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Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan for your courage, passion and eloquence. Watch EVERY MINUTE of this extraordinary interview about the grotesque murder of 9 siblings in Gaza. I just don't know how she holds it together. /1

You can hear James Elder’s desperation: “50,000 girls and boys have been killed or wounded…the bombs, the mortars, the shooting, the tanks. For those with leverage and influence, this has to stop” Every day humanitarians show us Israel’s atrocities and beg leaders to stop it.

"This is more than federal overreach; it is a direct attack on our students, our values, and our future. Schools and colleges must remain places of learning, belonging, and safety, not intimidation, monitoring, or disruption." newyork.edtrust.org/edtrust-new-yo… EdTrust

The accusation that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza — likely hundreds, maybe even thousands — has become all but undeniable. Even Israel’s supporters, those who defended or withstood this publicly broadcast nightmare for 19 months, have reached some semblance of a limit.

Plenty of Democrats thought it was smart politics to back the Iraq War in 2003. Try standing on principle - that's what people are looking for substantively, politically, and morally.

Don’t look away. Since the start of the Israel-Iran war 7 days ago, over 400 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, many shot while seeking food. It's unconscionable that Netanyahu has not allowed international orgs to resume food delivery. The weaponization of food must end.

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

It’s infuriating and disgusting that more elected Democrats have criticized a mayoral candidate’s opposition to the Israeli government than the Israeli government’s intentional slaughter of civilians, admitted to by Israeli soldiers themselves. What are we doing?

More than 17,000 children have been killed in Gaza since the war began. These are the faces and stories of 28 of them haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

We’re appalled by the reported killing in Gaza today of children and women waiting in line for nutritional supplies provided by UNICEF’s partner organization, Project HOPE. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.👇 unicef.org/press-releases…

Check out our deputy director Jeff Smink discuss our latest report, #EveryGradeCounts: The State of Adolescent Literacy in New York, on WAMC Northeast Public Radio Northeast at the 16:25 mark. loom.ly/IQKhAMM

Needed this today.

28 children have been killed each day in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. Nothing justifies killing more than 20,000 children in Gaza. Nothing. Not self defense. Not human shields. Not a damn thing.

People in Gaza are starving to death. UNICEF is warning that deadly malnutrition among children is reaching catastrophic levels. Humanitarian aid at scale is urgently needed. Safe, unrestricted access into Gaza must be granted to save lives.

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🚨 Oxfam and over 100+ humanitarian organizations, including Save the Children International, Amnesty International, & CARE (care.org), sound the alarm: let aid into #Gaza. Read our joint statement: oxf.am/4o2lY4J

That this isn't considered the greatest humanitarian emergency in the West -- but instead is still financed and armed by the West -- tells you all you need to know about what those governments' values are, and who they do and do not consider to possess inherent human worth:

Gaza's reality: Palestinians aren't just being starved. They're being shot while seeking aid. More than 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry & the UN. 60% have been killed while trying to reach GHF sites.