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AJ+ is a unique digital news and storytelling project promoting human rights and equality, holding power to account, and amplifying the voices of the powerless.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2010
Israel has killed the director of one of the Gaza’s last remaining hospitals. Dr. Marwan al-Sultan was head of the Indonesian Hospital and also one of only two remaining cardiologists heart surgeons in northern Gaza. Israeli forces have now killed at least 70 Palestinian health
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War is a business. And business is booming. Investigative journalist @AbbyMartin helps break down how U.S. defense contractors got so powerful – and how their influence keeps the bombs dropping.
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“Did you know that Gaza smells like jasmine?” . Palestinian photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab spoke to AJ+ in June about his work documenting life in Gaza. He was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike on a beachfront cafe popular with journalists.
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Activists in the Netherlands lined up thousands of shoes to memorialize over 18,000 Palestinian children Israel has killed in Gaza.
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Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor — and he’s making history in the process. Here’s why:
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Palestinian writer @MosabAbuToha spoke to AJ+ about the struggles of witnessing his family endure Israel’s starvation and genocide. His essays for The New Yorker have won a Pulitzer and James Beard Award.
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A correspondent with Israel’s Channel 14 shared a text conversation he had with an Israeli soldier in Gaza, in which the soldier complains about new orders against shooting Palestinians at “aid” sites. The exchange came after anonymous soldiers told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
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Why are natural Black hairstyles like braids and afros still seen as unacceptable – even in countries where Black people are the majority?
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Australia’s first formal Aboriginal-led truth-telling inquiry has found that British colonizers committed genocide in Australia. Over just a 17-year period from 1834-51, the Indigenous population in the Australian state of Victoria dropped by 75%. Now, the inquiry is calling for
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A British Palestinian nurse was threatened at work for using a watermelon Zoom background. Ahmad Baker is now suing the NHS for discrimination – and says pro-Israel lobby groups are behind it. “They can’t silence all of us.”
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In the past 5 months, Israel has forcibly evicted at least 42,000 Palestinians and turned cities to rubble. They have limited access to food, water and health care according to a new report by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF).
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The Dominican Republic is deporting some 10,000 people to Haiti every week. @AJFaultLines met some of them. Here are their stories. You can watch the full Fault Lines documentary here:
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Israel developed its own nuclear weapons in secret, and then helped apartheid South Africa do the same.
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Maersk, the second-largest shipping company in the world, says it will stop working with companies in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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