2025-03-15: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-03-15 10:36 AM

Reuters (2025-03-15). US expels South African ambassador, saying he 'hates' Trump. scmp.com Trump has cut US financial aid to South Africa, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its World Court genocide case against Israel.

WSWS (2025-03-15). Union blocks motion to defend Randa Abdel-Fattah at Sydney's Macquarie University. wsws.org The resolution called for an urgent campus rally of staff and students to fight moves to sack Abdel-Fattah, a widely respected academic who is being targeted because of her opposition to the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.

WSWS (2025-03-15). Second anti-genocide student protester at Columbia arrested by Trump's immigration police. wsws.org On Friday, Trump's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche threatened to pursue "terrorism" charges against universities and students for previously protesting war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

SKWAWKBOX (2025-03-15). Lawyers release video of Mahmoud Khalil abduction as 2nd protester kidnapped. skwawkbox.org Khalil's illegal detention on show as Leqaa Kordia becomes second victim of fascist purge Lawyers acting for Columbia University anti-genocide protester Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump regime abducted and has smeared — and wants to deport despite him being a legal permanent resident and the state admitting he has committed no crime, have released footage …

Ziyad Motala (2025-03-15). Marco Rubio's diplomatic attack on South Africa is punishment for standing up to Israel. mondoweiss.net The Trump administration's extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide.

bwitanek (2025-03-15). Maersk: Cut Ties w/ Genocide! Tue. Mar 18 8am-10am (SHARP!) Florham Park NJ. fightbackbetter.com *⃣*⃣ On March 18, join us in a global day of action to call out the shipping conglomerate, MAERSK, for its direct involvement in gen0cide through its transportation of essential military cargo used in Isr*el's illegal occupation, siege, and gen0cide of Palestine . On March 18, MAERSK executives and shareholders will meet for their Annual General Meeting and have the opportunity to vote on two resolutions to end the transportation of military cargo to Isr*el. Activists around the world will put pressure on M…

Abby Zimet (2025-03-15). We Will Not Comply. commondreams.org Freefalling through our authoritarian takeover, this week saw New York police in the grotesque faux-gold belly of the beast arrest about 100 Jews of conscience chanting "Free Free Palestine" and protesting the ICE abduction of a Palestinian peace advocate for likewise standing against Israeli genocide – both acts of Constitutionally-protected free speech this regime darkly deems criminal. Jews on detainment for expressing the wrong political ideas: "We know our history, and we know where this leads. This is what fascists do (to) cement control."The Jewish Voice For Peace protest – at the start of the Jewish h…

Mark Taliano (2025-03-14). The "Terrible Fruit" of the Western Regime Change War on Syria. marktanliano.net The "terrible fruit" of Washington's Regime Change war in Syria is genocide. Activist, author and human rights lawyer Prof. Dan Kovalik estimates the numbers killed at between 7,000 to 10,000 people. The people targeted are largely religious minorities, Alawites and Christians, previously protected by the elected Assad government, . Mother Agnes de la Croix, …

Newswire Editor (2025-03-14). AFGE President Condemns Elon Musk's Comparison of Federal Employees to Nazi, Communist Murderers. commondreams.org In response to a post on X in which Elon Musk tried to recast blame for history's worst genocides away from Hitler, Stalin, and Mao and onto public-sector workers, American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: "The implication that the American citizens working at your local VA hospital or Social Security office are worse than Hitler, Stalin, or Mao—history's most despicable masterminds of genocide and mass murderer—is totally disconnected from reality. That's obvious to every American. "That this baseless accusation comes from the sin…

SKWAWKBOX (2025-03-14). 'Secret censors' censoring film about Palestine censorship, says film's producer. skwawkbox.org Venues pressured and even threatened not to host showings of 'Censoring Palestine' A new film about the Establishment's censorship of anti-genocide voices, Censoring Palestine, is itself under attack by "secret censors" looking to suppress it, according to its producer. A number of screenings of the film have been dropped at short notice following back-room pressure …

SKWAWKBOX (2025-03-14). Video: Israel fanatic US politician exposed making false claims about wrongly-arrested Mahmoud. skwawkbox.org Even fascist US govt says anti-genocide protester Khalil Mahmoud not accused of any crime but Bruce Blakeman claims he's a paid criminal 'antisemite' A MAGA Republican politician has been caught out during a panel discussion on the CNN news channel about wrongly-arrested Palestinian Khalil Mahmoud, who has been abducted by Donald Trump's immigration officials for …

The Canary (2025-03-14). Acclaimed playwright Peter Oswald embarks on 150-mile fasting pilgrimage for Palestine. thecanary.co Award-winning British playwright and poet Peter Oswald will undertake a 150-mile fasting pilgrimage from Bristol to London, beginning on 18 March and culminating in Parliament Square on 30 March. Peter Oswald: a pilgrimage for Palestine The thirteen-day journey, undertaken in solidarity with the Palestinian people, will raise awareness of Israel's ongoing apartheid and genocide and […] | By

Ed Sykes (2025-03-14). Glasgow university 'using campus ban to deter further protest' over Gaza genocide. thecanary.co On 6 February, Glasgow university student Hannah Taylor sprayed paint over a building because the institution had "blatantly ignored the will of the majority of its students and staff, and insisted on continuing to invest in Israeli linked arms research" amid the Gaza genocide. She and Strathclyde student Catriona Roberts took this action in solidarity […] | By

Staff (2025-03-14). Lancet study finds Gaza life expectancy slashed in half by Israeli genocide. defenddemocracy.press by Andre Damon 31 January 2025 Life expectancy in Gaza plunged by nearly 50 percent in the first year of the Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave, a study published in The Lancet has found. The study, led by Michel Guillot, professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, found that …

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