.Chris Hayes: 'As I watch this news cycle about the campus protests unfold, something feels a little odd because the actual issues raised by the protests and protestors—those remain completely unresolved.'

So excited about this.

Biden's adviser Jake Sullivan, on reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals after Israeli assaults: 'Those reports are deeply disturbing... We want to see this thoroughly investigated.' The word missing, used by EU and UN: 'independent' investigation.
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Jared Moskowitz Is that what this is?

I’m really sick of media & viral social media posts painting the Jewish community in a false binary: pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian.

The vast majority of American Jews support Israel (but not necessarily its government) AND believe in Palestinian humanity & self-determination.

At Palestine solidarity protest. Spoke with Prof Jeremi Suri who was excoriating UT administration for allowing police start arresting students. Says the mive severly escalated protest and if ut turns violent 'blood on their hands.'

“Partly, the drift away from decades-old US foreign policy is a reflection of the enormous death toll in Gaza…as well as the intransigence of the Israeli government. But it is also a mark of the growing influence of progressives on the Democratic Party.” nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…

My audio conversation with sarah wildman for New York Times Opinion about how Gaza became Biden's war, and about the empathy gap and miscalculations in a man I've admired that have led to mass civilian death and to starvation: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

Sen. Sanders’ family was killed in the Holocaust. He dedicates his every moment to realizing tikkun olam.

His commitment to protecting innocents in Gaza stems FROM his Jewish values.

He and many other Jewish leaders deserve better than to be treated this way. This is shameful.

In addition to lazy whataboutism, this is an unseemly thing to say a Jewish person who has experienced some truly ugly antisemitism and lost family in the Holocaust.

'Clearly, the Biden Admin. has been trying for months to hit the breaks on a Rafah invasion' over civilian casualty concerns, EVP @MattDuss told @USAToday.

'If the Israeli military has planned something much more targeted, that's a different story.' usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

Somehow I don't think Department of State would defer to Russia as a credible source to investigate itself if a mass grave were discovered in Ukrainian territory it had occupied.

The true human & ecological costs of war are rarely acknowledged in foreign policy discourse. Now, Pentagon efforts to make munitions “safer” for military personnel may further exacerbate widespread (and often hidden) toxic legacies of war.

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The admin is already knocking this claim down, but that aside doesn’t it seem strange for the Speaker of the House to strenuously object to the President enforcing a law Congress passed?

A U.S. official tells me there is no change regarding the Leahy law determination about the IDF Netzah Yehuda battalion

Good to see lawmakers champion diplomacy and humanitarian aid to end the fighting, displacement and famine in Sudan — and rightly calling out the spoiler role some countries are playing.

The UAE’s reported supplying of arms to the RSF (former Janjaweed) is especially concerning.

And the US government

Let’s step back for a minute and acknowledge the extremely well coordinated foreign info op that we all watched happen here in real time. Dozens of DC pundits, think tankers, and politicians all repeating “UNRWA=Hamas” talking points that turned out to be total bullshit.