(2025-08-29). Are refugees in Belgium losing rights for backing Palestine. newarab.com 
(2025-08-29). US rail companies refuse to adopt improved safety policies, prompting FRA to dissolve safety working group formed after East Palestine disaster. wsws.org The Federal Railroad Administration formed the working group to discuss new safety policies in response to the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Two years later it dissolved the group due to lack of progress.
(2025-08-29). UN food agency chief: women and children are starving in Gaza. newarab.com 
The head of the The world's leading authority on food crises said last week the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by
(2025-08-29). Workers' intifada against Microsoft. workers.org 
As the United Nations' world food crisis authority finally declared a famine in Gaza, direct action demonstrators protested war profiteer Microsoft, whose technology is used to aid the U.S./Israeli war, which is committing genocide in Gaza. No Azure for Apartheid demonstration on Microsoft's campus in Redwood, Washington, Aug. 20, 2025. . . . |
(2025-08-29). UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide in letter. newarab.com 
(2025-08-29). The BBC's Gaza bias betrays its journalistic duty. newarab.com 
Rising It has been over 20 months of Israel's genocide in Gaza, and the question of media bias has been at the forefront of public conscience, particularly among those sympathetic with the plight of Palestin…
(2025-08-29). From Guernica to Gaza: The Detached Cruelty of Air Power. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com ) — Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can't match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi commandant, "Do not think yourself …
(2025-08-29). Smotrich urges Gaza annexation if Hamas refuses to 'surrender'. newarab.com 
The far-right minister, who has vocally opposed striking a deal with Hamas to end the nearly two-year war, presented his plan to "win in Gaza by the end of the year" at a press conference in Jerusalem. | Under Smotrich's proposal, Hamas would be given an ult…
(2025-08-29). Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix back new film about Gaza's Hind Rajab. newarab.com 
(2025-08-29). Sweden, Netherlands urge EU sanctions on Israel and Hamas. newarab.com 
In a letter to European Union foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, the Swedish and Dutch foreign ministers called for targeted sanctions on Israeli government ministers and
(2025-08-28). Second annual "People's Conference for Palestine" to draw thousands. peoplesdispatch.org This coming weekend, thousands of pro-Palestine activists are set to gather for the second annual The conference is being organized by a coalition of 12 groups — the Palestinian Youth Movement, the US Palestinian Commu…
(2025-08-28). 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.
(2025-08-28). Brighton FC bans fan for wearing Palestine shirt. thecanary.co 
Brighton and Hove Albion FC have banned a season ticket holder for wearing a Palestine shirt. Roger Wade, founder of @Boxfresh, has been banned from Brighton & Hove Albion for 5 games for wearing a Palestine football kit. A ST holder for 10 years, he was pulled out mid-game with no explanation. Instead of dialogue, […] | By
(2025-08-28). Saturday 8/30: All Out for Palestine. indybay.org Ocean at Water St., Santa Cruz…
(2025-08-28). Houthis claim hypersonic missile strike on Israel's Ben Gurion airport. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Yemen's Houthi movement announced on Wednesday that its missile forces carried out a "qualitative military operation" targeting Lod Airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a hypersonic ballistic missile.Houthi military spokesperson General Yahya Saree declared that Yemen will continue its support for Gaza "whatever the challenges and repercussions", vowing to fight until the siege is lifted and Israeli attacks are halted. He described the operation as part of Yemen's "honorable duty toward the oppressed in Palestine."ÿ®ŸäÿßŸÜ ÿߟџ&Cc…
(2025-08-28). The Attack on Palestine Chronicle. consortiumnews.com The allegation against Ramzy Baroud rests not on proof, but on the word of a belligerent army, writes Mohamed El Mokhtar. By Mohamed El Mokhtar Common Dreams The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organization. It is a modest, independent…
(2025-08-28). Father-in-law of British terror chief working on Palestine Action case is patron of UK Lawyers for Israel. thecanary.co 
The father-in-law of the UK's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has personal ties to Israel. Jonathan Hall is responsible for assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations. On Saturday, Hall wrote for the Observer, which defended the decision to proscribe Palestine Action. This is despite leaked evidence which showed government intelligence revealing […] | By
(2025-08-28). LIVE: Israel starves four more Palestinians to death in Gaza. aljazeera.com Israeli attacks kill at least 17 people in Gaza, including a woman and her child in the Bureij camp.
(2025-08-28). Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death. scheerpost.com US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea speaks on August 27, 2025. | (Photo: US Mission to the United Nations/X) | In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Brett Wilkins / Every member nation of the United Nations Security Coun…
(2025-08-28). Israeli Attacks and Starvation Kill 75 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours. news.antiwar.com Gaza's Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks have killed 71 Palestinians and wounded 339 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli attacks continue across the Strip. On top of the violent deaths, the Health Ministry said that it recorded another four starvation-related deaths amid the famine caused by the Israeli siege. "This …
(2025-08-28). What is famine, and how is it determined? aljazeera.com Famine doesn't happen naturally. It's political. Gaza joins the short list of places where conflict starves people.
(2025-08-28). Death toll from Gaza mass starvation hits 313. wsws.org Ten Palestinians have died of starvation or malnutrition over the past 24 hours due to the deliberate famine created by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll from the famine to 313, including 119 children.
(2025-08-28). Israel has now killed over 1,000 teachers since 7 October. thecanary.co In Gaza, schools are no longer just walls and doors, but have become a distant dream that children chase every day amid the rubble and international silence. Since 7 October 2023, every new day added to the lives of children has been filled with fear and waiting, as they watch the sky before they watch […] | By
(2025-08-28). From displacement tents to dreams of school: this time, I am writing to you about my own children. thecanary.co 
To the world where children are preparing to open their new books and start the new school year, going to school in safety, I write this story as a journalist accustomed to telling people's stories, and as a father deprived of the most basic right of fatherhood: to see his five children walk to school […] | By
(2025-08-28). CAIR Designates UC Berkeley a 'Hostile Campus' for Systematic Suppression of Anti-Genocide Speech. indybay.org August 26, 2025 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced the designation of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), a "Hostile Campus" due to its long and escalating pattern of targeting Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and allied students and faculty who speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
(2025-08-28). Gaza Genocide deniers are no different from Holocaust deniers, except that their denial abets the genocide itself. mondoweiss.net 
The denial of the Gaza genocide has been echoed from the mainstream media to the White House. While reminiscent of Holocaust denial, today's denials have deadly consequences as they are used to justify the very genocide deniers claim isn't happening.
(2025-08-28). Half of US voters believe Israel committing genocide in Gaza. jagonews24.com Half of voters in the United States believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a poll has found…
(2025-08-28). Hundreds of UN Staff Urge Rights Chief to Label Gaza a Genocide. moderndiplomacy.eu Background The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), created in 1993 to protect human rights globally, has seen its current head, Austrian lawyer Volker Turk, repeatedly condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, while being careful to not use the word "genocide". The term "genocide" carries severe legal and political implications, as the action …
(2025-08-28). Australian pseudo-left conference: Protest politics and reformist electoral fronts to trap anti-capitalist sentiment. wsws.org Socialist Alternative's Sydney conference promoted the fraud of protest politics, that have manifestly failed to halt the Gaza genocide, and sought to justify its creation of reformist electoral fronts.
(2025-08-28). America's Bipartisan Shame. dissidentvoice.org If hallmarks of economic decline are everywhere apparent, it is Washington's shameless participation in human genocide that has awakened many an American from their dogmatic slumbers. The United States has been a partner in human slaughter in Gaza, arming and funding, providing intelligence to and political cover for Zionist forces in Israel in their fanatical …
(2025-08-28). BBC "guidelines" endanger and offend Gaza interviewees. electronicintifada.net The British broadcaster is widely seen as having run interference for Israel's genocide.
(2025-08-28). Iran Demands Concrete International Action To End Israel's Genocide. popularresistance.org Abbas Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, called for more concrete collective action against Israel, asserting that mere verbal condemnations are no longer enough to prevent its "insatiable" Zionist ambitions to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and expand their occupation in the region. | Araghchi reiterated that the Israeli war in Gaza "is not merely a fleeting military conflict or an ordinary humanitarian crisis: it is a systematic, full fledged genocide explicitly intended to achieve ethnic cleansing amid the complicit silence of the US and the West more broadly." | Citing the daily killing of Palestinians seek…
(2025-08-28). Colombia's former president under fire over trip to Israel. colombiareports.com Former president Ivan Duque came under fire after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Duque went to Israel to promote his wife's foundation and the business interests of the Gilinski oligarchy. On national television, the former president praised the ongoing collaboration between Israel and his foundation. Duque's mission …
(2025-08-28). Update from the Red Cross Field Hospital, Rafah: 15-Month Operational Summary. icrc.org Rafah, Gaza Strip – 9 May 2024 to 31 July 2025…
(2025-08-28). Borrell calls for European action in Gaza even though he did nothing as top diplomat. infobrics.org Spain continues to take no meaningful action for Gaza despite all the rhetoric.
(2025-08-28). Israel Demolishes All Buildings in Gaza City's Southern Zeitoun Area. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — No buildings remain standing in the southern part of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City as the Israeli ground operation launched earlier this month demolished more than 1,500 homes.
(2025-08-28). The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza. scheerpost.com The Madleen before departure. Source: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition | In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Wahid Ben Ali / In July 2025, a new international maritime initiative was launc…
(2025-08-28). Security Council minus US says Gaza famine is 'man-made' as deaths from hunger rise. nationofchange.org Fourteen member nations back IPC famine finding, call for ceasefire and aid access while US rejects the analysis.
(2025-08-28). Democratic National Committee Rejects Resolution For Israel Arms Embargo. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) members at the party's summer meetings rejected Resolution 18, which called for the recognition of a Palestinian state, a ceasefire in Gaza, an arms embargo, and a suspension of military aid to Israel. | Instead, members backed a status quo resolution introduced by DNC Chair Ken Martin, which simply called for more aid to be allowed into Gaza and a two-state solution. Despite the support, Martin went on to withdraw the resolution. | "I know that there are some who are interested in making changes today, but as we've seen, there's divide in our party on this issue,"
(2025-08-28). Israel's killing of Journalists follows a Pattern of silencing Palestinian Media that stretches back to 1967. juancole.com By Maha Nassar, University of Arizona (The Conversation) — Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Following global condemnation, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying Israel "values the work of journalists." But the …
(2025-08-28). Israel builds new aid centers in Gaza while troops target Hamas. longwarjournal.org The Israeli military said on August 28 that it is building two new humanitarian aid sites in Gaza. The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that it has distributed 140 million meals since May 2025. In southern and northern Gaza, Israeli troops carried out raids in Jabaliya and areas of Khan Younis.
(2025-08-28). The Voice of Hind Rajab: a film that exposes an Israeli war crime. thecanary.co In a move that reflects the convergence of cinema with major humanitarian issues, the film The Voice of Hind Rajab by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania will have its world premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival on 3 September, bringing back to the forefront the story of six-year-old Hind Rajab from Gaza, who Israel […] | By
(2025-08-28). Thursday 8/28: Global Strike For Gaza. indybay.org Everywhere…
(2025-08-28). Israel destroys more than 1,500 homes in Gaza City's Al-Zeitoun. newarab.com 
(2025-08-28). Friday 9/19: Gaza Journalists UNDERFIRE Film Showing. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula | 490 Aguajito Road Carmel, CA 93923…
(2025-08-28). Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes (HRW). juancole.com Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023, including by providing intelligence for Israeli strikes and conducting extensive coordination and plannin…
(2025-08-28). Thursday 8/28: Behind the Scenes at Rebuilding Alliance— Pinwheels for Peace in the Classrooms of Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | bit.ly/PinwheelsForPeace…
(2025-08-28). NZ media workers call for 'decisive action' by Luxon over Gaza journalists. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to "act decisively" to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. "These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are…
(2025-08-28). Yemen Fires Hypersonic Missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — The Yemeni Armed Forces launched a hypersonic ballistic missile against Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday in retaliation for the Zionist regime's brutal campaign in Gaza.
(2025-08-28). IOF storms Ramallah city center, wounding 58 civilians, including a child. peoplesdispatch.org Daily raids carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have for decades been routine for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. However, Ramallah city center has been relatively safe compared to other areas, largely since the second intifada ended in 2005. | This isn't to say that such relative calm extends to the entire governorate of Ramallah and Al-Bireh; it applies exclusively to the few square kilometers surrounding the Palestinian Authority (PA) headquarters near the center of the city. | Although this particular part of the city was previously subjected to IOF raids, such offensives happene…
(2025-08-28). Iran's Intelligence Operations in Occupied Territories A Main Factor in Victory against Israel: IRGC. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Iran's intelligence operations in Israeli occupied territories were a key factor contributing to the success of the Islamic Republic's missile and drone strikes and its victory against the Israeli regime in the 12-day war, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said.
(2025-08-28). In Palo Alto Protesters Demand Palantir Drop Contracts With ICE and Israeli Military. indybay.org On August 22, demonstrators descended on Palantir's Palo Alto office after a march through the city's downtown.
(2025-08-28). Expelling Iran's Ambassador to Australia. dissidentvoice.org The rank odour of opportunity seems to have presented itself to Australia's Albanese government. To balance its apparently principled promise to recognise Palestinian statehood come the 80th United Nations General Assembly next month, it seemed only fair that some firm measure be taken against another Islamic outfit to balance the ledger. The Israelis were watching closely, …
(2025-08-28). Israeli war criminals are set to attend the UK's largest arms fair in London. thecanary.co Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is demanding that the government take action to stop Israeli companies and delegates attending one of the world's largest arms fairs, DSEI, taking place in London this September. DSEI: Israeli companies and delegates to schmooze at UK's largest arms fair Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) opens at London's ExCeL […] | By
(2025-08-28). European Powers Trigger 'Snapback' Sanctions on Iran. news.antiwar.com The UK, France, and Germany have begun the process of reimposing UN Security Council sanctions on Iran under the "snapback" mechanism of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, a step that makes another US-Israeli war on Iran more likely. The European countries, known as the E3, sent a letter to the UN …
(2025-08-28). Israeli Ground Troops Raid Damascus Airbase. news.antiwar.com Following up on the deadly Israeli drone strikes against Kiswah, in the southern part of metro Damascus, Israel conducted an overnight raid of an old airbase there, with dozens of IDF troops arriving via helicopters and spending over two hours in the base. The troops landed at a hilltop near Jabal Manea, which was an …
(2025-08-28). "The Arabs Hate Us Because Of Our Religion" Is The New "They Hate Us For Our Freedom" caitlinjohnstone.com.au Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix: ⚪ ‚ùñ | Israelis who say "the Arabs hate us because of our religion" are as self-evidently moronic as the Americans who said "they hate us for our freedom". In both cases the answer is no, dipshit, they hate you because of the horrific things to do to them. | ‚ùñ | Western leaders who say they'll recognize a Palestinian state while feebly calling on Both Sides to reach a…
(2025-08-28). More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American public on the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. For the first time, the percentage of Americans who say they sympathize with Palestinians (28%) exceeds the percentage who sympathize …
(2025-08-28). Pro-Palestinian protesters block Israeli cycling team during Spain race. haaretz.com Protesters held Palestinian flags and signs calling to boycott Israel and blocked the road of the Vuelta a España race with a large banner, disrupting the Israeli team. 'It was a despicable act that any reasonable person should condemn,' said the team's owner…
(2025-08-28). Syria says IDF struck near Damascus, dozens of soldiers on the ground at nearby military base. haaretz.com The Syrian Foreign Ministry said that eight people were killed in the strikes, which it described as part of 'the aggressive policy of the Israeli occupation aimed at undermining security and stability in the region'…
(2025-08-28). Israeli government waives legal counsel in Supreme Court case against dismissal. haaretz.com Sources say move is a tactic to discredit proceedings, claiming rights were violated; Supreme Court expected to proceed with written briefs or appoint a representative…