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Unraveling Global Tensions: From U.S. Politics to Middle Eastern Conflicts

In a rapidly changing global landscape, tensions are escalating from the corridors of U.S. power to the streets of Palestine and beyond. As President Biden faces scrutiny over his remarks to Indigenous communities, the shadow of a potential Trump presidency looms with fears of authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the Middle East grapples with violence, as reports of chemical infernos in Georgia and Israeli strikes in Gaza raise alarms. In France, the arrest of a pro-Palestine activist underscores a growing crackdown on free speech. Join us as we dive into these pressing issues and explore the implications for the world stage.

World News

Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 24, 2024

President Biden Delivers Remarks at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona

Biden Gives False Apology to Indigenous Peoples While Carrying out Genocide Against Indigenous Palestinians and Lebanese

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Student Intifada

"Since Oct. 7, 2024, Pomona admin has initiated disciplinary proceedings for at least 20 Pomona students, related to that day’s protest for divestment from genocide in Palestine. Starr’s new decision, which she announced in an email this morning around 9 a.m., cancels fact-finding meetings and Judicial Council hearings for half of them, moving them immediately to suspension.

Several students’ proceedings were set to begin this week. Instead, they now have only five days to make an appeal directly to the Dean of Students. The college has not shared individual evidence of policy violations with any of the 20 students who faced charges. Undercurrents has verified through our own reporting and photos that at least one of the students was never inside Carnegie Hall on Oct. 7, 2024. Pomona’s Dean of Students also banned dozens of other Claremont students from its campus for the academic year, preventing them from attending Pomona classes or events in-person. The Dean of Students also did not share any evidence with banned students."

On October 23rd, the NJ Anti-Zionist Minyan erected a sukkah on College Avenue to celebrate Sukkot, displaying a banner that read “Jews Against Genocide. Free Palestine from the River to the Sea.” The Rutgers administration intervened, demanding the sukkah's removal and sending police and a bulldozer to demolish it, prompting outrage from the community over the administration's actions against their religious observance.

On the morning of October 23rd, the NJ Anti-Zionist Minyan, a primarily Rutgers-based community organization of Anti-Zionist Jews, built a sukkah on College Avenue to honor our religious obligations during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. We held a banner reading “Jews Against Genocide. Free Palestine from the River to the Sea” facing the Rutgers Hillel building — a Zionist organization which Rutgers normalizes and empowers to effectively control Jewish life on campus.

Immediately after construction began, an administrator arrived to demand we take the sukkah down. Within minutes, six police officers arrived. Within an hour of us first erecting the structure, the Rutgers administration sent a Caterpillar bulldozer, ostensibly to demolish it.

We responded with outrage at the sick irony of our administration sending an actual bulldozer to destroy our sukkah. In reaction to our response, facilities removed the CAT and instead destroyed our sukkah by hand, throwing its dismantled parts into the back of a truck, to be brought to police headquarters along with our Palestinian flag.

"BREAKING NEWS: A walkout and march is currently being staged in the park blocks. The demonstration is in protest of PSU's relationship with Boeing and is in solidarity with Palestine.

Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran

Drop Site News"Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us."In mainstream Western media, the coverage of Israel’s year of scorched-earth destruction often touches on the victims and events happening in Gaza in the passive voice. Death and destruction befall Palestinians the way a city suffers from a hurricane or an earthquake—though in those cases, the media has little difficulty identifying the natural disaster…Read more8 days ago · 478 likes · 29 comments · Younis Tirawi and Sami Vanderlip

"We Are in an Escalatory Cycle": Trita Parsi on Latest Israeli Attack on Iran, Risk of Wider War

UAE

Electronic spy chips inside Emirati aid that arrived in Lebanon

The UAE has been accused of sending aid to Lebanon that is laced with spyware. Each blanket contains a chip.
Displaced people who received the aid reported having found chips inside blankets and towels, which they suspect were planted there with the purpose of collecting data on them. The allegations are expected to be subjected to an investigation.

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