Palestine

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."

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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#Gaza #GazaTribunal #Palestine #history #ethics #philosophy

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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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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Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive (Caitlin Johnstone, 2025-05-28)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sorry-if-this-is-antisemitic-but
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>> Now that it’s been made clear that Israel’s goal in Gaza is the complete ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, Israel apologists have been shifting from bleating about hostages and Hamas to arguing that ethnic cleansing is actually fine and good. Which makes sense; that’s really the only argument they can make at this point.

>> Gaza is such an easy moral issue to get right that there’s no way anyone who gets it wrong isn’t a shitty person in other areas of their life as well...

>> World Food Programme director Cindy McCain is saying that she’s seen no evidence of Hamas stealing aid entering Gaza. Israel’s one and only argument for continuing to block aid to Gaza is being publicly debunked by a member of one of the most pro-Israel families in US politics…

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone #FakeAntisemitism
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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. "

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30777133

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

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. "

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5057980

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Gaza: Crowds storm US-backed group's new aid distribution centre (BBC, 2025-05-27)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gep705527o
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>> Thousands of Palestinians have overrun an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there.

>> The GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]… aims to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid in Gaza…

>> The UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with GHF's plans, which they say contradict humanitarian principles and appear to "weaponise aid".

>> On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli military confirmed two sites … had begun distributing food to families.

>> At around the same time, Israeli and Palestinian media shared pictures showing long queues of Palestinians at the Tal al-Sultan site.

>> But just over an hour later, they began posting videos showing thousands of men, women and children streaming into the compound…

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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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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?

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."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45274925

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65135983

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65135875

The Technological Republic, his new “treatise” urging executives and engineers to abandon their pursuit of “trivial consumer products” and recommit their capital and talent to a “national project,” Karp’s effort feels less like a timely cultural intervention and more like what you get when the boss’s pontifications go unchallenged for too long.

This carefully maintained mystique provides the perfect backdrop for Karp to play the eccentric intellectual, someone who drops incendiary statements with academic detachment. On a recent earnings call, he gloated, “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”; at the World Economic Forum, he dismissed the United Nations as “basically a discriminatory institution against anything good”; during an AI conference on Capitol Hill, he castigated pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses as the adherents of a “pagan religion” and asserted that they should be sent to live in North Korea. These statements all come wrapped in eager demonstrations of his knowledge on the history of philosophy, art, and science—a performative erudition very different from the safe, generic corporate-speak of most of his peers. Though identifying as a liberal, Karp’s general strategy seems to be to position himself as a guy that can “talk sense” to the left, which of course appeals to the right—criticizing progressives for their ostensible lack of patriotism, naïve cosmopolitanism, and unwillingness to embrace US military power. It’s a disposition designed for dual purposes: to make the embrace of a hawkish foreign policy and digital dragnet technology appear as the thoughtful centrist stance, and to provide Palantir with a politically palatable counterweight to the more odious ideological baggage of Thiel.

Karp idealizes the Manhattan Project as a Platonic unity of the state and business. He romanticizes the World War II–era entanglement of science and government as a heroic partnership

Oh... great... especially considering this:

Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals

To speed up the development of nuclear power, the orders grant the U.S. energy secretary authority to approve some advanced reactor designs and projects, taking authority away from the independent safety agency that has regulated the U.S. nuclear industry for five decades.

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."

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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30725238

By Alexander Cornwell
May 26, 20253:26 PM EDT

Summary

• Annual 'Flag March' draws tens of thousands of far-right #Israelis, mainly settlers, to #Jerusalem
• Youthful marchers seen harassing, assaulting some #Palestinian residents, other Israelis and journalists, witnesses say
• Violence follows Israeli far-right security minister's visit to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem
• Rally marks #Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 #MiddleEast war

Wadephul lehnt Stopp von Waffen für Israel ab (tagesschau.de, 2025-05-26)

https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-nahost-montag-254.html#Wadephul-lehnt-Stopp-von-Waffen-fuer-Israel-ab
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>> Bundesaußenminister Johann #Wadephul lehnt einen Stopp von deutschen Waffenexporten nach Israel ab. Israel sei zahlreichen Gefahren von außen ausgesetzt, etwa von der Hisbollah, den Huthi und aus dem Iran, sagte Wadephul bei einem Besuch in Madrid. All diese Akteure hätten die Vernichtung Israels zum Ziel. Zugleich sei das Existenzrecht Israels Teil deutscher Staatsraison. Die Bundesregierung sei daher dazu verpflichtet, Israel bei der Gewährung seiner Sicherheit Beistand zu leisten, und dazu gehörten auch Waffenlieferungen. Das Abkommen sei mit dem Staat Israel geschlossen worden und nicht mit der Regierung

#StopArmingIsrael #StopIsrael #Staatsrason

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Amid calls for arms embargo, who supplies Israel's weapons? – DW (2025-05-26)

https://www.dw.com/en/amid-calls-for-arms-embargo-who-supplies-israels-weapons/a-72675978
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>> Crucially, three nations account for almost all of Israel's weapons supply: the United States, #Germany and #Italy.

>> … From 2020-2024, Germany accounted for about a third of Israel's incoming arms supply…

>> And that is unlikely to change, despite Spain's calls for an embargo.

>> "As a country that understands Israel's security and existence as a core principle, Germany is always obliged to assist Israel," said German Foreign Minister Johann #Wadephul.

>> Those comments came as German chancellor Frederich Merz told public broadcaster WDR he "no longer understands” Israel's objective in Gaza …

>> Despite his remark, any future restriction on Germay's arms supply would be a significant development…

#StopArmingIsrael #StopIsrael

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5044809

As Gaza faces annihilation under Israel’s relentless bombardment, a grim lesson offers no solace: surrendering to Israeli terms does not guarantee safety – a truth painfully reflected in the reality of the West Bank.

Gaza bleeds under genocide, but another wound festers within: a deepening emotional and political divide between Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Many in Gaza feel abandoned — not just by the international community, but by their fellow Palestinians across the separation barriers.

The anger reached a boiling point after a televised speech by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, in which he seemingly referred to Hamas as “sons of dogs” and demanded they “just hand over” hostages.”

For many in Gaza, his remarks seemed aimed at all Palestinians in Gaza. This was not merely a political misstep – it was an unforgivable betrayal.

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