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"In this policy lab, Mariam Barghouti and Sharif Abdel Kouddous join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss Israel’s targeted assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists, the complicity of Western media in normalizing these crimes, and how this silence allows Israel to get away with genocide."

https://al-shabaka.org/policy-labs/israels-war-on-palestinian-journalists/

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Lorenzo Tondo, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem
Wed 28 May 2025 01.30 EDT

"The settlers left the injured where they lay and departed before the ambulance arrived. Ten Palestinians were wounded, some with multiple fractures.

“This is all part of a project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank,” said Mohar. “It’s not done by crazy settlers. It’s a state project. The state is informed of everything. If there was a will to stop those attacks, it would have happened in a minute.”"

By MEE staff Published date: 28 May 2025 17:06 BST

"In speech addressing crowds at a Jerusalem Day rally on Monday, which celebrates Israel’s occupation of the old city of Jerusalem, Smotrich also called for “complete redemption” and reconstruction of “the Temple here,” referring to Al-Aqsa Mosque, which settlers had raided earlier.

“We are conquering the Land of Israel, liberating Gaza, settling Gaza and defeating the enemy,” #Smotrich said to crowds that had chanted “death to Arabs” as they marched through Jerusalem’s Old City and attacked #Palestinians. "

problem is not Netanyahu, it is not Ben Gvir. it is the white supremacist mindset of Israeli public.

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By MEE staff
Published date: 27 May 2025 20:22 BST

"The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds, but the Associated Press reported tank and gunfire at the distribution site, possibly due to warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility. "

How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination (Sam Stein | +972 Magazine, 2025-05-30)

https://www.972mag.com/how-six-months-in-the-west-bank-undid-my-zionist-indoctrination/
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>> Growing up in the American Orthodox Jewish world, spending a post-high school year studying Torah in Israel was simply what one did…

>> I finished that year with little understanding of Israel’s occupation…

>> The first time I recall hearing the word “occupation” was when my rabbi — a resident of the illegal settlement … — grumbled about … restricted access to the Temple Mount. “Israel,” he declared, “is occupied by Arabs.”

>> Seven years after …, I returned to Israel-Palestine — this time with a working understanding of the West Bank’s occupation and the responsibility that came with stepping onto this land. … I came to join All That’s Left, a grassroots, non-hierarchical collective of diaspora Jews committed to direct action against the occupation…

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By Maha Hussaini and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine Published date: 27 May 2025 15:58 BST

"Palestinians clamoured for aid and gunfire rang out in chaotic scenes, as a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme turned to shambles.

Journalists in the besiged Gaza Strip said hungry and beleagured residents forced to stand outside a facility holding aid rushed inside because of delays conducting detailed security checks on recepients.

According to Israeli army sources cited by Israeli media, Americans affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had to be rescued once they lost control of the facility."

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Wed 28 May 2025 06.37 EDT

"Witnesses said Israeli forces started shooting after crowds of Palestinians broke through the fences on Tuesday around the distribution site, as an Israeli military helicopter fired flares and bursts of gunfire were heard in the distance. In one video, a large crowd of panicked civilians, including women and children, can be seen running away from the distribution site, trampling the fencing."

Muhammad Shehada: Israel’s ‘Aid Plan’ for Gaza Is a Blueprint for Displacement (Hanno Hauenstein, 2025-05-28)

https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/muhammad-shehada-israels-gaza-aid
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An interview with Muhammad Shehada, a Palestinian analyst from Gaza, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Chief of Communications at Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

>> Behind Israel’s new aid distribution plan lies a system of coercion and control. Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada explains how starvation is weaponized to drive forced displacement.

#StopIsrael #StopGenocide #HannoHauenstein #MuhammadShehada #EuroMedHumanRightsMonitor
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30777133

By MEE staff
Published date: 27 May 2025 21:30 BST

Writers [of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] Demand Immediate Gaza Ceasefire | by #WritersForGaza | May, 2025 | Medium

https://medium.com/@horatioclare/writers-demand-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-65ae44bd7241
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h/t https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/114585370286244107

>> We… ask our nations and the peoples of the world to join us in ending our collective silence and inaction in the face of horror.

>> We ask all people to join in our call for compassion, for reason and for mediation...:

1. We demand the immediate unrestricted distribution of food and medical aid throughout Gaza by the UN.
2. We demand that sanctions be imposed on the State of Israel if the Israeli government does not heed this call… for an immediate ceasefire.
3. We demand a ceasefire which guarantees safety and justice for all Palestinians, the release of all Israeli hostages, and the release of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners arbitrarily held in Israeli jails.

#OpenLetter
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Gaza-based Palestinian author Alaa Alqaisi asks herself the question posed more than half a century ago at the end of Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”: Why didn’t they knock on the walls of the tank?

UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers (Guardian, 2025-05-27)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers
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>> The #UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said…

Link to the letter ⬇️
https://lawyersletter.uk/

#RuleOfLaw #StopIsrael
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From the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo, this is just starting now:

Panel 5: Cultures of Erasure
Moderator: Wesam Ahmad

Politics of Palestine Exception – Ussama Makdisi

Zionist Culture and Genocide Denial – Saree Makdisi

Gaza Tribunal itinerary:

https://richardfalk.org/2025/05/25/gaza-tribunal-program-for-sarajevo-public-sesssion-may-26-29-2025/

Panel 5 YouTube live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd1XiULLJ4k

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Jeremy Scahill May 26, 2025 [~4:00pm EDT]

"But before the deal could advance, Israeli officials rushed to the media to kill it. Soon after, Witkoff publicly accused Hamas of misrepresenting the proposal—directly contradicting what sources told Drop Site had been agreed to in private discussions.

The negotiations are ongoing."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30747039

By Alexander Cornwell May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a “festive procession”, part of a broader programme of events celebrating the “liberation” of the city.

The march has been marred by racism and attacks on Palestinians for years, and is preceded by a campaign of violence in the Old City that in effect shuts down Palestinian majority areas, particularly in the Muslim Quarter."

MATW claims to still be distributing food via local distributors inside blockades. Does anyone have information on MATW or other charities on the ground? Is there somewhere folks can donate money that actually translates to more food for the starving?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30772554

May 26, 2025

"Thousands of nationalist Israelis descended to Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances. Right-wing activists held banners that read "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands".

Arab traders in the Muslim Quarter who had yet to close their shops were harassed by young Israeli men, witnesses said.

Chants of "May your village burn" and "Your home will be ours" were heard throughout the march. "

A week after David Lammy announced the suspension of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel, Keir Starmer's trade envoy to Israel, Ian Austin, tweets about being in Israel to "promote trade with the UK".

#UK #Israel #Hyppocrisy #Genocide #Europe #Starmer #StopTheLies
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