The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word

by #CaitlinJohnstone
Jul 15, 2025

The #NewYorkTimes has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what #Israel is doing in #Gaza for as long as he could, but can no longer deny the obvious.

It’s an admission that may as well have come from The New York Times itself.

In an article titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”, a Brown University professor of Holocaust and #genocide studies named #OmerBartov argues that “Israel is literally trying to wipe out #Palestinian existence in Gaza,” and denounces his fellow #Holocaust scholars for failing to acknowledge reality.

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#StopGazaGenocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#BDS
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine

The New York Times Finally Stops Avoiding The G-Word

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

^{Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)}

"As the dust begins to settle, it is clear that neither of the stated intentions of the attacks’ architects—to unravel the Iranian regime and to decapitate the country’s nuclear capabilities—have been realized."

"Where's our bomb?"

Rajan Menon interviews Trita Parsi

bostonreview.net/articles/wher…

#Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy @iran @israel @palestine

How Israel pulled off audacious ‘Red Wedding’ and ‘Operation Narnia’ attacks on Iran

Source: independent.co.uk/news/world/m…

Another plot, called “Operation Narnia” because it was seen to be so fantastical, involved killing nine top Iranian #nuclear #scientists at their homes in #Tehran almost simultaneously - a plan that was successfully carried out.

Scientists and their families are civilians and not military targets. This is against international law and could be counted as a #war #crime.

#politics #war #news #warcrime #MiddleEast #Iran #Israel #airstrike #warfare #redWedding #Narnia #airforce #science #manhunt #military

Israel’s Red Wedding: How military pulled off attack on Iranian nuclear sites sparking 12 day war

The success of key Israeli operations against Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists is said to have even caught planners by surprise

^{Rachel Clun (The Independent)}

#Iran Suspends Cooperation With #UN #Nuclear Watchdog, #IAEA

The decision means that international inspectors will not be able to oversee sites. Experts have warned that Tehran could revive plans to build a bomb.

#geopolitics #MiddleEast #US #Israel
nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/m…

Nowhere to run: The Afghan refugees caught in Israel’s war on Iran | Israel-Iran conflict News

On Friday, June 13, when Israeli missiles began raining down on Tehran, Shamsi was reminded once again just…
#Europe #Conflicts #Afghanistan #Asia #conflict #Features #Iran #israeliranconflict #middleeast #migration #News #Refugees #Taliban #war
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International law, so it goes, is supposed to govern how nation states resolve their differences.

Analysis of US & Israel's current flouting of international law in the Middle East:

"Preventive attacks like this are clearly illegal under international law & have been over the last eighty years."

~Ben Saul, UN Special Rapporteur

abc.net.au/listen/programs/the…

#internationalLaw #WesternImperialism #MiddleEast #Settler-ColonialStates #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Genocide .

The international rules based order: not just a nice idea

The international rules based order is supposed to govern how nation states resolve their differences, but amid chaos and confusion in the middle-east are we seeing a different paradigm at play; one rule for them, another for us? 

^{Flint Duxfield (ABC listen)}

#Russia condemns US strikes on #Iran as ‘blatant violation’ of international #law

source: pakistantoday.com.pk/2025/06/2…

Is this irony or cynicism?

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#war #usa #middleEast #diplomacy #politics #question #putin #internationalLaw

Russia condemns US strikes on Iran as ‘blatant violation’ of international law

MOSCOW: Russia has strongly condemned the United States over its recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the move a “blatant violation” of international law and a threat to global se

^{www.pakistantoday.com.pk}

Explosions were reported near a #US #military #base in #Qatar Monday after #Iran vows to retaliate for #Trump’s assault on #nuclear sites. The development coincided with a warning from the US #Embassy in Qatar’s capital, #Doha, urging American citizens there to shelter in place. Qatar’s govt on Monday also closed its airspace & suspended flights as a “precautionary measure” while the #MiddleEast braces for a potential expansion of the fighting between #Israel & Iran.

reuters.com/world/world-braces…

this is #trump in 2011 saying #obama is weak so he will start a war with #iran

but pointing out the #hypocrisy is meaningless

today #MAGA is exalting over trump bombing iran

a few months ago they voted for him because he promised no more #USA #war in the #middleEast

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know this:

#fascism has no coherence

it's power by any means

you adhere to principles

they do not

"hypocrisy!" is as useful as correcting the grammar on a notice sending us to concentration camps

they do not fucking care

So now that the #USA is bombing #Iran, I just want to point out a large motivation for #MAGA was opposition to endless wars in the #MiddleEast. Not that I disagree with them on that topic. But I certainly don't trust a bloviating turd like #Trump on that topic. Or any topic

What kind of moron would?

Oh, yeah

"#US has struck 3 Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining #Israel air campaign"

apnews.com/article/israel-iran…

#B2bombers moving to #Guam amid #MiddleEast tensions

The #UnitedStates is moving B-2 bombers to Guam, 2 US ofcls told Reuters Saturday, as #Trump weighs whether the #US should take part in #Israel's strikes against #Iran.

It was unclear whether the bomber deployment is tied to Middle East tensions.

The B-2 can be equipped to carry America's 30k-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator [aka #BunkerBusters], designed to destroy targets deep underground.

#war
reuters.com/business/aerospace…

"#Israel’s codename for the attack was #OperationRisingLion, a pointed reference to the pre-1979 Iranian national flag, a lion before a rising sun. Israel and the US seem to hope that they can shatter the Iranian state and induce civil unrest. This is an attempt at regime change, or regime destruction, poorly disguised as an anti-nuclear operation."

lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/opera…

#Iran #MiddleEast #USpol #régimeChangeWars @iran @palestine @israel

Tom Stevenson | Operation Rising Lion

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference to...

^{Tom Stevenson (London Review of Books)}

Reporter: Is the US moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities?

TRUMP: I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do. Iran's got a lot of trouble.

[yeah Nobody knows what you’re going to do because you are an unhinged chaotic reactionary crazy person. Also, the number of times this guy says, “I’ve never seen anything like this” he is the personification of the phrase “born yesterday”. Idiot]

#geopolitics #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #MiddleEast #Iran #US #war