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Israel's Channel 12 News exposes that IDF soldiers were given polygraph tests about their rape of a Palestinian detainee. The soldiers were found to be lying & tried to cover it up. A lawyer for one soldier tries justifying the crime as a 'security measure' because the detainee was 'resisting'. NSFW
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Israeli conscientious objector Yuval Moav explains why he refuses to enlist in the IDF. Yuval was sentenced today to 30 days in military prison. Meanwhile, the ultra-Orthodox community is also protesting the issuing of conscription orders after the Israeli Supreme Court's ruling on the matter.
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Mehdi Hasan explains that the American Establishment lost their minds over the anti-genocide student protest movement, deploying enormous State violence & media manufacturing consent, because they've realized they've lost the younger generation. All they can do now is repression & censorship.
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Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) & allies protested at the headquarters of Atlas Air Worldwide - an independent contractor that regularly flies in weapons & munitions from the US to Israel. Activists were greeted by Atlas employees with vulgarities & intimidation.
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In Bangladesh, pro-government provocateur threateningly aims a gun at the student protesters. Undeterred, the student protesters all charge towards the pro-government faction.
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Journalist Said Arikat questions White House spokesperson Vedant Patel as to whether rape constitutes a war crime. Patel dodges the question. In America, the Leahy Act prohibits the State Dept. & DoD from providing military aid to foreign security forces credibly suspected of committing war crimes.
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[NSFW] A Palestinian civilian details how he and other Palestinian detainees were tortured by Israeli soldiers. This includes using dogs & electric rods to commit rape of detainees. A new report by the United Nations also details these abuses. NSFW
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Fox News host Jesse Watters, who admitted to an affair with a producer on his show & subsequently divorced his wife, goes on a rant proclaiming the Democratic party to be 'anti-family' & 'not a party of virtue'.
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In January, The Wall Street Journal claimed 12 UNRWA members took part in the Oct. 7 attack & 10% of the agency’s 12,000 workers in Gaza had militant ties. But months later, the paper’s editor admits they didn’t know — & still don't know — whether the allegation, based on Israeli intel, was true.
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