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Israel’s War on Gaza

Google Was Set to Host an Israeli Military Conference. When We Asked About It, the Event Disappeared.

Caroline Haskins

The military tech conference, set for November at one of Google’s Tel Aviv offices, was scrubbed from the internet when The Intercept asked questions.

TOPSHOT - People participate in a "Flood Manhattan for Lebanon" protest with signs at Madison Square Park in New York on September 24, 2024. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Lebanon as Israeli strikes pummelled the country, the UN said September 24, calling events "extremely alarming." Israeli air strikes killed at least 558 people on September 23, including 50 children and 94 women, according to Lebanon's health ministry. (Photo by Paul FRANGIPANE / AFP) (Photo by PAUL FRANGIPANE/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

“I Saw a Mirror”: Marcellus Williams’s Execution Enrages Palestine Solidarity Protesters

Jonah Valdez, Jessica Washington

Activists are drawing parallels between the state-sanctioned killing of Williams in Missouri and U.S. backing for Israel’s war on Gaza.

In this March 2, 2011 photo, shown is a sign at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pa. The college is named for a patriarch of the American Lutheran church, but is also one of the hottest campuses in the country for Jewish students. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech

Natasha Lennard

Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 21: Officers use heavy construction equipment to remove debris from heavily damaged settlements following the Israeli army's air strike on the Dahieh district of southern Beirut, Lebanon on September 21, 2024. 31 people died and 68 were injured in an Israeli air strike. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Beirut Suburbs or “Hezbollah Stronghold”? U.S. Media Parrots Israeli Propaganda to Justify Bombing Civilians

Séamus Malekafzali

Deacon Dave Billips, with the Office of Peace and Justice with the St. Louis Archdiocese, holds a sign as he stands with protesters holding space to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, outside the Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Missouri Kills Marcellus Williams Over Objections From Prosecutor and Victim’s Family

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - MAY 8: US representatives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush (not seen) hold a press conference with the student representatives of George Washington University (GWU), after their solidarity encampment with Palestine was raided by the police, in front of the Congress building in Washington D.C., United States on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

CNN Anchors Won’t Stop Lying About Something Rashida Tlaib Never Said

Natasha Lennard

FILE - The sun sets behind Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala., on Jan. 27, 2022. Alabama’s prison commissioner did not explain what caused a lethal injection to be delayed more than two hours Thursday, July 28, 2022, beyond saying staff members were being careful, but others said the delay was troubling and raises questions about what happened. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

In Alabama, Officers Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions

Lauren Gill, Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Podcasts

Deconstructed

Project 2025 Roots Date Back Half a Century

Deconstructed

Honduras, 15 Years After the Coup: An Interview With Ousted President Manuel Zelaya

Voices

An immigrant family show their paperwork to security guards at the Roosevelt Hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in New York.

Voices

You Should Stop Calling Immigrants “Migrants”

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 12: Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney talks about his wife Lynne Cheney's book "James Madison: A Life Reconsidered" May 12, 2014 in Washington, DC. The Cheneys spoke at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Voices

Do Kamala Harris’s Neocon Supporters Just Hate Trump, or Is There Something More to Her Appeal?

Politics

Former President Donald Trump at the Israel-American Council (IAC) Summit 2024 at the Washington Hilton on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 in Washington.

Trump’s Conspiracy Theory Campaign

Pro-Palestinian protesters rebuild the barricade surrounding their encampment at the University of California Los Angeles on May 1, 2024.

Israel’s War on Gaza

California Professors Fight Back Against Violent Repression of Palestine Protest

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 20, 2024. (Photo by Mahka Eslami / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by MAHKA ESLAMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Kamala Harris Refused to Meet With Uncommitted About Gaza — and Uncommitted Refused to Endorse Her

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign event at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall, Thursday, Sept.12, 2024, in Tucson, Ariz.

It’s Good Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election

Justice

Four people were shot, including two bystanders and an NYPD officer, after two Brooklyn cops opened fire on a suspect who had allegedly evaded paying his fare and was armed with a knife at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York on September 15, 2024.

There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other

Natasha Lennard

An Ohio National Guard Soldier from the St. Marys, Ohio, Company A, Special Troops Battalion, 37th Brigade throws a grappling hook in order to identify possible enemy mines during training at Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Grayling, Mich., Aug. 21, 2015. The Soldier is participating in the eXportable combat training capability program designed to certify platoon proficiency in coordination with 1st Army. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. Tyler Piper/Released)

They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects.

Cody Bloomfield

A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, debates Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. president Donald Trump, for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After earning the Democratic Party nomination following President Joe Biden’s decision to leave the race, Harris faced off with Trump in what may be the only debate of the 2024 race for the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad

Natasha Lennard

National Security

A US Air Force KC-46A Pegasus tanker at the Abbotsford International Airshow in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.

U.S. Army Is Upgrading an Israeli Base to Make Room for New Boeing Jets

MALA DANYLIVKA, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 7: A general view of a destroyed private house after a Russian missile attack on September 7, 2024 in Mala Danylivka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Russian troops attacked Kharkiv city and Mala Danylivka village in the Kharkiv district with guided missiles. In the village of Mala Danylivka, a residential building on an area of 150 square meters was on fire. 1 residential building was also destroyed, and more than 10 other houses were damaged. According to preliminary data, 5 people were injured. (Photo by Ivan Samoilov/Gwara Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Progressives Were Pilloried for Wanting to End the Ukraine War in 2022. Things Have Only Gotten Worse.

SOUNION TANKER, RED SEA -- AUGUST 29, 2024: Maxar satellite imagery of the Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion that was recently attacked by Yemen's Houthis on fire in the Red Sea and leaking oil, . Please use: Satellite image (c) 2024 Maxar Technologies.

The U.S. Has Been at War in Yemen for 20 Years, but Houthis Can Still Choke the Red Sea

Vice President Kamala Harris on stage at the Democratic National Convention on August 22, 2024 in Chicago, Ill.

What Kamala Harris Meant by “Most Lethal Fighting Force” in Her DNC Speech

World

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Marjayoun, near the Lebanon-Israel border, on September 23, 2024.

Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds. The U.S. Is Sending More Bombs.

A photo taken on September 18, 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on September 17, killing at least nine people and wounding around 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Paging The Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 04: Anas Altikriti the CEO and Founder of The Cordoba Foundation speaks during a special event where President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) attends a meeting with representatives of Turkish community at Old Billingsgate building in London, United Kingdom on December 04, 2019.
(Photo by Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

These Human Rights Defenders Were Hacked by Pegasus. Now They Want Police to Charge the Spyware Maker.

The UN General Assembly endorses a resolution calling for an end to Israel's 'unlawful' presence in the region within 12 months, which was introduced by Palestine in New York, United States on September 18, 2024.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.

Technology

A first-responder carries a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded at al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up

Israel’s War on Gaza

IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior”

Homeland Security Still Dreams of Face Recognition at the Border

Israel’s War on Gaza

The Crowdfunding Campaign for Deadly Israeli Military Drones

Akela Lacy, Sam Biddle

Environment

The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk

GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record

For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins

Razafihanta Flogone, 38, poses for a portrait inside her home in Ambinanibe in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, on July 11, 2023. Her husband Randriamanjaka Zeze used to fish where the port built by QMM is now located. They had to find new places to fish and she took on weaving to help support her family.

Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.