Guess which billionaire buddy has a new Trump contract? Report: ICE has signed a $30 million deal with surveillance giant Palantir, which will track & deport immigrants. "Palantir — which was founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — has been working in recent weeks to increase ICE’s capacity to monitor immigrants with final deportation orders."
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ICE Signs $30 Million Deal with Palantir as It Expands Mass Surveillance of Immigrants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has signed a $30 million deal with the controversial surveillance tech giant Palantir, which will be used to he...
 Palantir AI arms, spyware in Gaza, Ukraine, etc. https://corporatewatch.org/palantir-international-tech-despot/ #trump #thiel #palantir #surveillancestate #uspol . image
It appears that the IDF is driving Gazans into limited areas close to the coast. I wonder if the infamous pier will return to "facilitate" their so-called "voluntary" removal.... Report: This is how ethnic cleansing looks: Israel has designated ~70% of Gaza ‘no-go’
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Updates: Red Crescent rubbishes Israeli probe into Gaza medic killings
Israeli probe says errors made in killing of 15 Gaza medics, aid workers; denies execution despite testimonies, footage.
 #ethniccleansing #usenablement #nogozones #trump #uspol #ukpol #bds . image
Report: This is how ethnic cleansing looks: Israel has designated ~70% of Gaza ‘no-go’ 👇
Al Jazeera
Updates: Red Crescent rubbishes Israeli probe into Gaza medic killings
Israeli probe says errors made in killing of 15 Gaza medics, aid workers; denies execution despite testimonies, footage.
 It appears that the IDF is driving Gazans into areas on the coast. I wonder if the infamous pier will return to "facilitate" their so-called "voluntary" removal. #ethniccleansing #usenablement #nogozones #trump #uspol #ukpol #bds . image
Oopsie... maybe... maybe not Report: "Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard" But despite claiming the demand letter should not have been sent, the administration did not withdraw it. The letter included demands about hiring, admissions & curriculum that were "so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House."
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
 #Harvard #trump #highered .
Analysis: "Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in Gaza" "Legal efforts against those involved in Israel's genocide remain important, even as critical rulings are ignored by those in power & mass killings continue unabated". ~Top UK barrister Michael Mansfield
Al Jazeera
Top UK barrister: Israel is carrying out ‘destruction of humanity’ in Gaza
Michael Mansfield, a human rights lawyer, talks to Al Jazeera about a war crimes case he and others recently filed.
 #GazaGenocideNotWar #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #uspol #ukpol #internationallaw #bds .
Interview: "Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction Should Terrify Us" “This should terrify every single person living in this country, regardless of your citizenship status. "This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country.” ~Rep. Becca Balint Mahdawi has been a legal permanent resident of the US since 2015.
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Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. H...
 #fascism #uspol #MohsenMahdawi #trump #studentprotestors #racism .
Report: 36 Members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemn Israel’s Gaza resumption. “Our Jewish values compel us to stand up and to speak out. We are back in a brutal war where the killing of 15 paramedics and their burial in a mass grave is again possible and risks being normal".
Al Jazeera
Updates: At least 32 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Thursday, April 17.
 #JewishResistance #uspol #ukpol #GazaGenocideNotWar . image
Analysis: "The State Department Relied on Columbia University’s Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi" "Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests 'intimidation.' "Now, the Trump administration is using it against Mohsen Mahdawi." At the protest in question, Mahdawi had in fact confronted a man who was shouting antisemitic insults.
The State Department Relied on Columbia University’s Mischaracterization of Protests to Arrest Mohsen Mahdawi
Columbia University refused to retract its statement calling pro-Palestine protests “intimidation.” Now, the Trump administration is using it a...
 #columbiau #weaponisedantisemitism #uspol #studentprotests #statedepartment .
Interview: "Emptying Gaza" "If you take any metric—number of UN workers killed, number of medics killed, number of journalists killed, proportion of civilians to combatants killed, proportion of children killed, proportion of women and children killed—if you take any metric, Israel for the 21st century is in a class all its own.”
Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandoned t...
 #gazaannexation #GazaGenocideNotWar #trump #israelicrimesagainsthumanity #uspol .
Interview: "Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction Should Terrify Us" “This should terrify every single person living in this country, regardless of your citizenship status. "This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country.” ~Rep. Becca Balint Mahdawi has been a legal permanent resident of the US since 2015.
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Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. H...
 #fascism #uspol #MohsenMahdawi #trump #studentprotestors #racism .