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A medic who worked at Sde Teiman’s field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped “of anything that resembles human beings” and that the harassment and torture are done not to “gather intelligence” but “out of revenge” for the October 7 attacks....

“Shame on you,” said Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan shortly before the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution supporting full membership for Palestine.

“I’d make this the lead story in every paper and newscast on the planet,” said Bill McKibben. “If we don’t understand the depth of the climate crisis, we will not act in time.”

“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.

“What did we do after we were attacked in Pearl Harbor?” asked Sen. Lindsey Graham. “We dropped two nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities.”

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“Now Israel has a green light to destroy Rafah in slow motion,” said one critic.

“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.

“There are no protests on the college campuses in Gaza,” said the Vermont senator. “You know why? Because every one of the 12 universities in Gaza has been bombed and destroyed.”

The report—due Wednesday under the terms of a White House directive—has been indefinitely postponed, according to congressional aides.

The students’ open letter—which circulated as U.S. President Joe Biden again linked campus encampments to antisemitism—urges institutions of higher learning to “take immediate action” to stop Israel’s Gaza genocide.

“The White House must leave no stone unturned in its effort to stop the Israeli government’s offensive on Rafah—the hundreds of thousands displaced there do not have more time,” said the head of Win Without War.

One expert said legislators’ admissions “that the ban was motivated by a desire to suppress content about the Israel-Gaza conflict will make the law especially difficult for the government to defend,” said one First Amendment expert.