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Israel has yet to provide UN with evidence to back UNRWA 7 October attack claims

Israel has yet to provide UN with evidence to back UNRWA 7 October attack claims

The Guardian reports: A month after Israeli allegations that a dozen United Nations staff were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack, UN investigators have yet to receive any evidence from Israel to support the claims, though they expect some material to be forthcoming “shortly”. The allegations against the 12 employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) led 16 major donors to suspend contributions totalling $450m at a time when more than 2 million Gazans are…

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How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests

How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden’s team is increasingly taking extraordinary steps to minimize disruptions from pro-Palestinian protests at his events by making them smaller, withholding their precise locations from the media and the public until he arrives, avoiding college campuses and, in at least one instance, considering hiring a private company to vet attendees. The efforts have resulted in zero disruptions at events the White House or the campaign have organized for Biden in the five weeks since he…

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New York Times union blasts leak investigation over Israel stories

New York Times union blasts leak investigation over Israel stories

The Washington Post reports: The union representing New York Times employees accused the company Friday of targeting employees with Middle Eastern or North African backgrounds in a weeks-long investigation into leaks from its newsroom regarding the paper’s coverage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel. In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, NewsGuild of New York president Susan DeCarava said that managers have singled out particular employees — “targeted for their national origin, ethnicity and race” — who…

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Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid, over 100 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured

Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid, over 100 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured

  The New York Times reports: Gazan authorities said that more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a chaotic scene early Thursday morning in Gaza City, where a crowd gathered around a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed aid and the Israeli military opened fire. Drone footage released by the Israeli military shows hundreds of people circling around the trucks along the Al-Rashid coast road, and a video posted on social media includes audio of shots…

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Colombia suspends all purchases of weapons from Israel and president calls war in Gaza ‘genocide’

Colombia suspends all purchases of weapons from Israel and president calls war in Gaza ‘genocide’

The Associated Press reports: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced Thursday his government is suspending purchases of weapons from Israel after Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food in Gaza, marking an escalation of tensions between both countries over the Israel-Hamas war. Describing the deaths as “genocide,” Petro said he blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the violence around the aid convoy. Health officials in Gaza say at least 112 people were killed, bringing the war’s death toll…

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Why is Trump trying to make Ukraine lose?

Why is Trump trying to make Ukraine lose?

Anne Applebaum writes: Nearly half a year has passed since the White House asked Congress for another round of American aid for Ukraine. Since that time, at least three different legislative efforts to provide weapons, ammunition, and support for the Ukrainian army have failed. Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker, was supposed to make sure that the money was made available. But in the course of trying, he lost his job. The Senate negotiated a border compromise (including measures border…

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Former Rep. Andy Levin and James Zogby from the Arab American Institute discuss Michigan’s ‘uncommitted’

Former Rep. Andy Levin and James Zogby from the Arab American Institute discuss Michigan’s ‘uncommitted’

  President Joe Biden won the Michigan Democratic primary on Tuesday, but over 100,000 voters cast their ballots for “uncommitted” in an organized campaign protesting U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. The major battleground state is home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the country, but the movement to vote “uncommitted” is now expected to spread to other states, including Minnesota and Washington. “I’ve rarely seen such an organic and authentic movement come together,” says former…

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Jan Egeland: People in Gaza are traumatized beyond belief

Jan Egeland: People in Gaza are traumatized beyond belief

“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.” pic.twitter.com/7MFgRstrJl — Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) February 27, 2024

Aaron Bushnell’s act of political despair

Aaron Bushnell’s act of political despair

Masha Gessen writes: On Sunday afternoon, Aaron Bushnell, wearing a mustard-colored sweater under his combat fatigues, walked up to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. As he approached the building, he filmed himself saying, “I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but, compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers,…

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Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war

Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war

Reuters reports: The depth of Democratic Party anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza war has caught his campaign off guard and could depress support in November’s election, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen senior party and campaign officials and five dozen voters and activists. The White House had expected Democratic unrest over Gaza to fade as Biden picked up his campaigning against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, the officials said. Nine months before the…

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Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’

Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” – and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word. pic.twitter.com/2burPfZeKO — Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) February 25, 2024 The Guardian reports: An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the…

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Yellen urges world leaders to ‘unlock’ frozen Russian Central Bank assets and send them to Ukraine

Yellen urges world leaders to ‘unlock’ frozen Russian Central Bank assets and send them to Ukraine

The Associated Press reports: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday offered her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction. “It is necessary and urgent for our coalition to find a way to unlock the value of these immobilized assets to support Ukraine’s continued resistance and long-term reconstruction,” Yellen said in remarks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Group of 20 finance ministers and…

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‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now’

‘What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now’

US serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC saying he was protesting against the genocide of Palestinians, has died in hospital from his injuries ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/oGXEjDVdB9 — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 26, 2024 I can't believing I'm saying this, but Aaron Bushnell's last words were just read live on CNN. pic.twitter.com/wdbbBsTHgW — Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) February 26, 2024 Aaron Bushnell. We see you. We know your name. We…

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The trauma experienced in Gaza is beyond PTSD

The trauma experienced in Gaza is beyond PTSD

Yara M. Asi writes: “We will die. All of us. Hopefully soon enough to stop the suffering that we are living through every single second.” Those words were sent in a text last week by a physician working for Doctors Without Borders in the southern Gaza Strip. And it is far from an uncommon feeling shared by those struggling to survive and care for one another in Gaza these days. What would we call this feeling from the perspective of…

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Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, Macron says

Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, Macron says

The Associated Press reports: French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. The French leader said that “we will do everything needed so Russia cannot win the war” after the meeting of over 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials….

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