(2026-06-18). Watch: Sundar Pichai booed at Stanford University over Google support to Israel. ummid.com Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, was booed over the support the tech giant is providing to Israel and greeted by students chanting 'Free Palestine' slogans as he rose to address the Stanford University's 2026 Graduation Ceremony Sunday June 14, 2026.
(2026-06-18). Sunday 7/5: Yoga for Palestine. indybay.org San José Peace & Justice Center | 48 South 7th Street | San José, CA 95112…
(2026-06-17). 'Welfare Not Warfare' Protest Demands Halt To Europe's Rearmament. popularresistance.org On Sunday, June 14, over 12,000 people joined the "Welfare Not Warfare" protest in Brussels, organized by more than 800 civil society organizations, trade unions, and movements to oppose EU and NATO rearmament. "The coalition rejects the idea that Europe's security can be bought through a massive rearmament project that starves social budgets and escalates confrontation," the Stop ReArm Europe platform wrote in the protest announcement. | "Ongoing wars, occupation, genocide, and military violence are shaping lives around the world — from Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon to Yemen, Sudan, and the Democratic Repub…
(2026-06-17). Minister deploys 'homophobic innuendo' to defend Palestine Action ban. thecanary.co 
On 15 June, we reported that Labour minister Mike Tapp was gloating about the decision to maintain Palestine Action's 'terrorist' proscription. A day later, we reported he was trying to ensnare Zack Polanski into saying he supports Palestine Action — something which would have landed him with a lengthy prison sentence. In other words, he's […] | By
(2026-06-17). Veteran activist John Minto gets $10,000 from NZ police after unlawful pro-Palestine arrest. asiapacificreport.nz 
By Keiller MacDuff of RNZ Police have paid $10,000 to veteran activist John Minto after he was unlawfully arrested and pepper-sprayed at a pro-Palestinian protest in Christchurch in 2024. The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) last year found Minto's arrest was unlawful and an officer used excessive and unjustified force. The payout follows negotiations between…
(2026-06-18). Rajesh Sharma's posts celebrating Gaza Genocide re-surface after son killed in US strikes. ummid.com Social media users have digged out Rajesh Sharma's posts celebrating Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza after his son, Aditya Sharma, was killed in a United States military strike off the coast of Oman Thursday June 11, 2026.
(2026-06-18). Saturday 6/20: Backyard Dance Party Fundraiser for Gaza Soup Kitchen. indybay.org 2112 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA…
(2026-06-18). 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.
(2026-06-18). Every drop counts: Gaza's water crisis deepens as summer takes hold. icrc.org
(2026-06-17). Palestinian residents shocked by devastation in West Bank refugee camp. aljazeera.com Palestinian families briefly returned to Tulkarem refugee camp after more than a year of forced displacement.
(2026-06-18). America's own Israel envoy gets into fight with Trump for abandoning Netanyahu amid Iran deal. hindustantimes.com Fresh questions are emerging over the state of U.S.-Israel relations as Washington pushes ahead with diplomacy involving Iran. Remarks by America's envoy to Israel, alongside reports of disagreements over the Iran deal, have fueled speculation about growing tensions between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the future of Middle East security.
(2026-06-17). Netanyahu, Israel's arch-survivor, set to face voter fury over Iran deal. tribune.com.pk 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hopes of clinging to power in an election this autumn have long been shaky, but the interim US deal with Iran has added yet another complication. | US President Donald Trump has opted to end the wars in Iran and Lebanon long before Israel's goals were accomplished, and Netanyahu's boast in March that "we are changing the face of the Middle East" looks increasingly empty. | Already facing corruption allegations, domestic political controversies and criticism over security failings in the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, he will now face voters' judgement…
(2026-06-17). Trump to Netanyahu: Use a 'softer' touch on Lebanon. aljazeera.com US President Donald Trump has encouraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use a 'softer touch' in Lebanon.
(2026-06-18). Hezbollah chief says Lebanon at moment after US-Iran deal. al-monitor.com Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Wednesday urged Lebanese authorities to take advantage of a "pivotal" moment following a US-Iran deal to end the Middle East war, ahead of Israeli-Lebanese negotiations next week.American and Iranian officials, as well as mediator Pakistan, have said the deal includes Lebanon, where Israel and Hezbollah have been at war since March 2.Lebanese President Joseph Aoun instead insisted his country's negotiations with Israel in Washington were independent of the regional deal.
(2026-06-18). 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.
(2026-06-18). Friday 6/19: Demo at the "israeli" consulate. indybay.org 456 Montgomery St…
(2026-06-18). UN warns Israeli settlers could join blacklist for violations against children. al-monitor.com By David BrunnstromJune 17 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that Israeli settler groups could be added to a global blacklist for violations against children as he voiced alarm at a "staggering" rise in violations against Palestinian children.The world body's annual report on Children and Armed Conflict recorded 38,558 "grave violations" globally in 2025, affecting 24,174 children, the latter figure a record since CAAC's mandate began in 1996.
(2026-06-17). Iranian tankers exit US blockade zone ahead of peace talks. tribune.com.pk 
The first tankers carrying Iranian oil exited a US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a tracking website said on Wednesday, two days before Washington and Tehran launch talks on an agreed peace deal still scant on details ⚪ including Iran's nuclear programme and the lifting of sanctions. | The talks on a final settlement are set to begin Friday at Switzerland's Burgenstock mountain resort, as news that the Hormuz Strait will reopen sent world oil prices tumbling. | Optimism that the war triggered by the February 28 US-Israeli strikes on Tehran might be coming to an end was dented, however, by fresh Israeli str…
(2026-06-17). Trump's fear exposed in 24-hour frenzy: Iran deal done, third strike canceled, Israel told to…. hindustantimes.com Just days after a devastating conflict that brought the Middle East to the brink, Donald Trump is now making a stunning claim — that Iran has a "more rational" leadership. But what does that actually mean, and what happened to the figures Trump once described as the main obstacle to peace? After U.S. and Israeli strikes killed several top Iranian officials during the war, Trump suggested that a new political reality had emerged inside Tehran. He argued that the leaders he viewed as "totally irrational" were now gone and that Iran's current leadership was more prepared to engage diplomatically with Washingto…
(2026-06-17). Israel's forced displacement in Lebanon a war crime: Amnesty. newarab.com 
Israel's mass evacuation orders and restrictions on civilians returning to their homes in southern Lebanon The rights group found that the Israeli military had dramatically expanded its use of mass "evacuation" and "no-return" orders since 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands of people across Lebanon and preventing tens of thousands from returnin…
(2026-06-17). Smotrich says Israel taking control of Hebron. aljazeera.com Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Israel has transferred authority over Hebron to the army.