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OPEN LETTER FROM NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMICS CONDEMNING SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA
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Israeli teen jailed for refusing draft: ‘I’m willing to pay a price for my principles’
Ben Arad, 18, is the third conscientious objector imprisoned since October 7. He tells +972 why Israel’s assault on Gaza propelled him into action.
Is This the End of Academic Freedom?
Silencing pro-Palestinian speech and action sets a dangerous precedent.
Doctor at Israeli Field Hospital for Detained Gazans: ‘We Are All Complicit in Breaking Law’
The doctor at the Sde Teiman facility describes deplorable conditions and violations medical ethics and the law. ‘Two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which is a routine event,’ he says in a letter to ministers, attorney general.
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
IDF says it ‘completely rejects’ charge that its soldiers deliberately fired on any of the thousands of civilians killed in Israeli offensive
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
Columbia Is Waging War on Dissent
The university is under pressure to root out any students or faculty critical of Israel—and it’s already caved.
“Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians
As Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank were prevented from reaching Jerusalem for Good Friday to walk the Via Dolorosa, the path Jesus is said to have followed on the way to his crucifixion more than 2,000 years ago. Meanwhile, Jesus’s birthplace of Bethlehem is uncharacteristically empty of tourists this year as Israel’s assault on Gaza and crackdown on the West Bank escalate. “Nothing can wash the blood from your hands,” said the Reverend Munther Isaac at an Easter vigil for Gaza on Saturday, about Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Isaac is a Palestinian Christian theologian and the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss the history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, Israel’s occupation of Bethlehem and its strangling of freedoms in the West Bank, U.S. Christians’ support of Israel and more.
Gaza: l’hôpital Al-Shifa désormais hors service après une opération des forces israéliennes
Les équipes de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sont horrifiées de constater que l’hôpital Al-Shifa, est en ruines après une opération de 14 jours menée par les forces israéliennes à l’intérieur et autour de l’établissement. Le plus grand hôpital de Gaza est désormais hors service.