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Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza

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On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide. Israel has claimed that the organizations failed to meet new vetting guidelines. However, as the Associated Press reported, […]

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Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the Occupied West Bank

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The Israeli government approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.   The country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said on X that this increases the total number of new settlements to 69 in the past three years—a new record. “On the ground, we are […]

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Gazans Face “Not Just a Humanitarian Catastrophe but an Ecological Collapse”

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every day when Rajaa Musleh wakes up and checks her phone, she fears she will see news that another member of her family has been killed in Gaza.  Musleh, a nurse and humanitarian worker who evacuated from Gaza […]

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I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.

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Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader. At a time when the […]

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Devastated by Israel, Gaza Faces an Environmental Crisis “Above Imagination”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant bombardment, Israeli forces have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, at least a third of whom are children. The human toll has been called genocide by human rights organizations around the world and by a UN commission, but a new […]

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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza

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In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s media. Run out of Tel Aviv University, in a modern building on the campus surrounded by well-kept lawns and native trees, the INSS had a controversial task for the congregated press: Assess […]

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The Settlers’ Man in Washington

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This past summer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines when he falsely claimed at a Christian conference in Jerusalem that there was “no starvation in Gaza.” A less noted, but also telling, moment came after Netanyahu’s remarks, when Yossi Dagan, a leading advocate for Israeli ambitions to annex Palestinian territory, presented evangelical minister Paula […]

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“Amateur Hour”: The Man Sending US Military Contractors to Gaza

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In July, one week after a whistleblower accused contractors from the American security firm UG Solutions of deploying stun grenades and shooting live ammunition toward Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a new song appeared on the SoundCloud account of “Jameson G.” Titled “demon-in-the-desert,” the dubstep track featured artwork of an alien with a dagger stabbed through […]

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When All Protest Is Terrorism

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On September 8, at least 800 peaceful protesters holding signs that read “I oppose genocide/I support Palestine Action,” were arrested in London’s Parliament Square, some on grounds of supporting an illegal organization under the United Kingdom’s Terrorism Act. The Labour Party administration of Prime Minister Keir Starmer had banned Palestine Action (PA), a group that […]

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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

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Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration. The latest example: She appears to have had a Democratic senator’s classified visit to a military spy agency canceled. On Wednesday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that […]

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Leading Genocide Scholars Say Israel’s War in Gaza Fits the Definition

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Leading genocide scholars have ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In a resolution issued Sunday by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), the scholars argue that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the […]

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Trump Stays Silent on Gaza’s Famine

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Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new findings about the consequences of the US-backed war. On Friday, an analysis released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)—a coalition of 21 organizations, including Save the Children, UNICEF, the World […]

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