2025-06-20: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-06-21 03:18am GMT

SKWAWKBOX (2025-06-20). 'Labour' govt 'to ban anti-genocide group'. skwawkbox.org Palestine Action to be added to list of proscribed groups alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda — for trying to stop mass murder of Palestinians Right-wing Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to ban — or 'proscribe' the Palestine Action (PA) anti-genocide group over the summer, according to the BBC. The move will mean PA is treated as …

Jonathan Cook (2025-06-20). Israel's Attack on Iran: The Violent New World is Going to Horrify You. dissidentvoice.org Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel's unmistakable war of aggression against Iran as some kind of "defensive" move. This time there was no rationalising pretext, as there was for Israel to inflict a genocide in Gaza following Hamas' one-day attack on 7 October 2023. …

Marjorie Cohn (2025-06-20). US Weighs Deeper Involvement in Israel's Illegal Attacks Against Iran. truthout.org As Donald Trump threatens to further enmesh the U.S. in Israel's war against Iran with direct strikes, legal experts warn that Israel's attacks violate international law, and that U.S. attacks would violate constitutional and statutory law. Israel began its war on Iran on June 12, with an attack that seemed intended to distract global attention from its genocide in Gaza. Since then… |

United National Antiwar Coalition. (2025-06-20). June 28 International Day Of Action: 'No War With Iran'. popularresistance.org We call on all peoples of conscience throughout the world to take to the streets on June 28, 2025 and march against the expansion of the Zionist-US aggression from Palestine through Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to Iran. For 20 months the people of Palestine have been steadfast against the collective west's genocide of their people and theft of their land. In the face of a firm resistance, the US and the Zionists had no choice but to expand the war into Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran. | Iran has supported the regional resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Syria for decades and is under attack because…

WSWS (2025-06-20). Frankfurt/Main: A harrowing speech on the genocide in Gaza. wsws.org A man with family roots in Palestine described the impact of the Gaza genocide on his family: "While the world looks to the events in Iran, Israel is using the silence to continue bombing Gaza undisturbed."

WSWS (2025-06-20). University of Sydney announces further attacks on free speech. wsws.org While the immediate target of the new rules is clearly opposition to the intensifying Gaza genocide, they could be used to suppress any opposition to management, the government or the political establishment.

Anatol Lieven (2025-06-20). The 17 Ukraine war peace terms the US must put before NATO. responsiblestatecraft.org In the run up to the NATO Summit at The Hague next week, June 24-25, President Donald Trump and his administration should present a clear U.S. plan for peace in Ukraine to the European and Ukrainian governments — one that goes well beyond just a ceasefire. While it is understandable that Trump would like to walk away from the Ukraine peace process, given President Vladimir Putin's intransigence and now the new war in the Middle East, he and his team need to state clearly the parameters of a deal that they think will bring a lasting peace. Walking away from the effort to end the war prematurely leaves Wa…

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