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The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial

A campaign of ethnic cleansing and ‘tectonic’ new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip serviceProtecting archaeological sites. Preventing water theft. The streamlining of land purchases. If anyone doubted the real purpose of the motley collection of , Israel’s defence minister spelt it out: “We will continue to kill the idea of a Palestinian state,” Israel Katz said in a joint statement with the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.While the world’s attention was fixed upon the annihilation in Gaza, settlers in the West Bank intensified their campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 1,000 Palestinians since October 2023; a fifth of them were children. Many more have been driven from their homes by relentless harassment and the destruction of infrastructure, with across vast swathes of land.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetySouth America

Chile impunity fears as riot officer who blinded protester walks free

Gustavo Gatica lost his sight in 2019’s nationwide unrest but, with a far-right president about to be sworn in, the man who shot the rubber bullets has gloated over his acquittalOn the evening of 8 November 2019, Chile’s capital was gripped by protests amid a wave of nationwide unrest. While thousands demonstrated peacefully in Santiago’s Plaza Italia, violence broke out down a side street on the fringes of the square, where riot police with rifles battled protesters.Among them was Gustavo Gatica, a 21-year-old psychology student at the University of Chile, who threw a stone towards the police and stooped to pick up another. .

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The scandals clouding ‘sinister’ French ice dancers who beat Chock and Bates for gold

Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron’s Olympic competition is set against backdrop of assault and abuse allegations involving their former partnersThe American duo of Madison Chock and Evan Bates, the reigning three-time world champions on Olympic ice dance gold on Wednesday despite a flawless skate. But the controversy surrounding the event is not merely a debate over artistic and technical merits.Gold went by to the French duo of Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron. It was a stunning achievement for a partnership that is less than a year old. But the union was forged after the fallout from sexual assault allegations levelled at Fournier Beaudry’s boyfriend and former ice dance partner, while Cizeron is the subject of allegations of abusive conduct from his erstwhile skating partner.

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Trump’s pick for top diplomatic role faces scrutiny over ‘white supremacist’ views

Jeremy Carl, assistant secretary of state nominee, has espoused ‘racist, antisemitic’ views, says non-profit leader’s pick for a top diplomatic post has championed “white supremacist, racist, antisemitic and homophobic views”, a former US state department official has warned. is set to go before the Senate foreign relations committee on Thursday as the president’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organisations, a role that involves managing relationships with and policies toward the United Nations and its agencies.

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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say expertsElon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material.“Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk said on 22 January, a short time before taking the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, while reposting an Irish anti-immigrant influencer’s video about demographic change.

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Trump nominates hospitality executive to lead National Park Service

Scott Socha, whose company sued to claim trademark rights to Yosemite name, criticized by conservation groupsDonald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha – whose company once sued to to the name “Yosemite National Park” – to lead the National Park Service.The nomination of an outsider with business ties to the agency he’d oversee comes at a pivotal moment for the service, of its staff under Doge’s civil sector purge and which has been the subject of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to from NPS sites that portray Americans in an unfavorable light, such as slavery.

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‘Deeply illogical’: this man’s life work could end homelessness – and Trump is doing all he can to stop it

After four decades of research and over a decade of federal support, Housing First’s Sam Tsemberis is ‘back to being an outlaw’ in the USNow in his fourth decade of spreading the word across most of the world’s continents about “”, an approach to helping homeless people that has convinced governments and non-profits alike to see housing as a human right, Sam Tsemberis experienced a first.He was censored by the US government.

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The GuardianCrime & SafetyUSA

Mahmoud Khalil is still fighting for others as he fights his own deportation: ‘It’s about raising the alarm’

The case of the Palestinian activist, the face of 2024’s US campus protests, could have repercussions for thousandsDespite his grim circumstances, can’t help but laugh.Walking through Congress’s hallowed halls, the Palestinian student activist who may be inching toward deportation is not yet ready to waver. He admits he’s in “the scary part” of his ordeal, but he has a new reason to like his odds.

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