Hopelessness returns to Gaza, as ethnic cleansing looms; in West Bank, healthcare under attack; in Washington DC, Trump vacillates, insults; protests in Trump tower for Mahmoud Khalil; lawsuit for Columbia.
Retired Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis was reportedly up for a top job with Tulsi but was the target of a smear campaign by pro-Israel hawks; he says U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza is a strategic and moral mistake. He joins a growing series of appointees in key positions across a number of national security agencies who are disliked by Israel Firsters
Jewish Insider says that the prospect that kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie may run for US Senate “is already generating fierce opposition from the local and national Jewish community.”
In Gaza, Israeli-imposed starvation, thirst set in; Trump admin readies more weapons, talking with Hamas and entertaining illegal settlement leader; 12-year-old arrested for writing in her notebook; the significance of Mahmoud Khalil’s detention
Legal experts weigh in on Israeli war crimes; US, Israel discuss a fund to finance expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza; 90K attend 1st Friday prayers of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque; Israeli forces wreak havoc in Nablus; Israel is ‘sabotaging’ Trump-Hamas direct talks; Trump cancels $400m in funds to Columbia U; shame on Marco Rubio for Ash Wednesday comments
Food crisis in Gaza as Israel seals border; Israeli troops steal and sell Palestinian possessions; Palestine Legal accuses US Senate of McCarthyism; US holds secret talks with Hamas; Netanyahu policies reportedly helped pave way for 7 October; Israeli settlers escalate incursions into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan
Israeli-made surveillance technologies are accelerating the militarization of on campus police departments across the US, leading to deportation, arrests, and even murder.
Big US based tech company Oracle accused of clamping down on pro-Palestine content , while being the lead company attempting to take over TikTok in the US.
US officials and lobbyists say the push to ban the Chinese-owned application Tik Tok gained momentum during the genocide in Gaza upon finding out that a majority of users were supporting a free Palestine.
“Really, it’s an across-the-board attempt to silence and take away the First Amendment right of people simply because they don’t agree with them. It’s a very dangerous precedent.” Abed Ayoub, executive director of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee