2025-05-12: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-05-12 07:58am GMT

WSWS (2025-05-12). 50,000 protest in Madrid against Gaza genocide of Palestinians and PSOE-Sumar complicity. wsws.org This protest came amid intensifying atrocities in Gaza, where the Israeli government has launched what it calls the "concluding moves" of its military campaign.

Refaat Ibrahim, Mondoweiss. (2025-05-12). Google's Acquisition Of An Israeli Software Company: Big Tech's Complicity In Genocide. popularresistance.org At a time when global concern is mounting over the crimes committed against civilians in Gaza, and calls are increasing to halt the genocide being carried out by Israel, recent news reveals a more dangerous role played by giant tech companies in fueling the Israeli war machine. In July 2024, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced the completion of its acquisition of the Israeli company Wiz for an unprecedented amount — $32 billion in cash. The move was described as the largest acquisition in Google's history. | But this deal goes beyond being merely a business investment; it reveals the depth of…

Hopkins Justice Collective, Popular Resistance. (2025-05-12). Johns Hopkins Students Met With Police Repression And Violence. popularresistance.org On the morning of May 8, students at Johns Hopkins University launched an encampment on Keyser Quad, declaring it the Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone in solidarity with the people of Gaza and in protest of the university's ongoing complicity in genocide. Within the hour, demonstrators were met with indiscriminate aggression and physical harassment by armed Johns Hopkins Police and Baltimore Police officers, resulting in the injury of two students and the destruction of personal belongings. | Despite the peaceful nature of the protest, which Johns Hopkins Police themselves admitted, they issued multiple threa…

WSWS (2025-05-12). California State University students wage hunger strike against Gaza genocide. wsws.org On May 5, 25 students in California launched a hunger strike to oppose mass starvation as part of the genocide in Gaza.

Ed Newman (2025-05-11). Report reveals Israel using captives as excuse to continue genocide in Gaza. radiohc.cu Tel Aviv, May 12 (RHC) ⚪ Israel has not prioritized the safe return of captives held by Hamas in Gaza. Instead, it's using them as "an alibi" to continue its war crimes against the Palestinians, according to an Israeli intelligence source.

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-05-11). It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza. caitlinjohnstone.com.au It can make you feel like you're going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we're a year and a half into history's first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything's peachy. | We're murdering kids. We're starving them. We're dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This isn't just being done by "Israel". It's being done by the entire western emp…

Kevin A. Young, Truthout. (2025-05-11). Want To Stop Trump's Attacks On The NLRB? popularresistance.org May Day 2025 in the United States came amid the most aggressive assault on U.S. workers in a century. The federal agencies that provide some minimal protection against corporate power — the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and many more — are being systematically destroyed. On May 1, hundreds of thousands protested at roughly 1,300 actions across the United States. Under the broad theme "Workers Over Billionaires," they condemned union-busting, austerity, climate destruction, anti-immigrant terror, the U.S.-Israeli genocide, and other facets of the assa…

Staff (2025-05-11). Salonica Book Fair: Œïvent on Jewish literature canceled because of anti-genocide protests. defenddemocracy.press May 10, 2025 Tension prevailed at an event at the 5th Thessaloniki International Book Fair, where the Israeli Embassy was scheduled to hold a discussion on: "Changing Landscapes of Jewish Literature". Before the debate started, tension was caused when about 150 people wearing headscarves and Palestinian flags intervened, shouting slogans such as: "Out with the …

Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD, Black Agenda Report. (2025-05-11). Black Politics And Mutual Comradeship: A Manifesto. popularresistance.org Now is the time of monsters. From ongoing genocide in Gaza and Sudan, the foreign-backed forever war in Congo, and Western occupation and recolonization of Haiti to capitalist greed and state violence against immigrants, unhoused folks, and racialized people in the context of the fires ravaging the Los Angeles area, it's difficult to feel optimistic about the state of politics in 2025. This feeling of dread can be only partially attributed to the Trump regime, given that these catastrophes started, intensified, or ossified under Joseph R. Biden. As the U.S. government continues to make a mockery of democracy and…

THINK TANK Productions (2025-05-11). Bangladesh Bans Pro Indian Awami League Over Genocide. thinktank.pk Celebrations erupted in Dhaka as Bangladesh's interim government officially banned all activities of the Awami League, citing national security under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The move follows months of deadly unrest and widespread accusations of genocide, foreign influence, and authoritarian crackdowns linked to the party. Former PM Sheikh Hasina remains in exile, now facing charges of …

Ed Newman (2025-05-11). Madrid mobilizes against genocide of Palestinians. radiohc.cu Madrid, May 12 (RHC) ⚪ Thousands marched through the streets of the Spanish capital on Sunday, under the banner "Move for Palestine."

greenleft.org.au (2025-05-11). Socialist candidate: 'The genocide in Gaza did not begin on October 7, 2023'. greenleft.org.au

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh (2025-05-11). Film Review: 'The Encampments' is an inspiring call for liberation in response to the horror of genocide. mondoweiss.net The documentary film "The Encampments" shares the inspiring story of how students brought Columbia University to a standstill, and the issue of Palestine to millions around the world.

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