Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

The movement is not restricted to campuses, is not violent, and is not a call for violence against Jews but for an end to violence against Palestinians … Crowd Counting Consortium: Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Not (Ash Center) … and it is growing: Pro-Palestine Supporters March in Downtown Sarasota (WFLA) Police Cuff 150…

“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facility’s field hospital”: Strapped Down, Blindfolded, Held in Diapers: Israeli Whistleblowers Detail Abuse of Palestinians in Shadowy Detention Center (CNN) “We only have two wheelchairs, so I have to carry one of [two seriously injured…

The U.S. threat to pause delivery some missiles impacts neither the Israeli commitment to nor the U.S. complicity in the genocide: 600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says (The Intercept) Give or Take a Few Bombs, US Complicity in Genocide Remains ‘Ironclad’ (Aljazeera) Palestinians Flee Rafah as Netanyahu Vows to Widen…

“Hundreds of angry protesters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem denounced the government’s rejection of the ceasefire proposal” … Netanyahu Borrows Time by Rejecting Gaza Ceasefire (Turbulent World / Substack) … which would have released all the Israeli captives: Text of the Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Approved by Hamas (Aljazeera) Israel’s seizure of the only crossing not…

“World leaders have called on Israel not to go ahead with a ground assault on the southern Gaza city, where 1.4M have sought shelter”: Israel Tells Palestinians to Leave Eastern Rafah Ahead of Expected Offensive (Politico) As protests persist during graduation ceremonies … A Look at Commencement Ceremonies as US Campuses Are Roiled by Protests…

“Have other democratic states killed more than 34,000 people and caused humanitarian catastrophes in” the last seven months? The Antisemitism Awareness Act Is a Full Frontal Assault on Free Speech (Middle East Eye) As Israeli war  crimes multiply … Gaza: Israel Deliberately Militarizes Civilian Objects, Turns Schools into Military Bases (Euromed Human Rights Monitor) ‘Forcibly…

Congress threatens to punish objectors to Israeli genocide on charges of genocide … House Passes Bill to Expand Definition of Antisemitism amid Growing Campus Protests over Gaza War (PBS) … but America’s students refuse to  be intimidated … Police Remove Pro-Palestine Protestors from UT Dallas Encampment, 20 Arrests Made (NBCDFW) Berkeley Takes Hands-off Approach to…

In the face of police violence, Some protests move beyond encampments to occupation of buildings: Columbia University Threatens to Expel Student Protesters Occupying an Administration Building (AP) Protesters Take over Columbia University Building in Escalation of Israel-Hamas War Demonstrations (PBS) Police Evacuate Buildings, Make Arrests as Palestine Encampment Starts at Tulane (Tulane Hullabaloo) Police Arrest…

“Protest organizers said they wanted to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October”: Chants of ‘Shame on You’ Greet Guests at White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shadowed by War in Gaza (AP / Politio) “Israeli airstrikes on three houses in the…