Jeremy Rose

2 weeks ago | towardsdemocracy.substack.com | Jeremy Rose

Photo: Jaber Jehad BadwanReading an NBC News report a couple of days ago about a Trump administration plan to relocate 1 million Gazans to Libya reminded me of a conversation between the legendary Warsaw Ghetto leader Marek Edelman and fellow fighter and survivor Simcha Rotem that took place more than quarter of a century ago. In the conversation, first reported in Haaretz in 2023, Rotem said the Jews who walked into the gas chambers without a fight did so only because they were hungry.

Jan 16, 2025 | towardsdemocracy.substack.com | Jeremy Rose

Photo: Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimagesThe International Court of Justice heard, last month, that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have emitted 52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. A figure equivalent to the annual emissions of 126 states and territories. It seems somehow wrong to be writing about the carbon footprint of Israel’s 15-month onslaught on Gaza. The human cost is so unfathomably ghastly.

Dec 21, 2023 | carbonnews.co.nz | Jeremy Rose

By Jeremy RoseThe director of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, Thomas Pogge, says for a relatively small investment of, say, US$100 million, New Zealand could make a significant impact on cutting the greenhouse gas emissions of the developing world.