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On 22 July, five human rights organizations filed a legal challenge before the Conseil d’État, France’s highest administrative court, seeking an order requiring the French government to adopt effective measures to prevent French corporate and financial actors from contributing to Israel’s unlawful occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

Imagine the Sahara with ocean waves lapping at its shores. It was a real plan suggested by a French army captain in the 1870s, and it almost came to pass. According to research by paleoclimatologists Peter deMenocal and Jessica Tierney published in Nature Education Knowledge, the Sahara was really covered in lakes and grassland roughly…