'A dozen liberal organizations and labor unions sent a letter to the White House on Thursday night demanding that President Biden end military aid to Israel until its government lifts restrictions on humanitarian aid to Gaza.' nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/…

As the president of Columbia University is about to be grilled by a Republican-led House committee, 'Jewish faculty reject the weaponization of antisemitism.' columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

Chutzpah: Israeli officials blame 'UNRWA...for failing to distribute aid effectively.' That's the same UNRWA that Israel is trying to destroy by persuading allies to stop funding it out of the naive hope it can 'solve' the problem of Palestinian refugees.
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The wrong lesson from the Holocaust: the German government deports a leading war surgeon who was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow this month to prevent him from describing in Berlin the atrocities he witnessed while serving in Gaza.
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'Describing long delays at [Israeli] checkpoints and a 'security vacuum'' inside Gaza, a top UN aid official noted that a UNICEF team, 'whose vehicle was hit by live ammunition on Thursday, had been held 'for hours' at a checkpoint.' news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Gaza fishermen used to provide a steady stream of food but Israeli forces destroyed their small port. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

'In a sign of the continuing peril for aid workers, UNICEF said on Thursday that one of its vehicles had been hit with live ammunition while waiting to enter northern Gaza this week.' nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

The Women's Tennis Association announced this week that the women’s flagship finals are being awarded to Saudi Arabia for the next three years despite repressive Saudi Arabia's male guardianship system denying women's basic human rights. hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

'There is no shortage of food on the other side of [Gaza's] borders, with Israel and Egypt. Palestinian civilians are starving because Israeli inspectors are delaying and blocking so much food from entering Gaza. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/wor…

Human Rights groups file UN complaint over racial profiling by the French police. As has long been the case, they 'claim that police identity checks abusively target those 'perceived as black or Arab' and 'constitute systemic racial discrimination.'' lemonde.fr/en/france/arti…

'Three survivors of Abu Ghraib will finally get their day in U.S. court against the military contractor they hold responsible for their mistreatment....the first time that Abu Ghraib survivors are able to bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury.' apnews.com/article/abu-gh…

'The increase in the number of truck crossing into Gaza claimed by Israel conflicts with UN records and already appears to be faltering.' “'There is a lot less than meets the eye so far. Very little has actually changed.'” theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

'A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialize, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

'One of Netanyahu’s pledges to Biden, to open the Ashdod port north of Gaza as a portal to sea-borne humanitarian aid, has led to no apparent action, according to the Israel N12 channel.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The most senior Israeli commander 'dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers' for World Central Kitchen in Gaza 'is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid.' telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Needed reminder that all those folks who said the infamous picture was from a 'prison' or 'drug treatment' facility are either lying or just really, really, uniformed.

In Mali 80+ political parties and associations called for a return to constitutional order by holding presidential elections ASAP. The military junta had delayed them indefinitely. In retaliation, the junta suspended all political parties and associations. hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

Vladimir Kara-Murza is 'the other Russian dissident putting his life on the line.' He 'risked everything by following Navalny into prison, compelled by history and his own forebears’ suffering.' wsj.com/world/russia/t…

Navalny in a memoir to be published in October will speak to us even after his death. Much to Putin's chagrin, Navalny’s vision for a democratic, corruption-free Russia did not die with him. trib.al/wE1j9gY

A Belarusian man, Aliaksandr Kulinich, 51, who was in jail awaiting trial on charges of insulting the authoritarian president has died in a detention center that is 'notorious for harsh treatment of opposition activists.' trib.al/ULZhcnY