Rights groups write to Rubio condemning Israel’s arrest of US journalists
The coalition of press freedom groups, led by Defending Rights & Dissent, has written a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning Israel’s “illegal abduction, detention, and mistreatment of journalists”.
Three American journalists – Alex Colston and Noa Avishag Schnall of Drop Site News and Emily Wilder of Jewish Currents – were detained when reporting on the Global Sumud Flotilla earlier this month, after Israeli forces illegally intercepted the vessels in international waters as they sailed to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.
“It is the responsibility of the State Department to advocate for American journalists. Yet the State Department has made no public condemnation of the unlawful detention of these reporters,” wrote the coalition, which includes PEN America and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Hundreds of flotilla activists were transported to Israel and jailed, with many alleging mistreatment by Israeli authorities. All the activists have now been deported, Israel’s Adalah Legal Center said on Sunday.
The crew of the Conscience, a Gaza-bound vessel, which was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, sit on board their boat as they are illegally intercepted by Israeli forces in international water
US only cares about its citizens when it suits their (and Israel's) political agenda. Otherwise you're just a tax payer to extract money from.
Palestinian politician calls out Biden’s ‘abject servility, complicity’ in Israel’s genocide
Not only will history judge former US President Joe Biden for his “complicity with genocidal Israel”, but so should international courts that put war criminals on trial, said Hanan Ashrawi, a former member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee.
Sharing a social media post from the former US president on Gaza, Ashrawi responded to Biden, saying “the less you issue proclamations the better.
“Your administration worked relentlessly to veto all ceasefire resolutions, to supply genocidal Israel with all the weapons & funds it needed to pursue its death & destruction agenda,” Ashrawi said.
Biden had also lied “repeatedly on behalf of Israel” to ensure that Israel was “exonerated” in public discourse and the blame for the war was placed on Palestinians, she said.
“The whole world witnessed your abject servility to & complicity with genocidal Israel,” she added.
Your administration worked relentlessly to veto all ceasefire resolutions, to supply genocidal Israel with all the weapons & funds it needed to pursue its death & destruction agenda, to lie repeatedly on behalf of Israel & ensure that your public discourse exonerated it & blamed… https://t.co/YjCXByvp35
— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) October 15, 2025
And Trump follows right behind. The last ounce of hope that his 'peace' plan can actually bring peace will soon be gone. It's the next big lie to try to exonerate Israel in public discourse.
