Common Dreams:
‘You Should Be Outraged’: Candidates Sound Alarm on Stealth AIPAC Meddling in Illinois. 'They’re using shell organizations to try to crush progressive candidates in secret,' said the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. 'We can’t let them get away with it.'

Progressive congressional candidates in Illinois sounded the alarm Tuesday over efforts by AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, to influence congressional races in the state using methods that appear designed to conceal its role as Democratic voters increasingly view the group as politically toxic amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

'This isn’t what Democratic voters want. Even AIPAC knows it, which is why they’re hiding their name behind a shady super PAC and their agenda behind whatever ad they think will poll best,' Junaid Ahmed, who is running to represent Illinois’ 8th District in the US House, said during a press conference alongside other Democratic candidates."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-aipac-illinois

-->The NYT covered this story, but in a very different way. The Times article said little bout the stealth meddling that AIPAC was doing, funding conservative candidates as long as they favor Israel. The NYT is part of this obscuring the role of Israeli money in US politics.

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Adalah:
"Israel Fast-Tracks Death Penalty Bill Targeting Palestinians. Israel’s Knesset is fast-tracking one of the most extreme legislative proposals in its history: a bill that would introduce the death penalty in a manner that overwhelmingly targets Palestinians. Human rights organizations warn that the legislation will lead to racialized capital punishment.
 
The Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), 2025, is being rushed through three consecutive hearings this week in the Knesset’s National Security Committee, one of which has already concluded—an accelerated process that paves the way for final votes in the coming weeks.
 
The bill creates a dual-track death penalty regime. In military courts - which have jurisdiction exclusively over Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory - judges would be required to impose a mandatory death sentence for intentional killing, by simple majority and even where the prosecution did not seek it."
https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/11499

-->Readers of the NYT have been spared this story about mandatory death penalties in occupied Palestine. Our newspaper of record remains one of the Zionist's principal
defenders.

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Common Dreams:
" 'An unmistakable majority wants a party that will fight harder against the corporations and rich people they see as responsible for keeping them down,' wrote the New Republic’s editorial director.

Democratic voters overwhelmingly want a leader who will fight the superrich and corporate America, and they believe Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the person to do it, according to a poll released this week.

While Democrats are often portrayed as squabbling and directionless, the poll conducted last month by the New Republic with Embold Research demonstrated a remarkable unity among the more than 2,400 Democratic voters it surveyed.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-most-favorable-dem

-->The NYT doesn't like enthusiasm on the left. After all, this newspaper can be counted on to keep such firebrands off their pages. Like they did with Bernie as he ran for president.