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Despite 30-day Gaza aid ultimatum,US says support for Israel will proceed The deadline has now passed, and the United Nations is warning that famine is “imminent” in parts of northern Gaza. But there will be no consequences for Israel, Sarah Leah Whitson United Nations aje.io/phklqi

Wondering what the budget of the new “Dept of Government Efficiency” will be, and, well, who’s going to pay for it? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Congress is working to pass a bill that would have a devastating, chilling effect on free speech and give the Trump administration power to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits without due process or even a clear explanation (1/3).

Meet the student who learned from Edward Said himself! Award-winning author & professor Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social shares his insights on "The Question of Palestine in America" at our Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Thursday, Dec 12th | 6:30 PM | The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center

Friends! Join me next week (Dec 12) in DC at the Jerusalem Fund. We have much to discuss.

I hope you'll take the time to read my latest article on the history and present of governments taking pictures of their atrocities, in hyperallergic hyperallergic.com/970546/the-ban…

Please read this powerful essay by Nahid Fattahi ناهید فتاحی. War Profiteering: Children Bear the Brunt of Wars They Don't Start msmagazine.com/2024/12/02/chi… via @msmagazine

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds theguardian.com/world/2024/dec…

‘What findings of “excited delirium” and “sickle cell trait” both do is pathologize Black people, especially Black men, by turning their own bodies against them in a court of law.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ukraine and Gaza are connected. Here I explain why theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"For each minute that Khalil is held in detention, every one of us should feel like our own individual rights in this country are being shredded." I wrote about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for The Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is a barefaced attempt by the Trump administration to destroy free thinking while murdering due process and free speech along the way” — powerful piece by Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I have obtained a new transcript of the Signal conversation between high-level government officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and am publishing it here in full in the public interest. moustafabayoumi.com/exclusive-new-…

New research paper: Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. ⬇️

“The government is seeking to deport Khalil solely for his constitutionally protected speech, a protection which applies to everyone in the United States. If the government succeeds, you could well be next.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In their rush to implement a barely concealed authoritarian agenda, this administration is producing a litany of blunders, gaffes and slip-ups. I call it “rule by error.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“This brazen act of political violence in the heart of the nation’s capital only underscores the obvious: all this violence – whether in Wash DC, Gaza, Jenin or Israel, by bullet, bomb or forced starvation – must end, and it must end immediately.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For more on Canary Mission, check out our factsheet: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/facts… Mehdi Hasan Noura Erakat Sana Saeed Moustafa Bayoumi @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social Nader Hashemi Center for Security, Race and Rights Jehad Abusalim Suppressed News. Alex Kane David Grossman Abier Eli Clifton CAIR National Marc Owen Jones Hend Amry