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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

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Making Sense of a U.S.-Saudi Security Pact

November 8, 2024

A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

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Who's Afraid of Political Cartoons?

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Pro-Palestine demonstrators gather at Freedom Plaza for a rally on January 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Officials are predicting at least 10,000 people will attend to protest the retaliatory actions taken by the Israeli government following the October 7th terrorist attacks by Hamas. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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On Yahia Lababidi's 'Palestine Wail' and the Poetry of Free Expression

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A billboard bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and a national flag are torn by anti-government fighters in the northern city of Aleppo on November 30, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies breached Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

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Syrians Still Want to Be Rid of Assad and His Foreign Backers

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TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the area of Tayouneh in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 25, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel conducted strikes against Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold on November 25 and battles raged in Lebanon's south after the Iran-backed militant group claimed 50 attacks on Israeli targets the day before. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.: Following Lebanon ceasefire, investigate Israeli use of U.S. weapons to commit war crimes in Lebanon

November 27, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - JUNE 08: Demonstrators, wearing red clothes, hold banners and chant slogans in front of the White House as some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, gathered in front of the White House and called on the Joe Biden administration to 'red line', set up many tents in the area between the White House and the Washington Monument in the evening in Washington D.C, United States on June 08, 2024. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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November 26, 2024

Tag: Gaza

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 31: (L-R) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testify during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill October 31, 2023 in Washington, DC. Blinken and Austin both testified at the hearing on budget requests, which includes aid money for Israel and Ukraine. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Letter from U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State to Israel

October 15, 2024

Chinese policemen guard at streets on July 7, 2009 in the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China.

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Gaza's Reality Has Been Hidden From the Israeli Public

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A general view shows destroyed building and the rubble of the al-Faruq mosque on February 22, 2024, following an overnight Israeli air strike in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

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'Azrael Confesses,' a New Poem From Gaza

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People check the rubble of buildings which were levelled on September 27 by Israeli strikes that targeted and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 29, 2024. Israel killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a huge air strike in Lebanon, dealing the movement a seismic blow that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 28 called a "turning point" for his country. (Photo by AFP)

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A Pro-Palestinian activist holds a placard reading 'From the River to the Sea' as they march through London, during a National Day of Action for Palestine on September 7, 2024. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

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Israel's Vision of No Palestinians 'From the River to the Sea'

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How Israeli Prisons Became 'Torture Camps'

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People inspect the damage in a room following Israeli bombardment at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 17, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)

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'All Literature Is Political': British-Palestinian Writer Selma Dabbagh on Gaza, Israel and Being Out of Place

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