SHBAIR AND BIGG: WHORES OF GENOCIDE
Israel is ever attuned to the US news cycle. It has predictably escalated its genocide in Gaza as the Kamala Harris candidacy replaced Gaza as the top news story. The past few weeks have been particularly gruesome: another day, another massacre of innocents. The New York Times plays its assigned role. Desperate to appease its reader base of billionaire Jewish supremacists on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, the Times keeps churning out the Israeli propaganda. Here’s one of its wretched headlines today (10 September 2024):
“Unwilling to Be Militants’ Human Shields, Some Gazans Turn Gunmen Away From Shelters”
Midway into this harrowing article on Hamas perfidy, the reader who gets this far comes across this line: “It was not possible to confirm whether armed or unarmed militants stay in the school shelters.” In other words, the whole thing is fabricated out of whole cloth. The authors of this article are identified as Bilal Shbair and Matthew Mpoke Bigg. Let there be no mistake: these two “persons of color” are complicit in genocide.
Dear Prof. Finkelstein; Thanks for your singular voice for justice. The conscientious world is in deep grief regarding Palestine. Will the genocide be stopped? Will the USA ever recover?
You might remember wife Mary and me. We participated in DePaul Univ. students' rallies for you, donated, and once gave you a lift to a speaking engagement at Crystal Lake High School.
The still-corrupt DePaul Admin got the police to destroy our placards a few months ago while a loader bulldozed all of the students' tents (and contents) in the quad into piles along the Fullerton St. fence. DePaul's still-wonderful students will resume their Divest from Genocide/End the Gaza Genocide campaign on Thursday, 9/12. We and our friends will gratefully rejoin them. It would be great to see you there.
All mainstream media takes their marching orders from Blinken it seems. He has repeatedly said the civilians being killed in Gaza are "caught in a crossfire of Hamas's making". The ultimate fabrication, supported by zero facts, because there aren't any.