For Israelis, Glimmers of Gaza’s Misery Begin to Penetrate a Wall of Silence | |
In the almost 600 days since the October 7 attack, Zeev Engelmayer has posted on social media a color-drenched daily cartoon “postcard” of war-related pain and trauma. Until recently, most of the creations, painted in acrylics or drawn with felt-tip pens and signed “Shoshke,” Engelmayer’s pen name, depicted Israeli agony: The hostages and their families, and occasionally the bereaved and the displaced. But in recent weeks he has turned his brush and pen to the escalating Israeli attacks on Gaza dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots” that have left hundreds Palestinians killed, among them women and children. He has depicted the effects of widespread hunger in Gaza in wake of an Israeli blockade on food aid, now only partially lifted. | |
Dina Kraft is a journalist, podcaster and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, My Friend Anne Frank, together with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She lives in Tel Aviv where she's the Israel Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and a creator of the podcast Groundwork, about activists working in Israel and Palestine. She was formerly the opinion editor of Haaretz English. Views and positions expressed here are those of the writer, and do not necessarily represent NJN's views and policy positions. | |
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(THE RETURN OF THE “NON-PROFIT KILLER” LEGISLATION – UPDATE): As covered in last week’s Round-Up, on the House Ways & Means Committee passed Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” (1BBB) with the text of the “Non-Profit Killer” legislation included at the very end of the 389 bill. This week, on 5/19/25, the House Rules Committee released the version of the 1BBB that would be going to the House floor. That version did not include the the text of the “Non-Profit Killer” legislation, reportedly because House leadership believed it would inevitably be removed by the Senate parliamentarian in compliance with the Byrd Rule. For more see: Measure targeting pro-Palestine NGOs disappears from US tax bill (Al Jazeera 5/19/25 — see: “Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said it would be ‘interesting’ to see how Republican leaders would deal with staunchly pro-Israel measures like the ‘nonprofit killer’ going forward. ‘They on the one hand likely see this as a fun opportunity to embarrass Democrats – whose opposition will be framed as anti-Israel or enabling terror and antisemitism – and on the other hand they have to worry about principled opposition from within their own ranks,’ Friedman told Al Jazeera in a statement.“); ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Pulled From GOP Tax Bill—For Now (Common Dreams 5/19/25); Nonprofit Killer Provision Quietly Disappears From Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” (The Intercept 5/19/25) Gaza | |
