Peter Duffy

Absolutely shameful vote by most @eppgroup.bsky.social which apparently agrees that the only thing EU can do when #UnitedArabEmirates fueling conflict & violence in #Sudan with arms is to pay the humanitarian bill.

Lack of principles & bad politics.

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Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.

Most of #Gaza’s schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class

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William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs

I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. He's 97, he's still writing - and he'll drink you under the table. So here: Your "Great Read."

Alberto Giacometti, Still-Life with Bottles, 1958

Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...

What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."

Proud to be a small part of this effort with others who've volunteered in Gaza. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used ...

🚨 New from @hrw.org's @idasawyer.bsky.social: Disturbing Reports of #Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas

Chlorine's Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Imagine being trapped in a city of 260,000 people, cut off from food, medicine, and safety — waiting for a massacre everyone sees coming.

This is the reality of people in El Fasher, Sudan, right now. Read this harrowing investigation from The Guardian.

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‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...

Read every word. A harrowing, ugly, disturbing account of the last few months of the 500+ day siege on El Fasher, North Darfur in Sudan.

‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Will the US Continue to Aid, Abet, and Arm Genocide in Gaza? Every leader should move now to end our complicity.

“This is no longer a policy debate. This is now an urgent question of basic humanity. Will the United States continue to arm genocide in Gaza? Will legislators continue to support an unconscionable crime against humanity—or act to end it?”

In Gaza City, death seems easier than displacement An Israeli bomb killed my grandfather and destroyed his home where I was staying. Now I am homeless and grieving again.

Israel is forcing 1 million+ Palestinians out of Gaza City. Israel has made it clear that those who don’t leave will be killed.

“I have endured starvation, thirst, missiles, & unbearable loss. I may not survive my 15th displacement.”

EXCLUSIVE: 100+ Doctors Who Worked in Gaza Demand Global Action as 'Colleagues Are Starved and Shot by Israel' Many Palestinian health workers 'suffer from hunger, dizziness and fainting episodes while performing operations and triaging patients,' reads an open letter signed by the healthcare professionals.

In a historic letter, 123 doctors from around the world who've served in Gaza demand international action to stop the horrors their Palestinian colleagues & Palestinian people face.

“We reject the violence of silence and supposed neutrality while our colleagues are starved and shot at by Israel.”

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

“Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system are part of a broader strategy to render the territory unlivable for Palestinians”

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian-American physician who served in Gaza, writes about the systematic targeting of health workers in Palestine.

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After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.

East Village Icon Punjabi Deli Remains Bustling, Beloved, Perfect Thirty-two years in, the narrow storefront is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices.

Thirty-two years in, Punjabi Deli is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices from a narrow storefront in the East Village.

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

A devastating report on an appalling pattern. “It's a killing field," one soldier said. “They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Trump aid cuts deal a blow to HIV prevention in Africa Trump's cuts restrict the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection.

Gay and bisexual men in Nigeria who lost access to PEPFAR-funded PrEP because of the Trump administration's aid cuts are testing positive for HIV.

It's an example of how HIV prevention is under threat across the continent.

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Never more proud of my incredible father-in-law, which is saying a lot!

What Israeli Officials Are Privately Saying About Starvation in Gaza And how the humanitarian response intersects with Netanyahu’s ability to continue waging war.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Israel’s New INGO Registration Measures Are a Grave Threat to Humanitarian Operations and International Law – 55 Organisations Say (6 May 2025) - occupied Palestinian territory News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 6 May 2025 by ACPP, ActionAid and 36ount...

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Groups fear Israeli proposal for controlling aid in Gaza will forcibly displace people Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water or medicine into the besieged territory until it can prevent Hamas and other militants from siphoning...

Aid groups working in #Gaza fear an Israeli proposal for controlling aid will forcibly displace people and could push them into “de facto internment conditions".

We obtained more than 40 pages of notes summarizing Israel’s proposals and aid groups’ concerns about them.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights and due process rights. PARTIES 8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.

After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States. 22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia University Buddhist Association and led it for two years. 23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to Palestine.

Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and kill his best friend in the West Bank. 27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.

…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all. 25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against 2:25-cv-00389 Document 1 Filed 04/14/25 Page 6 of 19 7 antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime

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Donald Trump ended my Social Security payments, gave my grandkids measles, and crashed the plane I was supposed to take home from Florida. But at least I know those kids at Oberlin won't be asking for trigger warnings anymore.

They have nothing. Nothing. They kidnapped a legal resident, shipped him across the country, denied access to his attorney, and are now trying to deport him. And their only justification for it is either protected speech or vague descriptions of alleged crimes committed by other people.

Gaza didn’t get enough winter shelters. Now babies are dying in the cold.

The Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza is no longer treating patients or wounded, the Gaza Ministry of Health said.

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