2025-08-19: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-08-19 07:54am GMT

WSWS (2025-08-19). Australian Labor government maintains military exports for Israeli war machine. wsws.org The Defence Department has admitted that 31 "active" export permits allow the sale of military-specific items to Israel, giving the lie to Labor's claims that it is not materially supporting the Gaza genocide.

WSWS (2025-08-19). A socialist perspective for mass student meetings in Australia against the Gaza genocide. wsws.org The IYSSE will be urging students at the meetings to take up a fight for the mobilisation of the working class against the Gaza genocide and the Labor government.

WSWS (2025-08-19). Sri Lankan government fails to condemn Israel's planned seizure of Gaza. wsws.org Notably absent from this month's government statement is any mention of genocide or the ethnic cleansing accompanying the planned takeover of the territory.

Doctors Against Genocide (2025-08-19). Sunday 8/24: Doctors Against Genocide (DAG) Weekly Webinar. indybay.org

Unitarian Universalists (2025-08-19). 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…

newarab (2025-08-19). Israeli-made famine starving animal companions alongside humans. newarab.com In the makeshift displacement camps scattered across 31-year-old Mahmoud Zidan, a Palestinian man from al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, shares those precious crumbs with his two cats, Loza and Sahaba, who have followed him across the bombed-out streets ever since Israel's war began last October. | "I put them in a cardboard box…

newarab (2025-08-19). Amnesty: Israel 'deliberately' starving Gaza's Palestinians. newarab.com In a report citing testimonies of displaced Palestinians and medical staff who treated

Hank Pellissier (2025-08-19). Friday 8/22: Stop Starving Gaza – protest at Israel Consulate. indybay.org Israel Consulate – 456 Montgomery…

Council on American-Islamic Relations (2025-08-19). 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'

Samuel Karlin, Left Voice. (2025-08-18). New Yorkers Mobilize For Gaza As Protests Grow Around The World. popularresistance.org This month has been an especially horrific one in the nearly two-year-long genocide of Gaza. Israel is intentionally starving Gazans, threatening total occupation, and expanding their ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land to the West Bank. But this has all only fueled greater support for the movement for Palestine. The passive sympathy for Palestine which has been growing for a long time has begun to show more publicly. This was apparent in the August 16 rally for Gaza in New York City. | The action was initially called by Palestinian Youth Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, groups which have reg…

WSWS (2025-08-18). Nearly one million Israelis demonstrate, calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war. wsws.org No progressive struggle can be taken up against the Israeli government without opposing the genocide which has so far claimed at least 61,000 Palestinian lives and threatens the remaining 2.1 million with starvation. It means rejecting the ethno-religious exclusion that forms the basis of the Israeli state.

WSWS (2025-08-18). Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance seeks to divert opposition to Gaza genocide behind Australian Labor government. wsws.org As the protest politics they have peddled for the past two years is increasingly exposed, the pseudo-left groups have doubled down on their insistence that opposition to the genocide must orient to the very parties complicit in the war crimes.

Leon Kunstenaar (2025-08-18). Wells Fargo Told to Stop Destroying Planet and End Enabling Genocide. indybay.org Repeat action at Wells "Fracko" HQ.

The Canary (2025-08-18). Activists just began a 'summer of sabotage' against genocide and fossil fuel-supporting investors. thecanary.co Activists have took aim at fossil fuel finance, declaring the start of "disruption like never before", readying for a 'Summer of Sabotage'. They begun with a direct action on Monday 18 August, sabotaging utilities infrastructure at the UK offices of three major fossil fuel investors — one of which was JP Morgan. A summer of […] | By

bwitanek (2025-08-18). First Year NJ Congressional Democrats Off to Israel to Celebrate and Shill for Genocide! fightbackbetter.com Editor's Note: Reps. Pou and Conaway are both first year NJ Reps. — Democrats — and already hopelessly on the…

tn.ai (2025-08-18). Mexicans Rally against Israel's Genocide in Gaza. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Thousands of people in Mexico City took to the streets to denounce Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss. (2025-08-18). Gazans Go On Hunger Strike In The Midst Of Famine. popularresistance.org Wadea Abu Soud, a reporter for Yemen TV in Gaza and father of four, declared his hunger strike on July 20 alongside two of his colleagues. He says his hunger strike is a message to the world about the famine in Gaza, where most families can't feed their children. | "I am a starving journalist who is attempting to convey the suffering of his starving people," Abu Soud says. | Abu Soud is one of a growing number of journalists and first responders in Gaza who have declared that they are going on hunger strike in the midst of a famine. Their demand is that all of Gaza's children must be fed. | "Our voices are reachi…

Staff (2025-08-18). Headlines for August 18, 2025. democracynow.org Trump to Host Zelensky at White House After Alaska Summit with Putin Fails to Secure Peace Deal, State Dept. Halts Visas for Children in Gaza Seeking Urgent Medical Care, Amnesty Accuses Israel of Waging "Deliberate Campaign of Starvation" in Gaza, Ex-Israel Military Intel Chief: Palestinians "Need a Nakba Every Now and Then to Feel the Price", Over a Million Protest in Israel Calling for End to War and Hostage Deal, Three States to Send National Guard to D.C. as Trump Expands Takeover of City, ICE Detains 7-Year-Old Student in NYC, Report: U.S. Deploys 4,000 Marines & Sailors to Southern…

Staff (2025-08-18). In Largest Israeli Protest to Date, 1 Million Israelis Demand Gaza Ceasefire to Free Hostages. democracynow.org Massive protests have erupted in Israel, with about 500,000 people marching in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Organizers say 1 million took part in demonstrations across the entire country. Most of the Israelis who were out on the streets "blame Netanyahu" for prioritizing his political survival over an end to the war, says Oren Ziv, reporter and photographer for +972 Magazine. Ziv notes that most Israelis are "not speaking directly on the suffering in Gaza, on the killings, on the children, on the starvation," but instead focus on the survival of the hostages held in…

Alaa Shamali (2025-08-18). 40,000 babies are at risk of starving to death in Gaza thanks to Israel. thecanary.co Amnesty International has accused the Israeli occupation of committing a systematic crime by pursuing a deliberate policy of starvation against the residents of the Gaza Strip, as part of a clear strategy aimed at destroying the health of Palestinians and undermining the fabric of their society. Gaza: tens of thousands of children at risk In […] | By

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