the Gaza genocide – remarks that came as she was being honored for providing extraordinary care to...
As US Aid Shipments Begin, Gaza Pier Denounced as ‘PR Move’
As humanitarian shipments began trickling into Gaza via a U.S.-built temporary floating pier, Palestinians and aid workers on Friday renewed criticism of what they called an expensive and largely ineffectual publicity stunt that is no substitute for a cease-fire and...
Leaked USAID Document Concludes Israel Impeded Gaza Aid
Officials at the United States Agency for International Development concluded in a confidential memo to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel is violating a White House directive by blocking humanitarian aid from entering the besieged Gaza Strip during its...


