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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Israel’s bombing of the tent camp in Rafah that killed over 45 people on Sunday, housing displaced Palestinians in a so-called safe zone, came just two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to immediately stop its assault on Rafah. This […]

Netanyahu’s war cabinet gives in to pressure from families of female soldiers captured by Hamas, decides to resume truce talks with militant group Following the release of a video featuring female soldiers being held hostage by Hamas, the Israel war cabinet has decided to resume truce talks with the militant group. The video that went viral on social media was released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. This is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Month, the month of May. We spend the rest of the hour with the author of a new book that profiles the renowned photographer Corky Lee, who documented the lives and […]

Israel is reportedly censoring and killing journalists exposing its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to an op-ed. U.K.-based writer Frank Wright expounded on this in a May 23 op-ed for LifeSiteNews. He cited the ban on Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera and the confiscation of equipment owned by the Associated Press (AP) as examples of Tel Aviv's suppression. According to Wright, the Doha-funded Al Jazeera was officially banned from […]

ICC issues statement outlining arrest warrants for Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC issued a statement this week about the arrest warrants he has filed for against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Zionist war cabinet. Khan filed applications for the warrants before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the ICC regarding the situation in what he called […]

The Biden campaign reportedly met with supporters of Nikki Haley following her endorsement of former President Donald Trump. The Daily Beast initially broke the news of the said meeting, which happened virtually on the evening of May 22. Haley supporters from Vermont to Arizona reportedly joined the incumbent Democratic president's campaign as part of the latter's ongoing outreach to win over her voters. "The fact they actually sent someone … to speak to […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: In this special broadcast, we spend the hour with the Jerusalem-based journalist and writer Nathan Thrall. He just won the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, which tells the story of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank through one family’s tragedy. The […]

Gov. Abbott just turned every Texas college, university into a thought police enforcement zone Texas Gov. and proud Zionist Greg Abbott is destroying the First Amendment in the Lone Star State, one edict about "antisemitism" at a time. From now on, anyone who is caught saying the "wrong" things on a Texas college or university campus can be reported to law enforcement for "antisemitic" speech, specifically if they utter […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. In this holiday special, we spend the rest of the hour speaking with Nathan Thrall and Abed Salama. Democracy Now!'s Juan González and I spoke to them in early October, just after the publication of Nathan's remarkable book, A Day in the Life […]