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‘Pro-Palestine student movement challenging the West's colonial past and present’
The global student movement in solidarity with Palestine is bringing to the fore important questions about the Western world’s hypocrisy and its colonial past and present, according to a prominent Greek social anthropologist and activist. The students are “faced with incredible repression” because of their depth of knowledge and determination...
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'Gaza genocide is second Nakba, but even worse'
Every year, on 15 May, Palestinians observe the anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe in Arabic, when hundreds of thousands were uprooted from their homes and lands by armed Zionists in 1948. But in 2024, 76 years after that harrowing experience took place, this anniversary rings different. Tens of thousands of...
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Will Netanyahu continue to be impervious to mounting pressure for Gaza cease-fire?
While Israel has not clearly shown any intent when it comes to ending its deadly war on Gaza, there is now a certain sense of expectation in some circles that it could soon change its tune. That is stemming from two main factors: Hamas’s acceptance, last week, of a Qatari-Egyptian...
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FACTBOX - Which countries have joined South Africa's genocide case against Israel?
Over the past few months, South Africa’s genocide case against Israel for its ongoing war on Gaza has snowballed into a larger global affair as a raft of countries have either formally applied to intervene or declared their intention to do so. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave a...
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'I am anti-Zionist Jew, not anti-Semitic', pro-Palestine Jewish activist says
“If you criticize Israel, you are called anti-Semitic. I want to break this discourse because I am an anti-Zionist Jewish,” said Jewish activist, Dalia Sarig-Fellner. The Austrian activist of Jewish origin is known for the effective demonstrations she organised in Austria to make the voice of the Palestinian people heard...
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Why massive pro-Palestine student movement is facing violent repression
Martin*, a research assistant at the University of Amsterdam, has a busted lip and bruises all over his body. He was caught up in the thick of things as Dutch police launched a violent crackdown on a pro-Palestine camp a few days ago – violent to the point that they...
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Legal experts debunk Israeli, US claims challenging ICC jurisdiction
For days now, there is growing speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is poised to issue arrest warrants against top Israeli officials for the ongoing war on Gaza. Most of the hype has been fuelled by Israel itself, first with regular reports by Israeli news outlets about increasing apprehension...
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Gaza protests on US campuses: Truman, TikTok, and time
Israeli writer and academic, A.B. Yehoshua’s short story, “Facing the Forests”, is an allegory about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Controversial when published in 1963, Yehoshua exposed the reality that Israel was constructed on territory taken from others: the “forest” of the story represents the Israeli state and society, and the...
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International Court of Justice severely limits the transfer of arms to Israel
On 30 April, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Order on Provisional Measures in the case concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nicaragua v. Germany). Two months earlier, Nicaragua had instituted proceedings before the ICJ because of Germany’s strong...
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Is WhatsApp putting Palestinians at risk of being killed in Gaza?
For decades, humans have lived with the prospect of a future where wars would be fought with so-called killer robots driven by technology that always seemed otherworldly. That is now a terrifying reality, given Israel’s use of artificial intelligence in its ongoing deadly assault on the Gaza Strip, documented in...
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Israel settlement activity 'illegal under international law, rooted in selective understanding of history': Italian historian
Israel’s outposts and settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory are “illegal under international law and have undermined the prospects for peace”, a prominent expert on the Middle East region has reiterated, as reports circulate of Israeli authorities trying to legalise dozens more settlements in the West Bank. The establishment of civilian...
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What we are seeing in Gaza is a ‘repeat of Auschwitz’ says genocide expert
What is happening in Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide”, according to a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar. Maung Zarni, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his life-long pro-democracy work and research on genocides, believes it is clear...
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US provides political protection for Israeli massacres: Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that tens of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip have been killed using US weapons, adding that Washington’s veto against the establishment of a Palestinian state at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) effectively provides political protection for Tel Aviv’s...
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The aftermath: Winners and losers in Iran retaliation against Israel
On 13 April, Iran responded to Israel’s 1 April bombardment of its Consulate in Damascus in which seven senior Revolutionary Guard members, including two generals, lost their lives. Iran’s retaliation, launched from its territory, involved dozens of UAVs and cruise missiles. Even though the ordnance was impressive numerically speaking,...
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'Days of blank cheques for Israel sort of done': Former US Army officer
With the number of those killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since 7 October last year recently surpassing 33,000, and the deaths last week of seven aid workers with food charity, World Central Kitchen, in an Israeli attack, the American public has been questioning US military support to Israel. Although...
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‘Pivotal moment’: Is Israel risking a regional war?
Israel’s Monday airstrike targeting an Iranian diplomatic mission in Syria has, once again, stirred tensions in the Middle East, raising concerns of an escalation and the spectre of a wider conflict in the region. At least 11 people were killed in the attack on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, among...
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Pro-Palestine group files legal cases for war crimes against dual nationality Israel soldiers
A pro-Palestine group based in Europe is ramping up its efforts for justice for victims of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, focusing particularly on legal action against soldiers in the Israeli military. More precisely, the “March 30 Movement” is going after Israeli soldiers who hold dual nationality of European nations. Since...
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US-based Jewish Voice for Peace sees progress on Gaza
Pro-peace groups in the US that have been advocating a ceasefire in Gaza for months view President Joe Biden’s recent demand for a temporary suspension of fighting as a sign of society’s growing influence on politics. Officials from the US-based anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) organisation, who have participated...
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‘Clear picture of support’: Why Australia lawyers want ICC to probe their PM for Gaza genocide
Earlier this week, Australian lawyers made history by referring Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) “as an accessory to genocide in Gaza”. The communication by more than 100 lawyers made him “the first leader of a Western nation to be referred to the ICC under Article...
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Calls for Gaza ceasefire grow globally amid shift in US stance
Appeals for an immediate ceasefire in the illegally blocked Gaza Strip are growing on a global scale while Israel’s aggression against the enclave continues. Amid the growing calls, both US President Joe Biden and Vice President, Kamala Harris, made on Sunday unprecedented remarks in which they urged an immediate ceasefire. “There’s...
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More political than effective: How do Gaza airdrops compare to aid via land?
The conversation about Gaza in recent days has been focused on Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon in its deadly war, and the trickle of aid being let through via airdrops. Countries like the US, Belgium, Egypt, Qatar, France, UAE, Jordan and the Netherlands have airdropped humanitarian aid meant...
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Israel kibbutz near Gaza says allegations of sexual abuse on 7 October 'not true': Report
Countering a controversial New York Times article on the 7 October attack by Hamas, an Israeli kibbutz located near the Gaza Strip strongly rebuffed allegations that two of its members had been sexually abused. According to a report by The Intercept online, Michal Paikin, a spokesperson for Kibbutz Be’eri, issued...
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‘Make sure Biden loses’: Michigan’s Arab, Muslim Democrats push for ‘uncommitted’ vote over Gaza
With both Republicans and Democrats in Michigan set for the state primaries on Tuesday, a significant factor for Joe Biden will be Arab and Muslim Americans and some progressive Democrats who have vowed to vote “uncommitted” to protest his administration’s Gaza policy. Michigan Representative, Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American serving...
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Suffering and survivor’s guilt: Doctor back from Gaza narrates Nasser Hospital ordeal
The Nasser Hospital in Gaza stopped functioning last week, following a siege by Israeli forces and a military raid that the UN says has turned it into “a place of death”. Thousands of displaced Palestinians who were sheltering at the Hospital in Gaza’s southern Khan Yunis city were forced to...