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Jewish groups condemn ‘false choice’ as Trump targets universities, students A coalition of Jewish groups is criticizing the Trump administration for actions it has taken at U.S. universities, saying the stripping of student visas and cutting of grant funding creates a “fal…

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How Donald Trump’s tariffs will probably fare in court The president has drawn fire from some conservative legal scholars

Koch versus Trump: “The power “to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises”, per Article 1, section 8 of the constitution, lies with Congress. The constitution assigns no direct role to presidents…” Koch’s NCLA challenges Trumpism:
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from The Economist

I dunno… this kind of “ the dems are just as bad” argument produced an electoral outcome which was really really bad for Palestinians, especially those in the US, didn’t it? thehill.com/opinion/5233...

Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, died last month after collapsing in Megiddo Prison and striking his head, Palestinian officials said.

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I have some questions about this.

🌟 The Bright Side: Morocco 'water highway' saves cities from thirst Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south. Inaugurated last August, the "water highway" had supplied more than 700…

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Are any US news outlets reporting this?

Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds of international students, including Indians, to self-deport over alleged campus activism. Learn about the visa revocations and government polici...

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Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her A lawyer for a Turkish national who is a doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by federal agents without explanation.

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Hundreds of thousands march in support of arrested Istanbul mayor, defying Erdogan Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Istanbul on Friday in support of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – Erdogan's chief political rival – who was detained on Wednesday, just days before he was to be fo...

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DEVELOPING: GU Researcher Detained By Immigration Agents Federal immigration agents detained a Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow March 17, seeking to deport him and accusing him of opposing U.S. foreign policy. The researcher, Badar Khan Suri of the...

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I haven’t finished reading this primer yet but it seems like a useful short summary. Ilan Pappe also just published a new paperback “A Very Short History of Palestine.” Neither have the depth that Pappe’s longer books have , which I miss on the 1880s-1949 period. But sometimes you need shorter stuf

Palestine-Israel Primer - MERIP Middle East Research and Information Project: Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

OUT NOW: The first major update to our Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, in over a decade is now live! Read, teach, share!

doesn’t it seem like the attack on birthright citizenship sets up the next attack on free speech: deporting US citizens whose parents were on student or tourist visas when they were born, or who can’t get documents to prove that their parents were US citizens when they were born, etc.??

Just joined Bluesky. I’m told I better post something so people don’t think I’m a bot or troll if I follow them! Hope to find some old friends and contacts to follow.