Human Rights

According to Amnesty International, USA, 248 brave and courageous journalists have been killed for documenting the atrocities in Gaza. Make no mistake: The deliberate targeting and killing of journalists by the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) constitutes war crimes under international humanitarian law. 

No, those journalists are not members of Hamas as Israel frequently claims. That's a malicious lie. Israel's war minister's ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip remains in place because their entry would endanger Israeli soldiers. 

However, two of the world’s leading news networks, CNN and the BBC, have revealed the inner workings of those outlets’ newsrooms from October 7 onward, alleging pro-Israel bias in coverage, systematic double standards, and frequent violations of journalistic principles. In several cases, they accused senior newsroom figures of failing to hold Israeli officials to account and of interfering in reporting to downplay Israeli atrocities. In one instance at CNN, false Israeli propaganda was put on air despite advance warnings from staff members. Source: Al Jazeera, October 5, 2024

When 43 y/o Mohammad Faraj from the pan-Arab media outlet Al Mayadeen made a family trip for the holidays to visit his family on December 12 in Jordan with his Lebanese wife Rania Abi Jema, he was arrested more than a week ago upon arriving at Amman’s airport from Beirut without any publicly stated legal grounds.

His wife is also a journalist employed by Al Mayadeen TV and is being held at the General Intelligence Department without legal representation or to establish the reason for his detention and was unable to see him. Faraj was also denied family visits - without legal representation or to establish the reason for his detention, according to the Committee to Protect Journalist.

The detention of Mohammad Faraj is a serious violation of human rights and a direct attack on freedom of the press, which seeks to silence voices committed to the truth and to the struggles of the peoples. The freedom of Mohammad Faraj is an imperative that cannot wait and for this reason, the Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity denounces his disappearance.

Suppose we accept the fiction that none of us expected Israel to launch a full-scale genocide in Gaza—a premeditated campaign to erase the Strip and exterminate a significant portion of its inhabitants.

Making offensive and distasteful remarks against Christians and Tunisian soccer fans is nasty and unbefitting of a high-ranking Palestinian official.

Jibril Rajoub, chairman of the Palestinian Football Association and a top Fatah official who previously served as commander of the Palestinian Authority's (PA) notorious Preventive Security Force in the West Bank, made the offensive remarks during a recent interview with an Egyptian television station.

Jibril Rajoub, also known by his kunya Abu Rami has previously served 17 years, on and off, in Israeli prison, having been arrested multiple times until he was released in a 1985 prisoner exchange deal. After that, he was the head of the Preventive Security Force in the West Bank until being dismissed in 2002.

He has also spent around 17 years, on and off, in Israeli prison, having been arrested multiple times until he was released in a 1985 prisoner exchange deal. I can't fathom a Palestinian official who insults his Christian brethren and even appease the occupiers who locked you up for 17 years behind bars. This man's shame knows no boundaries.

“Kill them all!”

You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your face.

Let me catch my breath, calm myself, wipe my face. The cutting edge is raw. A hundred deaths, a thousand deaths, quickly turn into “collateral damage.” But the killing of two desperate men, clinging to the wreckage of their boat in the Caribbean – their boat that has just been bombed – rips open the abstraction of military public relations. They’re just ordinary human beings – like you, like me, like our parents and our children – rather than . . . uh, narco-terrorists. And suddenly this new war the Trump administration has launched is more than just a videogame. Hey, Pete, this is not keeping us safe!

Spanish actress Adriana Ugarte, 40, star of the hit Spanish TV drama “The Time in Between,” has, upon recently receiving her award at the Almería Film Festival, stated that what is happening in Palestine cannot be considered the end of Israeli crimes.

Ugarte emphasized that what is being marketed to the world as a "ceasefire" does not reflect the true reality on the ground, stressing that the tragedy is far from over and that the occupation continues to escalate its crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

She explained that since the ceasefire was announced, Israel has killed 342 Palestinians and committed 497 violations of the agreement, which she considers evidence of the ongoing genocide against civilians.

So far Israel has murdered 18,000 children and 1,034 medical doctors in Gaza, not to mention that the terrorist Israeli Death Forces (IDF) and lawless illegal settlers have killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023. The world should never forget that Israel still holds over 10,000 Palestinian hostages, most of whom are held without trial or charges for years.

The US government wants us to forget about the Israeli genocide and the daily war crimes it commits in Gaza and the West Bank as was as in Lebanon against Palestinian refugee camps there. That's the reason the White House, the US State Department, the mainstream media, as well as major Jewish-American organizations act blind, deaf, and mute when it comes to Israel.

Last November 27, Israeli occupation forces executed two young Palestinians in cold blood even after they had turned themselves in. An outright extrajudicial killing in blatant violation of international humanitarian law. The incident happened last Thursday during an Israeli military operation in Jenin, northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain men as Al-Muntasir Billah Abdullah, 26, and 37-year-old Youssef Asasa, who knelt briefly before being shot as they moved back toward the entrance. Israel's military and police said they were wanted suspects who had thrown explosives and fired earlier and the matter is under review. The Palestinian Authority called it a war crime while Israel's National Security Minister supported the officers.

 First, having served in the Ohio Air National Guard for 11 years and previously for nine years with the Air Force Reserve, my heart goes to the two guard members of the West Virginian National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, who were shot yesterday blocks from the White House.

 Right after the shooting, Florida Congressman Randy Fine appeared on every TV network using this tragedy by spewing anti-Muslim hate and to further sow division for political gain. Shamefully, none of the national TV bother to invite a Muslim-American guest to challenge Fines' verbal outlandish attacks on Muslims.

Fine has a long history of publicly insulting Muslims. Here are some examples:

* This week, Zionist Rep. Fine introduced a bill that calls for five-year prison sentences for distributing anti-Israel flyers. He calls this a hate Crime. He is busy defending Israel’s Genocide abroad while attacking American freedoms at Home. He is not a Patriot he is a traitor, because he put the interest of Israel first, second, and third.

Introduction

This post offers a position against Trump and his administration policies during his first and second presidential terms of authorizing the separation of children from their families and treating them in abhorrent ways. It’s part of their efforts to deport immigrants and the promises they made to their base to do so. Such policies deserve our criticism and scorn. There is also something new currently, that is, to push for the end of birthright citizenship. 

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Looking Back to Trump’s first presidential term

 Caitlin Dickerson looks Back at the Family Separation Policy of Trump’s first term, writing for the American Immigration Council, Oct 30, 2025

(https://americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/family-separation-policy). Here are comments and excerpts. 

Family separation during the first Trump administration

When the United States passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and then the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, it seemed like the days of restaurants, movie theaters, and places of entertainment being able to refuse service to anyone were far behind us. But some recent incident in New York City with Ms. Rachel was denied service in three venues. This kind of conduct is illegal as it violates the 1964 federal law that bans discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin in public places and places of entertainment.

However, businesses have the right to refuse service only for reasons like disruptive behavior or violating dress codes. Restaurants are also not permitted to refuse service on the basis of national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, and veteran status.