Guardian UK:
"The US state department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Hamas, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior state department officials.

Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’s October 2023 attack.

The AI-fueled 'catch and revoke' effort will include AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, Axios reported. Officials will also check news reports of previous demonstrations against Israel’s policies and Jewish students’ lawsuits highlighting foreign nationals allegedly engaging in antisemitism."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/foreign-student-visas-pro-palestinian-ai

-->The Times of Israel reported this story too, but not the NYT. Was it because using AI to turn in students seems too much like the dystopia that we in "the land of the free" are now facing?

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Mondoweiss:
"On Tuesday, voters across the state of Vermont passed a number of non-binding resolutions declaring their towns and cities 'apartheid-free communities.'

The effort, organized by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), passed in Brattleboro, Winooski, Newfane, Plainfield, and Thetford. The question appeared on nine ballots on Town Meeting Day. Vermont is the first state in the country where municipalities have voted to cut economic ties with Israel.

The pledge affirms a commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people, opposes all forms of bigotry, and pledges toward ending 'support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.' The language on the ballot measure comes from the Apartheid-Free Communities initiative, which is backed by a global network of almost 500 congregations, businesses, and Palestine solidarity organizations."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/vermont-towns-vote-to-cut-ties-with-israeli-apartheid/

-->The NYT didn't cover this interesting story. Maybe the story was judged to have used some of the NYT's forbidden words, like occupation or genocide.

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CAIR:
"The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) recently released a new report analyzing the deterioration of students’ First Amendment rights on college campuses across California.

'The Erosion of Free Speech on California’s Campuses' examines the history of student movements in the U.S. and how they paved the way for recent pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. It also highlights the growing restrictions imposed by government and university officials in an effort to crack down on protected speech.

Key findings from the report show that colleges and universities selectively enforce free speech policies and time, place, and manner (TPM) regulations to censor pro-Palestinian activism on campuses. TPM regulations include limiting noise levels, restricting signs on government property, or dictating protest times. At several universities across California, TPM restrictions were unequally enforced during student protests, and the degree of university or law enforcement intervention varied depending on the racial identity of the protesters."  
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-ca-releases-new-report-examining-the-suppression-of-students-first-amendment-rights-on-college-campuses/

-->The NYT ran a story entitled: "New Training and Tougher Rules: How Colleges Are Trying to Tame Gaza Protest." But nothing was printed about how unevenly these guidelines are being applied, or how Islamophobic they really are.

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Haaretz:
" 'Major Step to Full Sovereignty': Bill to Annex West Bank Settlements Near Jerusalem Set to Pass. The bill proposes the creation of 'metropolitan Jerusalem,' which would incorporate nearby West Bank settlements, fully annexing them to Israel. According to the bill's explanatory notes, 'The law will restore it as the heart of the Jewish people.'

The bill says that 'The law, jurisdiction and administration of [Israel] will apply to the territory of the Jerusalem Metropolitan Area.' It also prescribes that Jerusalem's mayor will be the metropolitan area leader and that the heads of the local settlements will be the directors of the various municipal authorities.

But Illouz [author of the bill] added that the bill has a larger underlying principle: enacting Israeli sovereignty over the entire West Bank. 'Israel has to act according to its interests and without fear. This law is a major step towards full sovereignty [of the West Bank].' "
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-28/ty-article/.premium/step-to-full-sovereignty-law-to-annex-west-bank-settlements-near-jerusalem-set-to-pass/00000195-4c3f-d79a-abfd-fdff5ab10000

-->Why didn't the NYT print this story? Doesn't it illustrate the extent of the planned ethnic cleansing of the whole West Bank? Maybe that is something that the NYT isn't ready to tell its readers.

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The Guardian UK:
"A US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense secretary Lloyd Austin, for their 'accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza'. ...

One passage from the submission alleges that 'by continuously and unconditionally providing political support and military support to Israel while being fully aware of the specific crimes committed by Netanyahu, Gallant, and their subordinates, President Biden, Secretary Blinken, and Secretary Austin contributed intentionally to the commission of those crimes while at least knowing the intention of the group to commit the Israeli crimes, if not aiming at furthering such criminal activity'. "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/icc-biden-gaza-war

-->Finally an admission of the war crimes committed by Biden and Blinken. Except the story was printed in the UK's Guardian, and not the NYT? Why is The Guardian so much better at informing the American people?

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Z Network:
"Journalists working at Britain’s most prestigious newspapers and TV channels have expressed concern at pro-Israel bias inside their organisations. Speaking exclusively to Declassified, half a dozen current and former staff at the BBC, Sky, ITN, the Guardian and the Times have disclosed the extent of anti-Palestinian prejudice in their newsrooms.

All of the journalists requested anonymity for fear of professional reprisals. Despite working for a range of outlets from across the political spectrum, they painted a consistent picture of the obstacles faced by reporters who want to humanise Palestinians or scrutinise Israeli government narratives. ...

One journalist at Sky News suggested there are a whole set of unwritten journalistic rules that apply exclusively to Israel. 'It’s a continuous battle to report the truth,' they said. 'We would see the raw footage being sent to us from Gaza – we’re all well aware of the carnage. Yet you can’t describe what your eyes are seeing.' "
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

-->Yes, the media of England and the US routinely suppress stories critical of Israeli war crimes. In some future world, the media in both countries will be charged with aiding and abetting the genocide being committed every day