The Intercept:
"Long before 9/11, Zionist groups like the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for counter terror legislation that singled out Palestinians, a new report reveals.
Last October, as protests against Israel’s war on Gaza swept U.S. campuses, two prominent pro-Israel groups wrote to nearly 200 university and college administrators urging them to investigate their students for possibly violating federal law by promoting pro-Hamas, anti-Israel messaging.
The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law suggested that members of Students for Justice in Palestine, the largest Palestine solidarity campus organization in the country, may have been violating a law that prohibits people from providing 'material support' — a broad category that includes money as well as services or other assistance — to U.S.-designated terror groups. 'We certainly cannot sit idly by as a student organization provides vocal and potentially material support to Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,' the ADL and the Brandeis Center wrote.
There is no evidence SJP has ever provided material support to Hamas, and the letter prompted widespread condemnation. The American Civil Liberties Union called on leaders in higher education to 'reject baseless calls to investigate or punish student groups for exercising their free speech rights.' "
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/21/adl-palestine-terrorism-legislation/
-->Maybe the NYT will be covering this story, but it hasn't yet. Will our newspaper of record expose the Anti-Defamation League as a danger to free speech, as it most certainly is?
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Common Dreams:
"The New York Civil Liberties Union revealed Friday that it warned Columbia University of plans to take legal action if two suspended student groups opposed to Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip aren't reinstated by March 1.
Amid a crackdown on criticism of Israel at educational institutions nationwide, Columbia leadership in November bypassed existing procedures for campus organizations and unilaterally suspended the university's chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) for an 'unauthorized' protest of the war.
'Universities should be havens for robust debate, discussion, and learning—not sites of censorship where administrators, donors, and politicians squash political discourse they don't approve of,' NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman said in a statement. 'These student groups were peacefully speaking out on a critical global conflict, only to have Columbia University ignore their own long-standing, existing rules and abruptly suspend the organizations,' she continued. 'That's retaliatory, it's targeted, and it flies in the face of the free speech principles that institutes of higher learning should be defending. Students protesting at private colleges still have the right to fair, equal treatment—and we are ready to fight that battle in court.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-university-suspends-student-groups
-->Is Columbia University illegally restricting freedom of speech on campus? But why isn't this story being covered in the NYT? You have the Civil Liberties Union preparing to sue a major university. Isn't that newsworthy?
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Common Dreams:
"Lawsuit Accuses German Leaders of Complicity in Gaza Genocide. 'This lawsuit sends a clear message to German officials: You cannot continue to remain accomplices of such crime without consequences.' ...
The criminal complaint, filed Thursday with federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, accuses Scholz, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, and Economy Minister Robert Habeck of 'complicity in the genocide in Gaza' by approving the export of approximately $350 million worth of military aid to Israel.
The suit also lists the German government's diplomatic support for Israel and its suspension of payments to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East—even as Israeli forces have killed and maimed over 100,000 Palestinians, forcibly displaced around 90% of the besieged strip's 2.3 million people, obliterated the territory's infrastructure, and pushed hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the brink of starvation."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667351559
-->This story is so important because it details the responsibility of states in enabling the genocide in Gaza. Well, the Republic of Germany certainly is responsible, with $350 million worth of military aid sold to Israel. Maybe the story is a bit too inclusive; will the people of the world start thinking along these lines about the United States, the real enabler of this slaughter of the Palestinians? So far, however, no coverage by the NYT.
