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With just days to go until Israel's October 27 elections, hate speech among Israeli politicians has reached unprecedented levels. Several previous remarks were even cited in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Here are some examples from a collection of 227 extreme statements documented by Israeli think tank OFEK and reported by the Associated Press this year:

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Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a religious ruling declaring that taking Palestinian olive crops in the occupied West Bank is “completely permissible” and carries “additional virtue,” the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (Madar) reported on October 19.

Lior, the former rabbi of the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement and a religious authority associated with Israel’s far-right Jewish Power party, argued that Palestinians prevented from accessing their olive groves for security reasons could be considered to have abandoned their crops, making them available for illegal Israeli settlers to take.

He also claimed that the land belongs to the Jewish people under Jewish religious law and that Palestinians who planted olive trees had already received compensation through harvests collected over previous years.

Israeli Channel 13 reported that Lior’s ruling extended to areas beyond the immediate vicinity of illegal Israeli settlements.

The October 16 ruling comes amid widespread illegal Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and foreign nationals accompanying them during the annual harvest season, threatening the livelihoods of more than 100,000 Palestinian families who depend on olive cultivation in the occupied West Bank.

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Activists protested against the US government and Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg outside Meta’s office in Sao Paulo after Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported that Meta employees had internally acknowledged that restrictions had hampered the accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during the country’s presidential election.

Lula's camp said last week that it would file a complaint before the Organisation of American States alleging that Meta, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, manipulated social media before the first of the election.

According to Lula's party, some of his posts appeared without a share button, suffered reduced reach, and had stories that prevented reactions and sharing, in addition to appearing without audio or playing at accelerated speed.

A study released last week by a research group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro revealed that the platform allowed at least 1,613 irregular political ads — totaling 171 million views and generating roughly 2 million reais ($400,000) in revenue between July and September — funded primarily from the United States.

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In what President Emmanuel Macron called ‘unbridled violence’ during one of the worst outbreaks of disorder in modern French history, over 500,000 people took to the streets across France on October 17.

Here is how a suburban Paris high-school protest demanding better education escalated into nationwide unrest.

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Astronomers believe they have documented a cosmic first: a star that appears green to the human eye. Located 280 light-years from Earth, the white dwarf’s unusual hue is thought to stem from absorbing rocky debris from its former planetary system.

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Funding shortages are forcing the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food aid in Palestine’s Gaza, leaving 500,000 people without monthly assistance, while about 1.4 million people, or two-thirds of Gaza’s current population, face acute food insecurity.

The WFP said it was reducing the number of Palestinians receiving monthly assistance from 1.6 million to 1.1 million. It has also halved food rations, cut cash assistance for 75,000 families and reduced daily hot meals from 250,000 to 150,000 ahead of the fourth winter Palestinians face under Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.

The agency warned it urgently needs $450 million over the next six months to sustain critical operations in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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More than 20,000 children killed. 60,000 left without a mother, a father, or both.

In Palestine’s Gaza, Israel’s genocidal war has stolen childhoods, shattered families, and left tens of thousands of orphaned children to face a future without the people who should have held their hands through it. Now as winter approaches, displacement and the dire conditions these children are forced to live in threaten even their chance to survive

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Palestinian karate athlete Mariam Bsharat retained her world title, winning gold at the World Cadet, Junior and U21 Championships in Bielsko Biala, Poland.

Bsharat defeated Spain’s Noa Lopez Gonzalez 3–1 in the junior women’s under-66kg kumite final. She is currently ranked world number one in the category.

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US President Donald Trump on October 18 gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his “complete and total” endorsement ahead of Israel’s October 27 elections.

In a Truth Social post, Trump described Netanyahu as “strong, brave, and brilliant” despite opposition, including within Israel, and urged voters to reelect him.

“This is the kind of Partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel, a Country for which it has done so much,” Trump wrote.

The national election will be Israel’s first since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent Israeli wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. The election could determine whether Netanyahu remains in power, as he faces centrist rivals seeking to end his tenure.

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Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral in Gaza City on Sunday for 75 people, including women and children, whose remains were recovered from homes destroyed by Israeli forces during the early months of Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine’s Gaza.

The procession began outside Daraj Sports Club before the remains were buried at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery. Wrapped in Palestinian flags, they had been laid out the previous evening so relatives could bid farewell.

Gaza’s Civil Defence said the victims belonged to around 20 Palestinian families, including displaced people sheltering in the homes. Their remains were recovered over recent weeks from destroyed buildings in the Daraj neighbourhood.

Recovery teams continue to face severe shortages of equipment and heavy machinery as they search for Palestinians still buried beneath the rubble.

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