It was a cold, wet day in December 2016 when teacher and activist Abdulkafi Alhamdo slumped over on the porch of his Aleppo apartment across from heaps of rubble. Pro-government forces, backed by the Russian military, advanced on the last rebel-controlled areas of the Syrian city. He had spent months documenting the death and destruction […]
The leak of classified documents about preparations for an attack on Iran forced Israel to delay military action at a time of sky-high tensions in the Middle East, a federal prosecutor said as he sought to convince a judge to jail a CIA employee accused of violating the Espionage Act. Instead, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan […]
A Florida Congresswoman is on a mission to stamp out Gen-Z’s growing support for left-wing ideas, and is turning to a hard-line neocon group for help in educating the youth on the “evils of communism.” In the latest front in the culture war over school curricula, the House of Representatives is set to vote Friday […]
The man who received the harshest federal sentence in connection with 2020 protests against police brutality has been in solitary confinement for more than 250 days. Last Friday, Malik Muhammad ended a nine-day hunger strike undertaken in protest of his solitary confinement at Oregon State Penitentiary. At the height of Black Lives Matter protests in […]
Supporters of gender-affirming care for transitioning minors outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2024, as the justices hear arguments on a case from Tennessee. Photo: Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case that will determine the fate of trans youth health care — […]
In the early morning hours of November 7, more than 12 police officers showed up outside at an address in Springfield, Virginia, knocked, broke down the door, and raided the family home of two Palestinian American students at George Mason University. University and Fairfax County police refused to show the family the warrant. One Fairfax […]
Five Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, along with the councils of three villages they hail from, filed a formal regulatory complaint in Germany accusing the media giant Axel Springer of contributing to human rights abuses in Palestine. The villagers said that Axel Springer’s Israeli subsidiary Yad2, a classified ads platform akin to Craigslist, enables […]
When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, Google has repeatedly claimed the so-called Project Nimbus deal is bound by the company’s general cloud computing terms of service policy. While that policy would prohibit uses that lead to deprivation of rights, injury, or death, or other harms, contract documents and an […]
The signs appeared on the university’s main quad during the week of October 7, 2024 — after a year of student protests springing up nationwide against Israel’s war on Gaza. The “Notice of Restrictions” posted at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s campus included a list of do’s and don’ts — mostly don’ts. Don’t wear […]
A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit the Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza, on Oct. 23, 2023. Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images In the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Hajja Em Khalid listened to the news “night and day” on her small transistor radio — one of […]
