2026-06-03: Palestine Roundup

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Matt Sledge (2026-06-03). Adam Hamawy, Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza, Poised to Become Pro-Palestine Rep. From New Jersey. theintercept.com A former U.S. Army combat surgeon with backing from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, streamer Hasan Piker, and an anti-AIPAC super PAC won a New Jersey primary on Tuesday despite last-minute negative attacks. | Adam Hamawy beat a crowded field of Democrats in the state's 12th Congressional District. The winner of the primary is expected to coast to victory over Republican Gregg Mele in the November general election. | His victory came despite a flurry of right-wing media reports that sought to tarnish the progressive candidate as an Islamic extremist because of his 1995 trial testimony for a religious leader con…

Blanca Missé (2026-06-03). How the IHRA definition of antisemitism is being used to criminalize Palestine solidarity across Latin America. mondoweiss.net The IHRA definition of antisemitism is being used in a coordinated offensive across Latin America to criminalize solidarity with Palestine. The targets are not only Palestine activists but also the backbone of Latin America's social movements.

Quakers for Peace in Palestine (2026-06-03). Saturday 6/20: Tech & Palestine Solidarity: How to Use Tech Safely in Our Activism. indybay.org Zoom | us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fE-pkJg…

UUSF Forum (2026-06-03). Sunday 6/14: U.S. Policy Towards Israel/Palestine: How to Change It. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist of San Francisco | 1187 Franklin St. | San Francisco…

American Friends Service Committee (2026-06-03). Friday 6/26: Virtual Action Hour for Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | afsc.org/events/action-hour-palestine

newarab (2026-06-03). Israel bars Mamdani adviser Linda Sarsour from Palestine visit. newarab.com Prominent Sarsour, one of the most prominent Muslim civil rights activists in the United States and an adviser to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, had planned to visit family in the occupied West Bank and participate in a series of local meetings and event…

newarab (2026-06-03). UK Lawyers for Israel face scrutiny over intimidation tactics. newarab.com No discussion of campaigns targeting supporters of Palestine in Britain can end without mentioning the group Over the past three years, UK Lawyers for Israel has intensified its intimidation campaigns, not only to silence voices supporting the Palestinian people and opposing Israel but also to pressure institutions that refer to Palestine and its history and do not endorse the Zionist narrative of Israel's occupation and wars in the region. | The group was founded 15 years ago under the sl…

Waging Nonviolence (2026-06-03). Pro-Palestine Activists arrested blocking New Jersey Port. juancole.com

Editor (2026-06-03). A forensic survey of Israel's genocide. mronline.org JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip.

Skwawkbox (2026-06-03). Spa in Spain denies Zionists entry in viral video. thecanary.co The operators of a Barcelona spa for lesbians have gone viral after denying entry to two US-Israeli women because of Israel's genocide in Gaza. The women then tried — antisemitically — to claim that being Zionist and Jewish are the same thing as they attempt to cast themselves as the victims. One also tried to […] | By

LVP (2026-06-03). UAW Members Demand that UAW Rescind Endorsement of Zionist /Billionaire Shill Scott Wiener. indybay.org Rank and file members of UAW 4811 and UAW 2035 are demanding that the UAW 4811, Region 6 and the UAW rescind their support of Zionist billionaire shill Scott Wiener. Wiener who is being funded by the Zionists has played a role in targeting UC faculty and UAW 4811 members who have opposed the genocide in Gaza.

News Desk, The Cradle. (2026-06-03). Iran Stops Exchange Of Messages With United States. popularresistance.org Iran's negotiating team is stopping exchanges of messages with the US due to Israel's ongoing bombardment and invasion of Lebanon, Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported on 1 June. | "The immediate cessation of the ‚Å Zionist regime's aggressive and brutal army operations in Gaza and Lebanon and the necessity of the regime's complete withdrawal from the occupied areas in ‚Å Lebanon have been emphasized by Iranian officials and negotiators, and there will be no talks until Iran and the resistance's views on this…

newleftreview (2026-06-03). 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.

newarab (2026-06-03). Zak Khan on Israeli detention after Gaza aid mission. newarab.com "Day one in Israeli prison was my birthday," Zakaria "Zak" Khan tells The New Arab. "Interesting birthday." | It was not how the British activist expected to spend turning 25. Days earlier, he had been sailing towards Gaza aboard the The decision to join the mission was rooted in a le…

Ali Abunimah (2026-06-03). UN verifies rapes of Palestinians, but still cites no Israeli victims. electronicintifada.net New United Nations report documents Israeli gang rapes of Gaza detainees and raises further questions about unverified mass rape claims from 7 October.

Editor (2026-06-03). 'The ceasefire is a joke': Israeli soldiers describe continued targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza. mronline.org Israeli occupation forces are shooting Palestinians, carrying out airstrikes, and expanding the territory under their direct occupation as if no truce with Hamas has been reached.

Dave DeCamp (2026-06-03). Israel Killed 119 Palestinians in Gaza in May, the Highest Monthly Death Toll of the Year. news.antiwar.com Israeli forces killed at least 119 Palestinians in Gaza in May, marking the highest monthly death toll of the year, Middle East Eye reported on Wednesday, citing numbers from Gaza's Health Ministry. Israel has been constantly violating the US-backed ceasefire deal that was signed in October 2025 and has intensified its attacks after the US …

Maddison Wheeldon (2026-06-03). 'Beloved youth' abducted at gunpoint by Israeli forces alongside three other women. thecanary.co The Director of Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice and Evangelical Lutheran Pastor, Munther Isaac, has posted a statement from Bishop Dr. Imad Haddad on the abduction of a young member of their church community in Birzeit, located in the occupied West Bank. As the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the […] | By

Qassam Muaddi (2026-06-03). West Bank healthcare workers go on strike as Israel's financial siege guts the Palestinian health sector. mondoweiss.net As Israel indefinitely withholds Palestinian customs revenues, public hospitals have cut hours and slashed healthcare workers' salaries. Patients are left to navigate a system running on interns and half-capacity labs.

newarab (2026-06-03). Israel plans big illegal occupied West Bank settlement push. newarab.com Israel's fanatical finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three illegal Jewish settlements in the Bezalel Smotrich, who is wanted internationally for crimes against humanity, holds authority over parts of Israel's civilian administration in the occupied West Bank, said a planning committee app…

Charlie Jaay (2026-06-03). Israeli occupation's aim is ethnic cleansing by any means possible. thecanary.co Every minute of every day there are numerous Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians taking place somewhere in the occupied West Bank. Many attacks involve direct violence, but settlers also intimidate, steal and destroy land and property. Their purpose, by whatever means possible, is to steal Palestinian land for the Zionist's colonial project of a "Greater […] | By

Qassam Muaddi (2026-06-03). Digitally annexing the West Bank: Israel moves its theft of Palestinian land online. mondoweiss.net A new Israeli digital registry imposes de facto sovereignty over 60% of the West Bank. Palestinians must register under Israeli authority or risk losing their land, but Israeli legal loopholes are designed to invalidate their claims either way.

newarab (2026-06-03). Israel's checkpoints & borders expose its apartheid regime. newarab.com

Dave DeCamp (2026-06-03). Trump Says He Was 'Perturbed' With Netanyahu Over Israel's Attacks on Lebanon, Which Haven't Stopped. news.antiwar.com President Trump said in an interview that aired Wednesday that he was "perturbed" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call on Monday over Israel's attacks on Lebanon, which haven't stopped despite Trump suggesting some sort of ceasefire was reached. The president responded to a question about a report from Axios that said …

UMMID (2026-06-03). Everybody hates Israel and you: Trump blasts Netanyahu in phone call. ummid.com In a major embarrassment for the Zionist lobby, U.S. President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu '____ing crazy' and said everybody in the world hates him because of his crimes.

newarab (2026-06-03). Israel continues striking Lebanon as US-Iran trade fire in Gulf. newarab.com Welcome to our live blog. Here are the latest updates of the day: | Israel has continued striking Lebanon, including near Beirut, with nine people, including two paramedics, being killed. Lebanon's National News Agency said that strikes occurred in over 20 locations in the south of the country. | Hezbollah said that it has targeted Israeli soldiers in northern Israel "in response to the Israeli enemy army's violation of the ceasefire." | In the Gulf, the US and Iran have exchanged fire, with the US conducting strikes on Qeshm Island, and Iran retaliating with attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain. An Iranian ballistic mi…

Jason Ditz (2026-06-03). Nine Killed, Including Two Paramedics in Israeli Strikes on Southern Lebanon. news.antiwar.com Israel continues to escalate strikes against southern Lebanon on Wednesday, and has killed at least nine people across the region, including two paramedics who were slain in an attack on an ambulance. These attacks follow reports from President Trump that on Monday Israel agreed to postpone its attack on Beirut and that Hezbollah had made …

hindustantimes (2026-06-03). Hezbollah's attacks keep coming, Bibi's top man keeps threatening Dahiyeh – who has the real plan. hindustantimes.com Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz declared that there is "no ceasefire" in Lebanon and warned that any continued attacks on Israeli settlements could trigger strikes on Beirut's Dahiyeh district. His remarks came after reports that Israel had halted a planned assault on Beirut following diplomatic pressure and rising regional tensions. Katz said the IDF would continue operations against Hezbollah across Lebanon and insisted that Israel would maintain its security zone and military pressure until its objectives were achieved. He also claimed that hundreds of thousands of residents evacuated Dahiyeh after Israe…

newleftreview (2026-06-03). 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.

UMMID (2026-06-03). The Lebanon Glitch: How Multi-Front War is Overturning Trump-Iran Diplomacy. ummid.com Washington and Tehran continue exploring a possible agreement but escalating Israeli military operations in Lebanon threaten to derail diplomacy and deepen regional instability.

newarab (2026-06-03). The medics refusing to abandon south Lebanon under Israeli fire. newarab.com

Bheria (2026-06-03). Tyre Still Stands: Israel, Lebanon and a Failed Biblical Prophecy. muslimskeptic.com Most people encountering the name Tyre today do so through reports of Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon. This is due to the fact that the city of Tyre is frequently mentioned as part of Israel's campaign against Hezbollah/Hizbullah. It is a campaign that often treats vast areas of predominantly Shi'i southern Lebanon as a legitimate …

Jason Ditz (2026-06-03). Israeli Military Chief: No Ceasefire for IDF in Lebanon. news.antiwar.com Consistently, media reports generally advance the idea that the ceasefire in Lebanon is "holding," and the US expresses hopes that the Israel-Lebanon talks they're hosting will lead to an even stronger ceasefire. The reality, however, suggests neither of those is actually the case. Israeli military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir made the IDF …

aljazeera (2026-06-03). Hezbollah video shows attack on Israeli troops at Lebanon's Beaufort Castle. aljazeera.com Hezbollah has released drone video showing attacks targeting Israeli forces occupying Beaufort Castle…

HG (2026-06-03). US Universities selling bodies meant for 'science' to US Navy for Israeli military training. thecanary.co Two US universities are selling dead bodies, which are meant for 'scientific purposes', to the US Navy, which uses them to train the Israeli military. Back in 2025, student journalists revealed the links between bodies donated by the University of Southern California (USC) for scientific research and training provided to Israeli soldiers by the US […] | By

A A (2026-06-03). The Israelization of the United States military is proceeding. strategic-culture.su Thank You Congress and President Trump! | By Philip GIRALDI | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | Few Americans know the history of…

Juan Cole (2026-06-03). Mamdani Skipped the Parade; Israeli War Criminals Didn't. juancole.com Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) — The presence of Israeli Finance Minister Bezelal Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) at the Israel Day Parade in New York City on May 31 was a puzzling choice as an ambassador to "bolster Israel's image." That would be like the US ambassador to the United Nations palling around with Steve Bannon, Alex Jones or a Proud Boys on the dais. Smotrich is a war criminal, according to the International Criminal Court. Admittedly, Smotrich and far-right Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu of the fascist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, showed up on their own accoun…

Center for Constitutional Rights (2026-06-03). CCR Condemns New York Officials' Support of Israeli War Criminals at Israel Day Parade. indybay.org June 1, 2026, New York — Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights made the following statement in response to New York officials marching with Israeli war criminals in New York's Israel Day Parade yesterday.

newarab (2026-06-03). Slovenia bars Israeli plane from landing in Ljubljana. newarab.com According to Israeli media, Israir CEO Uri Sirkis described the move as "a blatant violation of European Union aviation agreements". | Sirkis claimed that authorities in Ljubljana do

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