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2 months ago | 
thenation.com | Sarah Leah Whitson
Politics / March 5, 2025 Why We Asked the ICC to Investigate Biden for Aiding and Abetting GenocideThe evidence that Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin helped Israel commit war crimes is overwhelming.
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2 months ago | 
miaminewtimes.com | Sarah Leah Whitson
Last week, business luminaries from around the United States arrived in Miami for the Saudi Arabian government's Future Investment Initiative (FII) Summit, hoping to secure a slice of its trillion-dollar Public Investment Fund (PIF) for their own companies. While businesses had shunned Saudi Arabia following the shocking 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi government has succeeded in rehabilitating its image, its path smoothed by the PIF's free-wheeling investments and deals.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Sarah Leah Whitson
Actors and TV personalities are among those signing a petition calling for the BBC to restore a documentary on Gaza that has been pulled after complaints from pro-Israel activists. BBC presenter Gary Lineker, as well as actors Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes, were among those demanding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone be returned to BBC iPlayer.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Mera Aladam |Sarah Leah Whitson
Israeli police briefly detained and questioned Palestinian artist and comedian Nidal Badarneh on Monday over his stand-up shows, according to his family. His home in Haifa was raided, and the Palestinian citizens of Israel was taken in for investigation under the pretext of "posing a danger to the public," the family told Arab48 news outlet. The arrest followed calls from far-right Israeli groups to cancel his shows, including one in Nazareth last Friday.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
justsecurity.org | Sarah Leah Whitson
For nearly 30 years, a U.S. law, affectionately named the Leahy Law after its author, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, has the State Department to block U.S. assistance to foreign security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
businessinsider.com | Tom Porter |Sarah Leah Whitson
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a series of devastating attacks on Hezbollah. He has rejected or ignored a series of attempts by the US to head off a wider conflict. Biden has been criticized for trying to stop a wider war while still sending arms to Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly escalating Israel's campaign against its regional foes, and trampling on US diplomatic efforts in the process.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Sarah Leah Whitson
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
dawnmena.org | Sarah Leah Whitson
Published in Foreign Policy, September 19, 2024The United States tends to hail the ICC when it prosecutes American enemies but assails the court when it goes after U.S. allies. The United States' U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield struck an aggressive blow against the rules-based international order at a Council on Foreign Relations talk last week.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Sarah Leah Whitson
Human Rights United States The United States’ U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield struck an aggressive blow against the rules-based international order at a Council on Foreign Relations talk last week.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
worldpoliticsreview.com | Sarah Leah Whitson
On July 31, with little fanfare or attention, France formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, abandoning its decades-long support for the United Nations-mandated referendum process to determine the territory’s final governance status. Long seen as the West’s diplomatic leader on the Western Sahara conflict, France is the most important country to fully throw its weight behind Morocco’s unlawful, unilateral annexation of the territory. But it is hardly the first to do so.
