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Democracy Now!   We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas, and arresting dozens of students.    The raid came just over a day after pro-Israel counterprotesters armed with sticks, metal rods and fireworks attacked students at the encampment. The Real News Network reporter Mel Buer was on the scene during the attack. She describes seeing counterprotesters provoke students, yelling slurs and bludgeoning them with parts of the encampment’s barricade, and says the attack lasted several hours without police or security intervention.    ” UCLA is complicit in violence inflicted upon protesters, ” wrote the editorial board of UCLA’s campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin , the next day. Four of the paper’s student journalists were targeted and assaulted by counterprotesters while covering the protests.    Democracy Now! spoke with

Al Jazeera English   Videos of the attack on the anti-Gaza war protest camp at UCLA have shown the extent of the violence used by a pro-Israel mob. A day after the protesters were assaulted, police in Los Angeles declared the camp unlawful and moved in to clear it.  

The Real News Network   Seven months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a student-led grassroots movement is spreading across the US and beyond, hearkening back to the student protests of the ‘60s that played a pivotal role in ending the US war in Vietnam.    In what is being called the “student intifada,” with over 100 encampments going up at different college and university campuses, students, faculty, grad students, and other campus community members are exercising civil disobedience, occupying space on campuses, defying brutal repression from administrators and police, combatting skewed and wildly lopsided narratives in corporate media, and pressuring their universities to “disclose and divest” their investments in companies and financial institutions connected to Israel.    TRNN speaks with encampment organizers/participants from the University of Michigan, the Indiana University, and Stanford University, and gets updates from encampments from New York to California. 

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the spontaneous growth of the campus uprising against the US-backed genocide in Gaza, with a focus on the sizable new encampment at Washington DC's George Washington University. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   The Biden administration is reportedly highly concerned that the International Criminal Court in The Hague will soon issue warrants for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and other high level members of the Israeli government.    Although the likelihood that Netanyahu et al could ever be placed in the dock at The Hague is vanishingly small, the mere warrants would represent a huge blow to Israeli leadership and the Jewish state’s international standing.  

Al Jazeera English   Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court are reportedly interviewing staff from two hospitals in the Gaza Strip. That's after the discovery of mass graves on the grounds of the two facilities. Hundreds of bodies were recovered from three mass graves on the premises of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis this month. The remains of dozens more people were exhumed at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after an Israeli siege of the  facility. Both hospitals were left badly damaged and out of service after Israeli troops withdrew.  

Al Jazeera English   The UN has voiced concerns regarding the treatment of pro-Palestine protesters at US universities. The spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Marta Hurtado, said “ We are concerned that some of law enforcement actions across a series of universities appear disproportionate in their inputs. ” Protests have swept through US higher education institutions, with many erecting tent encampments on campus grounds after about 100 protesters were first arrested at Columbia University in New York on April 18. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, police moved in on Tuesday morning to clear one encampment, detaining some protesters. At the University of Texas at Austin, police also clashed with protesters on Monday, including using pepper spray, and made arrests while dismantling an encampment, adding to hundreds detained nationwide over the weekend.

Amid the internal battle over the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s war, top editors handed down a set of directives. by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim     Part 5 - Bucking International Norms In the cases of describing “occupied territory” and the status of refugees in Gaza, the Times style guidelines run counter to norms established by the United Nations and international humanitarian law. On the term “Palestine” — a widely used name for both the territory and the U.N.-recognized state — the Times memo contains blunt instructions: “ Do not use in datelines, routine text or headlines, except in very rare cases such as when the United Nations General Assembly elevated Palestine to a nonmember observer state, or references to historic Palestine. ” The Times guidance resembles that of the Associated Press Stylebook. The memo directs journalists not to use the phrase “refugee camps” to describe long-standing refugee settlements in Gaza. “ While termed refugee camps, the refugee centers

Al Jazeera English   Israel's Prime Minister says nobody will stop its military actions - not even the International Criminal Court. The ICC is investigating the country's operations in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank - and could issue warrants for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders. He says such a move would be outrageous - and set a dangerous precedent. And the foreign minister insists the country won't be deterred and will continue to fight. The court's Prosecutor says anyone who breaks the law will be held accountable.  But Israel is not part of the ICC, and does not recognise its jurisdiction.  

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the whopping $95 billion military aid package to Israel and Ukraine just authorized by Congress - a gigantic financial injection into the military industrial complex at the expense of the American worker - and explain Donald Trump's pivotal role in its passage.    Related: The wounded US imperialist beast becomes more dangerous than ever as desperately seeks to start a WWIII