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Aug 9, 2026

2024.04.18: Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
William I. Robinson , TRUTHOUT, March 23, 2024
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Weekly Briefing: Biden ‘quietly’ gives massive bombs to Israel
Even as establishment voices say “Stop the genocide” The Biden administration “quietly” approved a new…
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Journalism out, hasbara in
How Israeli TV news joined the Gaza war effort Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have…
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“Language Is Inadequate” to Describe the Horror, Part 2
DEMOCRACY NOW!, MARCH 06, 2024
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War on Gaza: Why is Israel losing the public relations war?
Mohamad Elmasry, Middle East Eye, 27 December 2023
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Critics say bill targeting anti-Zionism is new McCarthyism
HR 6578 would build a commission with subpoena authority to force Americans to testify and…
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2023.11.30: Webinar ‘Assessing America’s Response to the Gaza Crisis’
The White House, Congress, and the American Public (Shutterstock/Anas Mohammed) Thursday November 30, 2023…
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The Israeli public has embraced the Smotrich doctrine
The internalization of the far-right minister’s ‘Decisive Plan’ is evident in the popular support for…
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James Zogby: Silencing Debate
October 30, 2023 Dr. James J. Zogby © President Arab American Institute In recent years,…
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Foregrounding the political and decolonization after October 7
JEFF HALPER, MONDOWEISS, OCTOBER 20, 2023
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Statement: The Biden Administration Must Remove Israel from the Visa Waiver Program
Press Contact: Submit a media inquiry here. WASHINGTON, DC, SEPTEMBER 27, 2023—Since the beginning of the…
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Harvard Reverses Course on Advocate Who Criticized Israel
Blocking the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor…
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2022.10.13: Progressives Exposing Israeli Apartheid
Join AMP on Thursday, October 13th @ 5:30 PM CT for a webinar: “From Grassroots…
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Israeli Disinformation, Lies, and Deception
Israeli lobbies and related organizations internationally have long used disinformation, lies and deceptive methods and…
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Daniel Levy: Apartheid Label Must Be a Wakeup Call
Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project Meeting of the United Nations Security Council,…
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Justice for Palestine Cannot Wait: U.S. Military Funding to Israel with Anti-Palestinian Bill
Cat Knarr, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, 10 Mar 2022 WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2022—House…
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When anti-Black and anti-Palestinian racism converge
Sahar F. Aziz, The New Arab, 23 Jul, 2021
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This Is Apartheid
B’Tselem, 12 January 2021
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Why Americans Should Support BDS
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Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on…
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