Summe Lee , a pro-Palestine member of Congress, wins her primary contest in PA. She defeated Bhavini Patel, an Indian American, backed heavily by pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, and by Hindu nationalist right!!

thehill.com/homenews/campa…

1. Let's learn from history:
Look at the debate between a brave senator who criticizes U.S. support for apartheid in Africa, and a secretary of state who retorted arrogantly, 'I hate to hear a U.S. senator calling for violence.'
Barbara Slavin Trita Parsi
Jon Taylor

Peter Welch doesn't get enough credit for being a thoughtful, principled voice on foreign policy. Vermont delegation has no skips.

That the US has once again resorted to its well-worn veto to block Palestine’s UN membership is all you need to know about why its pretend commitment to a ’two-state solution’ is nothing but empty rhetoric, says Sarah Leah Whitson ipsnews.net/2024/04/will-t…

Here's another video of my FOX 7 Austin colleague getting brought down to the ground before he was arrested. He can be seen in the navy shirt with the camera on his shoulder and a Live U on his back.

Sarah Leah Whitson UT Austin twitter.com/aclutx/status/…

Statement by MESA:

'We are witnessing a situation in which, in the name of security, it is university leaders themselves who have become the primary threat to the rights and safety of members of the campus community.'

mesana.org/advocacy/lette…

Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace Sarah Leah Whitson

So impressive to see this Saudi-led initiative for democracy and freedom in Saudi Arabia!

This will gives a single US official authority to strip US non-profits orgs of their non-profit status in a peremptory manner, w/ virtually no limitations, accountability, or meaningful recourse, based merely on his declaration they are “terrorist supporting organizations”

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Hi all. Nerdy policy wonk who follows Congress closely weighing in with a thread on legislation (getting no media coverage) moving rapidly through Congress that targets US non-profit orgs, with the immediate & explicit target being orgs involved in Palestine protesting.

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The intent behind the bill — the targeting of groups engaged in protest for Palestinian rights/lives — has been made explicit - e.g., here's the Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee when it was marking up/passing the bill last November:

waysandmeans.house.gov/event/hearing-…

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⬇️ UT奥斯汀分校完全是疯狂的武力部署--他们宁愿把整个国家变成军事占领区，也不允许抗议以色列的种族隔离。

Naomi Klein:

'This false idol of Zionism equates Israeli safety with Egyptian dictatorship & client states. From the start it has produced an ugly kind of freedom that saw Palestinian children not as human beings but as demographic threats.'

Sarah Leah Whitson Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace Mehdi Hasan

Reports say the US may soon begin applying Leah Law sanctions to Israel, blocking the Netzah Yehuda Battalion from US military support due to its human rights violations.

DAWN’s Mike S. Omer-Man explains why.

See our 2022 call for these Leahy Law sanctions: dawnmena.org/u-s-apply-leah…

Iranian activist/rapper #ToomajSalehi has been sentenced to death.The revolutionary court dismissed the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the initial court's ruling as 'guidance' & 'sentenced him to death, on the bogus charge of “corruption on earth.”

Genuinely pained to see Biden admin calling for a ceasefire in Sudan but blocking ceasefire in Gaza, indeed pumping fresh $26B of fuel into the genocidal fire:

state.gov/the-united-sta…

With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an

Completely insane deployment of force at UT Austin - they'll turn our entire country into a military occupation zone rather than permit protests against Israeli apartheid.