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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31832650

from The Toronto Star
By Michele Landsberg, Contributor
Michele Landsberg is a journalist and author based in Toronto.
June 15, 2025

[excellent article]

"When I knew I had to do something, anything, about the war crimes in Gaza (I was haunted by my lifelong grief and outrage that no-one, no-one, no-one stood up for us when we were being annihilated in Europe) I was immediately attacked online by right-wing Jews. The usual condescending reproaches and violent insults were trotted out: I was giving aid to our enemies; I was spreading a “blood libel”; I was a Jew-hater; I was “pro-rape”. None of these insults could touch me because I knew how ludicrously false they were. As painful as it is to lose cherished friends, I asked myself: Is this intense social pressure why so very few Germans stood up against the Nazis?"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31832650

from The Toronto Star
By Michele Landsberg, Contributor
Michele Landsberg is a journalist and author based in Toronto.
June 15, 2025

[excellent article]

"When I knew I had to do something, anything, about the war crimes in Gaza (I was haunted by my lifelong grief and outrage that no-one, no-one, no-one stood up for us when we were being annihilated in Europe) I was immediately attacked online by right-wing Jews. The usual condescending reproaches and violent insults were trotted out: I was giving aid to our enemies; I was spreading a “blood libel”; I was a Jew-hater; I was “pro-rape”. None of these insults could touch me because I knew how ludicrously false they were. As painful as it is to lose cherished friends, I asked myself: Is this intense social pressure why so very few Germans stood up against the Nazis?"

from The Toronto Star
By Michele Landsberg, Contributor
Michele Landsberg is a journalist and author based in Toronto.
June 15, 2025

[excellent article]

"When I knew I had to do something, anything, about the war crimes in Gaza (I was haunted by my lifelong grief and outrage that no-one, no-one, no-one stood up for us when we were being annihilated in Europe) I was immediately attacked online by right-wing Jews. The usual condescending reproaches and violent insults were trotted out: I was giving aid to our enemies; I was spreading a “blood libel”; I was a Jew-hater; I was “pro-rape”. None of these insults could touch me because I knew how ludicrously false they were. As painful as it is to lose cherished friends, I asked myself: Is this intense social pressure why so very few Germans stood up against the Nazis?"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830904

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830904

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31829941

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

• Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
• Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
• Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31829941

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

• Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
• Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
• Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

• Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
• Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
• Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31810747

Julius Constantine Motal
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT

Julius Constantine Motal
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31809408

Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. So when President Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble.

By Miriam Jordan, Soumya Karlamangla, Shawn Hubler, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Orlando Mayorquín, and Matt Stevens

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington

Published June 14, 2025 Updated June 16, 2025, 10:14 p.m. ET

"But on June 6, as [ICE] agents swarmed the premises, dozens of employees at the warehouse and at a second facility nearby fled their workstations, ducking between shelves and inside boxes. [...] One of the workers, Tomas [...], who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, texted his son Carlos at around 10 a.m. [...] When Carlos arrived at the downtown warehouse a few minutes later, [he] was already gone. Carlos stood in disbelief as his father’s co-workers were hauled away and their loved ones screamed, cried and bid them goodbye."

https://archive.ph/wip/wtpwL