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Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently told a group of Jewish donors that he will deport pro-Palestinian campus protestors, according to a new Washington Post report.
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On May 14, Trump held a private round-table event with supporters who he referred to as "98% of his Jewish friends," where he reportedly told them, "One thing I do is, any student that protests, I will throw them out of the country."

"You know, there are a lot of foreign students," the second term presidential hopeful went on to say. "As soon as they hear that, they're going to behave." According to the report, Trump also called the demonstrators part of a "radical revolution" that he vowed to defeat and praised the New York Police Department for clearing out Columbia University's anti-Israel encampment before encouraging other cities to follow suit.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently told a group of Jewish donors that he will deport pro-Palestinian campus protestors, according to a new Washington Post report.

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World / Starvation is everywhere you look here. Denying that is beyond shameful. Mohammed R. Mhawish About three weeks ago, my parents, my two-and-a-half-year-old son, and I were diagnosed with malnutrition. Like so many other people in the north of Gaza, we have had to deal with extreme levels of e...

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Analysis
‘Man-made famine’ charge against Israel is backed by mounting body of evidence
Peter Beaumont

Prospect of Israel facing war crimes charges has moved closer after UN condemnation of Gaza aid restrictions
Wed 20 Mar 2024 12.35 EDT
Last modified on Wed 20 Mar 2024 16.43 EDT

The accusation by the UN and other humanitarians that Israel may be committing a war crime by deliberately starving Gaza’s population is likely to significantly increase the prospect of legal culpability for the country, including at the international court of justice.

Amid reports that the Israel Defense Forces are hiring dozens of lawyers to defend against anticipated cases and legal challenges, the charge that Israel has triggered a “man-made famine” by deliberately obstructing the entry of aid into Gaza is backed by an increasing body of evidence.

Already facing a complaint of genocide from South Africa at the ICJ, the UN’s top court – including an allegation that senior Israeli political officials have incited genocide in public statements – Israel is also the subject of a provisional emergency ruling by the court ordering it to admit life-saving aid to Gaza.
Unrwa distributed flour to Palestinians in Gaza, where there is a food crisisGAZA CITY, GAZA - MARCH 18: Palestinians wait in front of the United Nations (UN) Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) distribution center to receive a limited amount of flour as Israeli attacks continue on Gaza City, Gaza on March 18, 2024. While the Israeli army has been continuously attacking the Gaza Strip, where approximately 2.3 million Palestinians live since October 7, 2023, it does not allow humanitarian aid to enter the region it has completely blockaded. Hundreds of thousands of people are struggling with hunger in the Gaza Strip, where basic food products have run out due to the Israeli bombardment and complete blockade that has been going on for about 6 months. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)
UN says Israeli restrictions on Gaza food aid may constitute a war crime
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On Wednesday, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, underlined the growing sense of crisis as he warned that all of Gaza’s 2 million people were experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity” – the first time an entire population of Gaza has been so classified.

Unlike other issues related to Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza, which has claimed more than 30,000 lives and displaced more than 85% of the population amid widespread destruction, the human-made famine occurring in the Palestinian territory appears more straightforward.

While the question of civilian casualties from specific attacks and from the wider policy of bombing will need to be tested against highly contested notions in international humanitarian law such as proportionality and necessity in conflict, the war crime of starvation is simply and clearly defined. more.......

Prospect of Israel facing war crimes charges has moved closer after UN condemnation of Gaza aid restrictions