Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.

It is often said that Israel’s war on Gaza is the first live-streamed genocide. Hind Rajab’s tragic final pleas and breaths were broadcast across the internet for all to hear. Israeli soldiers proudly post videos of their atrocities and destruction on TikTok. Brave Palestinians have built massive social media followings, as viewers log on every day to witness their hunger, displacement, and terror. More people around the world have been exposed to near real-time, graphic images of killings and starvation than ever in history. 

What is not unique about the genocide in Gaza is that world leaders — the only people with the means to stop it — have known about Israel’s actions, and its intentions, since day one. And they have done close to nothing to stop it.

Read more at:

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-genocide-global-intervention-holocaust/

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

In March 2024, six months into Israel’s war in Gaza, education in the territory was decimated. Schools were closed – most had been turned into shelters – and all 12 of the strip’s universities were partially or fully destroyed.

Against that backdrop, a prestigious American education journal decided to dedicate a special issue to “education and Palestine”. The Harvard Educational Review (HER) put out a call for submissions, asking academics around the world for ideas for articles grappling with the education of Palestinians, education about Palestine and Palestinians, and related debates in schools and colleges in the US.

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But on 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher cited “a number of complex issues”, shocking authors and editors alike, the Guardian has learned

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Read more on The Guardian

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’

Our government is supporting a heinous crime which is a creation of our political leaders, Democrat and Republican!

 Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ experts call an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza

 

Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah, Haaretz newspaper reported.

 Palestinians would go through “security screening” before entering, and once inside would not be allowed to leave, Katz said at a briefing for Israeli journalists.

Israeli forces would control the perimeter of the site and initially “move” 600,000 Palestinians into the area – mostly people currently displaced in the al-Mawasi area.

Eventually the entire population of Gaza would be housed there, and Israel aims to implement “the emigration plan, which will happen”, Haaretz quoted him saying.

Read more on The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah

'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.

The report traces those entities that are involved in the business of elimination, of replacing, and of course, of enabling. Some are the big military companies like Elbit, Caterpillar, and Lockheed Martin, but the report also lists financial institutions, educational institutions, and Big Tech companies, including Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, as well as many, many others. (Read the report for a full list.)

And, surprise, surprise, killing Palestinians is big business. “Arms companies have turned over near record profits by equipping Israel with cutting-edge weaponry that has obliterated a virtually defenceless civilian population,” the report notes.

Read more at https://zeteo.com/p/economy-of-genocide-un-expert-accuses

Read the full UN report at https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

Over 400 Media Figures Urge BBC to Remove ex-Jewish Chronicle Director From Board Over Gaza Coverage

 'Our failures impact audiences,' the signatories – including over 100 anonymous BBC staff members – wrote in their letter

More than 400 cultural figures, journalists and industry professionals, including Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes and British director Mike Leigh, have signed a blistering open letter to BBC leadership accusing the broadcaster of censoring Palestinian voices and calling for the resignation of board member Sir Robbie Gibb, who until last year served as the director of The Jewish Chronicle, over alleged conflicts of interest.

 

As first reported in The Guardian, the letter – also signed anonymously by 111 current BBC staff members – criticizes the corporation's Israel-Gaza coverage, claiming it falls short of its own editorial and is "crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government." Citing a "culture of censorship," the signatories say staff have been penalized for sharing content critical of Israel.

 

Read more on Haaretz (paywalled)

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