Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke paused a solo concert in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday after an audience member shouted for the musician to “condemn the Israeligenocideof Gaza,” while asking: “How many dead children will it take?” Yorke addressed the person directly before leaving the stage. “Don’t stand there like a coward, come …
Read More »The DNC Tried to Silence Her. Here's Her Plan After Voting for Harris
Ruwa Romman is a Georgia state representative. She is the first Muslim woman elected to the Georgia state House and first Palestinian elected to any public office in the state’s history. I landed back home two days after I was initially supposed to, after a whirlwind week at the Democratic …
Read More »Israel Says It Has Killed the Mastermind of the Oct. 7 Attack
The Israeli Defense Forces announced on Thursday that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks that killed more than 1,000 people and kicked off the year-long war between Israel and Hamas that has wrought devastation and tens of thousands of deaths in …
Read More »A Year After Oct. 7, Israel's War in Gaza Has Become a Regional Inferno
A year after Hamas led the Oct. 7 attacks from Gaza, stunning Israelis with unprecedented carnage, Israel has gone from disbelief in its own security failures to expanding an unprecedented war on all fronts with no end in sight. Israel’s troops are pushing a ground invasion into southern Lebanon as …
Read More »A Palestinian Nurse Shares Painful Memories from Gaza Amid the War
Faress Arafat, 22, worked as a volunteer nurse in Gaza — first in the emergency department at al-Shifa Hospital and then in displacement camps in Rafah. It has now been one year since Israel’s war on Gaza began. More than 41,000 people have been killed, and 100,000 have been injured. …
Read More »Trump Mocks 100 U.S. Troops Injured by Iran Strike on His Watch: 'They Had a Headache'
Donald Trump once again showed his disdain for United States military personnel during a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday. When taking questions from reporters during the event, a journalist asked Trump if he thought Israel should retaliate against Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attacks against the nation. The reporter also …
Read More »Middle East Conflict Spirals Toward Catastrophe as Israel and Iran Trade Blows
The war in the Middle East is continuing to spiral toward catastrophe: Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles against Israel Tuesday, targeting what it said were three military bases around Tel Aviv. Only moments before, two attackers fired on a crowd of train passengers in the same city, killing seven …
Read More »Iran Launches Missile Attack Against Israel
Iran has launched a missile attack on Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces announced on Tuesday. “Israel is under attack,” Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., wrote on X. “Right now, millions of civilians are in bomb shelters as Iran launches another direct attack on Israel.” Videos of missiles raining …
Read More »Cornell Grad Student Who Attended Pro-Palestine Protest Could Be Forced to Leave U.S.
For the past year, Cornell University PhD student Momodou Taal, 30, has taken part in various pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus, with many calling for the school to divest from weapons manufacturers selling products to Israel during its bombardment of Gaza (and now Lebanon). But unlike thousands who have supported such …
Read More »Jon Stewart Criticizes Israel's 'De-escalation Through Escalation' Strategy
Jon Stewart called out the “cognitive dissonance and language calisthenics” used when describing Israel‘s attacks against Hezbollah. On Monday’s episode, the Daily Show host offered a “golden soundbite” to explain how “fucking convoluted this has to be.” He then rolled video of Axios’ politics and foreign policy reporter Barak Ravid …
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