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lon Musk received a hero’s welcome from Israel’s leaders on Monday. The same Elon Musk who recently told a far-right user on his X social media platform that he spoke “the actual truth” when the poster explained why he was “deeply disinterested” in Jewish concerns over spiking antisemitism. Both Musk’s visit and the proverbial red carpet being laid out for the man who has overseen the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation regarding the October 7 attack – and actually at the site of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust – come at a time where many are finding it hard to check their cynicism. The Israel visit comes just weeks after Musk, adopting rhetoric used by the far right’s most prominent figureheads, directly engaged and platformed the antisemitic conspiracy theory cited by Robert Bowers, the assailant behind the deadliest massacre of American Jews in U.S. history. This is not the first time Benjamin Netanyahu has, for the sake of political expediency, plummeted to the depths of sycophancy regarding Musk. Visiting the United States in mid-September, at the height of the controversy surrounding his government’s plans to gut Israel’s judiciary, the prime minister visited Tesla HQ after failing to score a White House invitation. At the time, he defended Musk against allegations of antisemitism while implying that the entrepreneur was more powerful than the U.S. president. Those comments came during Musk’s then-nadir on trafficking in antisemitic tropes, after he participated in and amplified an antisemitic social media campaign targeting the Anti-Defamation League. Hamas infiltrated Israel’s borders under Netanyahu’s watch some three weeks after that fawning performance, massacring 1,200 men, women and children. Musk’s public rhetoric around the attack has hopscotched from urging Israel to commit performative kindness to granting Hamas a moral victory after saying he would install Starlink satellites in Gaza, leading the charge on some of the most bilious conspiracy theories – all while profiting from his failure to combat wildly false accounts of the Israel-Hamas war. He has also attempted to beat back criticism of antisemitism by vowing to combat pro-Palestinian advocacy on his platform, threatening to suspend users posting phrases like “From the river to the sea…” and “decolonization” – as if banning certain expressions and combating only one side of the free speech debate nullifies his own culpability in antisemitism’s proliferation. This backdrop makes his visit to October 7 massacre sites all the more repulsive. Israel’s leaders, yet again, have fashioned themselves as judge and jury on global antisemitism, at a time when Jews worldwide are being targeted at previously unimaginable rates. Welcoming such a toxic mogul with open arms and taking him around sites of a massacre that has been belittled, demeaned and denied on his watch should be a stain on Netanyahu’s legacy – alongside the growing list of failures associated with the tragedies of the past eight weeks.

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On that May afternoon, police raided Williams’ home and arrested Arnold and Williams. Alongside 26 others, they were indicted by Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, who alleged that YSL — a rap group and record label created by Williams — was in fact a criminal organization. The indictment stated that Arnold’s participation in YSL amounted to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. The penalty for violating RICO in Georgia is a prison sentence between 5 and 20 years. Willis has become a nationally recognized name thanks both to the YSL case and a concurrent RICO case: the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on election subversion charges. The Washington Post proclaimed Willis’ actions in the latter case could “save democracy.” But defense attorneys working the YSL case say that as Willis is embraced by the national media for her pursuit of Trump, the local people caught in her legal system — people like Arnold — are left harmed.

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Incident at North Prospect Street in Burlington: The two men are in surgery still. They’re undergraduate students at Brown university and Haverford On North Prospect Street in Burlington, where three people were shot on Saturday night, police lights flicker. According to police, about 6:30 p.m., they received calls reporting gunfire. Two individuals were discovered hurt at the spot, while a third man was discovered hurt not far away. According to Channel Three, the three victims are Palestinians.

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In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war. While wartime death tolls will never be exact, experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza shows that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century. People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups. Precise comparisons of war dead are impossible, but conflict-casualty experts have been taken aback at just how many people have been reported killed in Gaza — most of them women and children — and how rapidly. It is not just the scale of the strikes — Israel said it had engaged more than 15,000 targets before reaching a brief cease-fire in recent days. It is also the nature of the weaponry itself. Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say. “It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,” said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may “have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.”

Bethlehem—When the weather permits, Azhar Abu Srour visits the grave of her son Abed. The family’s cemetery is across the street from Al-Ayda refugee camp in Bethlehem, where she lived for many years. She washes the stone of her 19-year-old son, as is the custom in Palestine, especially during Eid and Ramadan. But Abed’s grave is different from those beside it. It’s empty. “It’s an open grave,” Azhar explains, performing the duties of any grieving mother. “I treat it like he’s inside.” Abed’s body is actually buried in a plot on an Israeli military site. Somewhere beyond the occupation’s walls, checkpoints, and sniper towers, his remains lie disregarded and unnamed, marked only by the number “141.” Since 2016, Israeli authorities have held Abed’s corpse in postmortem detention after Abed orchestrated a bus bombing in Jerusalem. He is one of at least 370 dead Palestinians whose bodies Israel’s military are keeping frozen in morgues or buried at undisclosed locations. The detention of Palestinians after their deaths is a decades-old practice. The contours of the law that defines postmortem detention have changed dramatically since 1964, when the first Palestinian was buried in an unnamed grave in Israel’s infamous “Cemetery of Numbers.” While Israeli courts have enshrined this practice in the language of maintaining security, bereaved families feel that they are being collectively punished. Human rights organizations cite postmortem detention as just one of many ways that Israel’s military apparatus extends its complete control over Palestinians, from the time they’re born to beyond their deaths.

On Wednesday at 5:30 a.m., Sharmeen Khan woke up to a police officer in her bedroom shining a flashlight in her face. Soon, there were several officers in her hallway. Ordered to get up, police watched her and her partner get dressed, before she was handcuffed. The apartment of the Toronto bookkeeper and educator was then searched and ransacked: drawers emptied, laundry dumped on her bed, dozens of posters removed from poster tubes and scattered around the apartment. Across the city, a half dozen other people were also having their homes raided. Front doors were broken, computers and cell phones were confiscated, and anyone present was placed in handcuffs, including the elderly, leaving disturbed and distressed families in their wake. It’s a style of operation that one policing expert said likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, and is usually reserved for “gun or drug” busts. But the alleged crime in this case is very different: plastering posters and splashing washable red paint onto the windows of a Toronto Indigo bookstore. The protest against Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, who runs a foundation that supports foreigners to join Israel’s military, is being “treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence,” according to a police press release. But lawyers and progressive Jewish organizations are decrying the arrests and charges for trying to “silence” activism in solidarity with Palestinians, who have endured Israeli bombardment in Gaza the past six weeks.

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