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ICC orders arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu – Day 226

[email protected] May 20, 2024 assassination, Ebrahim Raisi, FAROUK AL-KHATIB, ghassan abu sitta, humanitarian aid, international criminal court, israeli prison, Jabaliya, medical evacuation, Netanyahu, netanyahu arrest warranat, nypd, police brutality, Rafah, two-state solution

3,000 aid trucks wait at the border to enter Gaza, 100s of medical patients wait to exit; Israel assassinates Gaza police; as Israel destroys northern Gaza, more troops also head to southern Gaza; Israeli settlers attack aid trucks bound for Gaza; Israel wants US to withdraw support for two-state solution; president of Iran killed in helicopter crash; Netanyahu controls cabinet’s access to US leaders, doesn’t want to end war; Glasgow Univ rector investigation incited by Gnasherjew website; NYPD overreacts to peaceful Nakba protest in Brooklyn

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As it defends its planned genocidal Rafah invasion before ICJ, Israel vows to “intensify” raids – Day 223

[email protected] May 17, 2024 free speech, gaza pier, greg abbott, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian aid, international court of justice, international law, israeli settler violence, Jabaliya, japan, Lindsay Graham, Rafah, West Bank

Israel prepares a large-scale attack on Rafah, after massive destruction in the north and massive loss of life; aid orgs running out of medical supplies, food; West Bank also under attack; HRW reports on Israel’s failure to follow ICJ’s orders – as Israel is hauled up before the court yet again; multiple countries (not including US) pressure Israel to comply with int’l law; Japan calls out Lindsay Graham’s bad taste; US-built pier is operational; Texas governor Greg Abbott sued; more

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Columbia crackdown led by university prof doubling as NYPD spook

[email protected] May 13, 2024 campus protest, columbia university, Demographics Unit, eric adams, Hamilton Hall, Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau, Nahla Al-Arian, nypd, podcast, police brutality, Rebecca Weiner

Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid that dislodged them from campus.

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Fighter jets, attack drones hammer Rafah; catastrophe looms – Day 217

[email protected] May 11, 2024 famine, international law, podcast, Rafah, weapons to israel

Israel expands its attack of Rafah; Biden admin reports that Israeli use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza “likely violated international humanitarian law”; food catastrophe looms as Israel continues to block aid trucks; South Africa wants ICJ to intervene in Rafah; UN General Assembly strongly supports Palestine’s quest for statehood; Israel withholds millions it owes Palestinian Authority; UN wants investigation into mass graves in Gaza

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Israel will kill Palestinians just fine without US heavy payload weapons; humanitarian crisis spirals – Day 216

[email protected] May 10, 2024 airdrops, arson, bedouin, blinken, famine, Gaza, Haim Saban, humanitarian aid, Rafah, refugee, unrwa, weapons to israel

Hunger, danger deepen all over Gaza; refugees streaming out of Rafah with nowhere safe to go; deadly airdrops have killed over 20; Israeli leaders will keep war going “with God’s help”; Israeli settlers torch UNRWA office for a second time; 300 Palestinian Bedouin face homelessness after militarized Israeli police bulldoze village; more

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Apartheid to fossil fuels: Columbia’s history of divestment before Gaza

[email protected] May 10, 2024 airbnb, BlackRock, caterpillar, columbia university, Divestment, endowment fund, google, podcast, project nimbus

Colombia University, at the center of protests against Israel’s Gaza war, has a tradition of student action bringing divestment.

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Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the ‘liquidation of all untruths’

[email protected] May 10, 2024 academic freedom, Censorship, Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, hebrew university, Israeli detention, october 7, podcast

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s detention confirms what the BDS movement has long argued: Israeli universities are first and foremost instruments of the state and agents of Zionism’s project of dispossession and apartheid rule.

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How an ‘antisemitism hoax’ drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza

[email protected] May 5, 2024 al nasser hospital, Catherine Colonna, Gaza, Gideon Falter, hospital massacre, Israel, Israeli atrocities, Israeli genocide, Lies about Oct 7, mass graves, organ removal, Public relations, UK Government, UK Media, UK protests, UNWRA funding cuts

The pattern is hard to miss: the British establishment, including the government and the BBC, are working hand in hand to help Israel and its genocide apologists win the public relations battle.

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United Methodist Church votes to divest from Israel bonds

[email protected] May 5, 2024 BDS, bonds of Israel, bonds of Morocco, bonds of Turkey, boycott, church legislation, defeated resolution endorsing IHRA definition of antisemitism, Divestment, genocide, global boycott of Israeli settlements, human rights violations, Israeli bonds, prolonged military occupation, sanctions, U.S. military aid to Israel, United Methodist Church

In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

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Wave of Legislation Seeks to Penalize Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

[email protected] May 4, 2024 congressional legislation, constitutionally protected speech, defining antisemitism, flagrantly unconstitutional under the First Amendment, Georgia, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Israeli-American Coalition for Action, Lawler legislation, legislating criticism of Israel, New York, Rep. Mike Lawler R-NY, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas

Federal and state laws’ new definition of antisemitism includes subjective actions like holding Israel to a “double standard” not applied to other nations.

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