Critics said the designation, based on a Bush-era 9/11 executive order, puts pro-Palestine civil disobedience on equal footing with Al-Qaeda, Julia Conley reports.
After a day’s talks with Iran, J.D. Vance’s claims to progress seem flimsy even by the slack standards the U.S. sets for itself these days in its diplomatic endeavors.
The U.S. Treasury’s targeting of the Flotilla campaigners follows Israel’s full-scale attack on the humanitarian mission on Monday and extends Washington’s target list of critics of the genocidal war on Gaza.