News and Analysis 11/18/23

Not satisfied to slaughter innocents …

• Death Toll Continues to Rise as Israel Intensifies Airstrikes on Gaza (Palestine Chronicle)
• Israeli Air Strikes Kill 28 Palestinians in Southern Gaza (Ajazeera)
• Israel Told Palestinians to Evacuate to Southern Gaza — and Stepped Up Attacks There (NPR)
• Gaza Is Facing Widespread Hunger as Food Systems Collapse, Warns WFP (Wafa)
• Communication Cut from Gaza After Israeli Fliers Order Evacuation (IMEMC)

… Israel now destroys a memorial to innocents it has slaughtered in the past:

• Israeli Forces Destroy Mavi Marmara Memorial in Gaza (TRT World )

“By casting reporters as Hamas accomplices, Israel seeks to discredit critical coverage—and to justify unprecedented violence against Palestinian journalists”:

• Israel’s War on Journalists (Jewish Currents)

Israel extends the war in hospitals to the West Bank:

• Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in Large-Scale Military Raid of Jenin (Palestine Chronicle)

Israel has been accusing Hamas of a well-documented Israeli practice:

• 5 Times Israel Used Palestinians as Human Shields (TRT World)

Victims of the Zionist war on free speech on American campuses fight back …

• DeSantis Sued By Students, ACLU Over Pro-Palestine Crackdown on Campus (Huffington Post)
• University of Texas Under Fire for Removing Papers of Palestine Victims (My San Antonio)
• After 24 Hours, Pro-Palestine Harvard Students End Occupation of University Hall (Harvard Crimson)
• Inside Brown University’s Sit-In for Palestine (The Nation)

… but in Germany the government resorts to increasing

• ‘State Repression’: Inside Germany’s Far-reaching Anti-Palestinian Crackdown (New Arab)
• Germany Proposes Bill to Enforce Pro-Israel Sentiment as Citizenship Requirement (New Arab)

“A central concern of this initiative is its potential use for profiling and suppression, potentially supported by automated decision-making”:

• Iran’s New ‘Smart Governance Model’: Rising Concerns Over Privacy and Citizen Rights (NIAC Action)

Blinken pleads with Benny Gantz “to de-escalate tensions in the West Bank” …

• Blinken Asks Israel for ‘Urgent’ Action Against Settler Violence in West Bank (New Arab)

… even as the U.S. continues to provide the apartheid state with weapons of genocide:

• U.S. Military Is Secretly Supplying Weapons to Israel Using UK Base on Cyprus (Declassified UK)

Israel can’t support its claims that ash-Shia Hospital is a Hamas command base, and the U.S. refuses to:

• US Says Will Not Share Intelligence Connecting Hamas to Shifa Hospital (New Arab)

In “a return to a long-term trend that has split the [Democratic] party, … the number of young voters who were more sympathetic to Israelis than Palestinians fell from 41 percent to 29 percent” in the past month:

• The Generational Divide over Israel and Palestine Is Widening (Politico)

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