The scenes in Rafah now resemble those of dooms Day. People are fleeing their homes, walk very long distances on foot, carrying what they can, leaving everything behind. They sit by the roadsides, surrounded by bombings on every side, not knowing what to do or where to go!

Next week's New Yorker cover.

“Class of 2024” by Barry Blitt.

Hundreds of faculty supporting BC student encampments in just 36 hours...

If you're a post-secondary instructor in BC, please read and consider adding your name!

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Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Israel’s “System of Domination” and Biden Pausing Bomb Shipment
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India is in the midst of a pivotal election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a third term and another five years in power. But siddhartha deb says Modi's right-wing Hindu nationalist agenda, based primarily on 'hatred and demonization of Muslims,' is beginning to falter.

No cops. No arrests. No violence inflicted on students. Just a university administration listening and doing the right thing. Imagine.
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Gathering together writers and translators who withdrew from PEN America's Literary Awards and World Voices Festival, the event, held in New York City on May 7, featured stirring readings and raised money for the Gaza-based nonprofit We Are Not Numbers. buff.ly/3UPnPNz

Freedom to Write for Palestine is LIVE NOW. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

All you need to know about how wrong PM Trudeau's Zionism speech was is right here in the brilliant remarks of Naomi Klein.

'[Zionism] is a false idol that has taken the transcendent idea of the promised land – a metaphor for human liberation that has traveled across multiple…

Israeli shifting from saying their objective is to make sure Hamas is not a threat to saying they want to “ensure that *Gaza* does not pose a threat to Israel” is deeply ominous

Vicious attacks on Aman Singh from pro-Israel groups. For what?

For showing that the Jewish community does not hold one view. Showing the diversity of Jewish opinion.

Meanwhile CIJA conflates Jewishness with support for Israel's genocide.

That is fuelling antisemitism.

A Palestinian law student from the University of Toledo gave a powerful graduation speech, questioning the status quo in the US, and why they are sending billions of dollars to Israel, a state convicted of war crimes and on trial for genocide.

Israeli army intensifies bombardment of Rafah, months after declaring it 'safe zone'. Last night it reportedly killed dozens of Palestinians. This morning it issued another mass evacuation (ergo: expulsion) order affecting hundreds of thousands of already displaced Palestinians.…

URGENT: Israel has now announced the imminent use of “extreme force” against Palestinians in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Palestinians urge mobilizations worldwide to stop the ethnic cleansing plan and the ongoing US-Israeli genocide! #CeasefireNow !

Israel’s #Rafah evacuation order is a declaration to attack the 600K children & their families, to attack the remaining infrastructure sustaining life & possibility of a future. Racist-colonial logic makes this a “policy debate” rather than a siren warning of genocidal massacres.

Read the full letter from 12 Senate Republicans, inc Cruz & Cotton & McConnell, to Karim A. A. Khan KC, that we are posting on Zeteo, and read also the scathing response to it we got from Dem Sen. Chris Van Hollen:
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