(2025-08-01). Karoline Leavitt Demands Nobel For Trump As World Rolls Eyes, Then Makes Stunning Gaza Announcement. hindustantimes.com White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt again on July 31 called for Donald Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking during a press briefing, Leavitt echoed conservative opinion pieces and emphasised recent endorsements. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also endorsed Trump for the award. The repeated push comes as Trump's handling of international crises, from Iran to his proposal for postwar Gaza, remains highly controversial and divisive. Watch for details.
(2025-08-01). Canada to recognise Palestinian state next month. dawn.com 
GAZA: Palestinians rush towards aid packages being airdropped over the besieged enclave.—Reuters | • Portugal to also weigh recognition
| • Trump's envoy meets Netanyahu, will head to Gaza today
| • US imposes sanctions on Palestinian Authority, PLO officials | OTTAWA: Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday, a major policy shift that drew an angry response from US President Donald Trump and was rejected by Israel. | Meanwhile, Portugal will als…
(2025-08-01). NY doctor just back from Gaza: Starvation is widespread undeniable, despite Israeli PM claims. nationofchange.org Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that there is "no starvation" in Gaza, a U.S. doctor who just returned from Gaza says the reality is undeniable.
(2025-08-01). Protest at Genocide Enabler BCG. indybay.org Noisy protest counters BCG's (Boston Consulting Group) pr and calls out Netanyahu's former employer as complicit in genocide. See their pledge to "make the world a better place."
(2025-08-01). Boycotting genocide: Italy's civil society stands with Palestine. newarab.com 
While Israel's massacres in Gaza and the West Bank continue, solidarity for Palestinians around the world is growing. | This is true even in countries like Italy, where the government maintains critical support for Tel Aviv. Yet, over recent months, unprecedented actions at the local level have begun to shake the "status quo." | On 24 June, Coop Alleanza 3.0 — Italy's
(2025-08-01). Top Cleric Warns Tel Aviv Would Turn into 'Ghost Town' if 'Israel' Strikes Iran Again. english.almanar.com.lb 
The interim Friday prayer leader of Tehran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ahmad Khatami, has warned Israel against launching a new act of aggression on Iran, saying that Tel Aviv would be turned into "a ghost town" if the Islamic Republic is attacked again. "If you violate the ceasefire or repeat your madness, we will crush Israel with …
(2025-08-01). Ben Gvir: "Germany back to supporting Nazis 80 years after the Holocaust" albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Radical Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir has ignited widespread outrage after accusing Germany of "returning to supporting the Nazis", a shocking statement prompted by Berlin's reported intent to recognize a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution. Ben Gvir's inflammatory comment comes despite Germany being one of Israel's strongest backers after the United States, and a key supplier of military and diplomatic support during its ongoing war on Gaza."Eighty years after the Holocaust, Germany is once again siding with the Nazis," Ben Gvir claimed, in response to growing inte…
(2025-08-01). U.S. and Europe play games with a Palestinian state while Israel starves Gaza. mondoweiss.net 
France, Great Britain, and Canada's recognition of a Palestinian state might matter someday. But, as usual, the Palestinians won't get any immediate help from Europe, much less from North America, in stopping the Gaza genocide now.
(2025-08-01). Stop Israel's imperialist-backed starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza! wsws.org Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, backed by the European and North American imperialist powers, is a crime against humanity comparable with the Nazis' "final solution" of European Jewry—the Holocaust.
(2025-08-01). Roaming Charges: Something's Gone Wrong Again. counterpunch.org 
This was the week the worms turned. Some of them, anyway: A super majority of Americans now oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza; Bari Weiss and Donald Trump admitted Palestinians are starving (if not that they are being starved or pointing the finger at who is starving them); France, the UK and Canada announced they are ready to endorse Palestinian statehood next month at the UN; a majority of Senate Democrats voted to halt (offensive) weapons shipments to Israel; Israel's two leading human rights groups, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, finally concluded that Israel is committing genocide; Zohran Mamdani i…
(2025-08-01). Israel under pressure as Palestine gains recognition. independent.co.ug 
French President Macron to recognise Palestine as momentum builds against Israel ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT & AGENCIES | French President Emmanuel Macron announced July 24 that France will recognise Palestine as a state, in a bold diplomatic move amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision. Macron said in a post …
(2025-08-01). Israel's international isolation has begun. mondoweiss.net 
U.S. and global politics surrounding Israel are shifting rapidly as the world recoils in horror at Israel's starvation of Gaza. Here are several lessons the left should take note of.
(2025-08-01). Israel kills starving Palestinians as US envoy visits GHF site. newarab.com 
At least two Palestinians were killed and more than 70 were injured on Friday while waiting for food aid, as Israel continues to target The latest assault comes amid a rising death toll linked to Separately, at least 12 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes acros…
(2025-08-01). Trump envoy to visit Gaza aid sites as Israel accused of starvation policy. aljazeera.com US to assess 'dire situation' in Gaza as Human Rights Watch calls Israeli killings of people seeking aid a 'war crime'.
(2025-08-01). Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Palestinians at a US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site for humanitarian aid in the "Netzarim Corridor, "central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025.‚ÄØ | © 2025 Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images | US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel's use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war—a war crime—as well as Israel's continued intentional deprivati…
(2025-08-01). Egypt's FM in US urges Gaza ceasefire and warns over Nile dam. newarab.com 
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty renewed Cairo's calls for a permanent ceasefire in war-torn and starved Gaza, while also warning that Egypt will take necessary measures to protect its water security amid an Abdelatty spoke from Washington, where he is on an official visit and A day earlier, he met Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who had previously made sh…
(2025-08-01). "Moral Injury" : Murdered in Gaza, Disappeared in America. counterpunch.org 
We're now exposed — often in real-time — to video of abducted mothers torn from their children, workers taken at their jobs, green card holders handcuffed when reporting to ICE appointments, in the USA — and to videos of people in Gaza shot, burned, or bombed, or herded, starving, from blasted place to blasted place by pitiless IDF operations in a not so hidden logic of extermination.
(2025-08-01). Israel kills dozens in Gaza as UN warns of deliberate starvation. newarab.com 
(2025-08-01). Israel abducted starving children at Gaza "aid" sites, then tortured them. electronicintifada.net 1,200 Palestinian elders have died from Israel's starvation policy.
(2025-08-01). Israel Has Made Gaza a Hell on Earth. jacobin.com How much longer will we watch Israel starve children to death and massacre civilians?>
(2025-08-01). TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager'. thecanary.co TikTok has appointed a former soldier in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as its Hate Speech Policy Manager. TikTok: employing Zionists to oversee hate speech Erica Mindel, a 'proud Zionist' is a former instructor in the Israeli army's Armoured Corps, in which she spent two and a half years. From 2022 to 2025 she was […] | By
(2025-08-01). UCLA agrees to $6 million settlement with Zionist plaintiffs as repression intensifies against pro-Palestinian students. wsws.org In line with Columbia and other universities, UCLA has capitulated to Trump's fascistic demands to crush anti-genocide protests.
(2025-08-01). Selected Articles: The Zionist Occupation of Cyprus? Israelis Buying Land in Record Numbers Rings Alarm Bells for Locals. globalresearch.ca 
By Israelis have been buying land in Cyprus, and the locals are concerned. Why should they be …
(2025-08-01). Michael Burawoy: Palestine through a South African Lens. newleftreview.org In a draft text sent to NLR before his tragically early death, the sociologist reflects on the reasons for the starkly different outcomes of Afrikaner and Zionist settler colonialisms: in South Africa, a unified democratic republic, with all its problems; in Israel, ongoing war.
(2025-08-01). Tuesday 8/5: Webinar: Anti-Zionism means Abolition. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/AZAbolition…
(2025-08-01). Detainment Of Chris Smalls: White Supremacy At The Core Of Zionism. popularresistance.org The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally denounces the brutal assault and abduction of Amazon Labor Union co-founder Chris Smalls, who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Though he is now released, the exceptionally heinous treatment of Smalls by the Zionist state forces demonstrates the historical neurotic fear of any interconnection between Black / African resistance to white supremacy and resistance to capitalist exploitation. | As part of the 21-member international collective aboard the aid ship Handala, a flotilla that was headed to Gaza to protest and break the blockade on the Palestin…
(2025-08-01). Mogadishu Is Not in Tatters, It's in Transformation. moderndiplomacy.eu By any serious measure, Mogadishu today is more stable, more vibrant, and more hopeful than it has been in decades. So when The Economist recently published a nameless and cowardly article claiming Somalia's state-building is "in tatters" and predicting that Mogadishu may fall to al-Shabab, it became clear that the magazine has abandoned responsible journalism …
(2025-08-01). Iran Dismisses Assassination and Intimidation Accusations as 'Unfounded and Absurd'. english.almanar.com.lb 
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei has dismissed the latest allegations leveled by the United States, France, and other Western countries against Iran, describing them as a clear diversion tactic aimed at distracting public attention from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Baqaei made the reaction on Friday, a day after 14 countries, including the U.S., …
(2025-08-01). UK: Brian Eno to host 'Together for Palestine' concert in London. newarab.com 
British musician and producer Brian Eno will host a major benefit concert for Gaza at London's Wembley Arena on 17 September. | The event, titled 'Together for Palestine', aims to raise humanitarian funds and encourage artists to speak out against Israel's ongoing siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. | Eno will serve as executive producer alongside Khaled Ziada, Khalid Abdalla and Tracey Seaward. Describing the concert as "a night of music, reflection and hope", Eno said on Instagram that the goal is to offer solidarity with Palestinians and to help break the silence around the crisis.
(2025-08-01). Gulf activists launch humanitarian vessel to break Gaza blockade. newarab.com 
A group of Gulf-based human rights advocates and civil society organisers has announced the launch of the ' Speaking to The New Arab's Arabic edition, Gulf organiser Mohammed Al-Hayki said the vessel would be "one of dozens, if not hundreds, of ships" aiming to breach the 18-year blockade and respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. | "This is a civil, peaceful response to an ongoing humanitarian crisis. We're young…
(2025-08-01). Sweden calls on EU to suspend trade pact with Israel: PM. newarab.com 
"The situation in Gaza is absolutely appalling, and Israel is failing to fulfil its most basic obligations and agreements on emergency aid," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a post to X. | "Sweden therefore demands that the EU freeze the trade section of the association agreement as soon as possible," Kristersson said, calling on the Isra…
(2025-08-01). How MTG became MAGA's moral compass on Gaza. responsiblestatecraft.org This week, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene
(2025-08-01). Is a State the Reward for Genocide? counterpunch.org 
Most Israelis are too focused on the atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7 to acknowledge, much less denounce, the atrocities their government is committing on an ongoing basis in Gaza. The Israeli public is desperate to save the 20 or so remaining Israeli hostages that are being hidden somewhere in that besieged strip. Israelis
(2025-08-01). Arab States Call on Hamas To 'Disarm,' Give up Governance in Gaza. orinocotribune.com
(2025-08-01). Ben-Gvir accuses Germany of 'returning to Nazism' over Palestine. newarab.com 
Israeli Prime Minister The visit, initiated by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, is seen as part of a diplomatic push to dissuade Germany from joining a growing list of countries that have pledged to recognise Palestinian statehood. | The meeting comes as Germany signals frustration with Israel's stance on Gaza an…
(2025-08-01). Gazans denounce Witkoff visit to aid sites as 'propaganda stunt'. newarab.com 
Palestinian community, tribal and civil society In a press conference held on Friday in western Gaza City, representatives of Gaza's clans and civic organisations urged Witkoff to visit displacement cam…
(2025-08-01). Welcome to Gaza: Palestinian children's voices reach UK stages. newarab.com 
A tapestry of plays written and performed by Palestinian schoolchildren is coming to theatre stages across the United Kingdom in August. | Responsible for this interweaving is director
(2025-08-01). 92 US lawmakers demand probe into Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. newarab.com 
A group of 92 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives has called on the State Department to investigate the US and Israel-backed Gaza In a letter addressed to Secretary of State
(2025-08-01). Tuesday 8/12: Webinar: Gaza Apocalypse. indybay.org Online | masspeace.us/gaza-apocalypse…
(2025-08-01). Video: Bristol police detain 11yo girl for protesting against genocide. skwawkbox.org 
Police state over-reach plumbs even greater depths as child targeted Police in Bristol detained an 11-year-old girl for protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza yesterday: The victim was eventually released without charge but only after concerted protests from onlookers and family. The Starmer police state plumbs new depths with the targeting of children despite a …
(2025-08-01). HRW: Israel committing war crimes at US-backed Gaza aid sites. newarab.com 
(2025-08-01). 'A death journey': Palestinians describe GHF aid site turmoil in Gaza. aljazeera.com Palestinians tell Al Jazeera they witness 'shooting, killing, death' by soldiers at GHF distribution sites in Gaza.
(2025-08-01). Israel and the occupied territories: ICRC president calls for urgent collective action by states to end abhorrent suffering in Gaza. icrc.org The following is a statement attributable to ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric on the humanitarian situation in Gaza…
(2025-08-01). Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Forced Institutionalization. fair.org 
(2025-08-01). Report: Israel Tells Hamas It Will Start Annexing Parts of Gaza If It Doesn't Agree to Israel's Ceasefire Terms. globalresearch.ca Israeli officials have sent a message to Hamas that if the group doesn't accept the latest ceasefire proposal, Israel will begin annexing parts of Gaza, According to …
(2025-08-01). Trump envoy to inspect Gaza aid amid Israeli massacre. newarab.com 
(2025-08-01). These Palestinians survived a visit to the GHF's deadly aid sites. aljazeera.com Palestinians take Al Jazeera on journey showing how hard it is to get food at Gaza's aid distribution hubs.
(2025-08-01). A list of all the experts saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. thecanary.co Genocide scholars, human rights groups, and ethical legal experts agree that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. Some reached that conclusion before the end of 2023. Others reached it in 2024. And some took until 2025 to use the word genocide. Below is a comprehensive list of those figures and organisations, […] | By
(2025-08-01). Israeli gunfire kills six aid seekers in northern Gaza: reports. english.almanar.com.lb 
(2025-08-01). Portugal will also recognize Palestinian state in September. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro, said on Thursday that his country will be recognizing the state of Palestine in September. Portugal's decision follows same announcements made by Canada, France, the UK and other nations amid the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the famine that is surrounding Palestinians, which led to the death of over 100 people, including children. In a coordinated diplomatic move, 16 countries, including France, Canada, and Australia, issued a joint appeal on Wednesday urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and calling for international recognition of the State of Pale…
(2025-08-01). All the plans to rescue Gaza is that they're too little, too late. By design. Paul Larudee. globalresearch.ca The problem with all the plans to rescue Gaza is that they're too little, too late. By design. | There are plans for bigger flotillas of aid by sea, reduction of military aid to Israel, sabotage of Israeli interests abroad, military …
(2025-08-01). Bloodshed at GHF-run Gaza aid sites 'a great sin', says former top UN official. asiapacificreport.nz 
Asia Pacific Report A former senior UN aid official has condemned the bloodshed at the notorious US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid food depots, describing the distribition system as having turned into a "catastrophe". The number of aid seekers killed continues to climb daily beyond 1000. Martin Griffiths, director of Mediation Group International and…
(2025-08-01). Sunday 8/3: Pleasanton: Community Rally/Vigil for Gaza. indybay.org Delucchi Park | 4501 1st Street | Pleasanton, CA…
(2025-08-01). Trump's envoy arrives in Israel as Gaza criticism mounts. newarab.com 
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(2025-08-01). Iran Sets Conditions For US Nuclear Talks. popularresistance.org Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview published on 31 July that Tehran is seeking financial compensation for Israel's war, an explanation on why Iran was attacked during negotiations, and security guarantees for any resumption of nuclear talks with Washington. | Araghchi told the Financial Times (FT) that Iran will not accept going back to "business as usual" after Israel launched its unprovoked war on the country in mid-June. | "They should explain why they attacked us in the middle of … negotiations, and they have to ensure that they are not going to repeat that [during future talks]. A…
(2025-08-01). Full text: World Youth Peace Initiative. ecns.cn BEIJING – The World Youth Conference for Peace was held in Beijing on Tuesday.This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations.
(2025-08-01). China's defense minister reiterates PLA's readiness for national reunification. ecns.cn The Ministry of National Defense hosts a reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, July 31, 2025.On September 3, China will hold a military paradein Beijing's Tiananmen Square to celebrate the anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
(2025-08-01). Fascists on the CPD: Why Is It So Hard to Fire Proud Boy Cops in Chicago? counterpunch.org 
Screenshot from YouTube For many years, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has harbored at least two dozen members of the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, and other white supremacist and fascist groups. The scandal, well-documented in the local media and official city investigations, has come and gone from the public view. Two mayors, two police superintendents,
(2025-08-01). No To Fascist Austerity! No Pride In Genocide! popularresistance.org Over 1,500 demonstrators rallied outside Boston City Hall on July 23 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A coalition of Massachusetts disability rights organizations and labor unions, including Boston Center for Independent Living, Dignity Alliance Massachusetts and Service Employees International Union 1199, along with dozens of others sponsored the commemoration. | Decades of protests, sit-ins and shutdowns by disabled activists and their allies forced Congress to pass the ADA in 1990.
(2025-08-01). Tariff Trade War Against Brazil, Bolsonaro, Lula, Palestine & the Working Class. indybay.org The fascist Trump government has declared tariff trade war on Brazil demanding that charges against Bolsonaro for organizing an insurrection and the assassination of Lula and other people be dropped. Sà£o Paulo transit worker and a member of Conlutas Fabio Bosco reports on this and also the struggle against the genocide in Palestine and BRICS…
(2025-08-01). Netanyahu gambles on his last chance to prevent the collapse of his rule. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in danger of losing his weak government, so he has promised to slowly take over parts of the Gaza Strip if Hamas doesn't agree to end the fighting within days. The move comes as his minority government, which has only 50 seats now that ultra-Orthodox parties quit, faces growing problems within the country and pressure from other countries.Haaretz says the takeover plan seems to be less about security and more about making friends with far-right groups. In particular, it seems to be an attempt to make Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich happy, since his Religio…
(2025-08-01). Netanyahu worked for enemies long before October 7. Now doing so knowingly. haaretz.com Israel is well on the way to becoming a pariah — almost rogue — state, thanks to nearly Olympian levels of charlatanism from its government ministers ‚ñ Once again Bezalel Smotrich's megalomaniac wretchedness has been exposed for all to see ‚ñ Netanyahu gears up for his ultimate role as a wannabe dictator…
(2025-08-01). One year of i24NEWS in Hebrew: a credible news outlet or a Netanyahu mouthpiece? haaretz.com It has recruited veteran talent, but with no investigative desk and modest ratings, i24NEWS' Hebrew channel is still struggling to define itself a year in…
(2025-08-01). Palestinian protest against Gaza starvation at Egyptian embassy stirs controversy. haaretz.com Critics, particularly those from Egypt, accused the protest organizers of deflecting responsibility from Israel and placing undue blame on Cairo…
(2025-08-01). Israel is turning Gaza famine into a hasbara war. It make it less real. haaretz.com As Gazans starve, Israeli leaders and influencers are obsessing about a photo of a malnourished Palestinian child with an insufficient caption – desperately trying to explain away problems, but the world isn't listening. Their reaction to a long-awaited UN summit on the two-state solution was no better…
(2025-08-01). Citing frustrations with EU, Slovenia imposes arms embargo on Israel over Gaza war. haaretz.com Move comes after several Western nations declared – some for the first time – that they plan to recognize a Palestinian state…
(2025-08-01). Amid chaos on the ground in Gaza, IDF struggles with Israeli calls for annexation. haaretz.com Anything the Israeli military proposes at this time is nothing more than rearranging chair on the deck of the sinking Titanic ‚ñ As far as the extreme right is concerned, annexing the Strip is not a threat against Hamas — it's the goal…
(2025-08-01). exhausted and burning Inside northern flattened Beit Hanoun with Israeli soldiers. haaretz.com An IDF commander said his troops killed 201 militants in 73 days, as of Wednesday, but soldiers and officers doubt the number. One told Haaretz the IDF mainly targets suspects via drones and only afterward troops try to verify the identities of the dead…