NPR opened its 5pm All Things Considered news today with a defense of Russiagate with senior political reporter Dominico Montenaro (spelling?) and Jenn...
On The World Friday afternoon reliably anti-China Patrick Winn (spelling?), based in Bangkok, didn't question the argument by someone with an American accent that Taiwan is full of Chinese assets, in part because Taiwanese go the the mainland and get sexually blackmailed into spying. They claimed that the US can't share war plans with the ROC because of their unreliable client state. Did the US government say that during the Korean and Vietnam wars as well? Don't go to PR China, is the subtext. And, when people go to the USA, UK, Canada, western Ukraine, Israel, or the ROK?
Several weeks ago Emily Fang (spelling?) reported on great powers upgrading their nuclear arsenals (a very expensive project for the US) – but the focus wasn't on the thousands of US and Russian nuclear weapons that could get us all killed, it was on China, being threatened by the US and NATO with WWIII in the 2020's, adding to its total arsenal of a few hundred nuclear weapons each year (about 600, going up by 100 a year??). Nothing about the cost or NPT obligations, under which existing nuclear powers were supposed to be getting rid of their stockpiles, in exchange for non-nuclear countries such as Iran, DPR Korea, Pakistan, Israel, and India not developing their own nuclear weapons (the NPT was first signed July 1, 1968: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons ). It has been claimed that something like the use of 100 strategic nuclear weapons would be enough to cause a nuclear winter and anti-missile defenses (or a first strike) wouldn't be able to stop a barrage of missiles, some nuclear and some conventional or decoys, or the new, maneuverable hypersonic missiles, so why stockpile so many nuclear weapons, and at such cost? Fang, a graduate of Duke University, has been based in China (she was driven out, so she has a grudge?), Taiwan, and now in the US, with recent reporting tours in the Middle East.
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in 1953: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_the_Moncada_Barracks and see the CPCML's TML – cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/TS5519.HTM#1 ; the US Postal Service began July 26, 1775, during the Revolutionary War, according to NPR, but Wikipedia dates it to July 1, 1971: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
The Korean War armistice was July 27, 1953 and the war had begun June 25, 1950: cpcml.ca/ITN2025/TI5599.HTM#1 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
The People’s Summit for Korea is going on in New York City July 22nd-27th, and is being broadcast on YouTube. (Kami-Con HAI in Huntsville, Alabama this weekend might also be being broadcast, in part, on YouTube. [GalaxyCon in Raleigh ends July 27th.] The Sweetgrass Festival in Mount Pleasant, in coastal SC, was 10am-3pm today. Moth Week 2025 ends tomorrow.)
[According to Plantlife International July 27th is International Bog Day, established by the Scottish Wildlife Trust. I think there are a few bogs (and cranberries) in the mountains in WNC and similar wetland habitats in the coastal plain of North Carolina. According to Days of the Year and the National Day Calendar websites, the 26th is BagelFest Day; Days of the Year says that the 27th is Walk on Stilts Day – and I wondered how stilt walking began.] [According to Days of the Year, the 28th is Soccer Day, the 31st is Avocado Day (another native Mesoamerican fruit if I'm not mistaken, and very popular in the USA in recent years, leading to some problems), August 1st is Mountain Climbing Day, the 2nd is Coloring Book Day, and the 3rd is Watermelon Day, though it probably doesn't refer to Palestine, where I think watermelons are a national symbol.]
[On Cyprus July 27th: icssmarx.org/why-cyprus-matters-aziz-sah-july-27-2025-1030-am-pacific-time/ ]
[On the NEA and the ADL August 3rd: icssmarx.org/drop-the-adl-why-rank-file-nea-teachers-got-it-right-and-why-their-leadership-got-it-wrong-marcy-winograd-august-3-2025-1030-am-pacific-time/ ]
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah spoke on resistance in Lebanon: theworker.news/2025/07/26/my-message-is-to-rally-around-the-resistance-more-than-ever-georges-abdallahs-first-speech-following-his-release/
[ samidoun.net/2025/07/georges-abdallah-will-be-free-palestine-will-be-free/ ]
[ samidoun.net/2025/07/georges-abdallah-returns-to-lebanon-free-and-resisting/ ]
[In Gaza: diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/ejemplos-de-democracia-y-de-valores-y-eso/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/marchan-en-israel-contra-la-hambruna-en-gaza/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/la-traicion-de-europa-a-gaza/ ]
[ thecradle.co/articles/israel-planning-major-offensive-against-yemen-report ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/que-esta-pasando-en-siriay-en-el-asia-occidental/ ]
[On Libya and Syria : diario-octubre.com/2015/11/06/15-razones-por-las-que-la-otan-acabo-con-gadafi-y-otras-15-por-las-que-quiere-acabar-con-al-assad/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/camaguey-se-transforma-por-el-moncada-y-por-fidel/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/destaca-presidente-de-cuba-el-legado-de-fidel-castro/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/26/cuba-rememora-el-moncada-de-los-jovenes/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/26/fidel-el-che-y-el-26-de-julio-simbolos-imprescindibles/ ]
[In Colombia: diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/implacables-con-los-que-osan-luchar/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/ebrahim-traore-el-nuevo-pacto-africano/ ]
[On Europe buying F-35s; machine translated – "After the flying carpets and UFOs come the whims of the riffraff" – diario-octubre.com/2025/07/18/despues-de-las-alfombras-voladoras-y-los-ovnis-llegan-los-caprichos-de-los-chusqueros/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/como-obama-orquesto-el-russiagate/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/25/los-nombres-y-apellidos-del-libro-negro-de-epstein-1/ ]
[ diario-octubre.com/2025/07/26/los-nombres-y-apellidos-del-libro-negro-de-epstein-2/ ]
Not Even Wrong – "The Situation at Columbia XXX" – www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15113
And: www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15085
Larry Summers on the Columbia agreement: x.com/LHSummers/status/1948336830937501817
[US professors who target students: www.dropsitenews.com/p/documenting-jew-hatred-campus-professors-student-deportations-betar-canary-mission ]
At 3,610 signatures: www.change.org/p/call-on-pope-leo-xiv-to-stop-the-destruction-and-starvation-of-gaza
I hope to post more soon.
1. Originally posted at: adc.org/stophate/
ADC: STOP HATE Act is a Dangerous Attack on Free Speech and The Right to Dissent
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 25, 2025
media[at adc org]
Washington, D.C. | The American‑Arab Anti‑Discrimination Committee (ADC) is deeply alarmed by the continuous efforts by lawmakers to silence, censor, and chill freedom of speech and expression in this country at the behest of Israel. What we’re seeing is a total disgrace—another outrageous attempt by corrupt Washington insiders to hand over your First Amendment rights to Israel. The introduction of the Stopping Terrorists Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities (STOP HATE) Act, unveiled yesterday by AIPAC funded Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D) [of New Jersey: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gottheimer ] and Don Bacon (R) [of Nebraska: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bacon – interviewed on the BBC in July on waging economic warfare against countries that buy Russian fossil fuels?] at a Capitol Hill press conference alongside the Anti‑Defamation League (ADL) [see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League ], is the latest example of bipartisan disregard of the First Amendment.
There is no mincing of words – these law makers are putting Israel First.
Framed as a measure to curb extremist content, the bill instead deputizes and hands over “speech enforcement authority” to zionists entities, giving them unfettered powers to police private social media companies, attack lawful expression, and levy fines of up to five million dollars each day if companies fail to silence and censor users.
ADC warned about this playbook recently. In California, SB 771 promised to combat “hate” but instead created crushing liability for any platform whose algorithms happened to transmit speech that private actors, such as the ADL, deemed objectionable. The STOP HATE Act scales that same model of SB771 to the federal level.
An analysis and review of the bill shows that, faced with that risk, companies will preemptively start deleting users who express views and opinions that could possibly open them up to fines. These bills are explicitly written to target speech that is critical of Israel. Coupled with efforts around the forced adaptation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism, we are seeing an unprecedented attack on our First Amendment rights.
“The First Amendment is supposed to be the cornerstone of American democracy—our shield against censorship and government overreach. No foreign nation, including Israel, should have the power to dictate what Americans can or cannot say. Our rights are not negotiable. When members of Congress and state lawmakers start compromising our freedoms to satisfy the demands of a foreign government, we lose what makes this country free. We must reject any legislation that threatens our speech, our conscience, and our right to dissent,” said Abed Ayoub, ADC National Executive Director.
After passage of the Patriot Act post 9/11, banks shuttered thousands of Arab- and Muslim‑American accounts not because their owners had been proven to support terrorism, but because the institutions feared crippling fines. The STOP HATE Act would reproduce the post 9/11 chilling effect in the digital sphere, forcing platforms to silence voices, especially dissenting critics of Israel, simply to avoid litigation and penalties.
ADC categorically rejects any attempt to equate constitutionally protected speech with extremism and antisemitism. By coercing companies to remove or suppress lawful content, the STOP HATE Act violates core constitutional protections, undermines Section 230’s safe‑harbor framework, and invites discriminatory enforcement against marginalized communities.
ADC calls on every member of Congress to stand on the side of the Constitution and oppose the STOP HATE Act.
2. Originally posted at: adc.org/icsz-and-adc-file-federal-civil-rights-complaints/
ICSZ and ADC File Federal Civil Rights Complaints Against The New School For Illegal Discrimination Against Jewish Antizionist Students, Faculty, and Staff
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 23, 2025
info@criticalzionismstudies.org
media[at adc org]
Washington, D.C. | Today, The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) and the American‑Arab Anti‑Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed two Title VI complaints with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights charging The New School (TNS) of systematic discrimination against Jewish antizionist students, faculty, and staff.
The filings document how TNS administrators attacked student life, punished ethnoreligious practice, and denied Jewish antizionists access to university resources while suppressing protests against the genocide in Gaza and demands for divestment from weapons manufacturers. University officials imposed their own definition of Jewish identity—one that requires allegiance to Zionism and the State of Israel—then used that definition to exclude and penalize members of the campus community who rejected it.
TNS collaborated with Hillel International, a $73 million Zionist advocacy organization whose New York City chapter reported $1.7 million in revenue last year, alone [see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_International ; there is an NC Hillel building at or adjacent to UNC-Chapel Hill, with a branch at NCSU but I don't know what they do or what larger organizations it is connected to, if any; "We strongly encourage all Jewish students to NOT engage or attend pro-Hamas rallies - even from a distance." – www.nchillel.org/faq ]. At Hillel’s urging, TNS sanctioned Jewish antizionists who protested an on‑campus event featuring an active‑duty Israeli soldier. Administrators later solicited Hillel members to “remember” nonexistent aggressions by Jewish antizionist staff, which an independent investigation later found to be baseless.
The university also targeted joint Palestinian, Jewish, and BIPOC gatherings protesting the genocide in Gaza – often spaces of shared Jewish and Muslim prayer – thereby violating participants’ religious freedom. TNS stripped resources from the only student‑run Jewish organization because its members were antizionists and terminated a rabbinical chaplain who defended those students, falsely claiming the decision was budget‑related.
Through abusive disciplinary hearings led by a former prosecutor, TNS docked pay and retaliated against employees who reported discrimination. An outside investigator confirmed that the charges lacked merit and that TNS’s civil‑rights office had itself retaliated– punishments the university has yet to reverse. The complaints also detail a broader pattern of discrimination against BIPOC, transgender, and queer community members, using opposition to Zionism and genocide as a pretext.
ICSZ and ADC seek from The New School:
- Immediate reversal of all retaliatory sanctions, with full restoration of pay, positions, and resources to affected students, faculty, and staff.
- Public acknowledgment and apology for antisemitic, anti‑Palestinian, anti‑Black, anti‑Muslim, transphobic, and queerphobic discrimination.
- Full divestment of university endowment funds from weapons manufacturers and any enterprise profiting from genocide, apartheid, or occupation.
As Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, and allies, we refuse to allow our identities to be weaponized to silence opposition to genocide. It’s time to hold The New School accountable for egregious, illegal, and well-documented acts of discrimination.
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About ICSZ
Grounded in grassroots spaces and committed to working with activists, organizers, and scholars across fields including Jewish studies, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) is a response to the urgent need to declare space, distribute resources, and galvanize the necessary dialogue and research that will become the knowledge projects of Critical Zionism Studies. The Institute challenges the frequent assumptions that the study of Zionism must necessarily be pro-Zionist, overseen by Zionist faculty, and/or only undertaken in the context of Jewish Studies or Israel Studies.
About ADC
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S., founded in 1980 by former Senator James Abourezk. ADC’s mission is to defend and promote the human rights, civil rights, and liberties of at least 3.7 million Arab Americans residing in the United States. Through its work, ADC fights discrimination in the U.S., enhances public understanding of Arab history and culture, and partners with marginalized communities globally to advance social justice.
3. Originally posted at: adc.org/stopthestarvation/
ADC Calls for Immediate Closure and Independent Investigation of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation; Return to UN Oversight of All Aid
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21, 2025
media[at adc org]
Washington, D.C. | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is calling for immediate action to halt the historic humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. What was presented as an “aid effort”– the U.S.-backed, Israeli-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — has become a site of unimaginable violence, not relief. Just this weekend, at least 92 people were shot dead while trying to retrieve food. In just two months, more Palestinians have died at these “aid sides” than Israelis killed in the events of October 7th. Each day, without a permanent ceasefire, hundreds more face a similar end.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (a U.S.-backed shell operation disguised as a humanitarian aid distributor) has been utilizing food to lure starving Palestinians to narrow aid corridors where they open fire, murdering hundreds of Palestinians. This is not a humanitarian mission. This militarized project (designed according to military planning and not humanitarian relief) controls, coerces, and disappears Palestinians. More than 900 Palestinians have been murdered at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site by U.S. security forces and Israeli Occupation Forces. Israeli professor at Ben Gurion University, Yakov Garb, maintains these compounds are surrounded by buffer zones and controlled by American and Israeli personnel, deliberately structured to funnel desperate Palestinians into kill zones. This system is designed for forced displacement, not relief. GHF is designed to eliminate Palestinians under the guise of humanitarian relief.
Families in Gaza are starving. Parents are being shot trying to reach food for their children. What was supposed to be a humanitarian effort has turned into a death trap. Shut down the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and let food reach the people.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is calling for US elected officials to enforce:
- The immediate shutdown of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
- An end to all U.S. support for this operation, including logistics and intelligence
- Restoration of food aid coordination to the United Nations and impartial humanitarian groups
- Congressional hearings into U.S. complicity in these deadly violations of humanitarian law
Starving Palestinians don’t need militarized checkpoints. They need food. They need safety. They need dignity. It’s time to stop supporting failed, deadly models and return to real humanitarian protocol.
4. Originally posted at: adc.org/adc-statement-on-nea-boards-refusal-to-ratify-union-vote-to-divest-from-adl/
ADC Statement on NEA Board’s Refusal to Ratify Union Vote to Divest from ADL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 19, 2025
media[at adc org]
Washington, D.C. | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is appalled by the NEA Board of Directors’ refusal to ratify the historic vote by thousands of union members calling for divestment from the ADL. Once again, the will of the people has been rejected by those in power. Despite this setback, the union’s historic decision remains irreversible, and the fight for justice continues.
“While the NEA Board’s decision is disappointing, it does not diminish the union’s victory. This powerful vote raised the consciousness of thousands of educators who have been horrified by the intimidation and suppression they face when discussing Palestine, and who reject longstanding narratives pushed by the ADL that have proven to be distorted and harmful,” said Abed Ayoub, National Executive Director of ADC. “We applaud the NEA’s members for their commitment to critical inquiry and their refusal to legitimize materials that endanger students and undermine movements for justice. Despite the ADL’s influence within corridors of power, history can no longer be controlled or rewritten by oppressors. The genocide in Gaza is being documented and exposed through social media, directly challenging traditional narratives in unprecedented ways. The truth will not be suppressed.”
For decades, the ADL has actively undermined racial justice efforts in the United States. It has pushed an anti-Palestinian, anti-Black, and anti-Indigenous agendas, weaponizing claims of antisemitism to silence legitimate criticism of Israeli apartheid and targeting allies of the Pro-Palestine movement. The ADL routinely engages in smear campaigns that threaten and endanger community educators, especially those from marginalized communities, revealing an insidious prejudice baked into the fabric of the organization. Through political intimidation and disinformation campaigns, the organization has cultivated fear around any dissent against its pro-Israel agenda.
ADC encourages all unions, school districts, and educational institutions to follow NEA members’ lead and reconsider their relationship with the ADL and all materials they produce. An educator’s responsibility is to teach in a factual, unbiased, and research-based manner—not to promote distorted narratives that compromise students’ ability to think critically and independently.
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