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Gaza Is The Compass: Second Annual People’s Conference For Palestine

August 24, 2025 People’s Conference For Palestine, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
For two years, Gaza has been a moral and political compass that has guided so many towards true liberation. Israel, with full US backing and support, is starving 2 million Palestinians, carrying out a plan for mass displacement and ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank, and continuously bombing and shooting Palestinians with the number of martyrs rising daily. Israel’s brutality, though gruesome and with the ultimate price being paid by Palestinians in Gaza, resembles more the last thrashes of a dying beast, than it does a mighty force. Zionism itself is facing an existential crisis. Around the world, Israel’s murderous rampage has given it a spotlight for international scrutiny and has turned Zionism into a pariah among the world’s masses.

Australia: Tens Of Thousands Rally To Demand Sanctions On Israel

August 24, 2025 Middle East Monitor. , , , , ,
Tens of thousands of Australians rallied in more than 40 cities and towns on Sunday to protest Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, with participants calling for sanctions on Tel Aviv, local broadcaster SBS reported, Anadolu reports. Palestine Action Group organizers said the demonstrations aimed to pressure the federal government to sanction Israel and impose an arms embargo. Josh Lees, a rally organizer, estimated crowds of “about 40,000 here in Sydney, 50 or 60,000 in Melbourne, 10,000 in Hobart, thousands in Perth and Brisbane and everywhere else.” In Brisbane, police put the turnout at 10,000, while organizers claimed closer to 50,000.

Dutch Foreign Minister Quits Over Cabinet Refusal To Punish Israel

August 24, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned on 22 August after he failed to secure harsher sanctions against Israel during a cabinet meeting with fellow ministers. “I see that I am insufficiently able to take meaningful additional measures to increase pressure on Israel,” Veldkamp said after a cabinet meeting of the caretaker government in which the Gaza genocide was debated. Veldcamp is a member of the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) party, which rules the Netherlands as part of a coalition with the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB). Veldcamp said the steps he had proposed were “seriously discussed.” However, he failed to win the support of NSC’s coalition partners.

Israel’s Assassination Of Memory

August 23, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers are tearing down hundreds of heavily damaged buildings. Cement trucks are churning out concrete to fill tunnels. Israeli tanks and fighter jets pummel neighborhoods to drive Palestinians who remain in the ruins of the city to the south. It will take months to turn Gaza City into a parking lot. I have no doubt Israel will replicate the efficiency of the Nazi SS Gen. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, who oversaw the obliteration of Warsaw.

Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s War On The United Nations

August 22, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , , ,
For millions of Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is more than just a humanitarian organization — it is a lifeline. For 75 years, it has provided crucial infrastructure support and sustained a population facing heavy repression at the behest of Israel. For the past 22 months, the organization has proved as important as ever in the midst of genocide. UNRWA and its facilities have provided schools, hospitals, cafeterias and more for Palestinians when no other help existed. Precisely because it is sometimes the sole entity continuing to keep Palestinians alive, Israel targets them and has killed 310 staff members in Gaza. On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, host Chris Hedges is joined by Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of UNRWA USA.

Students Urge George Washington University Not To Capitulate To Trump

August 22, 2025 GWU Left Coalition, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
We, the students, write to you at a critical moment of GW’s institutional path and the future of education in the United States. As students, we demand the protection of our collective right to pursue our education without the fascist interference of the Trump administration. The White House is waging war against colleges and universities across the country, and as we witness the consequences from the institutions already targeted, we are aware of the fate of our education and well-being should GW decide to give in. The DOJ has already placed the fate of international students at other schools in jeopardy, threatening to report them to DHS and the State Department.

How Pro-Palestine Youth Are Responding To Online Censorship

August 21, 2025 Tamara Turki, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
When Israel initiated plans to evict Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for illegal settlers, millions of young people around the world got involved in a high-profile social media campaign to raise awareness.  Using the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, more than 40 million people joined in, forming part of a wave of online organising that set the stage for a new era of pro-Palestine digital activism. That trend continued as Israel launched its ongoing genocide in Gaza in October 2023 with activists dedicating their instagram feeds and TikTok reels to spreading awareness of Israeli atrocities. But mounting censorship on social media, digital fatigue and a hunger for deeper forms of engagement, are forcing organisers to shift gears and adopt new modes of activism.

Why Palestine Is Already A State

August 20, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , ,
A combination of mistakes, whether through ignorance or design, and significant omissions of fact have left the American public misinformed about why the Palestinians have gone to the United Nations and what they are trying to achieve. The biggest error repeated across the media in hundreds of headlines and stories is that the Palestinians are seeking statehood at the U.N. In fact, Palestine is already legally a sovereign state and is seeking membership of the United Nations, not statehood. [It eventually opted for observer state status after the U.S. blocked membership.] The United Nations does not grant or recognize statehood. Only states can recognize other states bilaterally.

United Methodist Church Divests From Israel Bonds

August 20, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has announced that it will divest from the bonds of governments that are maintaining illegal military occupations. Wespath, the church’s retirement-benefits agency, is now excluding investments in the bonds of Israel, Morocco and Turkey. “With our framework, we took a step back,” said Wespath executive Andy Hendren told United Methodist News. “We wanted to do a more principled, holistic look at all sovereign debt, so it not only looks at military occupations like those identified in the resolution — those three. But there are other military occupations in the world that government should be held accountable for.” “As United Methodists, our witness must align with our values,” Bishop Tracy S. Malone, Council of Bishops president, added.

Microsoft Launches Formal Review Into Gaza Surveillance Claims

August 20, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Microsoft announced on 15 August that it has opened an independent review into the reported use of its Azure cloud technology by the Israeli military's Unit 8200, following detailed investigations published by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call. The company updated a blog post originally published in May, saying it does not always have visibility into how clients deploy its software once installed on private servers and devices. “Microsoft appreciates that The Guardian’s recent report raises additional and precise allegations that merit a full and urgent review,” the company said. It pledged to release its findings once the review, led by Covington & Burling LLP, is complete.

Halt On Medical Evacuations Is A Death Sentence For Palestinian Children

August 19, 2025 Bilal Irfan and Alyssa Seliga, Mondoweiss. , , , , , ,
The U.S. State Department’s decision this weekend to halt all visitor visas for people from Gaza, which includes the medical-humanitarian visas that have brought injured children to American hospitals, will cost Palestinian lives. Officials say this process will be subject to a “full and thorough review”. For a child with infected burns or a deep trauma wound, a pause is a verdict on their life. The freeze did not arise from new intelligence or any novel identification of problems in the temporary visitor visa pathway. It followed a social-media panic with the circulation of mischaracterized videos of injured children arriving under the care of a U.S. nonprofit being labeled as a “security threat,” rhetoric amplified by political allies. The State Department then announced it was stopping visas while it re-examines procedures.

Black People Who See Themselves In Palestinians Find Israel Sees The Same

August 18, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , , ,
Zoharah Simmons’ first trip to Israel and its occupied territories in 1994 got off to an inauspicious start. Born Gwen Robinson in Memphis, Tennessee, the great granddaughter of a slave and a former organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who volunteered to work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, Simmons was hardly unfamiliar with European settler colonialism or the violence that is its motor. She was, however, caught off guard by what she experienced upon her arrival in Tel Aviv as part of a peace delegation with the American Friends Service Committee, a social justice organization founded by the Quakers. First, there was the matter of getting past Israel’s immigration and customs agents.

Why National Education Association Members Voted To Support Palestine

August 18, 2025 Gwen Lee and Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. , , , , , ,
As an educator, to me, it’s so important that students are part of the struggle. I know when I was in high school during the Vietnam War, anytime I asked about it, I was shot down and told, “What does that have to do with education?” It has everything to do with education. It has everything to do with growing new leadership and teaching students or helping students, assisting students take the leadership in terms of being involved in the movement for justice. In a sense, Trump and the policies of the federal government have done a lot of the organizing for us because there’s lots of young people who just really want to know what’s going on and want to be involved in stopping it, whether it be Palestine, fighting ICE, or actions against the terrorism of the police.

UN Military Force Needed To Halt Israel’s Assault On Gaza, Tribunal Says

August 18, 2025 Yusuf Selman Inanc, Middle East Eye. , , , , , ,
A group of leading academics, legal experts and human rights advocates have called for the creation of a UN-mandated international military force to stop Israel's 22-month-long war on the besieged Gaza Strip. In a statement on Monday, Richard Falk, the president of the Gaza Tribunal Project and a former UN special rapporteur, called on the international community to implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle. "Law has failed, because it has not been enforced," Falk said at a press conference in Istanbul as he urged the international community to use R2P as a framework for intervention. He noted that the lack of enforcement had left Palestinians unprotected despite clear evidence of mass atrocities.

Gazans Go On Hunger Strike In The Midst Of Famine

August 17, 2025 Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss. , , , , , , ,
Wadea Abu Soud, a reporter for Yemen TV in Gaza and father of four, declared his hunger strike on July 20 alongside two of his colleagues. He says his hunger strike is a message to the world about the famine in Gaza, where most families can’t feed their children. “I am a starving journalist who is attempting to convey the suffering of his starving people,” Abu Soud says. Abu Soud is one of a growing number of journalists and first responders in Gaza who have declared that they are going on hunger strike in the midst of a famine. Their demand is that all of Gaza’s children must be fed. “Our voices are reaching the world,” Abu Soud says. “The occupation has failed to launder its lies to the world.”
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