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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not take kindly to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) speech on the Senate floor last week where he called for Israel to hold elections once the current assault on Gaza winds down. “What he said is totally inappropriate. It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there,” the Israeli prime minister said in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union that aired Sunday. “That’s for the Israeli people to decide. I think it’s…

When I first moved to England for university, I took a course on the European Union. I remember my professor’s opening gambit was telling us that if we wanted to know how different countries felt about each other, we had to watch Eurovision. So like any good student, I sat down for my first Eurovision song contest in May 2016. Just a month before the UK voted to leave the EU, I watched as Joe and Jake placed a humiliating 24th out of 26 entries. Safe to say, I learned my lesson that evening.After that, Eurovision became a…

Jonathan Glazer, the director of Auschwitz-set film The Zone of Interest, won applause at the Academy Awards for an acceptance speech in which he lamented the war in Gaza. 'We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,' he said Jonathan Glazer, the director…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not abide President Joe Biden‘s “red line” warning not to invade Rafah in Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge from the ongoing assault. “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again,” Netanyahu said Sunday, according to Politico. Biden and his administration have urged Israel not to invade or launch a major offensive on Rafah…

Google has fired a Cloud engineer who interrupted Barak Regev, the managing director of its business in Israel, during a speech at an Israeli tech event in New York, according to CNBC. "I'm a Google software engineer and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!" the engineer was seen and heard shouting in a video captured by freelance journalist Caroline Haskins that went viral online. While being dragged away by security — and amidst jeers from the audience — he continued talking and referenced…

Israeli venture capital fund OurCrowd said on Tuesday its new artificial intelligence (AI) fund was collaborating with Nvidia to fast track some of its AI startups into the Nvidia Inception programme.Inception helps startups evolve faster through cutting-edge technology, connecting with venture capitalists, and having access to the latest technical resources and tools from Nvidia.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIM…

President Joe Biden is on track to be the Democratic nominee in November — but the results in Tuesday’s primaries indicate he has a growing political problem on his left. The protest movement that started in Michigan, to oppose Biden’s support for Israel’s brutal war in Gaza, is spreading.  Following Michigan’s lead last week, activists quickly organized in the 15 states holding primaries on Super Tuesday, based on those states’ ballot language. As of 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night, CNN election data showed more than 19…

Donald Trump is hoping to win big on Super Tuesday, and kicked off the primary’s most vote-rich day with one of his favorite traditions from his time as president: calling into Fox News to deliver an unhinged rant.  The former president called into Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, where he celebrated Monday’s Supreme Court decision barring states from removing him from the ballot, doubled down on his claims that migrants are “poisoning our country,” and declared that Israel has to “finish the problem” in Gaza.…

More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED.The two-day event began on Monday with a…

ORLANDO, Fla. — Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost’s (D-Fla.) MadSoul music festival was supposed to be a party for activists — a celebration of Central Florida’s progressive and queer community, in a hostile state. Frost wanted to show how far the community has come and its defiant rejection of Florida’s increasingly right-wing tilt, with a mix of music and community building featuring appearances from indie artists and progressive politicos, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But the festival would take an unexpected…