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YUMNA PATEL
The Israeli military has closed the case files of three Palestinians who were killed by its forces in 2018, prompting backlash from rights groups like B’Tselem who initially investigated the killings. “At the end of the day, these belated so-called investigations, ended in whitewashing,” B’Tselem said in a press release on Monday.
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OPEN LETTER
UMass Amherst faculty issue an open letter pushing back on a statement by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy that was critical of the upcoming panel “Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS and American Democracy.”
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MIRA ASSAF KAFANTARIS
“All of them means all of them." Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri steps down after two weeks of protests across the country where over a million Lebanese from all faiths joined together in leaderless and nationwide anti-government demonstrations, in which the agenda has expanded from avoiding taxes to regime change.
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PHILIP WEISS
"I look back [with] regret at Gaza," Ben Rhodes confesses at J Street. While another Obama official Tommy Vietor says the Yemen war was "wrong" and a "disaster." And NY City Councilman Brad Lander says he regrets keeping quiet about Palestinian human rights over 10 years of defending Israel. "I was pushed to find more courage," he says.
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