2023-05-05: News Headlines

Palestinian Heritage Committee (2023-05-05). Sunday 5/14: Palestinian Cultural Day. indybay.org James P. McEntee Plaza | Santa Clara County Government Center | 70 West Hedding Street | San José, CA 95110…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-04). Activists and rights groups in the UK slam police action on pro-Palestine protests. peoplesdispatch.org The Palestine Action solidarity group is in the middle of a week-long demonstration and sit-in campaign in front of a subsidiary of the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, UAV tactical systems, in the city of Leicester…

Staff (2023-05-04). 6 May, Book Launch: "The Trinity of Fundamentals" (English) with Wisam Rafeedie. samidoun.net Samidoun is one of many organizations endorsing the Palestinian Youth Movement's English language launch of the book by Wisam Rafeedie, "The Trinity of Fundamentals." Below is the announcement from PYM. PYM is also organizing several in-person watch parties — read their announcement for details! EVENT DETAILS: WHEN: Saturday, May 6th, 1-3pm ET, 8-10 Palestine Time. …




Staff (2023-05-04). Video: "The Canada Files" highlights Ottawa Liberation Conference and Zionist attacks. samidoun.net Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, spoke with The Canada Files' Editor-in-Chief Aidan Jonah about the Ottawa Liberation Conference (28-30 April) and attacks on it by Zionist organizations and mainstream media. Watch this video to learn about the planning process, the organizers' response to a National Post hit piece, what happened …

Anonymous (2023-05-04). Palestine in Pictures: April 2023. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-05-04). Israel kills four Palestinians in northern West Bank. electronicintifada.net Three Qassam Brigades operatives killed in Nablus raid.

Staff (2023-05-04). Video: "The Canada Files" highlights Ottawa Liberation Conference and Zionist attacks. samidoun.net Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, spoke with The Canada Files' Editor-in-Chief Aidan Jonah about the Ottawa Liberation Conference (28-30 April) and attacks on it by Zionist organizations and mainstream media. Watch this video to learn about the planning process, the organizers' response to a National Post hit piece, what happened …

Anonymous (2023-05-04). Palestine in Pictures: April 2023. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-05-04). Israel kills four Palestinians in northern West Bank. electronicintifada.net Three Qassam Brigades operatives killed in Nablus raid.

Staff (2023-05-04). "Automated Apartheid": How Israel Uses Facial Recognition to Track Palestinians & Control Movement. democracynow.org A new report by Amnesty International documents how the Israeli government is using an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. The findings are part of "Automated Apartheid," which reveals an ever-growing surveillance network of cameras in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and in East Jerusalem — two places in the Occupied Territories where Israeli settlements are expanding within Palestinian areas. "Surveillance has been ramping up as illegal settler activity has also been ramping up," says Amnesty researcher Matt Mahmoudi, who a…

Staff (2023-05-04). Headlines for May 4, 2023. democracynow.org Russian Shells Kill 23 in Kherson as Moscow Accuses Ukraine of Drone Attack on Kremlin, Israeli Soldiers Kill 3 Palestinians in Raid on Occupied Nablus, Rwanda Death Toll from Flooding and Landslides Rises to 136, Egypt Frees Al Jazeera Journalist Hisham Abdel Aziz After Four Years Behind Bars, Protesters Confront Blinken over Julian Assange Extradition and Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, Fed Chair Accused of "Aiming to Put People Out of Work" with Latest Interest Rate Hike, Police Arrest Wife of Texas Mass Shooter, Whom She Accused of Domestic Violence, Georgia Police Arrest Mass Shooting Suspect as Se…

Efia Nwangaza, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-05). COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Prisoners On The Agenda Of A UN Panel. popularresistance.org Greenville, SC – Atlanta's April 26th UN Delegation session, bearing the 2010 human rights campaign theme, "Putting COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Exiles on the Global Agenda," featured PP/POWs/Exiles in person, their relatives, and former co-defendants, has generated a buzz that will hopefully become a storm of sustained substantive activity for their release and relief. It seems to have had the humanizing effect our interned comrades, their relatives, and we longtime advocates could only conjure in our dreams. | Since 2010, with the visionary support of the U.S. Human Rig…

Abdallah al-Naami (2023-05-04). Israel attacks fishers at sea and in court. electronicintifada.net Gaza family is worried that its boat will be confiscated permanently.

Kathy Kelly (2023-05-04). Mapping All U.S. Military Bases, in Hopes of Closing Them. progressive.org A new online database, compiled by a Gaza conflict survivor, is a critical resource for intervening in the war machine.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-04). Israeli Strikes On Syria's Aleppo Hit Iranian Air Defenses, Hezbollah Equipment — Report. southfront.org An Israeli F-16 fighter jet en route to an exercise in Germany in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces) | The recent Israeli strikes on the northern Syrian governorate of Aleppo targeted Iranian-made air defense systems and military equipment destined to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, Al-Arabiya reported on May 4, citing informed sources. | The May 1 strikes targeted, according to the Saudi-owned news channel, Nairab military airport, which is located righ…

Anonymous765 (2023-05-04). Israel Steps Up Attacks On Syria. southfront.org |

Ramzy Baroud (2023-05-04). How European Cities are Breathing New Life into the BDS Movement. mintpressnews.com April saw a flurry of activity in European cities rapidly advancing their own boycott procedures against Israel, with Barcelona, Liège, and Oslo all chilling their relations with Israel's apartheid government.

Ali Abunimah (2023-05-04). Why the EU should honor, not shun, genocidal racist Itamar Ben-Gvir. electronicintifada.net Brussels shares the same values as the Jewish supremacist minister, even if it pretends otherwise.

Angela (2023-05-05). Sunday 5/7: Free virtual screening of the documentary film "Jews Step Forward" indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

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