Human rights/civil liberties Archives - Attention to the Unseen

How Joe Biden enabled Israel’s aggression toward Gaza — and Iran

From elsewhere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:23:19 +0000

David D. Kirkpatrick writes: On March 5, 2024, five months into the war in Gaza, Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, sent a confidential letter to President Joe Biden. Under the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross holds a unique responsibility to counsel states about avoiding war crimes. In the letter, which I obtained from a former United States official, Spoljaric reminded Biden that the organization had condemned the “horrific” October 7th massacre of Israelis...

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Gaza flotilla activist recounts being raped by Israeli prison guards

From elsewhere — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:28:28 +0000

The Guardian reports: The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her, according to interviews and a criminal complaint filed in Israel. She described hearing male guards laughing during the attack, which she believes they watched and may have filmed. It took place in an area separated from the prison hallway by a partially drawn curtain...

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White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide

From elsewhere — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:54:45 +0000

Andrea Pitzer writes: Last week, I got a message from journalist Charles Davis. He asked me to comment for an article about a call for contractors he’d noticed on Sam.gov. The U.S. government, it seemed, was looking for businesses to partner with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, and to fulfill other U.S. Government operational needs overseas. This particular search for partners to collaborate with DHS was framed as maintaining a fleet of aircraft for use in its operations....

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Driver in Maine, not target of a warrant, shot and killed by ICE in front of three-year old daughter

From elsewhere — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:24:22 +0000

The Daily Beast reports: An ICE-involved shooting has left one man dead in Maine, with an eyewitness saying he was killed in front of his three-year-old daughter, who was wearing Bluey pajamas. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition identified the victim as a 26-year-old Colombian man. The group said he was authorized to work in the U.S. and had been issued a Social Security number. He was reportedly heading to work at the time he was shot. The account appeared to...

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T-shirt saying, ‘Bombing kids is not self defense,’ offends United Airlines flight attendant

From elsewhere — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:23:40 +0000

CBS News reports: A New Jersey man says his T-shirt nearly got him kicked off a United Airlines flight. Sam Saadeh, of Linden, was on a flight traveling from Atlanta to Newark Liberty International Airport on June 4 while wearing a T-shirt that said, “Bombing kids is not self defense.” Saadeh, who is of Palestinian descent, said the T-shirt holds a deeper meaning and advocates for children. According to a recent United Nations report, more than 20,000 children have been...

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Rep. Ro Khanna says ‘IDF is lying’ about his detention by settlers and soldiers

From elsewhere — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:42:56 +0000

The Guardian reports: Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” on Sunday about the US congressman’s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a recent visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Khanna – a California Democrat – had posted video evidence on social media of Israeli settlers and soldiers blocking the path of his convoy on Wednesday in the South Hebron hills, near the village of Zanuta, where Israelis have driven Palestinians from their homes in...

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Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: Inside Homeland Security’s campaign of fear

From elsewhere — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:06:03 +0000

The Guardian reports: Federal officials tasked with implementing the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” program faced an extraordinary campaign of intimidation inside the Department of Homeland Security during the final months of Kristi Noem’s tenure and the arrival of her successor, a Guardian investigation found. Over the past four months, the Guardian spoke with more than three dozen current and former Department of Homeland Security officials who described a climate of fear driven by Trump loyalists in senior positions, who sidelined...

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Trump triggers vitriolic attacks targeting kindergartners in Minnesota

From elsewhere — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:12:31 +0000

The Washington Post reports: Hateful emails and phone calls targeted a Minnesota school serving Somali families after President Donald Trump shared a video of its kindergartners on Truth Social this week, an episode that many Somali Americans see as an escalation of a sustained campaign of political and rhetorical attacks during Trump’s second term, community leaders said. On Wednesday, Trump reposted a video from a kindergarten graduation ceremony at Gateway STEM Academy, a K-8 charter school in St. Paul. In...

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The ecology of dispossession in the West Bank

From elsewhere — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:11:19 +0000

Diana Kruzman writes: In late April of last year, Israeli officials left three notices informing Bassem Mansour, a farmer from the Palestinian community of Deir Istiya in the northern West Bank, that three of his citrus tree plots were violating the boundaries of Wadi Qana, a protected nature reserve. The notices ordered Mansour to remove the saplings immediately, or he would be subject to “arrest, prosecution, and penalties.” Mansour, like many other Palestinian farmers in the area, was forced to...

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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be

From elsewhere — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:38:19 +0000

Will Bunch writes: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo woke up at 5 a.m. Tuesday and started his day like almost every other one for the last 35 years since he came to Houston from Mexico and built his own American dream brick by brick — sending his three sons to top universities on the foundation he’d constructed through years of backbreaking labor. His wife also got up to make him a hearty meal before he put on his work boots, fired up...

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