Palestinian tents bombed by Israel on the grounds of Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza. Photo: UNRWA. CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
+ Last week, Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman who has been held for a year in an ICE prison in Texas, fell twice, hit her head and suffered a seizure. She regained consciousness in a hospital, where her arms and legs had been shackled to the bed. “The entire time I was chained,” Kordia said. “I felt like an animal.” Kordia is not a violent criminal. She’s never been convicted of a crime. But she was detained by ICE last March when she showed up for a scheduled check-in on her immigration status. Her only offense seems to have been showing up at Columbia University to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza and sending money to her family. Doctors told Kordia that she was likely prone to seizures because of stress and a poor diet, both of which are beyond her control. “The food is so bad it makes me sick,” Kordia said. “We live in filthy conditions. The best medicine for me and everyone else here is our freedom.”
+ DHS admitted that Leqaa Kordia was arrested and held in detention for more than a year because she legally donated money to victims of Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza.
+ Stephanie Savell, director of Brown University’s Cost of War Project: “Every single person in Gaza is sick, injured or both.”
+ Abu Mohammed Haboush on the Israeli bombing in Gaza on February 4 that killed 26 people: “It was about 1:30 in the morning—and we were sleeping peacefully. There was nothing around us, nothing near us. We were far from the yellow line. We were sleeping peacefully in our house when they shelled it. My son was martyred, my nephew was martyred, my niece was martyred, and other children were martyred.”
+ Here’s Phil Gordon, Kamala Harris’ National Security Advisor, responding to a ludicrous allegation by Israeli polemicist Amit Segal, that the Biden administration was responsible for Israeli soldier deaths by not giving Israel a free-enough hand to kill in Gaza, admitted that Biden/Harris violatedUS law by refusing to condition weapons sales on Israel allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
+ Mariam Barghouti: “With all of the documents from the Epstein files, it really becomes much clearer why current policy-makers tend to force themselves on other nations. It’s rape culture. We’re literally witnessing a world run by pedophiles and rapists and it’s reflected in global policy. They just keep forcing themselves on people and finding ways to distort it, justify it, get away with it by sheer force and war-mongering.”
+ Too bad that it took Pete Hegseth to cut ties with Harvard, instead of Harvard cutting ties with the Pentagon and potentially saving thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
