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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 2 - WhatsApp Debates Almost immediately after the October 7 attacks and the launch of Israel’s scorched-earth war against Gaza, tensions began to boil within the newsroom over the Times coverage. Some staffers said they believed the paper was going out of its way to defer to Israel’s narrative on the events and was not applying even standards in its coverage. Arguments began fomenting on internal Slack and other chat groups. The debates between reporters on the Jerusalem bureau-led WhatsApp group, which at one point included 90 reporters and editors, became so intense that Pan, the international editor, interceded. “ We need to do a better job communicating with each other as we report the news, so our discussions are more productive and our disagreements less distracting, ” Pan wrote in a November 28 WhatsApp message viewed by

The Hill   Julian Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton weighs in on Assange's possible extradition to the U.S.  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fears that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague may issue arrest warrants against him and other officials due to violations during the aggression on Gaza, Israeli Channel 12 reported on Thursday. The channel said that three ministers and several government legal experts held an ’emergency discussion” at the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday regarding how to fend off the feared imminent issuing of such arrest warrants. The meeting was convened after information reached Jerusalem indicating that such warrants could be issued in the near future, it added. The highest political and legal elite in Israel were present at the discussion, according to the channel.   It pointed out that the background to the issuance of international arrest warrants is the war in Gaza. The channel confirmed that Netanyahu asked the Foreign Ministers of Britain and Germany during their visits to Israel to intervene to prevent the issuance of arrest warra

BreakThrough News   BreakThrough News is streaming LIVE on Friday, April 19th from Columbia University as students are protesting for a third day, fighting for transparency and divestment from Israel. 

Owen Jones   The US denied that agreed to permit Israel invade Rafah in return for not carrying out large Iran strike. The consequences of such an invasion would be beyond catastrophic.      Related: Zionazis exterminate Palestinians in Rafah

A uniquely Ukrainian strain of Neo-Nazism is spreading throughout Europe, which openly advocates violence against minorities while seeking new recruits. With Kiev’s army collapsing and a narrative of Western betrayal gaining currency, the horror inflicted on residents of Donbas for a decade could very soon be coming to a city near you.   by Kit Klarenberg   Part 2 - A secret Western-backed Nazi network Centuria is seemingly not the only Azov-related Ukrainian movement seeking to infiltrate Europe. An apparently separate but identically named Centuria is doing the same, with help from an entrenched structure of elite European support. In September 2021, George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) published a detailed and deeply unsettling report which documents how a once-secret order called Centuria was nurtured by a “ self-described order of ‘European traditionalist’ military officers that has the stated goals of reshaping the country’s

Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state.   The diplomatic cables detail pressure being applied to members of the Security Council, including Malta, the rotating president of the council this month. Ecuador in particular is being asked to lobby Malta and other nations, including France, to oppose U.N. recognition. The State Department’s justification is that normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states is the fastest and most effective way to achieve

by Tamino Dreisam, Peter Schwarz   Since hundreds of police officers broke up a Palestine Congress in Berlin last Friday, new details have come to light every day about the arbitrariness and ruthlessness with which the police disregarded the law and trampled on democratic rights.   The German government employs the same police brutality against opponents of the genocide it supports in Gaza that it usually accuses its enemies, such as Russian President Putin, of using. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats, SPD) backed the brutal police action on Friday. She wrote on Twitter that it was “ right and necessary ” for the Berlin police to “ crack down on the so-called Palestine Congress. ” A collective of lawyers advising the organisers of the congress published a statement April 13 detailing the preparations for the congress and the course of events. It reveals that there had already been several security talks between the organisers and the police in the run-up to the congress

The war's aims won't be achieved. The hostages won't be returned through military pressure. Security won't be restored. Israel's international ostracism won't end.    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/saying-what-cant-be-said-israel-has-been-defeated-a-total-defeat/0000018e-cdab-dba9-a78e-efef6ba10000  

Democracy Now!   As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, Democracy Now! spoke with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that was forcibly shut down by police. The Palestine Congress was scheduled to be held for three days, but police stormed the venue as the first panelist spoke.    Germany's Interior Ministry had also banned some conference speakers from even entering the country, including Varoufakis, the Palestinian British surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah and the Palestinian researcher Salman Abu Sitta.    " This is not about protecting Jewish lives and Jews from antisemitism. It's all about protecting the right of Israel to commit any war crime of its choice, " says Varoufakis.    Varoufakis speaks also about freeing Julian Assange and his new book Technofeudalism .      Related: Germany again on a dark path towards fascism