How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses? A look at the language of the protests theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

Force spéciale NYPD entre dans le pavillon Hamilton pour évacuer les étudiants qui se sont barricadés depuis la nuit dernière à l’Universite Columbia

WKCR reports that all student press is being escorted away from Hamilton Hall, leaving nobody to document whatever goes down there

Reading that Israel plans to set up checkpoints around Rafah to separate men from their families brings haunting memories about what happened in Srebrenica in 1995. Visiting Bosnia in 2016 I wrote this in @newstatesman: richardburden.com/2016/10/the-wa… The same warnings are stark today

Devastating Fergal Keane piece on BBC News (UK) 10 just now, using an American medic’s footage from Gaza. Children nearly dead from starvation-gaunt, lifeless, cadaverous. Unimaginable suffering for innocents.

There was - rightly - a hue and cry over who could be allowed to own the Telegraph. I can’t remember a precedent for the true ownership of a paper being kept secret. That’s what’s happened with the Jewish Chronicle prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…

A revealing podcast exchange between the former editor of the Sun David Yelland and top PR man (+ former Murdoch son in law) Matthew Freud about why Keir Starmer should keep his distance from Rupert. From

colonization is violent

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For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For 2 days, hundreds of settlers rampaged through the West Bank, burning, destroying, and shooting live fire, resulting in the death of at least one Palestinian and injuring tens. But it isn’t just on them. It’s on the entire Israeli security establishment, and especially the IDF

Soldiers in Deir-Dobwan safeguarding a settler pogrom yesterday, as seen in this footage found by Yesh Din English

Unicef asking that its aid trucks not be hit with live ammunition again.

Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza | Chris McGreal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘A system perverted by corporate money’: inside documentary sequel Food, Inc 2 theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/…

Exclusive from David Smith. Senator Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

The same countries that said ‘never again’ after Rwanda have given Israel a free pass during six months of death and destruction
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Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza.

Veteran Africa and Middle East correspondent Chris McGreal draws uncomfortable comparisons for leaders in the US and Europe.

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'Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza. The same countries that said ‘never again’ after Rwanda have given Israel a free pass during six months of death and destruction.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

30 years ago, I reported on the Rwandan genocide as the world stood by. Afterwards, governments made another promise of 'never again'. Now they are failing Gaza. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…