from #WashingtonPost
Business titans privately urged #NYC mayor to use police on #Columbia protesters, chats show
A #WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy #Americans after the Oct. 7 #Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor #EricAdams and their work to shape #USA opinion of the #Gaza war.
He's right, of course. These "protestors" are blocking access and threatening Jews. This is in addition to their overall support for Hamas and their terrorism.
Israeli settlers broke into and invaded the private residence of a Palestinian family in Hebron, occupying their outdoor space and casually smoking cigarettes.
This intrusion has been a repeated occurrence in recent months, with settlers aiming to intimidate families and coerce them into vacating their homes.
There are 451,000 illegal settlers in 132 settlements and 147 outposts in the West Bank, along with 230,000 in the occupied East Jerusalem.
A new Human Rights Watch Report finds Israeli forces have attacked humanitarian aid convoys and facilities at least eight times since October 7 despite being given their coordinates.
Israeli authorities did not issue advance warnings to any of the aid organizations before the attacks, which killed at least 15 people, including two children, and injured at least 16 others.
More than 250 aid workers have been killed in Gaza over the past seven months.
For over seven months, a dominant conversation in the U.S. news media has been about alleged and increased antisemitism on American campuses - culminating in the coverage around student encampments.
In this interview, AJ+ speaks to Dr. Bruce Robbins, a Jewish professor at Columbia University who supported students protesting Columbia University’s investments in companies and programs that uphold Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Gaza.
Students at the London School of Economics have released a report accusing the university of investing $112 million in companies supporting the Israeli military, arms manufacture and nuclear weapons production.
Announcing the 116 page report prior to starting an encampment on campus, students called on university management to divest from all compromised investments and reform their ethical investment policy to include a commitment to human rights.
"The Zionists are lying! The history of the Jewish people is a proud history of struggle against oppression and injustice. We have resisted 6,000 years of oppression. The Zionists would now turn us into oppressors, into colonialists, into occupiers of other peoples’ land, "
Palestinian hauliers said on Tuesday they feared for the security of aid convoys to Gaza, a day after Israeli protesters wrecked trucks carrying humanitarian supplies bound for the enclave, which is facing a severe hunger crisis.
Footage shows at least one burning truck while other images showed trucks wrecked and stripped of their loads, which lay strewn over the road near Tarqumiya checkpoint outside Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians across the Middle East on Wednesday are marking the anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel with protests and other events across the region.
Palestinians refer to it as the “Nakba,” Arabic for “catastrophe.” Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the prewar population — fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment.
Israel's military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas "backward", Qatar, which is acting as a mediator in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached "almost a stalemate".
"In the past few weeks, [..] unfortunately things didn't move in the right direction and right now we are on a status of almost a stalemate," Qatari PM Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told the Qatar Economic Forum.
Egypt has told the United States that Israel's actions in Gaza are jeopardizing regional security.
Foreign minister Sameh Shoukry discussed the need to restart aid deliveries to Gaza in a phone call with Secretary of State Blinken.
Israel has seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing. Cairo says the presence of Israeli troops and tanks violates a 2007 treaty. Israel's move has exacerbated simmering tensions between Egypt and Israel.