NEW: 54 Columbia Law professors sent a letter to President Shafik, the board of trustees, and deans condemning the mass arrest & suspension of students.

Noting they don't all agree on issues at hand, the faculty urge 'respect for basic rule-of-law values.'theintercept.com/2024/04/22/gaz…

A The New York Times memo on Gaza says words to avoid when reporting on Israel-Palestine include: genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupied territory, refugee camps and Palestine, as jeremy scahill and Ryan Grim report theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt…

Not only do these traitors decide to defend Israel but not Palestinians, but on the millions of occasions when Iran and its militias bombed Syrian civilians, they didn't lift a finger. Their function is to defend those who murder Arabs, not to defend Arabs.

And the Iranian occupation, expulsion and mass slaughter of Syrians continues. These regional competitors have a huge amount in common.

Last night was a propaganda victory for Iran (because it finally appeared to 'do something', unlike the Arab dictators), and for Israel (because the west is now talking about Iran, not Gaza). Meanwhile the Zionist genocide of Palestinians continues uninterrupted.

BREAKING: Israel is dropping bombs on Syria’s capital city of Damascus right now.

Israel continues to bomb Syria, Lebanon and Palestine at the same time, with zero accountability, but has the gall to beg the US and UK for help the second it faces retaliation from Iran.

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the Khan Sheikhoun chemical massacre perpetuated by the Assad regime on our families in Syria.

90 people were suffocated to death in a matter of hours, a third of whom were children. 500 others were injured.

Imagine being a parent forced to feel this helpless towards the one person on Earth who sees you as the closest thing to God they’ve ever met

Disturbing reporting by Haaretz. This graph is referring to the video recovered by Al Jazeera showing four men blown up in a drone attack, who were initially described as “terrorists”

“I wanted him to understand, that, you know, that I don’t tolerate the disrespect,” Walton said.

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Yesterday I spoke w/ Law & Disorder about my latest piece in The Appeal & the culture of racism and misogyny that defines American policing. Listen here: kpfa.org/area941/episod…

March 15, 2011.

Thirteen years since Syrians took to the streets to demand freedom, only to be faced with a brutal regime willing to kill hundreds of thousands to remain in power and an intl community unwilling to take action in the face of mass atrocity and humanitarian crisis.

BREAKING: Israel just massacred 60 Palestinians who were waiting for aid trucks in northern Gaza.

60 starving civilians killed by Israeli helicopters while awaiting food.

Israel is committing the worst crimes in modern history, and Western regimes are calling it “self-defense”.

Florida DOC: An autopsy confirmed he had been paralyzed from the neck down for weeks, so the prison doctor could not have seen Craig walking back to his cell, as he told investigators. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. Nobody was charged. news.wgcu.org/government-pol…

A statement to our readers:

BREAKING: don’t know see how ⁦The New York Times⁩ doesn’t retract “Screams without Words.” 2 of the 3 victims specifically singled out by the NYT were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to Kibbutz Be’eri’s chief spokesperson. ⁦ theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt…

There is a really harmful provision in Secure DC to make theft of any item worth more than $500 a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

This would be extreme and completely ineffective at addressing the issue.

Tomorrow I will move an amendment to block it. Here is why:

BREAKING: We just sued PA Department of Corrections with the largest legal challenge to solitary confinement in the history of PA.

50% suffer from mental illness. Many are tortured indefinitely – some for 20 or 30 years.

This would end solitary for all of them. /1

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