UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated that Israel has no legal authority to bar humanitarian workers from Gaza — because the occupation itself is illegal under the ICJ’s 2024 ruling, and with it the authority Israel claims to expel the 37 aid organizations now facing a March 1 ban.
USAID staff filed an internal cable in early 2024 describing northern Gaza as an ‘apocalyptic wasteland’ with bones in the streets and catastrophic food shortages — then US Ambassador Jack Lew and his deputy blocked the cable’s circulation inside government, claiming it lacked balance.
Protests erupted in Utrecht, Netherlands after reports emerged of racist police violence targeting two Muslim women. The incident has drawn attention to a broader pattern of Islamophobia and racial profiling affecting Muslim communities across Europe — including discriminatory treatment of hijab-wearing women in schools and public life.
The CPJ’s 2025 annual census ranks Israel as the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists, with 29 Palestinian journalists behind bars — most in administrative detention without charge — while at least 265 Palestinian journalists have been killed and international press access remains banned.
A Florida House subcommittee voted 14-3 to advance HB 1471, which gives the state the power to designate organizations as domestic terrorists, cut off their funding, and expel students who support them. The bill was filed one month after Gov. DeSantis asked lawmakers to codify his executive order targeting CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The UN reports that more than 37,000 Palestinians were displaced in the West Bank in 2025 — a record — driven by Israeli military operations, 1,800+ settler attacks, and demolitions. The pace has continued into 2026 as Israel advances plans to register occupied land.
Eighty-six people were arrested outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs for protesting the detention of Palestine Action hunger striker Umer Khalid — who was refusing water and had ‘days left to live’ — under a terrorist designation a British court would rule unlawful three weeks later.

Rasmussen Published a Poll Designed to Make Muslims Look Threatening. It’s Not the First Time This Playbook Has Been Used.
Rasmussen Reports released a three-question survey that United Voices says was designed not to measure public opinion but to generate anti-Muslim talking points — using selectively framed questions to produce predetermined conclusions. The same strategy was used in 2015 when a debunked poll was cited to justify a Muslim travel ban. This time, a man was arrested for attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall the same week.