After the moon drifted across the surface of the sun on Monday, its shadow crossing the United States, Mexico and Canada, Jon Stewart took to late night television to point out how certain members of the media and politicians had used the solar eclipse to pontificate on immigration and the …
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“I’m so nervous,” says Olivia, a photographer with Jewish Voice for Peace. “I’m so nervous.” She keeps repeating it. Olivia and about a dozen other activists are huddled in a cluster of booths in the Astro diner in midtown Manhattan. Cara, another JVP member, has propped up her phone next …
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Last week’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers by Israeli air strikes is by no means the first time staffers for the humanitarian group have had a brush with Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza. According to a report from NBC News, on at least two occasions preceding the …
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World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés is demanding an independent investigation into the killing of seven of its aid workers in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force and accusing Israel of conducting “a war against humanity.” “This doesn’t seem a war against terror. This doesn’t seem anymore a war about …
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Following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers by an Israeli strikewhile delivering food toGazaearlier this week, House Democrats wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons to Israel until a full …
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ODESA — When the team realized a drone was shadowing them, they immediately understood the danger they faced. They hoped the markings on their vehicles were visible, and that the drone operators could see the team was a group of aid workers, not combatants. Those hopes evaporated when the drone …
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At a small White House event Tuesday between President Joe Biden and a group of Muslim American leaders, tensions were high and morale was low. At one point, one of the six attendees showed Biden printed photos of malnourished Palestinian children, according to NBC News. The president said that he …
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On a new episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert emphasized the need to “talk about what everyone’s talking about” and opened the show by commenting on the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza this week. “I hope there is one thing we can all agree …
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World Central Kitchen, the international aid group known for providing food to areas ravaged by natural and man-made disasters, has called for an independent investigation into Israel’s airstrikes on its aid workers in Gaza that killed seven. In a statement released Thursday, WCK wrote that they have “asked the governments …
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Following Israel’s killing of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza, President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate actions” regarding U.S. demands for Israel to take concrete steps to address the humanitarian crisis …
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