Politics & environs 2023

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US accused of failing to act on reports of abuse by Israeli forces

 

Panel urged denial of Israel funds because of serious human rights violations but state department has not yet acted, report says

 

Julian Borger in Washington

Thu 18 Apr 2024 21.46 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/biden-weapon-report-israel-abuse
 

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US will veto Palestinian request for full UN membership at security council vote

 

In order not to be isolated in using its veto power in support of Israel again, the US mission is trying to get others to abstain

 

Julian Borger

Thu 18 Apr 2024 22.30 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/us-veto-palestine-membership-request-united-nations-council
 

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Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza

 

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

 

Ella Creamer

Thu 18 Apr 2024 18.11 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/18/writers-withdraw-from-pen-america-literary-awards-in-support-of-gaza
 

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My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza

 

I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible history

 

Fri 19 Apr 2024 08.00 CEST

Eva Ladipo

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/family-past-germany-gaza

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Over 100 Arrested at Columbia After Univ. President Orders NYPD to Clear Pro-Palestine Student Protest

 

April 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/columbia

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“Fear and Terror”: Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel’s Assault

 

April 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/ahmed_zakot

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Israel’s Attacks on Gaza Are Not “Mistakes.” They’re Crimes

 

The political and media class is doing what it always does with the US and its allies: trying to frame deliberate atrocities as tragic mishaps

 

April 19, 2024

Harry Zehner

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-mistakes-war-crimes-discourse/

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US and EU sanctions against Israeli extremists mark pivotal step against far right

 

International moves target two high-profile individuals with connections to senior figures in far-right politics

 

Fri 19 Apr 2024 20.22 CEST

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/us-and-eu-sanctions-israeli-extremists-far-right-politics

 

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In breaking their fragile truce, Israel and Iran have opened a Pandora’s box

 

Skirmishes between the pair have until now been muted, but last week’s ***-for-tat attack on Isfahan shows how the Gaza conflict is fuelling global tensions

 

Sat 20 Apr 2024 13.37 CEST

Simon Tisdall

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/20/in-breaking-their-fragile-truce-israel-and-iran-have-opened-a-pandoras-box

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A Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence: trauma, addiction, suicide

 

With 377 school shootings since Columbine, Americans are still reckoning with the real toll of these attacks

 

Lois Beckett

Sat 20 Apr 2024 14.15 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/12/us-gun-violence-ripple-effect-trauma-addiction-suicide-austin-eubanks-darren-seals
 

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Pro-Israel US groups plan $100m effort to unseat progressives over Gaza

 

Aipac and other groups targeting candidates critical of Israel’s war in Gaza – but progressives are not going down without a fight

 

Joan E Greve, Alice Herman and Will Craft

Sat 20 Apr 2024 12.00 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/pro-israel-groups-gaza-us-elections
 

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True de-escalation requires a halt to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel

 

“De-escalation” is probably the most repeated word in television news broadcasts and newspaper commentary columns over the past 48 hours. But is anyone doing any actual de-escalating?

 

April 19, 2024 11:04 AM CDT

By C.J. Atkins

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/true-de-escalation-requires-a-halt-to-u-s-weapons-shipments-to-israel/

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Palestinian authority hits out at US veto of UN membership

 

Ceren Sagir

Friday, April 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/palestinian-authority-hits-out-us-veto-un-membership

 

 

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Israel and Iran, Mass Coral Bleaching, and the US Allegedly Refusing to Leave Niger

 

On this week’s News episode of American Prestige, a look into global headlines

 

Apr 19, 2024

Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner

 

 

 

 

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/world/amprest-041924-news/

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Recognize Palestine — and Impose Sanctions on Israel

 

By  Harrison Stetler

04.19.2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/04/palestinian-statehood-west-sanctions-israel

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‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage

 

When a teenage Israeli shepherd was killed, a terrible price was paid by Palestinians living near by as settler violence reaches alarming new levels

 

Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha in al-Mughayyir, West Bank

Sat 20 Apr 2024 16.43 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/nowhere-is-safe-fear-and-mourning-inside-the-west-bank-villages-where-israeli-settlers-went-on-the-rampage
 

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Israel is fighting on four fronts – but the defeat may come at home

 

The IDF is embroiled in simultaneous conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran and in the West Bank – but hadn’t reckoned on the social and political divisions this would cause

 

Sat 20 Apr 2024 17.30 CEST

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/israel-is-fighting-on-four-fronts-but-the-defeat-may-come-at-home

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US poised to impose sanctions on IDF unit accused of violations in West Bank

 

Israeli leaders vow to oppose expected measures under Leahy law against the Netzah Yehuda battalion

 

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Sun 21 Apr 2024 17.13 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/us-poised-impose-sanctions-israel-defense-force-netzah-yehuda-battalion
 

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How Portugal’s 1974 Eurovision entry toppled the country’s fascist regime

 

Fifty years ago, a remarkable chain of events set in motion by the broadcast of a series of songs led to the fall of a dictatorship

 

Alex Fernandes

Sun 21 Apr 2024 06.00 CEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/how-portugals-1974-eurovision-entry-toppled-the-countrys-fascist-regime

 

 

Good...I recall those events...I was 17

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Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops

 

Thousands of civilians flee as resistance fighters fight to flush out soldiers holed up at eastern bridge border crossing

 

Reuters in Bangkok

Sat 20 Apr 2024 20.58 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/fighting-rages-at-myanmars-border-with-thailand-as-rebels-target-junta-troops
 

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Professors condemn Columbia crackdown on pro-Palestine students

 

Columbia and Barnard chapters of nationwide group issue statement claiming ‘flagrant disregard of shared governance’

 

Maya Yang

Sun 21 Apr 2024 00.56 CEST




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/columbia-barnard-student-protesters


 

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Thousands of Israelis join anti-government protests

 

By Rami Amichay

April 20, 20249:10 PM GMT+2

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/thousands-israelis-join-anti-government-protests-calling-new-elections-2024-04-20/

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Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk

 

Owner of X has used social media platform to bash judge in charge of investigations into former president

 

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Sun 21 Apr 2024 20.57 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/bolsonaro-supporters-hit-streets-of-rio-and-hail-new-hero-elon-musk
 

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Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says

 

Exclusive: Review finds government has yet to substantiate claims UN relief agency staff have ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad

 

Julian Borger in New York

Mon 22 Apr 2024 16.22 CEST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report
 

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U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists

 

April 19, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/charlotte_cans