The Jordanian government says that two Jordanian aid convoys carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza were assaulted by extremist Israeli settlers. Aid crossing was just opened this week, while Blinken there.

The Palestinian Authority gave the International Criminal Court jurisdiction over Israeli war crimes in occupied territory but it can't dictate the charges, if any, to be filed. That's the prosecutor's job. Yet Israel threatens to retaliate against the PA. axios.com/2024/05/01/us-…

Guys, Yama Wolesmal is a tribute to the profession (and to Afghan journalists). I saw him on a really rough day in Afghanistan once and he handles himself with aplomb, exactly like this, even in the toughest and most dangerous circumstances. All of our colleagues need to learn

Faculty rally at 116 and Amsterdam at the gates of Columbia U rn, which is locked down today.

“Wait until the numbers come put from One Police Plaza,” said Rashid Khalidi, a Columbia professor, calling the claims of outside agitators “lies”. “They were all students.”

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik from UCLA (& former Columbia U) Professor Robin Kelly

“In forty years, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty.” bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

BREAKING — Turkey joins South Africa in its legal case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, will file a petition soon

Violent pro-Israel extremists attacking Palestinian rights defenders while police do nothing is a pretty familiar scene from the West Bank.

And here you can see officers entering an academic building with their weapons drawn, in response to college students protesting their tax & tuition dollars contributing to a plausible genocide

Last night, my campus UCLA became a war zone. I'm appalled and heartbroken by the violence and mayhem that took place for hours, with only belated intervention by the police. I didn't personally witness what took place, but reporters on the scene have described how some

I don't agree with every slogan of the protests on campus + elsewhere. Some I really dislike. But when people look back they will see this as the moment when a real debate began about university + govt complicity in the oppression of Palestinians. And the protests made it happen.

This is straight up propaganda. CNN has completely lost the plot.

BREAKING — Colombia to cut diplomatic ties with Israel: President Gustavo Petro

— AFP

Cutting your nose to spite your face, since no one benefits more from the continued existence of the Palestinian Authority than Israel does

'It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of thousands of children' read Edward Luce

Nothing should distract us from the unprecedented humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza right now.

Vicious & perverse. This is a sickness that destroys the soul.

Saudi Arabia—where public performance was once tightly restricted—has opened its first-ever Opera in #Riyadh , the world’s largest Arabic Grand Opera.

When I was 11, I was a victim of police brutality just for being Black in America. Now I see that brutality being inflicted on peaceful students at Columbia and across the country.

We must stand with our students to demand liberation for Palestinians and everyone in this world.

Israel's Finance Minister and de facto governor of the occupied West Bank called for the 'total annihilation of Gaza' yesterday haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

America was built on civil disobedience.

It is possible to hold the line against violence and intimidation while insisting on protesters' rights -- and being curious enough to absorb what they're telling us that we may be too jaded to hear.

FULL VIDEO: the.ink/p/on-civil-dis…