(FYI: Haaretz, September 1 2025: War Against Journalism
Over 250 global media outlets from over 70 countries staged an unprecedented coordinated "blackout" to protest the killing of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces.
The initiative, organized by Reporters Without Borders alongside campaign platform Avaaz and the International Federation of Journalists, saw newspapers around the globe publish black front pages, broadcasters interrupt programming, and digital outlets darken their homepages in a show of solidarity with Gazan journalists who have been killed since Israel's military campaign began over a year and a half ago...
The message also resonated among journalists in Israel itself. On Sunday, over 130 Israeli journalists signed a petition calling to stop the killing of their colleagues in Gaza, end the war, and secure a hostage deal.
Among them were 50 Haaretz reporters and others from Calcalist, Time Out, and The Hottest Place in Hell. The petition condemned Israel's record as "the country responsible for the highest number of journalist killings in 2024," and criticized domestic media for failing to cover the human toll of the war.
Outlets such as Local Call and +972 Magazine participated in the RSF blackout campaign, joining what organizers described as the largest global editorial protest in recent history.)
Haaretz, September 1 2025: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Scholars' Association Says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: "Israel's policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)."
The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, adopted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews by Nazi Germany, defines genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such."
And on July 28, 2025, Israeli human rights groups already published their reports on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza:
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem:
July 2025 Report: Our Genocide
And Physicians for Human Rights, Israel:
July 2025 Position Paper: Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide
never again rolling tanks (n)ever again bomber after bomber
each bombed-out house:
an album with no photos
but with people
living, wounded and dead
pressed between its pages
anything new
under Gaza's smeared sun?
smoky rubble
beyond smoky rubble, and yet
again smoky rubble
"Relocation Plan"
summer odors ...
nowhere to go, no way
to get pieces of bread
ghost town
a Gazan's mind a labyrinth
of dead bodies
another day
another refugee tent
another baby
with loose skin over bone
starves to death with eyes open
word after word
squeezed out of the PM's mouth
in broad daylight
this daily "banality"
of dying, of death in Gaza
(FYI: L4 alludes to Jewish philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt's ground-breaking book, , Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil)
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share with you the latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXII: "famine and a food aid truck"
mud-stained bodies
on sweat-drenched bodies on bodies
on a food aid truck
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXIII: "mind view"
Gazan girl's mind view:
mostly smoke and ruins
yet her lifeworld
still bears death and rebirth
on the wings of a dream
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXXIV: "The Voice of Hind Rajab"
inspired by The Voice of Hind Rajab, a Gaza film that earned over twenty minutes of standing ovation after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival
trapped in a car
among six dead relatives
Hind struggles for hours ...
chants of Free Palestine echo
through the theater and our hearts
FYI: Palestinian-Canadian actress Saja Kilani read a statement on behalf of the cast and crew:
"Hind's story carries the weight of an entire people... Her voice is one amongst 19,000 children who lost their lives in Gaza in the last two years alone… Let Hind Rajab's voice echo in every theatre, let it remind you of the silence the world has built around Gaza."
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