M. Elizabeth Magill announced that she would step down from her post as president of the University of Pennsylvania after the fallout from her appearance before Congress where she refused to take the scalps of students who chanted in support of an intifada.
Israel’s top national security adviser said in an interview last week that the U.S. has not given the Israeli government any timeline to complete the war in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that Israel needs three things from the U.S. during its genocide in Gaza: munitions, munitions, and munitions.
While the amount of humanitarian aid allowed by Israel into Gaza has been merely a pittance of what is needed, top extremist Israelis spoke out against letting even a trickle of supplies into the country during the ethnic cleansing.
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon in the early days of the war in Gaza that killed one journalist and injured six should be investigated as a war crime because the IDF seemed to intentionally target civilians, international rights groups said.
The Biden administration faced criticism on Saturday after approving a $106 million arms sale to for Israel as the Gaza genocide continues to become a politically sensitive issue for the White House.
One of the world’s worst humanitarian crises broke out in the Gazan city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have tried to flee from the Israeli onslaught throughout much of the coastal city.
Aryeh Yitzhak King, the far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem who represents the mindset of Israel’s extremist Knesset, posted on X on Friday that the IDF should save itself the trouble and just bury alive hundreds of captured Palestinians.
Doctors Without Borders appealed last week to governments around the world to increase pressure on Israel to stop its bombing campaign and blockade into Gaza, stating that the world is witnessing “the fundamental principle of humanity being openly disgraced.”
While protests continue to break out in the Arab world calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, many leaders in the region have largely ignored the movement and—instead—have looked to show loyalty to the U.S.