Monthly Archives: May 2023

2023-05-28: News Headlines

Staff (2023-05-27). Resistance Festival today, Saturday 27 May, in Brussels, Belgium, welcomes Lowkey, Osloob, Raj'een, Achille and more! samidoun.net On Saturday, 27 May, Brussels, Belgium will be home to the Resistance Festival, a political, cultural and artistic festival in support of the Palestinian resistance and confronting 75 years of Nakba, occupation and racism. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, together with many Palestinian, Arab and international associations, is organizing the Resistance Festival in Bethlehem Square …

Staff (2023-05-27). Palestinian prisoners announce struggle steps to defend Ahmad Sa'adat, Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was ordered returned to isolation for an additional week by the Zionist prison administration, in retaliation for writing a political article. This came after Sa'adat, along with fellow leaders Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh and Walid Hanatsheh, were to be released …

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-27). Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault. popularresistance.org

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-05-27). Global solidarity event in Lebanon: Palestine is the cause of all. plenglish.com The participants of the event discussed the confrontation with the ambitions of the West and the United States, the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the urgency of moving towards a multipolar order. | The positions of solidarity towards Palestine on the part of intellectuals, popular communicators, academics and journalists focused on strengthening unity, rejecting normalization of relations with Israel, and demanding greater condemnation from the international community. | Lisandro Brusco, militant of the Movimiento Amplio de Izquierda-Rosario of Argentina, stressed the need to strengthen the resistance…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-05-27). Settlers burn Palestinian village, deliver Israel's arsonist agenda. electronicintifada.net Netanyahu's extreme-right government passes pro-settlement budget.

Michael Arria (2023-05-27). PayPal Upholds Its Discriminatory Ban on Palestinians Amid Pressure Campaign. truthout.org PayPal has upheld its ban on Palestinians living in the occupied territories. While Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are prohibited from using the service, Israeli settlers are allowed to use the digital payment platform. The company's decision comes days after eleven Democratic House members called on PayPal to expand its services to Palestinians. The letter was delivered at the company's… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-27). Around 200 Palestinians forcefully displaced from West Bank village by Israel. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian inhabitants of the Ein Samiya village in the Jordan Valley were forced to leave their homes due to sustained violence by Israeli forces and settlers. Many have termed this an act of ethnic cleansing…

Rania Khalek (2023-05-27). How China's Rise Has the Middle East Declaring Independence from US, w/ Ali Abunimah. thealtworld.com It's a new era of global power dynamics where countries sometimes have the option to say no to the U.S. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Middle East. | Almost 12 years after being kicked out of the Arab League, Syria has been welcomed back into the fold by many of the U.S.-allied countries that tried to destroy it. | All this time Israel was banking on normalization with Saudi Arabia and the opposite happened, with China overseeing a Saudi peace deal with Iran. | Why? What does this multipolarity mean for the region? And how might it impact Palestine and the broader resistance axis? | To discuss this and…

scorinoco (2023-05-27). Uruguay: It Is Time for Self-Criticism. orinocotribune.com By María Landi — May 19, 2023 | On May 15, the 75th anniversary of Nakba, the ethnic cleansing that destroyed Palestine and established the State of Israel on its ruins was commemorated with events, marches and activities around the world, including in Latin America. In Uruguay, however, the date went unnoticed in institutions and civil society [1]. It is a paradox that in Uruguay, May is the Month of Memory, and that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the civic-military coup, and at the same time, in Uruguay the Nakba continues to be, three-quarters of a century later, a memory denied, silenced, ignore…

Staff (2023-05-27). Around 200 Palestinians leave their homes in Jordan Valley due to violence by Israeli forces and settlers. peoplesdispatch.org Around 200 Palestinians, including 78 children, who were living in the village of Ein Samiya packed their belongings and left for good earlier this week to avoid the constant violence unleashed by illegal Israeli settlers and occupation forces. Activists have termed it yet another instance of ethnic cleansing. The Palestinians have been living in the …

Unicorn Riot (2023-05-27). Palestinian Khader Adnan Dies on Hunger Strike in Israeli Prison. unicornriot.ninja

WUFJEP (2023-05-27). Friday 5/26: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…

Editor (2023-05-28). 'Not on Our Dime': Why Democrats are Finally Challenging Israel. scheerpost.com By Ramzy Baroud / MintPressNews Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed 'unbreakable bond' with Tel Aviv is faltering, though more in language than in deeds. Following the provocative 'Flag March' on May 18, which is carried out annually by Israeli Jewish extremists in the …

electronicintifada.net (2023-05-27). How Israel helped bring down Jeremy Corbyn. electronicintifada.net The story of how a hostile foreign government helped stop a socialist becoming Britain's prime minister.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-27). After Inviting Syrian President, UAE Invites Israeli Prime Minister To UN Climate Summit. southfront.org Public domain brand logo for COP28 UAE. | On May 23, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) invited Israel to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP28. | Mohamed Al Khaja, the UAE's ambassador to Israel, delivered letters of invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog on behalf of President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. | COP28 will be held at Dubai's Expo City from November 30 through December 12. According to t…

Fight Back (2023-05-27). Minnesotans testify to State Board of Investment to urge divestment from Israel. fightbacknews.org St. Paul, MN – The Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) meets quarterly to review investment reports and to hear from the public. Normally the meetings start around 10 a.m., but on May 25 the SBI started their meeting over three hours late. The Executive Board, which includes Governor Tim Walz, Secretary of State Steve Simon, Attorney General Keith Ellison and State Auditor Julie Blaha, heard testimony concerning taconite mining leases until after 1 p.m. | By the time the governor acknowledged the SBI meeting, most of the people who had come for the public meeting had been turned away due to the meeting bein…

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-27). These Israeli Youth Are Burning Their Draft Orders. popularresistance.org

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-27). U.S. Government Hopes Netanyahu Will Broker Ukraine War's Settlement. theduran.com

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2023-05-27: News Headlines

WUFJEP (2023-05-27). Friday 5/26: Free Palestine! indybay.org Israeli Consulate | 456 Montgomery | San Francisco…

Luis Linares Petrov (2023-05-27). Global solidarity event in Lebanon: Palestine is the cause of all. plenglish.com The participants of the event discussed the confrontation with the ambitions of the West and the United States, the centrality of the Palestinian cause and the urgency of moving towards a multipolar order. | The positions of solidarity towards Palestine on the part of intellectuals, popular communicators, academics and journalists focused on strengthening unity, rejecting normalization of relations with Israel, and demanding greater condemnation from the international community. | Lisandro Brusco, militant of the Movimiento Amplio de Izquierda-Rosario of Argentina, stressed the need to strengthen the resistance…

ecsorinoco (2023-05-26). Palestinian Resistance's Tactical Triumph: Missiles Multiply Despite Losses. orinocotribune.com In its These targeted killings sought to weaken the PIJ's leadership structure and disrupt the organization's command and control. However, despite these setbacks, the PI…

Fight Back (2023-05-26). Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela visits San Francisco as part of Nakba 75 Tour. fightbacknews.org San Francisco, CA — On May 19, around 100 people gathered in San Francisco State University's Knuth Hall for the San Francisco leg of the Mandela Nakba 75 Tour. It featured the Honorable Chief Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela and member of the Parliament of South Africa. | The tour was co-hosted by the US Palestinian Community Network and the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, and had already visited Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and Orange County. | San Francisco State University Assistant Professor in Race and Resistance Studies Rama Ali Kased emceed the eve…

Gideon Polya (2023-05-26). Censorship of Indigenous Australians and Palestinians, Stan Grant, Julian Assange, and Truth Tellers. dissidentvoice.org Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was recently driven to resign from the ABC (the tax-payer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by a flood of devastating racist abuse after he participated in a frank and truthful ABC discussion of the British Crown and genocidal colonialism on …

Palestine Action. (2023-05-26). Palestine Action Blockade Leicester's Israeli Weapons Factory. popularresistance.org On the 24th day of Palestine Action's siege against Leicester's Israeli Elbit factory — UAV Tactical Systems, another blockade has successfully locked down the company's only entrance gates in the early hours of this morning. | An immovable vehicle and two Palestine Actionists have locked-on in the road outside the perimeter fence, evading their paramilitary-style security workforce, the site's surveillance cameras, and inhibiting the company's ability to open by blocking staff entry. | In Leicester, and in Elbit's 7 other remaining sites in Britain, weaponry is being manufactured and exported to Israel.

Editor (2023-05-26). 'There Is No Safe Place in Gaza': Palestinians Speak Out During Israeli Assault. scheerpost.com

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-26). Several US Congress members sign letter criticizing Paypal for discriminating against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org The letter addressed to Paypal CEO Dan Schulman claimed that the company was discriminating against Palestinians by banning them from using its services, while allowing illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank to use their digital payments platform…

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-05-26). ONU denuncia violencia israelí contra asentamientos palestinos. telesurtv.net Los palestinos se ven forzados, en muchas ocasiones, a abandonar su tierra debido a las condiciones adversas de vida bajo el régimen de ocupación israelí.

Maddi Johnson (2023-05-26). Nakba in Portland Solidarity with Palestine. workers.org Portland, Oregon U.S. imperialism was in the crosshairs of the Nakba event in Portland on May 21. Speeches and signs alike identified U.S. weapons and money as the critical factor that allows Israel to perpetrate genocide and apartheid on the Palestinian people. Credit: Sarah Kowaleski Speakers, including those from organizers . . . |

MEE staff (2023-05-26). West Bank: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and torch vehicles. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2023-05-26). West Bank: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in Hebron settlement. middleeasteye.net

Shir Hever (2023-05-26). Hostile ideologies: Hindutva and Zionism march hand in hand. electronicintifada.net Azad Essa's new book, Hostile Homelands, examines why the Indian government shifted its views on Palestine in favor of an alliance with Israel.

Staff (2023-05-26). "Are you an anti-Palestinian racist?" youtube.com "Why can't you answer the question: are you an anti-Palestinian racist?" Canadian activist Yves Engler confronts Justin Trudeau's close adviser Stephen Bronfman on Thursday, challenging his support for Israel. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews

Kit Klarenberg (2023-05-26). Spotify odds stacked against Lowkey. electronicintifada.net Looby pressure and board links to Israeli military portents of censorship but rapper not intimidated.

PACBI (2023-05-26). Activists Put Focus on PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid at 75th Anniversary Shareholders Meeting. bdsmovement.net

Shir Hever (2023-05-26). Israeli protests expose divisions in the military. electronicintifada.net Netanyahu exploits army split to weaken protests against him.

Anonymous669 (2023-05-26). Hezbollah Secretary-General Threatens Israel With 'Grand War'. southfront.org Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah during his annual Resistance and Liberation Day speech. Via Al-Manar TV. | On May 25, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel with a "grand war," in response to recent warnings to Lebanon from officials in Tel Aviv. | In his annual Resistance and Liberation Day speech, which marks the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon 23 years ago, Nasrallah said Israeli leaders should "be careful and not make wrong calculations." | Israel…

Ali Abunimah (2023-05-26). Biden launches new plan to censor criticism of Israel. electronicintifada.net Federal government's "anti-Semitism" strategy receives warm welcome from Israel lobby.

Aseel Mousa (2023-05-26). Women with breast cancer denied treatment by Israel. electronicintifada.net Blockade causes nightmares for medical patients.

MEE staff (2023-05-26). US: White House reveals plan to combat antisemitism amid criticism. middleeasteye.net US: White House reveals plan to combat antisemitism amid criticism | While plan was made in response to rise in antisemitism, it includes various references to US commitment to Israel | Fri, 05/26/2023 – 17: 25 | US President Joe Biden speaking at event in the Rose Garden of the White House, on 25 May 2023 (AFP) | The White House released a new plan to combat antisemitism, which it said reaffirmed "the Unit…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-05-26). NY bill would stop charities from funding Israeli crimes. electronicintifada.net State-registered groups send at least $60 million a year to Israeli settler organizations.

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