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    Displaced Palestinians struggle for food amid deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza

    When the Starved Become the Starvers: A Jewish Voice on Gaza

    The images from Gaza haunt me not despite my Jewish identity, but because of it—because I recognize in Palestinian faces the same hollow desperation my grandparents described in the faces of their neighbors.

    John Kiss
    Jun 11, 2025

    The photographs are unbearable. Hollow-eyed children staring into cameras, their faces etched with a hunger that reaches beyond the physical. Families huddled in makeshift shelters, their possessions reduced to what they could carry. These images from Gaza pierce through my screen and lodge themselves in a place where other images have lived for decades—the inherited memories of my grandparents' stories, passed down like sacred wounds.

    All four of my grandparents fled the Nazi machinery of death. They carried with them fragments of lives destroyed: a photograph here, a recipe there, stories that began with abundance and ended with ash. They spoke of hunger as a weapon, of siege as strategy, of how systematically cutting off food, medicine, and hope could break a people's spirit before breaking their bodies.

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    Donald J. Trump Campaigns In Miami

    By Calling More Than Half the Country ‘Scum,’ Trump Is Raising a Bright Red Flag

    When political leaders use dehumanizing language to vilify their opponents, they’re in actuality laying the groundwork for authoritarianism, repression, and violence.

    Thom Hartmann
    May 27, 2025

    U.S. President Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:

    Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds…

    When the President of the United States calls members of the oldest political party in the world and a former president “scum,” it’s not just another ugly outburst that embarrasses America before the rest of the world: It’s a warning sign. A bright red flag.

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    People hold signs reading, "Mass deportations now," at RNC.

    By Dehumanizing Others, Trump Makes Sure We Remain Our Own Worst Enemies

    If Americans hate most of the planet beyond their borders—and go to war with it—they are creating the very reality they fear.a

    Robert C. Koehler
    Jan 24, 2025

    And now Trump consciousness purports to claim—or reclaim—control over America: the land of white Christian nationalists and no one else, damnit!

    But of course that level of selfishness—mine, mine, mine!—is only possible to maintain with a huge helping of fear alongside it: fear of the enemy. Fear of “them.”

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