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Israel’s measured attack, focused on military targets allowed for a proportionately measured  response from Arab states … Israel Says It Limited Attack on Iran, Hoping to Ease Tensions for Now (Washington Post) Israel Met ‘All Its Objectives’ in Iran Strike, Netanyahu Says; U.S. Calls for Tehran’s Restraint (Washington Post) Iran’s Supreme Leader Said Israel’s Attack ‘Should…

The Zionist war on free speech in America continues … US Professors Face Discipline and Investigations over Palestine Support (The Guardian) University of Michigan Recruits State Attorney General to Crack Down on Gaza Protesters (The Guardian) Arraignment Hearing For Pro-Palestine Harvard Graduate Students Postponed For The Third Time (The Harvard Crimson) Ilan Pappé on Being…

“Swarthmore, a “Quaker-founded private liberal arts college … has followed the trend throughout higher education in meeting protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza with extraordinary repression”: Pro-Palestine Students Face Expulsion for Using a Bullhorn (The Intercept) Israeli war crimes continue: Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon and Gaza (CNN) Palestinians Fleeing Jabalia Say Bodies Are Left…

Israel tried to portray Sinwar as a coward hiding underground shielded by hostages, but the Israel’s own video shows a lone injured man fighting off a drone with a stick: Propaganda War: Israel, Hamas Battle over Final Images of Yahya Sinwar (Washington Post) A group calling itself “The Resistance Front” took credit for the attack…

Was the message behind the drone attack that Iran can reach anywhere or that Hezbollah is still alive and kicking? ‘They Can Reach Anywhere’: Iran’s Message Behind the Drone Attack on Netanyahu’s Home – Interview (Jerusalem Post) Iran Blames Hezbollah for Attack on Netanyahu’s Home; FM Katz: Lies, You’re Responsible (AFP / Times of Israel)…

Biden’s bizarre expression of hope that Israel’s killing of Hamas’s leader will somehow bring about peace is contradicted by everyone in the region from Netanyahu to Iran to the Gazans to the U.S. Congress and to the Biden administration itself : Israel and Its Iran-aligned Foes Vow More War After Hamas Leader’s Death (Reuters) After…

Not satisfied with abridging pro-Palestinian speech, Harvard has is now punishing pro-Palestinian silence in the Widener library: Pro-Palestine Students Banned From Widener Library for 2 Weeks After ‘Study-In’ Protest (The Harvard Crimson) “American voters are clear: they do not want to be complicit in this humanitarian catastrophe…. Elected officials have not kept up with the…

“It is extremely distressing to learn that nobody in the U.S. government believes it is their responsibility to ensure that the Government of Israel is conducting a credible and transparent investigation into the killing of an American citizen” — Sen. Chris Van Hollen: No Justice for Palestinian Americans Killed in West Bank, Families Say (Washington…

The World Food Programme “said in a report that the aid entering the strip has plummeted to its lowest level in months, forcing the organization to stop the distribution of food parcels in October”: UN Says No Food Has Entered Northern Gaza Since Start of October, Putting 1 Million People at Risk of Starvation (CNN)…

“Imam Mahdi was frequently seen at demonstrations and rallies and heard on radio and television stations defending the rights of Muslims and condemning the wrongdoings of law enforcement against the Muslim community here and abroad”: Imam Mahdi Bray: Passing of an Unheralded Civil and Human Rights Icon (ICNA Council for Social Justice) Israeli war crimes…