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A general overview of current student encampments at universities in Canada, with a focus on U of T.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/israel-palestine-hamas-war-protests-toronto-1.7191443

'We're not leaving': Pro-Palestinian students set up camp, send list of demands to U of T | CBC News
Pro-Palestinian protesters moved onto a greenspace in the heart of the University of Toronto's downtown campus Thursday, as the Israel-Hamas war nears its seven-month mark.

UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for 'Mama Earth,' Leads Chants of 'Free Palestine.' (Aaron Sibarium/Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-med-school-requires-students-to-attend-lecture-where-speaker-demands-prayer-for-mama-earth-leads-chants-of-free-palestine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240403/p28#a240403p28

"The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine."
This Is How Power Protects Itself | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/…

This Is How Power Protects Itself
The decision to sic the police on peaceful protesters is evidence that people in charge are panicking. They’re terrified of the strength of the movement for Palestine.

This is what AI in war looks like. Israel is using AI to identify targets at a much faster pace. And those are the collateral damages. "Unintentional" killing of humanitarian aid people sounds much like they moved in a way that triggered the AI. At some point, this can turn into automatic self destruction.

DIRECT. Guerre entre Israël et le Hamas : les dégâts aux "infrastructures critiques" estimés à plus de 17 mill
Ce montant est issu d'une étude réalisée conjointement par la Banque mondiale, les Nations unies et l'Union européenne.

Students at my institution - the University of Toronto - have joined others across the continent in establishing an encampment on campus. Having been rebuffed by the administration in early April, the students continue to call "on the post-secondary institution to divest from assets that 'sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine.'"

'We're not leaving': Pro-Palestinian students set up camp, send list of demands to U of T | CBC News
Pro-Palestinian protesters moved onto a greenspace in the heart of the University of Toronto's downtown campus Thursday, as the Israel-Hamas war nears its seven-month mark.

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
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Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit
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This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable
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The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.

World Central Kitchen | 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza
World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.

The same university in cologne which uninvited Nancy Fraser (from an unrelated tour of the uni) due to her criticism of Israel [1] is keeping Ulrich Vosgerau employed [2], who is a far ri…

Nancy Fraser: Germany Canceled Me for Supporting Palestine
Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned visiting professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine.

Protest isn’t harassment, says group suing UK government over law change https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-secretary-liberty-court-anti-protest-laws-james-cleverly-suella-braverman-palestine/

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4633580-brown-university-israel-divestment-vote-student-palestine-protesters/
Amazing! ✊🏾🔥

Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters
Brown University’s corporate board will vote on a proposal to divest from Israeli interests, the university announced Tuesday, a major victory for student protesters who have taken over dozens of c…

The Urgent Call of Palestine
Zeinab Shaath
#Palestine

The Urgent Call of Palestine by Zeinab Shaath
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Encampment at Vancouver Island University in the Commons outside the Library. Appears well organized and peaceful. About 6 tents a couple tables. Some flags and signs. I saw 5 or so people, all looked like student-age.
#FreePalestine #VIU

This very sober article has the facts & the cites.
"In general, these aren’t pro-peace protests; they are pro-war protests."
"The protests’ overwhelming messaging and leadership call not merely for a ceasefire but for the destruction of the state of Israel itself (which would take quite a lot of war)."
"SJP is not made up of anti-war human rights activists... it is essentially an arm of Hamas"
If you have time for a 6-page pdf, click on t…

Student activists aren't antisemites; they're partners in a dance of death
Embracing maximalist rhetoric, pro-Palestinian demonstrators risk becoming a mirror image of their far-right opponents.

I grew up in France, in a Jewish community where unconditional love and support for Israel were the norm.
The term Zionism, the movement for the establishment and support of a Jewish state in present-day Palestine, wasn’t even used because that’s all we knew.
Jews had been nearly wiped out by pogroms and repeated holocausts, and a Jewish state was the only way to keep us safe.
Antisemitism wasn’t just a fact of history; we all experienced it in our daily lives.
Zionis…

Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid.
This article was originally published here in the Washington Post I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived for four years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. When that is your world, it’s

Ik ben, zolang ik hem ken, 1972 of zo, een fan van Bertrand Russell. Dit is de eerste keer dat ik dit citaat zie. https://mastodon.social/@RustyBertrand/112033476271889109

Germany's new speech policing unit: "This “Besondere Aufbauorganisation” (BAO) task force, which is part of the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) – the police intelligence centre – keeps an eye on “left-wing and foreign ideologies”, including communist groups and pro-Palestine groups, the police spokesman confirmed. It issues guidance and instructions to police forces about what phrases and words used by activists may be deemed illegal. " #fromtherivertothesea #GermanyhatesJews

New #ethicalConsumer magazin about #outdoor clothing brands
Issue 208 May/June 2024
https://w…

Never forget that the reason US dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians had nothing to do with forcing Japan's surrender. Those bombs were dropped for the primary purpose of sending a message to the USSR, showing what America was prepared to do to them too.
Palestine serves the same purpose today, US directs a genocide in Palestine to send the same message to Iran and Syria: look what US is prepared to do to you too.

Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. ‹ Literary Hub
https://lithub.com/verso-and-other-publishers-are-offering-free-ebooks-in-solidarity-with-pr…

Verso and other publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.
As students organize and resist to demand action and justice for Palestinians, publishers are offering free books on Palestine, protest, and more, in solidarity. Verso has seven ebooks available fo…

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics https://jacobin.com/2024/04/france-insoumise-hassan-panot-palestine-censorship/

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics
France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics.

Transportation giant Kuehne Nagel has ended all ties with Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, and will not be working with them again in the future, following a relentless campaign by Palestine Action since last May. Direct action works.
https://www.palestineaction.org/kuehne-nagel-victory/

"History is written by the Victors" also means that the Victors will complain when people want to teach the history of the other side... that is the basis of Truth and Reconciliation.
As with any situation the world has faced with genocidal, apartheid policies, in South Africa, in Canada, or in Israel and Palestine.
Isralies and Palestinians and the entire world including Canada will need to go through a process of Truth and Reconciliation. Happy to see the BC Federati…

This, by the police in my city is a disgrace.
Police accused of stifling protest after #Manchester arrest over #Palestine chant | UK news | The Guardian

Cross Border March
Kite flying 4 Palestine
Tijuana -- San Diego
Hands off Rafah
Ceasefire Now
Stop the Genocide
March 2 3:00 PM El Chaparral
#FreePalestine #Protest #Tijuana

Sometimes you just gotta do the right thing.
https://www.thejournal.ie/kneecap-wear-pro-palestine-clothing-on-late-late-show-6308722-Feb2024/

RTÉ says Kneecap agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges on The Late Late, but did anyway
The group also appealed to Irish people to ‘show solidarity with Palestine’.

IDF launches inquiry into deaths of World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza strike - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/01/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/?itid=mr_world_2

Tuesday 3/26 at Vanderbilt:
PALESTINE:
Solidarity and Survival
Devin Atallah on Resisting Settler Solidarities and Palestinian Grief
Nadim Bawalsa on Transnational Palestine Solidarity Movement since 1925
Ilana Feldman on Humanitarian Danger & Palestinian Life

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations.
"The world must recognize that ending Israel’s illegal occupation is a prerequisite to stopping the recurrent human rights violations in Israel and the OPT."

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  
Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since 1967, said Amnesty International,

On the topic of Free Speech and the politics of the day
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/04/pen-america-world-voices-festival-free-speech-israel-palestine/678201/

"Americans who get their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza, according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits." https://theintercept.com/202…

On this day in 1948, the representative of the United States of America told the Security Council:
"The Security Council is authorized to take forceful measures with respect to #Palestine to remove a threat to international peace.... The Security Council, under the Charter, can take action to prevent aggression against Palestine from outside. The Security Council, by these same powers, can take action to prevent a threat to international peace and security from inside Palestine."

Columbia University has a doxxing problem
https://www.theverge.com/24141073/columbia-doxxing-truck-student-encampment-palestine-israel

I wholly agree with the authors opinion.
If you fought for ISIS or Hamas, you’d be arrested as soon as you touch foreign soil.
Given the ICC rulings, and UN positions, IDF soilders should be similarly arrested when they step on foreign soil.
If anything, this might make people, and Israel, start to think twice about their participation in this unspeakable genocide.
#palestine

Defunding aid to Palestine is an unconscionable collective punishment - Global Comment https://globalcomment.com/defunding-aid-to-palestine-is-an-unconscionable-collective-punishment/

Defunding aid to Palestine is an unconscionable collective punishment - Global Comment
The genocide we are all witnessing in Palestine is horrifying and devastating. Palestinians are being forced out of their homes and are injured and starving, and even though much of the mainstream media is calling this a war against Hamas, not Palestinians, this misrepresents the impact of the brutal conflict. In the midst of this

#Palestine

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

"From the first moments of the war, it was clear that right-wing Israeli politicians and settler leaders sensed an opportunity to radically shift the status quo in Israel-Palestine. "
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-settlers-gaza-outpost-erez-crossing/<…

Israeli settlers cross into Gaza, build symbolic ‘outpost’
Dozens of settlers and right-wing activists stormed Erez Crossing, building two wooden structures while soldiers and police stood aside.

Images from #Harvard solidarity encampment. Not showing people because may show faces. #Palestine #Solidarity

And another important assessment of the response to the abusive catastrophe unfolding in Gaza:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/pro-palestine-israel-language-conflict?CMP=share_btn_url

And another important assessment of the response to the abusive catastrophe unfolding in Gaza:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/pro-palestine-israel-language-conflict?CMP=share_btn_url

I meet, in Japan, many people who care about #Ukraine but not #palestine.
Among too many Asian so-called "leftists," those are care about #Gaza but not Ukraine.
And, sadly, people everyone who …

Barnard president loses vote of no confidence as criticism mounts over protest response (Nick Robertson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4634350-barnard-president-loses-vote-of-no-confidence-palestine-protest-response/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240430/p79#a240430p79

Learned a new term today: Progressive except for Palestine
“…is a phrase that refers to organizations or individuals who describe themselves politically as progressive, liberal, or left-wing but who do not express pro-Palestinian sentiment or do not comment on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Pro-Palestinian advocates regard PEP as a type of political hypocrisy and an example of anti-Palestinianism…”

ooh that's going to piss them off https://federate.social/@oconnell/112356198526773106

Here is something we all knew, but it's disgusting nonetheless. Last night I posted a link to an episode of my podcast. The description had the word Palestine written. (We discussed how some punks do not discuss Palestine while discussing Ukraine.
No likes, shares, comments. This morning, I reposted with the word Palestine intact—still, no shares, likes, or comments.
Then I deleted the post and wrote "shaky Eastern grounds" instead of Palestine, and voila, here com…

Please read to the end of this piece from Jonathan Freedland 🙏
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/jews-uk-attack-palestine-antisemitism-labour-britain

This, by the police in my city is a disgrace.
Police accused of stifling protest after #Manchester arrest over #Palestine chant | UK news | The Guardian

Sometimes you just gotta do the right thing.
https://www.thejournal.ie/kneecap-wear-pro-palestine-clothing-on-late-late-show-6308722-Feb2024/

RTÉ says Kneecap agreed not to wear pro-Palestine badges on The Late Late, but did anyway
The group also appealed to Irish people to ‘show solidarity with Palestine’.

“Lujayn is a brilliant student. She had been planning to go to university to study mathematics. But there are no more universities left in Gaza, and Lujayn has no permanent home.” #palestine #gaza

“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza
The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.

Avec l'aide de l'armée, les colons juifs installés illégalement en Cisjordanie volent les terres des Palestinien·ne·s et détruisent leurs maisons, comme en témoignent ce groupe venu des États-Unis.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/a-firsthand-encoun…

A firsthand encounter with ‘Fortress Israel’
As American Christians who enable Israel’s actions through our government’s support, we are not separate from what is unfolding in Palestine. We must accept our part in it, bear witness, and stand in support of the besieged Palestinian people.

Workers accuse #Google of ‘tantrum’ after 50 fired over Israel contract protest - #nimbus #palestine

Shame on whoever decided the US would vote 'no' - ‘If you can't agree on the very essentials, the very basics of humanity, then what is the purpose of having any international institution like the United Nations?" asks ICC Muslim lawyer
US veto on full Palestine membership casts more doubt on UN's credibility, effectiveness: ICC lawyer

US veto on full Palestine membership casts more doubt on UN's credibility, effectiveness: ICC lawyer
‘If you can't agree on the very essentials, the very basics of humanity, then what is the purpose of having any international institution like the United Nations?" asks ICC Muslim lawyer - Anadolu Ajansı

German police prevent Irish people from speaking and singing in Irish in Germany.
But hey, at least we still have the Single Market™, amirite?
EU, you’re doing amazing, sweetie!
https://

Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Re
Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

You’d think, given Germany’s history with totalitarianism and authoritarian abuses of power, the German leadership might want to tread a *little* more lightly here…? Germany is not in a good place right now, and that is very concerning.
Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrš’ near Reichstag | Irish Independent

Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Re
Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’ | Judith Levine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/pro-palestine-israel-language-conflict

#Israel #Palestine #War #History
- Israel is run by people who used to be classified as <…

#SouthAfrica is now going beyond the plain two-state solution formulation on #Palestine, on the basis of "prevailing conditions".
And arguing that what it holds to be genocide in #Gaza is rooted in an international failure to deal with Israeli apartheid.
That has some interesting moral implications for the likes of the USA, depending on what happens at the ICJ.
A two-state solution to Israel-Palestine is no longer enough, SA tells ICJ
https://www.news24.com/news24/world/news/a-two-state-solution-to-israel-palestine-is-no-longer-enough-sa-tells-icj-20240220

Shameful #gaza #palestine

anyone who pays taxes to the US govt is a mass murderer. there is no genocide in Palestine without millions of Americans dutifully funding it. a simple tax strike could end this immediately. Aaron Bushnell was willing to sacrifice his life. if enough people sacrificed a couple years in prison we could break the US govt's back, end this genocide and prevent the next one. there can be no progress until we're honest about our own responsibility. stop funding genocide. stop paying taxes.…

So, quick show of hands… are you:
* Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people counts.
#israel #palestine #genocide

I'm sure the message wasn't lost on him...and he says he's working toward a two-state solution - seems like more than anybody else has done to date. #Palestine
Biden survives ‘uncommitted’ Democratic protest vote over Gaza to win Michigan primary | The Independent

Biden survives ‘uncommitted’ Democratic protest vote over Gaza to win Michigan primary
Early results show the president surviving a pushback from younger and Arab-American voters in Michigan although the scale of those voting ‘uncommitted’ was not immediately clear

You’d think, given Germany’s history with totalitarianism and authoritarian abuses of power, the German leadership might want to tread a *little* more lightly here…? Germany is not in a good place right now, and that is very concerning.
Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrš’ near Reichstag | Irish Independent

Berlin police ban Irish protesters from speaking or singing in Irish at pro-Palestine ‘ciorcal comhrá’ near Re
Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

While there's all that controversy about pro-Palestine protests being repressed elsewhere, here in Limerick we attended a pro-Palestine concert in aid of UNRWA, and it was a perfectly civilised and pleasant evening, and all the cool young people of Limerick were there.

More than 20 arrests made at pro-Palestine protest on UT Austin campus (KVUE-TV)
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/israel-hamas-conflict/ut-palestine-protest/269-9fa17214-53c1-47e1-965e-629c0d22f1c9
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p96#a240424p96

Palestine Action and Youth Demand paint Ministry of Defence https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/19/palestine-action-and-youth-demand-paint-ministry-of-defence/

A l’ONU, les pays arabes se mobilisent pour l’UNRWA et l’adhésion de la Palestine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/04/18/a-l-onu-les-pays-arabes-se-mobilisent…

A l’ONU, les pays arabes se mobilisent pour l’UNRWA et l’adhésion de la Palestine
Alors qu’un vote sur l’adhésion de la Palestine comme membre à part entière de l’ONU devrait se tenir jeudi 18 avril dans la soirée, les chefs de la diplomatie des pays arabes font également front pour soutenir l’agence pour les réfugiés palestiniens mise en cause par Israël.

#FreePalestine #Protest #FreedomofExpression #BCPoli

Israel’s tactic in a nutshell: never play defence.
“Committing genocide? What’s that? Are you an antisemite?!”
#israel #palestine #genocide

Israel’s tactic in a nutshell: never play defence.
“Committing genocide? What’s that? Are you an antisemite?!”
#israel #palestine #genocide

Senate Dems push Biden to establish two-state solution for Israel, Palestine | The Hill
https://thehill.com/newsletters/4545838-senate-dems-push-biden-to-establish-two-state-solution-for-israel-palestine/<…

Senate Dems push Biden to establish two-state solution for Israel, Palestine
Welcome to The Hill’s Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story  Senate Dems push Biden to establish two-state solution for Israel, Palestine A group of 19 Democratic senators have sent a letter to President Biden urging his administration to establish a “bold, public framework” for a two-state solution for…

“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine" : Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/21/it-is-an-honor-to-be-suspended-for-pal…

Statement of Members of the UCLA Department of History Faculty in Response to the Attack on the Encampment on 30 April 2024
"We are horrified that Chancellor Block abdicated his responsibility to protect and support students. His statements (and those of President Drake) opened the way to these attacks on our community. The exemplary nature of this encampment made it a target for those who oppose the free exercise of views other than their own. We demand that the Chancellor and the President be held accountable for their actions in sacrificing student safety and liberties to political expediency. We call for the resignation of Chancellor Gene Block. "
#UCLA #LosAngeles #FreeGaza #Palestine #StudentSpring #CampusProtests
https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/01/statement-of-members-of-the-ucla-department-of-history-faculty-in-response-to-the-attack-on-the-encampment-on-30-april-2024/

The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-solidarity-encampments-campus-crackdown-palestine/

The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere
Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.

Britain wants to ban boycotts of Israel. Does that mean they’re working? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-palestine-boycott-divestment-sanctions-bds-uk-ban-house-lords/

I just want to say how proud I am that my MP, Gord Johns (Courtenay-Alberni) was amongst the first group of seconders when the Palestine Motion was brought forward in the House back in February.
Love that guy!!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

“In its current genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Israel has destroyed every single Palestinian university in the enclave with aerial bombardment or controlled detonation. Medical and engineering laboratories, training courtrooms of faculties of law, assembly and graduation halls, rich collections of books, art pieces, archival and archaeological artifacts, all completely decimated. Decades of Palestinian student academic and political life instantly wiped out.”

Israel’s Universities Are a Key Part of Its Apartheid Regime
Opponents of the academic boycott of Israel claim that its universities are havens of free inquiry. In fact, they supply vital support to Israel’s system of apartheid rule and are complicit in the violent suppression of Palestinian scholarship.

🚨 U.N. Security Council passes resolution calling for Gaza cease-fire
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/25/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/

Middle East conflict live updates: Israel cancels diplomatic visit to U.S. after U.N. vote demanding cease-fire
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is in Washington to hear U.S. concerns about Israel’s plans for a ground operation in Rafah.

#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
If you were an MP in Canada's House of Commons, how would you vote on the NDP's Palestine Motion? Boost to poll…

Palestine Action slash painting of Lord Balfour #PalestineAction

Cool and normal democracy.
#israel #gaza #palestine #genocide

How the #ADL’s Anti-#Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws
https://theintercept.co…

How the ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws
Long before 9/11, Zionist groups like the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for counterterror legislation that singled out Palestinians.

I’m sorry, am I making it more difficult for you to feel good about being complicit in genocide? My bad.
#israel #palestine #gaza

Aid official calls for increased global pressure on Israel to work with UN | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4565565-aid-official-calls-for-increased-global-pressure-on-israel-to-work-wi…

Aid official calls for increased global pressure on Israel to work with UN
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), called for increased global pressure on Israel to work with the U.N. In a Friday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Lazzarini referenced a Thursday order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel to…

It’s wrong to compare the genocide being committed by Israel with the genocide committed by Nazi Germany. The US wasn’t arming Nazi Germany.
#israel #palestine #gaza

The World concludes that Israeli Lies Smeared UNRWA, Main Aid Agency helping Starving Palestinians as "Terrorists"
https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/concludes-palestinians-terrorists.html

The World concludes that Israeli Lies Smeared the Main Aid Agency helping Starving Palestinians as 'Terrorists'
By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor ) - The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future awaits, have been found wanting on accusations that Hamas terrorists packed, stacked and filled UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). Not that this, in of itself, negates the need to feed, clothe and provide medical assistance to Palestinians being p…

You can slander us as antisemites. You can call us whatever the fuck you want. We are not going to sit by silently while you fascists commit genocide.
#israel #palestine #gaza

Based on my replies, it seems some Germans weren’t happy with just one genocide so now they’re supporting another.
I guess it must be a hard habit to break.
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