+ 100+: number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the Trump-brokered “ceasefire.”

+ For two years, Ursula von der Leyen cheered on a genocide, now she’s “horrified”…

+ Jewish students and faculty at Penn University have condemned Trump’s demand that his alma mater turn over to his Department of Vindictive Prosecutions a list of Jewish students and organizations.

+ Iranian director and dissident Jafar Panahi supports the Iranian protests, skeptical about outside intervention (which is, of course, the principled stand all of us should take): “Until people have the will to change something from within, nothing will be able to make that change. It has to be by the will of the people from within.”

+ In an affidavit submitted to Israel’s Supreme Court, the Netanyahu government accused the Israeli daily Haaretz of “supporting the enemy in wartime.” Citing its reporting on Gaza, the government accused Haaretz of “defaming the state and the Zionist enterprise as a whole.”

+ Sarah Lazare, In These Times: “If Trump’s deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th most heavily funded on earth. This puts it above the militaries of Australia and Canada, and just below Israel’s. This force is invading US cities, yet depicting itself as the victim.”

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+ Israel has now killed more than 420 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire, causing OED editors to scramble into order to enlarge the definition of “ceasefire.”

+ Despite 969 Israeli violations over 80 days, including the killing of 420 Palestinians, the wounding of 1,141 and allowing only 40% of the aid trucks mandated by the truce into Gaza, Trump declared last week that Israel is “100% in compliance” with the ceasefire. Later, Netanyahu announced that Trump would be the first non-Israeli to receive the Israel Prize, which is the near opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize.

+ Amid reports that Israel has killed more than 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate cited the ghastly number of deaths as evidence that Israel is using collective punishment to crush reporting of its genocidal war in Gaza.

+ “A rough year”? Is that how AP refers to Israel killing hundreds of Palestinian journalists and their families?

+ Trump/Netanyahu ceasefire plan for Gaza: keep them houseless, starving, hypothermic and sick…until they leave or die.

+ Israel is the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

+ Dershowitz: Palestinians haven’t “earned” the right for statehood the way Jews have: “You can’t just create a state out of nothing!”

+ Haaretz reported last week that a month before the October 7, 2023, attacks, Israel asked Qatar to increase the funds transferred to Hamas in Gaza.

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+ Engagé! Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander on Dan Goldman’s re-election campaign launch: “Goldman literally chummed it up with Don Jr. on vacation in the Bahamas, praising Trump’s Israel policy.”

+ Nancy Pelosi to Lander on his plans to challenge Goldman: “I’m a Dan Goldman Democrat. [Of course, she is.] Democrats don’t run against Democrats.” Isn’t that what primaries are all about?