News and Analysis 2/14/26

Settler violence and Israeli war crimes continue …

• Israeli Settlers Injure at Least 54 Palestinians in West Bank Attacks (Aljazeera)
• How 140 Outposts Seized 1 Million Dunams: The Untold Story of the “Landlords” of the West Bank (Unxeptable / YouTube)
• How Israel Is Eroding Life for Palestinians in the West Bank (Mondoweiss)
• Israel Accused of Spraying Chemicals to Poison Syrian Farmland (Aljazeerah / YouTube)
• Strangling Gaza’s Survivors, Criminalizing Humanity: The Banning of Humanitarian Relief in Palestine (Palestine Chronicle)

… and Israel now exports its illegal weapons to the U.S.:

• Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons (The Intercept)

“Iraq is looking to put on trial some of the thousands of the IS detainees who were held for years in Syria without charges or access to the judicial system”:

• U.S. Military Completes Transfer of 5,700 IS Detainees from Syria to Iraq (Washington Post)

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

• Zionists Tell You Exactly What They Are Doing and How They’re Going to Do It (The Young Turks / YouTube)
• The Palestine Action Ruling Vindicates the Courageous – and Shames the Complicit (The Guardian)
• Labour MPs Urge Government Not to Appeal Against Palestine Action Ruling (The Independent)
• Arundhati Roy ‘Shocked’ by Jury’s Gaza Remarks, Quits Berlin Film Festival (Aljazeera)

“[D]espite repression, Iranian society remains politically engaged, intellectually active, and publicly vocal from within the country itself”:

• Wounded but Alive: Civil Society, Political Debate, and Cultural Resistance Inside Iran After the January Crackdown (NIAC)

The HUD investigation “comes after the U.S. Justice Department quietly closed its own probe into the housing project, saying the developers agreed to follow federal fair housing laws”:

• Feds Launch Fair Housing Probe into North Texas Development Marketed to Muslims (Texas Tribune)

“The USS Gerald R. Ford, deployed since June, will cross the Atlantic for a second time despite a Navy warning that the warship needs maintenance”:

• U.S. Orders Second Aircraft Carrier to Middle East as Trump Pressures Iran (Washington Post)

AIPAC’s techniques earlier this year allowed “significant financial backing to flow into targeted races while limiting public visibility into the original sources of funding”:

• Growing Concern over AIPAC Dark Money Influence Ahead of the 2026 Midterm Elections (National Interest Foundation)

The petition “argues that Hungary’s ‘Christian national heritage’ is being challenged and warns of so-called ‘parallel communities’”:

• Hungary Town Divided as Petition Targets Small Muslim Prayer Center (Muslim Network)

Epstein’s “intimate relationship with Sultan Sulayem, the powerful head of the Dubai Ports World financial empire … helps reveal the hidden backstory of the Abraham Accords, which were signed one year after Epstein’s death”:

• “Praise Allah, There Are Still People Like You”: Jeffrey Epstein Nurtured Israel-Emirates Ties Before Abraham Accords (Drop Site)

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