The Israeli military withdrew the majority of its ground forces from Gaza on Sunday. The air force, however, continues to strike targets in the coastal strip. Alongside the reorganization of its troops, the Israeli army started preparations toward future indictments against it for war crimes.
Descent Into Butchery, Part 2: An Update on the Gaza Massacre
3 August 2014, byIt’s official now, as if it weren’t obvious the whole time: Israel is hitting what it aims at, including housing blocks with dozens of trapped families inside, hospitals, schools, mosques, and even places where its air-drop leaflets had told Gaza residents to shelter. These places are hit, says prime minister Netanyahu, because that’s where Hamas hides its rockets to fire into Israel.
Gazafying Dissent
3 August 2014, by ,Israel does not want you to talk about the children it kills in Gaza. And neither does your government.
The vulture funds that corner Argentina also comes for Spain
2 August 2014, byIn this article written almost a month before the Argentinian default Fátima Fafatale and Jérôme Duval examine the way that the same vulture funds which have been so problematic in that country in Latin America are playing a similarly destructive role in the Spanish State - Ed
Podemos Manifesto
1 August 2014This is a translation of the manifesto titled Mover ficha, which literally means to move a piece on a board game, as in chess, but which might best be translated as Making a move from the website Cunning Hired Knaves
Palestine solidarity, antisemitism and the French pro-Israel camp
1 August 2014, byAgain, the below - an open letter from Palestine scholar Julien Salingue to Roger Cukierman of the French Jewish body CRIF - is translated from the original French. It helps place a lot of the lurid anglophone reporting in context.
Effective BDS actions more important than ever to support Palestinians in Gaza and hold Israel to account
1 August 2014In light of the on-going brutal military assault on Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on supporters of human rights to take effective actions, particularly in the shape of BDS campaigns, to show solidarity and pressure Israel to end its regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid.