2025-05-01: Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2025-05-01 10:39pm GMT

newarab (2025-05-01). Eurovision overturns ban on Palestine flags in audience. newarab.com The The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) obtained this year's official policy on national and political emblems, which states audience are members allowed to wave any flag permitted under Swiss law during the grand fina…

presstv.ir (2025-05-01). Smotrich: Israel will not stop until Gazans evicted, Syria partitioned. presstv.ir Smotrich says Israel will only stop its war on Gaza when "hundreds of thousands" of Palestinians are forcibly displaced from the besieged territory.

presstv.ir (2025-05-01). Three dozen Palestinians killed in new Israeli massacre in Gaza. presstv.ir Nearly three dozen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday.

presstv.ir (2025-05-01). Iranian journalist, briefly detained in France, vows to continue fight for Palestinian justice. presstv.ir A pro-Palestine Iranian-French journalist, who was briefly arrested by French police last week for his activism, says he is determined to continue advocating for Palestinian rights, despite the harsh experience he endured.

Uhuru Solidarity SF Bay (2025-05-01). Tuesday 5/20: From Oakland to Palestine: Colonialism Must Go! indybay.org Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA…

Uhuru Solidarity SF Bay (2025-05-01). Wednesday 5/21: From San Francisco to Palestine: Colonialism Must Go! indybay.org Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA…

Uhuru Solidarity SF Bay (2025-05-01). Thursday 5/22: From San Jose to Palestine: Colonialism Must Go! indybay.org San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 South 7th Street, San Jose, CA…

albawaba (2025-05-01). Netanyahu's son blames Arabs for Jerusalem wildfires. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, recently sparked controversy on social media after blaming Israel's left and Arabs for the raging wildfires in Jerusalem. Despite sounding confident, his claims were proven baseless. He accused the left of trying to cancel Israel's Independence Day in cooperation with the Arabs in occupied Palestine. Netanyahu's son blames Arabs for Jerusalem Hills wildfires: ◊ê◊ ◊ô ◊®◊ï◊ê◊î ◊©◊ô◊© ◊õ◊ê◊ú◊î ◊©◊¶…

greenleft.org.au (2025-05-01). Socialist candidate: genocide in Gaza did not begin on October 7. greenleft.org.au

Ramzy Baroud (2025-05-01). Unveiling Nasser's Secrets: Arabs, Palestine, and the Crucial Timing. counterpunch.org For my father's generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn't just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been measured, and none have quite reached it. For the Arab masses, and Palestinians in particular, Nasser was an icon. His heroic image, in the eyes of Palestinians, took hold in Al-Faluja, a key

WiBOPM (2025-05-01). SJP UW Screening of 'The Encampments' May 5, 2025. wibailoutpeople.org (Check The Crossing, 1127 University Avenue, Madison | Sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine-UW Madison…

Staff (2025-05-01). International Workers' Day 2025: The workers' flood for Palestine, against genocide and imperialism. samidoun.net "The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestinian national liberation movement. The Palestinian popular classes have been the freedom fighters, the strugglers and the resisters on the front lines, …

newarab (2025-05-01). US backs Israel's ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at World Court. newarab.com Israel cannot be forced to allow the Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country, as it said the organisation had employed members of Hamas who took part in the attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023. |

| The United Nations General Assembly in December asked the UN's top court to give an advisory opinion on Israel's ob…

WSWS (2025-05-01). Judge rules against University of California's assertion of blanket police access to student protester's phone. wsws.org The ruling marks the first legal victory for student protesters who have faced an intensifying campaign of repression on college campuses across the United States for their opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.

newarab (2025-05-01). In roadside Gaza attack, Israel kills 4-year-old Massa Abed. newarab.com Massa Abed, 4, brought a rubber ball and her doll to play with friends on the street near her family's home on Sunday. It was a mundane day in Zawaida, But that afternoon, an Israeli strike hit a tent on the side of the road, killing Massa and some of the other children. | Her older brother, 16, grabbed Massa's little body and rushed to the hospital on a donkey cart. When she was pronounced dead, he wailed, holding her. | Days later, Massa's father, Samy Abed, t…

presstv.ir (2025-05-01). Hamas: Netanyahu struck by 'madness of defeat, illusion of false victory'. presstv.ir Hamas has strongly condemned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statements regarding a planned military incursion into the city of Rafah in Gaza.

WSWS (2025-05-01). Palestinian student activist Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE custody by court order. wsws.org Mahdawi was a leading figure alongside Mahmoud Khalil in the student protests against Israel's genocide against Gaza at Columbia University in 2023 and 2024.

A A (2025-05-01). Il ruolo geopolitico di Cipro nello spionaggio israeliano e nei crimini angloamericani. strategic-culture.su Il lavoro dei servizi segreti britannici e americani a Cipro e la loro cooperazione con Israele. | Segue nostro Documenti top secret fatti trapelare da Edward Snowden rivelano che le risorse di spionaggio sulla Cipro britannica sono integrate con "pianificazioni e operazioni militari" e che è probabile che informazioni di intelligence vengano trasmesse a Israele per aiutarlo a bombardare Gaza, implicando ulteriormente la Gran Bretagna i…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-05-01). Israel's Backers Keep Whining That They're Losing Control Of The Narrative. thealtworld.com Amnesty International is now calling Israel's mass atrocity in Gaza " Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-05-01). Gaza's children are being starved by Israel's illegal blockade. skwawkbox.org Tragic footage shows the impact of the occupation's criminal starvation blockade Israel's total blockade of food and other essentials for life in Gaza has been in place for almost two months — an unequivocal crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions — and the people of Gaza had already been grossly deprived of …

greenleft.org.au (2025-05-01). Labor rejects Thorpe-Payman genocide bills, but they are unlikely to go away. greenleft.org.au

Staff (2025-05-01). Swiss fencers turn backs on Israeli team in protest over Gaza genocide. defenddemocracy.press The New Arab Staff Apr 27, 2025 Israeli sporting teams have seen many acts of protest especially since the start of the war on Gaza which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians Athletes continue to use international sports arenas to voice opposition to Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, as global calls mount to ban Israeli …

Staff (2025-05-01). U.S. warns Iran of consequences of supporting Houthis. haaretz.com ISRAEL: Israel marks second Memorial Day since October 7 attack ‚ñ GAZA: Hamas-run Health Ministry says 35 killed in Israeli strikes in last day ‚ñ SYRIA: IDF carries out 'warning operation' against extremists planning attack on Druze community, Netanyahu and Katz say…

Édouard Soulier (2025-05-01). We need to talk about Gaza more than ever. internationalviewpoint.org The images keep coming, one after another, more of the same. Explosions, screams, cries and tragedies. Starving people who have had to survive displacement and bombardment. Access to drinking water is once again becoming a problem because Israel has destroyed Gaza's second desalination plant. It feels like we are reliving the horrors of a year ago. | – | / |

Gilbert Achcar (2025-05-01). The Other Catastrophe: Genocide and Famine in Sudan. internationalviewpoint.org Two years have passed since the war broke out in Sudan between the two sides of the military regime that the country inherited from the infamous Omar al-Bashir. While the situation in Sudan does not get even a tenth of the global media attention that the ongoing Zionist genocidal war in Gaza receives, the scale of the human catastrophe there is equally horrific. The death toll from the military-on-military war is estimated at more than 150,000, while the number of displaced people stands at approximately 13 million, and the number of those threatened with severe famine reaches 44 million—a record number tha…

newarab (2025-05-01). Israel intensifies bombing of Gaza as malnutrition soars. newarab.com

newarab (2025-05-01). Switzerland to enact Hamas ban from 15 May amid Gaza war. newarab.com A The law, which was approved by parliament last December and came in the wake of the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, gives Swiss authorities "the necessary tools to take action against Hamas activities or support for the organisation in Switzerland", the…

Editor (2025-05-01). How the Vietnam and Gaza Wars Shattered Young Illusions About US Leaders. scheerpost.com

Yorgos Mitralias (2025-05-01). Gaza: "More than a human being can bear" cadtm.org

albawaba (2025-05-01). Jerusalem fires trigger evacuations and deep internal disputes. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – In the Jerusalem Hills, more than 24,000 dunams of forest and land have already been burned by one of the most destructive wildfires Israel has seen in years. Strong winds and intense heat have fanned the flames, forcing large-scale evacuations and igniting intense internal conflicts among Israeli officials.As fires threaten many neighborhoods, evacuation efforts are ongoing, according to Israeli authorities. In response to concerns that the flames would grow further and perhaps even reach Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed a state of emergency on Wednesday.A special operations cen…

Party for Socialism, Liberation — New York City (2025-04-30). Zionist mob attacks activists protesting war criminal Itamar Ben-Gvir. But NYPD-backed repression will not stop the movement for Palestine! liberationnews.org Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza, such Zionist mob attacks against the movement — especially women — have been commonplace and well-documented.

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). Australia's international challenges: Lessons from the past. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). Chain of Women take a stand for Palestine. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). NSW Senate candidate: 'Vote for Palestine, but don't stop there — organise!'. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). Palestine shows up Australia's disgraceful 'representative democracy'. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). Protesters call for a vote for Palestine, stop arming Israel. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2025-04-30). Silence is no response to slaughter; recognise Palestine. greenleft.org.au

Rachel Small (2025-04-30). Calling Out the Canadian Attorney General's Failure to Act in the Face of Genocide. worldbeyondwar.org Scarborough constituents and allies with Scarborough/Rouge Park for Palestine and Tkaronto World BEYOND War occupied both the inside and outside of Minister Gary Anandasangaree's campaign office. #WorldBEYONDWar…

Sophia Goodfriend (2025-04-30). U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It's Coming Home. theintercept.com Illustration: The Intercept | In partnership with ⚪ Rita Murad, a 21-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and student at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was arrested by Israeli authorities in November 2023 after sharing three Instagram stories on the morning of October 7. The images included a picture of a bulldozer breaking through the border fence in Gaza and a quote: "Do you support decolonization as an abstract academic theory? Or as a tangible event?" She was suspended from university and faced up to five years in prison. | In recent ye…

Staff (2025-04-30). Stop the dissolution of Urgence Palestine: Take action now to confront France's complicity in genocide! samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns in the strongest terms the announced plans of the French state to "dissolve" — that is, effectively ban — Urgence Palestine, the large national coalition and collective for Palestine that has risen to the forefront of the movement in France over the past 18 months of resistance to Zionist-imperialist …

Staff (2025-04-30). Speechless About Gaza (Podcast Episode 71). worldbeyondwar.org How do we even speak about genocide and apartheid in Gaza and Palestine? Words are not enough, and are too often a substitute for action. Mohammed Abunahel and Maria Santelli join Marc Eliot Stein on the #WorldBEYONDWar podcast.

JANET (2025-04-30). MAY DAY: WORKERS SUPPORT PALESTINE; 5pm nyc. iacenter.org WORKERS SUPPORT PALESTINE — Thursday, MAY 1 at 5pm edt JOIN US on Zuccotti Park sidewalk, Broadway between Liberty & Cedor., NYC Join to greet marchers on the May Day 2025 parade with a militant, pro-Palestine rally demanding an end to the U.S-backed genocide in Gaza! INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY is the day to make Palestine FRONT and CENTER! Trade Unions in Gaza have called on the world to use May Day to oppose the siege, starvation and merciless bombing of Palestinians! Supporting Palestine is central to fighting the war on workers here at home. We need $ for peoples' needs-not weapons for the Zionist entity'

Medjool (2025-04-30). Analyse rapport CDPQ 2024: 27,4 milliards de dollars dans 76 entreprises CDPQ 2024 Report Analysis: $27.4 billion invested in 76 companies. justpeaceadvocates.ca English follows (Page 2) En 2024, la CDPQ a considérablement augmenté ses investissements dans des entreprises complices des crimes d'Israà´l en Palestine. Une analyse conjointe de la Coalition du Québec URGENCE Palestine et de Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement pour une paix juste Informations de contact [Version texte ci-dessous] TABLE DES MATIààRES Résumé Présentation 1. Les crimes …

Medjool (2025-04-30). Communiqué de presse — Sortons la Caisse des crimes en Palestine, rapport annuel 2024 de la CDPQ : plus de 27 milliards $ dans 76 entreprises complices de l'occupation et du génocide en Palestine [Release — Caisse out of crimes in Palestine]. justpeaceadvocates.ca English follows (Page 2) [Pour télécharger une version PDF du communiqué de presse, rendez-vous à la page 3.] Tiohtià : ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, 30 avril 2025 — La Coalition du Québec URGENCE Palestine et le Mouvement pour une paix juste publient aujourd'hui uneanalyse détaillée du rapport annuel 2024 de la Caisse de dépà¥t et placement du Québec (CDPQ) rendu …

Ed Newman (2025-04-30). Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi released from U.S. custody. radiohc.cu Burlington, April 30 (RHC) ⚪ A United States judge has ordered the release of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine protester Mohsen Mahdawi as a case challenging his deportation proceeds.

APR editor (2025-04-30). On 'moral panic' and the courage to speak the West's silence on Gaza. asiapacificreport.nz Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is one small, but important, step in building a global Palestine network that is urgently needed, writes Dr Ilan Pappé ANALYSIS: By Ilan Pappé Responses in the Western world to the genocide…

Editor (2025-04-30). From the United States to Europe, Criticizing Israel Is Becoming a Crime. scheerpost.com A Pro Palestine Protester Speaks with a PSU Police Officer. Alisdare Hickson from Woolwich, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 By Kit Klarenberg / Across the United States and much of the West, criticism of Israel and solidarity with Palestine are increasingly being criminalized—a project long championed by Israel's government and its powerful lobbying networks. | In Fe…

saorinoco (2025-04-30). The Jordanian Regime and the Palestinian Authority: A Continuous War on the Resistance. orinocotribune.com With every security operation carried out by the regime's apparatuses in Jordan "against terrorism," the mouthpieces of the authority resurface, finding in it their opportunity to renew their allegiance, spread lies and false allegations, and, of course, to attack the resistance and demonize its popular and armed base of support in Palestine, Lebanon, and the region. | They deliberately recall the "events of the 1970s" (in reality, the war on the resistance in Jordan), resurrecting them and attacking everyone, without preamble. They use this bloody history as a bogeyman, a crutch, and a pre…

Staff (2025-04-30). 'The raids happened Wednesday, finals started Thursday': FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan. therealnews.com The Trump administration continues to escalate its authoritarian assault on higher education, free speech, and political dissent—and university administrators and state government officials are willingly aiding that assault. On the morning of April 23, at the direction of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the homes of multiple student …

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