Jeff on Israel's Gaza Escalation; Anti Normalization Webinars: Dalia Ismail Tomorrow, Halper/Bahour Video; More Webinars Not to be Missed THE REPORT To Friends of ICAHD-USA Amplifying a critical Israeli voice in the US, opposing US government support of Israeli apartheid, supporting the One Democratic State Campaign. September 16, 2025 Your must-read for understanding Israel's "matrix of control," critical Palestine-Israel news, cutting edge analyses, opportunities for solidarity, and the work of ICAHD in the United States. ICAHD.org , click the ICAHD USA tab on the far right "We all feel as helpless and powerless as we do outraged. There seems to be little we, the people, can do to influence our governments which continue to support Israel militarily, economically and diplomatically, led by a uncaring, transactional American government that lends Netanyahu's criminal regime all the support and protection it needs. The UN Security Council is paralyzed by the American veto; the EU by such pro-Israel stalwarts as Germany, Hungary, Austria, the Balkan states and Italy. While the International Criminal Court is in the process of trying Israel for “plausible genocide” (albeit at a tortuously slow pace) and the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu, they both lack any enforcement powers. "We must redouble our efforts to resist Israeli criminality, colonization, urbicide and genocide. Our grassroots efforts -- speaking out at every opportunity, campaigning, lobbying, BDS, physical resistance, rallies and encampments, challenging our political leaders wherever we can find them, holding to account the media and our religious leaders -- are having their effect, albeit too slow to save the people of Gaza. Today Netanyahu appeared on Israeli TV to explain that Israel is entering a period of isolation and, in order to survive, will have to reduce its living standards and become a "super-Sparta." From "a light to the nations" to a super-Sparta: this is the degree to which Zionism has degraded Jewish life, culture and values. "ICAHD, the Israel-based, anti-colonial organization dedicated to resisting the Judaizing of Palestine and building a shared democracy in historic Palestine that I head, will continue to fight violent Zionist colonization as we have the past 28 years. We welcome collaboration with all you, organizations, activists, experts and concerned people. "And in this most difficult and tragic moment, we wish the Global Sumud Flotilla a safe journey into Gaza. I especially, having been on board the Free Gaza, one of two boats that succeeded in breaking the Israeli siege by sailing into Gaza in 2008. "In solidarity tonight with the people of Gaza City, I can't imagine the terror they are experiencing. And in solidarity with all the people of Gaza and the besieged West Bank. Free Palestine!" The Campaign Against Normalizing Israeli Apartheid Indiana Center for Middle East Peace & ICAHD-USA in Conversation with Michael Spath Wednesday, September 17, 12 noon ET REGISTER HERE Hidden behind the genocidal destruction of Gaza is a much larger, no less threatening agenda: normalizing Israeli apartheid regime over all historic Palestine while erasing the Palestinian struggle entirely from the global agenda. Having taken 85% of Palestine’s land, settled it with Jews and driven half the Palestinian people into exile, normalization mean international acceptance of Israel’s locking the Palestinians into truncated, non-sovereign, non-viable enclaves on 15% of Palestine, controlled entirely by Israel itself – the permanent imprisonment of the Palestinians into a Bantustan-“state.” Normalization means closure for the Palestinians’ struggle for Palestinian rights. What does a “Campaign Against Normalizing Israeli Apartheid” look like? Rev. Loren McGrail, in conversation with Michael Spath, shares Art and Poetry from Gazan artists, and Gazan and Palestinian Poets, as well as her own art and poems. Come see the art being made in this time of genocide. Listen to the voices of the poets crying out in Gaza and America. Loren lived and worked in Palestine from 2013-2018. "They are not paintings, nor works of art that we paint for those who are interested in art, to be collected or seen by those who are interested…It's our screams that go out and wound our throats, it's our blood formed by coal, ink and colors, it's the smile of our children that disappeared with their schools in a time not in their time or place, it's love in a time of war." - Gazan artist, Basel El Maqosi, August 5, 2025 Co-Hosted by: Indiana Center for Middle East Peace United Church of Christ Movement for Palestinian Solidarity Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank The next in the ICAHD UK series that connects with Palestinians from Area C Tuesday, September 23, 2pm ET REGISTER HERE Attend this one-hour webinar to receive the latest updates on Israel’s ethnic cleaning and settler violence in the Jordan Valley and the South Hebron Hills. Learn how it has intensified, and ways you can help this phenomenon be resisted. Featured Speakers: Rasheed Khudairy, Coordinator, Jordan Valley Campaign (left) Khalil al-Hathaleen, Brother of Awdah, Umm al-Khair (right) Thank you for your continuing support Follow us on Facebook Email us at: info@icahdusa.org JEFF ON ISRAEL'S GAZA ESCALATION "As I write this, Sunday evening the 15th of September, Israel has launched its all-out military assault on Gaza City. Marco Rubio is here in Jerusalem and has given Netanyahu Trump's approval and blessing for destroying a city of a million people. Many Palestinian residents have fled or are fleeing. The fact that they have been forcibly driven out of their city without adequate provisions for their well-being in their supposed place of refuge -- they are fleeing, after all, to Israeli-controlled concentration camps overwhelmed with starvation, injuries, trauma, fear, violence and death -- constitutes yet another in a long list of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity. At least 300,000 Palestinians remain as the Israeli troops, tanks and fleets of massive Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers are at this moment entering the city. Intensive carpet-bombing has commenced from the air. INTERVIEW SERIES, PART TWO DALIA ISMAIL Dalia Ismail is a Palestinian-Italian student working in the areas of political science and international relations. Her recent article in Global Voices: “How Europe is Managing Guilt Over Gaza: The politics of moral cleansing.” Michael Spath is the founding Executive Director of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace and Co-Chair of ICAHD-USA. He also serves on the board of Friends of Hebron and on the Communication Committee of the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition in Bethlehem. VIDEO OF PART ONE IN THE SERIES Recorded on September 9. WATCH HERE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK1rY0Fnfrk) UPCOMING WEBINARS Out of the Ruins: Love in a Time of War - art and poetry in this time of genocide Wednesday, September 24, 12noon ET REGISTER HERE (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sDGkuJB6Rr-7wmqM295BNA?fbclid=IwY2xjawM1eBRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFVaEFyM1I5QThiR2FYVGFjAR5Gcw3cDrhUmKZ4487bYsqlDaG-NJcjc8lu_WtfJbGkaZq2MzdOMOp417_G6g_aem_Nyk9rXCi0K8YOeS1Wi3J7A#/registration) — ICAHD (icahd.org) /newsletter/jeff-on-israels-gaza-escalation-anti-normalization-webinars-dalia-ismail-tomorro