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RAFAH, GAZA - NOVEMBER 2: Wounded Palestinians enter the Rafah crossing to travel to receive treatment in Egypt on November 2, 2023 in Rafah, Gaza. For the first time since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the crossing here at the Gaza-Egyptian border opened this week to allow a small number of foreign passport holders and seriously wounded to enter Egypt. The wounded have been taken to nearby hospitals, while Egypt is also preparing a field hospital in the area. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Deconstructed

The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine

The documentary “Israelism” explores Israel’s centrality in American Judaism.

CEO of Israel's NSO Group Shalev Hulio listens during an interview with Reuters about the company's product, Eclipse, a system that commandeers and force-lands intruding drones, at Bloomfield Stadium, in Tel Aviv, Israel June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC255H9AYZMK

Israel’s War on Gaza

In Video From Gaza, Former CEO of Pegasus Spyware Firm Announces Millions for New Venture

Dream Security has a raft of NSO Group vets at the helm — and deep ties to the Israeli and international right.

US President Joe Biden, center, disembarks Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, US, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Houthi rebels vowed to target US and UK commercial vessels over the weekend after the allies launched airstrikes against the group, fanning concern that the Israel-Hamas war is blossoming into a regional conflict with Iran, something the Biden administration says it wants to avoid. Photographer: Ken Cedeno/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Joe Biden Wants You to Believe He Is Opposed to Genocide in Gaza

The White House is campaigning to spin Biden’s support for Israel’s war while actively facilitating the slaughter.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2024/01/15: Mayor Eric Adams speaks during Martin Luther King Jr. tribute at Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Families of People Killed by NYPD Brace for Eric Adams to Veto Criminal Justice Reform Bills

POPASNA, UKRAINE - MAY 10: Members of the Ukrainian military receive treatment for concussions and light injuries from Ukrainian military medics at a frontline field hospital on May 10, 2022 in Popasna, Ukraine. Russia's assault on Ukraine has now largely focused on the country's Donbas region, an area that includes two self-declared republics that Russia has supported since 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his May 9th address commemorating Russia's World War II victory, did not signal an escalation of his war aims, but made several references to the Donbas region, saying that Russian forces there were "defending the Motherland." (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

The Ukrainian Military Is Experimenting With Psychedelic Drug Ibogaine to Treat Traumatic Brain Injuries

The Legal Case Against Joe Biden for Enabling Israel’s Genocide Against Gaza

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., arrives to the U.S. Capitol for the last votes of the week on Friday, January 12, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Hakeem Jeffries Bucks AIPAC, Endorses Squad Member Summer Lee

Podcasts

RAFAH, GAZA - NOVEMBER 2: Wounded Palestinians enter the Rafah crossing to travel to receive treatment in Egypt on November 2, 2023 in Rafah, Gaza. For the first time since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the crossing here at the Gaza-Egyptian border opened this week to allow a small number of foreign passport holders and seriously wounded to enter Egypt. The wounded have been taken to nearby hospitals, while Egypt is also preparing a field hospital in the area. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Deconstructed

The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine

The Legal Case Against Joe Biden for Enabling Israel’s Genocide Against Gaza

Voices

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES - 2023/12/31: A projected picture of president Joe Biden with the text reading "Genocide Joe" on the wall of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum during in a Pro-Palestinian demonstation in Washington DC. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather at Thomas Circle and then hold a rally with Palestinian flags and banners, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Photo by Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Voices

I Resigned From the DNC in Protest of Biden’s Backing of Palestinian Slaughter

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 22: People watch the final U.S. presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden outside Cowell Theater on October 22, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Voices

U.S. Democracy Hangs on Two Men’s Egos

Politics

Biden on Yemen Airstrikes: “Are They Stopping the Houthis? No. Are They Gonna Continue? Yes.”

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union during a rally in Detroit, Michigan, on September 15, 2023. Workers at the "Big Three" US auto manufacturers went on strike on September 15, 2023, in a first-ever coordinated action to demand pay raises, testing the resilience of the US economy and threatening President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election momentum. A dramatic walkout -- observed outside a Detroit-area Ford plant with rowdy honking and cheers at the arrival of the United Auto Workers' leader -- followed a failed last-minute push by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis to produce an agreement before the deadline late on September 14, 2023. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher / AFP) (Photo by MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Senate Kills Measure to Scrutinize Israeli Human Rights Record as Condition for Aid

Screens prepared to broadcast at a caucus night watch party with former US President Donald Trump in Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Trump has enjoyed a wide lead in polls, leaving former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis fighting for second place to give them momentum for later races, namely New Hampshire's primary next week. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Watch: Trump’s Iowa Landslide and What’s Next for the GOP in 2024

Former US President Donald Trump, center left, departs following a caucus night watch party in Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Trump cruised to victory in the Iowa caucus, warding off a late challenge from rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley and cementing his status as the clear Republican frontrunner in the race. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Don’t Normalize Donald Trump

Justice

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Crime Scene DNA Didn’t Match Marcellus Williams. Missouri May Fast-Track His Execution Anyway.

Federal Judges Have Shown Leniency in Nearly All Jan. 6 Cases

James Risen, Margot Williams

New York Times Doxxes Source Trafficked by Chinese Gang

The Hamas Terrorist Who Wasn’t

Trevor Aaronson

National Security

A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment on January 11, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests

Ken Klippenstein, Matthew Petti

Travelers inside the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport (DEN) in Denver, Colorado, US, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Some $5 trillion of capital investment may be needed to deliver on aviation's goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, almost all of it plowed into sustainable fuel production and renewable power generation, according to McKinsey & Co. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Undercover FBI Agents Helped Autistic Teen Plan Trip to Join ISIS

Murtaza Hussain

KANDAHAR AIR BASE, KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - 2018/03/09: Armed U.S. General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone heading for take-off at Kandahar Air Base. Airpower is seen as a decisive advantage of Afghan government forces and their international backers over the insurgency, reaching enemies or own troops in even the remotest areas of the rugged, mountainous and underdeveloped country. These pictures show some of the military aircraft in Afghanistans skies from large transport planes to U.S. drones. (Photo by Franz J. Marty/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Rep. Sara Jacobs Urges Pentagon to Make Amends to Family of Drone Strike Victims

US and Saudi tanks take part in the "Eager Lion" multinational military manuever, in the Al-Zarqa governorate, some 85km northeast of the Jordanian capital Amman, on September 14, 2022. - The United States, Jordan, and 28 partner nations are taking part in the multinational military exercise, from September 4 to 15, 2022, representing one of the largest military exercises in the region, and designed to exchange military expertise and improve interoperability among partner nations. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Making a Killing

New Bills Aim to Block U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE Amid Concerns of Regional Conflict

Ken Klippenstein

World

Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, during a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Lawmakers on the education committee will grill the leaders of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about their responses to protests that erupted after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Photographer: Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 12: Barrister Malcolm Shaw speaks on behalf of the Israeli delegation during today's hearings of Israel's point of view after South Africa has requested the International Court of Justice to indicate measures concerning alleged violations of human rights by Israel in the Gaza Strip on January 12, 2024 in The Hague, Netherlands. On January 11 and January 12 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judicial body of the United Nations, in The Hague, South Africa seized the ICJ, to ask it to rule on possible acts of "genocide" in the Gaza Strip by Israel. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

At The Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality

(EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death.) Mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa in the center of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. On Monday, Gaza's Hamas-run health authorities put the death toll in Gaza at more than 19,400 Palestinians. Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

The U.S. Capitol building is seen reflected upon granite slabs during construction on Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. on January 11, 2024. (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP)

Biden’s Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say

Nausicaa Renner

Technology

OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israeli Group Claims It’s Working With Big Tech Insiders to Censor “Inflammatory” Wartime Content

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 01: An Autel Robotics Dragonfish drone is seen during a press preview at the IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) 2022 consumer electronics trade fair on September 01, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. IFA, running at its normal capacity for the first time in three years after a hiatus due to lockdowns amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, is open to the public from September 2-6. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Drones From Company That “Strongly Opposes” Military Use Marketed With Bombs Attached

Workers participate in a memorial ceremony to mark a month since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants, inside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Israel's shekel has recouped the bulk of its losses since the war between Israel and Hamas began a month ago, with the central bank's support helping to tame volatility and discourage bets against it. Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Harvard Endowment Investor and Other Business Leaders Take a Solidarity Trip to Israel

Ken Klippenstein

Environment

NPS / Jacob W. Frank

Grizzly Bear Poachers Flout the Endangered Species Act — and Get Away With It

Ryan Devereaux, Jimmy Tobias

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) (L) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rallying hundreds of young climate activists in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Organized by the Sunrise Movement, the 'No Climate, No Deal' marchers demanded a meeting with Biden to insist on an 'infrastructure package that truly invests in job creation and acts to combat the climate crisis.' (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Rise and Rollout of AOC’s Green New Deal

Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing

Amy Westervelt, Matthew Green

The Norlite hazardous waste-burning plant in Cohoes, New York, seen on October 1st, 2023. (Photo: Rebecca Redelmeier)

New Yorkers Voted to Put Environmental Rights in Their Constitution — but the Attorney General Is Fighting Back

Rebecca Redelmeier