2025-10-16: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-10-17 03:52am GMT

Joe Glenton (2025-10-16). Cocaine cryptid Tommy Robinson has gone for a quick holibobs to Israel. thecanary.co Billionaire-funded fascist Tommy Robinson has been given time off from his terrorism trial to visit the world's foremost terror state: yes, Israel. This timeline is really getting better by the minute, FFS. For those who don't know Robinson — AKA Stephen Yaxley-Lennon — has a long history with the genocide state. Here's Lowkey laying it […] | By

Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. (2025-10-16). Freedoms We Took For Granted In Britain. popularresistance.org In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the U.K. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israel's criminal actions — and, of course, her own government's collusion in that criminality. | Naturally, the British establishment media have been keen to amplify her message that there will be painful consequences both for individuals who continue protesting against Israeli atrocities and for institutions, such as universities, that mistakenly assume they have a duty to uphold centuries-old freedoms by tolerating s…

Ana Vraƒçar (2025-10-16). Workers and students across Spain strike for Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org Trade unions and youth organizations across Spain held strikes and nationwide demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine on Wednesday, October 15. Tens of thousands of people joined rallies in major cities, demanding an end to ties with Israel, justice for Palestine, and expressing opposition to Europe's militarization. They also criticized Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's administration for failing to take all necessary measures to sanction Israel despite formal condemnations of the genocide. | The actions in Spain came just weeks after two general strikes brought Italy to a halt over similar demands, underscorin…

Vijay Prashad (2025-10-16). The genocide will not end until the Palestinian political leaders are free. peoplesdispatch.org There is no clear Palestinian voice demanding reparations from Israel because Palestinian politics itself has been wounded by the long-term occupation, and by Israel's targeted assassination and incarceration of popular Palestinian leaders.

Ed Newman (2025-10-16). Trump threatens to order Israel to return to bombing Gaza. radiohc.cu Donald Trump has threatened to order the Israeli regime to "return to Gaza's streets" in case of, what he called, Hamas' refusal to commit to a plan devised by the US president, which he says is aimed at ending Tel Aviv's war of genocide on the coastal sliver. | "Israel will return to those streets as soon as I say the word," he told CNN in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Trump added that "if it could," the regime would go and afflict as much damage on the coastal sliver as it was capable of. | The remarks sidestepped the regime's having already killed at least 67,938 Palestinians, mostly women and children,…

Peter Boyle (2025-10-16). Stop arming Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people! socialist-alliance.org Peter Boyle argues that Labor has to be forced to respect the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court orders to stop arming the genocide and bring its chief perpetrators to account under international law.

William Johnson (2025-10-16). As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide. mondoweiss.net Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.

Joe Glenton (2025-10-16). LSE staff pen searing open letter against controversial sexual violence project. thecanary.co Staff at the London School of Economics (LSE) have come out against the instrumentalisation of sexual violence in support of genocide. The group of highly-regarded experts on the Middle East and gender issues are on a collision course with senior management. Meanwhile, bosses insist an event platforming the controversial Dinah Project will go ahead. LSE […] | By

WSWS (2025-10-16). Australian police exaggerated "antisemitic" incidents amid crackdown on opposition to Gaza genocide. wsws.org The police classified pro-Palestinian protests, and even Zionist attacks on opponents of the genocide, as "antisemitism," in a fraud that was perpetrated against the public.

WSWS (2025-10-16). Jacobin magazine attempts to conceal the pro-genocide record of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. wsws.org The DSA, through Jacobin, is attempting to rewrite the record of support for genocide and present the Democratic Party and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not as defenders and enablers of the genocide, but as its opponents.

Skwawkbox (2025-10-16). Top EU human rights tells Starmer to back off anti-genocide protesters. thecanary.co Michael O'Flaherty, the most senior human rights official in the EU, has called for changes to Keir Starmer's 'lawfare' war on anti-genocide protest and those opposing Starmer's decision to proscribe the non-violent direct action protest group Palestine Action. In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, O'Flaherty accused his regime of imposing "excessive limits […] | By

Jordan Atwood (2025-10-16). Israel halves aid to Gaza as ceasefire fractures over return of remains. nationofchange.org UN officials say Israel will allow just 300 aid trucks per day into famine-stricken Gaza as fuel bans continue and rubble hampers recovery of hostages' bodies.

Ed Newman (2025-10-16). We were in slaughterhouse: Freed Palestinians tell of hunger, abuse in Israeli jails. radiohc.cu Palestinian prisoners released under the Gaza ceasefire agreement have provided harrowing accounts of systematic abuse, describing Israeli prisons as "slaughterhouses" where they endured torture, starvation, and psychological warfare. | As part of the first phase of the agreement to end the two-year Israeli-American genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, a total of 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails, along with 1,718 Palestinians detained since October 7, 2023, were released on Monday. | The freed Palestinians said they were beaten and humiliated, describing the Israeli prisons they were…

Ed Newman (2025-10-16). Lawyers call for UN and ICC probe into Israeli-backed gang's assassination of Palestinian journalist. radiohc.cu Human rights lawyers are pursuing a probe via the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the recent assassination in the Gaza Strip of Saleh al-Ja'frawi, a prominent Palestinian journalist and social media personality. | Sara Segneri, a London-based international criminal law and human rights lawyer, announced through a statement on Tuesday that she and her colleagues had filed complaints and demands for investigations into the murder by multiple UN investigative bodies and special rapporteurs, as well as the ICC. | Palestinian officials have identified those behind the journalist's target…

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