Emails and interviews show some of the private demands on Columbia. After months of campus protests against Israel’s actions, Angelica Berrie (of the Berrie Foundation, whose giving has often been tied to Israeli causes) delivered a warning… $10 million is at risk…
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.
CNN spoke to Israeli whistleblowers who worked at a desert camp that holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. They describe a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot…
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
Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters.
Data from a leading source of real-time data on political violence and protest activity across the globe show that the majority of campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza are peaceful.
While LA police were cracking down on a Gaza solidarity encampment set up by students at the UCLA, an Israeli special operations veteran was boasting online about running a “quiet infiltration operation” into the camp.
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
Former prominent Congressman Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, a long time supporter of Palestinian rights and USS Liberty veterans, died of congestive heart failure peacefully at his home in Winters, California, on May 8th. “The bravest man I have ever known, both in war and politics”
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