(2026-05-13). Thursday 5/14: Albany & El Cerrito for Palestine – Human Billboard for Gaza. indybay.org El Cerrito Plaza, San Pablo & Carlson…
(2026-05-13). Palestine Action members could face 'terror' charges after trial. newarab.com 
(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.
(2026-05-13). Sunday 7/19: 5th Annual Ride for Palestine. indybay.org 1101 8th St, Berkeley, CA…
(2026-05-13). 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)…
(2026-05-13). Don't bury Gaza while its people live. newarab.com 
We focus on the numbers. We recite the death toll, the proportion of women and children, the total years of lost life. We share statistics — the number of child amputees, the tons of asbestos-riddled rubble — hoping to shock the still yet unmoved. In our anguish, we quote-tweet politicians with photos of Beit Hanoun, the razed earth pocked with the pale traces of where homes once stood, knowing full well that they are incapable of shame. | I worry in my private moments that we are having the opposite effect of what's intended. What if these photos and statistics only calcify the occupier's might in th…
(2026-05-13). Palestinian Evacuees: Escaping Ordeal in Gaza, Entering Another in France. ummid.com A Palestinian family evacuated from Gaza to France says French authorities have separated three children from their parents after allegations of abuse that the family strongly denies and courts have not substantiated with evidence.
(2026-05-13). The West's bubble of illusion about Israel and about itself is finally being burst. asiapacificreport.nz 
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West's moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West's military primacy, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook For decades, two irreconciliable narratives about Israel and its motivations have existed in parallel. On the one side, an official Western narrative portrays a plucky,…
(2026-05-13). Human rights group calls out Israel: 'if everyone's lying, open Gaza'. thecanary.co 
Human rights group Euro-Med Monitor has called Israel's bluff on its genocide denialism. The murderous apartheid colony is again lashing out and calling the whole world liars for condemning its crimes. Euro-Med kept it simple and to the point: "if everyone's lying, open Gaza": Israel, if everyone is lying, open Gaza. If the ICC, the […] | By
(2026-05-13). Remembering 262 Palestinian Journalists Israel has killed since Oct 2023. ummid.com On World Press Day, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip commemorated more than 262 journalists killed by Israeli forces since the start of the genocide on Oct 7, 2023.
(2026-05-13). Nancy Fraser: Gaza as World Event. newleftreview.org The global reverberations of Israel's destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.
(2026-05-13). Gaza-bound aid convoy regroups in Libya for renewed push. newarab.com 
A The convoy in support of the Gaza Strip continues to gather in the Joud Daem forest area, around 30 kilometres west of the Libyan capital, The forest camp serves as the first meeting point between c…
(2026-05-13). Thursday 5/28: Power Half-Hour for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | http: //jvp.org/gazaph…
(2026-05-13). World's top media outlets urge Israel to "Let Us Into Gaza" ummid.com Senior leaders from more than two dozen global news organizations signed an open letter calling for Israel to allow international media to independently enter the Gaza Strip.
(2026-05-13). 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.
(2026-05-13). 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.
(2026-05-13). Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader. democracynow.org 
Salah Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian immigrant, green card holder and president of Wisconsin's largest mosque, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, has been locked up in an ICE jail since late March. Despite his lawful permanent resident status, the government says he could be subject to deportation for failing to disclose a conviction by Israeli military authorities when he was a teenager in the occupied West Bank. Sarsour says he never understood the charges presented against him in Hebrew and that he was tortured in Israeli custody. Supporters view the case as an escalation of the Trump administrationR…
(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
(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.
(2026-05-13). Netanyahu visited UAE, secretly met MBZ during Iran war: Israel's PM office. al-monitor.com JERUSALEM, May 13 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United Arab Emirates and met with the Emirati president during the war with Iran, a statement from the Prime Minister's Office said on Wednesday. According to the statement, the meeting resulted in an "historic breakthrough" in relations between Israel and the UAE.The statement appeared to be the first confirmation of a meeting between Netanyahu and the Emirati president.
(2026-05-13). Israel: Netanyahu coalition faces collapse as Haredi rift widens. newarab.com 
(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…
(2026-05-13). Israel strikes Lebanon as 380 reported killed since April 17 ceasefire. scmp.com Israel hammered south Lebanon with strikes on Tuesday ahead of talks between the two countries in Washington, as Beirut reported 380 people killed in Israeli attacks since an April 17 ceasefire took effect. | Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem vowed to turn the battlefield into "hell" for Israeli forces, and insisted his Iran-backed group's weapons would not be up for discussion at the talks on Thursday and Friday, after the US had called for its disarmament.
(2026-05-13). Headlines for May 13, 2026. democracynow.org Pentagon Comptroller Says Cost of Iran War Has Risen to $29 Billion, U.S. Inflation Rate Rose to 3.8% in April, WSJ Receives Subpoenas for Records of Journalists Reporting on Internal Discussions of Iran War, Peace Activists Disrupt Politico Defense Summit, Confronting Iranian Opposition Leader Reza Pahlavi, Israeli Attacks Kill 8 in Lebanon in Latest Breaches of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Senators Grill FBI Director Kash Patel over Reports of Excessive Drinking, U.S. Negotiates with Denmark to Open New Military Bases in Greenland, CNN: CIA Officers in Mexico Are Directly Involved in "Targeted Assassinations&…
(2026-05-13). Alexander Zevin: Trump's Gulf War. newleftreview.org Asymmetries of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran's tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy—and the enormous firepower of the aggressors, at the end of the first round.
(2026-05-13). Iran war to cast a shadow on BRICS FM meeting in Delhi. newarab.com 
The The grouping, which originally included Brazil, Russia, India, Iran had urged India to use the BRICS platform to build a consensus condemning U.S. and Israeli actions. | The main differences have emerged b…
(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.
(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.
(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 …
(2026-05-13). Hondurasgate: The alleged US-Israeli plot shaking Latin America. newarab.com 
A series of Between January and April 2026, Canal Red and the investigative website Hondurasgate released a
(2026-05-13). Interfaith Pilgrimage From Oakland City Hall to Airport to Protest Israeli Crimes. indybay.org FedEx goes into hidihg…
(2026-05-13). Israel tech firms can locate and identify Starlink users. newarab.com 
Israeli cyber intelligence firms have developed technologies capable of The report said two Israeli-linked companies had developed systems capable of locating Starlink satellite terminals globally without directly hacking or intercepting the network itself. | The technologies instead rely on "data fusion" techniques that combine large volumes of digital and geolocation data to map terminal locati…
(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… |