In photos: Jewish and Muslim leaders launch peace initiative in Srebrenica
Jewish and Muslim dignitaries have launched a joint peace initiative at the Srebrenica Memorial Center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Anyone with a heart, anyone with a soul must have deep compassion and empathy for the suffering of Palestinian civilian men, women, and children desperately in need of humanitarian aid,” said the general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, Menachem Rosensaft, at the event.
A government-subsidised workforce of Israel lobbyists is targeting regulators and employers across the fields of media, medicine and business to sack employees who criticise the government of Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people. Joel Jenkins reports.
The powerful reach of the Zionist lobby in Australia has been on display the past few weeks, with news that lobbyists pressured ABC executives leading to the sacking of ABC journalist Antoinette Lattouf for sharing information from Human Rights Watch on her social media.
Source: How the Israel war lobby coerces regulators and employers to fire Australian critics of the genocide in Gaza – Michael West
Former President Donald Trump won't be able to exploit the appeals process in order to skirt paying journalist E. Jean Carroll, according to one of her attorneys.
In a Friday night interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes, attorney Shawn Crowley — who represented Carroll in her defamation trial alongside lawyer Roberta Kaplan — explained that even though the former president is appealing the $83.3 million judgment, he'll still have to put up the money while a decision is pending.
"We feel confident in our arguments [on appeal], and ultimately she will collect that judgment," Crowley said. "He's gonna have to pay at least a big portion of this money before he even wins on appeal."
"It has to be there to be certain that it's gonna be there when we win the appeal, and then certainly, after the appeal is — we hope we're victorious on appeal — he's gonna have to pay it," she added.
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by Carl Gibson | January 27, 2024 - 6:46am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
Trump has used his courtroom appearances to paint himself as a political martyr targeted by Biden and Democratic prosecutors. These have become essential parts of his political campaign.
Today he was found by a jury — a jury of average Americans, a jury whom Trump’s lawyers as well as E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers had initially determined to be impartial — to have acted maliciously in persistently attacking E. Jean Carroll.
Neither Biden nor the Justice Department nor any federal prosecutor had anything to do with this. Today, a jury of Americans gave one of America’s biggest bullies his comeuppance.
They ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million to Carroll for defaming her in 2019 after she accused him of a decades-old rape. He continued his attacks in social media posts, at news conferences even during the trial itself.
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I have long been, and still am, critical of what I see as clear maltreatment of the general Palestinian people by the state of Israel [i.e. its government and security/defense agencies] and, with few exceptions, Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.
By doing so, that media, whether they realize it or not, have done a disservice to its own reputation and the Israeli/Jewish people themselves [the road to hell, after all, is also paved with good intentions]. Not as widely criticized thus publicized as the violence are the considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war.
Perhaps mostly because I have no Jewish heritage thus experience, I still never expected the level of anti-Semitic attacks in the West since the initial Hamas attack against Israelis. For one thing, the Jewish people in Israel and especially around the world must not be collectively vilified, let alone physically attacked, for the acts of Israel’s government and military, however one feels about the latter’s brutality in Gaza.
It’s blatantly wrong for them to be mistreated, if not terrorized, as though they were responsible for what is happening there. And it should be needless to say that diaspora Palestinians and Western Muslims similarly must not be collectively blamed and attacked for the acts of Hamas violence in Israel or Islamic extremist attacks outside the Middle East.
Also, incredible insensitivity was publicly shown towards Jews freshly mourning the 10/7 victims, especially when considering that young Israelis and Jews elsewhere may not be accustomed to such relatively large-scale carnage (at least not as much as is seen in other parts of the Middle East) in post-9/11 times.
But also concerning about all of the highly publicized two-way partisan exchanges of fury is: what will young diaspora Jewish and diaspora Palestinian children think and feel if/when they hear such misdirected vile hatred towards their fundamental identity? Scary is the real possibility that such public outpour of blind hatred may lead some young children to feel very misplaced shame in their heritage.
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