(2023-11-05). Roses Dressed in Black. tomdispatch.com On September 19, 2001, eight days after 9/11, as the leaders of both parties were already pounding a frenzied drumbeat of war, a diverse group of concerned Americans released a warning about the long-term consequences of a military response. Among them were veteran civil rights activists, faith leaders, and public intellectuals, including Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, and Palestinian-American Edward Said. Rare public opponents of the drive to war at the time, they wrote with level-headed clarity: Twenty-three years and more than two wars later, this statement reads as a tragic footnote to America's Global War on T…
(2023-11-05). Thousands of Gaza workers go 'missing' in Israel amid wartime mass arrests. indybay.org Palestinians whose permits to work in Israel were revoked are believed to be held in detention camps, but Israel has so far refused to release information about them, human rights groups say.
(2023-11-05). Israeli Forces Abduct Seventy-One Palestinians in the West Bank. indybay.org Beginning in the predawn hours of October 25, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted at least 71 Palestinians, including children and former prisoners, from various regions of the West Bank.