#“Terrorist Fascist Genocidal Apartheid War Criminal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell”

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A new poll has found that a majority of voters in the UK support a ban on British arms sales to “Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗, Isra-hell,” while a similar majority believe that “Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell’s” actions in Gaza are violating human rights.

The poll, commissioned by Action for Humanity and conducted by YouGov, found that 56 percent of UK voters are in favour of banning the export of arms to Israel, while only 17 percent are against such a ban.

59 percent of voters also believe “Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell” is violating human rights in Gaza.

Among voters who plan to vote for the Labour Party, 71 percent back a ban on arms exports to Israel. For Conservative Party voters, that number is 38 percent - this is still larger than the number of Conservative voters who want to keep exporting arms to Israel, which was 36 percent.

On Wednesday, more than 600 prominent lawyers, academics and former judges signed a letter warning the UK government that its continued arming of Israel is breaching international law.

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Why Are America’s Elite Universities So Afraid Of This Scholar’s Paper?

The Columbia Law Review Website Was Temporarily Shut Down After It Published a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer’s Article Proposing a New Way to Understand Palestinian Life Under “The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator and the Zionist Isra-helli 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Rule”

— Jonathan Guyer | Sunday 9 June 2024

The Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Rabea Eghbariah. Photograph: Courtesy Rabea Eghbariah

When the Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah arrived at a Manhattan cafe on Thursday afternoon, he had just learned that his article had been reinstated in the Columbia Law Review. After a weeklong censorship controversy, the prestigious journal’s website was back online, too.

The law school journal’s faculty and alumni board had shuttered the website for most of the week rather than publicize Eghbariah’s 105-page article, titled Toward the Nakba as a Legal Concept. In it, he proposed a new framework to explain the complex, fragmented legal regimes governing Palestinians. He wanted to bring the word Nakba – which translates from the Arabic as catastrophe, and is better known for describing the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 – to the center of a new legal conversation.

Wearing a white T-shirt and linen pants and sipping iced coffee, he reflected on an extraordinary week that saw his legal theories – ordinarily the stuff of arcane law school debates – ignite emotive conversations about the legitimate bounds of debate about Israel and Palestine.

What’s more, it wasn’t the first time his ideas were deemed too dangerous to publish by the Ivy League.

He had worked on his contribution for almost half a year, finding a home for it at the Columbia Law Review after a shorter web piece he had written for the Harvard Law Review had been blocked at the last minute.

He was proud of his scholarship but found it dangerous that the content of his article had become secondary to what he saw as the manufactured controversy of its censorship. “Now, we have to debate about my right to say what I want to say instead of debating about what I actually said,” he told the Guardian.

“I felt convinced by my work if it’s generating this repression,” he said. Ultimately, the story led to headlines in major newspapers, and a PDF of the article was posted widely on social media, getting far more readers than is typical for legal scholarship. “People can see through these authoritarian tactics and reject them. The censorship in this case is actually counterproductive.”

When Eghbariah woke up on Monday morning, his article was online. “It was supposed to be a very exciting moment,” he recalled.

But soon, the journal’s website was inaccessible – “under maintenance”, it said. It turned out the law review board had taken it down. “It was very alarming that they would go to that extent,” he said.

“What Is So Scary About Palestinians Having The Right To Narrate Their Own Realities?” — Rabea Eghbariah

Eghbariah, a Harvard Law School doctoral candidate, had been splitting his time between Massachusetts and Haifa, Israel, when he formulated the ideas driving his scholarship. He was working for the legal organization Adalah, where he has represented Palestinian clients in the Israeli judicial system – some in Gaza, others in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, still others citizens of Israel. He has worked on a landmark case about Israel’s cyber unit, which works with social media platforms to censor speech, and fought to reunite families separated by these different legal regimes. He realized that each time he and colleagues brought a case forward, they had to figure out which legal framework applied.

It is variegated, by design. “You have an invisible map in your head where you know what laws to invoke depending on the case,” Eghbariah said, “and this is not intuitive at all.”

Different legal systems apply to Palestinians living under Israeli rule or in neighboring Arab states or elsewhere. “It’s kind of a system of domination by fragmentation,” he explained. “We become trained in doing these legal gymnastics, and flipping from one framework to the other, without sometimes even reflecting about the nature of this.”

To articulate that fragmentation in his legal research, he realized he needed a new terminology. Just as the genocide convention emerged after the Holocaust, and the word apartheid entered everyday speech amid South Africa’s systemized segregation, Eghbariah was finding that analogies to other seemingly comparable situations were insufficient. In the article, he argues that the term Nakba, in use by Palestinians for decades, encapsulates the layered and overlapping legal entanglements of Palestinian life in the absence of self-determination.

The Nakba of 1948, he says, is not a historical artefact. His grandparents survived the Nakba and it informs Eghbariah’s research. Like many Palestinian scholars, he views Israel’s war on Gaza as part of a continuing Nakba to destroy Palestinian life on the land Israel seeks to control. “It’s an organic framework that has been developed in Palestine to reference the ramifications and ongoing nature of the Nakba of 1948,” Eghbariah said. “What the genocide moment and discourse did to that is that it actually made me think about it in legal terms.”

The article lays out the concept, and as he develops the idea further in his dissertation, he hopes it could have practical ramifications for outstanding disputes over matters like Palestinian property rights and the status of refugees. This is how laws in the US have often developed: scholars put out a new approach in a law review, practitioners try it out, and it can lead to case law or legislative efforts. “Those ideas get refined in the process,” Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, told the Guardian. “It’s provocative, and it’s exactly what scholarship should be doing. It’s exactly what Palestinian scholars need to be doing.”

The campus of Harvard Law School. The Harvard Law Review blocked publication of an early version of the article. Photograph: Chitose Suzuki/AP

After Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel and amid Israel’s military campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, the student editors at the Columbia Law Review contacted Eghbariah. No Palestinian author had previously contributed to the journal.

His draft went through “at least” five edits, he says, with extensive feedback from about a dozen editors at the student-run journal, as he added 427 footnotes to the piece. But in early June, on the eve of the article’s publication, the publication’s alumni and faculty board urged the student editors to postpone Eghbariah’s piece or pull it from the journal entirely.

Student editors told the Intercept that the article had been extensively vetted according to procedure. Some, however, “expressed concerns about threats to their careers and safety if it were to be published”, the Associated Press reported. The students went ahead with publication against the board’s wishes. The board said in a statement published when it restored the website that it had “received multiple credible reports that a secretive process was used to edit” the article, and that was its reasoning for taking the journal offline.

Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at the university, wrote that “nuking the website is a drastic, extraordinary step that requires much more justification than has been supplied by the directors thus far”.

The board never spelled out why it pulled the piece, beyond what it called an opaque editorial process – a description the student editors disputed. But for non-scholarly audiences, Eghbariah’s word choice may have seemed inflammatory. In the piece, he defines Zionism as inextricable from the Nakba and builds on the legal scholarship of apartheid and genocide. Its table of contents was itself arguably provocative, with the header “Zionism as Nakba”.

It echoed another episode from November, when the Harvard Law Review blocked publication of an earlier version of the article that it had commissioned from Eghbariah, after the law review president reportedly expressed safety concerns tied to the piece. That version of the piece later appeared in the Nation magazine.

“What is so scary about Palestinians having the right to narrate their own realities?” Eghbariah said. Student-run law review journals rarely if ever hear from their outside boards. “It’s unprecedented to even interfere in editorial processes,” he said. There have been no substantive or factual contestations of the claims of the Columbia Law Review article.

One of Eghbariah’s advisers at Harvard Law School is the prominent academic Noah Feldman, author of the new book To Be a Jew Today. He has called Eghbariah “one of the most brilliant students I’ve taught in 20 years as a law professor”. He declined to provide comment on the law review article, but said he “certainly” stood by his assessment of Eghbariah’s talents.

Eghbariah hopes the fracas around his article could bring more attention to the violence against Palestinians and what he describes as a genocidal campaign.

“There is a continuum between the material reality in Gaza and shutting down these debates,” he said. “They’re not separate issues.”

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Award-winning American Comedian Dave Chappelle described “Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, and The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell's War” on Gaza as "genocide" to cheers during his performance in the capital of the United Arab Emirates while urging Americans to fight antiSemitism in the US so Jews don't feel like they need to be protected by Israel.

Performing in Abu Dhabi on May 23, Dave Chappelle was met with a cheering crowd at Etihad Arena as DJ Trauma, who accompanied him on the tour, played "My Blood is Palestinian" by Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf before he came on stage.

About halfway through a wide-ranging comedy set, Chappelle initially said his friends had told him to either discuss the war or not. A woman from the audience screamed "Free Palestine!," to cheers from the crowd.

Chappelle then referred to the war as a "genocide" and said that making Jews feel safer in America amid rising cases of anti-Semitism would make them realise they don't need Israel as the protector.

But when touching on the upcoming US election, Chappelle's mention of President Joe Biden — who has promised "ironclad support for Israel" - drew widespread boos throughout the arena.

Now on its 231st day, Israel's war on Gaza has ravaged the besieged enclave, killing 35,800 Palestinians - mostly innocent babies, children, and women - and leaving over 80,200 wounded, while a further 10,000+ are feared dead beneath the rubble of their shattered homes.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that it has not been able to get medical aid into Gaza since 6 May. "The last medical supplies that we got in Gaza was before 6 May," WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said at a UN press briefing today. "We don't have fuel. We have hospitals under evacuation order. We have a situation where we cannot move physically," he said. This comes after “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Genocidal, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator and The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” said at the ICJ earlier today that it had been facilitating the entry of aid into Gaza.

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The Complicit in Genocide in Gaza Biden Administration has reportedly brought intelligence offerings to the negotiation table with “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 Isra-hell” in an attempt to prevent a full-scale incursion of Gaza's southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians are sheltering.

According to four US officials speaking anonymously with The Washington Post, the Biden administration has offered sensitive intelligence that would assist “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 Isra-hell” in conducting targeted strikes on Hamas leaders and the group's underground tunnels.

Officials have also proposed supplying thousands of shelters, enabling Israel to establish tent cities for Palestinians evacuating from Rafah, and to assist with establishing distribution systems for food, water and medicine.

“The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli officials” reportedly disagreed with US experts, who said the safe relocation of Palestinians to an area equipped with basic necessities would take several months. Aid groups who spoke with “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal, Zionist Isra-helli 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗” believe an evacuation to a safe area is nearly impossible, as the rest of Gaza is also being bombed indiscriminately.

Despite standing by “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 Isra-hell” through every step of its bloody war on Gaza even as the death toll reached 35,000, Washington has repeatedly warned of the horrific civilian consequences of a ground invasion on Rafah. Last week, the US held back a shipment of arms heading to Tel Aviv due to worries about their use in an assault on Rafah.

Billions of dollars worth of US weaponry remains in the pipeline for “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell,” despite delays to one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden's administration over concerns that their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on civilians in Palestine's Gaza.

A senior US official said this week that the administration had reviewed the delivery of weapons that “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell” might use for a major invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where over 1.5 million displaced Palestinian civilians have sought refuge, and as a result paused a shipment of bombs to Israel with a reported value of tens of millions of dollars.

A wide range of other military equipment is still due to go to “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell” however, including joint direct attack munitions (JDAMS) - which convert dumb bombs into precision weapons - as well as tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles, Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters.

Risch said those munitions were not moving through the approval process as quickly as they should be, noting some had been in the works since December, while assistance for Israel more typically sails through the review process within weeks.

The US declared its support for “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell” at the beginning of its war on Gaza on October 7 of last year, and has not held back in arming Israel, regardless of the alarming number of civilian casualties inflicted on Gaza.

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Nakba, the forced expulsion of a million Palestinians from their own land, marks the beginning of the tragedy for the Palestinians, who continue to suffer at the hands of the Israeli occupiers.

Türkiye 🇹🇷 has filed application of intervention for South Africa's Genocide Case against “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” at International Court Of Justice (ICJ) — Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan

Five “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-hell’s” soldiers were killed by “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 of Isra-helli Army Tank,” and went straight to hell to stay, rot and burn forever, in a friendly fire incident in Gaza's Jabalia on May 15. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled Jabalia after Israel relaunched an assault on the town last

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Pro-Palestine 🇵🇸 demonstrators gathered to protest Google's Project Nimbus, blocking an entrance to the Google 1/0 conference in Mountain View in the US State of California on May 14. Conference attendees were redirected to a different entrance while the protest continued. Project Nimbus is a controversial $1.2 Billion Al and Cloud computing contract between Google, Amazon and “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli” Government.

The system can collect all data sources provided by “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” and Its War Criminal Military, including databases, resources, and even live observation sources such as street and drone cameras. Critics argue that the project could help “The Terrorist , Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Genocidal and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” continue its occupation of Palestinian territories and segregation of the Palestinian people.

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"The rate of damage being registered is unlike anything we have studied before." The Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid, the Bastard Child of the United States and the West and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell's Seven-month Bombardment of Gaza has caused more destruction than the controversial firebombing of the German city of Dresden near the end of the Second World War, analysts say.

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Police tear down tents on UCLA’s Campus, Los Angeles, CA, on May 2, 2024. Photo: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty

They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad For “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell.” Now “The War Criminal, Complicit in Genocide in Gaza, 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 “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell.”.

— Murtaza Hussain | May 8 2024 | The Intercept

There’s An Adage among observers of American Middle East policy that suggests the Arab world can’t have democracy because it would be bad for Israel. Arab publics favor the Palestinians, the thinking goes, and will vote in governments that act accordingly — and that is a no-go zone.

Now, with discontent in the U.S. boiling over amid Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, the framing might need a small update: The U.S., it seems, can’t have democracy either, lest an American democracy end its support for everything and anything Israel wants to do to the Palestinians.

Recent weeks saw violent crackdowns on protests, the passage of bills severely curtailing American free speech rights, and lawsuits seeking to effectively outlaw student groups hostile to Israel.

A serious red line has been crossed: America’s democratic freedoms, expansive on paper, will simply not tolerate serious dissent on the U.S.–Israel relationship. As criticisms of Israel have become more mainstream, the attempt to shut them down entirely has become more extreme.

“Pro-The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell Forces” in the U.S. are attacking our own democratic freedoms in order to suppress public outcry about apartheid and potential genocide 6,000 miles away.

In pursuit of this blank-check relationship with an Israeli government that is becoming ever-more intransigent with each passing year, pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are attacking our own democratic freedoms in order to suppress public outcry about apartheid and potential genocide 6,000 miles away. And, if the recent campus crackdowns are any indication, these forces are winning their battle.

With tens of thousands of Palestinians left dead and the Israeli assault on Gaza ongoing, the U.S. protests targeting university ties with Israel over the last month — voluble and outspoken — have been overwhelmingly nonviolent.

Yet these nonviolent protests have met with the full brutal force of the U.S. security state. Dispersing the protest encampments, police have viciously beaten protesters, fired rubber bullets, and enveloped students in dense clouds of tear gas.

Much of the focus has been on the crackdown in New York City, where Columbia University students established the first major encampment the day its president testified at a House antisemitism hearing — but these incredible scenes of police attacking students have played out across the country. By recent count, over 2,300 people have been arrested on campuses in the U.S. since April 18.

It’s not the Middle East, but it is the same anti-democratic suppression of dissent. And one could be forgiven for noting that the crackdown sometimes resembles the suppression in dictatorships like Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain.

In one stateside case, the squashing of a campus protest even involved what could be called “baltagiya”: the signature Egyptian tactic where unofficial state-aligned militias armed with clubs attack demonstrators before the police swoop in.

This wasn’t, however, Cairo in 2011. It was Los Angeles. At the University of California, Los Angeles, a pro-Israel mob videotaped itself descending on a protest camp and brutally beating protesters, including journalists.

The violence at the UCLA raged on for three hours before police intervened to restore order. Roughly two dozen people were reportedly hospitalized for injuries. It is not clear whether the gangs that attacked the encampment were students of the school.

The following day, police came to tear down the protest camp, firing rubber bullets and arresting some of the same demonstrators who had been attacked by thugs the night before.

Anti-Democracy in D.C.

While brutal suppression is being carried out on the street level, the ground is being prepared for even more disfiguring restrictions on democratic freedoms in Washington.

Last week, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill called the Antisemitism Awareness Act. While on its face the bill simply seeks to express Congress’s view in favor of tackling anti-Jewish bigotry, in reality its provisions would encode a controversial definition of antisemitism geared at inoculating Israel from criticism.

Drawing from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, the bill would categorize acts of speech as antisemitism. The IHRA definition states that “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor,” “applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation”; and “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” are all prima facie antisemitic speech.

The vague nature of these IHRA standards, including inevitable ambiguity about the definition of “double standards” regarding the state of Israel, has led the definition to be widely condemned as a Trojan horse for defining any criticism of Israel as antisemitism.

In Europe, where there is no First Amendment, the IHRA definition of antisemitism has already been widely used to criminalize speech that is critical of Israel.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act doesn’t quite go so far as to challenge the First Amendment. Instead, the bill gives the “sense of Congress” about the IHRA language. On Capitol Hill, it is a familiar technique: Resolutions that carry no criminal weight are used to mainstream language and ideas that are later used to enact more stringent statutes.

The purveyors of the Washington IHRA bill have already suggested that the legislation is, indeed, a first step toward something more concrete. “This bill has broad, bipartisan support and will begin the process of cracking down on the antisemitism we’ve seen run rampant on college campuses across America,” the lead sponsor, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., boasted on X.

Lawler’s legislation is only one of a number of other proposed bills that would create a new congressional body to subpoena individuals over ill-defined allegations of antisemitism, criminalize and increase punishment guidelines for engaging in nonviolent protest, force federal agencies to submit lists of employees allegedly supportive of Hamas, force colleges to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism to receive federal funding, and bar entry or deport individuals who are even charged in connection with demonstrations deemed by authorities to be antisemitic.

Attacks on Dissent

The efforts to crush dissent on Israel aren’t limited to campuses or the halls of power in Washington. The multipronged approach is playing out everywhere: in courts, in state legislatures, and elsewhere.

In state houses, measures taken by Republican officials in states like Florida, Indiana, and Arizona have already aimed to ban the activities of pro-Palestinian activist groups on college campuses. Many of these proposals employ language that would ban funding for groups accused of antisemitism or “supporting the activities of a foreign terrorist organization,” despite criticism from educators and activists that their ambiguous language could simply outlaw any pro-Palestinian activism.

Finally, survivors and families of those slain in the October 7 attack in Israel are now filing lawsuits against the pro-Palestine activist groups.

Backed by the Big Law firm Greenberg Traurig, the plaintiffs are suing Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine, accusing the groups of acting as “as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas,” demanding they pay damages to compensate for the October 7 attacks in Israel.

This sweeping crackdown on the basic rights of Americans would effectively declare public discussion of a core area of U.S. foreign policy off-limits.

SJP is one of the largest pro-Palestinian student organizations involved in the recent protests, and the lawsuit says the group is “operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’s atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”

Put all together, this sweeping crackdown on the basic rights of Americans to speak, organize, and freely debate would effectively declare public discussion of a core area of U.S. foreign policy off-limits.

The scenes of crackdowns on U.S. campuses have already prompted statements of concern from international human rights and civil liberties organizations that are more accustomed to condemning suppression of civil society activism in places like China and Russia.

It’s an approach that will likely become even more stringent if, as likely, and in defiance of international opinion, the Israeli government continues with its policy of annexing the West Bank or expands the present war to Lebanon.

A free and frank debate about U.S. ties with Israel in such a context is more necessary than ever. But armed with political and legal support, along with street pressure from the police and even armed agitators, it seems that holding such a debate in the U.S. may soon no longer be possible.

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“The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator, War Criminal, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell's War on Gaza,” Now in Its 215th Day, Has Killed Nearly 35,000 Palestinians.

3rd Mass Grave Found at Al-Shifa Hospital

“The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator, War Criminal, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” Says Karem Abu Salem Border Crossing Reopened, But the UN Says No Aid entered

“The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator, War Criminal, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” Will Not Agree to End War and "Leave Hamas in Power" - Israeli Spokesperson

Leading Up To The Rafah Invasion:

— The U.S. government moved to ban TikTok

— Israel banned Al Jazeera

— The House legislated that antizionism is antisemitic

— Zionists want to massacre Palestinians in the dark and silence anyone who speaks up against it.

BREAKING: “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Liar, Conspirator, War Criminal, The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell’s” Criminal Invasion of Rafah, The Last Place of Refuge for Palestinians in Gaza, Has Begun. 1.7 Million Civilians Trapped in Rafah Are Now Being Attacked Through Air, Land and Sea, in the Middle of The Night.

Source: CODEPINK

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On Paper, Both Sides in the US-led Gaza Ceasefire Talks in Cairo Are Working Towards the Same Goals: A Cessation of Hostilities and the Exchange of “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli Captives” For Palestinian Prisoners.

Yet, as Hamas sees it, the Palestinian movement and the Israelis are worlds apart. “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-helli Government,” under domestic pressure, prioritises the release of people taken captive on 7 October.

Freedom Fighters Hamas, meanwhile, seeks not only a complete end to the war, but a future where Gaza is liberated from the blockade Israel has imposed on the coastal enclave for the past 16 years. "The problem is, I think, that we have a strategy, and the strategy that we negotiate through is the strategy of a ceasefire, and not the strategy of a hostage exchange," says Hamas official Basem Naim.

Middle East Eye has obtained the latest proposal passed by Hamas to Israel via Egyptian and Qatari mediators. Like those presented to Hamas since a summit in Paris in January, it suggests winding down the war in three phases. But whereas proposals given to Hamas have three truce periods that would, in theory, progress towards an end to the conflict, the Palestinian movement is seeking something more concrete.

In Hamas's framework, phase one would see a "temporary cessation of hostilities" and the return of Palestinians to residential areas of northern Gaza. The second phase would start with a permanent ceasefire taking effect and Israeli troops withdrawing from the Gaza Strip completely. In phase three, Israel totally lifts the blockade it has imposed on Gaza since 2007 and a five-year reconstruction plan begins. The document also suggests a framework for exchanging prisoners and says the guarantors of the agreement should include Turkey and Russia.

— ✍️ By Lubna Masarwa, Daniel Hilton, Ragip Soylu | Middle East Eye

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Fuck You War Criminal, Complicit in Gaza Genocide and Demented Biden!

What About The Brazen Attack of the “Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal and The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗, Isra-hell” on Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria?

The U.S. helped Israel "take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles," War Criminal, Complicit in Gaza Genocide and Demented President Biden said in a statement late Saturday evening. War Criminal, Complicit in Gaza Genocide and Demented Biden said his team will engage with the G7 leaders on Sunday to coordinate a "united diplomatic response to Iran's brazen attack."

The President also detailed his call with Isra-helli Terrorist Prime Minister Benjamin Satan-Yahu following the attacks, where War Criminal, Complicit in Gaza Genocide and Demented Biden said he reaffirmed America's "Ironclad commitment to the security of the Bastard Child of the United States and the Illegal Regime of the Zionist Terrorist 🐖 🐷 🐗, Genocidal , Fascist, War Criminal and Apartheid Isra-hell."

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The UK Could Be Complicit in “Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal and The Illegal Regime of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗’s, Isra-helli” War Crimes Through Its Continued Sale of Arms To The Country, Oxfam Has Warned.

"It is illegal, immoral and inconsistent for the UK to continue to sell arms to Israel, when it is clear that UK-made weapons and components are being used in serious violation of international humanitarian law - and after it imposed restrictions in previous escalations of violence when the scale of death and destruction had been lower," Aleema Shivji, Oxfam's chief impact officer, said on Friday.

"The people of Gaza are facing unprecedented levels of bloodshed, schools and hospitals are being deliberately targeted and starvation is being used as a weapon of war - what more suffering must they endure for the UK government to act?"

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"This Criminal Occupation By ‘The Terrorist, Fascist, Genocidal, Apartheid, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Illegal Regime of Isra-hell’ Doesn’t Care About International Laws or Humanity, It Only Cares About Killing The Palestinian People."

Palestinians are recovering the bodies of those killed by Israel's two-week raid on al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, but identification is proving difficult because of the state of decomposition.

After Israeli forces withdrew from the hospital on April 1, 2024, teams from several government ministries have been deployed to al-Shifa to remove and identify bodies before burying them in cemeteries.

"We are now digging up all the martyrs that were executed by the [Israeli] army," Hussein Mahassen, ambulance director in the Gaza Strip, told Middle East Eye. "Our capacities are very limited, as we are working with just one bulldozer."

While it is unclear how many bodies have been buried in the hospital's yard, the Civil Defence said that they have recovered 409 bodies from the medical complex since the withdrawal of Israeli forces. Mahassen said his team expects to find between 200 and 300 bodies buried in the ground in al-Shifa, but cannot confirm this number.

Reports emerging from the hospital and its vicinity following the Israeli army's raid spoke of torture against detained Palestinians, with medical teams in al-Shifa currently documenting these cases.

"There are signs of torture on some of the arms and bodies we pulled out," Mahassen said. Medical and forensic teams said that their mission is particularly difficult because of the state of the remains.

Amira al-Safadi, a doctor at al-Shifa, said that some of the bodies were initially left to rot among people who were besieged in the hospital for days, before Israeli forces allowed them to buried.

Safadi herself was forced to stay in the hospital's reception with a group of people for two weeks. "Among the wounded that they brought down from the ICU to us, at the reception, around 16 died," she told MEE. "They laid dead with us for three days."

— ✍️ Mohammed al-Hajjar and Nader Durgham/Middle East Eye

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“Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid and Genocidal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell” Passed a Law That Could Shut Down Al-Jazeera’s Local Operations!

“Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid and Genocidal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell” passed a new law that could ban Al Jazeera from operating in the country. The law, which passed overwhelmingly in Israel's Knesset, would give the Israeli government the power to shut down foreign news networks operating in Israel deemed a threat.

“Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Apartheid and Genocidal Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell” has a history of targeting Al Jazeera. It's killed Al Jazeera Journalists before and after Oct. 7, including Samer Abudaga, Hamza Dahdouh and Shireen Abu Akleh.

Gaza has become the most dangerous place in the world for journalists in recent history, according to UN experts.