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Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

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Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, the Israeli military has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The latest deaths include six journalists—five for Al Jazeera and one freelancer—who the Israeli military killed on Sunday in Gaza City, according to CPJ. Those killed include […]

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Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.

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United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the Gaza Strip, home to roughly 2 million Palestinians. One of the few organizations still on the ground trying to feed Palestinians at risk of famine is the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Abe Ajrami is one of the Gaza Soup […]

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“It’s Abhorrent”: A Whistleblower Contractor Speaks Out Amid Gaza Aid Chaos

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On June 6, Anthony Aguilar, a retired 25-year US Army veteran and Green Beret, found himself facing a daunting logistical problem. He had been recruited as a security contractor for UG Solutions, a partner of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—the Israel-backed American nonprofit now overseeing food distribution in the devastated Palestinian territory. His challenge: finding a […]

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“This is Trump’s Famine”: How the US Is Complicit in Gaza’s Suffering

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After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push through their own hunger to try to save lives. Journalists are too weak to document the unfolding horrors. There is not enough food or medical supplies entering to protect […]

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“Walking Corpses”: Israel’s Blockade of Aid Starves Gazans, Aid Groups Say

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Two months ago, a coalition of aid groups warned that Israel’s war on Gaza—and restrictions on food entering the strip—would cause mass starvation in Gaza imminently. Now, it has arrived, according to officials and aid groups. On Wednesday, more than 100 aid groups issued a statement outlining just how dire the situation has become for […]

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“Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone”: An Interview With Sim Kern

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Sim Kern never set out to become a face of anti-Zionist Judaism—the English teacher turned science fiction author and “BookTok”-er was just in the right place at the right time. Facing, as the October 7 attacks unfolded, a social media feed they described as embodying “two contradictory realities” about Palestine —one in which Palestinians were […]

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“Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone”: An Interview With Sim Kern

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Sim Kern never set out to become a face of anti-Zionist Judaism—the English teacher turned science fiction author and “BookTok”-er was just in the right place at the right time. Facing, as the October 7 attacks unfolded, a social media feed they described as embodying “two contradictory realities” about Palestine —one in which Palestinians were […]

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Is the US Military Poised to Experience a New Surge in Conscientious Objectors?

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This was created by The War Horse, a nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to its newsletter here. Joy Metzler had expected to still be in uniform, working as a junior officer at her Air Force engineering job. Instead, she found herself protesting outside the United Nations, weakened from participating in a 40-day […]

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Mohsen Mahdawi Fought ICE and Won His Freedom. For Now.

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Just a few months ago, pro-Palestinian college students around the country were getting arrested and detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But some are now challenging their detentions in court—and getting released.  Last week, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil, the first known pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE under the Trump administration, was let […]

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Mahmoud Khalil, Finally Free, Speaks Out

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On Sunday, Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student jailed by immigration authorities for more than three months for his role in protests against the war in Gaza, gave his most extensive public comments to date about his detention and the Trump administration’s case against him. After a federal judge ordered his release on […]

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IDF Deliberately Targeting Children in Gaza, US Doctors Allege

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When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes—and came to a shocking conclusion. In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time […]

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The Christian Right’s Plot to Purge Pro-Palestine Activism From the United States

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For the last 18 months, the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank responsible for Project 2025, has been organizing to quash pro-Palestine activism in the United States, the New York Times reported this weekend. The initiative is called Project Esther—after the courageous Old Testament queen who saved the Jews from a wicked Persian king—and it […]

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