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New York Magazine Finds Israel Guilty of ‘Crimes of the Century’ — No Trial. No Evidence. No Shame.
Palestinians collect aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
There’s a chilling deliberateness to the timing of New York Magazine’s latest cover story, penned by Suzy Hansen.
As Iranian ballistic missiles rain down on Israeli cities and rescue teams pull bodies from the wreckage of flattened apartment blocks, the magazine accuses Israel of perpetrating one of the greatest crimes of our time — an evil so singular, so unprecedented, that even genocidal regimes like North Korea or the architects of ISIS’ reign of terror escape comparison.
Hansen’s piece, titled “Crimes of the Century: How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law,” is not a call for accountability. It is an indictment without evidence, a sentence without trial.
In this telling, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism — the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its explicit goal of annihilating Israel and long record of arming Hamas and Hezbollah — is a footnote. The singular evil, Hansen insists, is Israel.
And no, it is not whataboutism to question the logic.
That @NYMag @suzyhans published an op-ed today about “Israel’s Crimes” as missiles literally slam into Israeli homes, sent by the regime that funded the terrorists behind Oct 7… is a choice.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 16, 2025
The “facts” presented are not facts at all, but a patchwork of distortions. Hansen repeats the oft-debunked claim that genocide accusations began “one week into” Israel’s retaliatory campaign after the October 7 Hamas massacre. In truth, those accusations were already circulating while Hamas gunmen were still rampaging through Israeli communities — raping, murdering, and abducting civilians. The record is public. We have the receipts.
She also falsely claims that the International Court of Justice ruled there were “plausible” claims of genocide in Gaza. In fact, as ICJ President Joan Donoghue later clarified, the court made no such finding. The “plausibility” in question referred only to South Africa’s standing to bring the case — not to the merits of the accusation itself.
Article in @NYMag claims war crimes in Gaza. FIRST example of strike presented as criminal does not disclose that it targeted a Hamas commander, tunnel network (NOT the buildings) with many secondary explosions. @suzyhans why did you omit this critical information? Sources: 1/ pic.twitter.com/F8fBRUYH5Q
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) June 17, 2025
Then comes the claim that “newborns are dying of malnutrition” — part of a broader narrative that Israel is deliberately engineering famine. But had starvation been Israel’s intention from the outset, Gaza would be facing the unmistakable markers of famine: mass graves, skeletal children, corpses in the streets. That hasn’t happened — because even while fighting a war against Hamas, Israel has continued to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid.
Hansen, unsurprisingly, has form. In a New York Times op-ed published two months after the October 7 atrocities, she described her thoughts on the day of the massacre. Not horror at the slaughter of civilians. Not anguish over the hostages dragged into Gaza. Not empathy for families watching the horror unfold in real time. Her concern, even as the attacks were still underway, was how Israel might respond.
She even invoked 9/11, lamenting what she called the “catastrophic” consequences for Arabs and Muslims. In Hansen’s world, the victims of terrorism are not the raped, the murdered, or the kidnapped — but the unnamed masses who might feel the political aftershock.
Now, she accuses Israel of the “crimes of the century.”
One wonders what the actual victims of genocide might say to that — the Yazidis, perhaps, or the survivors of Darfur.
But perhaps they don’t count in Hansen’s world. Because Israel wasn’t the one who hurt them.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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Trump Administration to Release Over $5 Billion School Funding That It Withheld
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and President Donald Trump, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, March 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
President Donald Trump’s administration will release more than $5 billion in previously approved funding for K-12 school programs that it froze over three weeks ago under a review, which had led to bipartisan condemnation.
“(The White House Office of Management and Budget) has completed its review … and has directed the Department to release all formula funds,” Madi Biedermann, deputy assistant secretary for communications at the U.S. Education Department, said in a statement, adding funds will be dispersed to states next week.
Further details on the review and what it found were not shared.
A senior administration official said “guardrails” would be in place for the amount being released, without giving details.
Early in July, the Trump administration said it would not release funding previously appropriated by Congress for schools and that an initial review found signs the money was misused to subsidize what it alleged was “a radical leftwing agenda.”
States say $6.8 billion in total was affected by the freeze. Last week, $1.3 billion was released.
After the freeze, a coalition of mostly Democratic-led states sued to challenge the move, and 10 Republican US senators wrote to the Republican Trump administration to reverse its decision.
The frozen money covered funding for education of migrant farm workers and their children; recruitment and training of teachers; English proficiency learning; academic enrichment and after-school and summer programs.
The Trump administration has threatened schools and colleges with withholding federal funds over issues like climate initiatives, transgender policies, pro-Palestinian protests against U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza and diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Republican US lawmakers welcomed the move on Friday, while Democratic lawmakers said there was no need to disrupt funding in the first place.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon separately said she was satisfied with what was found in the review and released the money, adding she did not think there would be future freezes.
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Israel to Resume Airdrop Aid to Gaza on Saturday, Military Says
Palestinians carry aid supplies which they received from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Israel will resume airdrop aid to Gaza on Saturday night, the Israeli military said, a few days after more than 100 aid agencies warned that mass starvation was spreading across the enclave.
“The airdrops will include seven pallets of aid containing flour, sugar, and canned food to be provided by international organizations,” the military added in a statement.
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Trump Says Hamas ‘Didn’t Want to Make a Deal,’ Now Likely to Get ‘Hunted Down’
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2025. Photo: Kevin Lamarque via Reuters Connect.
i24 News – US President Donald Trump on Friday said the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.
“Now we’re down to the final hostages, and they know what happens after you get the final hostages. And basically because of that, they really didn’t want to make a deal,” Trump said.
The comments followed statements by Middle East peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the effect that Israel was now considering “alternative” options to achieve its goals of bringing its hostages home from Gaza and ending the terror rule of Hamas in the coastal enclave.
Trump added he believed Hamas leaders would now be “hunted down.”
On Thursday, Witkoff said the Trump administration had decided to bring its negotiating team home for consultations following Hamas’s latest proposal. Witkoff said overnight that Hamas was to blame for the impasse, with Netanyahu concurring.
Trump also dismissed the significance of French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that Paris would become the first major Western power to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
Macron’s comments, “didn’t carry any weight,” the US leader said.
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