Guantánamo prosecutors accused of trying to use torture testimony
(The Intercept): In a pretrial hearing Tuesday at the Guantánamo Bay military tribunal, Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer for a potential witness in the war crimes case, accused government prosecutors of “outrageous” misconduct”.
Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention
Gaza (The Intercept): It´s been two months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
New York (The Intercept): Donald Trump represents an existential threat to democracy in the United States. If he is elected president, he will try to become a dictator.
That warning must be repeated, over and over again, so Americans don’t forget it in November.
University professors are losing their jobs over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
New York (The Intercept); Many scholars committed to Palestinian liberation can no longer do their jobs. That’s because many of the professors most supportive of Palestine don’t have jobs anymore.
How much money did the NYPD waste quashing student protests?
New York (The Intercept): In the early hours of April 30, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced that negotiations with student protesters had failed. She ordered the students, who were demanding that the school divest from Israel, to disband their encampments and end their protests.
ISRAELI MILITARY REFUSERS APPEAL TO BIDEN: “STOP ARMING ISRAEL’S WAR”
Washington (The Intercept): Tal Mitnick and Sofia Orr -two Israeli teenagers who are in prison for refusing to serve in the Israel Defense Forces- sent a letter to President Joe Biden, beseeching him to use his power to stop Israel’s war on Gaza, including through placing conditions on military aid.
New York Student Protesters denied water and food in jail
New York (The Intercept): Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Leaked NYT Gaza memo: avoid «genocide», «ethnic cleansing» and «occupied territory»
New York (The Intercept): Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives.
