Rep. Rashida Tlaib Calls on Antony Blinken to Resign
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On September 24, ProPublica revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly ignored two different reports from within the Biden administration concluding that Israel was deliberately blocking aid into Gaza. Only days after receiving…
Most Immigrant Deaths in ICE Detention Could Have Been Prevented
Immigration detainees leave the cafeteria under the watch of guards. Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On June 15, Jhon Javier Benavides-Quintana, an Ecuadoran immigrant, died of undetermined causes in the Otero County Processing Center, a detention center in New Mexico. He…
UN Officials Describe “Absolutely Catastrophic” Conditions in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians from Rafah arrive in Khan Yunis after Israel’s evacuation order.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Humanitarian officials are warning of increasingly dire conditions in Rafah as the Israeli army orders tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate the city in advance…
Aid Groups Warn of “Bloodbath” After Israeli Forces Seize Rafah Crossing
People inspect destroyed houses following Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Israeli forces announced on Tuesday that they had seized control of the Rafah border crossing, a vital passageway for transporting aid into Gaza,…
How Famine and Starvation Can Affect Generations to Come
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top US humanitarian official publicly acknowledged this week for the first time. After six months of Israeli war and blockades, an estimated 2.2 million people are facing…
Arab and Muslim American Leaders in Michigan Just Canceled a Meeting With the Biden Campaign
A protester waving a Palestinian Flag stands atop a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. during Detroit demonstration in support of a ceasefire in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Matthew Hatcher/AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A group of Muslim and Arab-American voters…