New from ProPublica:
Months ago, State Department experts told Secretary of State Blinken that the US should restrict arms sales to Israeli army units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses — yet he has not taken any action. Brett Murphy
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This week an Israeli court ordered the expulsion of 35 Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem.

But residents are not giving up — 'we'll bring the protests back and fight against this' says activist Saleh Diab.
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Israeli Court Orders Three Palestinian Families Be Forced Out of Sheikh Jarrah Homes democracynow.org/2024/4/16/head…

Revealed: Israel has sped up settlement-building in East Jerusalem since Gaza war began

Exclusive: Government ministries and offices behind most contentious of projects, which will create thousands of housing units

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Current and former Google employees held sit-ins this week at company offices to protest the tech giant's work with the Israeli military, part of the No Tech For Apartheid campaign.

We speak with three workers speaking out against Big Tech's 'complicity with the Israeli occupation.'

Breaking: State-backed Israeli settler attacks displaced 7+ entire Palestinian West Bank communities since Oct 7. Israeli authorities are responsible—they participated in attacks or looked on, arm settlers & ensure impunity. Sanctions needed. New from Human Rights Watch
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For decades, we were told 'Never Again' to genocide and mass atrocities.

The Holocaust. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur.

We were taught to spot the warning signs--dehumanizing rhetoric, violence, forced depopulation, and the destruction of culture.

We were told to speak out and act.

'From what I'm hearing Israeli military and political leaders are very, very afraid of what the international courts will do, of how they will respond to the destruction in Gaza and the mass killing of civilians.'

שיחה מקומית & +972 Magazine's Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם speaks to Isaac Chotiner >>

THREAD: Israeli settler mobs, armed by the Israeli government, are attacking Palestinian towns in the West Bank.

Here's what you need to know.

'Entire neighborhoods have been decimated by bombing, shelling, and bulldozing, leaving barely a trace. Khan Younis is now a city of rubble and ash.'

Ruwaida Amer at +972 Magazine as Palestinians return to Khan Younis after the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
972mag.com/khan-younis-re…

“The Israeli government’s use of starvation as a weapon of war has proven deadly for children in Gaza” - Omar Shakir.

Human Rights Watch calls to suspend arms sales and sanction Israeli gov't until it complies with int'l law & #ICJ ruling to prevent genocide in Gaza >
hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

'Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza. The same countries that said ‘never again’ after Rwanda have given Israel a free pass during six months of death and destruction.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israel's Apr 4 decision to increase aid shows outside pressure works. States should impose targeted sanctions on Israeli officials implicated in this war crime & suspend arms to Israel to press for full-throttle aid delivery & to comply w/ binding CIJ_ICJ order in genocide case.

Listen to Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם speak to Front Burner's jayme poisson about the Israeli army using AI to generate massive kill lists in Gaza, intentionally targeting suspected operatives when they were at home -- often with their families.
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'Words are cheap.'

Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani says increasingly critical statements from President Biden and other Western leaders will not affect Israeli policy in Gaza as long as there are no consequences for continued violations of human rights and the rules of war.

AI is the moral issue of the 21st century, driven home by Israel's use of a program called Lavender to target Gazans while killing thousands of innocent civilians

But the ghost in the machine is the immorality we program it with. My column (gift link)⬇️inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

AlJazeera's offices have been bombed in Gaza. They've been beaten in the West Bank. They've been killed in the West Bank & in Gaza. Israel's trying to muzzle Al Jazeera PR. But the precedent is larger & threatens to cover up their atrocities in Gaza. Human Rights Watch

NEW INVESTIGATION: We looked into the tragedy on February 29 when over a hundred died while awaiting aid in northern Gaza. We found evidence that casts doubt on the IDF’s version of events. 1/5

Zahid Mahmood Gianluca Mezzofiore Eliza Mackintosh Ibrahim Dahman

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