Israeli leaders nervously await arrest warrants; Leaked Columbia Univ document reveals discriminatory policies for Tel Aviv program; Orthodox Palm Sunday; Israel puts young Christian woman in prison for 4 months (renewable), no charges; World Central Kitchen has returned; Biden ignores Gaza in Correspondents’ Dinner speech…
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Nationwide, Palestine supporters demand their free speech rights – Day 204
Protests and repression throughout the US; Israeli airstrike kills family members of revered poet; more UNRWA cases closed; Palestinians to be represented in Olympics; ceasefire talks; Gaza water crisis; State Dept memo: Israel may be violating int’l law; Biden snubs Muslim American voters…
US backs down on plan to sanction Israeli battalion, in spite of US law – Day 203
US won’t follow through on sanctions on IDF units; Netanyahu calls for crackdown on American students; Emory president defends police violently arresting female prof who tried to stop police beating students; Gazan dead show signs of possible organ theft; Israeli police arrest rabbis marching to Gaza; Israel gives Hamas a “last chance” before Rafah invasion; UNRWA employee case closed; Freedom Flotilla…
‘Our Future Was Here’: Christians in Gaza
Like all Palestinians in Gaza, hundreds of Christians living in the Strip found themselves with nowhere to hide once the war with Israel began after October 7, Israeli forces often targeting churches…
Final count: bodies of 392 Gazan Palestinians discovered in mass graves – Day 202
Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker & son, 7; premature baby girl has died; another US State Dept employee resigns; military-industrial complex profits from weapon sales to Israel; “Biden has betrayed the soul of our nation”; Freedom Flotilla: Israel plays dirty (again); nonviolent campus protests spread, met with violence
Biden announces: $26B in US tax money to Israel will “make the world safer” – Day 201
Biden signs over more aid to Israel, as its military may be using internationally banned weapons, burying civilians alive, killing another journalist, enabling famine and disease, and preparing to invade the most densely populated region of the world; meanwhile, teenager killed in West Bank, Turkiye is being pressured to stop a massive aid shipment from sailing to Gaza; meanwhile, college campuses’ growing outcry against the genocide in Gaza, and more
US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200
More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov’t; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more
‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage
It’s a decades-old power imbalance: When a teenage Israeli was killed (after Israeli soldiers had killed a Palestinian shepherd), decades-old settler violence reached new levels
US Senator Incites Violence Against Gaza Protesters
Tom Cotton, US senator from Arkansas, is encouraging grotesque, possibly lethal vigilante violence against demonstrators who oppose genocide
Blinken claims State Dept has no double standard favoring Israel – Day 199
Another shameless moment for Blinken, even as he reveals a long list of Israeli human rights abuses; over 300 Gazan bodies discovered in mass graves; Israel prepping for invasion of Rafah; having a baby in Gaza; final report on UNRWA says Israel never offered evidence of wrongdoing; West Bank death; flurry of actions in solidarity with Palestine on US college campuses, more