Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

Geezer militant, retired healthcare IT programmer/analyst, long-time #socialist, #FOSS advocate, eternal student and advocate of #Esperanto, supporter of: #CubanRevolution, #Palestine, #BlackLivesMatter, #WomensRights, defense of the environment. Enjoy exercise, music, reading, nature.
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Started on mastodon.online on Oct. 31, 2022 - merged that into expressional.social on 9/30/24.

#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #NoToAntisemitism
#NoArmsToIsrael #EndTheOccupation
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
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#AbortionRights #LGBTQRights
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2025-09-05 17:38:37 UTC

Israel says it is opening “gates of Hell” as it demolishes high-rise in Gaza City, Hamas posts new video of Israeli captives as it calls on Trump to force a deal
Drop Site Daily: September 5, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
69 #Palestinians were killed and 422 injured in the past 24 hours. Israeli Defense Minister says the "gates of hell" are opening in #Gaza as the Israeli military destroys a high-rise building in a densely populated part of Gaza City. #Israel has killed more than 19,000 children in Gaza, at a rate of one child every 52 minutes. The Israeli army says it now controls 40% of Gaza City and says it will escalate the offensive in the coming days. President Donald #Trump insists on a deal where “all hostages are returned immediately,” and #Hamas reaffirms their agreement to this deal. #US sanctions three leading Palestinian NGOs.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-city-attack-building-captives-video?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USpol
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-26 04:59:17 UTC

Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel’s Tactics in Gaza
Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
By Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer
Aug. 26, 2025, 12:01am ET
As #Israel’s tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation, rabbis from across the world are taking the unusual step of speaking out against the Israeli government’s conduct in the war, on moral and religious grounds.
Over the past few weeks, as reports of starvation and mass killings in #Gaza have spread, a significant number of clergy across the spectrum of #Jewish observance and affiliation have signed a series of high-profile, carefully crafted public letters criticizing the #Israeli government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/rabbis-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.7xEh._ozvCRHwNWAp&smid=url-share
#news #USPol #press @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-26 04:48:15 UTC

#KilmarAbregoGarcia detained by #ICE during Baltimore check-in
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
August 25, 2025 915am ET
#AbregoGarcia on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging his current detention and any deportation to Uganda or any other country until a trial is held at an immigration court.
In a statement after his detention, Kristi Noem, the secretary of the #US #DHS, said he is being processed "for removal to Uganda."
At the core of Abrego Garcia's case is the question of due process under President #Trump's aggressive crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the US. The man was arrested in March and sent to a notorious prison in #ElSalvador despite a 2019 court order barring his #deportation to the Central American country because of the "well-founded fear" of gang persecution there. The Trump administration conceded his removal was an "administrative error" and returned him to the US in June to face criminal charges.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5515422/kilmar-abrego-garcia-detained-ice
#news #press #USPol

2025-08-25 18:03:20 UTC

Five journalists killed in a double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital, 11 die of Gaza’s famine in the past day, #KilmarAbregoGarcia detained again by #ICE
Drop Site Daily: August 25, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
Gaza— all over the past 24 hours. Another attack on Nasser Hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists in Gaza—raising the total number of journalists killed in Gaza to 245. #Israel widens its assault on Gaza City where it has destroyed over 1,000 buildings, after days of heavy strikes on Jabaliya. Only six #hospitals are partially operating in Gaza City, as the #Gaza Health Ministry issues a distress call on Monday to protect what remains of health services. Israeli Forces raided the village of Al-Mughayyir in the #WestBank for four consecutive days. [...]
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-gaza-israel-nasser-hospital-killed-journalists-kilmar-abrego-garcia
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopTheDeporations
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#StopKillingJournalists
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USPol
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-25 16:49:32 UTC

Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC
from #DemocracyNow!
Interview with Muhammad Shehada
Palestinian writer and analyst
August 25, 2025
[contains chilling details of the methodical Israeli attack]
#Israeli airstrikes on Nasser Hospital in southern #Gaza killed at least 20 people Monday, including five #Palestinian journalists. Eyewitnesses say Israel carried out a “double-tap” strike on the hospital. A drone initially hit the hospital’s roof, killing one journalist setting up a live stream, and then another strike hit journalists and rescue workers who were responding to the initial strike. “#Israel knew exactly who was there,” says Palestinian writer and analyst #MuhammadShehada. “Israel has killed 244 journalists, by far surpassing all 20 years of the war in Vietnam or all six years of the Second World War.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/25/gaza_journalists
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-25 16:06:29 UTC

EPA Is ‘100 Percent’ Union-Busting, Workers Say
After ending their collective-bargaining agreements, the #EPA ordered employees to seek prior approval for protected #union activities on non-duty time.
August 25, 2025
According to an internal advisory obtained by the Prospect, the agency has resorted to citing U.S. Criminal Code as justification for prior authorization, specifically referencing “the representational conflicts of interest statute.” The statute is designed to prevent conflicts of interest emerging from outside employment, whether paid or unpaid, but the EPA appears to be using it to restrict federal #workers from participating in union-protected activities. In the agency’s plane of reality, building support for improved working conditions without permission could be a criminal offense. Describing the agency’s conduct, Chen said “it’s 100 percent union-busting.”
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-25-epa-100-percent-union-busting-workers-say/
#news #press #WorkersRights #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #US #USPol

2025-08-25 15:24:56 UTC

'What a Live-Streamed Genocide Looks Like': Israel Kills 4 #Journalists, 15 Others in #Hospital Bombing
"#Israel is trying to silence any reporting of its war crimes in #Gaza."
from #CommonDreams
Jon Queally
Aug 25, 2025
https://www.commondreams.org/news/genocide-2673915032
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-25 09:56:47 UTC

#Israel bombs Khan Younis hospital, killing journalists and rescue worker
Initial bombing hits the upper floor of Nasser hospital, followed by a strike on response teams attempting to rescue the wounded
from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 25 August 2025 09:36 BST Last update ~0500 EDT
#Israeli air strikes targeted the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on Monday, killing 14 #Palestinians, including several journalists and a rescue worker.
The first strike hit the upper floor of the hospital, which was one of the largest medical facilities in #Gaza prior to the war.
A second strike targeted the rescue team responding to the casualties from the initial bombing.
Four journalists were killed in the attack.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bombs-khan-younis-hospital-killing-journalists-and-rescue-worker
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#BDS
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-25 03:57:12 UTC

** 'Stop the Genocide': Thousands of Israelis Rally Against War and Famine in Gaza**
"We stood proud and tall together because there is nothing that will stop the just civilian resistance to the genocide and occupation," said one protester.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 24, 2025
Thousands of #Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday in multiple demonstrations demanding an end to their government's genocidal war and engineered famine in #Gaza and a deal to free the remaining hostages held by #Hamas since October 2023.
Israelis—both #Arab and #Jewish—rallied in Habima Square holding signs reading "Stop the #Genocide" and photos of some of the at least 115 #Palestinian children who have starved to death in [...] what has officially been declared a full-blown famine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israelis-protest-gaza-genocide
#StopStarvingGaza
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-24 23:46:24 UTC

Exclusive: #JeremyCorbyn on building a new party to transform #British politics
#MEE sat down with the former #Labour leader to talk about his vision for the new left-wing party
from #MiddleEastEye
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 22 August 2025
That party doesn't exist yet. It doesn't even have a name. But it has already received more than 800,000 sign-ups.
Now, he is organising a #Gaza Tribunal of his own. “We have on 4 and 5 of September, for two days in Church House in Westminster, an open public inquiry,” #Corbyn says.
“It will be live on YouTube and lots of other platforms and channels, and that inquiry will be hearing voices from people in Gaza, in the #WestBank, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, international legal experts.”
[Note to our Fedi friends in the #UK - it would be great if someone could get this tribunal streamed via #Peertube in some fashion.]
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jeremy-corbyn-building-new-party-transform-british-politics
#StopStarvingGaza
#BDS
#Israel #Palestine #UKPol
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-24 15:45:13 UTC

'The Oligarchy Is the Enemy': Maine Oyster Farmer Launches Senate Bid to Oust Susan Collins
"I will be a senator," said Graham Platner, "for all those who can't buy senators."
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 19, 2025
Launching a #US #Senate run to unseat five-term #Maine #Republican Sen. #SusanCollins, oyster farmer #GrahamPlatner on Tuesday made clear in his inaugural ad that beating the "fake" moderate also means taking on the power-hungry billionaire class that has helped keep her in power all these years.
The enemy that the vast majority of Americans and Mainers have in common, said #Platner, "is the #oligarchy."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/susan-collins-reelection
#USA #USPol #politics #Democrat #DemocraticParty #WorkingClass #BillionaireMinimumTax #MedicareForAll
#news #press

2025-08-24 15:16:36 UTC

VIDEO: #Serbia at the Crossroads
For 9 months, the #Balkan nation has been rocked by mass protests against the rule of Aleksandar Vučić. A short documentary chronicles the roots of the crisis.
from #DropSiteNews
Marka Žvaka
Aug 23, 2025
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-serbia-mass-protests-aleksandar-vucic
#BELGRADE, SERBIA—On August 12, 2025..., several hundred people took to the streets to protest against the repression by the regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. That evening, pro-government supporters attacked demonstrators, throwing stones and frozen water bottles and targeting them with fireworks. The protestors retaliated, throwing objects back at Vučić’s supporters.
These events sparked outrage, in part because the police stood by and allowed the violent attacks by Vučić’s supporters against the demonstrators, and on August 13, people in several Serbian cities protested... The police responded with force, and since then, clashes between protestors and police have continued across Serbia.
#news #politics

2025-08-23 21:48:15 UTC

#Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger
“Imagine looking at your child, and you can’t feed him. You can’t do anything for him.”
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Aug 22, 2025
Umm Jana’s two-and-a-half year-old daughter, Jouri, died earlier this month from malnutrition. Now, her other daughter, five-year-old Jana, is also slowly starving to death and there is little Umm Jana can do to save her.
“My daughter Jouri—because of the famine—was deeply affected. She developed severe malnutrition and health complications that led to her death. I hope I never have to go through with Jana what I went through with Jouri,” Umm Jana told #DropSiteNews in an interview [...] in #Gaza City. Jana was lying on a cot beside her, barely stirring.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-famine-children-dying-malnutrition-starvation
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-23 20:11:48 UTC

Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling Cubans
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
By Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025
[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.
A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/asia/vietnam-cuba-fundraising.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.yCP_.8hGecZq2zPRz&smid=url-share
#VivaCuba
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#EndTheEmbargo
#news #politics
@nprofile…jl5f
@nprofile…90cv

2025-08-23 02:16:59 UTC

In #Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins
Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful #Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man’s pitch thinks he has a better chance.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
Annie Karni
Aug. 19, 2025
Enter #GrahamPlatner, a 40-year-old oyster farmer and former Marine who served three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and is set on Tuesday to announce a long-shot challenge to Ms. Collins, with a campaign focused on making life better for his state’s working class.
A competitive pistol shooter who worked as a bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill while attending George Washington University on the G.I. Bill, he said that “everyone knows we live in a system that is not built to represent working-class people.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/maine-senate-candidate-collins.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.Tmob.LN6YammrS3-x&smid=url-share
#USA #US #USPol #DemocraticParty #SusanCollins
#news #press #politics #WorkingClass

2025-08-23 01:55:03 UTC

‘Pasé décadas en Columbia. Cancelo mi curso de otoño debido al acuerdo que entabló con Trump’
de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook
agosto 2, 2025
El artículo que sigue fue publicado por primera vez por el diario británico #TheGuardian el 1 de agosto de 2025. Es una carta abierta de Rashid Khálidi a la administración de la Universidad de #Columbia en la ciudad de #NuevaYork.
“Aunque me he jubilado, tenía programado enseñar un magno curso de charlas sobre este tema en el otoño como ‘conferencista especial’, pero no puedo hacerlo bajo las condiciones que Columbia aceptó en junio cuando capituló ante la administración Trump”, escribió Khálidi en su carta abierta, la cual reproducimos a continuación.
https://world-outlook.com/es/2025/08/02/pase-decadas-en-columbia-cancelo-mi-curso-de-otono-debido-al-acuerdo-que-entablo-con-trump/
#SolidaridadConPalestina
#español #ES
#EstadosUnidos #politica #prensa #noticias #EEUU
#Gaza #Israel #Palestina #MedioOriente
#USA #US #USPol #Trump
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-22 15:49:12 UTC

The world authority on food crisis officially declares famine for over 500,000 in Gaza, ICE gets new cars with “DEFEND THE HOMELAND” decals, the FBI raids John Bolton
Drop Site Daily: August 22, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
Aug 22, 2025
#Israel has killed 52 #Palestinians since dawn, as the #UN officially declares a full-blown famine in #Gaza that threatens to starve more than half-a-million people. New reports highlight the extent of torture, famine, and medical shortages—leading to painful surgeries without anesthetic—in the Gaza Strip. #Hamas heads to Doha, signalling its continued willingness to Gaza on the same day #Netanyahu says he will “take over Gaza” The State Department plans to ramp up surveillance of visa seekers. #ICE plans to spend millions on gilded SUVs bearing the phrase “DEFEND THE HOMELAND.” [...]
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-ipc-israel-gaza-netanyahu-hamas-trump-ice
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPol #Trump
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-22 15:29:41 UTC

He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him.
from #NewYorkTimes
[gift article]
Opinion - Lydia Polgreen
Aug. 21, 2025
[probably the most critical article of Israel I have seen in the #NYT]
Eleven days ago, #Israel assassinated a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a young man who had suddenly become the face and voice of the desperate people of his homeland, #Gaza.
In gripping dispatches on #AlJazeera and his social media feeds, that journalist, #AnasAlSharif, documented the relentless #Israeli assault on civilians, breaking down on camera as he reported on the gathering famine. [...] He, four of his colleagues from Al Jazeera and at least one freelance journalist were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a press tent...
The Israeli military made no attempt to obscure this brazen strike on civilians, which is a war crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/israel-al-sharif-killing-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gE8.bPXJ.S519HUDu-w6V&smid=url-share
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopIsrael
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-20 17:55:01 UTC

The occupancy rate of Gaza’s hospital beds reaches 300%, Israel calls up 60,000 reservists to escalate in Gaza City, and the U.S. sends naval ships to the Caribbean to fight “drug cartels”
Drop Site Daily: August 20, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
58 #Palestinians have been killed, with three dead of starvation, over the past 24 hours. #Israel mobilizes one of its largest batch of reservists as the assault on #Gaza City intensifies. A “Population Relocation Unit” plans to oversee the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza. #Hamas has accepted the Qatari and Egyptian truce proposal; Israel continues to stall. The #US escalates its militarized response to “drug cartels” in #Mexico and #Venezuela...
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-israel-hamas-united-states-drop-site-daily-august-twentieth
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPol #Trump
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-19 15:23:21 UTC

Confirmed Gaza death toll tops 62,000, Hamas accepts ceasefire proposal, Trump announces plans for trilateral talks with Putin and Zelenskyy
Drop Site Daily: Aug. 19, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
The confirmed death toll in #Gaza has crossed 62,000 with at least 26 #Palestinians killed over the past 24 hours, including four while seeking aid. Gaza City under siege. #Hamas accepts the latest ceasefire proposal, while #Israel has yet to issue a response. Gaza fisherman discuss extermination campaign by #Israeli government. #US to revoke more than 6,000 student visas. #Trump and #Zelensky meet. Congolese government and rebels fail to meet deadline for negotiations.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-israel-hamas-putin-trump-zelenskyy-netanyahu-drop-site-daily
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
#USA #US #USPol
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-19 15:08:20 UTC

Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City, Putin courts Trump, Bolivia’s right-wing gains, U.S. stops medical treatment for Gaza’s children
Drop Site Daily: Aug. 18, 2025
from #DropSiteNews
Aug 18, 2025
Since dawn, #Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people in #Gaza, with the Ministry of Health reporting five more deaths from starvation. #Israel announces plans to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of #Palestinians in Gaza southwards as part of its Gaza City invasion. Half a million Israelis protest for an end to the war in Tel Aviv. Far-right activist #LauraLoomer prompts #Trump administration to stop Palestinian children from receiving medical care in the United States. #Yemen and Israel exchange fire...
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-forcibly-displace-gaza-city-trump-putin-children-medical-treatment
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPol #Trump
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-19 01:19:50 UTC

Video of #AirCanada strikers picket lines
from from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
August 18, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/canada/100000010346124/air-canada-strike.html?smid=url-share
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #news #strike #Canada

2025-08-18 14:20:44 UTC

‘¡Gaza, #Gaza, pan y agua! ¡EE.UU., #Israel, alto a la masacre!’
Más de 1.000 manifestantes frente a #NacionesUnidas en la ciudad de #NuevaYork
[contiene muchas fotos]
de #PanoramaMundial / #WorldOutlook
julio 31, 2025
CIUDAD DE NUEVA YORK, 25 de julio de 2025 — Como parte de un Día Internacional de Acción, más de mil personas se manifestaron hoy frente a la sede de las Naciones Unidas (#ONU) para exigir “¡Dejen de matar de hambre a Gaza YA!”
La manifestación y la posterior marcha por el centro de Manhattan fueron organizadas por el capítulo local del Movimiento Juvenil Palestino (PYM, por sus siglas en inglés), con el apoyo de muchas organizaciones asociadas. La Voz Judía por la Paz (#JVP) jugó un papel importante, ya que el #PYM le pidió que movilizara a sus miembros y mantuviera un piquete antes del inicio de la manifestación.
https://world-outlook.com/es/2025/07/31/gaza-gaza-pan-y-agua-ee-uu-israel-alto-a-la-masacre/
#español #ES
#EstadosUnidos #politica #prensa #noticias #EEUU
#Palestina #protesta @nprofile…tq73 @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-17 18:03:22 UTC

Israelis rally for end to Gaza war and release of captives
Activists block roads and the families of Hamas captives call for a general strike
from #MiddleEastEye
By MEE staff
Published date: 17 August 2025 11:52 BST
#Israeli police arrested at least 22 protesters on Sunday as nationwide demonstrations and strikes called for an end to the war in #Gaza and the release of captives.
Demonstrators blocked several roads in Tel Aviv, including the highway connecting the city with Jerusalem. Activists set tyres on fire and caused traffic jams, while protest organisers and the main campaign group representing the families of captives called for a general strike on Sunday.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that protesters would "shut down the country today [Sunday] with one clear call: Bring back the 50 hostages, end the war".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israelis-rally-end-gaza-war-and-release-captives
#StopGazaGenocide
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-17 14:53:30 UTC

Agonising heat wave hits Gaza amid widescale dehydration and famine
An outbreak of skin diseases is also spreading due to the sweltering weather and harsh displacement conditions
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Mera Aladam
Published date: 15 August 2025 15:33 BST
The #UN's agency for #Palestinian refugees (#UNRWA) warned in a post on X that the scorching heat is "making an already desperate situation far worse".
The agency noted the limited water supply across the besieged enclave, as Israel continues its months-long blockade on the territory.
"Bombardments and forced displacement continue. With limited electricity and fuel, there is no relief from the extreme heat," it said. "There must be a ceasefire."
#Gaza is facing severe water shortages due to months of #Israel's attacks targeting water and sanitation infrastructure, including desalination plants and sewage systems.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/agonising-heat-wave-hits-gaza-amid-widescale-dehydration-famine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-17 03:21:03 UTC

“Israel has succeeded in killing me.”
#Israel’s war on the press [lead article]
The #Israeli military just assassinated six #Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike, among them beloved #AlJazeera correspondent #AnasAlSharif, one of the most prominent journalists still reporting from #Gaza.
from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
Other items:
Take Action: Block the Bombs.
What we’re doing: Occupying Schumer and Gillibrand’s offices in NYC…
…and shutting down Fetterman’s office in Philly.
Power Half-Hours for Gaza.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/08/13/israel-has-succeeded-in-killing-me/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Wire&sourceid=1001761&emci=46b76bef-5778-f011-b481-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=1cb79fa8-6078-f011-b481-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=890015
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendPalestinianJournalists
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-15 16:59:01 UTC

DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
Democrats say they need enthusiasm among young voters. They aren’t listening to what Gen Z wants.
from #TheIntercept
Matt Sledge
August 15 2025, 10:38 a.m.
When it comes to #Israel’s handling of the war on #Gaza, #Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party members support Israel’s military actions, according to a Gallup poll from last month.
A vote at the #Democratic National Committee meeting later this month could once again expose the yawning rift between the party’s base and its leaders, who are lining up to oppose a resolution against arms for Israel.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/15/dnc-chair-israel-arms-weapons-gaza/
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-15 15:30:59 UTC

Cuban from Miami: Embargo is “Un-American”
from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
August 14,, 2025
...Many Cuban Americans oppose hard-line policies that have caused so much suffering on both sides of the Florida Straits.
Fernando Bretos is one of them. This week...we hear from Bretos, a Cuban-American marine biologist raised in Miami who is dedicated to building bridges between the two countries.
Other articles
#Solar farms multiply across Cuba amid power crisis
#Brazil now receives more Cuban asylum requests than the #US
#Cuban private sector keeps overtaking the state
#Vietnamese firm harvests rice in Cuba under historic land deal
The paradox of rising US imports to Cuba amid max pressure sanctions*#Cuba’s public transport continues to deteriorate
More Cubans deported from the U.S.
Love is the Law: #LGBTQ+ rights book presented in Havana
#EndTheEmbargoBlockade
#news #politics
@nprofile…jl5f
@nprofile…90cv

2025-08-15 14:14:03 UTC

#Israeli far-right national security minister posts video online showing him confronting high-profile #Palestinian detainee in his prison cell
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]
In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround #MarwanBarghouti in a corner of his cell.
“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.
#Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/15/israel-gaza-palestinian-injured-attack-israeli-settlers-west-bank-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-689f23ed8f08dda1a2de1eeb#block-689f23ed8f08dda1a2de1eeb
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-14 23:36:30 UTC

The OAS Caves to U.S. Pressure Yet Again
from weekly newsletter of #BellyOfTheBeast video collective [contains text and video links]
7/08/2025
U.S. Pressure Lands #Cuban-American Hardliner on Human Rights Commission [lead article]
https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/40750
#CubanMedicalSolidarity
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#Cuba #OAS #Trump #news #USPolitics #US #USA #Latin America #MarcoRubio
@nprofile…jl5f
@nprofile…90cv

2025-08-14 22:14:14 UTC

US EMBASSY IN CUBA: Press statement, issued on August 13, 2025, attacking Cuba's medical assistance programs
from #CubaNews
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
PRESS STATEMENT
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON
AUGUST 13, 2025
Translation: Walter Lippmann.
Today, the Department of State has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on government officials from certain African countries, #Cuba, and #Grenada, as well as their family members, for their complicity in the #Cuban regime’s medical mission scheme...
https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/41993
#CubaMedicalSolidarity
#ImperialArrogance
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#news #US #USA #USPolitics #politics #LatinAmerica
@nprofile…jl5f
@nprofile…90cv

2025-08-14 21:43:15 UTC

Rage mounts over Israel’s targeted assassinations, Israel's plan to deport Palestinians to South Sudan, and the latest on ceasefire talks
Introducing Drop Site Daily [news summary]
from #DropSiteNews
August 13, 2025
At least 65 Palestinians have been killed by #Israel since dawn. Global backlash mounts against the murders of Palestinian journalists in #Gaza City. The #UN updates numbers documenting the extent of the food and fuel crisis. Israel is reportedly considering plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza by forcibly displacing them to #SouthSudan. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces—backed by the UAE—attacked a famine-stricken refugee camp in Darfur, killing at least 40 people. A senior #Hamas official reaffirms that a deal to end the #genocide remains on the table as Hamas sends a delegation to Egypt. #Israeli settlers shot dead a #Palestinian man in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the #WestBank...
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-13 12:35:15 UTC

One of the Few Israelis with a Direct Line to Gazans Urges the Public to Confront ‘Extreme’ Horrors
[
The following was the lead article in the #Israeli daily Haaretz on August 7, 2025.
reprinted with an introduction by #WorldOutlook
August 11, 2025
“I read and translate testimonies of people who walk 7 kilometers each way in order lug a sack of flour weighing 30 kilos in this horrific heat. How can we even imagine that? The extreme heat is also playing a part.
“It’s terribly frightening because every time, you feel as if you’ve crossed another threshold from which it’s already impossible to return. For example, the erasure of #Gaza — there is no way back from that. What that means is, that even if the last soldier returns to Israel today and the Gaza Strip is opened to the world, we’re in a situation in which there is no way to exist in Gaza.”
https://world-outlook.com/2025/08/11/jewish-jihad-has-seized-control-of-israel/
#StopGazaGenocide
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97 @nprofile…pj05

2025-08-12 02:32:35 UTC

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Last post from Anas al-Sharif, whom Al Jazeera calls one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
Sharif, one of #AlJazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza City on Sunday night. Seven people were killed in the attack...
[...]
The #IIDF admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against #Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.
It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/funeral-held-for-anas-al-sharif-and-other-journalists-killed-in-israeli-strike?CMP=share_btn_url
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-10 20:48:21 UTC

Sanders Takes #Oligarchy Fight to #Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in #WestVirginia
"Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?" #BernieSanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. "Somebody got it wrong."
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025
...some in the crowd sported red bandanas around their necks—a nod to the state's long history of labor organizing and the thousands of coal mine workers who formed a multiracial coalition in 1921 and marched wearing bandanas for the right to join a union with fair pay and safety protections.
"Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare," #Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts...
Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's #Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose #SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram benefits, according to estimates.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates
#news #politics #USPolitics

2025-08-10 16:28:55 UTC

Hundreds Arrested In London for Opposing Ban on Nonviolent Group Palestine Action
"Let us be under no illusion," said one organizer. "The government is criminalizing the people of #Britain for standing up against the biggest #genocide of the 21st century, as it's livestreamed from #Gaza."
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 09, 2025
British campaigners reported Saturday that the sheer volume of people who showed up in #London's Parliament Square to support the nonviolent advocacy group #PalestineAction presented a major challenge for the Metropolitan Police, who had threatened to arrest anyone supporting the organization.
The campaign group #DefendOurJuries reported that as of 4:00 pm local time, at least 200 people had been arrested for joining the protest, where more than 1,000 sat silently in the square with many displaying signs that read: "I oppose genocide. I support #Palestine Action."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action-london
#Israel #UK
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-08 18:45:21 UTC

Over 500 ready to risk arrest to protest #PalestineAction ban on Saturday
Organisers say unprecedented numbers will test the Metropolitan Police's pledge to arrest everyone supporting the banned group
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Katherine Hearst
Published date: 8 August 2025 16:39 BST
Last update 12:10 EDT
Campaign group #DefendOurJuries (#DOJ) is organising the protest on Saturday in Parliament Square to demand the reversal of the group’s proscription, saying that the protest would only go ahead if at least 500 people committed to joining.
As of Monday evening, the group said that as many as 1,000 people had signed up, confirming on Tuesday that it would go ahead.
The protest will involve participants holding cardboard signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support #Palestine Action.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-500-risk-arrest-protest-against-palestine-action-ban-saturday
#StopStarvingGaza
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-08 14:48:20 UTC

from from #TheGuardian #Guardian
August 8, 2025 10:07 EDT
More than a hundred UK-based #Israelis and allies led by the grassroots activist group Mi-neged staged a protest outside the Foreign Office on Thursday evening, calling for the UK to impose immediate sanctions on #Israel and end the war in #Gaza.
As civil servants and politicians left the Cabinet Office after work, 98 demonstrators raised 98 red and black globes and a large sign that read: “You let Israel murder 98 today. Each person is a world.” Other signs read “Israelis against genocide” and “stop arming Israel”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/08/israel-gaza-city-take-over-netanyahu-plan-approved-live-updates-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6895c9128f089cd46d019eaf#block-6895c9128f089cd46d019eaf
#MiNeged
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-08 03:12:41 UTC

Israeli Security Cabinet approves PM Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza City
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza City was approved by the Security Cabinet on Friday morning.
ByJAMES GENN
Updated: AUGUST 8, 2025 05:47
The statement did not use the term "occupation," rather using the term "takeover," due to legal ramifications for the civilian population, Ynet reported.
The Security Cabinet also adopted five principles for ending the war, namely disarming #Hamas, returning all hostages, both living and murdered, demilitarizing the #Gaza Strip, #Israel maintaining security control over the Gaza Strip, and the existence of civilian government that is not controlled by either Hamas or the #PalestinianAuthority
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863628
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-08 03:09:09 UTC

2025-08-08 02:31:12 UTC

Leaks reveal Netanyahu deliberately imposed starvation in Gaza to 'force #Hamas surrender'
Transcripts from Israeli war cabinet meeting show #Netanyahu ignored calls from defence officials to advance ceasefire talks
from #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 7 August 2025 11:52 BST
According to the transcripts, the defence officials' calls were backed by Mossad, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Defence Minister Israel Katz, who argued for advancing the deal, believing that a temporary pause in fighting could see the return of all #Israeli captives held in #Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/leaked-documents-reveal-netanyahu-deliberately-imposed-starvation-gaza-force-hamas-surrender?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97 @nprofile…pj05

2025-08-08 01:43:17 UTC

'Blatant Attempt to Bust Our Unions': Trump Admin Moves to Gut Labor Protections at VA
"This administration wants to break the spirit of working people in this country, but we will not be broken," said #NationalNursesUnited.
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 07, 2025
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins notified the American Federation of Government Employees (#AFGE) and several other unions that he was implementing an executive order signed by President Donald #Trump, which required the termination of collective bargaining agreements for agencies whose missions are related to national security.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-afge
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #VA #USPolitics #sindicatos #VeteransAdministration
#press #news #politics #USPolitics #healthcare #medical

2025-08-08 01:13:00 UTC

** 'Blatant Attempt to Bust Our Unions': Trump Admin Moves to Gut Labor Protections at VA**
"This administration wants to break the spirit of working people in this country, but we will not be broken," said National Nurses United.
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 07, 2025
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins notified the American Federation of Government Employees (#AFGE) and several other unions that he was implementing an executive order signed by President Donald #Trump, which required the termination of collective bargaining agreements for agencies whose missions are related to national security.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-afge
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #USPolitics #sindicatos
#press #news #politics #USPolitics

2025-08-08 01:02:36 UTC

The Aftermath of Israel's June Bombing of Beirut
In interviews with Drop Site's on the ground reporter, residents of Dahiyeh respond to #Israel's attacks on #Beirut's densely populated southern suburb.
from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Loffredo
Aug 06, 2025
Jeremy Loffredo, reporting for Drop Site News, was granted access to #Dahiyeh to report on the aftermath of the attack just hours after the bombs fell. The targeted sites consisted of residential buildings, local businesses, and community infrastructure. While the #Israeli military claimed it struck drone production factories operated by #Hezbollah, no evidence was provided to substantiate the allegations neither before nor after the strikes. Local officials and residents strongly denied the presence of any military installations.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-dahiyeh-june-attacks
#Israel #MiddleEast #WestAsia #Lebanon
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97 @nprofile…4te5

2025-08-07 19:13:34 UTC

Lula slams Trump over #Brazil tariffs, accuses #Bolsonaro of betrayal
from #MercoPress
Thursday, August 7th 2025 - 10:33 UTC
#Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump following the implementation of a 50% #tariff on #Brazilian exports. #Lula called #Trump “authoritarian” with “anti-civilizational” behavior and accused him of creating “problems where there were none.”
“A president must not humiliate himself before another president. I respect everyone and demand respect in return,” Lula told Reuters, rejecting the idea of a phone call with Trump. “He doesn’t want to talk, and I have no intention of doing so.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/08/07/lula-slams-trump-over-brazil-tariffs-accuses-bolsonaro-of-betrayal?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss&ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)
#ImperialArrogance
#NoToBullying
#news #press #politics #SouthAmerica #LatinAmerica #tariffs

2025-08-07 18:12:40 UTC

Rashid Khalidi on Genocide Complicity, From Columbia to the White House
Prominent Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the anti-colonial struggle against Israel, #US and European complicity in the genocide and why he won't teach at Columbia in the fall.
from #DropSiteNews
Aug 05, 2025
On this week’s Drop Site News livestream, Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with prominent Palestinian scholar and historian #RashidKhalidi, a professor emeritus at Columbia U. and the author of "The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.”
Khalidi recently published an article in the #Guardian newspaper explaining why he is withdrawing from teaching a fall course at Columbia. This comes after #Columbia agreed to pay a $200 million settlement to the #Trump administration after it accused the university of failing to protect Jewish students during campus protests against #Israel’s genocidal assault on #Gaza...
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/rashid-khalidi-gaza-genocide-complicity-columbia-israel-colonialism
#USA #USPolitics #politics
#news #press @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-07 15:49:54 UTC

Here is the latest version of a flyer for weekly protests against the forced #starvation of #Gaza. For #Detroit, #Michigan, #USA.
#StopStarvingGaza
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#BlockTheBombs
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97
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2025-08-06 15:12:43 UTC

Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
In a letter to the #UN Security Council, Hamas blasted Israel for gaslighting the world on its forced starvation policy.
from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025
Ahead of the meeting, #Hamas is vigorously rejecting #Israel’s allegations that #Palestinian forces in #Gaza are abusing #Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter.... “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-blames-hamas-starvation-captives-gaza-un-security-council-meeting
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-06 14:57:59 UTC

Israel Blames Hamas for Malnourishment of Israeli Captives as It Deliberately Starves Gaza
In a letter to the UN Security Council, Hamas blasted Israel for gaslighting the world on its forced starvation policy.
from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025
Ahead of the meeting, #Hamas is vigorously rejecting #Israel’s allegations that #Palestinian forces in #Gaza are abusing #Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by DropSite. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the 'Israeli' captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-05 22:27:17 UTC

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky
#TheGuardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by #Israel’s offensive
from #Guardian
Tue 5 Aug 2025 13.49 EDT
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.
But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
#Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an #Israeli military campaign...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/05/wasteland-rubble-dust-graves-how-gaza-looks-from-the-sky?CMP=share_btn_url
#StopGazaGenocide
#Palestine #news #press #politics @nprofile…cu97

2025-08-05 14:27:13 UTC

Moderate #Democrats change their tone on Israel
#RitchieTorres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.
from #Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT
[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against #Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of #Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to #Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/moderate-democrats-israel-support-tone-ritchie-torres-00491554
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPol
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2025-08-04 14:31:11 UTC

Abducted by Israel and Abandoned by Lebanon, Lebanese Fishermen Fear the Sea
In southern #Lebanon, legacy #fishermen are losing their livelihoods amid repeated Israeli abductions and attacks. The Lebanese state is doing little to help.
[in case anyone thinks that Israeli attacks are just about Hezbollah]
from #DropSiteNews
Lylla Younes and Christina Cavalcanti
Aug 04, 2025
In June, Israeli forces kidnapped another #Lebanese fisherman while he was #fishing with a friend near the southern border. Weeks later, the Israeli military bombed a fishing cooperative building in the village of Naqoura. These tactics mirror #Israel’s long-standing violence against fishermen in Gaza, where occupation gunboats fire directly at Palestinians who take their vessels out slightly past the shore. In July, the #Israeli military declared that the sea was a “no-go zone” for #Palestinians in #Gaza, banning all fishing, swimming, or any form of sea access.
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2025-08-04 03:06:19 UTC

Security contractor says he witnessed ‘barbaric’ and un-American tactics at Gaza aid sites
[interview video and transcript]
from #PBSNewsHour
Aug 1, 2025 6:45 PM EDT
The #GazaHumanitarianFoundation, a #US and #Israeli-backed humanitarian aid initiative, has been delivering aid into #Gaza since May. But since then, the U.N. says hundreds of #Palestinians have been killed outside of GHF aid sites. Nick Schifrin spoke with former security contractor Anthony Aguilar about what he saw there and why he believes the execution of the #GHF mission has failed.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-whistleblower-describes-chaos-and-reckless-force-at-gaza-aid-sites?utm_source=PBS+NewsHour&utm_campaign=4b7eb4b26c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_4_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_47f99db221-4b7eb4b26c-322794269
#StopStarvingGaza
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant #USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#FoodAsWeapon
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #USPolitics #Trump
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2025-08-03 17:02:31 UTC

Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Jordyn Beazley and Caitlin Cassidy
Sun 3 Aug 2025 08.17 EDT
At least 100,000 pro-#Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against #Israel’s conduct in #Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.
The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge.
The march began at 1pm, with demonstrators eventually stretching the entire length of the 1.2km Harbour Bridge.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/03/julian-assange-joins-pro-palestine-march-across-sydney-harbour-bridge-before-police-stop-rally-amid-safety-concerns-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url
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2025-08-02 02:08:43 UTC

‘Gaza, Gaza, Food and Water! #US #Israel Stop the Slaughter!’
*More than 1,000 Rally at UN in #NewYorkCity
[contains many photos]
from #WorldOutlook
Mark Satinoff
July 31, 2025
NEW YORK CITY, July 25, 2025 — As part of an International Day of Action, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the #UnitedNations (#UN) headquarters here today to demand “Stop Starving Gaza Now!”
The rally, and subsequent march through midtown Manhattan, were organized by the local chapter of the #PalestinianYouthMovement (#PYM), with the support of many partner organizations. #JewishVoiceForPeace (#JVP) played an important role as it was asked by PYM to mobilize its members and hold down a picket line prior to the start of the rally.
Protesters were urged to bring pots & pans, noisemakers — and their rage.
Signs and banners were welcome, especially those emphasizing ending the #Israeli siege and the starvation of #Gaza.
https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/31/gaza-gaza-food-and-water-u-s-israel-stop-the-slaughter/
#NYC
#news #press #Palestine
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2025-08-01 16:44:15 UTC

American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel
Americans on the scene who tried to help #Palestinians said Israeli authorities detained them — all as settler attackers roamed free.
from #TheIntercept
Sanya Mansoor
August 1 2025, 12:06pm
About 20 feet away, and minutes before #AdwahHathaleen was shot, another #Israeli settler in an excavator tried to destroy the village’s main water pipe, according to media reports. A local man named Ahmad, Awdah’s cousin, was struck in the head with the excavator’s arm and nearly knocked unconscious after he tried to stop the driver.
Turning to Ahmad after #Hathaleen was taken away, the nurse administered a neurological exam; he was severely concussed with diminished mental function before he too was taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/01/awdah-hathaleen-killed-settler-yinon-levi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#WestBank
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#StopArmingIsrael
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2025-08-01 16:27:45 UTC

The Killing of #AwdahHathaleen by a West Bank Settler
Israeli authorities are refusing to release the body of the beloved #Palestinian activist while the Israeli settler who shot him walks free.
from #DropSiteNews
Carolina Pedrazzi
Aug 01, 2025
On Thursday, more than seventy women from Umm al-Kheir—ranging from teenagers to the elderly—launched an open-ended hunger strike until Hathaleen’s body is returned by the #Israeli police. The hunger strike is also in protest of the ongoing detention of several residents of the village, including #Hathaleen’s brothers and cousins, following his murder.
[...]
Hathaleen’s killing on Monday shone yet another spotlight on the wanton violence Palestinians face on a daily basis from Israeli settlers and soldiers, who operate with blanket impunity—both in #MasaferYatta, in particular, and the occupied #WestBank, in general.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/awdah-hathaleen-killing-israeli-settler-masafer-yatta-west-bank
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut #BDS
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2025-08-01 11:55:06 UTC

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement
from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.
Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-trump?CMP=share_btn_url
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#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

2025-07-31 22:38:22 UTC

Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and #Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition
from #Haaretz Today via email
Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025
Linda Dayan
[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]
Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a #Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.
https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=74e69470de&u=d3bceadb340d6af4daf1de00d&id=5f570a567d
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
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2025-07-31 12:18:54 UTC

Trump’s Gaza “Food Centers” Miss the Real Problem: #Israel’s Aid Blockade
As with many of #Trump’s proposals, it’s unclear how serious he is about his vague call for further #US involvement in Gaza food aid.
Matt Sledge
July 31 2025, 6:00am
They also emphasize that at this point, women and children in Gaza are in need of not just food but also specialized medical care to reverse severe malnutrition.
“The proposal is ludicrous,” said Dr. John Kahler, a pediatrician who co-founded a nonprofit group MedGlobal that supports re-feeding centers for children in #Gaza. “Nothing new needs to get done. It’s a simple but not easy solution: Stop the bombing, open up the gates, and let the people who know how to do it, do it.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/31/trump-gaza-aid-famine-israel-ghf/
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #USPolitics
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2025-07-31 11:59:47 UTC

The #NewYorkTimes Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence
*Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade on Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.
Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025, 2:40pm
The #UN agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, ...UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that #Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in #Gaza.
“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the #Israeli authorities and the #USA (so called #GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an #UNRWA spokesperson told #TheIntercept in a statement.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/new-york-times-hamas-aid-israel-gaza-famine/
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGazaGenocide
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#US #USPolitics
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2025-07-31 03:51:52 UTC

As Gaza Starves, Republicans Take Aim at Another Lifeline. Almost No One Noticed.
“It seems incredibly hypocritical to suddenly be shocked by these images when every humanitarian agency has said no one can replace UNRWA"
from #TheIntercept
Matt Sledge
July 29 2025, 2:42pm
As the world watches #Gaza starve, #Republicans in Congress quietly advanced a new ban on funding a United Nations agency that delivers food aid to Palestinians.
The #GOP-dominated House Appropriations Committee last week voted to bar financial support for the #UN Relief and Works Agency for #Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, long the main hub of aid distribution in Gaza.
If passed by Congress, the ban would reinforce a financial blockade on #UNRWA that began last year as Israel subjected the agency to an intense pressure campaign.
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/29/gaza-unrwa-aid-congress-republicans/
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopStarvingGaza
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
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2025-07-31 03:33:18 UTC

In #Gaza, Hunger Has Overtaken Bombs as #Israel’s Cruelest Weapon
"We do not need pity. We need pressure on those who are blocking food, those who remain silent, and those who still have the power to stop this but choose not to."
from #DropSiteNews
Jul 30, 2025
Story by Heba Almaqadma
The deprivation from starvation and siege is visible upon people’s faces. People are looking hollow-eyed and tired. We are suffering not just from hunger, but from abandonment. #Palestinians have been turned into symbols of suffering and defiance, whereas what we want is not only to survive, but also to truly live and feel alive once more. Instead, as the whole world watches, for nearly two years we have been brutally murdered and tormented in the most horrific and innovative ways that a human mind can devise.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-famine-israel-starvation-genocide-war
#StopStarvingGaza
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
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