#Jeremy Scahill

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‘The area that [Palestinians are] being directed to evacuate to is not safe. It’s not safe because there aren’t the services there to meet their basic needs, water, toilets, shelter,’ [UNICEF’s Tess Ingram] said in an interview. ‘But it’s also not safe because we know that that area has been subject to strikes despite being a so-called safe zone. So we’re really concerned about that impact of a ground offensive on one of the most densely populated areas in the world.’ Prior to the onset of Israel’s scorched-earth war on Gaza, Rafah was a city of approximately 250,000 people. As a result of Palestinians fleeing Israeli attacks, the population is currently estimated at 1.4 million.

—Jeremy Scahill, from "600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says," in The Intercept

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“The reality for kids living there is shocking, honestly,” said an official who recently returned from Gaza. “People are living in really squalid conditions.”

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Without the willing dissemination of Zionist propaganda by the mainstream Western media, the genocide could never have continued into its second year. “It is impossible to overstate the role that the incendiary media coverage played in the events that would unfold after Hamas and its allies broke down the fence that surrounds Gaza,” declared Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News. The New York Times occupies pride of place in this regard. In mid April 2024, The Intercept published an exposé of a memo that showed the New York Times had instructed its journalists to limit the use of words like genocide and ethnic cleansing and to avoid using the phrase occupied territory when writing about Palestine. Reporters were also asked to not to use the term refugee camps to refer to enclaves in Gaza where Palestinian refugees had settled when they fled the ethnic cleansing that went hand in hand with the founding of the state of Israel. If the hundred years war on Palestine by colonial and post colonial powers was to be airbrushed out of history well the New York Times was more than happy to do that. The right kind of lexicon was all that was needed.

Radha Surya, ‘Snatching Victory from Defeat: Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar’s Last Stand’, Countercurrents

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Watch the full conversation with Jeremy Scahill here

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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept. The memo also instructs reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” and to steer clear of the term “refugee camps” to describe areas of Gaza historically settled by displaced Palestinians expelled from other parts of Palestine during previous Israeli–Arab wars. The areas are recognized by the United Nations as refugee camps and house hundreds of thousands of registered refugees. The memo — written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan, and their deputies — “offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October.” While the document is presented as an outline for maintaining objective journalistic principles in reporting on the Gaza war, several Times staffers told The Intercept that some of its contents show evidence of the paper’s deference to Israeli narratives.

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Necessary viewing.

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Jeremy Scahill on Israel's "Deliberate Propaganda Campaign"

The United States and more than a dozen other countries quickly moved to suspend funding to UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a vital lifeline for millions of people in Gaza, shortly after Israel accused a handful of the agency's staff of taking part in the Hamas attack on October 7. But the U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 obtained the intelligence dossier on UNRWA that Israel shared with allied countries, and found "no evidence to support its explosive new claim."

The Financial Times and Sky News also reviewed the materials and came to the same conclusion. Israel's claims about UNRWA are just the latest example of what journalist Jeremy Scahill says is a "deliberate propaganda campaign" to justify its brutal assault on Gaza. "This is one of the most epic frauds in modern history, reminiscent of the lies told to explain and justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq," says Scahill, senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept.

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That’s the verdict of co-founder of The Intercept Jeremy Scahill, who looked back into U.S. President Joe Biden’s political career and identified the key moments where he defended Israel’s alleged war crimes, from back in the 1980s to present day.

Biden has been in public office for 50 years, and during that time he has been one of Israel’s biggest defenders, even when the country has killed civilians.

Scahill argues that U.S. weapons and money have enabled Israel’s attacks on Gaza and that the more than 4,700 children killed “should be a permanent stain” on Biden’s legacy.

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Rolling its tanks this week into Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military moved swiftly to take control of the Palestinian side of the border crossing with Egypt. The takeover severed the only corridor connecting Palestinians in Gaza to land not controlled by Israel. In a gratuitous symbolic act, an Israeli tank bulldozed the ‘I love Gaza’ monument greeting visitors as they cross into the territory from Egypt.

—Jeremy Scahill, from "600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says," in The Intercept

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Le Hamas et le retour vers l'unité de la Palestine

Je l’ai déjà écrit sur ce blog mais on n’a rarement, voire jamais dans la presse française, le point de vue des dirigeants du Hamas sur la situation à Gaza et, plus largement, en Palestine. Je veux dire par là qu’on ne voit pas de journalistes avoir un entretien sur les questions d’actualité et de fond avec ces dirigeants. S’il est difficile d’échanger avec les cadres du Hamas présents dans la…

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PLEASE SHARE THIS. In this clip Jeremy Scahill uses Netanyahus own words. It's been known for many years that (as crazy as it may sound to some) Israel has been funneling money to Hamas to ensure a constant instability in Palestine. The IDF is never going to "wipe out" Hamas regardless of what they claim they want. They need them in order to justify endless war and occupation. Investigative journalists even within Israeli have obtained footage over the years of literal suitcases full of cash being transported to be given to Hamas. Listen, research and share this info. It's extremely important to get this out there and disrupt the victim narrative Israel keeps trying to use.

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A fascinating interview.