2026-05-14: Palestine Roundup

So far today: 2026-05-14 08:43am GMT

Claudia Gohn (2026-05-14). A call for bold action from the Gaza flotilla. nationofchange.org As flotilla vessels continue the journey to Gaza in defiance of Israel, volunteers and their loved ones encourage a "litany of actions" in solidarity with Palestine.

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

Middle East Children's Alliance (2026-05-14). Sunday 7/19: 5th Annual Ride for Palestine. indybay.org 1101 8th St, Berkeley, CA…

Albany El Cerrito for Palestine (2026-05-14). Saturday 5/16: 78th Nakba Day of Remembrance: Kite Build and Solidarity Fly. indybay.org Brickyard Cove, Berkeley (park at Seabreeze Market & Deli – 598 University Ave, Berkeley)…

WiBOPM (2026-05-13). Workers in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales to take action for Palestine May 14, 2026! wibailoutpeople.org The BDS movement calls on all trade unions, student organisations and wider civil society organisations, across Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, to take action this Thursday, 14 May. Nonviolent pressure is needed now more than ever to end state, corporate, and institutional complicity in Israel's genocide, apartheid and military occupation. Under the banner of "Workplace Day …

Noah Hurowitz (2026-05-13). Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists "Jew Hater," Lawsuit Alleges. theintercept.com City Commissioner David Suarez is accused of hiring the trucks to single out members of the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace.

WiBOPM (2026-05-13). Madison's July 19, 2026 Big Ride for Palestine: A fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance. wibailoutpeople.org Madison's 2026 Big Ride for Palestine: a fundraiser for Middle East Children's Alliance July 19, 10am-2: pm, leaving from Olin Park in Madison. Contact: Cassandra, madisontogaza@gmail.com, 608 445-0357 Barb Olson, rafahsistercity@yahoo.com Donna Walbaum, 608-235-7870 Madison area cyclists of all ages and abilities are invited to participate in the 2026 Middle East Children's Alliance Big Ride for Palestine, July …

WiBOPM (2026-05-13). May 14, 2026 in Madison: Weekly Vigil Against War and Militarism at Willy and Blair. wibailoutpeople.org Weekly Vigil Against War and Militarism at Willy and Blair 4: 30 — 5: 30 pm Palestine. Venezuela. ICE in Minnesota. Iran. Lebanon. All the aggression and harm the U.S. is inflicting and supporting around the world. Bring your sorrow and solidarity and stand with all who are suffering from U.S. unhinged warring and militarism, both domestically …

newarab (2026-05-13). Palestine Action members could face 'terror' charges after trial. newarab.com

Walter Lucken IV (2026-05-13). Abdul El-Sayed's historic Senate run builds on Palestine's rich legacy in Michigan politics. mondoweiss.net Abdul El-Sayed is a frontrunner in Michigan's Senate primary and part of the pro-Palestine wave reshaping the Democratic Party. His campaign's success is also rooted in Detroit's long history of Palestinian solidarity in progressive politics.

Angela (2026-05-14). Thursday 5/28: Power Half-Hour for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | http: //jvp.org/gazaph…

ICRC (2026-05-14). Two years on: upgrading the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah. icrc.org For families in Gaza, the Red Cross Field Hospital has been a lifeline. Two years on, this upgrade enables the lifeline to continue.

ICRC (2026-05-14). Gaza: Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah undergoes overhaul to continue addressing urgent health-care needs. icrc.org

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.

HG (2026-05-13). Illegal Israeli settler groups recruiting at London event. thecanary.co An illegal Israeli settler group has been photographed at an event in London, despite calls for it to be sanctioned. The group, Shivat Zion, previously offered to help British people move to illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. An exclusive investigation by Declassified UK found that the organisation recently held a fair at an Aliyah […] | By

Editor (2026-05-13). Xenophobia rears its ugly head on South Africa's streets. mronline.org Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE.

| AFP | (2026-05-14). UAE 'denies reports' of secret Netanyahu visit. tribune.com.pk The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Thursday it "denies reports" that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the country, after Netanyahu's office said he had met with the UAE president during the war with Iran. | Netanyahu's office said Wednesday he had "paid a secret visit to the United Arab Emirates" during the war, "where he met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan". | The announcement came a day after US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced that Israel had sent its Iron Dome air defence systems, plus personnel to operate them, to the UAE during the war with Ir…

Reuters (2026-05-13). UAE denies Israel's Netanyahu made secret visit during Iran war. scmp.com The United Arab Emirates' foreign ministry denied on Wednesday a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office that he visited the country and held a secret meeting with its president. | The Israeli Prime Minister's ‚ÄåOffice said earlier he travelled to the UAE during the war with Iran and met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. A statement by the Emirati foreign ministry said that Emirati relations with Israel "are public" and "not based on non-transparent or unofficial…

geo.tv (2026-05-13). Israel's Netanyahu held meeting in UAE with president during Iran war: PM office. geo.tv Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the Iron Swords War on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, 16 October 2025. — Reuters

| Reuters | (2026-05-14). Tehran calls on BRICS members to condemn US-Israeli aggression on Iran: Iranian FM. tribune.com.pk Tehran has called on BRICS members to condemn US and Israeli aggression against Iran, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement upon arriving in New Delhi for a BRICS meeting among foreign ministers. | Araghchi said that the West's "false sense of superiority" must be shattered by the Global South. | Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi left Tehran for India's capital of New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon to attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers' meeting. pic.twitter.com/XkYfa28hpM | — Mehr News Agency (@MehrnewsCom) May 13, 2026 | While speaking to Press TV at the BRICS summit, he…

NAG (2026-05-14). Friday 5/15: Nakba Day protest at israeli consulate. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St | "israeli" consulate…

al-monitor (2026-05-13). Factbox-How has the Iran war affected Middle East states? al-monitor.com LONDON, May 13 – The war that began on February 28 with a massive Israeli-U.S. bombing campaign against Iran has rocked the entire Middle East, wreaking damage to infrastructure and economies and overturning settled assumptions about regional security.On a second major front, Israel launched a ground invasion and bombing campaign of Lebanon in March in pursuit of Hezbollah fighters after the armed group fired across the border in solidarity with Iran.This is how some countries have been impacted: IRAN…

newarab (2026-05-13). Israeli strikes on cars in Lebanon kill 12, including children. newarab.com Israel The fresh raids, which also targeted various areas of the country's south, came on the eve of a new round of direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in Washington, brokered by the United States, as Hezbollah remains strongly opposed to any direct talks under fire. | Lebanon's health ministry said three strikes on cars along or near the coastal highway around 20 to 3…

| Reuters | (2026-05-13). Iran war to cast a shadow on BRICS Delhi's meeting. tribune.com.pk The US-Israeli war on Iran is set to cast a shadow over a two-day meeting of the foreign ministers of the BRICS grouping that kicks off in New Delhi on Thursday, testing the bloc's ability to reach a unified position and produce a joint statement. | The grouping, which originally included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has expanded over the years with the inclusion of Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. | Iran had urged India, the BRICS chair for 2026, to use the BRICS platform to build a consensus condemning US and Israeli actions in the Gulf conflict. | The main di…

Alice Li (2026-05-13). European firms in China rethink supply chains as Iran war drives up costs, survey finds. scmp.com Some European companies operating in China are shifting more production to the country as part of broader supply chain adjustments in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to a new survey by the EU Chamber of Commerce in China. | The flash survey of European companies found that more than a quarter of firms had adjusted their supply chain strategies in China following the Middle East conflict, as higher energy and logistics costs weigh on operations.

al-monitor (2026-05-13). Exclusive-Saudi warplanes struck militias in Iraq during war, sources say. al-monitor.com By Timour Azhari, Ahmed Rasheed and Humeyra PamukRIYADH/BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) – Saudi fighter jets bombed targets linked to powerful Tehran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq during the Iran war, while retaliatory strikes were also launched from Kuwait into Iraq, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.The strikes are part of a broader pattern of military responses around the Gulf that remained largely hidden during a conflict that has drawn in the wider Middle East since joint Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran on February 28.

Editor (2026-05-13). Great Satan at the Strait: Iran, International law, and the collapse of the "rules-based order" mronline.org This investigation excavates how Associated Press reporting frames U.S.-Israeli coercion as diplomacy while presenting Iranian sovereignty as instability and defiance. It reconstructs the omitted legal, geopolitical, and economic terrain surrounding the war, exposing the contradiction between the UN Charter system and the operational reality of imperial power. It reframes the conflict as part of a …

UMMID (2026-05-13). Israeli ally UAE quits OPEC, OPEC. ummid.com The United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the Israeli allies in the Middle East, has announced to quit OPEC and OPEC+ amidst the crisis the world is facing because of the US-Israel led Zionist war on Iran.

Leon Kunstenaar (2026-05-13). Interfaith Pilgrimage From Oakland City Hall to Airport to Protest Israeli Crimes. indybay.org FedEx goes into hidihg…

Shireen Akram-Boshar (2026-05-13). Microsoft Ousts Head of Israeli Branch Over Use of Tech to Spy on Palestinians. truthout.org Microsoft's Israel subsidiary has announced that its general manager, Alon Haimovich, will be stepping down from his position on May 31, after an investigation into the subsidiary's collaboration with the Israeli military. Microsoft ordered an inquiry into its Israel subsidiary last year after a joint investigation by The Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine… |

newarab (2026-05-13). Israelis storm Joseph's Tomb in Nablus as 'heritage' bill passed. newarab.com Thousands of Israeli extremists Among them were Israel's Local sources said that Israeli forces closed several roads in eastern Nablus early this morning to secure the entry of thousand…

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