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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfMvVpey18ArAnVHtp8UlqT_8V5zaR9sFE5ohC4Ls7U/previewJoint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to “open the gates of hell,” and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence. The...

A quarter of Germans believe there were at least some positive aspects to Nazi rule, a poll showed today. The finding comes after a popular talk show host was fired for praising Nazi Germany’s attitude toward motherhood. Germans were asked whether National Socialism had some “good sides (such as) the construction of the highway system, the elimination of unemployment, the low criminality rate (and) the encouragement of the family”. A quarter of those who responded said “yes” – but 70% said “no”. Stern magazine commissioned the survey after Germany’s NDR public broadcaster fired talk show host Eva Herman last month...