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Israeli officials have told the Biden administration and humanitarian organizations how they plan to start forcibly expelling Gazans from Rafah ahead of a likely ground invasion—a move critics have likened to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine's Arabs during the establishment of the modern state of Israel.  [...] According to an unnamed U.S. official and two other people familiar with the plan, Israel would " move people out of Rafah, the main humanitarian hub in the enclave, to al-Mawasi, a small strip of land on the southern Gaza coast. "  [...] " Such an invasion could lead to horrific massacres and raise scenarios of a second Nakba, " the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights said recently. " After 200 days of horrific genocidal acts in Gaza, the real objectives of the attack are the continuation of the 76-year-long ongoing Nakba and the erasure and genocidal destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel is laying the groundwork to fulfi

Geopolitical Economy Report   China is reducing its holdings of US Treasury securities. Instead, the People's Bank of China is buying gold, and Beijing prioritizes imports of important commodities like oil and metals. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical impact of de-dollarization in the world's largest economy.  

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the latest humiliation for the NY Times in its debunked propaganda about October 7. 

Katie Halper   Katie Halper talks to Aidan Khamis and Bryce Greene, who was arrested at Indiana University where snipers have been brought in. Bryce Greene is a student, writer, organizer and media critic based in Indianapolis. He is a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. He was arrested and banned from Indiana University's campus for participating in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Indiana University. Aidan Khamis is an organizer for Palestine Solidarity Committee IU and IU divestment coalition.  

Status Coup News   Independent journalist Tina-Desiree Berg covered the Gaza student protest encampment at UCLA on May 1st, 2024, in which LAPD violently assaulted peaceful protesters and also assaulted Desiree Berg. 

Al Jazeera English   More than 50 universities across the United States have now established Palestine solidarity encampments, demanding action to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. What started as a student encampment at Columbia University in New York City two weeks ago has turned into a global student movement, expanding to Europe, Australia and Canada. Student protesters have been met with brutal counterprotests, arrests and suspensions, raising debates around freedom of expression and the future of activism on college campuses. But beyond the mainstream media’s attempt to reduce this movement to free speech and safety, why are students risking it all for Gaza?

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.