2025-04-19: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-04-19 2:55pm GMT

____ (2025-04-19). Financial Warfare: Uyghurs Stripped of Autonomy Under CCP. devdiscourse.com Rushan Abbas, a leading figure in the World Uyghur Congress, delivered a powerful speech at the Human Rights Foundation, drawing attention to China's strategic use of financial repression to stifle the Uyghur population. Abbas spotlighted how the Chinese Communist Party's economic policies effectively serve as tools of persecution, describing them as "a devastating financial dimension to the genocide Uyghurs are facing," as reported by the World Uyghur Congress.

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-19). Human Rights Commission drops case against Sydney Uni academics accused of antisemitism. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-19). Palm Sunday rallies oppose Gaza genocide, cruelty to refugees. greenleft.org.au

UMMID (2025-04-18). US Taxpayers approach UN over US funding of Israeli Genocide in Gaza. ummid.com Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) has approached the UN Human Rights Council over American funding of the genocide and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and U.S. impunity for war crimes.

Abdaljawad Omar (2025-04-18). Palestinian elites threw a huge party for the opening of a megamall in Ramallah — as bombs ripped through Gaza. mondoweiss.net The festive inauguration of Ramallah's Icon Mall as the Gaza genocide continues shows that Palestinian elites are not simply indifferent, but shameless. Yet, many who do feel shame act as if it is the only remaining way to politically engage.

APR editor (2025-04-18). Why NZ govt should back Greens' sanctions bill on Israel over Gaza. asiapacificreport.nz COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs In the absence of any measures taken by the New Zealand government to respond to the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, Green Party co-leader Chloe Swarbrick is doing the principled thing by trying to apply countervailing pressure on Israel to stop its brutal actions in Gaza and the Occupied…

Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. (2025-04-18). Moroccan Dockworkers Call Boycott Of Maersk's Arms Shipment To Israel. popularresistance.org Morocco's Port Workers' Union, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union, has called on workers, users, and operative companies at the port of Casablanca to boycott the Nexoe Maersk ship, which will arrive to the port on Friday, April 18, due to its planned shipment of military equipment to Israel between April 20 and 22. The union made the call in order to protest Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. | The union urged dockworkers to abstain from unloading or servicing operations for the ship, warning that facilitating its passage would make all involved "direct accomplices in the genocidal war against the Palestini…

bwitanek (2025-04-18). "It Was Powerful Day" NJ's Rev. Erich Kussman Among 25 Arrested Protesting Lockheed Martin Profiteering off Genocide in Gaza. fightbackbetter.com Rev. Erich Kussman: It was a powerful day — About 25 of us were arrested today as we held a…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-04-18). 'Israel Has a Right To Defend Itself' Is Just a Slogan for Genocide. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Apr 17, 2025 | Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself" on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as genocide apologia. | Bernie Sanders has been

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2025-04-18). The Chris Hedges Report: Emptying Gaza. popularresistance.org Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandonded their principles in servitude to the Zionist agenda. | Finkelstein makes clear the gravity of Israel's unprecedented actions: "If you take any metric…

eng.belta.by (2025-04-18). Kochanova on genocide: Belarusian people were killed in death camps, gas chambers, own homes. eng.belta.by uring the Great Patriotic War the Belarusian people were exterminated in | death camps, experimental laboratories, gas chambers and their own | homes, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National | Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova said as she spoke in St. | Petersburg at a meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly marking…

Engy Sarhan, Vivian Ho (2025-04-18). Breaking through the stalemate in the student movement for Palestine. mondoweiss.net The student movement for Palestine is grappling with strategic stagnation. At this pivotal moment, as Israel intensifies its genocide and the West strips rights to free speech, we must reassess our efforts to face these urgent challenges.

SKWAWKBOX (2025-04-18). Church coalition condemns state's 'aggressive violation" and criminalisation of peaceful protest. skwawkbox.org 'Churches Together' tells Cooper, Khan and Met they are 'dismayed' by raid on place of worship to arrest young anti-genocide activists A coalition of English churches has publicly expressed its 'dismay' at the state's assault on freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest, after around thirty Met Police officers smashed in the door …

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