2025-08-22: Palestine Roundup

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The Canary (2025-08-22). Defend Our Juries is urging protesters to make it impossible for the Met to enforce the unjust proscription of Palestine Action. thecanary.co Defend Our Juries has launched an official online pledge, seeking 1,000 commitments to take part in the next mass action in Parliament Square on 6 September against the Labour Party government's unprecedented proscription of Palestine Action. Defend Our Juries protest: pledge to take action Over 2,500 people signed up to say they wanted to take […] | By

newleftreview (2025-08-22). Michael Burawoy: Palestine through a South African Lens. newleftreview.org In a draft text sent to NLR before his tragically early death, the sociologist reflects on the reasons for the starkly different outcomes of Afrikaner and Zionist settler colonialisms: in South Africa, a unified democratic republic, with all its problems; in Israel, ongoing war.

Maryam Jameela (2025-08-22). BBC left flustered as student calls out their complicity with Israel's genocide live on air. thecanary.co A-Level student Callum Johnson-Mills has gone viral after calling the BBC out for its complicity in the genocide in Palestine. The 19 year old was picking up his exam results when a BBC reporter, live on air, asked him a question. Instead, Callum responded with: On that note, I just want to say Free Palestine, […] | By

Maryam Jameela (2025-08-22). David Lammy disgraces himself again over Israel's genocide in Gaza. thecanary.co David Lammy has, once again, disgraced himself over Israel's genocide in Palestine. In his characteristically tepid tone, Lammy said: The E1 settlement plan, also known as East1 would, as Al Jazeera reported: link thousands of illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem — which is already illegally annexed by Israel — to the expanding Maale Adumim […] | By

newarab (2025-08-22). UK pro-Israel lawyers probed for 'intimidating' Gaza supporters. newarab.com A pro-Israel lawyers' group in the UK is being probed after a complaint that it threatened to take legal action against individuals for showing support for Palestine. | Complainants have accused UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) of sending eight letters to individuals and organisations between January 2022 and May 2025. | These letters "demonstrate a seeming pattern of vexatious and legally baseless correspondence aimed at silencing and intimidating Palestine solidarity efforts", according to the complainants, lodged with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Eu…

HG (2025-08-22). UK police target independent journalist in pro-Palestine crackdown. thecanary.co On August 18, Thames Valley Police stopped an independent journalist under the guise of "cross-border activity". Jonathan Cook was driving near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, when a police officer pulled him over. Jonathan Cook: WTF just happened? Unlike a usual traffic stop, the police car forced him to pull over in a "dangerous section of road […] | By

Palestine Justice Coalition (2025-08-22). Saturday 8/23: All Out for Palestine. indybay.org Ocean at Water St. Santa Cruz…

WiBOPM (2025-08-22). White House 'Peace Deals' Prove Deadly. wibailoutpeople.org From the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Ukraine to the escalating genocide in Palestine, the Trump administration is causing greater instability and displacement By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WireThursday August 21, 2025Geostrategic Analysis United States President Donald Trump has been requesting that he be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize when the international …

Tamara Turki, Middle East Eye. (2025-08-22). How Pro-Palestine Youth Are Responding To Online Censorship. popularresistance.org When Israel initiated plans to evict Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for illegal settlers, millions of young people around the world got involved in a high-profile social media campaign to raise awareness. | Using the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, more than 40 million people joined in, forming part of a wave of online organising that set the stage for a new era of pro-Palestine digital activism. | That trend continued as Israel launched its ongoing genocide in Gaza in October 2023 with activists dedicating their instagram feeds and TikTok reels to spreading awareness of Israeli a…

Hikers for Palestine (2025-08-22). Sunday 8/24: Hikers for Palestine: Walk in Solidarity, Walk for Water. indybay.org Strawberry Creek Park, 1250 Addison Street, Berkeley.

aljazeera (2025-08-22). Proscribing Palestine Action under UK terror act is "ridiculous" aljazeera.com Jonathon Porritt says the UK's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act defies public opinion.

WiBOPM (2025-08-22). Detroit, August 23, 2025: Gaza Will Rise Exhibit Art Build. wibailoutpeople.org MICHIGAN: Join us this Saturday, anytime between 12-6pm, for the final session of the Gaza Will Rise art build. This exhibit will be displayed at the People's Conference for Palestine as a visual archive of Gazas destruction, and will prompt people from around the world to continue struggling for Palestinian liberation. All ages welcome! Saturday, …

Michael Arria (2025-08-22). DNC vote on Israel arms embargo will be the next Democratic Party showdown over Palestine. mondoweiss.net At its summer meeting, the Democratic National Committee will vote on two rival resolutions concerning Gaza. The competing proposals highlight the growing divide over Israel within the Democratic Party.

newarab (2025-08-22). Gaza City's Palestinians demand int'l protection from Israel. newarab.com In the heart of The demonstration, named the "Last Hour Movement," was more than an act of protest; it was a desperate attempt to voice the pain of a city trapped under nearly two years of Israel's relentless war. | Men, women, and children stood shoulder to…

Alaa Shamali (2025-08-22). UN declares first ever famine in the Middle East in Gaza. thecanary.co The United Nations (UN) and relevant international organizations have officially declared widespread famine in the Gaza Strip, in a first for the Middle East. The UN says famine is now in Gaza In a joint statement issued in Geneva, the World Health Organization, the United Nations (UN) Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme, and […] | By

Joe Glenton (2025-08-22). Leaked Israeli data shows that 83% of people it's killed in Gaza are civilians. thecanary.co Israeli military data suggests 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. And conflict data experts say the civilian death rate has only been higher on three occasions. Two of these are the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda — among the worst crimes in the 20th Century. The investigation led by +972 magazine analysed a […] | By

Shamai Leibowitz (2025-08-22). The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza. juancole.com Silver Spring, Md. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — The true measure of a scholar is not the number of books they publish or the titles they hold. It is whether they speak when human beings are starved, bombed, and erased as a people. By that measure, some of America's most visible academics have failed. …

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (2025-08-22). Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza. theintercept.com Starving Palestinians flock to collect aid supplies dropped from airplanes in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Aug. 19, 2025. Photo: Mohammed Nassar/Anadolu via Getty Images | Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic. | Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach star…

newarab (2025-08-22). 'World has failed Gaza': Global outcry as Gaza famine announced. newarab.com An announcement that famine has hit Gaza as a result of Israel's war and siege is a shameful global failure, the Islamic Relief charity said on Friday, with multiple international organisations also condemning the Israel-manufactured crisis. | The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said Friday that famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month. | It said 514,000 people — nearly a quarter of Gaza's population — are experiencing famine, and that number was expected to rise to 641,000 by the end of September. | The famine declaration comes as I…

krish-rad_ind (2025-08-22). Tel Aviv organizes 'influencer tour' in Gaza to whitewash UN-verified famine. thecradle.co

aljazeera (2025-08-22). LIVE: Israel rejects UN report declaring full-blown famine in Gaza. aljazeera.com At least 30 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources.

tehrantimes (2025-08-22). UN declares famine in Gaza. tehrantimes.com The UN has officially declared a famine in Gaza after months of Israeli restrictions that cut off food and water supplies to more than two million people.

Editor (2025-08-22). Israel Opens New Front In Gaza War. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) | This article was first published in The Conversation UK's World Affairs Briefing email newsletter. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in …

Charles Stevenson (2025-08-22). We Tried to March on Gaza From Egypt to to Break the Blockade. counterpunch.org I flew from Barcelona to Cairo via Milan to join the sizable Swiss delegation taking part in the Global March on Gaza. On the plane, I spotted other unmistakable activists linking up with the Spanish delegation. The Egyptian authorities were said to be turning participants away at the border so we kept our distance from each other and maintained that we were coming to see the Pyramids.

newarab (2025-08-22). Israeli arms firms banned from Dutch expo over Gaza war. newarab.com

newarab (2025-08-22). Worldwide outrage as Israel launches Gaza City offensive. newarab.com Several countries and rights groups have slammed Israel over its new offensive in the Gaza Strip that seeks to occupy the territory, warning that it risks deteriorating the already Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz approved a The Israeli army announc…

Joe Glenton (2025-08-22). 'Soldier F', Gaza, and the ghosts of British colonialism. thecanary.co A former British soldier accused of murdering innocent civilians in Ireland in January 1972 will go on trial in mid-September. You're probably going to hear a lot about the trial of 'Soldier F'. You'll also hear about the legacy of the conflict known as The Troubles when that trial starts. You can read some our […] | By

newarab (2025-08-22). Israel fires air force officers who called for end to Gaza war. newarab.com

newarab (2025-08-22). Israeli figures show that 83% of Gaza casualties civilians. newarab.com

krish-rad_ind (2025-08-22). Israel has started the invasion of Gaza City, and is now annihilating one of its most historic neighborhoods. mondoweiss.net

newarab (2025-08-22). Global strike for Gaza gains momentum after Bisan Owda call. newarab.com Leading advocacy groups such as the Global…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-08-22). Video: Israel slaughters dozens, mostly kids, in another Gaza school bombing. skwawkbox.org We must not become inured to the daily horror of Israel's crimes Israel has again murdered dozens and wounded many more in a missile attack on a Gaza school, this time the Amr Ibn Al-As School in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of northern Gaza City. The first moments of the attack saw dead and wounded, …

newarab (2025-08-22). Amnesty demands Israel stop Gaza assault after famine declared. newarab.com Amnesty International has called on the

newarab (2025-08-22). Netanyahu approves Gaza City assault despite ceasefire talks. newarab.com The call for renewed talks came a day after the defence ministry approved a plan authorising the call-up of roughly 60,000 reservists to help capture Gaza City, which is full of already displaced civilians.

ICRC (2025-08-22). Israel and the occupied territories: Intensification of hostilities threatens to worsen catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza. icrc.org

Charlie Jaay (2025-08-22). Israel's disappearing and imprisonment of Palestinians: the Canary investigates. thecanary.co Israel's ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territory has seen countless devastating human rights violations, but few are as pervasive and enduring as the widespread imprisonment of Palestinians. In East Jerusalem and the West Bank, a region already marked by a long history of occupation and dispossession, the detention of Palestinians by Israeli authorities reflects a […] | By

aljazeera (2025-08-22). Over 20 nations join EU, UN in opposing Israel's illegal E1 settlement plan. aljazeera.com Israel's plan for illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank will 'make a two-state solution impossible'.

WSWS (2025-08-22). The political lessons of Netanyahu's fascistic tirades against Australian Prime Minister Albanese. wsws.org The Israeli leader is on a rampage because of the scale of the crimes his regime is implementing and the mass global opposition they are provoking.

newarab (2025-08-22). Netanyahu sends top aide to UAE in an effort to mend ties. newarab.com Israeli Prime Minister According to reports, Israel's strategic affairs minister, Rob Dermer, was quietly sent to the UAE last week and engaged in talks w…

english.almanar.com.lb (2025-08-22). Israeli enemy targets Deir Kifa town, South Lebanon: Al-Manar reporter. english.almanar.com.lb

albawaba (2025-08-22). Israeli special force arrests photojournalist Moath Amarneh. albawaba.com

newarab (2025-08-22). Israel forces raid, tighten security measures near Ramallah. newarab.com Israeli forces began encircling and imposing a siege on areas east of A larger number of Israeli soldiers were seen deployed in the area, Palestinian residents said, in response to an alleged shooting incident targeting Israeli settlers. | The Israeli military stormed both Al-…

newarab (2025-08-22). Lebanon releases Israeli citizen held in detention for a year. newarab.com A There was little information given about the man, identified as Salah Abu-Hussein. His imprisonment had not garnered public attention in Israel or Lebanon. | Israeli media reported that the man's family had reported him missing around a year ago and was unaware he was in L…

english.almanar.com.lb (2025-08-22). Yemeni Missile Strikes Tel Aviv. english.almanar.com.lb At least one building was damaged in Moshav Ginton, southeast of Tel Aviv, when Yemeni missile shrapnel hit it on Friday evening, according to Zionist media outlets. At first, Israeli media reported a loud explosion was heard in central 'Israel'. Loud explosions were heard in central 'Israel', and Ben Gurion airport was closed after the detection of …

newarab (2025-08-22). Israeli charged for plot to kill Attorney General. newarab.com

Staff (2025-08-22). USA WATCHDOG'S GREG '____ER' SAYS TRENDS JOURNAL'S PROPAGANDA BECAUSE WE REPORT ON ISRAELI GENOCIDE. trendsjournal.com

english.almanar.com.lb (2025-08-22). AL-Quds Brigades: We targeted a gathering of Israeli military vehicles in Khan Younis with mortar shells. english.almanar.com.lb

GWU Left Coalition (2025-08-21). Students urge George Washington University not to capitulate to Trump threats over Palestine activism. mondoweiss.net Students at George Washington University urge the school's administration not to give in to Trump administration demands following a Justice Department investigation into alleged "antisemitism" stemming from protests against the Gaza genocide.

Abraham Marquez (2025-08-21). Opinion: Shattering the 'Liberal Zionist' Myth. lataco.com And why saying "Free Palestine" isn't antisemitic.

Alaa Shamali (2025-08-21). Western MSM has ignored the latest damning figures from Gaza's Ministry of Health. thecanary.co Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, revealed a tragic picture documenting the scale of the health disaster facing the sector as a result of Israel's ongoing genocide and suffocating siege, stressing that children are the biggest victims. Gaza: children are Israel's biggest victims In a briefing for journalists, Al-Barsh […] | By

Joe Truzman & Bill Roggio (2025-08-21). Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula donates aid to Gaza residents. longwarjournal.org Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) donated aid to Palestinians in Gaza who have been affected by the war. A spokesperson for Ahrar Beit al Maqdis thanked AQAP for the donations and praised former Al Qaeda emir Osama Bin Laden.

David Daoud (2025-08-21). Israeli operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah: August 4—17, 2025. longwarjournal.org Israel continued operations in Lebanon between August 4 and August 17, 2025. These activities included targeted assassinations of Hezbollah operatives involved in the group's regeneration efforts, strikes on the group's assets, and targeted killings of PFLP operatives.

Canadians for Justice, Peace in the Middle East (2025-08-21). CJPME Responds to New Revelations of Arms Shipments to Israeli Weapons Company. globalresearch.ca Yesterday CBC learned that Ottawa-based Calian had been sending GPS antennas to Elbit Systems' electronic warfare division in Israel.

Nir Hasson (2025-08-22). On Shin Bet orders, two foreign physician volunteers barred from entering Gaza. haaretz.com One of the doctors gave interviews to overseas media outlets, as well as to Haaretz, in which she criticized the army's policies in Gaza. She says this likely contributed to the decision to bar her from returning to Gaza…

Staff (2025-08-22). Israeli strikes cause widespread destruction and casualties in and around Gaza City, UN says. haaretz.com

Amos Harel (2025-08-22). Netanyahu is more scared of his coalition partners than growing ire. haaretz.com The Israeli prime minister once again appears to be actively working behind the scenes to encourage far-right ministers to sabotage any chance of a deal ‚ñ The IDF is ready to deploy tanks anywhere in Gaza City — and seems less concerned about the consequences…

Mae Palty (2025-08-22). started learning Arabic, and it opened up a whole world. what drew me to belly. haaretz.com This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: An Israeli just back from reserve duty seeks freedom in her body though her mind is still at war, while one family trades trauma for adventure in Montenegro…

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