EU “Bending” Rules to Allow Trade With Israeli Settlements, Leaked Analysis Shows
A recent ICJ ruling requires countries to end all support for Israeli occupation — but not according to the EU’s internal legal advice.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Israel’s 2023 bombings and invasion of the Gaza Strip have cost thousands of Palestinian lives and displaced countless others. But the war didn’t start with Hamas’s October 7 attack. The Intercept’s coverage delves into Israel’s occupation, how the U.S. government enables its repression, and the free speech fight over pro-Palestine activism at home.
ACLU Leadership Rejects Staff Demands to Condemn U.S. Role in Israel’s Gaza War
More than 650 ACLU staffers signed a petition calling on the organization to decry the ongoing war and divest from Israel.
Voices
Pro-Palestine Students Face Expulsion for Using a Bullhorn
Like other schools moving the goalposts, Swarthmore College recently changed its policies to ban “loud chanting.”
Voices
Don’t Believe the U.S.–Israel Fantasy for Lebanon
Israel and the United States are already speaking about a Lebanon post-Hezbollah. They’re getting way ahead of themselves.
Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Pegasus Spyware Maker Said to Flout Federal Court as It Lobbies to Get Off U.S. Blacklist
On the same day lobbyists for NSO met with Rep. Pete Sessions, a lawyer from the lobbying firm gave $1,000 to “Pete Sessions for Congress.”
Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins
With the Israeli military standing by or, increasingly, joining settler attacks, Bedouin communities are especially vulnerable.
After Israel Killed Hamas Leader, D.C. Pushes to Hand Palestine to Saudi Arabia
Bent on a “mega-deal” security pact with Saudi Arabia, Congress and the Biden administration see their chance.
She Exposed a Prestigious Medical Journal’s Silence on the Holocaust. Now She’s Asking About Gaza.
A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium.
A Year Since Their Ceasefire Resolution, Progressives Say Only an Arms Embargo Can Stop Israel
Her call for a ceasefire was prescient. Now Rep. Cori Bush says the Biden administration must stop enabling Israel’s violence.