(2025-05-14). Hundreds of directors, writers, actors denounce Israeli genocide in Gaza and the film industry's "silence," "indifference" and "passivity" wsws.org The letter begins by calling attention to the fate of 25-year-old Fatma Hassoun, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist, murdered in an Israeli air strike on April 16.
(2025-05-14). Hollywood stars slam silence on Gaza genocide on eve of Cannes Film Festival. presstv.ir Over 350 film figures denounced "genocide" in Gaza on the eve of the Cannes Festival.
(2025-05-14). How Israel is artwashing genocide with Eurovision 2025. newarab.com 
Protests around Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, which takes place this week and culminates in a final on Saturday, 17 May, are growing ever louder — despite obstinance from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) that coordinates the competition. | With Israeli entrant Yuval Raphael due to perform at the second semi-final on Thursday evening, expressions of protest against Israel's participation in the contest — from public broadcasters, former Eurovision acts, and pro-Palestine activists in the contest's host city of Basel — are continuing to roll in, the latest among th…
(2025-05-14). Cannes Festival under pressure to take stance on Gaza war. newarab.com 
The Cannes film festival kicks off on the French Riviera Tuesday, with organisers facing pressure to take a stance on More than 380 film insiders including "Schindler's List" actor Ralph Fiennes and four former Cannes-winning directors said they were "ashamed" of their industry's "passivity". | "We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza," read the letter initiated by s…
(2025-05-14). UN aid chief urges global powers to prevent genocide in Gaza. newarab.com 
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, demanded that Israel lift its "For those killed and those whose voices are…
(2025-05-14). German President Steinmeier receives Israeli President Herzog, backs genocide against the Palestinians. wsws.org A few crocodile tears from German politicians about the suffering of the Palestinians and cynical references to Germany's own historical crimes against the Jewish population cannot hide the fact that German imperialism is once again playing a key role in the implementation of genocide.
(2025-05-14). Australia must support international law, end support for genocide. greenleft.org.au 
(2025-05-14). Friends of genocide: Has Germany learned nothing from the Holocaust. defenddemocracy.press 
RT.com May14,2025 A prominent Jewish restaurant in Berlin chose to celebrate Israel Day with a joke about the slaughter of Palestinians A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany's capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has gone against the grain of the country's usually unshakable support for Israel …
(2025-05-14). In some Jewish families, speaking up for Palestine stirs discontent. aljazeera.com Opposing views have become more entrenched since the genocide in Gaza began, resulting in disownment for some.
(2025-05-14). Medhurst Case: Test of a Turning Tide on Gaza. scheerpost.com By Joe Lauria / Consortium News British journalist Richard Medhurst, who was arrested last year and questioned under Britain's draconian Terrorism Act, is facing a possible "terrorism" prosecution for journalism that is highly critical of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. The move comes amid indications that cracks are appearing in the wall of steadfast Western …
(2025-05-14). UK government on trial over Israel arms exports. presstv.ir The British public express outrage over the government's role in supplying weapons to Israel, which is committing genocide in Gaza.
(2025-05-14). Liberation of the Palestinians. dissidentvoice.org Israel and its worldwide supporters are relatively few, maybe 50 million confined to the western world, compared to those who recognize the genocide of the Palestinian people, maybe 500 million throughout all continents. Despite the disparity in numbers, Israel and its followers have overwhelmingly controlled the information sources, media involvement, and government apparatuses throughout the …
(2025-05-14). Jeremy Bowen's Interview with Gaza Aid Chief was Shameful. dissidentvoice.org 
There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel's job of genocide easier. There was yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten last night, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief …
(2025-05-14). Stanford Students And Faculty Launch Hunger Strike For Gaza. popularresistance.org Yesterday we began our hunger strike. In every slowed minute we remember the children of Gaza, now surviving on boiled weeds and muddy water. It is now day 584 of the genocide in Gaza, and more than 60,000 Palestinians have been murdered by the Zionist entity. Just last week, at least four separate massacres have occurred in Gaza, leaving hundreds murdered and wounded. Two months have passed since Israel's total siege of the strip on March 2nd, completely blocking all food and aid from entering Gaza. Israel has completely weaponized food; aid convoys remain blocked, grain silos stand empty and parents barter wedd…
(2025-05-14). The Best Protection For Students Is A Mass Movement. popularresistance.org On March 20, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) hosted a conversation with Cornell University student and pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal. Less than a week prior, Taal had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging the new executive orders that sought to target international noncitizen students for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. | The day after this conversation, Taal was told to surrender into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. On March 31, he self-deported. | In this conversation, in which Taal is interviewed by Nidaa Lafi, an organizer with PYM's Dall…
(2025-05-14). Charging The US Government With Genocide Before The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights. popularresistance.org We stand here today, as Americans who are fed up with the way the United States government has spent our tax dollars. While several programs across housing, education, and healthcare are gutted, our politicians think the better use of that money should be going towards killing children, massacring families, and leveling churches, schools and hospitals. Instead of taking care of our veterans, we are sending more of our soldiers to fight a population of civilians, putting them in the crosshairs of Israel's indiscriminate bombing, and giving them a lifetime of PTSD that our government will refuse to treat.
(2025-05-13). 19th Annual Mothers Day Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace. indybay.org Peace walk and genocide protest draws honking support from bridge traffic.
(2025-05-13). Labour government says F-35 sales more important than dead Palestinian children. thecanary.co 
Today, 13 May, a court case against the British government's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza has begun. The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq are holding Keir Starmer's regime to account for continuing to supply parts for F-35 fighter jets despite its international obligations to prevent war crimes. However, […] | By
(2025-05-13). The Independent Alliance just brilliantly exposed the corporate media's pro-genocide bias. thecanary.co MPs from the Independent Alliance have challenged the media to push UK prime minister Keir Starmer harder on the British government's involvement in Israel's genocide in Gaza. They accuse Starmer of complicity in war crimes, evading legal obligations, engaging in secretive and potentially unlawful military support, denying genocide despite overwhelming evidence, and blocking efforts for […] | By
(2025-05-13). UK government providing weapons for Gaza genocide despite formal suspension of arms exports to Israel. wsws.org The UK has been caught red handed enabling Israel's violations of international law and therefore violating its own obligations under international law. Starmer's government is guilty of war crimes.
(2025-05-13). Palestinian Journalist Abubaker Abed on the Struggle of "Reporting a Genocide of Your Own People" democracynow.org In Part 2 of our interview with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, the 22-year-old recounts leaving Gaza last month for Ireland while facing threats to his safety and suffering from malnutrition. He says he has found solidarity and comfort in Ireland, but says he is still dealing with the trauma of a year and a half of war. The sounds of planes and helicopters still trigger fear in him. "I'm trying to navigate this pain," he says. | In Part 2 of our interview with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, the 22-year-old recounts leaving Gaza last month for Ireland while facing threats to his safety and suffering fr…
(2025-05-13). Tell The Ottawa Hospital: Cut Ties With Genocide. justpeaceadvocates.ca
(2025-05-13). The UK Has Failed to Prosecute ISIS Fighters for Genocide After Allowing Hundreds to Return to Britain. bylinetimes.com The UK has failed to prosecute a single ISIS fighter for genocide despite allowing hundreds of them to return to the UK, after the terrorist organisation was defeated in Iraq and Syria, a new Parliamentary report has revealed. | Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights is demanding a change in the law that would make it easier for the UK to prosecute suspected ISIS fighters. MPs and peers have drafted new clauses to the Crime and Policing Bill, now going through Parliament, to amend the International Criminal Court Act to allow genocide and war crimes prosecutions in the UK regardless of whether the person…
(2025-05-13). Medhurst Case: Test Of A Turning Tide On Gaza. popularresistance.org British journalist Richard Medhurst, who was arrested last year and questioned under Britain's draconian Terrorism Act, is facing a possible "terrorism" prosecution for journalism that is highly critical of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. | The move comes amid indications that cracks are appearing in the wall of steadfast Western establishment backing for Israel no matter what outrages the Jewish state commits. | Whether Britain's Crown Prosecution Service actually recommends a prosecution of Medhurst will be a test as to how far Western leaders are willing to go to violate their own so-called democratic princ…
(2025-05-13). A long-awaited reunion in Amman. electronicintifada.net Friendships in Gaza are tested by genocide and distance.
(2025-05-13). If I Stayed, I Would've Died: Journalist Abubaker Abed on "Agonizing" Decision to Leave Gaza. democracynow.org 
We speak with 22-year-old Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed in Ireland after he evacuated Gaza last month suffering from malnutrition and under threat for his reporting on Israel's genocide. Abed describes himself as an "accidental war correspondent" and hoped to become a sports journalist and commentator before the start of the war, but spent much of the last two years reporting on daily death and destruction. He says leaving Gaza was "a very agonizing decision" for him and that he feels tremendous guilt for now having access to food, water and medicine while so many Palestinians…
(2025-05-13). Students and faculty at Stanford University announce hunger strike for Gaza. mondoweiss.net 
Students and faculty at Stanford University announce they are joining the nationwide campus hunger strike movement to protest attacks on academic freedom and complicity in the Gaza genocide.
(2025-05-13). Met refers journalist Medhurst to Crown Prosecution Service, bail extended to November. skwawkbox.org 
More dragged-out bail as Starmer regime seeks to 'make the process the punishment' against anti-genocide journalists and activists The Starmer regime's assault on journalists and activists who expose and oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza continues. Richard Medhurst, the Syrian-born British journalist and son of Nobel Peace Prize winners, who was arrested by police last August as part …