News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
[More genocide bankrolled by the USA. Where there is repression, there is resistance. - NP] Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem By Ammar Awad JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scores of Palestinians rioted in East Jerusalem on Sunday after hearing that a youth from their neighborhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with... Continue Reading →
Holocaust survivors condemn Israel for 'Gaza massacre,' call for boycott By Haaretz In response to Elie Wiesel advertisement comparing Hamas to Nazis, 327 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants publish New York Times ad accusing Israel of 'ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people.' Hundreds of Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors have signed a letter, published... Continue Reading →
[The USA is the real power behind Israel. Israel is armed to the teeth by the USA. Israel's economy and military machine are propped up by billions in aid. Without the rest of the First World behind it, Israel would fall quickly. The USA is just as guilty as Israel for crimes against humanity, just... Continue Reading →
[Sometimes the imperialists let a little too much truth slip --NP] On the Times of Israel article "When Genocide is Permissible" (Vox) The English-language Israeli publication Times of Israel today published, and then quickly deleted, a blog post by the writer Yochanan Gordon with the extremely inflammatory headline "When Genocide is Permissible." The post does not explicitly... Continue Reading →
[Roughly a quarter of Palestinians are Christian. The US-financed genocide by Israel against the Palestinians is not just a war on Muslims. It is a war on all Palestinians, including Christians. This fact should be raised to those in imperialist countries with Christian populations. --NP] Gaza: Catholic Church told to evacuate ahead of Israeli bombing... Continue Reading →
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas (AlMonitor) Most of today's Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time being regarding it as irrelevant. Instead, their call is to engage in intense, bloody confrontations involving bombings, executions, and suicide attacks against governments headed by Muslims and against Muslim... Continue Reading →
[The imperialist media portrays the current conflict as one where the Palestinians are refusing peace. The reality is that numerous reasonable peace proposals have been on the table for years. All rejected by Israeli. Israel continues to reject peace because Israel aims at complete genocide of Palestine, the complete theft of all Palestinian land. --NP]... Continue Reading →
[Genocide carried out by Israel, backed by the West. According to the West, the only children who matter are Israeli. Imperialism at work. --NP] Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N. Thu, Jun 20 07:24 AM EDT By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on... Continue Reading →
MSNBC Contributor Slams Network For Pro-Israel Coverage: 'We Are Ridiculous!'by Tom Kludt (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/drudge-obama-birther-conspiracy) An MSNBC contributor used her appearance on the cable news channel Monday to sharply criticize its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. During an interview on "Ronan Farrow Daily," Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal unloaded on Western media outlets, including MSNBC, arguing that influence... Continue Reading →
Israeli soldier posts picture of Palestine child in the cross hairs (new-power.org) An image is worth a thousand words. An Israeli soldier caused a public outcry when he posted an image of a Palestinian child in the cross hairs of his sniper rifle to Instagram. Such is the brutality of racism, genocide, imperialism. Not only... Continue Reading →
Last of Warsaw Ghetto Survivors Calls for Rebellion Against Israeli Occupation (Source: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2013/04/09/last-of-warsaw-ghetto-survivors-calls-for-rebellion-against-israeli-occupation/) On Yom Ha-Shoah, one of the few remaining living survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Chavka Fulman-Raban, delivered a fierce denunciation of evil and injustice, including the Israeli Occupation. Her speech was offered to guests at the ceremony of Beit Lohamey Ha-Getaot (the... Continue Reading →
Leading Light condemns the invasion of Gaza (llco.org) All people of good conscience must condemn the brutal attack on Gaza by Israel. The recent escalation of violence is part of the continuous genocide inflicted on Palestine by Israel and its allies for over half a century. Millions of Palestinians have been killed and uprooted from... Continue Reading →
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