The USA by a slim margin votes for Fascism, Rascism, Mysogeny, Hate.

[Peter Lemkin]

[Peter Lemkin]

Signalgate!

Heather Cox Richardson
Mar 27
 
Monday’s astounding story that the most senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration planned military strikes on Yemen over an unsecure commercial messaging app, on which they had included national security reporter and editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, has escalated over the past two days.
On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looked directly at a reporter’s camera and said: “Nobody was texting war plans.” Throughout the day Tuesday, the administration doubled down on this assertion, apparently convinced that Goldberg would not release the information they knew he had. They tried to spin the story by attacking Goldberg, suggesting he had somehow hacked into the conversation, although the app itself tracked that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz had added him.
Various administration figures, including Trump, insisted that the chat contained nothing classified. At a scheduled hearing yesterday before the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats, during which senators took the opportunity to dig into the Signal scandal, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group.” Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe agreed: “My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.” In the afternoon, Trump told reporters: “The attack was totally successful. It was, I guess, from what I understand, took place during. And it wasn’t classified information. So this was not classified.”
After Gabbard said she would defer to the secretary of defense and the National Security Council about what information should have been classified, Senator Angus King (I-ME) seemed taken aback. “You’re the head of the intelligence community. You’re supposed to know about classifications,” he pointed out. He continued, “So your testimony very clearly today is that nothing was in that set of texts that were classified.... If that’s the case, please release that whole text stream so that the public can have a view of what actually transpired on this discussion. It’s hard for me to believe that targets and timing and weapons would not have been classified.”
Meanwhile, reporters were also digging into the story. James LaPorta of CBS News reported that an internal bulletin from the National Security Agency warned staff in February 2025 not to use Signal for sensitive information, citing concerns that the app was vulnerable to Russian hackers. A former White House official told Maggie Miller and Dana Nickel of Politico, “Their personal phones are all hackable, and it’s highly likely that foreign intelligence services are sitting on their phones watching them type the sh*t out."
Tuesday night, American Oversight, a nonprofit organization focusing on government transparency, filed a lawsuit against Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio—all of whom were also on the Signal chain—and the National Archives for violating the Federal Records Act, and suggested the administration has made other attempts to get around the law. It notes that the law requires the preservation of federal records.
Today it all got worse.
It turned out that administration officials’ conviction that Goldberg wouldn’t publicly release receipts was wrong. This morning, Goldberg and Shane Harris, who had worked together on the initial story, wrote: “The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.”
The Atlantic published screenshots of the message chat.
The screenshots make clear that administration officials insisting that there was nothing classified on the chat were lying. Hegseth uploaded the precise details of the attack before it happened, leaving American military personnel vulnerable. The evidence is damning.
The fury of Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), an Army pilot who was nearly killed in Iraq, was palpable. “Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar,” she wrote. “This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.” Legal analyst Barb McQuade pointed out that it didn't even matter if the information was classified: it is “a crime to remove national defense information from its proper place through gross negligence…. Signal chat is not a proper place.”
The screenshots also raise a number of other issues. They made it clear that administration officials have been using Signal for other conversations: Waltz at one point typed: “As we stated in the first PC….” Using a nongovernment system is likely an attempt to get around the laws that require the preservation of public records. The screenshots also show that Signal was set to erase the messages on the chat after 4 weeks.
The messages reveal that President Trump was not part of the discussion of whether to make the airstrikes, a deeply troubling revelation that raises the question of who is in charge at the White House. As the conversation about whether to attack took place, Vice President J.D. Vance wrote about Trump’s reasoning that attacking the Houthis in Yemen would “send a message”: “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.” Later, he texted to Hegseth: “if you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again. Let’s just make sure our messaging is tight here. And if there are things we can do upfront to minimize risk to Saudi oil facilities we should do it.”
Hegseth responded: “VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close. Question is timing. I feel like now is as good a time as any, given POTUS directive to reopen shipping lanes. I think we should go; but POTUS still retains 24 hours of decision space.”
The decision to make the strikes then appears to have been made by deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who ended the discussion simply by invoking the president: “As I heard it,” he wrote, “the president was clear: green light, but we soon make it clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return. We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement.” If Europe doesn’t cover the cost of the attack, “then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”
“Agree,” Hegseth messaged, and the attack was on.
Also missing from the group message was the person who is currently acting as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Christopher Grady. In February, Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr., who took on the position in 2023 having served more than 3,000 hours as a fighter pilot, including 130 hours in combat, and commanded the Pacific Air Forces, which provides air power for U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific region; the U.S. Air Forces Central Command, responsible for protecting U.S. security interests in Africa through the Persian Gulf; the 31st Fighter Wing, covering the southern region of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); the 8th Fighter Wing, covering southeast Asia; U.S. Air Force Weapons School for advanced training in weapons and tactics for officers; and 78th Fighter Squadron.
Hegseth publicly suggested that Brown had been appointed because he is Black. “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt,” Hegseth wrote. With Trump’s controversial replacement for Brown still unconfirmed, Admiral Grady, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, is fulfilling the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But he was not in the chat. The Pentagon's highest-ranking officer would normally be included in planning a military operation.
Also in the chat, participants made embarrassing attacks on our allies and celebrated civilian deaths in Yemen in the quest to kill a targeted combatant.
Attempts to defend themselves from the scandal only dug administration officials in deeper. On Monday night, independent journalist Olga Lautman, who studies Russia, noted that Trump’s Russia and Ukraine specialist Steve Witkoff had actually been in Russia when Waltz added him to the chat, underscoring the chat’s vulnerability to hackers. By Tuesday, multiple outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, picked up Lautman’s story.
Witkoff fought back against the Wall Street Journal story with a long social media post about how he had traveled to Moscow with a secure government phone and now it was not until he got home that he had “access to my personal devices” to participate in the Signal conversation, thus apparently confirming that he was discussing classified information with the nation’s top officials on an unsecure personal device.
Tonight, news of other ways in which the administration is compromised surfaced. The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the contact information for a number of the same officials who were on the Signal chat is available online, as well as email addresses and some passwords for their private accounts, making it easy for hackers to get into their personal devices. Those compromised included National Security Advisor Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Gabbard, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Wired reported that Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and Walker Barrett of the National Security Council, who was also on the Signal messaging chain, had left their Venmo accounts public, demonstrating what national security experts described as reckless behavior.
In the New York Times tonight, foreign affairs journalist Noah Shachtman looked not just at the Signal scandal but also at the administration’s lowering of U.S. guard against foreign influence operations, installation of billionaire Elon Musk’s satellite internet terminals at the White House, and diversion of personnel from national security to Trump’s pet projects, and advised hostile nations to “savor this moment. It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple? The Trump administration has unlocked the vault doors, fired half of the security guards and asked the rest to roll pennies. Walk right in. Take what you want. This is the golden age.”
Trump today did not seem on top of the story when he told reporters: “I think it’s a witch hunt. I wasn’t involved with it, I wasn’t there, but I can tell you the result is unbelievable.” When asked if he still believed there was no classified information shared, he answered: “Well, that’s what I’ve heard. I don’t know, I’m not sure. You’ll have to ask the various people involved. I really don’t know.” He said the breach was Waltz’s fault—“it had nothing to do with anyone else”—and when reporters asked about the future of Defense Secretary Hegseth, who uploaded the attack plans into the unsecure system, he answered: “Hegseth is doing a great job, he had nothing to do with this…. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it. Look, look, it’s all a witch hunt. I don’t know that Signal works. I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you….”
The administration appears to be trying to create a distraction from the damning story. Yesterday evening, Trump signed an executive order that would, if it could be enforced, dramatically change U.S. elections and take the vote away from tens of millions of Americans. But, as Marc Elias of Democracy Docket put it, the order is “confused, rhetorical and—in places—nonsensical. It asserts facts that are not true and claims authority he does not possess. It is not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Rather, it is the empty threat of a weak man desperate to appear strong.”
After today’s revelations, Trump announced new 25% tariffs on imported cars and car parts including those from Canada and Mexico, despite a deal worked out earlier this month that items covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement Trump signed in his first term would not face a new tariff levy. The 25% tariff is a major change that will raise prices across the board and hit the automotive sector in which more than a million Americans work. Upon the news, the stock market fell again.
And yet, despite the attempts to bury the Signal story, the scandal seems, if anything, to be growing. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wrote a public letter to Trump yesterday calling for him to fire Hegseth, accurately referring to him as “the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in American history.” Jeffries wrote: “His behavior shocks the conscience, risked American lives and likely violated the law.” “[H]ey Sen[ator Joni] Ernst and Sen[ator Thom] Tillis,” Jen Rubin of The Contrarian wrote tonight, “proud of your votes for Hegseth? This is on [you] too as much as Hegseth. You knew he was not remotely qualified.”
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Notes:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/signal-leak-houthis-pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-john-ratcliffe-6195ab3b
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7
https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305288/trump-fires-chairman-joint-chiefs-of-staff-charles-brown-pentagon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-hegseth-joint-chiefs-cq-brown-jr
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/signal-cybersecurity-trump-war-planning-00246881
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawsuit-trump-administrations-signal-group-chat-assigned-judge/story?id=120175517
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341359/intelligence-leaders-signal-house-hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/opinion/americas-security-blunder-is-the-gift-of-a-lifetime.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publishes-signal-messages-yemen-strike/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-signs-executive-order-requiring-proof-citizenship-register-vote-rcna198094
https://americanoversight.org/litigation/american-oversight-v-hegseth-gabbard-ratcliffe-bessent-rubio-and-nara-regarding-military-actions-planned-on-signal-messaging-app/
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trumps-latest-executive-order-is-a-sham-and-a-warning/
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/01/13/meet-some-of-trumps-senior-nsc-team-00195922
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/trump-administration-floats-exemptions-tariffs-canadian-mexican-goods-rcna195110
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-announces-new-auto-tariffs-ratcheting-global-trade/story?id=120183740
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[Peter Lemkin]

Why We RESIST!
Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes today:
“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender, without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and that of our children.”
Russian dissident Alexei Navalny wrote these words in his prison diary on Jan. 17, 2022. He was one year into a confinement for invented charges of fraud, embezzlement, and extremism that would take him to the Polar Wolf maximum security penal colony in Siberia in 2023, and to the grave in 2024.
Navalny’s resistance took place in Russia. He could have stayed abroad when he went to Germany in 2020 for treatment after the Vladimir Putin regime had poisoned him. But his sense of duty as a Christian and a conservative nationalist led him to reject the idea of going into exile. “I have my country and my convictions. I don’t want to give up my country or betray it.” He was arrested at the airport in Moscow as soon as his flight landed when he returned in 2021.
Navalny resisted out of love of nation, to improve the fates of others, and to honor his personal set of values. Those reasons recur throughout the history of anti-authoritarian action, and those in the United States who are thinking about what they can do in the face of the loss of freedoms can start by examining how they can model the values they want to see in the world, whether it is solidarity, justice, equality or something else.
We can also think about how we can be most effective, reviewing our personal skill set and talents and the level at which we want to intervene. Are you a community-oriented person? Could you step forth and take a role in your faith, business, sports, or other communities? Can you speak or act effectively at the state level? Have you thought about running for office or working to register people to vote? Are you a facilitator and persuader who can connect with those anchored in the MAGA world?
Everyone will have their own way of resisting, but at a time when authoritarians seek to remove values and ethics from politics, rewarding amoral pragmatism and nihilism, we can lead with values and talk about values and let those principles guide the choices we make in our public and private lives.
Navalny was threatening to the Putin regime because he resisted in many ways, for many years. He knew that authoritarianism depends on lies and secrecy, and that autocrats fear the truth. So he resisted on behalf of the truth. His exposure of Putin’s corruption was designed to “do what they fear – tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.”
He used videos, social media, and his speeches at multiple sentencings to testify to the corruption and expose Putin’s lies to the world.
Resisters know that our votes are our voices, and our voices can change the world. Many dissenters have focused on protecting free and fair elections and getting people to register to vote. As Putin destroyed free and fair elections in Russia, Navalny also ran for office and mentored others to do the same at the local level.
He also inspired people to get involved in civic action. Kira Sokolova, a teacher from Chelyabinsk, near the Ural Mountains, watched the massive 2011 protests in Russia against Putin’s election fraud on television, and read online about Navalny’s foundation. She joined his movement, became an election monitor and in May 2012 traveled 34 hours to Moscow to attend the “March of Millions” held just before Putin’s 2012 inauguration. In an interview, she said she had become politically active because she was sick of the lying and “vileness” and longed for a return to “normal human values.”

Alexei Navalny. Photo by Martin Schoeller, published in the New Yorker, October 11, 2024.

We in the United States are witnessing a spectacle of institutionalized lying and vileness and incompetence and sabotage of our beloved country’s prosperity and well-being. We can tell others what is happening, and encourage them to see voting as a remedy and a peaceful and democratic way of removing those who are harming us.
Resilience is key to effective resistance, as is maintaining hope. Dissenters play a long game. This can be dispiriting to people who see their liberties disappearing now, but the lesson of anti-authoritarian action around the world is: use the freedoms you have when you have them, and expect setbacks. Do what you can in the spaces you have, and perhaps those spaces for democratic action will become bigger as more people come aboard. Collective action and solidarity are key to feeling you can continue and your efforts have a larger meaning.
Navalny had already been through a lot when he was sent to prison in 2021. He had received a “warning” dose of poison while in prison during the 2019 anti-government protests, and he had spent over 3 months total in prisons and penal colonies in 2017-2018 on fabricated charges of financial crime. He and his collaborators were constantly targeted and detained, and his foundation labeled an extremist entity and foreign influence vehicle.

Alexei Navalny is arrested by police at an anti-Putin protest, Moscow, May 2018. AP Photo.

His prison diaries suggest a tenacity that is possible when one possesses resilience, but also hope – hope that your efforts will make a difference, and belief that they can. “I am trying to do everything I can from here to put an end to authoritarianism (or, more modestly, to contribute to ending it),” he wrote from prison in March 2022, as his country invaded Ukraine and the violence and corruption of the Putin kleptocracy took center stage.
“Every single day, I ponder how to act more effectively, what constructive advice to give my colleagues who are still at liberty, where the regime’s greatest vulnerabilities lie,” he wrote in that entry. As more people are silenced and disappear in America, acting and speaking strategically will be even more important.
He never underestimated Putin –his prison diaries emphasize how long-lasting and durable such regimes can be—but he also never underestimated or dismissed the Russian people, and he worked with many young people who represented the future. A February 2021 Levada poll, conducted soon after Navalny’s arrest, found Putin’s approval rating unchanged –except among Russians aged 18-24: 48% of them felt that the country was going in the wrong direction.
“There are plenty of us, certainly more than corrupt judges, lying propagandists, and Kremlin crooks,” Navalny wrote in Jan 2023. “I’m not going to surrender my country to them, and I believe that the darkness will eventually yield. But as long as it persists I will do all I can, try to do what is right, and urge everyone not to abandon hope. Russia will be happy!”
We in America have a window to respond to a call from action that, to be most effective, must come from within. As we think about why we resist, the direction and method and focus of our resistance will become clearer to us. Saving our country from the Donald Trump-Elon Musk authoritarian state will require mass mobilization and collective action, but the ways we resist will be individual and tailored to our own ethical code and temperament.
One aim can guide and unite us, though: that we not “surrender, without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and that of our children.”

[Peter Lemkin]

Elon’s American Education
The South African is learning who he’s messing with
Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman
Mar 29
 
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:22:14 GMT
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For a supposed genius, Elon Musk sure does a lot of stupid shit.
But nothing – not his hilariously dumb covid predictions, not his piss-poor parenting and not his destruction of Twitter – is as dumb as Musk thinking he could fuck with the American people and get a pass.
Today (Saturday) is a big day for Tesla Takedown, an organic group of resisters who have been protesting at Tesla dealerships around the country and sending a message to the ketamine-soaked clown who is destroying our country. If you can go, please do. Elon needs to learn, and you’re the one who can teach him.
You see Elon is from South Africa. His family left when they did away with apartheid. He doesn’t understand our country or what makes it tick. When he claims on Fox News that he’s leading a “revolution,” he doesn’t understand that we take that shit pretty seriously.
He thinks he can call us parasites. He thinks he can wreck our systems. He thinks he can buy our votes. And he thinks we’re so dumb and he’s so smart that we’ll thank him for the privilege. Like we said, he doesn’t understand Americans.
It’s important for us to say here that we are opposed to violence and vandalism. Unlike Republicans, we actually are members of the law and order party, and so we are against people bombing and burning Teslas and Cybertrucks even if we think it’s funny to see them in flames on social media. But more than being hilarious, these acts of less than civil disobedience are creating a teachable moment (even if the methods should be condemned). The lesson is you can’t hurt Americans and expect them to just sit there and take it.
When you fire tens of thousands of people from the Veterans Administration and then wave around a chainsaw to brag about it, people are gonna get pissed off. Really pissed off.
Elon can’t understand why he’s so hated right now because he doesn’t understand us. He believes that because he is the richest man in the world and he has all the powers of the president of the United States that he can simply throw some cash around and he will get whatever he wants. He really did think we would greet him as a liberator.
And sadly, that will be true for some. If we’ve learned anything from Trump, it’s that way too many Americans are eager to throw away their right to self-governance and their self-respect for a buck and a donut. Some don’t even need the buck and others will do it for concepts of a donut.
But not all of us. No, some of us are pushing back. Some of us are not for sale.
And it’s not just burning Teslas and slumping stock.
On Friday, Elon announced that he was heading to Wisconsin on Sunday for a “talk” and to hand deliver two $1 million checks to voters there. The state is voting on a critical Supreme Court seat on Tuesday, and Elon has already thrown in around $20 million to try and buy the election.
But with this latest stunt, Elon made a big mistake. He broke the law in a place where people still care about shit like that. The Wisconsin Democrats were the first to call out the apparent illegality of Musk’s underhanded efforts, leading him to delete his announcement tweet shortly after. Not long after that, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced he is planning to take action against Elon’s crimes.
Oops.
Arrogance has always been the downfall of people like Elon Musk. Despite what his weird mom says, he ain’t that special. He’s just another maladjusted asshole with too much money and not enough sense. Things don’t usually turn out great for people like that.
And while Trump will do everything he can to prop Musk up in front of a public that increasingly hates him, the orange one can only afford to have so much dead weight around in addition to his own. We already saw one shocking election upset earlier this week when a Democrat won a state Senate seat in a Trump +15 district after explicitly running against Elon’s assault on the federal government. You can bet other Republicans are starting to get nervous about the prominence of the strange South African who keeps breaking shit.
Whenever a Democrat wins the presidency, we always hear from pundits that they are overreaching by doing stuff that actually helps people. But modern American politics has never seen an overreach like this. Even the Iraq War will pale in comparison to letting a billionaire asshole fuck up Social Security and veterans’ care.
The angry chorus of boos is getting louder. The protests are getting bigger. Still, Musk continues his rampage, trying and failing to put a silk hat on his fugly pig with desperate Fox appearances. We’ve all heard for years that this weirdo is a genius, but he sure does seem to be a slow learner. Maybe Wisconsinites will help speed up the process on Tuesday.
Regardless, we can all play our part in educating this ass-for-brains. So please join a protest and (peacefully) teach this fool a lesson.
It’s the only way he’ll learn.

[Peter Lemkin]

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[Peter Lemkin]

[Peter Lemkin]

[Lauren Johnson]

Your Uncle Lemkin's institute has put out a condemnation on the Gaza Genocide:

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/active-g...-west-bank

[Peter Lemkin]

[Peter Lemkin]

They are a rather small group and have just started a few years ago. I've been in contact with them. Yes, they are on the correct side of history and ethics/international law. Most of them that make up the Institute (not all) happen to be Jewish, but like me, and like my uncle Raphael were he still alive, condemn in the strongest terms what Israeli Zionism is doing against the Palestinians. It is pure genocide as defined by my uncle in his Genocide Convention at the United Nations. They have gotten a lot of angry push-back mostly by Jewish groups who blindly support anything Israel does and by the Christian Zionists who believe (and hope for) the end of the World coming soon starting with a major war in Biblical Palestine. They have a good website and put out a journal. There are many other groups now who's main purpose is to identify and try to bring to justice acts of Genocide, which sadly have never ended since WWII [and long predate that time]. Maybe I'll make a new thread and list some of the ones I know about and their websites. There is also a long and 'hidden' hidden history of Israel I could outline and mention some great books on the subject. The population of Israel is split [not the leadership of the country who are nearly all fascists and genocidally oriented against the Palestinians] - slightly less than half totally condemn what their leaders are doing and believe the land and laws should be shared equally with the Palestinians who lived there for at least two thousand years or longer. Slightly more than half sadly want to destroy Palestinians, having robbed their land and their homes they want to rob them of their lives, history and future survival. Trump of course also wants to do this and make Gaza into a Trump theme park. Disgusting and sad. More US Jews are pro-Palestinian than those in Israel now [it changes over time in both locations], but Trump and his thugs are trying to get all universities to throw out any Jewish or other students who protest the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank by Israel. The also label it antisemitism, which it is NOT. More later and will start a new thread on all this.....

Your Uncle Lemkin's institute has put out a condemnation on the Gaza Genocide:

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/active-g...-west-bank