(2025-12-20). After the Rape: The challenges of monitoring sexual violence in Gaza. mondoweiss.net 
Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in fear of social stigma and reprisal from Israel.
(2025-12-20). StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing. theintercept.com 
When Oregon music teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job. | Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as "using her pl…
(2025-12-20). 'What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?': new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism. mondoweiss.net 
"What is happening [in Palestine] today is the true face of Zionist ideology . . . turning Palestinian existence into an unbearable hell," declares the recently released Kairos Palestine document, "A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide."
(2025-12-20). Bondi Beach Attack Is Weaponized to Suppress Palestine Solidarity in Australia. truthout.org When news broke of the Bondi Beach shooting, those of us in the global Palestine solidarity movement knew immediately what was coming. We've seen this pattern: when liberation movements challenge state power and when genocide is named and resisted, states seize on any incident, any tragedy, to justify criminalizing that resistance. Since October 2023, as Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza… |
(2025-12-20). Elbit Factory Shut Down For A Second Time In Two Weeks. popularresistance.org A group of protesters have shut down the entrance to a factory belonging to Elbit Systems. The halt of Israel's weapons supplier is one of the key demands of the anti-genocide activists. Eight prisoners, all being held on remand for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, have been on open ended hunger strike since the 2 November in British prisons. This is the biggest coordinated prison hunger strike in UK prisons since the 1981 H-block strike in the North of Ireland. Six of the hunger strikers have been hospitalised so far. Despite the enormity of the strike, the media coverage has been minimal, a…
(2025-12-20). UN's top court to hold Myanmar genocide hearings in January. aljazeera.com Witnesses from Myanmar's Rohingya community will also address closed-door ICJ hearing.
(2025-12-20). Friday 12/19: Protest israeli crimes at their consulate in SF. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St, SF the israeli consulate…
(2025-12-20). UN says famine phase overcome in Gaza Strip. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — No areas in the Gaza Strip are currently classified in famine, according to the latest reports by international bodies.
(2025-12-20). Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela's Oil. popularresistance.org Donald Trump has openly admitted that he wants to take Venezuela's oil. Top US officials have made it clear that this is a key reason for their war on the South American nation. | Trump declared an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela on December 16. The US government aims to prevent Venezuela from selling oil to China, to starve Caracas of export revenue. | The Trump administration is also illegally blocking Venezuela from importing crucial goods, including the light crude and chemicals needed to process and refine its own heavy crude.