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Gaza humanitarian aid ship ‘bombed by drones’ in waters off Malta
Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters
Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
To the Israeli authorities, and those who can still reason with them, we say again: lift this brutal blockade. Let humanitarians save lives.
To the civilians left unprotected, no apology can suffice. But I am truly sorry that we are unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice. We won’t give up, even if the world has given you every reason to give up on us.
A Palestinian-American Teen Allegedly Threw Stones That Hit No One. Israeli Troops Shot Him 11 Times
IDF soldiers in an ambush rained fire down on a trio of 14-year-old Palestinian Americans who may have been throwing stones, but harmlessly. Two escaped, wounded; the third was killed after being sprayed with bullets
Invoking Never Again in Israel, as More Children Die
I have been engaged in researching the Holocaust for about 40 years. I never imagined in my worst nightmares that the Jewish state would bomb starving children to death
“Deprivation by Design”: Israel Intensifies Mass Killing Campaign in Gaza With Starvation and Daily Strikes
The scale of killing in Gaza is almost impossible to track as the Israeli military bombs and starves Palestinian civilians with impunity.
Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
In the first media interview with any of the Trump administration’s student detainees – all at risk of deportation — Mahdawi spoke to Leila Fadel in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., where he’s awaiting a court hearing Wednesday in a petition that argues government officials violated his First Amendment right to free speech and his right to due process.
Editor’s note: On Wednesday, April 30, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi’s release while his case proceeds.
After Humanitarianism
We are honored to have Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj for the next installment of the Bisan Lecture Series, on Wednesday May 14th, at 8PM Palestine time (6 PM GMT and UK time, 1 PM EDT).
Please notice the unusual time of the lecture.
Register here to get the Zoom link!
A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine
States have the duty to stop genocide. Sending a peacekeeping force to Gaza and the West Bank would fulfil this obligation.
Jewish Scholars Defy Flawed Antisemitism Definition
The weaponization of antisemitism accusations to silence criticism of Israel has become a global threat to academic freedom, free speech, and the fight for justice in Palestine. On April 17, 2025, over 40 Jewish scholars, Holocaust and genocide experts, and historians of antisemitism across the United States took a bold stand: they publicly violated the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism, exposing its dangerous role in suppressing dissent.