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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.

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.

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.