“Hamas said the initial 50 hostages would be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails” …
… but will Israel stop taking more hostages:
- The War on Palestinian Political Prisoners (The Nation)
- Israel-Palestine War: The Palestinian Children Detained by Israel (Middle East Eye)
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct Forty-Five Palestinians, Shoot Two, in West Bank (IMEMC)
“Israeli investigators have concluded that Hamas fighters who crossed the boundary from Gaza that day had no prior knowledge of the music festival,” but an Israeli squadron leader ordered, “Shoot at everything”:
“Israeli police continue to detain students over social media posts in what critics say is a coordinated campaign to crush the Palestinian student movement” …
… and Israeli citizenship provides no protection from arrests, harassment, and dismissal:
- Palestinians in Israel Cite Threats, Firings and Discrimination After Oct. 7 (NPR)
- Palestinians in Israel Also Face a Nakba (Aljazeera)
Israels war on journalists continues to expand …
- Israel Strike Kills Family of Gaza Journalist After False October 7 Claims (New Arab)
- Scores of Palestinians, Including Two Journalists, Killed in New Israeli Massacres Across Gaza (Palestine Chronicle)
- Israeli Airstrike Kills Two Lebanese Journalists, One Civilian in Southern Lebanon (Palestine Chronicle)
- Why Did London School of Economics Censor This Article on Israel’s Lobby? (Electronic Intifada)
… and has Israel launched a trial balloon for a war on poets?
“Rice, who did not grow up religious, … found the Qur’an to be anti-consumerist, anti-oppressive and feminist”:
- Young Americans Are Picking Up the Qur’an ‘to Understand the Resilience of Muslim Palestinians’ (The Guardian)
Here are some actual real-world victims of Israel’s pretend war on terrorists:
- Israel Is Targeting Gaza’s Brightest and Best (Palestine Deep Dive / X )
- Dozens Killed in Israeli Bombardment on School in Gaza (Wafa)
Remember how you felt at the sight of Hitler youth singing “The Future Belongs to Me” in “Cabaret”? Relive the experience as you see Israeli children singing praise of the genocide in Gaza …
- Watch: Israeli Children Sing, “We Will Annihilate Everyone” in Gaza (Electronic Intifada)
… but that is only the tip of the iceberg as “Meta claims it can effectively use machine learning to deter explicit incitement to violence, while it clearly cannot” …
… yet while letting Israeli incitement to violence pas, Meta “lowered the threshold for predicting whether comments qualify as harassment or incitement to violence from 80 percent to 25 percent for users in Palestinian territories”:
- Platforms Must Stop Unjustified Takedowns of Posts by and About Palestinians (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
“The Chinese government is not ‘consolidating’ mosques as it claims, but closing many down in violation of religious freedom” — Maya Wang, acting China director at Human Rights Watch:
- China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas (Human Rights Watch)
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