Palestine

By Imran Mulla
Published date: 20 May 2025 15:07 BST

""The world is judging," Lammy said. "History will judge them [the #Israeli government]. Blocking aid, expanding the war, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible and it must stop.""

A German leftist MP called out during chancellor’s speech “it’s a genocide”.

#Germany's new chancellor Friedrich Merz gave his first government statement on 14 May. As he referred to “the war in Gaza”, there was an interrupting call from among the Left Party faction: “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide (Es gibt keinen Krieg, es gibt einen Genozid)”.

Soon after the speech was finished the president of the Bundestag Julia Klöckner rushed to reprove it as “a relativization of Holocaust” and not to be allowed, without identifying the caller.

cf. [in German]
Julia Klöckner rügt Linke für »Genozid«-Zwischenruf - Der Spiegel (2025-05-15)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/julia-kloeckner-bundestagspraesidentin-ruegt-linke-fuer-genozid-zwischenruf-a-5437d0fe-d283-4ca4-8e45-14af9a9e1e62

Later Mirze Edis declared his deed:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191363.krieg-in-gaza-mirze-edis-es-bleibt-ein-genozid.html [interview in German]

#StopGenocide #NameGenocideGenocide #MirzeEdis #relativizationOfHolocaust
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Lessons of a Weimar Anti-Fascist in Palestine | Barry Yourgrau (The Nation, 2024-09-03)

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/weimar-anti-fascist-palestine-zionism/
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>> After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

>> … he published a controversial German-language political and cultural weekly called Orient, ... Orient offers a fascinating window into the forces already stirring there, as well as the travails of some of its German Jewish refugees. After almost a year of being the target of constant hostility …, Orient was finally silenced when a bomb blew its print shop to pieces.

>> … the story of my father’s exile and his milieu … evokes a dark, internecine version of the currents swirling toward Israel’s birth, currents that have swept through the decades to today’s horrors in Gaza and the West Bank…

#BarryYourgrau
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Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem
Tue 20 May 2025 14.53 EDT

"Two days after Benjamin Netanyahu announced he was lifting the siege of #Gaza, #Israel is still blocking food from reaching starving #Palestinians, the #UN has said, as the leader of the country’s centre-left Democrats party said his country was becoming a pariah nation that “kills babies as a hobby”.

Only five trucks of aid had reached Gaza by Tuesday afternoon and aid workers had not been given permission to distribute even that token shipment..."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4979173

Most days, I live in a state of mshahar.

Mshahar is a word in Palestinian dialect, specific to Gaza, that means miserable or terribly unlucky. It’s the feeling that bad luck is chasing you all the time. My mom keeps saying that we’re a mshahar generation – we were born when life was collapsing. It describes Palestinians perfectly because war and agony never fail to leave us alone.

Israel broke the cease-fire in mid-March and the war was back, though it was never really over – over a hundred people were killed by Israeli attacks during the “cease-fire,” and the drones never went away.

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Israeli Minister of Defense:

'We will only allow the bare minimum amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza. We will not let Hamas use this aid.

We will make sure that this humanitarian aid is no more than the food required to survive. Our objectives in Gideon's Chariots will be achieved, Hamas will be destroyed.'.'

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Out of the 500 daily aid trucks needed to sustain #Gaza civilians, #Israel allowed the entry of 5 aid trucks today – about 1% of what's needed

Israel's DM, Yisrael Katz, stated again: 'We will only allow the bare minimum of food into Gaza. The basic amount to survive, to prevent starvation.'
#Starvation @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

الحرية لرجا اغبارية ولكفة اسرى الحرية

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Despite the media lies about Israeli halt on their attacks against Palestinians in Gaza Israeli occupation warplanes launch an airstrike west of #Jabalia refugee camp, northern #Gaza Strip.

#Propaganda #Genocide #Politics @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Palestinian Resistance groups announced several operations against Israeli troops, as the latter launched their wide-scale ground invasion of Gaza, further escalating the genocide against Palestinians.

Palestinian Resistance fighters detonated a pre-planted GBU-39/B bomb abandoned by Israeli forces, destroying an Israeli military vehicle during its advance on al-Muntar Street in Gaza City's al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood on May 12, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement reported on Tuesday.

how many dead children does it take for the world to stop supporting Israeli genocidal acts?

#israel #Gaza #Starvation #WarCrime #Genocide #Politics #Inhumanity

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More war crimes!

from #DropsiteNews
Rasha Abou jalal
May 19, 2025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30394188

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem
Mon 19 May 2025 15.08 EDT

"Earlier that day, Israel’s military declared an entire city a combat zone, airstrikes killed more than 60 people, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said Israel’s army would “wipe out” what remains of Palestinian Gaza.

“We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response,” the three allied governments said in a statement on Monday."

Finally

As key Israel allies threaten action over Gaza catastrophe, Washington is largely unmoved (Guardian, 2025-05-19)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/israel-gaza-war-us-congress-white-house
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>> As Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate Khan Younis in advance of what it calls an “unprecedented attack” on Gaza, much of Washington remains largely unmoved, even as Canada and European countries [= France &UK] threaten “concrete actions” if Israel does not scale back its offensive.

>> Despite reports of growing pressure from the Trump administration to increase aid into Gaza, where widespread famine looms, the White House continues to publicly back Israel...

#USPol #StopGenocide
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30377108

from #TheSeattleTimes May 19, 2025 at 12:42 pm Updated May 19, 2025 at 4:32 pm

"Seattle police arrested one demonstrator after a crowd of dozens tried to push into the Seattle Convention Center, where hundreds had gathered for Microsoft Build. Several demonstrators were doused with pepper spray.

Demonstrators ultimately left the convention center at 1:30 p.m., returning to downtown Seattle’s Westlake Park where they had rallied earlier in the day."