2026-05-12: Palestine Roundup

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Mark J Willière (2026-05-12). EU Breaks Political Deadlock to Punish Violent Israeli Settlers. thinktank.pk The decision by the European Union to approve new sanctions against violent Israeli settlers may appear limited on the surface, but politically it represents one of the strongest signals yet that Europe's patience with the current trajectory of the Israel-Palestine conflict is rapidly eroding. For years, divisions inside Europe prevented unified action against Israeli settlement …

Committee on Academic Freedom (2026-05-12). Protesting Rutger Engineering's Cancellation of Rami Elghandour's Graduate Address over Palestine. juancole.com — | Letter regarding the cancellation of Ramy Elghandour's graduate address at the School of Engineering because of his views on Palestine: | Francine Conway | Chancellor, | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | nbchancellor@rutgers.edu | Jason Geary | Provost, | Rutger…

Albany & El Cerrito for Palestine (2026-05-11). Thursday 5/14: Albany & El Cerrito for Palestine – Human Billboard for Gaza. indybay.org El Cerrito Plaza, San Pablo & Carlson…

James Marc Leas, Substack. (2026-05-11). 60+ Organizations In Palestine Demand Release Of Flotilla Activists. popularresistance.org More than 60 civil society organizations in Palestine issued a statement demanding the immediate release of detained Global Sumud Flotilla activists, reiterating their appreciation of the flotilla campaign, and calling for more solidarity action. | The statement is deeply valued by campaigners seeking to free Palestine. It is reminiscent of the encouragement of international solidarity offered by the African National Congress and its allies when they were seeking to abolish apartheid in South Africa. The South Africans valued the solidarity actions on college campuses and by religious, civil rights, and legal org…

Northwest Quaker (2026-05-11). Thursday 5/21: Economic Activism for Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1Bn7ony…

Democracy Now! (2026-05-11). Democracy Now! 2026-05-11 Monday. democracynow.org Headlines for May 11, 2026; Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Surges in U.K. Elections; Calls Grow for Labour PM Starmer to Resign; Meet Guido Reichstadter, the Marine Veteran Who Scaled D.C. Bridge to Protest Iran War & AI; Canceled over Palestine: Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour on Rutgers Disinviting Him as Graduation Speaker | Headlines for May 11, 2026; Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Surges in U.K. Elections; Calls Grow for Labour PM Starmer to Resign; Meet Guido Reichstadter, the Marine Veteran Who Scaled D.C. Bridge to Protest Iran War & AI; Canceled over Palestine: Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour on Rutgers Disinvitin…

WiBOPM (2026-05-11). Milwaukee4Palestine: 78 Years of the Ongoing Nakba May 15-17, 2026 (Event Listings). wibailoutpeople.org Contact Milwaukee4Palestine Milwaukee4Palestine, USPCN Milwaukee, Great Ride MKE, and BintJamila's Table are proud to present a weekend of events to commemorate 78 years of the ongoing Nakba. Please join us for as many events as you'd like…hopefully all of them! We've tried to make this email as easy to read as possible — it's a …

Jon Cink (2026-05-11). Direct action is a weapon of the people. electronicintifada.net Prisoner linked to Palestine Action has spent many months in detention without trial.

UMMID (2026-05-11). Palestinian Evacuees: Escaping Ordeal in Gaza, Entering Another in France. ummid.com A Palestinian family evacuated from Gaza to France says French authorities have separated three children from their parents after allegations of abuse that the family strongly denies and courts have not substantiated with evidence.

Shireen Akram-Boshar (2026-05-11). Israeli Military Ordered Soldiers in Gaza to "Shoot to Kill" Every Man They Saw. truthout.org The Israeli military ordered soldiers in Gaza to "shoot to kill" any man they saw, and to "use their judgment" with women and children, according to an investigative documentary on Israeli soldiers' killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza. In an hour-long documentary broadcast on Israel's Channel 13, the mother of one of the hostages killed in Gaza by Israeli soldiers in December 2023 said… |

WSWS (2026-05-12). 61st Venice Biennale: Cultural workers and artists strike and protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The strikers and demonstrators were responding to a call from the organisation Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), supported by a number of other activist groups.

WSWS (2026-05-11). War, genocide and the weaponization of healthcare: An interview with Bilal Irfan. wsws.org Bilal Irfan is a US‚Äëbased medical and bioethics researcher working on Gaza and Palestinian health.

Shatha Hanaysha (2026-05-11). From Shireen Abu Akleh to Amal Khalil, the killer is the same. mondoweiss.net Four years ago today, Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated by an Israeli soldier. Since then, Israel has killed more than 275 journalists in Gaza and Lebanon. The world that let Shireen's killer walk free made all of this possible.

Tamara Nassar (2026-05-11). Livestream: The Gaza disarmament trap. electronicintifada.net Muhammad Shehada discussed how the Iran war is frustrating the US-Israeli push to disarm Gaza resistance.

Maddison Wheeldon (2026-05-11). Gaza: Doctors under Attack wins BAFTA despite BBC censorship only to be censored again. thecanary.co The BBC has once again been exposed as being entirely at odds with the interests of the British public after Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won a BAFTA at the 2026 ceremony. The previously censored documentary won in the current affairs category — a result that further highlights how biased the licence-funded broadcaster has become in […] | By

newleftreview (2026-05-11). Nancy Fraser: Gaza as World Event. newleftreview.org The global reverberations of Israel's destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.

newarab (2026-05-11). Israel's war on Gaza fuels surge in babies born with deformities. newarab.com Aya waited three years before becoming Israeli airstrikes targeted near her home, windows shattered, and the sounds of explosions became constant. | "One night, a missile struck a house just meters away from us, and our home filled with black smoke and dust. I couldn't breathe for several minutes," Aya Mohammed Abu Shamala, now 2…

Angela (2026-05-11). Thursday 5/28: Power Half-Hour for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | http: //jvp.org/gazaph…

aljazeera (2026-05-11). Gaza filmmakers slam BBC after shelved documentary wins Bafta. aljazeera.com 'We refuse to be silenced and censored,' journalist and presenter Ramita Navai says while accepting the award.

newarab (2026-05-11). How smokers in Gaza are using molokhia instead of tobacco. newarab.com In the war-torn What began as an improvised response to scarcity has evolved into a fragile and unregulated micro-market. | In the…

english.palinfo.com (2026-05-11). Gaza: Several civilians injured, two martyrs recovered as Israeli ceasefire violations enter day 214Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip left several Palestinian civilians wounded, while the bodies of two martyrs were recovered on Monday, marking yet another violation of the ceasefire now in its 214th consecutive day.

newarab (2026-05-11). Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to rebury dead father. newarab.com Palestinian Mohammad Al-Asaasa never imagined that the first hours of grief following his elderly father's death, Haj Hussein Mohammad Hussein Al-Asaasa (Abu Ezzat), from the village of Al-Asaasa, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, would turn into a nightmare. | Mohammad was forced to exhume his father's body from its At noon on Friday, 8 May, the…

Howard Altman (2026-05-11). Possibility Of Operation To Retrieve Iran's Enriched Uranium Appears To Rise As Negotiations Sputter (Updated). twz.com Both Trump and Netanyahu made comments in the last 24 hours that point to a possible high-risk operation to snatch Iran's nuclear material.

newarab (2026-05-11). Iran war 'not over,' uranium must be removed: Netanyahu. newarab.com "It's not over, because there's still nuclear material ⚪ enriched uranium ⚪ that has to be taken out of Iran. There's still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled," Netanyahu said in an interview that aired Sunday on the C…

Shireen Akram-Boshar (2026-05-11). Netanyahu Says War on Iran "Not Over" as Long as Iran Has Uranium. truthout.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Sunday that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is "not over" because Iran still has nuclear material that "has to be taken out" of the country. In a "60 Minutes" interview broadcast by CBS News on Sunday evening, Netanyahu said that the war on Iran has not ended because Iran still has enriched uranium that must be "taken out… |

Tom Hussain (2026-05-11). Israel's election may end the Netanyahu era but not the 'forever wars'. scmp.com Israel's next election campaign is well under way, with political defections, fractious coalition-building and naked appeals to ethnic exclusion marking its opening salvoes as a crowded field of challengers queues up to try Benjamin Netanyahu for the security catastrophe of October 7, 2023 and the wars that followed. | The vote, constitutionally set for this October, is shaping up as a referendum on the prime minister's central claim to power: that only he can keep Israel safe.

Caitlin Johnstone (2026-05-11). Netanyahu Stresses The Need For More Propaganda As Israel's Hasbara Budget Soars. caitlinjohnstone.com.au In a fawning softball Major Garrett (which apparently is a real name belonging to a real guy who works for 60 Minu…

aljazeera (2026-05-12). Lebanese in south refuse to flee again despite escalating Israeli strikes. aljazeera.com Obaida Hitto reports from southern Lebanon, where residents say they will not leave again despite intensifying strikes.

ecns.cn (2026-05-11). Israeli Army: We destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel measuring 120 metres in length in southern Lebanon using more than 20 tonnes of explosives. ecns.cn Israeli Army: We destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel measuring 120 metres in length in southern Lebanon using more than 20 metric tons of explosives.

newarab (2026-05-11). Hezbollah drone kills Israeli soldier in south Lebanon. newarab.com An Israeli soldier was killed, and others were wounded The Israeli military said reservist Alexander Glovanyov, 47, was killed in the drone attack, while Israeli media reported that rescue helicopters were dispatched to evacuate wounded soldiers after one helicopter reportedly suffered a malfunction. | The attack came amid…

ecns.cn (2026-05-11). Israeli strikes on S. Lebanon kill 4, wound 19. ecns.cn BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, May 10 ⚪ Four people were killed and 19 others wounded on Sunday in Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah announced attacks targeting Israeli troops and military equipment along the border.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.

newarab (2026-05-11). Israel jails soldiers for desecrating Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon. newarab.com The An image widely shared online last week showed an Israeli soldier with his arm around the statue of Mary, believed to be the mother of Jesus in Abrahim faiths, while holding a cigarette up to her mouth.

Hanieh Jodat (2026-05-11). Decades of Congressional Inaction Contributed to Illegal US-Israeli War on Iran. truthout.org The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, billed by the Trump administration as a "military operation," has now evolved into a sustained confrontation with no clear exit strategy, no authorization from Congress, and no public transparency. The United States finds itself at a precarious juncture in a conflict of its own choosing. While high-level representatives from both countries met last month in Pakistan… |

tehrantimes (2026-05-11). 'There is absolutely no division at all'. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Yousef Pezeshkian, son of Iran's president, has dismissed reports of divisions between his father and military commanders, amid stalled efforts to bring the US-Israeli war that began on February 28 to a lasting end.

Leon Kunstenaar (2026-05-11). Interfaith Pilgrimage From Oakland City Hall to Airport to Protest Israeli Crimes. indybay.org FedEx goes into hidihg…

WSWS (2026-05-11). A Sad and Beautiful World: "When things get better, we'll come back to Beirut" wsws.org Beirut has been subjected to repeated, brutal Israeli bombing raids throughout the current conflict.

Mohamad Kleit (2026-05-11). The Town That Wouldn't Die: A View from the Streets of Bint Jbeil. thecanary.co If you want to understand the soul of Bint Jbeil, you don't look at a map. Instead, you look at the Israeli artillery left in our town square — a sign of liberation from the occupation after the year 2000. Our town centre was a graveyard of Israeli hubris. We kept the rusted skeletons of […] | By

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