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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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KEITH McHENRY, keith@foodnotbombs.net, <a href="https://twitter.com/keith_mchenry">@keith_mchenry</a> 
McHenry is co-founder of the global <a href="http://foodnotbombs.net/">Food Not Bombs</a> movement, which provides free meals to anyone who needs them. He is also a regular contributor to the ongoing series “Food Fight” on “<a href="https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/">Flashpoints</a>.”
McHenry said today: “HUD claims they can end homelessness for $20 billion and we just sent” billions for war to Ukraine and Israel.
“This while 78 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
“We in California defeated SB 1011, the statewide ban on sleeping outside on public land.
“The Supreme Court will decide whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when there is a lack of shelter space is deemed cruel and unusual punishment.”
While many depict these anti-homeless moves as funding driven, the group Food Not Bombs has been prevented by local governments from feeding the homeless at no expense to them, often engaging in prolonged battles against such efforts. See past IPA <a href="https://accuracy.org/release/food-not-bombs-wins-against-city-gov-trying-to-stop-free-meals-other-battles-continue/">news</a> <a href="https://accuracy.org/release/cities-targeting-homeless/">releases</a>.
McHenry notes: “Kentucky Passed HB 5, the ‘Safer Kentucky Act’ which decriminalizes the use of deadly force against individuals engaging in ‘unlawful camping.’ Under this law, if a property owner believes an unhoused trespasser is attempting to commit a felony or attempting to ‘dispossess’ them, they can shoot the homeless person.”
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["During the hearing, you were asked about the political views of specific professors and encouraged to take disciplinary action, including termination, against them. Such clear retaliation for First-Amendment protected speech would be prohibited at a state institution. Although Columbia University is a private institution not governed by the First Amendment, the role of state actors -- in this case members of Congress -- in instigating the action would raise serious First Amendment concerns. Even if the First Amendment could not be found to apply, it would still be a serious breach of norms of academic freedom."
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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, which works in conjunction with the university chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, released a <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1782241294858719676">statement</a> challenging the media depictions of the protests and demanding that their voice be heard against the “mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza” The Electronic Intifada <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZpG2Phr0DY">livestream</a> on Wednesday included Nora Barrows-Friedman’s summary of news from Gaza, an interview with a journalist in Gaza and a Columbia University visiting professor, Mohamed Abdou, author of Islam and Anarchism, who was smeared at the recent Congressional hearings.
CHIP GIBBONS, Chip@RightsAndDissent.org, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChipGibbons89">@ChipGibbons89</a> 
Gibbons is policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, national civil liberties organization dedicated to protecting the right of political expression. The group recently wrote a <a href="https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/president-minouche-shafik-free-speech-concerns-on-campus-palestine/">letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik</a>, stating: “Our organization traces its founding back to the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Two of our founders were jailed for their refusal to testify before HUAC. While the McCarthy-era had heroes who defended the First Amendment by defying the HUAC inquisition, there were also many cowards who conformed with HUAC’s dictates.
“It was impossible not to recall the legacy of HUAC during the April 17, 2024, hearing of the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee. The committee clearly aimed to punish individuals for their exercise of First Amendment-speech and purge America’s universities of political perspectives the committee members disfavored. Disturbingly, this was presented as an inquiry into rising anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a deplorable form of bigotry responsible for some of history’s greatest crimes. Yet, the hearing was not rooted in good faith concern with anti-Semitism. It was a transparent attempt to target pro-Palestine speech.
“During the hearing, you were asked about the political views of specific professors and encouraged to take disciplinary action, including termination, against them. Such clear retaliation for First-Amendment protected speech would be prohibited at a state institution. Although Columbia University is a private institution not governed by the First Amendment, the role of state actors — in this case members of Congress — in instigating the action would raise serious First Amendment concerns. Even if the First Amendment could not be found to apply, it would still be a serious breach of norms of academic freedom.
“Such a flagrant attack on academic freedom requires a firm rebuttal. Yet, instead you appeared to appease the committee.
“During your testimony, you told the Committee no less than four times about how you reported a student event to the FBI. … The FBI has a long history of illegally surveilling and seeking to silence political speech. We would know, as our organization was subjected to illegal FBI surveillance and harassment. The FBI not only has a history of harassment of social movements, it has a particularly vicious history of targeting pro-Palestine speech. This makes your actions all the more dangerous.
“Finally, as you are aware, student protesters calling on the university to divest from companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights have been holding a peaceful protest. These students have been the subject of a massive onslaught of demonization, with local and national politicians, and even a foreign government, falsely equating their actions with terrorism and calling for state repression. On April 18, you invited the NYPD onto your private campus to arrest your own students engaged in nonviolent protest. The NYPD has a reputation for use of excessive force against peaceful protests, as evidenced by its conduct during the Occupy Wall Street and George Floyd protests. Given the purely peaceful nature of the encampment, it is a dramatic escalation to invite the NYPD to arrest the students.”
In response to a report about bus drivers refusing to transport protesters, UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1783258020270727349">wrote</a>: “This is inspiring. Let us now appeal as well to all police & national guard troops to refuse to carry out unlawful orders to arrest or intimidate peaceful protesters exercising rights to free expression & assembly to protest #genocide in #Palestine. The whole world is watching.”
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["In two prior union elections in Chattanooga, the UAW was unable to move the needle enough to win, losing the first time, 626-712, and on a second try in 2019, 776-833. The U.S. remained the only country in the world where Volkswagen workers were non-union. Things began to change in 2022, when Volkswagen expanded the plant to produce the all-electric ID.4. In the process, the company hired over 2,000 new workers. With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there. While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new."
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With Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga recently voting to join the United Auto Workers, Elk, senior labor reporter for <a href="http://paydayreport.com/">PaydayReport.com</a> is available for interviews. He is the only labor reporter in the country who covered all three UAW elections at Volkswagen in Chattanooga in 2014, 2019, and 2024.
Labor was previously defeated in the last two UAW elections; Elk says that workers at Volkswagen, following national trends, were much more receptive to the union.
Writing in the <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2024-04-19-ten-year-battle-younger-generation-leads-volkswagen/">American Prospect</a>, Elk explains, “In two prior union elections in Chattanooga, the UAW was unable to move the needle enough to win, losing the first time, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/14/united-auto-workers-lose-historic-election-at-chattanooga-volkswagen-plant/">626-712</a>, and on a second try in 2019, <a href="https://paydayreport.com/volkswagen-workers-talk-wildcat-strike-following-narrow-defeat-in-chattanooga-amid-unionbusting/">776-833. The U.S. remained the only country in the world where Volkswagen workers were non-union</a>. Things began to change in 2022, when Volkswagen expanded the plant to produce the all-electric ID.4. In the process, the company hired over 2,000 new workers. With labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, many of the workers hired by Volkswagen were much younger and more diverse. Some had even moved from more pro-union parts of the country to work there. While in the past, Volkswagen workers, who had less experience with unions, were skeptical of the bureaucracies of the scandal-tainted UAW, younger Southern workers seemed more receptive to trying something new.”
He said today: “Following a wave of pandemic-inspired strikes that changed attitudes about unions, UAW may be launching a historical unprecedented union wave across the country.”
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jarrar, advocacy director at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), said: "Members of Congress should understand that approving more military aid could subject them to personal liability for aiding and abetting an ongoing genocide in Gaza."
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RAED JARRAR, rjarrar@dawnmena.org, <a href="https://twitter.com/raedjarrar">@raedjarrar</a> 
Jarrar, advocacy director at <a href="https://dawnmena.org/">Democracy for the Arab World Now</a> (DAWN), said: “Members of Congress should understand that approving more military aid could subject them to personal liability for aiding and abetting an ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/us-poised-impose-sanctions-israel-defense-force-netzah-yehuda-battalion">reports</a> in “Netanyahu vows to fight U.S. sanctions on IDF unit accused of violations in West Bank” that soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda battalion “were accused in the death of a 78-year-old US citizen, Omar Assad, who died of a heart attack in 2022 after being detained, bound, gagged and then abandoned by members of the unit.”
Mariam Barghouti commented on “<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy Now</a>“: “It’s really fruitless to give attention to the Biden administration’s symbolic gestures that are very hollow. … These sanctions mean nothing in light of the billions of dollars the U.S. Congress just approved for Israel for this military that is conducting crimes against humanity.” Barghouti just wrote the piece “<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/6/palestinians-and-the-world-must-not-lose-hope">Palestinians and the world must not lose hope</a>.”
Haaretz reports: “<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-22/ty-article/.premium/israeli-operation-in-west-bank-refugee-camp-leaves-massive-destruction-in-its-wake/0000018f-0549-db42-a99f-adfff02c0000">Israeli Operation in West Bank Refugee Camp Leaves Massive Destruction in Its Wake</a>.”
ISSA AMRO, [in Hebron in the West Bank] Issaamro@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/Issaamro">@issaamro</a> 
Amro is based in Hebron on the West Bank and is founder of <a href="https://kuminow.com/yas/">Youth Against Settlements</a>. He has been regularly threatened, harassed and detained by the Israeli military and settlers for his nonviolent activity such as <a href="https://twitter.com/Issaamro/status/1520339637813846016">making films</a> and attempting to prevent home takeovers.
He recently tweeted: “Israeli settlers murdered two Palestinian farmers today, they have impunity. The settlers had Israeli army escort during the attack, Israel is led by the fanatic settlers militia.”
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Freedom Flotilla Coalition recently released a statement: "International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza" that it "will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. This is an emergency mission as the situation in Gaza is dire, with famine setting in in northern Gaza, and catastrophic hunger present throughout the Gaza Strip as the result of a deliberate policy by the Israeli government to starve the Palestinian people. Time is critical as experts predict that hunger and disease could claim more lives than have been killed in the bombing.
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BARRY RIESCH, bwrvfp27@gmail.com 
Rowley is set to sail to Gaza with other human rights activists. She is a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel, who during a 24-year career, became a whistleblower about problems within the FBI that allowed the 9-11 attacks to occur. She was named one of TIME magazine’s Persons of the Year in 2002. Since 2004, she’s been speaking at academic and other professional venues with an emphasis on ethical decision-making. She studied and strongly supports the rule of law — constitutionally and internationally. A long-time member of <a href="https://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/">Women Against Military Madness</a> and <a href="https://www.veteransforpeace.org/">Veterans For Peace</a>, she has publicly opposed war and war crimes for over two decades.
Riesch is also now in Istanbul. He is a former national president of Veterans For Peace. A retired carpenter and building inspector, he has been active in the anti-war movement in the Twin Cities and beyond for over 30 years.
Rowley said today: “As some of us set sail in dangerous waters on a flotilla with food and humanitarian supplies for the starving Palestinians in Gaza because we sadly cannot help but see the faces of our own children and grandchildren in the faces of the babies and children that Israel (with U.S. backing) has already murdered.” Rowley also warns of a wider war.
<a href="https://freedomflotilla.org/">The International Freedom Flotilla Coalition</a> recently released a statement: “<a href="https://freedomflotilla.org/2024/04/04/civilian-aid-flotilla/">International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza</a>” that it “will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. This is an emergency mission as the situation in Gaza is dire, with famine setting in in northern Gaza, and catastrophic hunger present throughout the Gaza Strip as the result of a deliberate policy by the Israeli government to starve the Palestinian people. Time is critical as experts predict that hunger and disease could claim more lives than have been killed in the bombing.
“Getting humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza is urgent, but it is not sufficient. We must end Israel’s unlawful, deadly blockade as well as Israel’s overall control of Gaza. Allowing Israel to control what and how much humanitarian aid can get to Palestinians in Gaza is like letting the fox manage the henhouse. And yet, this is what the international community of states is allowing by refusing to sanction Israel and defy its genocidal policies in order to ensure that enough aid reaches the trapped, beleaguered and bombarded civilian population.
“The Cyprus maritime corridor, the U.S. floating pier project, and symbolic air drops of food are all distractions from the fact that these methods of aid delivery are insufficient, and still leave Israel in control of what aid can get to the Palestinian people, all while Israel actively prevents thousands of aid trucks from entering Gaza through the land crossings.
“On January 26 the International Court of Justice ruled that, ‘the State of Israel remains bound to fully comply with its obligations under the Genocide Convention and with the said Order, including by ensuring the safety and security of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.’ On March 28, the ICJ ordered additional preliminary measures, which included requiring the Israeli forces to stop ‘preventing, through any action, the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance’ to Palestinians in Gaza.
“Israel has long violated its responsibility as occupying power to ensure the health and wellbeing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Now, it is engaging in full scale genocidal conduct in Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war. Israeli military and political leaders have repeatedly declared their intention to collectively punish the entire population of Gaza, including by denying them food, water and other life-sustaining aid. We therefore reject Israel’s control over the humanitarian aid that can enter Gaza and reject any Israeli inspection of our cargo. For everyone’s safety and to ensure aid is delivered to those who need it, the FFC is bringing hundreds of international humanitarian observers, from many countries and different backgrounds.”
Media contact for the Flotilla: media@usboatstogaza.org on X: <a href="https://twitter.com/GazaFFlotilla">@GazaFFlotilla</a> — note that videos are available there.
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<title>Race-Based Kidney Tests</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/race-based-kidney-tests/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Medical school activists are sounding the alarm over the EDUCATE Act, a bill that aims to remove Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curricula and ban race-based admission mandates at medical schools.
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NAOMI TWEYO NKINSI; <a href="mailto:naomi.nkinsi@gmail.com">naomi.nkinsi@gmail.com</a> 
 Nkinsi is a family medicine resident physician at MultiCare Tacoma Family Medicine in Tacoma, Washington.
Backers of the EDUCATE Act are in favor of continuing the use of race-based testing for kidney function. Nkinsi spoke to the Institute for Public Accuracy about the problems with race-based kidney function algorithms. “In medicine, there are a variety of shortcuts that physicians use to get a better picture of someone’s health, called algorithms. These are pathways that help standardize [care] across clinics, hospitals, and specialties. We have known for a long time now that a large number of algorithms include race [as a factor]––specifically Black vs. non-Black. The algorithms don’t consider other groups, and just single out ‘Black.’ They give a different lab value or next [clinical] step if the patient is Black, which alters what the physician does down the line.
“For kidney function, [physicians] use a test to calculate eGFR that used to include race; if a patient were Black, the eGFR [value] was increased. This value works as a cutoff for transplants, medications, referrals to specialists, insurance coverage––so for Black patients to be viewed as sick as their non-Black counterparts, they had to be sicker to get the same eFGR, because their [value] was artificially bumped.”
In 2020, Nkinsi and other medical school students led a successful campaign to remove the race-based value from eGFR, leading to changes in national guidelines. But there has been a backlash among conservatives “who argue there are biological differences” between racial groups; these groups are upset over the algorithms that have been changed to remove race. 
These conservatives argue that the removal of race-based eGFR is part of a larger push by DEI to “bastardize medicine and make it less scientific.” But the “people who are pushing for the removal of DEI measures [in medical schools] are pushing for further inequity that will lead to even greater morbidity and mortality in the Black population,” Nkinsi said. “They’re actively pushing for more Black people to face harm in healthcare.”
“Race-based medicine,” Nkinsi said, assumes that “Black people are biologically different and specifically biologically inferior, because it makes the assumption that Black people’s organs don’t function as well as their counterparts.” 
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<title>Government Compelling Private Universities to “Pledge of Allegiance” to Israel; Universities Disciplined Students for Rallies</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/government-compelling-private-universities-to-pledge-of-allegiance-to-israel-universities-disciplined-students-for-rallies/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["What we are seeing now is only the latest manifestation of a longstanding campaign to try to redefine the term 'anti-Semitism' -- to take it away from the dictionary meaning that worked very well for a long time, and to turn it into something else. Under the new definition, anti-Semitism includes criticism of Zionism and of the policies and actions of Israel. ... Congress should not be involved in overseeing private universities, or even public universities, because they’re state-managed, not managed by the federal government. And yet, suddenly, Congress was inserting itself into issues on campus with a clear disciplinary message, which was made evident in the resolution that the House passed soon after the [prior] hearings, condemning the supposed rise of anti-Semitism on campuses, as well as the university presidents themselves."
The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://accuracy.org/release/government-compelling-private-universities-to-pledge-of-allegiance-to-israel-universities-disciplined-students-for-rallies/">Government Compelling Private Universities to “Pledge of Allegiance” to Israel; Universities Disciplined Students for Rallies</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://accuracy.org">accuracy.org</a>.
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Common Dreams reports: “‘<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/usc-cancels-muslim-valedictorian-s-speech">My Own University…Has Abandoned Me’: USC Cancels Muslim Valedictorian’s Speech</a>.”
On Tuesday, the House by 377-44-1 passed a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll134.xml">resolution</a> that the “slogan, ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is antisemitic and its use must be condemned.”
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-bill-on-fighting-antisemitism-draws-rare-bipartisan-support-in-congress/">reports</a>: “Republicans and Democrats in U.S. Congress are uniting to pass a bill that would create a national coordinator of the fight against antisemitism — though it faces competition from another Republican-backed bill that seeks to define antisemitism.”
SAREE MAKDISI, sareemakdisi@proton.me, <a href="https://twitter.com/sareemakdisi">@sareemakdisi</a> 
Makdisi is professor of English at UCLA. His books include <a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/item?b=11396200">Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation</a>, <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520346253/tolerance-is-a-wasteland">Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reading_William_Blake/HoWEBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover">Reading William Blake</a>.
See his recent interview in <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/nothing-is-immutable">Jewish Currents</a>: “Literary scholar Saree Makdisi discusses Zionism’s structures of denial, imperial racial logics, and the horizon of coexistence.”
In his interview with <a href="https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-impossible-is-always-happening/">The Drift magazine</a>, Makdisi said: “What we are seeing now is only the latest manifestation of a longstanding campaign to try to redefine the term ‘anti-Semitism’ — to take it away from the dictionary meaning that worked very well for a long time, and to turn it into something else. Under the new definition, anti-Semitism includes criticism of Zionism and of the policies and actions of Israel. …
“Congress should not be involved in overseeing private universities, or even public universities, because they’re state-managed, not managed by the federal government. And yet, suddenly, Congress was inserting itself into issues on campus with a clear disciplinary message, which was made evident in the resolution that the House passed soon after the [prior] hearings, condemning the supposed rise of anti-Semitism on campuses, as well as the university presidents themselves. The job of those presidents, when they were summoned before the halls of power, was to say, What is this about? Who are you to be interrogating us? What is the context for this? Can you think of any precedent for this? It’s never happened before. The closest I can think of is the House Un-American Activities Committee, decades ago. But those investigations were designed to make people pledge an oath of allegiance to America. These hearings were functionally about making Americans pledge allegiance to a foreign country, which is truly extraordinary.”
See his piece “<a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-context-dependent-decision/">A Context Dependent Decision: The implication is: You may speak, but only I get to determine the meaning of your words</a>.” He co-hosts the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/makdisi-street/id1718414647">Makdisi Street podcast</a> with his brothers, Ussama Makdisi and Karim Makdisi.
Also see from “Democracy Now”: “<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/germany_palestine">Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference</a>.”
See past <a href="https://accuracy.org/?s=Arun+university+israel+&submit.x=0&submit.y=0">IPA news releases</a> including “Columbia University Scolds Students for ‘Unsanctioned’ Gaza Rally Where They Were Attacked With Chemicals.”
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<title>“Terrifying” “Make Everyone A Spy” Amendment Provokes Outrage</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/terrifying-make-everyone-a-spy-amendment-provokes-outrage/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["As we have said for months, the Make Everyone A Spy provision is recklessly broad and a threat to democracy itself. It is simply stunning that the administration and House Intelligence Committee do not have a single answer for how frighteningly broad this provision is. While the Department of Justice wants us to believe that this is simply about addressing data centers, that is no justification for exposing cleaning crews, security guards, and untold scores of other Americans to secret Section 702 directives, which are issued without any court review. Receiving one can be a life-changing event, and Jim Himes appears not to have any sense of that."
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Vitka is policy director at <a href="http://demandprogress.org/">Demand Progress</a>. The New York Times reports today: “Privacy advocates are raising alarms about a mysterious provision the House added to a surveillance bill last week. The Senate is likely to vote on the bill later this week.”
Demand Progress charges that the “controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization that includes the ‘Make Everyone A Spy’ amendment. In the [Times] article, the Department of Justice suggests that the provision is narrow in scope and is intended to address data centers. This echoes House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner and Ranking Member Jim Himes, who represented it as a ‘<a href="https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-PIH-RISA">narrow</a>‘ fix, when it in fact has no guardrails, no independent oversight, and nearly endless reach. A fact sheet on the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B7lSCehHhmY5ZfC5UJfLAJJ7Nbh4rOqQX-SsSWvvb4A/edit#heading=h.sw9ript847t6">amendment is available here</a>.”
The Brennan Center for Justice is <a href="https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1779885123363635572">promoting Demand Progress’ resources</a> and Sen. Ron Wyden has called the bill “terrifying.” Rep. Thomas Massie <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1780188864759357941">objected</a> to the “expansion of the domestic warrantless surveillance program” just before he <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1780230330844168394">demanded</a> Mike Johnson vacate the House Speakership today.
Vitka said today: “As we have said for months, the Make Everyone A Spy provision is recklessly broad and a threat to democracy itself. It is simply stunning that the administration and House Intelligence Committee do not have a single answer for how frighteningly broad this provision is. While the Department of Justice wants us to believe that this is simply about addressing data centers, that is no justification for exposing cleaning crews, security guards, and untold scores of other Americans to secret Section 702 directives, which are issued without any court review. Receiving one can be a life-changing event, and Jim Himes appears not to have any sense of that.”
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<title>NSA, Palantir “Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza”</title>
<link>https://accuracy.org/release/nsa-palantir-feed-israels-killing-machine-in-gaza/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["Now, with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, critical information from NSA continues to be used by Unit 8200, according to a number of sources, to target tens of thousands of Palestinians for death -- often with U.S.-supplied 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons. And it is extremely powerful data-mining software, such as that from Palantir, that helps the IDF to select targets."
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Bamford is author of SpyFail, The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets. He just wrote the piece “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/">How U.S. Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza</a>” for The Nation magazine.
Bamford says the U.S. government “is not only providing the bombs and missiles used to slaughter innocent Palestinians and brave aid workers, it is also secretly providing the highly advanced intel and AI to target them.”
He describes the facilities and outlines the activities of a number of Israeli government agencies in Camp Dayan, writing: “But by far the most secret is the headquarters of Unit 8200, which specializes in eavesdropping, codebreaking, and cyber warfare — Israel’s equivalent of the American National Security Agency. One of Unit 8200’s newest and most important organizations is the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Center, which, according to a spokesman, was responsible for developing the AI systems that ‘transformed the entire concept of targets in the IDF.’ Back in 2021, the Israeli military described its 11-day war on Gaza as the world’s first ‘<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-16/israel-using-ai-systems-to-plan-deadly-military-operations">AI war</a>.’ Israel’s ongoing invasion of Gaza offers a more recent — and devastating — example.
“More than 70 years ago, that same patch of land was home to the Palestinian village of Ajleel, until the residents were killed or forced to abandon their homes and flee in fear during the Nakba in 1948. Now, soldiers and intelligence specialists are being trained at Camp Moshe Dayan to finish the job — to bomb, shoot, or starve to death the descendants of the Palestinians forced into the squalor of militarily occupied Gaza decades ago. …
“As one of the world’s most advanced data-mining companies, with ties to the CIA, Palantir’s ‘work’ was supplying Israel’s military and intelligence agencies with advanced and powerful targeting capabilities — the precise capabilities that allowed Israel to place three drone-fired missiles into three clearly marked aid vehicles. …
“Even Palantir CEO Alex Karp has argued that ‘the power of advanced algorithmic warfare systems is now so great that it equates to having tactical nuclear weapons against an adversary with only conventional ones.’… I have asked myself, ‘If I were younger at college, would I be protesting me?’ …
“Recently, a number of Karp’s employees <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/palantir-ceo-says-outspoken-pro-israel-views-led-employees-to-leave-.html">decided to quit</a> rather than be involved with a company supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And in London’s Soho Square, dozens of pro-Palestine protesters and health workers gathered at Palantir’s UK headquarters to accuse the firm of being ‘<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/business/protesters-blockade-office-of-tech-giant-with-nhs-contract-over-ties-to-israel-b2467728.html">complicit</a>‘ in war crimes. …
“After fleeing to Hong Kong in 2013 with a pocket full of flash drives containing some of the agency’s highest secrets, [NSA whistleblower Edward] Snowden ended up in Moscow where, soon after he arrived, I met with him <a href="https://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/">for Wired magazine</a>. And in the interview, he told me that ‘<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/israels-nsa-scandal.html">one of the biggest abuses</a>‘ he saw while at the agency was how the NSA secretly provided Israel with raw, unredacted phone and e-mail communications between Palestinian Americans in the U.S. and their relatives in the occupied territories. Snowden was concerned that as a result of sharing those private conversations with Israel, the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank would be at great risk of being targeted for arrest or worse. …
“In 2014 — more than a year after Snowden turned up in Moscow — Unit 8200’s targeting of innocent Palestinian in the occupied territories was so extreme that it even caused <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/israels-nsa-scandal.html">43 veterans</a> of the unit, including many serving in the reserves, to go public and accuse the organization of startling abuses. They declared that they had a ‘moral duty’ to no longer ‘take part in the state’s actions against Palestinians.’ …
“The most in-depth examination of the connection between AI and the massive numbers of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children slaughtered in Gaza by Israel comes from an <a href="https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/">investigation</a> recently published by +972 Magazine and Local Call. …
“Now, with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, critical information from NSA continues to be used by Unit 8200, according to a number of sources, to target tens of thousands of Palestinians for death — often with U.S.-supplied 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons. And it is extremely powerful data-mining software, such as that from Palantir, that helps the IDF to select targets.”
The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://accuracy.org/release/nsa-palantir-feed-israels-killing-machine-in-gaza/">NSA, Palantir “Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza”</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://accuracy.org">accuracy.org</a>.
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<description><![CDATA["Yesterday’s attack failed to inflict any serious damage on Israel. This was no accident. Iran expected this result. It warned the U.S. in advance of its plans. Unlike Israel, [the Iranian government] exercised calculated restraint." The Iranian government told the U.S. government "through back-channels what it intended. It negotiated an understanding with the U.S. about what the latter would do in response. ... Israel will counter-attack. The only question is whether it will be symbolic or full-force. The latter would demand an Iranian response. And not the restrained one of yesterday. Then, we would be right back where we started, when Israel initiated this tit-for-tat cycle with its Damascus bombing. ... It didn’t have to be this way. U.S.-Iran relations could have been significantly different had U.S. presidents taken advantage of various Iranian overtures during the years. Most notably, the Grand Bargain, a comprehensive deal then-Pres. Khatami offered Pres. Bush for full normalization of relations. ... Another was Pres. Biden himself refusing to renew the nuclear deal in the first months of his administration and last few months of Pres. Rouhani’s term in office."
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On April 11, the Iranian mission to the UN <a href="https://twitter.com/Iran_UN/status/1778434597954470241">stated</a>: “Had the UN Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s reprehensible act of aggression on our diplomatic premises in Damascus and subsequently brought to justice its perpetrators, the imperative for Iran to punish this rogue regime might have been obviated.”
The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, writing for Haaretz just before the Iranian attack in “<a href="https://archive.ph/pW37l">If Iran Attacks Israel, the Blame Lies on Israel’s Irresponsible Decision-makers</a>,” said: “For several years now, Israel has provoked Iran constantly, in Lebanon, Syria and also on Iranian soil, and has not paid any price. It would be foolish to believe that the rope Israel has stretched will not break. That moment may have come.” For example, see from Nov. 26, 2023 from Reuters: “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/flights-diverted-latakia-aleppo-damascus-airport-al-watan-2023-11-26/">Syria says Israel strike puts Damascus airport out of service</a>.”
After the Iranian attack, the Israeli author and activist Miko Paled <a href="https://twitter.com/mikopeled/status/1779462217512935756">wrote</a>: “The world is distracted by the Iranian attack on Israel … but Palestinians are still dying. The attack succeeded only in diverting attention from the ongoing genocide.”
Politico Europe <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-israel-attach-benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-war/">quotes</a> Yaakov Amidror, a former adviser to Netanyahu, stating that Netanyahu may be positioning himself to tell Biden that he will refrain from striking back at Iran but what “we want in return is that America will give Israel all the help needed” to escalate attacks on Palestinians, including in Rafah.
Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada (which had a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEIoHJmSok&ab_channel=TheElectronicIntifada">livestream on Sunday</a>) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsaWinstanley/status/1779495766077149258">highlights</a> comments by a New York Times reporter: “Mossad stooge Ronen Bergman says that Israeli occupation authorities are privately in an absolute panic and that if the discussions were broadcast openly ‘4 million’ Israelis would rush to the airport to leave the country. … As is his habit, Bergman writes such things only in Hebrew.”
JOSHUA M. LANDIS, landis@ou.edu, <a href="https://twitter.com/joshua_landis">@joshua_landis</a> 
Landis is <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cis/research/center-for-middle-east-studies">director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma</a>. In February, Reuters reported: “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-launches-retaliatory-strikes-iraq-syria-nearly-40-reported-killed-2024-02-03/">U.S. launches strikes in Iraq, Syria, nearly 40 reported killed</a>” and Landis was featured on the IPA news release “<a href="https://accuracy.org/release/why-does-the-u-s-have-troops-in-syria-and-iraq/">Why Does the U.S. Have Troops in Syria and Iraq?</a>” See his writing at <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/jlandis/">Responsible Statecraft</a>.
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN, richards1052@gmail.com, <a href="https://twitter.com/richards1052">@richards1052</a> 
Silverstein writes at Tikun Olam. His most recent piece is the in-depth “<a href="https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2024/04/15/iran-attack-israeli-counter-attack-prospects-for-regional-war/">Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War</a>,” which states: “Yesterday’s attack failed to inflict any serious damage on Israel. This was no accident. Iran expected this result. It warned the U.S. in advance of its plans. Unlike Israel, [the Iranian government] exercised calculated restraint.” The Iranian government told the U.S. government “through back-channels what it intended. It negotiated an understanding with the U.S. about what the latter would do in response. …
“Israel will counter-attack. The only question is whether it will be symbolic or full-force. The latter would demand an Iranian response. And not the restrained one of yesterday. Then, we would be right back where we started, when Israel initiated this tit-for-tat cycle with its Damascus bombing. …
“It didn’t have to be this way. U.S.-Iran relations could have been significantly different had U.S. presidents taken advantage of various Iranian overtures during the years. Most notably, the Grand Bargain, a comprehensive deal then-Pres. Khatami offered Pres. Bush for full normalization of relations. … Another was Pres. Biden himself refusing to renew the nuclear deal in the first months of his administration and last few months of Pres. Rouhani’s term in office.”
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