2025-08-31: Genocide Roundup

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Dan Bacher (2025-08-31). Over 100 Sacramento Jews protest Senator Alex Padilla as part of actions against genocide in Gaza. indybay.org The group said the Israeli military is starving the people of Gaza through a five month total blockade on food, water and medicine, while the Israeli government has announced a plan to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a concentration camp.

Editor (2025-08-31). Juan Cole: Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods At Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from docking at Turkish ports and denying Israeli aircraft that might be carrying weapons overflight rights over Türkiye. The latter step imposes extra costs on Israeli cargo …

Leon Kunstenaar (2025-08-31). Boycott Chevron Banner Drop on Gilman Walkway. indybay.org Gigantic Chevron Genocide Banner Deployed Despite High Winds…

aljazeera (2025-08-31). Could Western leaders be legally complicit in the Gaza genocide? aljazeera.com US and Western support have been vital in Israel's war.

Dave DeCamp (2025-08-31). Israeli Official Says Israel May Halt the Meager Aid Entering Northern Gaza Amid Famine. news.antiwar.com An Israeli official told The Associated Press on Saturday that Israel is planning to halt or slow the meager aid supplies that are entering Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza as Israel is expanding its military offensive amid a famine in the area. The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the …

newarab (2025-08-31). Seven more Palestinians starved to death by Israel in Gaza. newarab.com Seven new deaths from hunger-related causes were recorded in Gaza on Sunday, bringing the total death toll from Israel's forced starvation of the enclave to 229, Gaza's health ministry said. | The ministry said in a statement that "since the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) declared famine in Gaza, 61 deaths have been recorded, including nine children", referring to the UN-backed body's announcement on 22 August. | At least 124 children are among those killed by starvation, according to the ministry. | The health ministry also warned on Sunday of a severe wave of influenza spreading among ch…

newarab (2025-08-31). US Senators visit Egypt's Rafah crossing with starving Gaza. newarab.com US Senators visited Egypt's Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while a UN agency said it had thousands of aid trucks waiting to enter the territory. | Democrat Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley, who arrived at El Arish Airport, inspected aid warehouses on the Egyptian side of the crossing, Al-Qahera News Channel reported. | They met with North Sinai Governor Major General Khaled Megaour to observe aid efforts related to the nearly 23-month war on Gaza. | The two Senators have been on a trip to the region to visit facilities and crossings involved in the aid supply chain and to advo…

Max Stout (2025-08-31). Friday 9/5: Israel: Stop Killing Palestinians! Stop Starving Gaza! indybay.org 456 Montgomery – Israeli Consulate…

JANET (2025-08-30). Workers' intifada against Microsoft. iacenter.org By Jim McMahan August 28, 2025 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. Photo Credit: No Azure for Apartheid After months of protests in Seattle, on Aug. 20 and 21 worker-led activists took the struggle to Microsoft's vast campus in Redmond, Washington, where No Azure for Apartheid and Bilyad Seattle exposed Microsoft's…

JANET (2025-08-30). Lessons of Katrina today — Another form of U.S. ethnic cleansing. iacenter.org A cry for help during Hurricane Katrina, 2005. For almost two years now, since Oct. 7, 2023, the world has watched in horror the genocide that has taken place in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Zionist regime. The Palestinian Ministry of Health recorded on August 23 that over 62,600 Gazans have been martyred and over 157,600 have been injured since Oct. 7. The Government Media Office in Gaza reports that 1.3 million Gazans have been forcibly displaced by this genocide, another form of ethnic cleansing. (Resistance News Network) Ethnic cleansing is nothing new when it comes to settler colonialism, neocolonial…

JANET (2025-08-30). Solidarity with Palestine Action! iacenter.org August 25, 2025 In July, the solidarity group Palestine Action was "proscribed" — banned — by the British government for allegedly violating the Terrorism Act, passed by Parliament in 2000. The Act prohibits "serious damage to property" even when no human beings are hurt. In the case of Palestine Action, the fact that the group allegedly broke into Royal Air Force Brize Norton and damaged two military planes by spraying paint in the engines was enough to get the group proscribed. Credit: The Guardian RAF Brize Norton is complicit in genocide in Gaza. Associated Press reports that "Planes from Brize No…

mforinoco (2025-08-30). Turkey Cuts All Trade Ties, Closes Airspace and Ports to Israel Over Gaza Genocide. orinocotribune.com Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced that Turkey is closing its airspace and ports to Israeli aircraft and ships, and severing all economic and trade ties with Israel over its genocidal war on Gaza. | Fidan made the remarks during an address to the parliament on Friday, where he was apparently summarizing steps that Turkey has already taken against Israel or has started to implement over the regime's bloody onslaught on Gaza, which has so far killed more than 63,025 Palestinians. | "We have totally cut our trade with Israel, we have closed off our ports to Israeli ships and we are not allowing Turkish…

JANET (2025-08-30). Philadelphia: Press conference targets Zionist CBS. iacenter.org August 26, 2025 Activists protesting the Israeli military's killing of nearly 270 journalists in Palestine and Gaza over the past two years, including the Aug. 10 intentional assassination of Anas al-Sharif and several other journalists and photographers working for Al-Jazeera, held a press conference and rally outside the offices of CBS broadcasting in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. Press conference targets CBS for its support of Israeli genocide. Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2025. (Photo: Joe Piette) Speakers targeted corporate media giant CBS because of its recent purchase by Larry Ellison, son of David Ellison, the secon…

Peoples Dispatch (2025-08-30). "Ending this genocide is transforming the world that has allowed for it to happen," says Palestinian organizer. peoplesdispatch.org Lamees Mehanna, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, spoke on the panel "Gaza is the Center of the World" at the People's Conference for Palestine…

Staff (2025-08-30). How the UN Could Act Today To Stop the Genocide in Palestine. scheerpost.com United Nations General Assembly 2024. Mojnsen, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 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 donation. By Craig …

SKWAWKBOX (2025-08-30). Irish ambassador lodges complaint with Germany after Berlin police batter Gaza genocide protester. skwawkbox.org Indomitable Kitty O'Brien smiles to supporters as police thugs drag her away despite bleeding face and broken arm The habitual thuggery of Berlin police toward anti-genocide protesters has been on show again in the brutal beating of well-known Irish activist Kitty O'Brien, punched repeatedly in the face and breaking her arm despite her posing no …

°Do Not Panic! (2025-08-30). EU science grants are funding Israeli military tech, data shows. thegrayzone.com The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide. Some of the founders of these tech start-ups have served as reservists in Gaza, and in at least one instance the technology has been deployed to aid the genocide. This article was originally published by °Do Not Panic! The Horizon Europe program, described by the EU as 'a scientific research initiative to develop a sustainable …

SKWAWKBOX (2025-08-30). Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail for Gaza tomorrow. skwawkbox.org The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which was announced last month, will set sail for Gaza from Spain tomorrow. GSF was formed by four anti-genocide groups — the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which has sent a number of vessels to Gaza that have been illegally attacked, in one case bombed, and its crews briefly held hostage …

Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. (2025-08-30). European Dockworkers And Medics To Join Global Sumud Flotilla. popularresistance.org Delegations from at least 17 European countries are preparing to join the Global Sumud Flotilla, which will set sail on Sunday, August 31, in a new attempt to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Many of the crew members taking part in this effort to deliver urgently needed supplies have already been active in Palestine solidarity campaigns in their own countries over the past years. For them, joining the flotilla is a logical step in confronting Israel's ongoing genocide. | Belgian physician Hanne Bosselaers, active with Medics for the People (MPLP—GVHV) and the People's Health Movement (PHM), emphasized that…

Maria Aurelio, Left Voice. (2025-08-30). CUNY Classes Begin With Divestment Win. popularresistance.org A new semester is beginning at the City University of New York (CUNY) with the fight against repression and for Palestine at the center. While we are facing intense crackdowns, including the firing of four faculty members over their pro-Palestine activism and the suspension of at least one student, there is also a movement fighting back. Amid these attacks, we've also had victories — most recently, a court decision forcing CUNY to disclose its investments in Israel. | As Israel escalates its genocidal campaign in Gaza, including a famine, with full support from the U.S. government, CUNY has targeted faculty…

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