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BREAKING: Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi walks out of ICE detention after a Vermont judge ordered his release. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you," he said.

BREAKING: Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi walks out of ICE detention after a Vermont judge ordered his release. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you," he said.

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Kimberly Hernández’s father is now missing after an ICE raid on the car wash where he worked.

Kimberly Hernández’s father is now missing after an ICE raid on the car wash where he worked.

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Parts of "The Odyssey" were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, defying requests from the Sahawari people. Advocates are now calling for a boycott of the film and what they say is its complicity with Morocco's occupation and cultural genocide.
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Parts of "The Odyssey" were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, defying requests from the Sahawari people. Advocates are now calling for a boycott of the film and what they say is its complicity with Morocco's occupation and cultural genocide.

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A group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused them of being an "antifa terror cell." The activists attended a protest and noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. All nine defendants were found guilty after being tried before a federal judge in Texas. The maximum sentences prosecutors sought in the case stand in stark contrast to the treatment of January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrectionists, says Sufia Khalid, who represented one of the defendants, Maricela Rueda. Rueda has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for attending the demonstration, while "the average sentence in the Capitol riots, which had far more serious conduct than the Prairieland Nine defendants, was 26 months."
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A group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused them of being an "antifa terror cell." The activists attended a protest and noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. All nine defendants were found guilty after being tried before a federal judge in Texas. The maximum sentences prosecutors sought in the case stand in stark contrast to the treatment of January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrectionists, says Sufia Khalid, who represented one of the defendants, Maricela Rueda. Rueda has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for attending the demonstration, while "the average sentence in the Capitol riots, which had far more serious conduct than the Prairieland Nine defendants, was 26 months."

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"This is our land. Israel has no right to lease it to the United States." The U.S. is planning a new embassy in Jerusalem, at a site that was appropriated from Palestinian families, including Columbia University scholar Rashid Khalidi's, during the Nakba.
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"This is our land. Israel has no right to lease it to the United States." The U.S. is planning a new embassy in Jerusalem, at a site that was appropriated from Palestinian families, including Columbia University scholar Rashid Khalidi's, during the Nakba.

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113,472 views • 5 days ago

Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and knives attacked a convoy of journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Jasper Nathaniel (jasper nathaniel), a reporter who was in one of the vehicles, explains what happened.
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Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and knives attacked a convoy of journalists in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Jasper Nathaniel (jasper nathaniel), a reporter who was in one of the vehicles, explains what happened.

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37,417 views • 3 days ago

“We will never be silenced until Palestine is liberated,” says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil (Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل), who on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against top Trump administration officials, two pro-Israel groups and a conservative think tank that he accuses of conspiring to suppress his constitutional rights to free speech over his criticism of Israel.
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“We will never be silenced until Palestine is liberated,” says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil (Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل), who on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against top Trump administration officials, two pro-Israel groups and a conservative think tank that he accuses of conspiring to suppress his constitutional rights to free speech over his criticism of Israel.

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Just days after the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, immigration agents fatally shot another immigrant, also driving to work, this time in a small town in southern Maine. Joan Sebastian Guerrero was 26 years old and originally from Colombia. He was the father of a 3-year-old daughter. “People are just disturbed and really shell-shocked,” says Eisha Khan, a resident of Biddeford, Maine, and the wife of Mayor Liam LaFountain.
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Just days after the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, immigration agents fatally shot another immigrant, also driving to work, this time in a small town in southern Maine. Joan Sebastian Guerrero was 26 years old and originally from Colombia. He was the father of a 3-year-old daughter. “People are just disturbed and really shell-shocked,” says Eisha Khan, a resident of Biddeford, Maine, and the wife of Mayor Liam LaFountain.

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The U.S. has killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming without evidence that the boats were engaged in narcotrafficking. Amanda Klasing (Amanda M Klasing) of Amnesty International USA says these are extrajudicial killings that constitute murder. “U.S. taxpayers should be outraged, absolutely outraged, that their money is going to murder as a policy,” says Klasing.
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The U.S. has killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming without evidence that the boats were engaged in narcotrafficking. Amanda Klasing (Amanda M Klasing) of Amnesty International USA says these are extrajudicial killings that constitute murder. “U.S. taxpayers should be outraged, absolutely outraged, that their money is going to murder as a policy,” says Klasing.

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244,073 views • 1 month ago

Israel claims that Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital serves as a command center for Hamas. Norwegian physician Mads Gilbert, who has worked at Al-Shifa for 16 years says there is "no evidence at all" that that is the case. "If it was a military command center, I would not work there."
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Israel claims that Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital serves as a command center for Hamas. Norwegian physician Mads Gilbert, who has worked at Al-Shifa for 16 years says there is "no evidence at all" that that is the case. "If it was a military command center, I would not work there."

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5,601,999 views • 2 years ago

In their first broadcast interview since being forced out of NYT Magazine for signing an open letter condemning Israel's siege on Gaza, award-winning writers Jazmine Hughes and Jamie Lauren Keiles speak out about their decisions to leave the publication.
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In their first broadcast interview since being forced out of NYT Magazine for signing an open letter condemning Israel's siege on Gaza, award-winning writers Jazmine Hughes and Jamie Lauren Keiles speak out about their decisions to leave the publication.

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4,973,310 views • 2 years ago

Marione Ingram is an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and peace activist who has been demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. She just had a series of talks canceled in Germany, for which she says she never got a real explanation.
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Marione Ingram is an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and peace activist who has been demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. She just had a series of talks canceled in Germany, for which she says she never got a real explanation.

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4,425,532 views • 2 years ago

Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. "The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies," he says.
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Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or summary execution. "The three different mass graves are containing around 700 bodies," he says.

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3,866,810 views • 2 years ago

In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says UNICEF spokesperson James Elder. "They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?"
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In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says UNICEF spokesperson James Elder. "They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?"

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3,367,898 views • 2 years ago

“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.
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“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

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3,932,073 views • 2 years ago

As DSA-backed candidates win Democratic primaries across the United States, the group's national co-chair Ashik Siddique says the goal is "to reframe politics around class lines." "We want to transfer power from the 1% to the working class, and to replace capitalism with socialism."
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As DSA-backed candidates win Democratic primaries across the United States, the group's national co-chair Ashik Siddique says the goal is "to reframe politics around class lines." "We want to transfer power from the 1% to the working class, and to replace capitalism with socialism."

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31,532 views • 8 days ago

Historian Robin D.G. Kelley discusses Donald Trump's election victory and why the Democrats failed to mount a successful challenge.
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Historian Robin D.G. Kelley discusses Donald Trump's election victory and why the Democrats failed to mount a successful challenge.

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2,207,945 views • 1 year ago

"The planet is now warmer than it has ever been in modern human history, basically since the agricultural revolution 10,000 or 12,000 years ago," says climate journalist David Wallace-Wells. "We're running a pretty radical experiment."
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"The planet is now warmer than it has ever been in modern human history, basically since the agricultural revolution 10,000 or 12,000 years ago," says climate journalist David Wallace-Wells. "We're running a pretty radical experiment."

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43,545 views • 12 days ago

Amid rumors that Kamala Harris has selected Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running-mate, Marc Lamont Hill reminds us that neither Harris nor Shapiro can or should be seen as progressive politicians.
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Amid rumors that Kamala Harris has selected Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running-mate, Marc Lamont Hill reminds us that neither Harris nor Shapiro can or should be seen as progressive politicians.

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2,454,513 views • 1 year ago

Veteran Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades and says the Israeli public is "drunk with the will to take revenge" on Palestinians, spurred on by a far-right government dominated by "extreme fascist settlers."
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Veteran Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades and says the Israeli public is "drunk with the will to take revenge" on Palestinians, spurred on by a far-right government dominated by "extreme fascist settlers."

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3,335,375 views • 2 years ago

Grey Anderson, whose new piece "NATO Isn’t What It Says It Is" was published this week in The New York Times, talks about the history and future functions of the alliance.
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Grey Anderson, whose new piece "NATO Isn’t What It Says It Is" was published this week in The New York Times, talks about the history and future functions of the alliance.

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3,608,826 views • 3 years ago

Israeli historian and genocide scholar Raz Segal says Israeli leaders' dehumanizing language about Palestinians in Gaza and the IDF's conduct are cause for alarm. "We're seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide."
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Israeli historian and genocide scholar Raz Segal says Israeli leaders' dehumanizing language about Palestinians in Gaza and the IDF's conduct are cause for alarm. "We're seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide."

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3,086,871 views • 2 years ago