Walaa al-Jabari is the 231st journalist killed in Gaza. Israel and the United States bombed her home — killing her, her husband, four of their children, and the baby growing inside her. This is evil.
I’m so sick of Israel and I’m sick of the “pro-life Christians” who support this. I’m also sick of the people who respond to these horrific photos of wanton slaughter with “October 7!” or “hostages!”. They’re just full on Nazis at this point, like the NYT’s Bret Stephens.
I’m done too with those who criticize the Mexican flags at anti-ICE protests while ignoring all the elected who have Israeli flags outside their office doors and wear Israeli flag pins.
And now we’re losing our 1A rights for criticizing Israel, which is now considered “antisemitic.” Has anything similar ever happened for actual racism against POC? Of course not. That’s state endorsed.
Very well stated! I am also sick of this, like you are! It appears to me that Israel has forgotten about the 1930’s when Hitler attacked the Jewish community and we all stood by them. Now Israel is the attacker, doing the same.
With each story, I viscerally feel all of us being pulled closer to hell. I feel culpable but powerless. I hear so many kind hearts feeling the same. Yet those with the power to stop this are blithe and smug and arrogant. The demons walk unaccosted; and we are sending all the angels away.
When you first started the North Star, I mailed you a check and tried to subscribe. I was not on twitter at the time but I signed up so I could follow you AND...I could not because I was blocked. I had never even belonged to Twitter nevertheless I was blocked from reading your comments. I also never received the North Star although I had sent you a donation. I could not contact you at all. Now all of a sudden I am receiving all sorts of mail from you about the situation in Gaza. I know it is bad, I have been protesting and doing my best. I am hesitant to subscribe to your newsletter as I am afraid I will not be able to contact any sort of "customer service" if I run into problems like being blocked from your account again. So far as I know I am still blocked from your twitter. I tried to leave twitter once fascist pig Elon bought it, but apparently "X" is like the Hotel California-you can never leave. I am not a big tech on the computer. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter but what if you take my money and shut me out of any way to contact you as happened to me before. I support your work, but it does me no good if I have no way to contact your organization if I have problems..
Walaa al-Jabari. And family. Push your representatives, including your governors, hard. I know it is considered a cliche to write your reps, but we have to force the system to work. And since almost every one of our reps voted for the latest tranche of bombs and weapons, they need to know we will not give them any MONEY for their campaigns unless they shape up. I am frustrated that we in the U.S. can only watch as the last of our goodwill drips away.
A nation that declares itself the global guardian of liberty; and another, its close ally which boasts that its army is "the most moral in the world". I am speechless with anger and outrage. As an ordinary citizen I wonder what else I can do other than march, write letters to British politicians and comment on social media. Innocent people are dying, and I feel so impotent.
But then I reflect that the actions of hundreds of thousands of people globally, unremitting, determined, along with the resistance of the Palestinian people themselves are changing history. Increasingly Israel is a pariah state and the people of the world will no longer indulge Israel; will no longer be gaslighted by its shameless exploitation of the Holocaust and those who died.
By a bitter historical irony, Israel is now rivalling the Nazis in its genocidal ambitions. Israel has stolen the land of another people, and they are as determined as the Nazis before them to kill all those who stand in their way. Israel is a terror state; an apartheid state; an administration prepared to kill every last Palestinian in order to perpetuate its white, colonial settler regime. But it can be stopped. IT MUST BE STOPPED. Starmer and Lammy are war criminals and MUST face justice.
I’m so sick of Israel and I’m sick of the “pro-life Christians” who support this. I’m also sick of the people who respond to these horrific photos of wanton slaughter with “October 7!” or “hostages!”. They’re just full on Nazis at this point, like the NYT’s Bret Stephens.
I’m done too with those who criticize the Mexican flags at anti-ICE protests while ignoring all the elected who have Israeli flags outside their office doors and wear Israeli flag pins.
And now we’re losing our 1A rights for criticizing Israel, which is now considered “antisemitic.” Has anything similar ever happened for actual racism against POC? Of course not. That’s state endorsed.
Very well stated! I am also sick of this, like you are! It appears to me that Israel has forgotten about the 1930’s when Hitler attacked the Jewish community and we all stood by them. Now Israel is the attacker, doing the same.
Share widely. Stop the slaughter!
With each story, I viscerally feel all of us being pulled closer to hell. I feel culpable but powerless. I hear so many kind hearts feeling the same. Yet those with the power to stop this are blithe and smug and arrogant. The demons walk unaccosted; and we are sending all the angels away.
Keep sharing with your Congress people.
Walaa al-Jabari. A truth teller. She and her family matter. This is egregious.
For what it’s worth, I shared on Facebook. I want to hear just one of my right-wing pro-life “friends” say something. Say ANYTHING!
When you first started the North Star, I mailed you a check and tried to subscribe. I was not on twitter at the time but I signed up so I could follow you AND...I could not because I was blocked. I had never even belonged to Twitter nevertheless I was blocked from reading your comments. I also never received the North Star although I had sent you a donation. I could not contact you at all. Now all of a sudden I am receiving all sorts of mail from you about the situation in Gaza. I know it is bad, I have been protesting and doing my best. I am hesitant to subscribe to your newsletter as I am afraid I will not be able to contact any sort of "customer service" if I run into problems like being blocked from your account again. So far as I know I am still blocked from your twitter. I tried to leave twitter once fascist pig Elon bought it, but apparently "X" is like the Hotel California-you can never leave. I am not a big tech on the computer. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter but what if you take my money and shut me out of any way to contact you as happened to me before. I support your work, but it does me no good if I have no way to contact your organization if I have problems..
Walaa 🙏🏽
Walaa al-Jabari. And family. Push your representatives, including your governors, hard. I know it is considered a cliche to write your reps, but we have to force the system to work. And since almost every one of our reps voted for the latest tranche of bombs and weapons, they need to know we will not give them any MONEY for their campaigns unless they shape up. I am frustrated that we in the U.S. can only watch as the last of our goodwill drips away.
Nothing about this is okay. It is genocide.
A journalist. A mother. A pregnant woman.
A young girl with her skin burnt black
A little boy who was learning to walk.
Their siblings
A husband and father.
All dead. Killed by the USA and Israel.
A nation that declares itself the global guardian of liberty; and another, its close ally which boasts that its army is "the most moral in the world". I am speechless with anger and outrage. As an ordinary citizen I wonder what else I can do other than march, write letters to British politicians and comment on social media. Innocent people are dying, and I feel so impotent.
But then I reflect that the actions of hundreds of thousands of people globally, unremitting, determined, along with the resistance of the Palestinian people themselves are changing history. Increasingly Israel is a pariah state and the people of the world will no longer indulge Israel; will no longer be gaslighted by its shameless exploitation of the Holocaust and those who died.
By a bitter historical irony, Israel is now rivalling the Nazis in its genocidal ambitions. Israel has stolen the land of another people, and they are as determined as the Nazis before them to kill all those who stand in their way. Israel is a terror state; an apartheid state; an administration prepared to kill every last Palestinian in order to perpetuate its white, colonial settler regime. But it can be stopped. IT MUST BE STOPPED. Starmer and Lammy are war criminals and MUST face justice.