My final message to Columbia

By Erick Berlanga / Staff PhotographerBY YUSUF HAFEZ • MAY 6, 2024Published in the Columbia Spectator Dear Columbia, As I sit here, writing my final words as a college student, I want to start by looking back at the very beginning—I remember how you were once a dream to me. This was something I was so proud of: attending the …

What unites us

Written by Daniel F. Prinsloo @Daniel7Prinsloo We never thought that in our lifetimes we would have to take the reigns as concerned citizens and become journalists and activists to spread the truth to a uninformed and indoctrinated world. As a community we don’t do this for ourselves or for money, but we do it because we …

Hala Rharrit, the first State Department diplomat publicly resigns

May 3, 2024 Democracy Now! speaks with Hala Rharrit, the first State Department diplomat to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s policies backing Israel’s assault and siege of the Gaza Strip. Rharrit is an 18-year career diplomat who served as the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department in the region. “I could no longer be …

The “gusano” who gets paid by the Israel lobby

Written by @zei_squirrel – 4 May 2024 Ahmed Alkhatib: The “as a Gazan, I love Israel” gusano who gets paid by the Israel lobby and a literal torturer of Palestinians Ahmed Alkhatib just wrote a deranged screed calling me a “Nazi” and implying I’m some foreign agent. So let’s be absolutely clear: Ahmed Alkhatib is …

The Nation: Eric Adams Is the Lying Face of the Campus Crackdown

Article from the Nation – 3 May 2024 New York’s mayor is the right man for the job of standing up for the indefensible. ournalism, a trade where the need to maintain access often requires euphemism, is rich in evasive language to describe people like Eric Adams: dissimulator, equivocator, teller of tall tales, prevaricator, fabulist, …

Perspective on the new and hilariously named ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’

Alon Mizrahi I without equality there’s no freedom @alon_mizrahi – 3 May 2024 Some perspective on the new and hilariously named ‘Antisemitism Awareness Act’, and two predictions First, let’s remember reality (always important when dealing with propaganda, and I’ll touch on this in a sec). In real life, Israel and Netanyahu don’t have anywhere to …

Anatomy of a Zionist Lie: The Beaten-Unconscious Jewish Girl That Wasn’t

Trevor Sutcliffe @TrevorSutcliffe 3 May 2024 Many accounts tried to justify last night’s Jewish mob attack on UCLA protesters by citing a Jewish girl who was beaten unconscious. But did that really happen? Let’s do a deep dive & see what we discover! Firstly, while several accounts have cited this as a precipitating event for …

CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE MAY 02, 2024 In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN’s Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany — doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters. After playing a clip of Zionist …