- + Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?—The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said its top priority this cycle was to oust members of the progressive Squad. But the group has also be...
- + Israel “Likely” Used U.S.-Supplied Weapons in Violation of International Law. That’s OK, Though, State Department Says.—Antony Blinken’s report identifies “incidents that raise concerns,” but says Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid. The post Israel “Likely” Use...
- + Israel “Likely” Used U.S-Supplied Weapons in Violation of International Law. That’s OK, Though, State Department Says—In a long-awaited report, the State Department lays out numerous suspected international humanitarian violations by Israel in its war on Gaza, yet sug...
- + October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”—Four lawsuits alleging Hamas ties against Students for Justice in Palestine, the AP, UNRWA, and a cryptocurrency exchange share many of the same plain...
- + AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon—Pro-Israel donors threw nearly $220,000 behind a Portland, Oregon, congressional candidate in a single day this week — the latest indication that t...
- + Even Biden’s Lawyers Are Urging the White House to Change Course on Gaza—An open letter from government attorneys questions the legal cover for arms transfers to Israel. The post Even Biden’s Lawyers Are Urging the Whit...
- + Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process—A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets. The post Criticizing Israel? N...
- + Israeli Military Refusers Appeal to Biden: “Stop Arming Israel’s War”—Tal Mitnick and Sofia Orr, who are in prison for refusing to serve in Israel’s military, are pleading with Biden to help stop the war on Gaza. The ...
- + As Biden Warns Against Rafah Invasion, AIPAC Pushes Congress to Support Israel’s Operation—In talking points reviewed by The Intercept, the pro-Israel lobby argues that Israel has “no other option” but to invade Rafah. The post As Biden ...
- + Some Universities Chose Violence. Others Responded to Protests by Considering Student Demands.—At least seven schools have reached an agreement with students around investment transparency and exploring divestment from Israel. The post Some ...
- + 600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says—“The reality for kids living there is shocking, honestly,” said an official who recently returned from Gaza. “People are living in really squalid cond...
- + They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.—On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel. The post They Used to Say Ara...
- + Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard.—A vulgar Instagram account frequently degraded female prison employees at the Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, mocking their bodies after preg...
- + “A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza—Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, reached a deal with students to work toward divesting from “companies that profit from gross human r...
- + How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.—The last big protests cost $150 million in NYPD overtime — with tens of millions more in lawsuit settlements. The post How Much Money Did the NYPD...
- + How much money did the NYPD waste quashing student protests? We tallied it up.—The last big protests cost $150 million in NYPD overtime — with tens of millions more in lawsuit settlements. The post How much money did the NYPD...
- + NYPD’s Raid on Columbia Cost Hundreds of Thousands in Overtime Alone. The Crackdown Will End Up Costing Millions.—The last big protests cost $150 million in NYPD overtime — with tens of millions more in lawsuit settlements. The post NYPD’s Raid on Columbia Cos...
- + After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail—Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed students. Th...
- + They Exposed an Israeli Spyware Firm. Now the Company Is Badgering Them in Court.—For years, cybersecurity researchers at Citizen Lab have monitored Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and its banner product, Pegasus. In 2019, Citizen L...
- + In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests—The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The ...
- + Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the Squad—In the weeks after October 7, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee took aim at members of Congress who expressed vocal opposition to Israel’s...
- + AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race to Take Down Susheela Jayapal, Sources Say—The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress. The post AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening ...
- + NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia—Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia. The post ...
- + AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman—The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member. The post AIPAC’s...
- + From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack—University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza. The post From U...
- + I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.—When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York. The post I’ve Cover...
- + Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon—Google downplays its military work with Israel, but “Project Nimbus” documents tie the American tech giants to Israel’s deadly military capabilities. ...
- + Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide—The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians. The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Isra...
- + Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds—A tale of two Americas. The post Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds appeared first on The Intercept . [Cate...
- + Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians—A Nigerian airstrike this month on a village in the country’s northwest killed 33 people, according to four residents and a local traditional leader....
- + QAnon Was Born Out of the Sex Ad Moral Panic That Took Down Backpage.com—For years, the political establishment opportunistically railed against sex trafficking. Then came Pizzagate. The post QAnon Was Born Out of the S...
- + “Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza—“There were kids in the ICU that had bullet wounds to the chest or bullet wounds to the head,” Dr. Mohammed “Adeel” Khaleel recounts the ...
- + “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree—Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years. Th...
- + House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans—Civil liberties groups are raising alarms about a bill making its way through Congress that applies pressure for a ban on travel to Iran for Americ...
- + House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away from Americans—Civil liberties groups are raising alarms about a bill making its way through Congress that applies pressure for a ban on travel to Iran for Americ...
- + U.S.-Trained Burkina Faso Military Executed 220 Civilians—Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed more than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in late February, according to a ...
- + “Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias—The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza. The po...
- + Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives Is Sending the Middle East Into the Abyss—In the face of growing international pressure, the Biden administration has continued to double down on a policy of blanket support for Israel, even ...
- + U.S.-Trained Burkina Faso Military Executed 220 Civilians—Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed more than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages in late February, according to a ...
- + As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers—As Congress and the national security state continue their quest to ban the TikTok social media platform in the United States, President Joe Biden ha...
- + Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don't Kill Imran Khan in Prison—Supporters worry Khan’s life is in danger and with good reason: The military has a long history of killing deposed leaders. The post Chuck Schumer...
- + A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed.—If the courts agree to vacate the conviction, Lucio will have spent 16 years on death row for a crime that never happened. The post A Prosecutor A...
- + Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions—On Sunday, 54 Columbia Law School professors sent a letter to university leadership condemning the school’s decision to summarily suspend student p...
- + Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like—Like countless other hostilities, the stealthy Israeli missile and drone strike on Iran doesn’t risk war. It is war. The post Israel Attack on Ira...
- + Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University—The smears spurred Austrian police to raid Islamophobia scholar Farid Hafez’s family home. Then the terrorism charges fell apart. The post Lawsuit...
- + Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors—“Yes I’m a Republican and I exclusively supported John through the Jewish community for his principled actions supporting Israel.” The post Since ...
- + Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens—The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban. The post Idaho Goes to the Suprem...
- + U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine—The Biden Administration is “actively suppressing intelligence reports” about the state of U.S. military relations with Niger, according to a new rep...
- + Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators—The university suspended three students out of hundreds participating in an on-campus encampment to protest the Israeli government. The post Colum...
- + The Secret U.S. Alliance That Defended Israel From Iran Attack—Though Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia directly participated in the defense of Israel, intercepting Iranian missiles and drones and supporting the ope...
- + The Gaping Hole in Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups—In 2022, the Silicon Valley trade group NetChoice cut a $450,000 check to TechFreedom, a nonprofit tech think tank. Over the next year, TechFreedom f...
- + New York Times Brass Moves to Stanch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage—An internal leak investigation ended without a “definitive conclusion,” as the Times cuts ties with a controversial Israeli freelancer. The post N...
- + New York Times Brass Moves to Staunch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage—An internal leak investigation ended without a “definitive conclusion,” as the Times cuts ties with a controversial Israeli freelancer. The post N...
- + Columbia Suspended Two Students for Assault on Gaza Rally, School Says in Antisemitism Hearing—In congressional testimony, school administrators also said they are investigating pro-Israel and pro-Palestine professors. The post Columbia Susp...
- + Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood—Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status. The post Leaked Cabl...
- + U.S. Doctor Returning From Gaza Describes Unforgettable Carnage—The war in Gaza has been among the deadliest for civilians, including children, of any war in the 21st century. After spending five weeks volunteerin...
- + Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons—Biden campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar co-led a congressional letter questioning the administration's compliance with its own arms transfer mem...
- + U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles—The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report. ...
- + Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine—Columbia is one of several universities that seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month. The post Ahead of ...
- + Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”—Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives. The post Leaked NYT Gaza...
- + Remember the Centrists Who Lost the House in 2022? They’re Back!—No Labels abandoned its presidential primary bid last week after failing to recruit a centrist candidate to challenge President Joe Biden. Though it ...
- + Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S. Into War With Iran—Netanyahu’s recklessness was fostered by blind U.S. support, but Israel is the one pushing its war with Iran out of the shadows. The post Israel a...
- + Israel Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War—Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel highlight an America-led regional war spanning Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others. The post Israel Confli...
- + U.S. Military Isn’t That Concerned About War With Iran—Units on alert, naval ships repositioning, bombers postured to fly, Marines ready to storm the beaches. These are all of the routines of a crisis tha...
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