2025-12-20: Genocide Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-20 11:53pm GMT

Jonah Valdez (2025-12-20). StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing. theintercept.com When Oregon music teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job. | Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as "using her pl…

The Canary. (2025-12-20). Elbit Factory Shut Down For A Second Time In Two Weeks. popularresistance.org A group of protesters have shut down the entrance to a factory belonging to Elbit Systems. The halt of Israel's weapons supplier is one of the key demands of the anti-genocide activists. Eight prisoners, all being held on remand for allegedly taking action in solidarity with Palestine, have been on open ended hunger strike since the 2 November in British prisons. This is the biggest coordinated prison hunger strike in UK prisons since the 1981 H-block strike in the North of Ireland. Six of the hunger strikers have been hospitalised so far. Despite the enormity of the strike, the media coverage has been minimal, a…

aljazeera (2025-12-20). UN's top court to hold Myanmar genocide hearings in January. aljazeera.com Witnesses from Myanmar's Rohingya community will also address closed-door ICJ hearing.

Jennine Khalik (2025-12-20). Bondi Beach Attack Is Weaponized to Suppress Palestine Solidarity in Australia. truthout.org When news broke of the Bondi Beach shooting, those of us in the global Palestine solidarity movement knew immediately what was coming. We've seen this pattern: when liberation movements challenge state power and when genocide is named and resisted, states seize on any incident, any tragedy, to justify criminalizing that resistance. Since October 2023, as Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza… |

Amina Arshad (2025-12-20). Will Justice Prevail? ICJ's Crucial Myanmar Rohingya Genocide Case Hearings Ahead. thinktank.pk In the realm of international justice, the spotlight is on Myanmar as the United Nations' highest judicial body prepares for pivotal hearings in early 2026. This case, centered on allegations of genocide against the Rohingya people, could reshape global accountability for human rights violations. What Is the Myanmar Genocide Case Before the ICJ All About? …

en.mehrnews (2025-12-20). UN says famine phase overcome in Gaza Strip. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) — No areas in the Gaza Strip are currently classified in famine, according to the latest reports by international bodies.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2025-12-20). Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela's Oil. popularresistance.org Donald Trump has openly admitted that he wants to take Venezuela's oil. Top US officials have made it clear that this is a key reason for their war on the South American nation. | Trump declared an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela on December 16. The US government aims to prevent Venezuela from selling oil to China, to starve Caracas of export revenue. | The Trump administration is also illegally blocking Venezuela from importing crucial goods, including the light crude and chemicals needed to process and refine its own heavy crude.

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