Doublespeak & Disinformation

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytA new report in The New York Times takes a deep dive into Project Esther, a policy blueprint to c...

On Dec. 10, Israeli military officials, weapons manufacturers, and American venture capitalists gathered at Tel Aviv University for the first ever

Outside of a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, a hundred people with PAL-Awda NY/NJ, a local Palestinian rights organization, gathered to protest an Israeli real estate event taking place there on Nov. 13. The protesters accused the realtors from My Israel Home, an Israeli real estate company based outside of Jerusalem, of marketing Palestinian land. They also said that the company was discriminating against event attendees by religion, effectively excluding everyone except especially religious Jews. According to PAL-Awda, the protesters were attacked by counter-protesters, including an organizer of the event, armed with pepper-spray and tactical flashlights wielded as bludgeons.

Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech.

Marco Rubio moves to silence Israel criticisms at the State Department, closing the bureau that tracks and enforces human rights violations.

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What happens when Israel’s top spokesperson faces off against a journalist who doesn't tolerate spin? In this brutal interview, Mehdi Hasan confronts Mark Re...

Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, the Columbia dean at the center of the university’s student purge, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer. Now, she stands accused of helping orchestrate the deportation of a Palestinian student leader and silencing campus dissent against Israel’s war on Gaza., academic institutional bias Israel, Columbia University protest deportation, free speech suppression universities, ICE political arrests academia, Israeli military ties academia, Keren Yarhi-Milo Israeli intelligence, Mahmoud Khalil ICE detention, pro-Israel donor influence Columbia, Robert Kraft Leon Cooperman donations, Trump administration campus crackdown,

It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.

The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister

The ACLU is ringing the alarm bell over S.B. 1287, which the group alleges will chill school speech on Israel.

The terrorism allegations were false, but the nonprofit still lost access to banking and financial tools.

Saturday was a gloriously beautiful spring day in Chicago, and as I wandered into the “Liberation Zone” which has taken over DePaul University’s quad, a kind lady asked me if I would like some lunc…

A Kibbutz Be’eri official said the New York Times's story of sexual violence against two girls is “not true”: “They were not sexually abused.”

Social media is awash with misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war, which was triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on October 7. In one example, fabricated Forbes magazine covers that denounce two Hamas leaders for allegedly becoming billionaires through crime have been widely circulated. The American business magazine told AFP the covers are fake, and an analysis shows they contain publishing errors.

How is it that journalists are not pausing to question the outrageous improbability of so many of the evidence-poor rape stories being advanced?

How can something be headline news and also nearly invisible? Mainstream media are accomplishing that in Gaza

The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart wretch. Not because it is not awful that Israeli civilians are dying

The Palestinian reporters in Gaza who fill the void often pay with their lives. At least 128 journalists and media workers in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, have been killed and 69 have been imprisoned, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, marking the deadliest period for journalists since the organization began collecting data in 1992.

As negotiators from Israel and Hamas continue discussions in Qatar about a possible Gaza ceasefire, we speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, who spoke at a press conference of Gaza media workers last week urging the international press to speak up for their Palestinian colleagues. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023. “The world just keeps turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is happening,” says Abed from outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “It’s completely enraging and unacceptable.” His recent article for Drop Site News is headlined “What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza.”

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Kehlani just had her June LGBTQ+ pride concert in Central Park canceled after Democratic Representative Ritchie Torres shrieked a...

Khalil's lawyers "have reason to believe" the White House is involved.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytIn his first live interview since his release from ICE detention, Columbia University student and...

Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN in the memory of playwright