“Israel has a long and shameful history of desecrating and abusing Palestinian bodies from the state’s earliest days and throughout its existence,” according to Gisha, an Israeli human rights organization.
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who became the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Palestinian rights demonstrators, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges senior Trump administration officials, pro-Israel group the Heritage Foundation and online surveillance groups Canary Mission and Betar conspired against him.
The vote resulted in some obvious losers, including every pro-Israel and Jewish establishment organization that spent days whipping against the amendment to little avail. Nobody is more identifiable with this camp than AIPAC: Nearly a dozen of the 103 votes came from Democrats it had previously endorsed.
Kamala Harris’s reported outreach to pro-Palestinian activists is not moral courage, merely an act of political survival.
While US media almost never hire Palestinian journalists alleging they would be ‘biased,’ they published narratives constructed around lies, twisted facts, and celebrated pieces of journalism that were entirely free of evidence & systematically biased. This enabled a genocide in real time.
The near total aid blockade Israel has imposed on Palestine is leading to mass deaths and starvation across the population. Gaza residents remain almost entirely dependent on dwindling aid kitchen meals, which continue to provide vital, yet insufficient, emergency relief.
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A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. The Trump administration says it never happened.
Section 219 carries the formal name the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” It threads a single foreign country straight into the apparatus that commandeers over a trillion dollars of American firepower. Americans have grown weary of bankrolling other nations’ wars while their own towns go without, and the honest answer is not a slyly buried merger engineered to outlast every vote. The answer is a clean break.
“Not just Democrats but Republicans. And these young Americans are going to be the future members of Congress, senators and presidents,” Khanna said.