In his first week as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani revoked executive orders barring city agencies from supporting boycotts of Israel and rescinded the city’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism — prompting accusations of antisemitism from the Israeli government.
A year of investigations by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call reveals that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have deeply integrated their cloud, AI, and surveillance infrastructure with the Israeli military — systems that have directly enabled operations in Gaza.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is advancing a bill that would require government permits for mosques to use loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer — framing a thousand-year-old religious practice as a noise violation requiring police enforcement.
Palestinian pediatrician and hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been held by Israel for one year without charge, under a law allowing indefinite detention. He was arrested during an Israeli raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he had stayed to treat children under siege.
Gaza’s Health Ministry held a graduation ceremony for 168 new doctors in the ruins of Al-Shifa Medical Complex — destroyed by Israeli military operations — where graduates took their professional oath under the slogan ‘The Regiment of Humanity.’
Greta Thunberg was arrested in London under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign reading ‘I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide’ — part of a wave of 2,700+ arrests under a designation that a High Court would later rule unlawful.
Eight days after Gov. DeSantis branded CAIR a “foreign terrorist organization” by executive order, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit challenging the designation as unconstitutional. DeSantis welcomed the suit, saying he looked forward to “discovery — especially the CAIR finances.”

AIPAC Spent $100 Million to Punish Gaza Critics in Congress. Now It’s Running Scared of Its Own Brand.
AIPAC, which spent $100 million to remove Gaza critics from Congress in 2024, is pulling back its electoral strategy ahead of the 2026 midterms — acknowledging that its brand has become toxic as public disgust over Gaza continues to grow.