Students at Northwestern University face criminal charges for publishing a parody of the school’s student newspaper. It criticized the school’s support for Israel and its atrocities in Gaza. They wrapped their parody around some of the copies of the newspaper they were parodying. They are being prosecuted under an obscure law against “theft of advertising […]
*Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation.* So far, what Israel has done to Palestinian civilians in Gaza is violent killing of many civilians, and imposing great privation. To call it “genocide” is an exaggeration. But if Israel continues adding to this crime, including by knowingly causing famine in Gaza, […]