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“A rescue helicopter tried to reach the area where authorities believe Raisi’s helicopter was, but it couldn’t land due to the heavy mist”: Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Suffers a ‘Hard Landing,’ State TV Says, and Rescue Is Underway (AP) “Israel has defied every single provisional measure indicated by” the ICJ: South Africa’s Lawyer Breaks Down…

“Lily Greenberg Call condemned the administration’s “using Jews to justify aggressive US foreign policy and to ensure complicity in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip”: Jewish Staffer Resigns from Biden Administration amid Ongoing US Support for Israel’s Gaza Offensive (Middle East Monitor) “The U.N. says at least 500 trucks a day of aid and commercial…

“We cannot have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students” –Hillel open letter to off-campus Jewish community responsible for campus violence: Unmasking Counterprotesters Who Attacked UCLA’s Pro-Palestine Encampment (CNN) It’s not not just the students who are being harassed: University Professors Are Losing Their…

“[A]s the descendant of European Jews, I was raised in a particularly unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing”: Army Officer Resigns in Protest of U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza (Washington Post) Israel tries to shift the blame for its civilian casualties onto Hamas, but the…

The movement is not restricted to campuses, is not violent, and is not a call for violence against Jews but for an end to violence against Palestinians … Crowd Counting Consortium: Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Not (Ash Center) … and it is growing: Pro-Palestine Supporters March in Downtown Sarasota (WFLA) Police Cuff 150…

“They stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,” said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facility’s field hospital”: Strapped Down, Blindfolded, Held in Diapers: Israeli Whistleblowers Detail Abuse of Palestinians in Shadowy Detention Center (CNN) “We only have two wheelchairs, so I have to carry one of [two seriously injured…

The U.S. threat to pause delivery some missiles impacts neither the Israeli commitment to nor the U.S. complicity in the genocide: 600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says (The Intercept) Give or Take a Few Bombs, US Complicity in Genocide Remains ‘Ironclad’ (Aljazeera) Palestinians Flee Rafah as Netanyahu Vows to Widen…

“Hundreds of angry protesters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem denounced the government’s rejection of the ceasefire proposal” … Netanyahu Borrows Time by Rejecting Gaza Ceasefire (Turbulent World / Substack) … which would have released all the Israeli captives: Text of the Gaza Ceasefire Proposal Approved by Hamas (Aljazeera) Israel’s seizure of the only crossing not…

“World leaders have called on Israel not to go ahead with a ground assault on the southern Gaza city, where 1.4M have sought shelter”: Israel Tells Palestinians to Leave Eastern Rafah Ahead of Expected Offensive (Politico) As protests persist during graduation ceremonies … A Look at Commencement Ceremonies as US Campuses Are Roiled by Protests…