@bentg
emmy award winning journalist, producer, editor • print, video, audio at frontline, american experience, npr, clarion-ledger, anniston star • co-founder cir's civil rights cold case project • pitching projects & open for hire beyondthepalemedia.net
Human Rights Watch has issued a devastating report concluding Israel is committing the crimes of extermination and genocide in Gaza by focusing on one crucial issue: water.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/human-rights-watch-finds-israel-guilty-of-extermination-and-acts-of-genocide/
#Palestine #Isr…
i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...
After numerous cost overruns, delays, and the killing of a protestor, "Cop City" is open.*
That's over $100 million used to clear out hundreds of acres in one of the four "lungs" of Atlanta, as described by Atlanta City Design officials.
www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...
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Yes please. Independent journalist. Portfolio site in bio. Was at WGBH 2018-2022.
A good comment on how racist and sexist bias is affecting 🧪 starter packs 🔭 ⚛️
I have definitely noticed this and had a moment where what I really appreciated is the way Black studies folks have embraced me. It’s why I still do science. Scientist sure as hell aren’t.
@prisonpolicy.bsky.social created the public discourse around prison gerrymandering and has been driving the movement to end it.
www.prisonersofthecensus.org
For more background on prison gerrymandering, check out the @prisonpolicy.bsky.social link in the next post.
This child is Maysara Abu Al-Awf, 10 months old. He was born during the war and martyred during the war. He never knew the meaning of life, how it is, or what a single day of being safe looks like. He was born to the sounds of shells and rockets and was martyred by these rockets, along with his father, Fadel Abu Al-Awf, in the house they had fled to from the #Jabalia refugee camp in northern #Gaza
www.instagram.com/p/DCqp_CQN9_...
"This child is Maysara Abu Al-Awf, 10 months old.... He was born to the sounds of shells and rockets and was martyred by these rockets, along with his father, Fadel Abu Al-Awf, in the house they had fled to from the #Jabalia refugee camp in northern #Gaza"
—Karam Hassan
Hassan's unblurred photo 👇🏻
No not all but far too many.
💯 The article is good reading on the moral incohrence of mainstream Israeli liberals and progressives who are ardently anti Netanyahu and pro "democracy" but cool with genocide.
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Also a fan. And of the Damon & Naomi records, esp With Ghost. What this signifies I won't pretend to know. Years ago I had Damon & Naomi over for shabbat dinner.
"The vast majority of Israelis, Raz believes, fail to grasp the full extent of Netanyahu's involvement in bolstering Hamas before the current war, and in perpetuating an unending state of conflict."
“Some advocates have called the crisis in Gaza an “ecocide”, saying the war has made its ecosystems unliveable. “What’s going on in Gaza is completely killing all the elements of life,” said Abeer Butmeh, a coordinator of the Palestinian NGOs Network”
"Israeli planes just levelled five or six buildings to the ground in #Beirut. Without warnings or evacuation orders. Sources state that the buildings were full of civilian families." - Falesteen News Network Telegram
The depravity of #Israeli #torture makes US black sites look like luxury spas. Tariq Abed and Mohammed Arab gave these testimonies knowing that #IDF torturors would likely punish them with harrowing abuse for their bravery. We owe them our witness and our outrage.
www.newarab.com/analysis/new...
"In effect, the correspondents summarized the Israeli liberal position regarding Netanyahu's government and its policies: that the military campaign in Gaza was justified, but undermining Israel's judiciary and civil society were not."
"The ICC, they explained, had stepped into the vacuum left by Netanyahu's right-wing government when it embarked on its campaign to neuter the judiciary. These antidemocratic actions, they said, had made Israel vulnerable.
"The legal analysts on all the networks echoed Kra in asserting that if Israel had carried out a transparent investigation, it would have deterred the ICC from proceeding with the arrest warrants.
"[Kra] blamed Netanyahu — not for possibly committing the crimes of which he is accused, but for refusing to establish a transparent, professional commission of inquiry to investigate the charges...
"Baruch Kra, Channel 13’s legal correspondent, belongs to the liberal camp. During the Thursday night broadcast, he said that while he “would not argue” against the claim that the charges were antisemitic,
"Israeli liberals see the ICC’s arrest warrants as the poisoned fruit of Netanyahu’s ongoing plan to end the judiciary’s independence, making it subservient to the legislature.
"A combination of angry rejection and deep disquiet characterized the television news coverage of Karim Khan’s announcement."
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/un...
This is what David Duke was up to in the late ‘70s.
My op-ed for The Hill on the Antisemitism Awareness Act. There are many horrible things about the proposed act: it would silence Palestinians; it wld violate academic freedom & 1st Amend. It wld also ban the teaching of huge swaths of left-wing Jewish history
thehill.com/opinion/educ...
Last month, the Israeli military issued a kill list of six journalists working in northern Gaza.
Despite the heightened dangers they face, they have remained steadfast in their duty to report on the horrifying news coming out of the north.
thepublicsource.org/gaza-journal...
#JournalismisNotaCrime
Yesterday, Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat was injured in an Israeli double tap strike on a home in Gaza, where he had rushed to report on the first airstrike.
Shabat says he was deliberately targeted in the second airstrike, and he has reason to believe so.
#حسام_شبات #الجزيرة #غزة
