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2026-05-24 21:27:05 UTC

Amid graduation ceremonies across the United States, many colleges are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations. Students and faculty are resisting the censorship and often organizing alternative events.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/21/peoples_convocation_palestine
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2026-03-05 17:24:00 UTC

Hala Rharrit, who resigned from the State Department in protest during the Biden administration, says she and many others warned the Gaza genocide would eventually spark a regional war with Iran unless the U.S. reined in Israel.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/5/iran_state_defense
https://video.twimg.com/i/status/2029608986324942915

2025-10-28 20:14:01 UTC

“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt”: U.S. Colonel Says Israeli Sniper Intended to Kill Shireen Abu Akleh https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/28/headlines/beyond_a_reasonable_doubt_us_colonel_says_israeli_sniper_intended_to_kill_shireen_abu_akleh

2025-10-09 14:11:51 UTC

How are Israelis reacting to the announcement of a Gaza ceasefire deal? "They absolutely don't care in any way, shape or form about the suffering or the plight of the Palestinians," says [@ori_goldberg](https://bird.makeup/users/ori_goldberg ).
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1976267291600797696/vid/avc1/1280x720/_2qrOTvNiNq5c5f8.mp4?tag=21

2025-08-25 13:42:49 UTC

Israel "is incapable of investigating itself because the military is overfilled with religious Zionist extremists." - @npub1tnf…0sdy
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1959954864114438144/vid/avc1/1280x720/D-akGAAyvlsNybDa.mp4

2025-07-31 13:23:12 UTC

Palestinian writer and analyst @npub1tnf…0sdy says that while recent moves by Western nations to recognize Palestinian statehood are filled with caveats and loopholes, they indicate that global opinion is rapidly shifting.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1950900300023308289/vid/avc1/1280x720/PrqTZDhxC2QiXtTz.mp4

2025-07-29 12:36:22 UTC

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1950171256772337664/vid/avc1/1280x720/2hGT0rdvZ4IKRzzq.mp4

2025-01-23 14:15:29 UTC

Israel has launched a deadly new offensive against the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, just days after reaching a ceasefire in Gaza. "The ultimate goal of Israeli colonial practice is to push Palestinians out," says Palestinian journalist @npub1qty…cgtg.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1882428655160229888/vid/avc1/1280x720/euB7mvS5xWXXOEox.mp4?tag=16

2024-12-27 14:41:43 UTC

The Israeli military has opened a "resort" in Gaza for its soldiers to "refresh" themselves amid mass killings, destruction, and starvation of Palestinians, according to a new report by @npub13j9…c8mk.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1872646618861969410/vid/avc1/1280x720/jOIyQgFk6nxnZ0Tq.mp4?tag=16

2024-10-24 13:28:43 UTC

"It is unheard of that not a single international journalist has been able to get into Gaza for an entire year," says @npub188e…2zj4 of @npub19lk…6d6t.
“It's the whole pattern and systematic attempts [to] censor what is happening inside Gaza."
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1849442302789369856/vid/avc1/1280x720/XGy85Ksz1bpAKVe6.mp4?tag=16

2024-09-19 20:20:01 UTC

“We Must End Our Complicity”: Sanders Unveils Resolution to Block $20B in Arms Sales to Israel https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/19/headlines/we_must_end_our_complicity_sanders_unveils_resolution_to_block_20b_in_arms_sales_to_israel