From the Intercept 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Cornell to pro-Palestine students targeted by ICE: come back to the U.S. or lose funding

Momodou Taal and Amandla Thomas-Johnson were finishing their graduate degrees abroad because of targeting by the Trump administration. Cornell is ordering them back to campus.

Via Yahoo News 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the artificial intelligence race with China, warning they will be excluded from a U.S.-led AI coalition if they also sign up for Beijing's competing framework, ‌according to a U.S. official and an internal draft reviewed by Reuters.

Washington last year launched the Pax Silica initiative aimed at securing supply chains ‌for AI models, semiconductors and critical minerals, amid a fierce technology rivalry with Beijing.

About two dozen countries have joined, including Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, a key potential source of critical minerals that has also joined China's ​coalition, as well as close U.S. allies such as Japan 🇯🇵, Australia 🇦🇺 and South Korea 🇰🇷.

From Politico 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Israel has launched a new effort to sway public opinion in the US by influencing how LLMs paint it in response to chatbot queries. The foreign influence campaign includes a fake think tank set up to feed content to tools like ChatGPT

From the NYTimes 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 After boycotting American products and shunning vacations south of the border, Canadians in the thousands are pouring their incandescent anger at the United States into a new cause: ousting the American ambassador.

🇺🇸 Trump signals an illegal third term run with an AI-generated image of himself in a Trump 2028 hat on his Truth Social

Via Yahoo News 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources across the occupied territory.

The spring served as a lifeline for the nearby village of Fasayil in the fertile Jordan Valley, where Palestinians have relied on ‌it for generations for food, employment and to supplement irregular Israeli supplies to their domestic taps.

"Our water supply remains cut off to this day, depriving us of the water we depend on for our ‌homes, our livelihoods, and our agricultural land," said Saad Nemer, who farms the land.

Israeli settlers seized his irrigation pipeline in June, channeling the water to an ancient pool in an archaeological site. Soon after, settlers advertised it as an Israeli tourist attraction and Israel's far-right finance minister ​pledged financial support.

Cranbourne Star News 🇦🇺 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 A ‘Free Palestine’ party intended to funnel votes to conservative parties like One Nation in a self-confessed bid to mislead voters has been approved by the Victorian Electorate Commission (VEC) and will be added to the November ballot.

Back in June, the party registered from a Berwick address, with right-wing leader and online political commentator, Avraham (Avi) Yemini asking his one million YouTube subscribers to register interest in the party to gain approval from the VEC.

The scheme, Yemini said, would work to capitalise on voters from the left and those from migrant backgrounds.

“What is the one issue that unites useful idiots from the far left to the fringe right, to certain immigrant cultures that have imported their hate… Free Palestine,” he said in a YouTube video.
The goal for the proposed party would be to “redistribute leftist votes back to conservative parties”.

Meanwhile, another group, led by Palestinian activists, wanting to register as a ‘Free Palestine Party’ was denied by the VEC because its name resembled Yemini’s political party.

From Searchlight Magazine 🇭🇺 Hungary’s national police chief has been warned that officers must not assist or stand by while a far-right vigilante group carries out raids and attacks targeting Roma people.

The warning follows an official investigation by Hungary’s Ombudsman into alleged police negligence surrounding the activities of Bűnvadászok, or “Crime Hunters”, a vigilante organisation linked to the far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) party.

The Ombudsman specifically highlighted allegations involving trespass, intimidation, violence and disorderly conduct.

From the Byline Times 🇬🇧 Reform UK paid £440,000 to firms linked to party insiders.

Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman.

From the Guardian 🇦🇺 One Nation senator Tyron Whitten has claimed parents supporting their children who identify as transgender are engaging in “child abuse”, telling a fringe YouTube show: “there’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness”.

Guardian Australia has unearthed several incendiary comments from Whitten and fellow One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and her longtime lieutenant Malcolm Roberts, about transgender Australians.

“They’re saying you can cut your dick off and become a woman … That’s a complete distortion of science,” Roberts told a podcast in June.

From Al-Jazeera 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sits on Israel’s security cabinet, which helps shape war and policy

Via Yahoo News 🇬🇧 A devastating heat wave this summer likely contributed to the deaths of 16,000 people across Europe, but that's of no concern to Richard Tice, the deputy leader of the UK's far-right Reform party, who thinks people should "enjoy" climate change instead of taking measures to stop it.

From the New Arab 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 British anti-Islam agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has weighed in on Israel's election campaign, endorsing far-right Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli ahead of the Likud primary.

Yaxley-Lennon appeared in a video shared by Chikli on Saturday, urging Likud members to support his "dear friend" in Monday's ballot.

"I want to wish every success to my dear friend Minister Amichai Chikli," Yaxley-Lennon said.

From El Pais 🇩🇪 Germany divided over proposals to outlaw the far right

Regional election campaigns have revived efforts to seek a declaration that AfD is unconstitutional

From The Buenos Aires Times 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 Milei signs up Argentina to Trump’s anti-abortion international alliance

Argentina’s decision to join Trump-led Geneva Consensus brings position on abortion and reproductive rights back into focus; Secrecy surrounding the move raises questions about government’s strategy over politically sensitive issue.

From Le Monde 🇮🇹 Italy's far right pushed to extremes by the radical politics of former general Roberto Vannacci

The rise in the polls of the leader of National Future, a party with an identitarian and masculinist vision founded by this former member of the League, has prompted the parties in Giorgia Meloni's coalition to take a tougher stance.

From Illiberalism.org 🇫🇷 Pierre-Édouard Stérin’s cultural battle: how a French tycoon invests culture and education to change politics

From the Guardian 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Netanyahu party campaign billboard likens Mamdani to leaders of Iran and Hezbollah

From the NYTimes 🇺🇸 Islamophobia's rise in Texas: 'I won't rest until every Muslim is gone'

Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat.

From the Buenos Aires Herald 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 Fernando Cerimedo, a former advisor to Argentine President Javier Milei, was arrested Tuesday morning at Viru Viru Airport in Bolivia as part of an investigation into the armed attack on his former partner, activist Nadia Beller, who remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Cerimedo, who, according to local outlets, was in Bolivia working as an advisor to center-right President Rodrigo Paz, was detained as he was about to board a flight to Buenos Aires.