Palestine

By Simon Hooper
Published date: 25 April 2025 15:17 BST

"“We stand with all those in Israel-Palestine seeking to bring about a just and lasting peace. We share in their call for an end to the bombing; an end to the siege; and the safe release of the hostages.”

The rabbis' intervention appears to hint at growing frustration and impatience within British Jewish communities towards the staunchly pro-Israel stance and claims to leadership of conservative Jewish institutions such as the Board of Deputies.

Signatories of the letter include prominent figures within both Reform Judaism and Liberal Judaism."

Imagine 18 months into the ongoing genocide, they still repeat the lies that were proven to be false, again.

This is from a anti Trump Blue MAGA "progressive" woman in the US.

I just can't even...

#BlueMAGA #october7 #Lies #Propaganda #Israel #BlueSky #Gaza #Genocide #Politics #USpol

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Killing of Gaza Aid Workers: IDF Troops Fired Indiscriminately for Over Three Minutes, Some at Point-blank Range - Haaretz (2025-04-23)

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-23/ty-article/.premium/killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-idf-troops-fired-indiscriminately-for-over-three-minutes/00000196-6202-dd34-abfe-7b6f957e0000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.04.23-112019/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-23/ty-article/.premium/killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-idf-troops-fired-indiscriminately-for-over-three-minutes/00000196-6202-dd34-abfe-7b6f957e0000
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"The deputy commander of the Sayeret Golani force, a #reservist officer who was commanding the force, decided on his own initiative to alter the mission assigned to him and instructed the entire force to prepare to fire on the ambulance that was approaching the ambush site."

#paramedics #warCrime #CrimeAgainstHumanity
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Training for #NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols (Jewish Currents, 2025-04-24)

https://jewishcurrents.org/training-nypd-keffiyeh-watermelon-antisemitism-israel-palestine
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>> a training on combating antisemitism [led by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (POE)] ... [alleged] to teach the police “how to recognize and address antisemitism in its many contemporary forms”... ” But the presentation itself, ... was in large part concerned with pro-Palestine activism, casting the Palestine solidarity movement as a significant threat to Jewish safety ... The training, which focused heavily on student protesters, repeatedly conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism. It categorized campus demonstrators as extremists tied to Hamas, and branded as antisemitic Palestinian symbols like the watermelon and the keffiyeh, as well as phrases such as “settler colonialism” and “all eyes on Rafah.”

> to be cont.
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The president of the university, which recently had more than $1 billion in funding frozen by the Trump administration, said that Kehlani “has espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media

By Matthew Strauss April 24, 2025

Brett Wilkins Apr 23, 2025

"Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the Michigan homes of pro-Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza."

UN warns of ‘dangerously low’ food supplies in Gaza due to Israeli siege

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/30297

#Israel is using #starvation for #genocide: leave or die.

Israel
Starves
Refugees
And
Eliminates
Life

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#warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide

Bombing tents, targeting journalists, killing families: just a normal day for the terror state of Israel.

"Al-Aqsa Radio journalist Saeed Abu Hassanein was killed along with his wife and daughter when their tent was bombed by Israel."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250424-israel-kills-another-palestinian-journalist-and-his-family/

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#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #journalism #news #media #warcrimes #Genocide #family

Pro-Palestinian protesters confront Israeli National Security Minister [Ben Gvir] as he leaves event near Yale | CNN (2025-04-23)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/us/yale-university-protest-israel-gaza/index.html
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>> Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was confronted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New Haven, Connecticut, Wednesday night ...

>> “Water bottles were thrown” at Ben Gvir, his office said, when the far-right minister exited a building in front of protesters following a speech he gave at Shabtai, a private Jewish society at Yale, not officially affiliated with the university.

>> Earlier Wednesday evening as the event began, protesters crowded the sidewalk outside the gated building...

>> Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators also gathered at Yale University Tuesday night to protest Ben Gvir’s visit.

>> A #Yale spokesperson told CNN an “unregistered group” of 200 people not “affiliated with any recognized student organization” gathered Tuesday ...

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Israeli Occupation Forces rearrested freed Palestinian detainee Hanan Barghouti, known as "Um Enad," during a wide-scale raid early Wednesday in the village of Kobar, north of Ramallah, according to Roya's correspondent.

Barghouti was previously released in December 2024 after spending nine months in administrative detention without formal charges. Her re-arrest signals a return to Israel’s practice of arbitrary detention.

Barghouti is one of the most prominent women in the Palestinian detainee movement.

Displaced children living in a camp set up next to a landfill in the Yarmouk area of Gaza City on 22 March.
(📸 Omar Ashtawy / APA images)
From the Palestine in Pictures: March 2025 feature, a monthly digest of key developments in Palestine showcasing powerful images by photojournalists. Read here: https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-march-2025/50566

#Gaza #Children #Despair #Orphans #Hunger #Catastrophe #Genocide #Israel #Politics

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By Simon Hooper
Published date: 23 April 2025 13:51 BST

"Mark Etkind, co-organiser of a network of “#Holocaust survivors and descendants against the Gaza genocide”, whose members have regularly attended pro-#Palestinian protests in London, said it was imperative too for campaigners in the #UK to keep up pressure on the #British government to end its support for Israel and to halt arms exports to the country.

“There’s just an absolutely massive burden of responsibility on everyone, especially those of us with a Holocaust survivor background, to speak out. I can’t think of a better commemoration for the six million,” said Etkind."

Why Israel Fears the Faces of Dead Palestinian Children on Its Streets (David Issacharoff | Haaretz, 2025-04-21)

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-04-21/ty-article/.highlight/why-israel-fears-the-faces-of-dead-palestinian-children-on-its-streets/00000196-5985-d99b-a5ff-d9d7fa560000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.04.21-202552/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-04-21/ty-article/.highlight/why-israel-fears-the-faces-of-dead-palestinian-children-on-its-streets/00000196-5985-d99b-a5ff-d9d7fa560000
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“Ahead of an anti-war demonstration scheduled for Thursday in Tel Aviv – organized by the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together – the Israeli police said they would not allow the protest to take place unless organizers agreed to a ban on signs displaying images of ‘kids or babies from Gaza’ or bearing references to ‘genocide and ethnic cleansing.’

“The document outlining these conditions was riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, perfectly reflecting the heavy-handed police, who are acting without any clear guidelines or legal basis.

“Even in death, Palestinian children killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza are treated as a threat in Israel…”

#StandingTogether #IsraeliOpposition
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I know this is somewhat petty and far removed from the struggle in Palestine... But I always disliked this person and now it all makes sense.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4662082

Palestinian Christians in Gaza remember Pope Francis and his daily calls to the Catholic church in Gaza. “Gaza was among his last words,” one member of the parish told Mondoweiss. "His voice made us forget the sound of the planes and the bombs."

Christians around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21. But in the Gaza Strip, the local Christian community is not just mourning the loss of a religious leader, but the loss of a friend – someone they called “a true father.”

Universally hailed as a champion of the oppressed and the marginalized, the late Pope demonstrated his commitment to this reputation during the past 18 months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. It has been widely reported that he made regular and near-daily calls to the Holy Family Church in Gaza and that he roundly condemned Israel’s actions, describing them as “terrorism” with “the characteristics of a genocide.”

“The death of Pope Francis is a great loss to the world and an even greater loss for those who did not see the world through his eyes — the eyes of justice and truth,” says George Anton, head of the emergency committee of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, where Palestinian Christians in Gaza have sought refuge since the start of the war. “He always championed the oppressed and always stood up for what was right, no matter what. This was reflected in his stance with us during the war.”

Full Article

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4660449

Significantly absent in the long obituaries for Pope Francis in both the New York Times and the Washington Post were mentions of his deep concern for the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza. In Francis’s last public message on Easter Sunday, just hours before he died, he had called for a ceasefire in Gaza, and condemned the “deplorable humanitarian situation” there.

The obits also failed to note that Pope Francis had personally telephoned the Holy Family Church in Gaza just about every evening since Israel invaded the territory in October 2023 — including the Saturday night before Easter. The church’s pastor, Rev. Gabriel Romanelli, remembered: “He said he was praying for us, he blessed us, and he thanked us for our prayers.” Other church members said that the Pope “would make sure to speak not only to the priest but to everyone else in the room.”

Pope Francis’s concern for Gaza and Palestine did not start in October 2023. Rev. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Christian theologian and Lutheran pastor, told Democracy Now:

I think no Palestinian will ever forget when Pope Francis, in 2014, stopped his car, went down, stepped down and prayed at the separation wall separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem — a moment that touched all of us and continued to speak to us for years.

Full Article

On a beautiful spring day in Gaza, Adli and Mansour are in need of a new pair of shoes. Their economic backgrounds are quite divergent, but they have been close since their schooldays. They pull up on their shared motorcycle outside a local shoe shop and make their way inside on their crutches. Both are excited to try on the latest styles and quickly settle on a pair they both love. They split the cost. Adli pays for the left shoe, which is all he needs, and Mansour pays for the right.

They love that they have the same taste in shoes and the same-sized feet, and they laugh and joke with the shop owner, who has never before seen two customers come in to buy a single pair of shoes.

They tell him about a chilly afternoon when Adli noticed Mansour’s shoe looked worn out. He offered to give Mansour his other sneaker, since he didn’t need it, and they had lost opposite legs in successive Israeli attacks. Mansour was hesitant, but Adli assured him they had the same shoe size and that the shoe would be comfortable and supportive. After trying on the shoe, Mansour realized it was indeed very comfortable, and he accepted Adli’s kind offer. They’ve been sharing shoes ever since.

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Tue 22 Apr 2025 10.32 EDT

"The first time he spoke to #PopeFrancis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in #Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.

It was October 2023, a few weeks after #Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking #Israel. The #Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An #Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family."

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Updated 11:37 AM EDT, April 22, 2025

"DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble. Separate strikes killed two people in Lebanon."