News and Analysis 5/30/24

U.S. claim that no red line has been crossed find few buyers in the face of atrocities:

Disgust After Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them’ Message on Israeli Shell (Middle East Eye)
Outrage on Social Media: Israeli Figures Mock Rafah Massacre (Palestine Chronicle)
Headless Child, Charred Bodies: Survivors Recount Israel’s Rafah Camp Massacre (Middle East Eye)
Rafah Residents Face Further Danger as Israel Hits City’s Two Hospitals (Aljazeera)
Gaza’s Stolen Healers: Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention (The Intercept)
Border Clash Erupts Between Egyptian and Israeli Soldiers, Injuries and Deaths reported (New Arab)
Revealed: Israeli Spy Chief ‘Threatened’ ICC Prosecutor over War Crimes Inquiry (The Guardian)
Surveillance and Interference: Israel’s Covert War on the ICC Exposed (792 Magazine)
Gaza Conditions Worse than Ever, USAID Chief Says, as Rafah Invasion Rages (Washington Post)

“Bad actors have used OpenAI’s tools, which include ChatGPT, to generate social media comments in multiple languages, make up names and bios for fake accounts, create cartoons and other images, and debug code”:

In a First, OpenAI Removes Influence Operations Tied to Russia, China and Israel (NPR)

“Faiza Shaheen is being forced to defend herself over a tweet that she doesn’t even remember liking in the middle of the night many years ago. And there’s nothing wrong with the parody skit in the first place”:

UK’s Labour Party Drops Support of a Muslim Candidate Because of a Jon Stewart Clip (Pajiba)

“The conflict between creative compromise and artistic integrity comes to a dark, surreal head when … [her] mouth is blurred onscreen (though it looks like she’s trying to say ‘war’) and her body pelted by invisible blows”: