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Antony Loewenstein is a leading Jewish voice criticising Israel’s attacks on Gaza, but some have branded him a traitor.Jewish journalist Antony Loewenstein is a leading voice among Australian Jews speaking out against Israel’s military attacks in Gaza. But he has been called a traitor by many in the Jewish community. “I’ve been called a self-hating Jew, a traitor and worse,” says the best-selling author. “I am so angry with what’s happening in Gaza that I will not stay silent.” Loewenstein is outraged by the rising death toll in Gaza and rejects any suggestion the Israeli military campaign is necessary to…

Former TV personality Carlos Watson has been convicted in a federal financial conspiracy case about Ozy Media, an ambitious startup that collapsed after another executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype the company’s success. Watson, 53, had been free on bail but was taken into custody to await sentencing after the verdict was announced on Tuesday. Brooklyn-based United States Attorney Breon Peace said the verdict held Watson accountable for “brazen crimes” that were meant to keep cash-strapped Ozy afloat but ultimately sank it. “The jury found that Watson was a con man who told lie upon lie upon lie to deceive…

At least 23 Palestinians were killed and 73 others wounded in an attack on Al-Razi school, Gaza authorities say.Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in southern and central Gaza, including one that struck an Israeli-designated “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people, Palestinian health officials said. An air raid on Tuesday hit a main street lined with market stalls outside the southern city of Khan Younis in al-Mawasi, at the heart of the zone that is packed with shelters for displaced people. Officials at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital said 17 people were killed. At least…

At least eight bodies have been found, but reports indicate there may be more as anger over the discovery grows.Police in Kenya have promised a “transparent” investigation into the discovery of eight mutilated female bodies that were found dumped in an abandoned quarry in Mukuru, a collection of slums south of the capital Nairobi. “The entire national police service and I understand the deep concern and distress the tragedy brings to the families, residents of Kware and fellow Kenyans,” acting Police Chief Douglas Kanja said in an address to journalists on Sunday. “We are committed to conducting transparent, thorough and…

NewsFeedGaza’s government media office says at least 23 people were killed and 73 more injured in an attack on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp sheltering displaced people. UNRWA says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war.Published On 16 Jul 202416 Jul 2024 Source link

When Sean O’Brien, the leader of the Teamsters union in the United States, took to the stage at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening, some scratched their heads: what was the leader of a union with 1.3 million members hoping to accomplish with his speech to the Republican Party, traditionally hostile to organised labour? In his unprecedented address at the gathering of what has historically been the US’s pro-business party, the labour boss made clear that his union was not wedded to the Democrats, a party it has endorsed in every election since 1996. “We are not beholden…

Tens of thousands of Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ashura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims. It is a particularly important period of mourning for Shia Muslims, as it marks the anniversary of the seventh-century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq, when Hussein was killed. To mourn his death in the year 680, Shia worshippers, wearing black, cry and beat their chests in unison. Some also flagellate themselves with swords and knife-edged…

If Donald Trump is re-elected president of the United States in November, Americans can expect higher inflation, slower economic growth and a larger national debt, according to economists. Trump’s economic agenda for a second term in office includes raising tariffs on imports, cutting taxes and deporting millions of undocumented migrants. “Inflation will be the main impact” of a second Trump presidency, Bernard Yaros, lead US economist at Oxford Economics, told Al Jazeera. “That’s ultimately the biggest risk. If Trump is president, tariffs are going up for sure. The question is how high do they go and how widespread are they,”…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – On Saturday morning, Waad Abu Zaher was standing on a crowded street in al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip trying to find a donkey cart, minibus or some other transport so she could go to work. The 30-year-old journalist works out of a media tent at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and commutes east from a tent camp in al-Mawasi. She lives there with her parents and four brothers, who have been displaced eight times since Israel first issued an evacuation order soon after the war on Gaza began on October 7. That morning…

We delve into how difficult day-to-day life is for Palestinians under Israeli occupation.What if every aspect of your life was under someone else’s control? This is the reality for millions of Palestinians who say Israel’s occupation has deprived them of freedom for generations. Since October 7, conditions in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have significantly worsened, with settler attacks tripling in the West Bank, according to the United Nations. In the 76 years since the Nakba, Israel has controlled the resources Palestinians can use, the services they can access, where they can travel, and even what they can…