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SvennoJ 2 days ago
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Main events on March 6th

  • Support for Israel among Americans is at its lowest since the polling company Gallup started surveying them on this question.
  • The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who are perceived as supporters of Hamas, Axios reported, citing senior State Department officials.
  • The US president confirmed that a senior US official held direct talks with Hamas recently about Israeli captives held in Gaza.
  • Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said US discussions with Hamas were recent and the message to the Palestinian group was that the US wants to get captives home.
  • Any Israeli military escalation against Palestinians would most likely lead to the killing of some captives, a spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has said.

Largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967: UNRWA chief

The head of UNRWA has condemned Israel’s large-scale demolition of homes in the occupied West Bank and warned that they are having a devastating impact on the lives of thousands of Palestinians.

“The refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams have been nearly emptied of their residents, with widespread destruction to civilian infrastructure including homes,” the agency’s commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini, wrote in a post on X. “People now face the prospect of having nowhere to return to.”

Lazzarini noted that the ongoing Israeli military escalation in the West Bank, which has already displaced some 40,000 people, is “the single-longest and most destructive since the second Intifada, resulting in the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since the 1967 war”.

He added that recent Israeli legislation targeting UNRWA has “created a vacuum of international presence when it is most needed”.

West Bank mayor arrested over ‘incitement’: Report

The mayor of a Palestinian town has been arrested by Israeli forces and charged with “incitement” over posts he made on social media, Israeli media reports.

The mayor of Bidya, near Nablus, was arrested in February, “following extensive monitoring of the mayor’s social media posts”, The Jerusalem Post reported, but charges against him were only filed on Wednesday. Israeli police claimed that the mayor’s online activities “could harm public order and safety, expressing praise, sympathy, or support for a hostile organisation, its actions, and its objectives”.

Among other posts, the mayor had shared a photo of Hamas founder Ahmad Yasin alongside one of Yasser Arafat, with the words: “May God bless them both and all the martyrs.”


And now Trump wants to use AI to do deport people from the USA:
"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching “Catch and Revoke”, AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, the outlet reported."

I guess I'm never getting into the US again... (Not that I want to, nothing else left there than bad vibes)