2025-08-17: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-08-17 10:30pm GMT

Stan Cox (2025-08-17). Breaking Israel's Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change. counterpunch.org

bwitanek (2025-08-17). NJ DeFacto IHRA In Effect: The Racist False Convictions of Lisa Davis. fightbackbetter.com Editor's Note: NJ Legislative Democrats fully united with the Trump supporters in the NJ legislature with support from both Governor candidates Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli are hellbent on criminalizing opposition to their support for genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and similar actions against Palestinians in the West Bank. | The malicious and false prosecution — the legal hit put upon LIsa Davis by the absolutely corrupt South Orange municipality, mayor Sheena Collum, the Police Department brass on down to the lying street patrol officers, the prosecutor an…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-08-17). Gaza life expectancy falls by 35 years almost half amid Israeli genocide, more than in any recent war. skwawkbox.org UN human rights expert slams genocide apologists trying to cover horrors of occupation's crimes and barbarism The life expectancy of Palestinians living in Gaza has dropped by almost half — thirty-five years — amid Israel's genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This measured fall was inflicted in just the first year of a genocide …

bwitanek (2025-08-17). Sahar Aziz: Get Educated on US Israel Genocide Rich List of Film Viewing Suggestions. fightbackbetter.com The following is a list of film viewing selections posted on Facebook by Sahar Aziz — please enjoy and learn…

Editor (2025-08-17). Palestinian Youth Movement Vows to Make Genocide Support Too Costly for Maersk. scheerpost.com People in their tens of thousands rally in Melbourne in support of Palestine and in solidarity with the Palestinian people as the State of Israel continues its bombing attacks of Gaza, resulting in the killing of thousands of civilians and displacement of hundreds of thousands more — with no means of escape (by | Matt Hrkac, 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 ta…

Leon Kunstenaar (2025-08-17). Wells Fargo Told to Stop Destroying Planet and End Enabling Genocide. indybay.org Repeat action at Wells "Fracko" HQ.

tn.ai (2025-08-17). Mass Protests against Israeli Genocide in Gaza Sweep Europe. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Thousands of demonstrators across Europe rallied Saturday to condemn Israel's relentless massacres in Gaza, denouncing the regime's crimes against journalists, health workers, and civilians as the death toll surpasses 61,900.

Tyler Walicek, Truthout. (2025-08-17). Palestinian Youth Movement Makes Genocide Support Costly For Maersk. popularresistance.org After two years of continuous effort in research, agitation and direct action, the organizers of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) celebrated a landmark organizing victory in late June. Their "Mask Off Maersk" campaign had sought to prove the complicity of the Danish freight-logistics titan A.P. Mà∏ller — Maersk A/S in the genocide in Gaza. | Maersk, as it's generally known, was found by PYM to be contributing to the ongoing crimes against humanity in Gaza by shipping arms transfers to the perpetrating Israeli military; these shipments included critical parts for the F-35 fighters that have been use…

Karen A. Johnson, Black Alliance for Peace. (2025-08-17). Bulletin On Domestic Militarism And Repression. popularresistance.org The strategy is clear, as well as the desperation. Domestic repression in the U.S. colonial/capitalist core is imperative to support the aggressive militarism abroad, the periphery, in the form of wars of aggression, political subversion, economic sanctions, and genocide that have become the consciously and intentionally chosen tools of a rapacious U.S. based global ruling class—a ruling class that is unable to rule in the old way. Yet, it's more than willing to blow up the world and sacrifice millions of people to maintain the predatory material basis for its white supremacist class rule. | The irreconcila…

Marcy Newman (2025-08-17). Book Review: Sarah Schulman tackles the urgency, and pitfalls, of solidarity. mondoweiss.net Author Sarah Schulman's "The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity" combines reflections on historical movements, figures, and texts to present a timely discussion on how to act in solidarity, a pressing question amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Allan Fisher (2025-08-17). Saturday 8/16: Stop the Genocide. indybay.org Ocean at Water St. Santa Cruz…

Unitarian Universalists (2025-08-17). Sunday 8/17: We Will Not Look Away: Vigil for Grief, Kinship & Refusal in the Face of Genocide. indybay.org 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109…

english.almanar.com.lb (2025-08-17). Israeli Occupation Advances Plans to Displace Palestinians Amid Bombardment, Famine. english.almanar.com.lb Israeli occupation has announced preparations to forcibly evacuate Palestinians from the so-called "combat zones" in Gaza City, amid continuous bombardment and deadly famine. Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 people have been martyred and 226 others have been injured by Israeli attacks in past 24 hours. Medical sources in the besieged enclave …

Tareq S. Hajjaj (2025-08-17). 'Until the last child is fed': Gazans go on hunger strike in the midst of famine. mondoweiss.net A growing number of journalists and first responders in Gaza are going on hunger strike amidst the famine. "If you want to eat, you have to run after aid trucks. I refuse to do it," says Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the Gaza Civil Defense.

Council on American-Islamic Relations (2025-08-17). CAIR Comments on UN Report that Israel Slaughtered 1,760 Forcibly-Starved Palestinians Seeking Food. indybay.org CAIR Calls UN Report that Israel Slaughtered 1,760 Forcibly-Starved Palestinians Seeking Food 'Moral Indictment of Western Governments'

newarab (2025-08-17). Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza City as child starved to death. newarab.com The fierce bombing has forced thousands of the city's residents, many who have been displaced multiple times, to be trapped with no way to flee. Various reports state that the bombardment is so intense that there are no safe routes for people to l…

Alaa Shamali (2025-08-17). One million women and girls are now on the brink of starvation in Gaza. thecanary.co The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued a stern warning about the Israel-induced worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA confirmed that nearly one million women and girls are at risk of mass starvation, amid Israel's continued policy of blockade and starvation since the start of its latest […] | By

Staff (2025-08-16). Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide. scheerpost.com 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 Alan MacLeod / MintPressNews Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense …

aljazeera (2025-08-16). US suspends visas for Gaza residents after right-wing social media storm. aljazeera.com State Department move comes as Israel's war and induced famine in Gaza reach new extremes, with 61,827 killed so far.

tehrantimes (2025-08-16). Famine as a weapon: How Israel's siege is starving Gaza into silence. tehrantimes.com ISLAMABAD – Gaza's suffering has never been so extended, so intentional. Airstrikes take lives in moments; hunger erases them slowly, without sound. This is not the work of failed rains. It is the result of a calculated policy.

tehrantimes (2025-08-16). Iran condemns ICJ VP's 'shocking breach of ethics' in backing Israel. tehrantimes.com TEHRAN — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, has denounced the Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, for a "shocking breach of judicial ethics."

tn.ai (2025-08-16). ICJ Vice President Faces Backlash for Siding with Israel. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — An Iranian deputy foreign minister criticized Julia Sebutinde, the Ugandan vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), for her openly biased support for the Zionist regime.

scorinoco (2025-08-16). Venezuela's Interior Minister Condemns US-Guyana Plot to Escalate Essequibo Dispute. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Minister for the Interior, Justice, and Peace Diosdado Cabello condemned a plot by the US chargé d'affaires in Colombia, John McNamara, and the Guyanese ambassador in Venezuela, Richard Vans West-Charles, "to escalate the dispute over Esequibo." | Cabello made this statement on Wednesday, August 13, in his program Con El Mazo Dando, amid heightened tensions surrounding the historical controversy. | On Monday, a Venezuelan delegation led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez submitted a new document to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), expanding the evidence on the historical basis of Venezuela's ri…

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