cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34728083

August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.

When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.

A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.

Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members — especially young voters — if they kill the symbolic resolution.

“Our voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,” said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. “I don’t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.”

August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.

When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.

A vote at the Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.

Allison Minnerly, the 26-year-old committee member sponsoring the measure, told The Intercept Thursday that Democratic leaders risk further alienating party members — especially young voters — if they kill the symbolic resolution.

“Our voters, our base, they are saying that they do not want U.S. dollars to enable further death and starvation anywhere across the world, particularly in Gaza,” said Minnerly, a first-term DNC member from Florida. “I don’t think it should be a hard decision for us to say that clearly.”

Drop Site Daily [news summary] Aug 14, 2025

At least 54 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, 23 of whom by Israeli strikes on Gaza City and at an aid site near Rafah. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approves roughly 3,400 settlements in the “E1” zone between East Jerusalem and Ma‘ale Adumim seeking to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for an expansionist Greater Israel. Israel sends a deputy foreign minister to South Sudan a day after reports that Israel aims to send Palestinians from Gaza to the country. U.S. President Donald Trump rejects Mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for making D.C. a state, calling it “ridiculous.” Nigeria’s anti-insurgency campaign in its northeast is heralded by the Nigerian military. New Zealand’s co-chair of the Green Party was expelled from Parliament after introducing a bill to sanction Israel over war crimes in Gaza. A new report from Drop Site's Murtaza Hussain on the increasing ties between Israeli military intelligence and Silicon Valley.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34725496

Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025

At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.

Introducing Drop Site Daily: August 13, 2025
Drop Site News
Aug 13, 2025

At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in Gaza City. The UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to South Sudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the West Bank. President Trump seeks to replace the fired commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics with a new candidate who would pause the reporting of employment numbers. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund cuts ties with Israel.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34724770

updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]

In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.

“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.

Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”

[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34724770

updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]

In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.

“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.

Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”

[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34724770

updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]

In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.

“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.

Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”

[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]

updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]

In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.

“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.

Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”

[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34601933

Wed 13 Aug 2025 05.00 EDT

She called for an embargo on all arms sales to #Israel and a cessation of trade agreements – as well as accountability for the war crimes and crimes against humanity with which the international criminal court has charged top #Israeli officials. She also called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory by the 17 September deadline set by the #UN general assembly.

“Ending the question of #Palestine in line with international law is possible and necessary: end the genocide today, end the permanent occupation this year, and end apartheid,” she said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34601933

Wed 13 Aug 2025 05.00 EDT

She called for an embargo on all arms sales to #Israel and a cessation of trade agreements – as well as accountability for the war crimes and crimes against humanity with which the international criminal court has charged top #Israeli officials. She also called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory by the 17 September deadline set by the #UN general assembly.

“Ending the question of #Palestine in line with international law is possible and necessary: end the genocide today, end the permanent occupation this year, and end apartheid,” she said.

reprinted with an introduction by World-Outlook
August 11, 2025

“I read and translate testimonies of people who walk 7 kilometers each way in order lug a sack of flour weighing 30 kilos in this horrific heat. How can we even imagine that? The extreme heat is also playing a part.

“It’s terribly frightening because every time, you feel as if you’ve crossed another threshold from which it’s already impossible to return. For example, the erasure of #Gaza — there is no way back from that. What that means is, that even if the last soldier returns to Israel today and the Gaza Strip is opened to the world, we’re in a situation in which there is no way to exist in Gaza.”