Trump Says US Ending Annual Aid to Israel, Amid Push for Military Integration

On the morning of the critical midterm elections, President Donald Trump said that the U.S. is going to end its annual funding to Israel of roughly $4 billion a year starting in 2027 — a move Trump said was made at the direct request of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pushing for an even deeper, more secretive collaboration between the two countries.
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Houston Activists Are Working to Disrupt the Flow of Weapons to Israel

On October 30, port workers in over 100 locations across the world stood in principled resistance to Israel’s ongoing genocide through an international strike meant to constrict the arms trade and physically halt munitions destined to be used in Palestine. From coast to coast, linking arms in the struggle against maritime transport has been a historic strategy to intervene in the material…
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Israel Is Creating a “Permanent Architecture of Control” Amid Gaza Genocide

We speak with Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman about his new book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, a meticulous investigation into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the physical destruction of the territory and its impact on the Palestinian people. Forensic Architecture was founded in 2010 as an interdisciplinary research group focused on investigating state violence and human rights…
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Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military

Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top Middle East negotiator for President Donald Trump, including on the Gaza genocide. A CNN investigation published Thursday finds that Kushner’s company…
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NFL Threatened to Ban Player From Game for Honoring Slain Palestinian Girl

An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza. During the Texans’s week two game against the Cincinnati Bengals on September 20, Al-Shaair wrote the name of Wafaa Akila on his eye black, which refers to the strip or paint…
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Trump Threatens Iran With Genocide in Address to UN General Assembly

President Donald Trump made his most openly genocidal threat yet to Iran on Tuesday, threatening to “annihilate” the country and its 92 million people with “no hope of survival.” In his opening address to the UN General Assembly in New York City, Trump asserted again that he is facing a choice on Iran about whether to make a deal “that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country.”…
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