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It's now 1 year since Israeli forces killed Hind Rajab. If we still cannot get resolution on one of the most well-known victims in Gaza, what can we expect for the thousands of other kids killed?. Our dive into a year of cover-ups, deflection, and deference:.(full vid in replies)
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I know we're just used to it but can you imagine if someone you loved died in a historic plane crash and this is what the guy who's supposed to fix things says.
Reporter: Do you have any plans to visit the crash site?. Trump: What's the site? Water? You want me to go swimming?
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Left: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after signing a law that guarantees free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. Right: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders after signing a law that makes child labor easier
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The CEO of Twitter is the 55th most community noted person on Twitter
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This was eight months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 11,783 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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Chilling display in Guernica. In 1937, the Nazis bombed this village on behalf of Franco’s Spanish Nationalists, who saw it as a center for the resistance against fascism. 86 years later, descendants of that horror express solidarity with Palestinians.
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Ordering US-funded war crimes from US soil right after giving a speech to the United Nations about how "Israel yearns for peace".
A photo of Netanyahu giving the order to strike south Beirut tonight from New York, destroying several apartment buildings.
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The doctors are Hamas, the journalists are Hamas, the babies are Hamas, the children’s cancer floor of a hospital is Hamas, the UN is Hamas, the bakeries are Hamas.
Oh my god. The Israeli representative to the United Nations is saying that many UN workers in Gaza are actually Hamas.
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Israeli official threatens to bomb American universities.
Israel’s Ambassador to UN: . “We always knew that Khamas hides in schools we just didn’t realize that it’s not only schools in Gaza it’s also Harvard, Columbia and many elite universities”
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Make America Healthy Again is so funny because like When was the first time.
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This 18-year-old Israeli was just sentenced to 30 days in prison for refusing to enlist in the army. He tweeted this yesterday:
Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old from Tel-Aviv, just refused to enlist in the Israeli army to protest the war in Gaza and the occupation. He was sentenced to 30 days in prison. He's a hero and also the sweetest kid. @TalMitnick @Mesarvot_
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"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says
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NOW — 500+ Jewish people flood the U.S. Capitol singing.“Let Gaza live”.“Free Palestine”.“Not in our name”.“Stop genocide”. Demanding arms embargo to Israel, a ceasefire, and end to military aid to Israel.
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This was seven months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 10,763 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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Pulitzer prize winning photo.
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So apparently Mangione — who the entire political establishment has been very willing to condemn — showed more restraint than a genocidal government that same establishment has unconditionally given billions of dollars to.
Luigi Mangione considered using a bomb to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but went against it to protect the lives of innocent people, @TMZ reports.
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So the Israeli police want to round up people they deem as criminals, and bus them off to Gaza…what might you call such a place?.
Israel Police: Anti-war protesters will be sent to Gaza. Israeli police chief says there's a ‘zero tolerance’ police for anti-war protests, threatening to send them to Gaza in buses.
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A huge international crowd came out of nowhere, bringing thousands more to the March on Washington. “From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!”. “From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!”. “From Palestine to Puerto Rico, occupation is illegal!”
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Taking over Hamilton Hall as done in 1968, Columbia students unfurl a banner that reads "Hind's Hall," in reference to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces. Hundreds of students cheer as the banner is revealed, erupting into chants to "Free Palestine."
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This is exactly what’s making any normal observer feel insane. A pro-Israel mob attacked these kids with slurs, fists, mace, and fireworks. Police watched for HOURS & did nothing. A day later, police instead bombard *them* with rubber bullets & flashbangs. (All in a “blue” state).
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How have we allowed this sentence to be written.
The Palestinian child Zain Orouk survived the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza by Israeli warplanes, but was killed this morning when an airdropped aid box fell on him.
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In the past 2 days, Israeli forces have:.–Killed 3 World Central Kitchen aid workers.–Killed a Save The Children staffer.–Killed a Gaza Soup Kitchen chef.–Killed an ICU director.–Attacked & killed hundreds of displaced Palestinians.–Shot a 10-year-old girl.
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This supposedly damning on-the-ground video segment begins with an angry white man yelling "Don't wave at me you sorry fucking sand monkey" at a Black neighbor, and the "reporter" laughing in response.
ABC News: ‘There is no evidence of migrants eating pets’. YouTuber: ‘Here’s 30 minutes of firsthand accounts of residents in Springfield Ohio where many who live there say the pets are disappearing’ . ABC News: ‘Let’s talk about climate change…’.
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This was fourteen months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 13,255 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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This was eleven months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 12,847 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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There have now been Palestine solidarity & anti-war student actions on at least 75 U.S. college campuses in the past week
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This is an incredible 28 seconds.
Ingraham: The instagram posts from nut bag people . people celebrating. This this is a sickness, honestly, it's so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised. up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny, a lot of people think he is a hero.
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We are seeing the exact same things we saw 11 months ago before Israeli forces killed 41,000+ people & displaced 2 million.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:. "I have a message for the people of Lebanon:. Israel's war is not with you. It's with Hezbollah. For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields. It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage.
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If the phrase "Delay, Deny, Depose" can get individuals criminally charged given it was used by a shooter who killed one person, you may wonder how the phrase ought to be considered when used as *systematic policy* that harms thousands of people.
A Lakeland, Florida, woman has been charged after police said she told an insurance company, “Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next.” . She reportedly called BlueCross BlueShield regarding medical insurance claims she was denied
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Not sure what it means when you say you want a ceasefire and then kill the person you’re supposed to be negotiating it with.
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Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers. Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.
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American politicians threatening every single ally on the planet in service of one specific ally internationally accused of war crimes seems crazy until you remember these politicians sent the bombs used in said war crimes.
Graham: So to any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we're going to sanction you.
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Congrats to Joe Biden & Democrats — your relentless support for Israel killing 34,000 people has resulted in a historic anti-war movement (led by the young people who are supposedly your base) & the arrest of protestors and journalists which you warn will happen under Trump.
A photographer for FOX 7 in Austin was arrested during the protests at University of Texas Austin:
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This was ten months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 12,478 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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“If you harm an American, we will respond." – Joe Biden.
NEW: @StateDept confirms one of the World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in the Israeli airstrike in Gaza was an American citizen.
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Incredible. This tweet was a bat signal that immediately proved its own point
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“Israeli snipers shoot displaced Palestinian kids sheltering at a United Nations-operated school in a refugee camp” sounds like the kind of thing that would be rock bottom in terms of indefensibility.
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What to even say to this
A Gaza medic realizes he's carrying his own mother's body, killed by an Israeli airstrike
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This was nine months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 12,078 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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Left: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after signing a law that guarantees free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. Right: Republicans' 2024 agenda, which prioritizes. stopping schools from giving free meals to all public school students.
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Again, the formulation “far too many Palestinians have been killed” implies an acceptable amount.
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Translation: Israel is blackmailing America — its largest funder, supposedly the world superpower — to make it stop an international court from holding Israel accountable for war crimes, all by threatening to hurt the people its accused of committing war crimes against even more.
🚨NEW: Israeli warned the Biden administration that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will take retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority that could lead to its collapse. My story on @axios
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@ByMikeBaker @jul1arock 19 cops waited 47 minutes outside the classroom because “there was time” to get keys, while kids were begging 911 for help. meanwhile cops bang down people’s doors all the time on even the slightest suspicion of drugs, guns blazing, no regard to whether it’s even the right place.
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Remarkable how this segment opens with Ta-Nehisi Coates describing how narrative helps shape “who we believe is human, who we don’t believe is human,” and then the entire rest of the segment just proves his point in real-time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.”
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America: Kill a homeless person, meet the President.
New: VP-Elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to be his personal guest at the Army-Navy game this weekend, per source familiar. They will be joining President Trump in his suite at the game.
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"Woke? You mean practicing basic empathy, valuing people who are part of your community? Critical Race Theory? You mean American history? We do not fear people being educated. people learning about history, and above all, we do not fear any books.".
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Hind Rajab's mom on Columbia students naming Hind's Hall:."I started crying because I wanted all of these movements & support to come while Hind was still alive.".Hopes protests don't stop till permanent ceasefire. "Wake up now! Why are others like Hind still going through this?"
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Q: Do you condemn Netanyahu using the phrase “from the river to the sea”?. White House spokesman John Kirby: We don’t recommend using the phrase because it’s connotation with Hamas. Q: But this wasn’t Hamas, it was Netanyahu. Kirby: I understand–I don’t have anything more on that
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Finally pictures like this will trend 🙏
Here is the full video from Mark Zuckerberg announcing the end of censorship and misinformation policies. I highly recommend you watch all of it as tonally it is one of the biggest indications of "elections have consequences" I have ever seen
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Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum: "If even a small percentage of what the United States allocates to war were instead dedicated to building peace and fostering development, it would address the underlying causes of human mobility.".
Mexican President Sheinbaum fires back at Trump in a statement: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost.
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Jimmy Carter:."The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely & totally separated…the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people."."There are powerful political forces in America that prevent any objective analysis…".
Happy 100th Birthday, President Carter. To put it simply: I admire you so darn much.
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Kamala Harris has reportedly *declined* to preside over the Senate for Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress this week:.
Kamala Harris is less burdened by Biden's disastrous support for Israel's war, sparking some hope in pro-Palestine advocates.
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This is a huge scandal. USAID & State Department refugee bureau both said Israel blocked aid to Gaza. But Blinken told Congress the opposite, so they wouldn't have to heed US law that'd force cutting off weapons to Israel. As in, the Biden-Harris admin is complicit in war crimes.
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in. But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing.
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4 things Israeli leaders said today:. –We’re collectively punishing Gaza citizens.–We will indefinitely occupy Gaza.–We’re “rolling out the Gaza Nakba”.–"When we say Hamas must be eliminated, we mean leaders, supporters, and even those who distribute candy—they’re all terrorists”.
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The ADL to Elon:
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Democrats invited this man to Washington, defended him as he committed war crimes, and voted to send him even more weapons despite the electoral risks — and this is his response
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And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide.
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For 4 months, I’ve pressed the US on the killing of Hind Rajab, her family & medics sent to save her. Independent investigation finds it “not plausible” Israeli forces didn’t see who they shot 355 bullets at. Over & over, the US said it’s waiting for Israel to investigate itself:
Forensic investigation reveals Hind Rajab's car was hit with 355 bullets and finds it "not plausible" that the Israeli tank couldn't see children inside the car.
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Internalizing the fact that students in tents have been tear gassed, flash banged, and monitored by rooftop snipers all while this guy who split a kid's head open & gave another a concussion is just. roaming free.
This guy hit someone over the head with a wooden board and then punching/kicking another. He also may have broken someone else’s hand. Who is he???
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In case it’s not clear: these are United Nations experts endorsing what thousands of American college kids have been beaten up by the cops for demanding.
US, Germany, UK & arms manufacturers incl Boeing, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce Power & RTX must end weapon transfers to Israel: UN experts."By continuing arms transfers to Israel, States & companies risk complicity in violations of int'l law".
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Why vote for a diet Republican when you can vote for the real thing.
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This was four months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 9,200 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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NEW: 77 groups — representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents — have filed a brief in support of a lawsuit charging the Biden administration with being complicit in genocide.
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This wasn’t a haphazard protest blocking a place of worship, there was a sale of Palestinian land being held here. Note on the other hand: Biden has not said anything about news of a Texas woman attacking a Palestinian mother and trying to drown her two kids.
I’m appalled by the scenes outside of Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles. Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic, and un-American. Americans have a right to peaceful protest. But blocking access to a house of worship – and engaging in violence.
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U.S. army soldier on Gaza:
NEW: A 16-year Air Force airman is resigning amid US support for Israel's war on Gaza. His evangelical background & 9/11 motivated his enlistment. He spent 2 years in Israel doing missile research. Now he fears the US is "complicit in the genocide in Gaza."
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This image will go down in history. Hand in hand, leaders of both parties declaring they stand with Israel, with chants of “no ceasefire” abound. Hours later, Israel rounded up journalists and invaded a hospital with thousands of patients and refugees created from their violence.
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To be clear: this is Kamala Harris saying she will disregard US & international law by sending weapons to a government committing human rights violations.
Kamala Harris says "far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed," but that she would *not* change policy on withholding even "some" US weapons to Israel.
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377-44-1: House passed a resolution that the "slogan, 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic and its use must be condemned."
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This side by side is crazy
My dispatch from the Pro-Palestine protest in Oxford today, one of the most. astonishing things I've ever seen @MSTODAYnews
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This was three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 7,300 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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There have now been Palestine solidarity & anti-war student actions on at least 120 U.S. college campuses in the past week and a half
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The daughter of among the most eminent Palestinian-American scholars (for whom Columbia has named awards, lectures, and professorships after) & among the most famous Palestinian journalists in the world visit Columbia in support of the protests against the violence in Palestine.
@azaizamotaz9 and Najla Said, daughter of the late Edward Said, have arrived at Columbia’s solidarity encampment in support of the student movement
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Hm let’s see what the organization that just called Jewish Voice for Peace a “hate group” has to say about Henry Kissing— Oh
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Jessica Seinfeld, wife of Jerry Seinfeld, just donated $5,000 (more than anyone else) to the GoFundMe of the pro-Israel UCLA rally. At this rally, participants yelled “I hope they rape you” & spat on and used the N-word towards pro-Palestinian students.
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Jimmy Carter:. "The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely & totally separated…the Israelis completely dominate the life of the Palestinian people.". "There are powerful political forces in America that prevent any objective analysis…".
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Lowering Egg Prices going as scheduled.
Hey @tim_cook, just noticed Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Sent a report through the app, but thought you’d want to know!
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No words
New Interview: I talked to Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks working at a hospital in Gaza, about her experiences, and what Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient medicine into the territory has meant for Gaza’s children.
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Two days after Israel not only ignored the "30-day US deadline" to improve conditions in Gaza, but actively made things worse:.
The United States’ commitment to Israel is ironclad.
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Note—this was all *before* the encampment protests began:.
Columbia University hired private investigators to pursue pro-Palestine students. Vanderbilt University canceled a divestment vote, then expelled students after they protested. Pomona College sent police officers in riot gear to arrest 20 students. @prem_thakker reports,.
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Morehouse students grill their President on having Biden @ graduation."There's a possibility of a genocide happening & we're seeing our government continually sending more & more weapons."."We the students telling you we see it as 'that's being complicit!'"
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Hind Rajab's family was killed in front of her. Medics sent to save her were killed. She was killed. Now, months later, her father has been killed — without seeing any accountability. For 4 months, the US said it’s waiting for Israel to investigate itself:.
The father of Hind Rajab, the 6-year old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli forces in a car in Gaza in January, was recently killed, according to journalist Ashraf Mashharawi who spoke recently to Hind’s mom. Hind’s story was told in the recent Al Jazeera English.
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Why does this feel actually like an incredibly fascinating 19 seconds into Trump’s psyche
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“I was surprised he did not come in on his magic carpet”
"Arab leaders have long seen the Houthis as dangerous proxies for Iran, the group’s main military supplier, but some observers now say the truth may be even worse: that the Houthis are fanatics who answer to no one," @robertfworth writes:
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This was five months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 10,150 kids since.
Kids in Gaza hosting a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life. “We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”. Over 4200 kids, like these, have been killed.
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They couldn't even if they wanted to
I get a strange inkling that all these Columbia and UCLA students running around yelling “Free Palestine” would not be jumping at the opportunity to do a semester abroad in Gaza.
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On this Father’s Day I’m thinking of the Palestinian men who deserve just as much humanity and care as the women and children around them.
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Rep. Nadler: "The resolution states that all anti-Zionism is antisemitism. That's intellectually disingenuous or factually wrong…The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was + is expressly not antisemitic."
A new House resolution, which may be voted on as early as tonight, "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism." This comes after a previous resolution hinted at that claim, but did not fully state it. So now Congress wants to leave no question. But there's an
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“Biden’s Wins” retracts celebration after Hamas accepts the terms for a ceasefire but Israel rejects them
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In other words, this is the US outwardly saying it thinks it has the authority to decide which people have the basic right to self-determination and which do not.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield: "I do not believe the Palestinians as they exist right now have all of the elements to give it statehood.". (In April, the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would’ve made Palestine a full member of the UN)
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The Palestinian Authority held a military funeral procession for American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. The President of the United States has not even spoken with her family on the phone.
White House: Biden has not spoken to the family of Ayşenur Eygi—the American killed by Israeli forces 3 days ago. "The Israelis have reached out, made sure that we knew that they were promptly investigating this…we'll obviously withhold our judgment…we'll see what they learn."
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