2023-05-17: News Headlines

Monica Moorehead (2023-05-17). On Nakba anniversary: Global protests show solidarity with Palestine. workers.org To mark the 75th anniversary of Nakba (The Disaster), global protests took place this past weekend. The actions commemorate the day, when on May 15, 1948, the new Zionist state of Israel began its brutal removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from their rightful lands. This genocide continues . . . |

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-17). End the 'Memoricide': Planting for Nakba Day. orinocotribune.com By Lois Griffiths — May 15, 2023 | May 15, Nakba Day, is an important date for the Palestinian people. It's the day when Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture. While Israeli nationalists and Zionist supporters celebrate the forming in 1948 of the State of Israel, the 'Birth' of Israel, Palestinians remember the Nakba, the catastrophe, ie, what was done to the indigenous people. | It's a memory that the Israeli regime has tried to outlaw, to erase. Decades ago Israel deliberately renamed, ie 'Hebrewized ', villages and geographical locations. Some destroyed villages were covered over with p…

Angela (2023-05-17). Wednesday 5/17: Knowing The Nakba: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine to Create the State of Israel. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Angela (2023-05-17). Saturday 5/20: Virtual Opening Ceremony – From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

Michael Veronda Hazou, In These Times. (2023-05-17). Last Year Was The Deadliest For Palestinians In Almost Two Decades. popularresistance.org The year 2022 was the deadliest on record for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2005, which marked the end of the Second Intifada and was also when the United Nations began systematically recording deaths. | This year could be much worse. | On April 4, Mariam Barghouti, senior Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss, announced on Twitter: "üö®üö®üö®BREAKING: there's a full fledged slaughter happening in Palestine. Three months. 95 Palestinians killed since January." | About two weeks earlier, Barghouti had tweeted: "88 killed…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-05-16). Netanyahu's Tactical Mistake: A Fragmented Israel Faces Palestinian Unity. mintpressnews.com All Israeli wars on the Palestinians throughout the years have been promoted and justified by Tel Aviv in the name of 'security' and 'fighting terrorism.' | Israel's biggest challenge throughout many of these wars was hardly the Palestinian Resistance, however steadfast and resilient. The challenge has always been Tel Aviv's ability to Israel has been losing the public relations batt…

Rayhan Uddin (2023-05-16). Nakba: Britain and the Secret 1948 Palestine Memos. globalresearch.ca

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-16). Palestinians mark 75th anniversary of Nakba, call for Israel's suspension from UN. peoplesdispatch.org For the first time, the United Nations marked Nakba and the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians during the founding of Israel in 1948. However, the US, Canada, and some EU countries chose not to participate on Israel's request…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-16). 'We Left Everything Behind' — The Nakba at 75. orinocotribune.com By Yasmin Abusayma — May 15, 2023 | Between 750,000 and a million Palestinians were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias in 1947-49, never to be allowed back. | Hundreds of villages and towns were destroyed, thousands were killed, many of them in massacres that terrorized Palestine's native population. | Seventy-five years later, many of that first generation have died. But some are still alive to tell stories of the Nakba — Arabic for catastrophe. | Fatima Abu Dayya, 82, was 7 when her family was forced to flee their village of Yibna, which was seized by Zionists in 1948. Yibna is 15 km southwest of…

Staff (2023-05-16). Munther Khalaf Mufleh transferred to interrogation after isolation of fellow imprisoned leaders. samidoun.net On Tuesday, 16 May, Israeli prison administration transferred Palestinian prisoner Munther Khalaf Mufleh to interrogation, one week after they invaded Ramon prison and transferred Ahmad Sa'adat, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh and Walid Hanatsheh to interrogation. The three leaders are still being held isolated in interrogation at this moment. This comes one day after the Palestinian prisoners' …

Staff (2023-05-16). Video: Resisting the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in Germany. samidoun.net In this new video, Samidoun Deutschland provides a visual overview of the ongoing work for Palestine in Germany, from postering in the streets, to banner actions, to mass demonstrations — and the attacks by police, particularly in Berlin, also home to likely the largest Palestinian community in Europe. This video comes following the Berlin police's …

_____ (2023-05-16). When Hollywood Cared About Chemical Spills. strategic-culture.org The East Palestine disaster was a sad sequel to Silkwood. | By Peter TONGUETTE | Suppose a toxic train wreck happened and no one cared. Something like that recently happened in East Palestine, Ohio, where in February a Norfolk Southern train carrying all manner of noxious chemicals derailed. Neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris deemed it necessary to pay a morale-boosting visit, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg eventually put in an obligatory appearance only on the heels of the arrival in town of Donald Trump—who remains the highest-profile figure to express, in person, a level of care and conc…

_____ (2023-05-16). Russia's Maria Zakharova Punching Downwards at NATO Simpleton Ursula von der Leyen. strategic-culture.org At day's end, we must choose one of two sides, the side of those, like the Palestinians and Russian speakers who resist, or of those who rob and murder them. |

teleSUR, DRL (2023-05-16). Ejército israelí asesina a otro joven palestino en Nablus. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas de ocupación también irrumpieron en el campo de refugiados de Aqabat Jaber, en la ciudad de Areeha, y en la zona de Silat Al-Harithiya, al oeste de Yenín.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-05-16). Prisioneros palestinos en cárceles israelíes realizan huelga de hambre. telesurtv.net Esta medida de los reos es en protesta por las políticas represivas en las cárceles de Israel, que mantiene a cientos de palestinos prisioneros.

Staff (2023-05-16). Hoy en la Mesa Redonda: El pueblo palestino frente al éxodo y la agresión. mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu El pueblo palestino ha conmemorado, como cada año, el día de la Nakba (la catástrofe) , con el que recuerdan el inicio del éxodo que sobrevino tras la creación del estado de Israel. Se celebra el 15 de mayo y es la fecha conmemorativa más importante del calendario palestino, marcado con protestas y celebraciones también en otros lugares fuera de Palestina.

midwesternmarx (2023-05-16). "Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages" By: Peoples Dispatch. midwesternmarx.com The International People's Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians' continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel ​Around 800,000 people are believed to have been displaced during the Nakba in 1948. Today's Israel is built over the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages which were destroyed by Zionist militias during Israel's formation in 1948, said professor and …

Haidar Eid (2023-05-16). Israel views children's lives as irrelevant. electronicintifada.net Lobbyist Maurice Hirsch tries to excuse the bombing of Gaza's civilians.

Labor Video Project (2023-05-17). On 75th Anniversary of Nakba Speak Out In SF While SF Mayor In Israel Supporting Zionists. indybay.org On the 75th anniversary of Nabka, a rally was held in San Francisco. Speakers talked about SF mayor London Breed's visit to Israel to support the apartheid Zionist regime and the continued police murders of Black youth in the City by her police.

Andy Kroll (2023-05-16). China and the Axis of the Sanctioned. tomdispatch.com A photo Beijing released on March 6th of Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a seismic shock in Washington. There was the Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party standing between Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, and Saudi National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban. They were awkwardly shaking hands on an agreement to reestablish mutual diplomatic ties. That picture should have brought to mind a 1993 photo of President Bill Clinton hosting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn as they agreed to the Oslo Acco…

Hekmat Aboukhater (2023-05-16). Immiserated, humiliated, yet resilient: how Syrians survive America's economic siege. thegrayzone.com Syrian-American journalist Hekmat Aboukhater traveled across Homs, Lattakia, Tartous, and Aleppo this April, reporting for The Grayzone on the devastating impact of Western economic sanctions on average Syrians. Throughout 2023, a series of anti-Syrian refugee bills, a failing economy, and anti-Syrian rhetoric have deepened the plight of the two million Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. Hate crimes against Syrians suspected of living in the country illegally have skyrocketed, while at least 130 refugees have been deported. Weekly Israeli strikes have …

Rick Rozoff (2023-05-16). Montenegro: join NATO, subsidize Israeli arms manufacturers. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense NewsMay 16, 2023 Israel's Elbit to supply Montenegro with vehicle-mounted mortar system Israel and Montenegro entered into a government-to-government contract that will see Israel's Elbit Systems supply mortar systems and training equipment to the Balkan nation. The deal, valued at ‚Ǩ20 million (U.S. $21.8 million), is the latest between the two countries. In 2019 …

Ramona Wadi (2023-05-16). The symbolic Nakba commemoration at the UN exposed Israel's hatred of the truth. thealtworld.com "The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive,"

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2023-05-16: News Headlines

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-05-16). 'We Left Everything Behind' — The Nakba at 75. orinocotribune.com By Yasmin Abusayma — May 15, 2023 | Between 750,000 and a million Palestinians were forcibly displaced by Zionist militias in 1947-49, never to be allowed back. | Hundreds of villages and towns were destroyed, thousands were killed, many of them in massacres that terrorized Palestine's native population. | Seventy-five years later, many of that first generation have died. But some are still alive to tell stories of the Nakba — Arabic for catastrophe. | Fatima Abu Dayya, 82, was 7 when her family was forced to flee their village of Yibna, which was seized by Zionists in 1948. Yibna is 15 km southwest of…

teleSUR, DRL (2023-05-16). Ejército israelí asesina a otro joven palestino en Nablus. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas de ocupación también irrumpieron en el campo de refugiados de Aqabat Jaber, en la ciudad de Areeha, y en la zona de Silat Al-Harithiya, al oeste de Yenín.

teleSUR, JCM (2023-05-16). Prisioneros palestinos en cárceles israelíes realizan huelga de hambre. telesurtv.net Esta medida de los reos es en protesta por las políticas represivas en las cárceles de Israel, que mantiene a cientos de palestinos prisioneros.


Staff (2023-05-15). Ongoing Catastrophe: Israel Threatens New Mass Expulsions as Palestinians, U.N. Mark 75th Nakba Anniversary. democracynow.org Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe" in Arabic), when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled from their homes upon Israel's founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop this weekend after the Israeli army and the militant group Islamic Jihad agreed to a Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. Today the United Nations is holding its first-ever high-level special meeting to commemorate the Nakba. We host a roundtable discussion wit…

Staff (2023-05-15). Headlines for May 15, 2023. democracynow.org Turkish Elections Head to Runoff as Pres. Erdoƒüan Fails to Capture 50% of Vote Against Kilicdaroglu, Thai Voters Back Reform Parties in Sharp Rebuke to Monarchy and Military Gov't, Ukraine Makes Gains in Bakhmut as European Leaders Up Military Support for Zelensky, Israel and Gaza Fighters Agree to Truce After 5 Days of Fighting Kills 33 Palestinians, Powerful Cyclone Kills at Least 6 People in Burma, Destroys Rohingya Refugee Shelters, Death Toll from Kenyan Starvation Cult Tops 200, Including Many Children, Guatemalan Newspaper El Periódico Shutters After Persecution by Giammattei Gov't,…

Canadians for Justice, Peace in the Middle East (2023-05-15). Today is 75 Years of the Nakba. dissidentvoice.org Today we mark the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic), the expulsion, destruction, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine associated with the creation of Israel in 1948. The Nakba is a process that has never ended. Today, CJPME stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Canada and around the world and reaffirms its …


Amy Goodman (2023-05-15). UN Needs to Reexamine Its Strategy for Ending Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe" in Arabic), when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled from their homes upon Israel's founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop this weekend after the Israeli army and the… |

Anonymous103 (2023-05-15). Military Situation In The Gaza Strip On May 15, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 9, the Israeli regime started an operation AKA "Shield and Arrow" against Gaza by assassinating three high-level commanders of Al-Quds Brigades; | 33 Palestinians were killed and 190 others were wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip; | One Israeli was killed and 77 others were wounded by the Palestinians rocket attacks on the occupied territories; | On May 13, Israel and Islamic Jihad movement have agreed to declare a truce ending five days…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. libya360.wordpress.com Mnar Adley In 1999, South African anti-apartheid activist and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela visited Gaza and said, "We know too well our freedom is not complete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Since his death in 2013, Mandela's unifying message of decolonization reverberated across the globe. The anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggle that he led to end…

Amy Goodman (2023-05-15). UN Needs to Reexamine Its Strategy for Ending Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org Palestinians across the globe are marking the 75th anniversary of the Nakba ("catastrophe" in Arabic), when some 700,000 Palestinians fled from or were violently expelled from their homes upon Israel's founding in 1948. The occasion comes as five days of fighting, that killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and two people in Israel, was brought to a stop this weekend after the Israeli army and the… |

Anonymous103 (2023-05-15). Military Situation In The Gaza Strip On May 15, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On May 9, the Israeli regime started an operation AKA "Shield and Arrow" against Gaza by assassinating three high-level commanders of Al-Quds Brigades; | 33 Palestinians were killed and 190 others were wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip; | One Israeli was killed and 77 others were wounded by the Palestinians rocket attacks on the occupied territories; | On May 13, Israel and Islamic Jihad movement have agreed to declare a truce ending five days…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-15). Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. libya360.wordpress.com Mnar Adley In 1999, South African anti-apartheid activist and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela visited Gaza and said, "We know too well our freedom is not complete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Since his death in 2013, Mandela's unifying message of decolonization reverberated across the globe. The anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggle that he led to end…

Michel Moushabeck (2023-05-15). The Nakba Didn't End in 1948. It Continues to Impact Palestinians Daily. truthout.org Seventy-five years ago today, the Jewish state of Israel was established and the Palestinian state of despair and homelessness began. Palestinians refer to this day as "al-Nakba," the catastrophe that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of nearly 750,000 natives and the destruction of more than 500 Palestinian villages and towns. May 15, 1948, is a date forever etched in the collective memory of… |

Palestinian Youth Movement (2023-05-15). Palestinian history doesn't start with the Nakba. peoplesdispatch.org This year marks 75 years since the

Sam Carliner, Left Voice. (2023-05-15). 75 Years Of Israeli Violence Against Palestinians. popularresistance.org Over the last week, Israel has launched yet another round of bombings on Gaza. The attacks have destroyed civilian infrastructure and killed at least 31 Palestinians, many of them women and children. This terror is not the exception, but the rule of Israel's history. | 75 years ago, the apartheid state of Israel began its decades-long history of oppressing, occupying, and killing the Palestinian people. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their homes at gunpoint, and to this day are fighting for the right to return. Israel has only taken more Palestinian land since the original expulsion in…

Sameena Rahman (2023-05-15). 75 years of al-Nakba: Palestinian struggle continues against Israeli apartheid. liberationnews.org The resistance by the Palestinian people has not let up, and the struggle is joined by more and more people with each passing year.

Staff (2023-05-15). Outrageous assault on Palestinian speech at Hunter College — CUNY: Take action today. samidoun.net On 15 May — the commemoration of 75 years of ongoing Nakba — CUNY administration at Hunter College announced that they were censoring an event by the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, for the outrageous reason that Nerdeen Kiswani, CUNY alumna, chair of Within Our Lifetime — United For Palestine, and 2022 CUNY Law School graduation speaker, …

teleSUR, ACH, JGN, SH (2023-05-15). Palestinos recuerdan el Día de la Nakba o catástrofe palestina. telesurtv.net El día de la Nakba hace referencia al 15 de mayo de 1948 cuando inició el éxodo forzado del pueblo palestino, como consecuencia de la creación del Estado de Israel.

Fight Back (2023-05-15). Brooklyn commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. fightbacknews.org Brooklyn, NY — Several hundred gathered on Saturday, May 13 in Bay Ridge, commonly known as "Little Palestine," to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. | The protest was called by Within Our Lifetime and was endorsed by several anti-imperialist organizations in New York. The afternoon began at 2 p.m. with face painting, music and vendors selling items to attendees. Despite the family-friendly atmosphere, the NYPD brought out a large number of officers trying to curtail the activities. | After a series of chants by Nerdeen Kiswani, Rude Mechanical Orchestra kept spirits militant and energized by…

Fight Back (2023-05-15). March on Senator Ron Johnson's office in Milwaukee to demand end to U.S. aid to Israel. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On May 13, two days before the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, over 50 community members and activists from different organizations gathered in downtown Milwaukee to demand an end to the on-going genocide of Palestinians and to put a stop to all U.S. aid to Israel. The assembled crowd chanted things like "Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's war crimes!" and "Free, free Palestine! Long live Palestine!" Signs declaring support for the cause of Palestinian liberation were prevalent throughout, and members of the Milwaukee Anti-war Committee (MAC) held a 30-foot long banner…

Jeremy Corbyn (2023-05-15). Jeremy Corbyn: Unite to end the Nakba. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in On 15 May, Palestinians will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, their violent eviction from their homes and their land by Israeli forces. Nakba means catastrophe — and how else could you describe the ethnic cleansing of two-thirds of t…

Mansa Musa (2023-05-15). Khader Adnan's martyrdom and Israel's abuse of Palestinian prisoners. therealnews.com The death of Khader Adnan in Israeli detention during a hunger strike on May 2 of this year sparked mourning worldwide and a general strike in occupied Palestine. The 45-year-old Adnan was on his 87th day of hunger strike while serving a sentence for his 12th arrest by the Israeli state at the time of his death. A baker by trade and a father to nine children, Adnan was the first Palestinian to die of hunger strike in an Israeli prison since 1992. As a spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Adnan first captured the world's attention when he launched a hunger strike from behind bars in 2011, sparking a g…

ecns.cn (2023-05-15). Lasting peace urged amid Israel-Palestine cease-fire. ecns.cn An Egypt-brokered cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip has raised hopes of easing the humanitarian disaster of Palestinians, but finding a lasting peace should be the focus for the region, analysts said.

krish-rad_ind (2023-05-15). 'You're Also a Suspect': I Was Beaten and Detained for Supporting Palestinians. progressive.org

Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. (2023-05-15). Nkosi Mandela On South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid. popularresistance.org In 1999, South African anti-apartheid activist and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela visited Gaza and said, "We know too well our freedom is not complete without the freedom of the Palestinians." | Since his death in 2013, Mandela's unifying message of decolonization reverberated across the globe. The anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggle that he led to end racial segregation and transform South Africa into a democratic nation has been lauded by Palestinians, who have drawn parallels between Israeli occupation and apartheid to the situation that Black South Africans faced. | Joining Mnar Adley for this week's…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-15). "Israel Is Built on the Ruins of Hundreds of Palestinian Villages" globalresearch.ca

Staff (2023-05-15). As the world marks 75 years of the Nakba, people come out in support of Palestinians. thecanary.co In 2023, Israel's meting-out of the Nakba against Palestinians has been ongoing for 75 years. Even in recent days, Israeli forces have killed dozens of people in the Occupied Territories. So, across the world, Palestinians and their supporters marked the continuing "catastrophe" with a show of resistance. The Nakba: 75 years and counting As Al …

Haidar Eid (2023-05-16). Israel views children's lives as irrelevant. electronicintifada.net Lobbyist Maurice Hirsch tries to excuse the bombing of Gaza's civilians.

Staff (2023-05-15). Esta tarde, Mesa Redonda "Comenzando la Semana" mesaredonda.cubadebate.cu El resultado de las elecciones presidenciales en Turquía y los recientes ataques israelíes contra Gaza serán los temas fundamentales de la Mesa Redonda de este lunes.

Tareq S. Hajjaj (2023-05-15). Gaza refugees still dream of return. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in Farah Ejlah, 22, sits in her small crafts shop in Gaza City, where she sells handmade accessories and trinkets. Most of Ejlah's crafts are related to a place called Beer al-Sabe' (Beersheba), in the Naqab desert, 41 kilometers north of Gaza. | Farah was born and raised in Gaza and has never left the small coastal enclave. But when she dreams, she dreams of Beer al-Sabe'. For Farah, Ga…

Labor Video Project (2023-05-16). On 75th Anniversary of Nakba Speak Out In SF While SF Mayor In Israel Supporting Zionists. indybay.org On the 75th anniversary of Nabka, a rally was held in San Francisco. Speakers talked about SF mayor London Breed's visit to Israel to support the apartheid Zionist regime and the continued police murders of Black youth in the City by her police.

Marwa Osman (2023-05-15). Chaos in Sudan- MES EP.207. thealtworld.com Although the declared truce in Sudan held relatively for a period of three days, it did not prevent the spread of fighting and chaos throughout the country, especially in the capital, Khartoum, and the state of West Darfur. | The scene indicates that the specter of the darker scenarios has not yet passed, despite the possibility for negotiation, in light of the conflicting and changing positions of the warring parties, while maintaining the same negativity towards each other. | Meanwhile in Israel, a top general of the Israeli occupation army has expressed concern over the soaring number of suicides among Israeli…

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