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Rabbi Alissa Wise (Rabbi Alissa Wise) is a founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire and one of several Jewish activists arrested by Israeli police Friday while trying to deliver aid to Gaza. She says a police officer told her the arrest was 'for trying to bring food to the people of Gaza.'

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Hala Rharrit is the first American diplomat to publicly resign over U.S. policy in Gaza.

In an exclusive televised interview, she explains to Democracy Now! why she could no longer work 'within the system' after her expertise was 'silenced' and 'sidelined.'

Students at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York launched an occupation of a campus building Thursday, joining a wave of college protests across the United States over the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza.

Hundreds marched through the Manhattan campus chanting…

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Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. 'The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies,' he says.

'Provoking people, challenging people, asking difficult questions, making people uncomfortable — that’s part of the price of living in a democracy.'

@fredmlawrence, former president of Brandeis University, says most U.S. schools are failing in their response to Gaza protests.

Amnesty International head Agnes Callamard says flagrant war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza are part of a pattern of powerful countries running roughshod over international law. 'The only conclusion we can reach is that the international system is collapsing,' she says.

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A coalition of international NGOs is calling on states to halt arms transfers to Israel. @Amnesty's Budour Hassan discusses the group's latest report on how U.S. weapons are being used in violation of international law, the plight of Palestinian prisoners and more.

War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody 🧣⚖️ says the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials would be “huge.” After decades of impunity, global condemnation & 'overwhelming evidence of atrocities” in Palestine have “made it untenable now for the ICC not to act.'

Palestinian Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh Dies in Israeli Prison; Released Detainee Describes Horror of Arrest democracynow.org/2024/5/3/headl…

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Voting rights journalist Ari Berman explains the strategy behind the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which aims to effectively end Electoral College's undemocratic control of presidential elections.

The US response to peaceful protest is a brutal crackdown
The US response to Israel committing genocide, is put more weapons in the hands of the murderers.
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“I had never seen something like this.”

Experienced conflict zone doctors Ismail Mehr and Azeem Elahi have just returned from volunteering with Islamic Medical Association of North America at European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, where the healthcare system is barely functioning.

Los Angeles police are dismantling the Gaza encampment at UCLA a day after a pro-Israel mob attacked students there in a rampage that lasted for hours. Two reporters who witnessed the 'harrowing scenes' describe the violence that unfolded on campus.

#WATCH | Kalaburagi, Karnataka: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge says, 'They (BJP) are saying that we (Congress) will take away your wealth and give it away to the Muslims. This didn't even happen during the time of Nizams. We are a democracy now and the Congress party will…