2025-10-22 16:03:47
A group of 17 Democratic senators urges US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to press Israel to protect journalists in Gaza and allow international media into Gaza (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-israel-journalists_n_68a619abe4b0f9a2f3…
Guardian has published a timeline of Britain in Israel and Palestine in which nothing happens between 1939 and the withdrawal in 1947.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/21/what-role-has-britain-played-in-the-history-o…
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Recognising Palestinian state 'key' for peace, says Luxembourg PM – Middle East crisis live
https://www.th…
Most United Nations workers killed on duty last year were killed by Israel in Palestinian territories, 181 out of 383.
"(...)383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year(...)"
"The [Gaza] Strip saw 181 humanitarian workers killed in 2024, with 60 more fatalities in Sudan. More widely, violence against aid workers increased in 21 countries in 2024 compared to the previous year, with State actors the most common perpetrators".
The State Department announced this weekend that it is
suspending visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza to enter the U.S.
after right wingers raged about children entering the country to receive medical care
— often for injuries caused by Israel with the U.S.’s backing.
“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitaria…
"UK to recognise Palestine as a state in September - unless Israel meets conditions"
29 July 2925
Israel has not met the UK government conditions. In fact quite the reverse.
So what is holding things up?
https://news.sky.com/st…
Gaza genocide
Lots of democrats and well meaning liberals were telling us that Biden could do nothing. Like being the biggest army in the world and paying for Israel weapons was not a pressure point.
At no point in time did Biden actually pressured the Israeli government. He even prevented the state department from issuing concerns about war crimes. More revelations came after his presidency, it was truly damning.
That's why he was called Genocide Joe
Read this and tell me that protests should be paused because Israel and its apologists conflate Jews with Zionism and its State.
The second year of genocide was different | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10
Every criticism of Israel,
any sympathy for the Palestinians,
any pressure to end the war,
is seen today as a form of antisemitism
– even endorsement of Hamas.
Over 60% of Israelis, according to recent polls, believe “nobody in Gaza is innocent.”
Along with Israel’s sense of impunity, this popular notion explains how this war has turned into a genocide.
The core of Palestinian identity, most Israelis believe, is the physical destruction of their stat…
So, the state of Israel (as distinguished from the citizens and residents of Israel) has resorted to high seas piracy to promote its killing of innocents in Gaza and the sale of all of that beach-shore land to Trump and friends to develop as hotels and golf courses.
Israel has a right and just claim to exist as a sovereign nation. So do the people of Palestine.
The force and strength of that claim is increasing for the Palestinians.
And the force and strength of that claim…
"The Arab world is becoming more pragmatic, more secular, and more modern.
Israel could have been part of that story. It could even have become one of its leaders. Instead, Netanyahu, whose entire political existence feeds on fear and division, keeps Israel chained to its past. He preserves the old Israel, a nation always searching for the next enemy. A region being reborn now faces a state growing old."
“Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba”
Marching today in Galway. Despite a "ceasefire", Israel has continued to kill Palestinians this week in breach of it. There is no liberation under occupation. Dismantle the apartheid and genocidal Zionist state. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
In People Before Profit we stand for a liberated Palestine and will continue to march in solidarity and demand the Irish government act!
We need sanctions now! Pass the Occupied Territories Bill, and get the US …
"Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution”
Erm, surely, if a two state solution was implemented, then we would recognise the state of Palestine so none of this makes any sense??
#ukpolitics
Across the US, lawmakers and interest groups are stepping up efforts to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, occupation, and apartheid.
They are doing so by restricting Palestine solidarity advocates’ First Amendment rights to free speech and political boycotts.
In June 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold an Arkansas law punishing state contractors who boycott Israel.
Since 2014, dozens of states have adopted similar laws designed to puni…
Emily Thornberry's formberry reply:
Thank you for writing to me regarding the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action.
I believe the right to protest is a fundamental right in our democracy and I will continue to wholeheartedly defend this. I appreciate the concerns you have raised regarding proscribing Palestine
Action, however, as there is an upcoming judicial review into the ban, I am limited as to what I can say on the matter at the moment.
I was pleased that the near weekly protests in London and across the country, calling for an end to Palestinian suffering, have continued. I am certain we all want to see an immediate end to the immense suffering the Palestinian people are being subjected to, and the resumption of the critical aid deliveries which are so desperately needed in Gaza.
I am thankful that the Government have now set out an approach to recognising the Palestinian state as a step towards a lasting ceasefire. If you would like to know more about my wider views on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which you can view below.
Thank you again for writing to me on this very important issue. Let me assure you I will continue to push from within Parliament for an end to the violence and a peaceful two-state solution.
Best wishes,
Rt Hon Emily Thornberry MP
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Marco Rubio: Wikipedia banned our president without previous consultation because we wanted to create positive relations with the State of Israel, a nation that is quite problematic in the online community. They have not yet unbanned our president despite asking multiple times.
Opposition leader Benny Gantz proclaims long-term multiparty rejection of a Palestinian state by Israeli Jewish political society. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/israel-war-security.html?un…
"A Green proposal asking for "the Scottish and UK Governments to immediately impose a package of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted at the state of Israel and at companies complicit in its military operations and its occupation of Palestine" was passed by 62 votes to 31, with 21 abstentions."
Scottish Parliament votes for immediate boycott of Israel | The National
Nonlinear analysis of causality for heat flow in heavy-ion collisions: constraints from equation of state
Victor Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03265 https://
In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…
I fucking hope so.
https://news.walla.co.il/item/3769381
Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler, Israel to Nazi Germany, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people to The Holocaust is wrong.
Hitler, Nazi Germany, and The Holocaust are a dead villain, a defunct fascist state, and a historic genocide.
Netanyahu, Israel, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people are a living villain, an existing fascist state, and an ongoing genocide.
#israel
'Netanyahu says recognition of a Palestinian state would amount to rewarding "Hamas's monstrous terrorism".'
I say recognising the Apartheid State of Israel amounts to rewarding its genocide.
And no that doesn't mean expelling Jewish people who, themselves or their forebears, wrongly settled in historic Palestine. Any more than the end of the South African Apartheid State meant expelling whites.
US to stop Palestinians attending UN meeting in New Y…
Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule - #France24
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250729-qatar…
Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state
Some elements of the U.S. proposal are comically specific.
“Once all the hostages have been released,” it reads,
“Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1,700 Gazans who were detained after October 7. …
For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released, Israel will release the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.”
The proposal says that “upon acceptance of this agreement,
full aid…
Starmer says recognition of #Palestine has to be part of a peace deal. How will that work then when the government of the Zionist state has made it clear that it won't tolerate such an entity on its borders?
Recognition is part of the "peace process": that is, the necessary relentless pressure on Israel to transform to a plurinational Palestine for all citizens, like the end o…
Nonlinear causality of Israel-Stewart theory with diffusion
Ian Cordeiro, F\'abio S. Bemfica, Enrico Speranza, Jorge Noronha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20064 https://…