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Since October 7, 2023, critics of Israel in Europe and the United States have faced serious repression. In the United States, college…
The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party…
Nearly 10 months into a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel on Tuesday killed at least one Palestinian man with an airstrike on the Nuseirat…
The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th…
The Human Development Program (Internal Development) was launched on 13 February 2026 under the #UnlimitedLove campaign. As a pre-Valentine’s initiative was designed…
Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part? On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had,…
The lawsuit filed after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) questioned Max Blumenthal and seized two of his cellphones has renewed debate…
Right now, in Santa Cruz, California, police officers are going without federally funded bulletproof vests. In Beaverton, Oregon, paramedics are losing the ambulances they were…
No American city has been as central to this decade’s struggles for social justice as Minneapolis. George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police…
Social media is not conducive to nuance. In the interest of reach, cut and dried positions are more effective and binary moral…
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