“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
The founder of Mothers Against College Antisemitism says her 62,000-member Facebook group is influencing NYU policies on student protests, celebrating the idea of deportations to occur under the new Trump administration.
Palestinian and Israeli prisoners released; UNRWA carries on in spite of ban; more death and destruction in West Bank; Trump efforts amount to ethnic cleansing and assault on First Amendment
The incoming Trump team appears poised to take a hardline and Congress isn’t far behind. And it’s just not on college campuses.
Palestinians barred from returning to homes in northern Gaza; Israeli strike kills 25 – 13 of them children; Israel orders $5.2B worth of new fighter jets (paid for by US military aid); new criminal probe opened against Netanyahu; new Israeli deportation law targets Palestinians; UN signals: no UNRWA means Israel is on its own; 2 Palestinians killed in West Bank; what Rashida Tlaib’s re-election signifies; more.
Divinia Levrini describes how flotilla activists were treated in prison: withholding of medical treatment, beatings, “mind games,” strip searching, theft, & death threats.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is spunky and progressive, but she has blinders on when it comes to Palestine. See this detailed analysis…