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26.05.2025 - 18:16 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

‘Stop Arming Israel’: Israeli Citizens Demonstrations in 12 European Cities, Meeting in Paris

“No business as usual with Israel”, demonstrations by Israeli citizens across Europe will be held tomorrow, Tuesday 27, in 12 major cities to demand: “Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement! Stop Arming Israel!”

According to the initiative, “As Israeli citizens living in Europe, we are watching with broken hearts and endless rage as the Israeli army is exacting unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip and its people, as the Israeli society is deteriorating into fascism and widespread dehumanization, and as our government is committing a genocide aimed at the destruction of Palestinian collectivity.”

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In addition, from June 12 to 14, 2025, Paris will host an exceptional gathering, held under the patronage and in the presence of the French President Emmanuel Macron. The initiative was started by The Alliance for Two States headed by Palestinian Samer Sinijlawi and Israeli Gershon Baskin.

16.05.2025 - 23:51 [ theHill.com ]

Supreme Court extends block on some Alien Enemies Act deportation flights

Over the dissents of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the emergency decision prevents authorities from removing the migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a legal challenge proceeds, a win for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is suing on the migrants’ behalf.

But the justices declined the ACLU’s additional request to leapfrog the lower courts to immediately take up the issue of whether President Trump can invoke the rarely used law outside of wartime.

16.05.2025 - 23:49 [ CNN ]

Supreme Court blocks Trump from restarting Alien Enemies Act deportations

“Today’s ruling effectively extends the temporary freeze that the justices put on Alien Enemies Act removals from the Northern District of Texas back on April 19,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law. “Because lower courts have blocked use of the act in every other district in which the president has sought to invoke it, that means it’s effectively pausing all removals under the act until the 5th Circuit – and, presumably, the Supreme Court itself – conclusively resolves whether they’re legal and how much process is due if so.”

16.05.2025 - 22:32 [ Jeremy Scahill / Drop Site News ]

Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander

“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.” In an interview with Drop Site, Naim said the agreement was: “If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”

“He did nothing of this,” Naim added. “They didn‘t violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”

12.05.2025 - 18:12 [ Times of Israel ]

IDF: Red Cross confirms it has Edan Alexander, bringing him to Israeli troops now

The Red Cross is now bringing Alexander to IDF special forces inside Gaza to then be escorted out of the Strip, the military adds.

Alexander was released by Hamas without a public ceremony.

12.05.2025 - 16:27 [ Middle East Eye ]

PKK disbands after 40-year-long conflict with Turkey

The Kurdistan Workers‘ Party (PKK) on Monday announced its decision to disband and end its armed struggle, following a call in February by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.

The Kurdish armed group, which has waged a war against Turkey since the 1980s, said that it had completed its „historic mission“ and brought the Kurdish question to a point where it could be resolved through democratic politics.
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The DEM Party also expects the government to release thousands of its members imprisoned on non-violent charges and to end the practice of unseating its popularly elected mayors.

12.05.2025 - 15:39 [ Al Jazeera ]

Edan Alexander handover now expected at 15:30 GMT

We are hearing from Israeli media, citing Israeli defence officials, that the handover is expected to take place around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT).

The handover will be facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Alexander will be handed over and then taken to Israeli officials.

12.05.2025 - 15:35 [ Middle East Eye ]

Hamas says US-Israeli captive to be handed over after 14:00

A source close to Hamas told AFP the handover of US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since October 2023, would „most likely“ take place after 14:00 GMT on Monday.

12.05.2025 - 15:34 [ New York Times ]

Hamas Says It Will Release Its Last American Hostage

Hamas, the Palestinian armed group, said on Sunday night that it would free the last living American citizen held captive in Gaza, just days before President Trump is expected to arrive in the region for the first major foreign tour of his second term.

Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s lead negotiator, said in a statement that Hamas had agreed to free the hostage, Edan Alexander, 21, after talks with the United States.

03.05.2025 - 13:04 [ docs.google.com ]

Letter to the PM on Gaza and Recognising the State of Palestine

Signed by representatives of the following organisations and their branches, affiliates or in their individual capacity:

Abrahamic Foundation

Abrar Foundation

Abu Bakar Mosque (Bradford)

Abu Bakr Trust (ABT) – Walsall

Abu Hanifah Foundation (Blackburn)

Ad Duha Masjid

Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaat

Al Abbas Islamic Centre, KSIMC Birmingham

Al Amaan Education Trust

Al Aqsa Masjid Docklands

Al Balagh Academy

Al Khazra Mosque (Oldham)

Al Madani Masjid (Slough)

Al Madina Jame Masjid

Al Madina Mosque Barking

Al Manaar Academy (Loughborough)

Al Quran Academy

Al Zahra Foundation

Al Zunayrah Foundation

Al-Emaan Centre

Al-Falah Islamic Education Centre

Al-Farooq Trust

Al-Hijrah Trust

Al-Hira Educational Centre and Masjid

AL-HQ Law & More (Islamic Wills)

Al-Mahdi Centre, Wessex

Al-Muttaqin Research Centre (Manchester)

Al-Risalah Trust (London)

Alansar IEC

Alessi Marketing

Alkhair Primary School

AlKhaleel Institute

Alnoor Cultural & Educational Trust (Alnoor C&ET) – Essex

Aman Association

Amanah Masjid (Birmingham)

Anjuman Raza-E-Mustafa

Aqoon Education Services

Arab Lawyers Association (UK)

As-Salaam Trust – The Peace Centre

Asha Islamic Centre

Asian Muslim Cultural Association (London)

Asian Women Association

Association of Srilankan Muslims in UK

Aston Palestine Society

Azhar Academy Bolton

Balham Masjid & Tooting Islamic Centre

Bangladesh Islamic Centre (Birmingham)

Bangladeshi Islamic Society

Baytun Noor (Birmingham)

Beeston Muslim Centre

Belfast Islamic Centre

Belfast MultiCultural Association

Belgrave Mosque – Owais Qarni (Ilford)

Bexley Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Bexley PSC)

Bilal Mosque (Leeds)

Bilborough Islamic Centre

Birmingham Masjid and Dawah Centre

Bishopbriggs Islamic Community Centre

Blackburn Road Learning Centre

Bolton Central Islamic Society (BCIS)

Bolton Council of Mosques [~40]

Bradford Friends of Palestine (BFOP)

Bridgford Muslim Action Group

BrIsoc

Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (BMCS)

Bristol Turkish Community Association

British Arab Nursing and Midwifery Association

British Islamic Medical Association

British Muslim Heritage Centre

British Palestinian Families Network

British Turkish Association [~40]

Bushey Islamic Circle

Campaign Against Anti-Muslim Hate / Campaign Against Hate

Central Jamia Masjid (Southall)

Central Mosque (Wakefield)

Cheadle Masjid

Chelmsford Action for Palestine

Chelmsford Muslim Society

Cherwell Projects Ltd

Cis Windows

City Friends of Palestine (London)

City Retreat Leicester

City University Islamic Society (ISOC)

Cloud Devops Ltd

Committee for Alternative Development Trust

Compass Learning Centre (CLC)

Consortium [~11]

Cosy Cruise Travel Ltd

Council for Mosques Bradford [~140]

Council of Bristol Mosques (CBM) [~6]

Council of European Jamaats [~11]

Council of Mosque – Tower Hamlets [~45]

Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations [~28]

Croydon Islamic Youth Club

Dar Ul Isra Education and Welfare (Cardiff)

Dar us Salaam

Darassalaam

Darul Arqam Muslim Community Association

Darul Atfaal

Darul Ilm – SLMC of East London

Darulisra Muslim Educational Welfare Centre

Darus Salam Mosque (Leicester)

Darussalam Education Centre

Derby Jamia Mosque

Diverse Legal Consulting (Chelmsford)

Diyanet Stoke Education Centre

Dovex

Dundee Central Mosque

East Birmingham Central Masjid

East Cardiff Muslim Centre

East End Islamic Centre (Newham)

East Kilbride Muslims Association

Easton Jamia Masjid

Eden Foundation (Birmingham)

Eden Masjid and Dawah Centre

Edgware Youth

Eid Prayer And Festival (Leicester)

Elland Masjid Association – West Yorkshire

Enfield Community Action Group

Enfield Town Islamic Centre

Epsom and Ewell Islamic society

Essex Council of Mosques [~5]

EuroPal Forum

Exeter Mosque and Cultural Centre

Extant Marketing

Faith Inspire [~7]

Fatima Community Centre (Sheffield)

Fatima Elizabeth Archery Club

Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery

Fazilat Masjid (Nottingham)

FC Leytonstone

Federation of Muslim Organisations (FMO) [~50]

Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) [~120]

Finsbury Park Mosque

First Choice Plumbing

Fiqh Council Birmingham (FCB)

Fleetgate Hardware ltd

Friends of Al-Aqsa

Fussilat Academy (London)

Gastec

Global Somali Diaspora

Goodwood Islamic Centre

Grangetown Muslim Cultural Centre (GMCC)

Green Street Business Association

Haaya Foundation (Hounslow)

Hamilton Islamic Centre

Hamlets Way Mosque (Mile End Bengali Muslim Community Association)

Handsworth Wood Cultural Centre

Harpenden Muslim Network

Harrow Youth Club

Hastings Mosque

Havering4Peace

Hayes Muslim Centre

Here For Youth

Hillingdon Borough Muslims

Hounslow Muslim Centre

Hubb Leicestershire

Huddersfield Community First (HDCF)

Huddersfield Council of Mosques (HCoM)

Hull Turkish Education Society

Humanity for All (Scotland)

Hyderi Islamic Centre

I Waqf

I Will Solicitors

Ibadurrehman Trust

ICareCharity

ICMG Edmonton branch

ICMG MARGATE

Imam Zakariya Academy (IZA)

Imdadia Charitable Trust

Imperial Islamic Society

In Her Footsteps

Inspireamillion Limited

Inspired Supported Housing

Inspirited Minds

Interbuild Aid

International Communities Organisation (London)

International Community Milli Görüş

Iqra Women‘s Group (Leeds)

ISLAH (Cambridge)

Islamic Education Trust Leicester

Islamic Finance Guru

Islamic History Channel

Islamic Information Centre, Hastings

Islamic Research Institute of GB (IRIGB)

Islamic Society of Britain

Islamic Tarbiyyah Prep School (Bradford)

Jam-e-Masjid Qiblah Hadhrat Sahib Gulhar Shareef Birmingham

Jamia Masjid Sultania (JMS) (Nottingham)

Jamia Syeda Fatima Al Zahra Mosque

Jamia Usmania

JKR & HCY ISLAMIC CENTRE (Reading)

Jummah in Chorleywood

Karima al Marwaziyya Foundation (High Wycombe)

Kent Islamic Center

Khidmah Organisation (Leicester)

Khizra Mosque

Kilmarnock Central Mosque

Kurdish Society of Nottingham

Lancashire Council of Mosques

Lantor Ltd

Leeds Beckett University Islamic Society (LBU ISOC)

Legal Action for Peace

Leicester Community Assist

Leicestershire Zakah Foundation

Lewisham Islamic Centre

Leytonstone Islamic Association

London Islamic Culture and Recreation Society

Long Eaton Masjid

Loughborough Dawah Centre

Loughborough Mosque and Islamic Culture Association

Lumb Fox Limited

Luton Council of Mosques

Luton Muslim Malayali Association

Luton Sri Lankan Islamic Cultural Centre

Luton Turkish community

Madarasah Noorul Quran Leicester

Madrasa Talimu Quran

Madina Mosque & Community Centre (Cardiff)

Madni Masjid (Nottingham)

Madrasa Taleem ul Islam (Glasgow)

Madrasaatul Noor Leicester

Madrasah Madania Tahfeezul Quran (MMTQ) – Bradford

Mahmudsabir Masjid

Malayalee Muslim Cultural & Welfare Association UK

Maldon Masjid

MAN UK

Marifah Institute

Markazul-Uloom Al-Islamiyya (Rotherham)

Masjid Abu Bakr

Masjid Abu Bakr Tinsley

Masjid Abu Hurairah

Masjid Al Falaah (Birmingham)

Masjid Al Farouq

Masjid Al Furqan (Leicester)

Masjid Al Madina (Walsall)

Masjid Al Rawda (London)

Masjid Al-Jannah Slough

Masjid Alhikmah and Community Centre

Masjid At Taqwa (Bradford)

Masjid Ayesha

Masjid Ayesha (London)

Masjid e Imam Ali (Aberdeen)

Masjid e Noor (Gloucester)

Masjid e Salaam Trust (Bolton)

Masjid E Tauheed (Manor Park- London)

Masjid e Umar (Bradford)

Masjid Hazrat Bilal (Bristol)

Masjid Ibrahim Ferham (Rotherham)

Masjid Jamia Islamia Nottingham

Masjid Noor

Masjid Taha & Education Centre (Stratford, London)

Masjid Talha

Masjid Tawhid Leyton

Masjid Ul Hidayah (East Ham)

Masjid Umar

Masjid Usman (Bradford)

Masjid Zakaria (Birmingham)

Masjid-E-Quba, London

Masjid-e-Zainabia

Masjid-us-Sunnah (Leicester)

Masjid E Saliheen, Preston

MAUK

Meadows Muslim Centre (Nottingham)

Millwall Community Association

Misbaahul Uloom Urdu Centre

Mksi Leicester

Monmouthshire Muslim Community Association

Mum’s Kitchen

Mushkil Aasaan Charity

Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) [~15]

Muslim Association of Croydon (MAC)

Muslim Community Association

Muslim Community Centre Uxbridge

Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)

Muslim Council of Scotland [~100]

Muslim Council of Wales [~70]

Muslim Cultural & Welfare Association of Sutton (MCWAS)

Muslim Cultural Centre Wollaton, Nottingham

Muslim Doctors Association and Allied Health Professionals CIC

Muslim Doctors Cymru (MDC)

Muslim Engagement and Development

Muslim Event

Muslim Khatri Association

Muslim Public Affairs Forum Committee (MPACUK)

Muslim Welfare House Sheffield

Muslim Welfare Institute (MWI) (Blackburn)

Muslim Welfare Society Port Talbot

Muslim Women of Merton

Muslimaat UK (MMT UK)

My School Tutor

Narjis foundation (Glasgow)

Naseeha Youth Project (NYP) (Cardiff)

National Waqf

NCJM Stow Hill Mosque

New Beginnings

Newcastle Central Mosque

Newcastle under Lyme Islamic Centre

Newham Muslim Forum

Newport Diyanet Community Education Centre

Nextpoint Recruitment

Nexus Pharmacy

Nfsb Cardiff limited

NHS Muslim Women’s Network

Noka Solutions Ltd

Noor Youth

Noor-el-Islam Mosque (Cardiff)

Noorani Education Centre

Norbury Islamic Academy

Norbury Muslim Centre

North Ilford Islamic Centre

North West Islamic Association

Northwood Hills Mosque and Community Centre (NHMCC)

Nottingham Bangladesh Centre

Nottingham Council of Mosques (NCM) [~25]

Nottingham Islam Information Point

Nottingham Turkish Community

Nur Al Hadi Mosque (Sheffield)

Nuurul Huda Cultural centre ltd

Oadby and Wigston Muslim Association

Oadby Community Hub

P and D UK Services Ltd (West London)

Pakistan Centre

Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB)

Palmed UK Charity

Peckham Mosque Trust

Pekunluler Turkish Cultural Association

Plumstead Islamic Centre

PMS Jamea Masjid

Port Talbot Mosque

Preston Muslim Forum

PureStreets

Purley Islamic Community Centre

Qadria Jilania Islamic Centre & Madrasa (Manchester)

Qasim al-Ulum Centre (Manchester)

Qmed Staffing

Queensgate Islamic Centre

Quran Club

Quran ft Soul

Quwwat-ul-Islam Society Newham

Reading Muslim

Recipe2Inspire CIC (R2I)

Redbridge & Ilford Independents

Redbridge Community Action Group (RCAG)

Reflection Path

River To The Sea (Non Profit)

S E London Friends of Palestine

Saeed Institute (Bolton)

Said Nursi Mosque

Salahaddin Community Centre (Peterborough)

Sayyidah Aminah Masjid (Bradford)

SBMCA (Birmingham)

Scottish Association of Mosques [~13]

Shah Jalal Jami Masjid (Walsall)

Shahjalal Mosque & Islamic Centre (Oldham)

Shahporan Jam e Mosque

Shahporan Madrasah

SHERIFF Estate & Letting Agent

Sherwood Education and Culture Centre

Shia Ithna‘ashari Community of Middlesex (SICM)

Simply Ethical Financial Services Ltd

SLIA

Soul Therapy Scotland

Southend Mosque

Sri Lanka Islamic Forum UK

Sri Lanka Muslim Society UK (Leicester)

Sri Lankan Muslim Progressive Front-Milton Keynes

Srilankan Muslim Community of East London

STEM Muslims

Streatham Hill Masjid

Strive UK [~15]

Suffa Education Centre

Suffolk Muslim Society

Surrey Muslim Association

Swansea University Mosque

Taleem Ul-Quran Trust (Coventry)

Tawfiq Online Learning

Taybah Charitable Trust

Teviot British Bangladeshi Association (London)

The Ahmed Ali Petkar Foundation (TAAP Foundation)

The Alberinious Foundation

The Ilford Muslim Society

The Islamic Foundation (Leicester)

The Lantern Initiative

The Quran Hub (TQH)

The Shah Jahan Mosque (Woking, Surrey)

The Suffah Institute

The United Kingdom Indian Muslim Council (UKIMC)

The Wheel Plug UK (Dewsbury)

The World Federation of KSIMC

Thornton Heath Islamic centre

Turners and Locksley Centre

Turners and Locksley Masjid Cultural Centre (London)

Tuyoorul jannah (TJ) Birds of Paradise

UCL Students for Justice in Palestine

UK Islam Centre

UK Kahramanmaras Education and Culture Centre

UK Medical and Community Projects

UKIM [~50]

Ummah Community Centre (UCC)

Ummah Community Trust (UCT)

Ummah Gwent Community Centre / Masjid

Union of Muslim Organisations (Walsall)

University of Birmingham Friends of Palestine

University of Birmingham Islamic Society

Warwick Islamic Society

West London Mosques Forum (Southall)

Werneth Jamia Masjid

West Cardiff Islamic Centre

West London Mosque Forum

West London Turkish Volunteers

Women Together

Worcester Muslim Welfare Association – Worcester Central Masjid

World Forum for Srilankan Muslims

Worthing Islamic Society

Xynosoft Ltd

Y9 Mak communications Ltd

Yemeni Community Association in sandwell

Yeovil Islamic Centre & SSMCA

YMCO – Young Muslim and Community Organisation (Cardiff)

Zaza Technologies Ltd

Zeenergy Limited

03.05.2025 - 12:53 [ Muslim Council of Britain ]

Hundreds of UK Muslim Organisations Unite to Call on Prime Minister to Recognise Palestinian Statehood

(April 29, 2025)

Commenting on the letter, Secretary General Dr Wajid Akhter said:

“We are at a watershed moment as events in Gaza intensify, with more innocent lives lost each day. British Muslim communities, alongside countless others across the country, are simply calling for a foreign policy rooted in justice, humanity, and international law.

“We have rightly mobilised a coalition of the willing to oppose Russia’s illegal occupation of Ukraine, yet the illegal occupation of Palestine and the mass killing of Palestinian civilians is met with silence. We urge Prime Minister Keir Starmer to show moral leadership and act swiftly.“

03.05.2025 - 12:48 [ 5PillarsUK.com ]

Hundreds of Muslim groups demand UK recognition of Palestinian state

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has deliver a letter signed by over 300 Muslim groups to 10 Downing Street urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to show “moral leadership” and swiftly recognise the Palestinian State.

The signatories, comprising of organisations from every region of the UK, including mosques, student societies, charities and advocacy groups, are calling on the British government to urgently:

26.04.2025 - 04:31 [ CNN ]

Trump backs down in legal fight over canceling international students’ status records for now

The database, which is operated by the Department of Homeland Security, tracks the immigration status of international students and is used by universities to maintain information about the students’ enrollment.

The SEVIS revocations occurred alongside visa cancellations for many students, putting them ultimately at risk for deportation, multiple attorneys representing students have said in court documents. The DOJ continues to claim that SEVIS changes did not cause visa terminations.

The Trump administration began to cancel visas and launched deportation proceedings in March, which initially targeted students who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses last year.

19.04.2025 - 21:57 [ New York Times ]

Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Deportations Under Alien Enemies Act

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration early Saturday from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime law.

“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the court said in a brief, unsigned order that gave no reasoning, as is typical in emergency cases.

19.04.2025 - 21:53 [ NBC Washington ]

Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law

The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The Supreme Court had said earlier in April that deportations could proceed only if those about to be removed had a chance to argue their case in court and were given “a reasonable time” to contest their pending removals.

19.04.2025 - 02:29 [ Common Dreams ]

ACLU Turns to Supreme Court Amid Fears of Imminent Alien Enemies Act Deportations

(April 18, 2025)

The ACLU on Friday sought emergency action from the U.S. Supreme Court to protect Venezuelan men in immigration custody at risk of swiftly being deported under President Donald Trump‘s proclamation invoking an 18th-century wartime law.

16.04.2025 - 21:00 [ CBS News ]

Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in criminal contempt over removals of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote in a 46-page decision that the government‘s actions on March 15 „demonstrate a willful disregard“ for his order barring the government from transferring certain migrants into Salvadoran custody under the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

08.04.2025 - 06:13 [ US Supreme Court ]

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 24A931 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. J. G. G., ET AL. ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDERS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

J USTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE K AGAN and J USTICE J ACKSON join, and with whom J USTICE BARRETT joins as to Parts II and III–B, dissenting.

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There is, of course, no ongoing war between the United States and Venezuela.

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Congress requires the President to “mak[e] public proclamation” of his intention to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. §21. President Trump did just the opposite. In what can be understood only as covert preparation to skirt both the requirements of the Act and the Constitution’s guarantee of due process, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began moving Venezuelan migrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers across the country to the El Valle Detention Facility in South Texas before the President had even signed the Proclamation. ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, ___ 2025 WL 890401, *3 (D DC, Mar. 24, 2025). The transferred detainees, most of whom denied past or present affiliation with any gang, did not know the reason for their transfer until the evening of Friday, March 14, when they were apparently “pulled from their cells and told that they would be deported the next day to an unknown destination.”

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Suspecting that the President had covertly signed a Proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act, several lawyers anticipated their clients’ imminent deportation and filed a putative class action in the District of Columbia. App. to Brief in Opposition To Application To Vacate 9a (App. to BIO). They contested that Tren de Aragua had committed or attempted the kind of “ ‘invasion’ ” or “ ‘predatory incursion’ ” required to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. Ibid. They also asserted that it would violate the Due Process Clause to deport their clients before they had any chance to challenge the Government’s allegations of gang membership. Id., at 26a. The plaintiffs did not seek release from custody, but asked the court only to restrain the Government’s planned deportations under the Proclamation. Id., at 9a, 29a.

In the early morning of March 15, the District Court informed the Government of the lawsuit and scheduled an emergency hearing. Despite knowing of plaintiffs’ claim
that it would be unlawful to remove them under the Proclamation, the Government ushered the named plaintiffs onto planes along with dozens of other detainees, all without any opportunity to contact their lawyers, much less notice or opportunity to be heard.

08.04.2025 - 05:57 [ ScotusBlog.com ]

Supreme Court requires noncitizens to challenge detention and removal in Texas

Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a 17-page dissent joined in full by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson and in part by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. She contended that her colleagues’ “decision to intervene in this litigation is as inexplicable as it is dangerous.”

Jackson wrote her own two-page dissent in which she lamented that the majority’s “fly-by-night approach to the work of the Supreme Court is not only misguided. It is also dangerous.”

The 1798 law at the center of the case is the Alien Enemies Act, which allows the president to detain or deport citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing or any other review by a court if either of two things occurs: Congress declares war, or there is an “invasion” or “predatory incursion.” The law has been invoked only three times – during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.

08.04.2025 - 05:40 [ Associated Press ]

Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges’ review

The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The flights came soon after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to justify the deportations under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.

The majority said nothing about those flights, which took off without providing the hearing the justices now say is necessary.

03.04.2025 - 16:57 [ Times of Israel ]

Qatari lobbyist reportedly used WhatsApp group to coordinate with Netanyahu aides

(April 2, 2025)

After Israeli businessman Gil Birger revealed that Qatari lobbyist Jay Footlik had asked him to pay Netanyahu aide Eli Feldstein for his work on behalf of Qatar, Feldstein insisted that the funds were actually for his work for the Prime Minister’s Office.

However, Channel 12 reveals the existence of a WhatsApp group between Footlik, Feldstein and Yisrael Einhorn — Urich’s partner at a PR firm who also served as a campaign adviser for Netanyahu.

03.04.2025 - 16:45 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Feldstein, Urich give police conflicting testimonies

Feldstein, who formerly worked as Netanyahu‘s military spokesperson, claimed he received a salary from Israeli businessman Gil Birger. According to Feldstein, the payment was arranged through Netanyahu‘s close adviser, Urich.

Urich, however, denied the claim outright, stating he does not know Birger and has never spoken with him.

Birger, for his part, has said that he transferred the funds on behalf of Jay Footlik, a lobbyist for Qatar, citing tax considerations as the motive.

02.04.2025 - 17:36 [ France24.com ]

What is the ‚Qatargate‘ scandal roiling Israel?

Who are the suspects?

Yonatan Urich, who has been working closely with Netanyahu for most of the past decade, started out as the social media manager for the prime minister‘s Likud party.

Urich also co-owns a media consulting firm called Perception with Yisrael Einhorn, who has also worked with Netanyahu.

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Eli Feldstein is already under investigation for leaking classified documents to journalists during the short time he worked unofficially as the prime minister‘s military affairs spokesman.

02.04.2025 - 11:56 [ TheMediaLine.com ]

Jerusalem Post Editor Questioned in Expanding Qatargate Scandal

Authorities suspect the pair of contact with a foreign agent, bribery, money laundering, fraud, and breach of trust. The court extended their detention until Thursday, with Judge Menachem Mizrahi citing “reasonable suspicion” of wrongdoing and the risk of obstruction.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was questioned under caution but is not currently a suspect, dismissed the investigation as politically driven.

17.03.2025 - 19:40 [ CBS News ]

Politics Judge cancels hearing for Brown University doctor deported to Lebanon despite his order

Alawieh, a Rhode Island transplant doctor and assistant professor at Brown University, was detained on Thursday in Boston after visiting family in Lebanon, her cousin claimed in a lawsuit challenging Alawieh‘s detention.

Sorokin ordered on Friday that Alawieh be kept in the U.S. and brought to a court hearing on Monday. He wrote Monday morning that „Dr. Alawieh is now in Lebanon.“

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On Sunday, Sorokin ordered the government to explain before the now-canceled Monday hearing why Alawieh was removed. Lawyers for her family claimed the government „willfully“ disobeyed his order by sending Alawieh outside the U.S.

17.03.2025 - 19:33 [ CNN ]

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s ability to quickly deport noncitizens under Alien Enemies Act

(March 15, 2025)

Earlier Saturday, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which gives the president tremendous authority to target and remove undocumented immigrants, to speed up the deportations of migrants. The law is designed to be invoked if the US is at war with another country, or a foreign nation has invaded the US or threatened to do so.

10.03.2025 - 07:18 [ Middle East Eye ]

US hostage envoy: Hamas offered to ‚lay down all weapons‘ for five to ten year truce

The US hostage envoy Adam Boehler has said that Hamas has suggested an exchange of prisoners and offered to ‚lay down all weapons‘ during a five to ten year truce, Israel‘s Channel 11 is reporting.

Boehler said that an „optimistic“ scenario would see Israeli captives released within „weeks“.

10.03.2025 - 07:17 [ Middle East Eye ]

„We‘re the United States. We‘re not an agent of Israel,“ says hostage envoy

Boehler said he believed something could be achieved on the Israeli captives within weeks, but did not elaborate. He said he believes that a deal can be made in which all of the captives can get out.

10.03.2025 - 07:14 [ Reuters ]

US-Hamas meeting very helpful, US envoy Boehler says

Boehler said he understood the consternation and concern expressed by Israeli official Ron Dermer about his direct contact with Hamas, but emphasized he had a clear goal in his talks.
„We‘re the United States. We‘re not an agent of Israel,“ Boehler said. „We have specific interests at play, and we did communicate back and forth.
„What I wanted to do is jump start some negotiations that were in a very fragile place. And I wanted to say to Hamas, what is the end game that you want here?“

15.02.2025 - 13:44 [ CNN ]

Three Israeli hostages freed after dispute threatened Gaza ceasefire

American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, Russian-Israeli Alexandre Troufanov and Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn were released in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, around 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) in the sixth such exchange under the truce.

30.01.2025 - 17:45 [ Associated Press ]

Hamas frees 8 more hostages. Israel begins releasing Palestinian prisoners after delay

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of some of the captives, who were shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands by masked militants, drew an angry protest from Israel.

Israel later began releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners after the swap was initially put on hold by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who demanded that mediators assure the safe exit for hostages going forward. He said later that he had received that commitment

25.01.2025 - 14:01 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel blocks planned exit of US doctors and nurses from Gaza, group says

Doctors Against Genocide said Israel denied exit to 11 American doctors and nurses from Gaza and called on the US government, the international community and humanitarian organisations to secure their safe evacuation in a statement.

The doctors‘ mission was authorised by Israeli authorities on 9 January 2024, with plans for their safe departure on 22 January 2025, the group said. However, Israeli authorities have since denied their requests to move south, preventing them from leaving northern Gaza.

21.01.2025 - 21:12 [ New York Times ]

18 States Sue to Stop Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

The states view Mr. Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship as “extraordinary and extreme,” said New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin, who led the legal effort along with the attorneys general from California and Massachusetts. “Presidents are powerful, but he is not a king. He cannot rewrite the Constitution with a stroke of the pen.”

21.01.2025 - 19:00 [ American Civil Liberties Union ]

Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

“Denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is. This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans. We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged. The Trump administration‘s overreach is so egregious that we are confident we will ultimately prevail,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

21.01.2025 - 18:55 [ USA Today ]

ACLU files lawsuit against Trump order that seeks to end birthright citizenship

A collection of advocacy groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit late Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt the automatic granting of citizenship to children born in the United States.

21.01.2025 - 18:44 [ Washington Post ]

Trump’s executive orders already face pushback, legal challenges

The executive orders include some things that scholars and legal experts say may be out of the reach of the president’s pen and could be tied up in courts or legislatures for years, including ending birthright citizenship, a right embedded in the Constitution and bolstered by a Supreme Court ruling that grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

21.01.2025 - 18:38 [ Hindustan Times ]

Birthright citizenship, Paris treaty, death penalty: Donald Trump‘s key executive orders on day 1 at White House

Deportations and birthright citizenship: Donald Trump called for a crackdown on criminal “aliens” and signed an order to end automatic birthright citizenship for children of non-permanent residents. However, the order faces legal hurdles as birthright citizenship is enshrined in the US Constitution.

15.11.2024 - 13:32 [ Middle East Eye ]

UK urged to share Gaza spy planes footage with ICC war crimes probe

(October 30, 2024)

The defence ministry told Middle East Eye: “As a matter of principle, we only provide intelligence to our allies where we are satisfied that it will be used in accordance with International Humanitarian Law, and in this instance, only information relating to hostage rescue is passed to the Israeli authorities.”
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Brendan O’Hara, the Scottish National Party’s spokesperson for the Middle East, told MEE it was “inconceivable”, given the scale of the destruction and death in Gaza, that the flights “do not contain footage which would be of significant interest to the investigators from the International Criminal Court”.
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Labour MP Rachael Maskell told MEE: “It is crucial that any intelligence of breaches of international law are shared with the courts so they can assess the evidence and secure justice.”

“I trust that the UK government is working with the international courts to aid them in their work.”