“Every single minute matters,” said the Democratic congresswoman, “and we have to use our power when we have it.” Urging Democratic lawmakers to use the power they currently hold in the U.S. Senate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday night called on party leaders in the upper chamber to launch immediate investigations into the insurrection-linked flags that were […]
Israel’s “sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory” pushed Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier to view the assault on Gaza as a genocide. A widely respected humanitarian law expert who has resisted using the term “genocide” for Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza—a word used […]
“People have been fearing this for a long, long time and it is now upon us. There is constant bombardment. There is smoke on the horizon. There are people on the move,” said one humanitarian worker. United Nations experts on Friday used U.S. President Joe Biden’s own language regarding Israel’s offensive in Rafah, Gaza to demand that […]
“Biden’s partner in crimes against humanity is now endangering U.S. college students,” said one Palestinian rights advocate. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Wednesday that he was dissatisfied with the arrests of hundreds of U.S. college students—some of whom were violently detained by large groups of police officers—in the last week at a growing number […]