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10 posts published by Christina Macpherson on April 25, 2024

ARI PAUL, 19 April 24, https://fair.org/home/the-mccarthyist-attack-on-gaza-protests-threatens-free-thought-for-all/ With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Middle East. The Columbia University community looked on in shock as cops in riot gear arrested at least 100 pro-Palestine protesters who had set up an…

With the encouragement of the state, universities are taking draconian steps to silence debate about US-backed violence in the Middle East.

We need to confront the violence of Israel’s ethnonationalist militarism.

As the horrific siege against Gaza escalates, we need to confront the violence of Israel's ethnonationalist militarism.

WASHINGTON — In late June of this year, New Scientistblandly reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had “used a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack Hamas militants,” the first documented case of a drone swarm being used in so-called combat. In his book, “Exterminate All The Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist contextualizes Adolf Hitler’s atrocities in the imperialist violence of the nineteenth century, and in one chapter outlines how European artillery advancements ga...