Student Protests for Gaza Targeted by Pro-Israel Groups for Alleged Civil Rights Violations

Amid an upswell of student support for Palestinians, Israel advocacy groups are weaponizing civil rights law to quell dissent.

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Student Protests for Gaza Targeted by Pro-Israel Groups for Alleged Civil Rights Violations

Schuyler Mitchell, Prem Thakker

Amid an upswell of student support for Palestinians, Israel advocacy groups are weaponizing civil rights law to quell dissent.
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Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

Robert Flummerfelt, Nick Turse

NYU and Human Rights Watch accidentally doxxed up to 8,000 victims, journalists, and activists due to a basic security error.
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Public Defenders Get Restraining Order to Block Their Own Union From Voting on Gaza Statement

Akela Lacy

In a leaked tape of an all-staff meeting, the head of New York’s Legal Aid Society also said four law firms had threatened to pull funding over the statement.
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Pentagon Won’t Say Where It’s Sending U.S. Troops — to Avoid Embarrassing Host Nations

Ken Klippenstein

Details about the rapid U.S. military buildup since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza are largely unknown to the public and risk war with Iran, experts say.
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Meet the Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Trips for Congress

Murtaza Hussain

An unredacted 2019 tax filing reveals the donors to AIPAC’s charity arm — some of whom give to other hawkish, pro-Israel causes.
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Hillary Clinton Is Lying About the History Between Hamas and Israel

Jon Schwarz

The way Clinton blames Hamas for all the violence shows what’s wrong with the U.S. perspective on the Middle East.
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LexisNexis Sold Powerful Spy Tools to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Sam Biddle

The data brokerage giant sold face recognition, phone tracking, and other surveillance technology to the border guards, say government documents.
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House Democrats Press Biden to Block Military Aid to Pakistan Over Human Rights Abuses, Jailing of Imran Khan

Murtaza Hussain, Ryan Grim

Democrats are concerned about reports that Khan, currently imprisoned and facing a secret trial, potentially faces the death penalty.
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Pentagon Fails Sixth Audit in a Row, Claiming “Progress Sort of Beneath the Surface”

Ken Klippenstein

The Defense Department passed the same paltry number of sub-audits as it did last year — and would not say if would ever see a clean audit.
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Different Tactics, Same War: The Perils of Treating Israel’s West Bank Offensive as Separate From Gaza

Mairav Zonszein

The horrors in Gaza are just one part of Israel’s unified system of controlling Palestinians from the river to the sea.
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Last Republican on Philly City Council Fired Staffer Who Reported Sexual Harassment, Says Lawsuit

Akela Lacy

Linda Trush sued the city alleging that she was wrongfully terminated and retaliated against after reporting sexual harassment by a co-worker.
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