The expansion of the Gaza war troubles the U.S.:
- Gaza Officials Say Nearly 250 Palestinians Killed in Run-up to Blinken Visit (Reuters)
- WHO Axes Medical Aid Delivery to North Gaza in Absence of Security Guarantees (Reuters)
- At Least Nine Palestinians, Two Israelis Killed in West Bank Violence (Aljazeera)
- Young Palestinian Girl Killed when Israeli Police Fire at Suspected Attackers in West Bank Unrest (Washington Post)
- Palestinians Flee from Gaza’s Main Hospital as Strike Kills Hezbollah Commander in Lebanon (Hufffington Post)
- Israel Shifts to Deadlier Strikes on Iran-linked Targets in Syria (Reuters)
- With Each Strike, Fears Grow that Israel, the US and Iran’s Allies Are Inching Closer to All-out War (AP)
- Israel Says Hezbollah Struck Sensitive Air Traffic Base in the North and Warns of ‘Another War’ (Washington Post)
- Israel’s Talk of Expanding War to Lebanon Alarms U.S. (Washington Post)
- Gaza Conflict Runs Risk of Metastasizing, Blinken Warns (Reuters)
The resignations of Presidents Gay and Liz Magill send a “signal [that] has gone far and wide and surely helps explain Joe Biden’s passivity too in the face of Israeli war crimes”:
As Blinken expresses antipathy for “comments made by some Israeli ministers last week advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza” …
… Israel’s president denies that the ministers comments reflect Israeli policy, in contradiction to the facts on the ground, and defends their right to free speech with no hint of irony at Zionist attacks on free speech on American campuses …
… as the Modern Language Association calls for the immediate defense of free speech on campus, specifically including rejection of “the characterization of pro-Palestinian speech or critiques of the Israeli state as invariably antisemitic”:
- MLA Delegates Pass Motion Defending Pro-Palestine Speech (Inside Higher Ed)
Israel’s war on journalists can no longer be ignored by the mainstream media …
- An Al Jazeera Journalist Is the Fifth Member of His Family Killed by Israeli Strikes on Gaza (Washington Post)
- Israeli Strike Kills Two Palestinian Journalists in Gaza, Officials Say (Reuters)
- Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War (Committee to Protect Journalists)
… yet “the top US diplomat has not held Israel accountable for killing journalists in Gaza”:
“Anti-Zionism … was a creation of Jews, not their enemies”:
- Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Antisemitism. Here’s the History (Washington Post)
- Journalists Killed in the Israel-Gaza War: A Look at the Lives Lost (Washington Post)
American Muslims and Arab Americans have never voted as a block; the Gaza genocide may change that:
- An Overlooked and Undercounted Group of Arab American and Muslim Voters May Have Outsized Impact on 2024 Presidential Election (The Conversation)
“The victim, who is now in her 40s, was pregnant when she was brutally gang-raped in 2002 in western Gujarat state during communal … riots [that] have long hounded Modi, who was Gujarat’s top elected official at the time”:
- India Court Restores Life Prison Sentences for 11 Hindu Men Who Raped a Muslim Woman in 2002 Riots (AP)
“[O]nce exiled from Indonesia and banned from the United States, Prabowo … now brands himself as the man who will usher in a new era for famously non-aligned Indonesia during a time of deep crises rocking the international order”:
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