Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, made it a point last week to sign executive orders that make sure protests against Israel are essentially banned in the city, including one that stated that mayoral appointees shall not engage in practices that “discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel.”
Ben Cohen, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was told that it is time to hand over control of the company to a new generation after his recent criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The IDF has killed at least 171,065 Palestinians inside Gaza since the genocide broke out in October 2023, and 171,058 others have been injured.
Palestinians living in the West Bank are experiencing an Israeli land-steal not seen in decades as Tel Aviv implements its plan to build 22 new villages inside settlements in the northern West Bank.
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the IDF chief of staff, met with Israeli troops stationed inside Gaza on Sunday and informed them that the so-called Yellow Line that has been treated like the start of a No Man’s Land separating his troops from Palestinians should be treated like the new border, according to a report.
The Israeli army last week continued to violate the so-called ceasefire agreement that has been in place with Hezbollah for over a year and bombed at least three towns in the southern reaches of the country to uproot the group’s stronghold in the region.
A newly released report found that conditions inside Israeli prisons got even worse for Palestinian security inmates after the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, identifying the problem as “one of the most severe detention crises that the state has known.”