News and Analysis 10/10/25

The promises and dangers of the most recent in the series of promised ceasefires:

Gazans Return to Wrecked Homes as Israeli Forces Pull Back Under Ceasefire (Reuters)
The Gaza Deal Is Not Too Big to Fail: How Israel’s Military Dominance Could Undermine America’s Quest for Regional Peace (Foreign Affairs)
The Perilous Path to Sustained Peace in Gaza (Foreign Affairs)
No Agreement Yet on Palestinians to Be Released by Israel, Media Office Says (Middle East Eye)
Bodies of 35 Palestinians Recovered in Gaza Since Friday Dawn (Middle East Eye)
Trump Refuses to Answer One Key Question on Palestinians in Gaza (New Republic)
I’m a Mother in Gaza. Ceasefire Deal May Let Us Survive, but Israel Must Let Us Be Free (USA Today)

The Zionist war on free speech — and the resistance — continues …

‘They Didn’t Even Read the Book’: How Children’s Authors Are Being Canceled over Palestine (The Guardian)
Former British Diplomat Challenges Palestine Action Ban in Scotland (The Guardian)
‘Your Budget Condones Genocide’: Students Challenge Chancellor Mnookin on Palestine at ASM Meeting (Badger Herald)

… and “an attorney for the National Lawyers Guild, told the Globe that [a felony] riot charge was ‘totally bogus’”:

Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested After Clash with Police Now Facing Felony Charges, Including Inciting a Riot (Boston.com)

“The top court had earlier upheld the abrogation of Article 370 but directed the central government to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir “at the earliest, as soon as possible’”:

Supreme Court Hearing Today on Petition to Restore J&K’s Statehood (NDTV)

“Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at the farmers, and assaulted some of them, causing several injuries”:

Several Palestinians Injured In Colonizers’ Attack near Nablus (IMEMC)

“[O]ne of the most visible, outspoken anti-Zionist Jews in Hollywood over the last year … [on] “unlearning Zionism”:

‘F*ck ICE and Free Palestine’ – Hollywood Star Hannah Einbinder Talks Zionism, Jewish Identity, and Palestinian Liberation (Zeteo)

Spencer neglects interpretive nuance, omits critical counterevidence, and “erases over a millennium of cultural and legal plurality within Islam”:

Deconstructing Ideological Polemics Against Yusuf Islam- Rejoinder to Robert Spencer (Countercurrents)

The Onion’s satirical take on the ceasefire agreement:

Israel Agrees to Go Back to Killing Palestinians on Less Frequent Basis (The Onion)

“[P]arts used for F-35 stealth-strike fighter jets are being loaded and transported to Israel by Maersk and Zim to later be used to drop bombs on Gaza”: