2025-05-02: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-05-02 5:43pm GMT

WSWS (2025-05-02). Supporters of Laaila Irshad speak out against anti-democratic seizure of her personal phone by UCSC police. wsws.org "I'm here because there has been a campaign of police and legal persecution against members of the UC Santa Cruz community who have spoken out against the genocide that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinian people."

Graham Peebles (2025-05-02). The Plight of Amhara people is the Plight of Ethiopia: A Call for Unity. counterpunch.org The Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is waging war against its own people—specifically, the Amhara. Amhara men, women, and children are being killed and arrested not for their actions, but for who they are. This is targeted ethnic violence. It is, therefore, genocide. The term "genocide" is inflammatory, but in the context

General Federation of Trade Unions, Gaza (2025-05-02). Call from Gaza Unions to US Workers: Put Your Solidarity Into Action to Stop the Genocide. socialistproject.ca To the Free Trade Unions in the United States of America and to every free worker and trade unionist fighting for justice, freedom, and human dignity. | We salute you on the eve of International Workers' Day, a day that embodies the unity and solidarity of workers in confronting oppression and exploitation. We raise to you the voice of Gaza's workers, who today stand at the forefront of confronting the most heinous forms of genocide, siege, and starvation, imposed on our people for decades and continuing to this day with direct support from the US administration under Donald Trump, and previous administrations…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-05-02). Gaza Freedom Flotilla boat holed, burning after Israeli drone attack in international waters. skwawkbox.org No clear word if anti-genocide activists rescued A 'Gaza freedom flotilla' ship has been holed and set on fire after an attack by drones in international waters as it tried to reach Gaza to bring aid and peacefully protest against Israel's genocide against the Palestinians. The vessel was bombed twice by a number of drones …

SKWAWKBOX (2025-05-02). People of Hastings mount 'empty pot' protest against Israel's starvation blockade of Gaza. skwawkbox.org "We won't be silent as Israel starves Gaza!" Today, members of Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HDPSC) and Hastings Jews for Justice (HJJ) took over the roundabout outside the town council offices to bang empty pots in protest against Israel's deliberate starvation of around two million genocide survivors in Gaza and the UK government's refusal …

Palestinian Trade, Professional Unions (2025-05-01). No Labour for Genocide No Complicity with Apartheid. socialistproject.ca Israel is only able to continue its livestreamed genocide against Palestinians, including daily massacres, burning our children, men and women alive, or starving and thirsting them to death, due to the ongoing complicity of states, companies and institutions around the world. On this May Day, a historic day for the international labour movement that commemorates the struggles of workers for dignity and justice, as Palestinian trade and professional unions, we urgently renew our

Staff (2025-05-01). International Workers' Day 2025: The workers' flood for Palestine, against genocide and imperialism. defenddemocracy.press May 1, 2025 "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 …

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

greenleft.org.au (2025-05-01). Palestine shows up Australia's disgraceful 'representative democracy'. greenleft.org.au

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

Staff (2025-05-01). Italy marks 80 years since liberation with calls against genocide and militarism. defenddemocracy.press On the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-fascism, left forces in Italy mobilize against genocide, armament, and the Meloni government by Ana Vraƒçar April 25, 2025 In the coming weeks, many European countries will mark the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-fascist occupation. Italy is among the first, with dozens of events organized for April …

Staff (2025-05-01). Thousands march for Palestine, call for release of Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil, and others. defenddemocracy.press Thousands took to the streets of Washington DC on April 5 in a National March for Palestine to protest the continued US support to Israel's genocide April 09, 2025 Thousands of students, workers, and activists marched in Washington, DC this past weekend against Trump's policies, demanding an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and …

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 …

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…

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.

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.

WSWS (2025-05-01). Vote 1 Socialist Equality Party in the Australian federal election! Take a stand against war, genocide, austerity and the assault on democratic rights! wsws.org The SEP stresses that the decisive question is building an independent and socialist movement of the working class, directed against Labor, the Coalition, the Greens and the entire capitalist political establishment.

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-05-01). "Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism" caitlinjohnstone.com.au Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism, you say? Sure, that makes sense. How someone prays and what religious beliefs they hold is exactly the same as supporting apartheid and genocide. You can't even tell them apart; the last time I tried to pray the rosary I got confused and bombed a children's hospital. | It's true: there is absolutely no difference whatsoever between opposing a political ideology and opposing the existence of a small religious minority. That's why it…

bwitanek (2025-05-01). Report: JC Jewish Community Organizers Lead Protest of Israel Flag Raising. fightbackbetter.com Yesterday (April 30, 2025), 50-60 Jewish organizers and their allies protested the israeli flag raising event at Jersey City City Hall. Billed as a celebration of 77 years of independence, protesters staged a die-in outside, representing the more than 50,000 Palestinians who have been murdered by Israel in the past 18 months. One Jewish organizer from Jersey City said, "It's been 77 years of genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleaning and occupation. This isn't something that Jersey City should be celebrating. It is shameful." 1750 people signed a petition to Mayor Fulop and the city council asking that this flag…

Ed Sykes (2025-05-01). Artists insist the REAL scandal is state support for genocide, not Kneecap's words. thecanary.co Dozens of music artists have rallied around Kneecap as genocide-apologists seek to bring the group down for opposing Israel's war crimes in Gaza. And as British police start investigating Kneecap videos, Massive Attack in particular slammed politicians for "strategically concocting moral outrage over the stage utterings of a young punk band", insisting: Kneecap are not […] | By

Yumna Patel (2025-05-01). 'The Encampments' Documentary: An interview with Co-Director Kei Pritsker. mondoweiss.net 'The Encampments' is a powerful and intimate look inside the student-led divestment movement that brought some of the nation's most powerful institutions to their knees, and inspired thousands across the country to demand an end to the Gaza genocide.

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, …

SKWAWKBOX (2025-05-01). CPS consulted Israel over prosecution of Palestine Action activists jailed for over a year before trial. skwawkbox.org Email sharing CPS contact info with deputy ambassador shows Israel deeply embedded in prosecution process as Starmer regime wages war on anti-genocide speech and protest The Starmer regime consulted with representatives of Israel over the prosecution of anti-genocide activists who took direct action against an Israeli arms factory in the UK — and are being …

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