Israel “fabricates” terror claims; Hamas ranks reportedly swell to 25K; Israel gets 3 new fighter jets from US; Trump admin stirs up trouble with Yemen’s Houthis; more.
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.
Israel accused of starvation, genocidal acts, sexual violence, use of human shields in Gaza; Trump admin blamed for intimidation, waffling, hijacking civil rights
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.”
No clean water, no electricity in Gaza; West Bank: raids, theft; another Israeli minister supports ethnic cleansing; latest on Mahmoud Khalil; 60 universities threatened with federal funding cuts
Ruth Marcus, longtime Washington Post editor & columnist, identifies herself ideologically and politically as a liberal and as a Zionist. In her latest oped she referred to herself as a “proud Jew” and repeated virtually every Israeli talking point.
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
In Assembly District 14, where bold ceasefire resolutions and strong divestment from Israel had succeeded relatively early, there was only one polling site for the delegate election. That polling site was at Berkeley’s pro-Israel Temple Beth Israel…
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
Another Palestinian prisoner from Gaza dies in Israeli detention; Trump appointee makes excuses for Israel’s starvation of Gazans; US, Israel could take joint military action against Hamas if negotiations fail, Witkoff says; Gaza needs PPE to dismantle unexploded Israeli munitions; Israeli settlers call the shots in West Bank; less than half of Americans sympathetic toward Israel; did Trump just call Israel “sick and twisted”?; more.