forward.com Israeli left-wing group suspended at University of Haifa after protesting the war in Gaza
It was the latest challenge to Standing Together, an Israeli-Palestinian group, since Oct. 7.
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Israelis and Palestinians mark 20th joint Memorial Day ceremony (+972 Magazine, 2025-04-29)
Israelis and Palestinians mark 20th joint Memorial Day ceremony (+972 Magazine, 2025-04-29)
https://www.972mag.com/20th-joint-memorial-day-ceremony/
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“This year marks the 20th Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony, held annually on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day. Organized by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle – Families Forum, the ceremony brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones to mourn together — and to call for an end to bloodshed, war, and occupation.
“What began as a small, contentious gathering in 2006 has grown into one of the most important and largest grassroots joint peace initiatives. Yet over the years, the event has faced growing resistance...”
“This year, organizers opted not to disclose the location of the main event held inside Israel ... A parallel ceremony was held in Beit Jala in the West Bank …, and the event was broadcast live at dozens
@FarraigePlaisteach if I repeated what I think I’d be jailed. This is inhumane
Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta? - Here’s what we know so far (Times of Malta, 2025-05-06)
Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta? - Here’s what we know so far (Times of Malta, 2025-05-06)
https://timesofmalta.com/article/why-gazabound-aid-ship-attacked-near-malta.1109225
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This question [who was behind the attack] remains at the heart of the incident but concrete information remains scarce.
Activists were quick to point to possible Israeli involvement, particularly after it emerged that an Israeli military aircraft circled #Malta at low altitude just hours before the incident.
Online flight tracker ADS-B Exchange shows that the aircraft spent three hours in Malta’s airspace on Thursday before returning to Israel.
However, the Maltese government reported otherwise, insisting that “at no point in time” did any aircraft or vessel enter Maltese airspace or territorial waters...
[FreedomFlotilla](https://hcomm
World Central Kitchen | #WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out (2025-05-07)
World Central Kitchen | #WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out (2025-05-07)
https://wck.org/news/gaza-update-5-7
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... we have now reached the limits of what is possible.
• Large-scale WCK Field Kitchens have run out of the ingredients needed to prepare daily meals.
• Our mobile bakery—recently the last working bakery in Gaza—has no flour left.
• More than 80% of community kitchens have run out of WCK-provided stock. Without ingredients or fuel, these kitchens cannot feed families who rely on them.
We are still supporting Palestinian families by distributing critically needed potable water where possible.
StarvationAsWeapon #CrimeAgainstHumanity
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By Grace Gilson
May 4, 2025
from The Forward
[Jewish publication from USA]
(JTA) — Last week, at a university known for its diverse population, more than a dozen students sat on the floor of a campus building for 10 minutes holding photos of Palestinian children killed in the war in Gaza.
Five days later, their group was suspended through the end of the semester for staging an unauthorized protest.
It wasn’t in the Ivy League, and ICE agents weren’t about to raid the dorms. It was the latest dustup over the Gaza war at the University of Haifa, where Jewish and Arab Israeli students have at times clashed in ways that echo the campus drama in the United States.
PDF | Exposing UK Arms Exports to Israel (Workers for a Free Palestine et al., 2025-05-07)
https://www.maskoffmaersk.com/s/REPORT-ExposingUKArmsExportsToIsrael-05072025.pdf
Revealed: Britain’s Labour Government Sent 8,000 “Munitions of War” to Israel After Saying It Had Stopped (Drop Site News, 2025-05-07)
Revealed: Britain’s Labour Government Sent 8,000 “Munitions of War” to Israel After Saying It Had Stopped (Drop Site News, 2025-05-07)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uk-israel-munitions-shipments-palestine
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So, so.
After the #UK adopted a new policy that it would not allow any weapons shipments that could be used in Gaza, Britain’s Labour government allowed the export of 8,630 separate munitions to Israel.
The information is revealed in a new report, based on Israeli Tax Authority data, conducted by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International, and Workers for a Free Palestine ...
The report reveals four separate shipments from the UK to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv between September 2024 and February 2025.
The Department for Business and Trade, which oversees British arms exports, refused to specify what the deliveries contained…
@jesuisgavroche @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
The fact that 3000 trucks loaded with food, water and medicine are simply blocked at the border with Egypt makes this far worse.
I am just out of words describing my anger and shame.
@faab64 @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
Photo : Libération d'Auschwitz
@argumento @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
It seems like #Trump lied & there has not been any agreement form #Netanyahu to allow aid into Gaza.
Only 1 truck have entered Gaza but there're no reports of it's content & what is happening to it.
Israel sources have repeatedly deny any knowledge of agreements made with Egypt, US or any other party in regards to allowing #food, #water & #medicine into #Gaza.
57 people, most of them #children have died of #famine but numbers are MUCH higher
@faab64 Donold is lying, of course. @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
UK surely has been "in discussion with France and Saudi Arabia over the recognition of a Palestinian state"...
Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine (Guardian, 2025-05-06)
Senior Tory MPs and peers break ranks to call for recognition of Palestine (Guardian, 2025-05-06)
Seven MPs and six members of the House of Lords have signed the letter to Keir Starmer urging him to defy the Israeli government and give formal recognition to Palestine in advance of key UN talks next month.
The letter... written in late March soon after Israel broke its peace agreement with Hamas...
“Recognising Palestine would affirm our nation’s commitment to upholding the principles of justice, self-determination and equal rights..."
“This is an opportunity for Britain to show leadership, to be on the right side of history and to uphold the principles we claim to champion...”
The prime minister is un
'I got it wrong': Conservative MP 'withdraws' support for Israel over war in Gaza - Politics.co.uk (2025-05-06)
'I got it wrong': [UK] Conservative MP 'withdraws' support for Israel over war in Gaza - Politics.co.uk (2025-05-06)
Mark Pritchard, the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, noted that over twenty years as a parliamentarian he had supported Israel “pretty much at all costs.”
“But today, I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and indeed in the West Bank, and I’d like to withdraw my support right now for the actions of Israel, what they are doing right now in Gaza…
“Can the minister stand up to our friends and allies in the United States and make a strong stand for humanity? ...”
The minister on duty commended Pritchard for his “very powerful intervention
@argumento @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
They are allowing 20 trucks in per day.
UN requirement is 1000 trucks pee day.
At best those 20 will help the most needy, but in reality it will be used as a tool to create chaos and anomacity among the desperate population.
this is just a propaganda ploy to take the heat off Netanyahu and give the disgusting politicians in US and Europe to wash their hands off any responsibility and completely ignore what is going on in occupied West Bank
@faab64 @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
I'm sincerely happy that any amount of food, no mater how little, is being let into Gaza. I'm afraid that it won't stop the famine and that it'll be used to lure the population to the "humanitarian zones" the Israeli are saying they'll open.
Stopping because Israel has made concessions is very far from Trump's claim that "the Houthis gave up".
@argumento @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
They announced that they will stop the attacks if Israel resumes food delivery.
They are letting in small number of trucks guarded and followed by American mercenaries.
This is enough to keep Gaza slightly Above the UN defined famine level to prevent any legal actions by EU or other countries.
@faab64 @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel Trump recently said that "the Houthies have given up". It'd be funny if it wasn't for all the destruction Israel and the USA have caused in Yemen.
#Yemen: Supreme Political Council Speaker Mahdi Al-Mashat: No retreat from #Gaza support, no matter the cost. Yemen's operations were and are support for #Gaza to stop the aggression and allow the
Yemen: Supreme Political Council Speaker Mahdi Al-Mashat: No retreat from #Gaza support, no matter the cost. Yemen's operations were and are support for #Gaza to stop the aggression and allow the entry of aid.
Israel #genocide #Trump #politics #inhumanity #SanctionIsrael #StopIsrael #SaveGaza
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Israel in their very own words.
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — ISRAEL AT WAR — DAY 578
FROM THE LIVEBLOG OF TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025
Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘totally destroyed’ within months, population ‘concentrated’ in narrow border area
By JEREMY SHARON Today, 6:00 pm
Image: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a Religious Zionism party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — ISRAEL AT WAR — DAY 578
“Within a few months we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed,” Smotrich says at the “Settlements Conference” in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, organized by the Makor Rishon newspaper.
“In another six months Hamas won’t exist as a functioning entity... The population of Gaza
Without any support or help from the world, Palestinians will end up like Mauri people of New Zealand, they were almost entirely wiped out by (mostly British) colonialists.
Netanyahu will push Palestinians out of Gaza, EU will make some noise, Arabs make some speeches and Egypt open their borders (for a few of course) to save Palestinians
I have lost hope. This world is just too evil and roo coward to stop the Christian Zionists and Israelis to get what they want.
According to Donald #Trump, the military attacks on the Houthis of Yemen have stopped.
You are joking, right?
Do you know that Israel have blocked any food entry to Gaza in the past 63 days and it is refusing to allow UNRWA or any other UN organization to operate in Gaza.
You can't do shit if the genocidal regime of Israel is blocking the food and bombing food storage facilities again and again.
The only way to solve this is to put pressure on Israel and treat them as a rogue nation they are.
@faab64 @timewarp The majority of U.S citizens are class A citizens of world domination regime. IF they can't elect a pro-Palestinian president it's because this global regime then #Palestinians don't have a time to wait for this majority to act.
@timewarp majority of Americans don't give a shit about politics if it doesn't personally affect them.
Those who do, have elected Israeli firsters (GOP and DNC) because, again it's not important for them.
They care more about price of egg than their country bankrolling a genocide
Who is standing up to Israel?
Who is sanctioning Israel?
Who is boycotting Israel?
Who is holding Israel accountable?
Talk is cheap, voting useless votes in UN is easy, doing something to stop the genocide is what counts.
#Yemen stands alone trying to disrupt Israel's #Genocide in #Gaza
Yemen stands alone trying to disrupt Israel's #Genocide in #Gaza
US, #UK and #Israel are destroying the only county with morality and bravery to disrupt the ongoing genocide by Netanyahu and his genocidal army.
Shame on everyone who is silent.
StandWithYemen #StopGenocide #SaveGaza #SanctionIsrael #StopNetanyahu
@[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
On Sunday, the #UN agency for Palestinian refugees ( #UNRWA) warned that the humanitarian situation across the #Gaza Strip is beyond imagination, calling on the international community to take serious
On Sunday, the #UN agency for Palestinian refugees ( #UNRWA) warned that the humanitarian situation across the #Gaza Strip is beyond imagination, calling on the international community to take serious action to stop this #catastrophe from reaching unseen levels. #Starvation #Genocide #Israel
FoodAsWeapon #Horror @[email protected] @[email protected] @israel
Imagine being 0 years old and already having this hanging over your head, having been done in your “honor.” And to think I’ve called gender reveal parties an atrocity[1] before…
Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say
apnews.com Israel plans to seize Gaza under a new plan, officials say
Two Israeli officials say ministers have approved a plan to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the territory for an unspecified amount of time.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29626776
["fierce opposition"? Don't bet on it.]
By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAM MEDNICK
Updated 5:25 AM EDT, May 5, 2025TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel approved plans on Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, in a move that if implemented would vastly expand Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territory and likely bring fierce international opposition.
Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.
Why Germany Won’t Call It Genocide (Hanno Hauenstein | The Third Draft, 2025-05-04)
Why Germany Won’t Call It Genocide (Hanno Hauenstein | The Third Draft, 2025-05-04)
https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/why-germany-wont-call-it-genocide
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German ver. - https://jacobin.de/artikel/gaza-voelkermord-deutschland-hanno-hauenstein
“Gaza lies in ruins – its people killed, starved, displaced. Yet #Germany refuses to engage with the charge of genocide against Israel. An essay on why this silence will have lasting political effects”
“While Israel’s image in the West is shifting – especially among younger generations – international law increasingly appears to be an empty incantation: a principle … stripped of enforcement mechanisms and universal credibility.
“Germany plays a central role in this context – not only through its continued diplomatic and rhetorical defense of Is
A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza (NYT, 2025-05-04)
A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza (NYT, 2025-05-04)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/middleeast/a-popemobile-will-ride-again-this-time-into-gaza.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.E08.CZ0H.sKQV7KC%5C_ubOn
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In his last months, Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
The popemobile, a converted Mitsubishi, was donated by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority for Francis’ visit. It was given to the Franciscan order afterward, and then to Caritas ...
Preparing the vehicle …including the installation of blastproof windows, will take roughly three weeks, ... Caritas Jerusalem … will soon request appr
Press statement 04-05-2025 [very welcome update from the gov. of Malta, with a stated intent to provide logistical supports and potential repairs to the ship]- Freedom Flotilla
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/04/press-statement-04-05-2025/
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) wishes to inform the public that we received a very welcome update from the government of Malta, with a stated intent to provide logistical supports and potential repairs to our ship, the ‘Conscience’. We would like to reiterate our intent to be let into #Malta, with the guarantee that our peaceful action to sail to Gaza will not be hindered in any way.
[Spokesperson for the FFC, Thiago Avila:] “…We look forward to dialogue and coordination with the Maltese authorities to be able to re-focus media and public attention where it needs to be; on Israel´s calculated genocide, deliberate famine and wholescale destruction in Gaza’
FreedomFlotilla
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Israel’s Total Blockade of Gaza Has Created ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions, Doctors Say
www.nytimes.com As Gaza Siege Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry and Patients Die
The effect of Israel’s total siege has become “catastrophic,” doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.
By Erika Solomon and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad
Photographs and Video by Saher Alghorra
Saher Alghorra reported from northern Gaza.
May 4, 2025 Updated 9:07 a.m. ET
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel] [Hard to believe that the "civilized West" has done nothing against this. The judgement of history will be harsh.]
"The longer Israel’s total siege of the enclave grinds on, the more doctors call to ask where they can find medicine to keep patients alive. Some patients call him up themselves — people with treatable heart problems or kidney failure — to ask: If there is no medicine, what else can they try?
“There’s no advice I can give them,” he said. “In most cases, those patients die.”"
Emergency Press Briefing ... - Freedom Flotilla (2025-05-04)
Emergency Press Briefing ...[Maltese authorities blocked FFC access to the damaged ship] - Freedom Flotilla (2025-05-04)
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/03/press-briefing-and-release/
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On Saturday, a delegation of Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) volunteers ... attempted to reach the ship Conscience to provide support to the crew and volunteers onboard. Their boats were intercepted by the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) who not only failed to provide aid to the ... ship, they forced the delegation to turn back to Malta ... This is the second day in a row where Maltese authorities have blocked FFC access to its ship, crew and participants.
... The vessel, crew and volunteers aboard face mounting threats and are being denied critical assistance... Despite urgent SOS distress calls and direct communication from the Conscience ... #Malta blocked the ship’s passa
Press release | As Night Falls off the Coast of Malta, the Freedom Flotilla Warns of a Potential Second Attack on Its Civilian Ship - Freedom Flotilla (2025-05-02)
Press release | As Night Falls off the Coast of Malta, the Freedom Flotilla Warns of a Potential Second Attack on Its Civilian Ship - Freedom Flotilla (2025-05-02)
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/02/press-release-02-05-2024/
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is warning of a potential second attack on its civilian ship, the Conscience, which remains stranded in international waters off the coast of Malta. ... Water continues to enter the vessel, and the Maltese Coast Guard is refusing it safe entry.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, who was scheduled to join the flotilla [from #Malta], said: “The ship is currently at anchor, as moving it would riskflooding causing it to sink.” Thunberg emphasized, “what is certain is that we human rights activists will continue to do everything in our power to fulfill our responsibility and stand in solidarity with the peopl
“Vaughan raised the flag of Israel outside City Hall” (Steven Del Duca - Mayor of Vaughan | Instagram, 2025-05-02)
“Vaughan [Ontario, #Canada] raised the flag of Israel outside City Hall” (Steven Del Duca - Mayor of Vaughan | Instagram, 2025-05-02)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJIEAIvPfMa/
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In recognition of Israel’s Independence Day, and at the request of CIJA [= Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs], the City of Vaughan raised the flag of Israel outside City Hall…
Aus Election Day 2025 - Pro-Palestinian protester confronts Finance Minister Katy Gallagher
peertube.wtf Aus Election Day 2025 - Pro-Palestinian protester confronts Finance Minister Katy Gallagher
Clip from ABC news: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/federal-election-2025-live-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton/105245936#live-blog-post-176075
At a busy inner-city Canberra polling booth, a man confronted the incumbent finance minister with accusations of genocide.
Labor ACT senate candidate Katy Gallagher was leaving the Lyneham Public School polling booth when she was approached by James Godfrey, spokesperson for pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
"You're a minister in this government and you're doing nothing," Mr Godfrey yells at Senator Gallagher.
"Palestinians in Gaza are being starved at the moment.
"Sixty days plus of no food, no water, no medicines and no fuel and your government is complicit in this genocide."
Pro-Palestinian protester confronts Labor Senator Katy Gallagher
Mr Godfrey says a Freedom Flotilla ship carrying aid bound for Gaza was recently attacked by drones.
"Our ship's been attacked in international waters off the east coast of Malta," he tells reporters afterward.
"There's been fires on board, and we're trying to transpo