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International Day of Action – Sanctions on Israel to end the genocide Saturday 6 September
The Daily Blog
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August 19, 2025
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is planning more protests on what it calls Winston Peters’ failed policy on Gaza. PSNA has announced it is joining an International Day of Action for Palestine on 6th September. PSNA Co-Chair, John Minto...
Palestinian Canadians in B.C. fighting to get families out of Gaza urge feds to speed up resettlement
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 19, 2025
Two Palestinian Canadian families in B.C. are speaking out about their battle to get their loved ones out of Gaza through Canada's humanitarian resettlement program. They say even after applying to bring their relatives here through a humanitarian...
Palestine and Israel beauty queens to compete in Miss Universe pageant for first time since Hamas invasion
Daily Mail
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August 20, 2025
A Palestinian and an Israeli beauty queen will go head-to-head in this year's annual Miss Universe pageant. Nadeen Ayoub, 27, will be the competition's first Miss Palestine - a title she gained in 2022 and has promised to carry 'the voice of a...
Palestinians face Israeli gunfire for flour in north Gaza
Jefferson Public Radio - Oregon
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August 19, 2025
Updated August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM PDT ZIKIM CORRIDOR, Gaza Strip — Thousands of men, women and children are covered in dust. Exhausted and hungry, many are carrying large sacks of white flour over their shoulders. This flour has become Gaza's...
In Occupied Palestine – 17 August 2025
The Daily Blog
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August 19, 2025
In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land 08:00, 17 August 2025 until 08:00, 18 August 2025 Gaza Strip Sanction Israel Merciless blitz on starving Gaza — growing numbers of dead and...
Livestream: A genocide, but a military failure
The Electronic Intifada
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August 19, 2025
Eli Gerzon The Electronic Intifada Podcast 19 August 2025 The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed an International Criminal Court complaint against the Israelis suspected of assassinating Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza on 10 August. “...
Palestine was the problem with TikTok
The Verge
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August 19, 2025
In the last month, the war in Gaza has become an inescapable facet of the public consciousness as a new surge of images of Palestinian children — their faces impossibly sunken, their limbs reduced to skin and bone — flooded the internet. As the...
Netanyahu Blasts Macron: Palestinian State Recognition ‘Rewards Hamas,’ Fuels ‘Jew-Hatred Roaming French Streets’
Breitbart
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August 20, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering ultimatum to French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, demanding action against rising antisemitism by the Jewish New Year and directly linking France’s planned recognition of a...
New Zealand government “considering” recognition of Palestine, as it continues to back Gaza genocide
World Socialist Web Site
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August 20, 2025
New Zealand’s right-wing coalition government announced last week that it is “considering” formally recognising the state of Palestine at next month’s United Nations General Assembly meeting. The Australian, British, Canadian and French...
Ahrc Reaffirms Amnesty International’s Report, Calls for International
The Nigerian Voice
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By American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) The American Human Rights Council (AHRC-USA) strongly reaffirms Amnesty International’s recent declaration that Israel is deliberately using starvation as a weapon against civilians in Gaza. The report,...
UAE anti-terror laws 'cover' for crackdown on peaceful dissent, report shows
Middle East Eye
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August 19, 2025
The United Arab Emirates' landmark 2014 anti-terror law is being used as a tool of political control rather than a way to protect national security, a new report by Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) said. The non-governmental organisation...
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian father and son in occupied West Bank
Middle East Eye
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August 19, 2025
A Palestinian father and his son were attacked on Tuesday in eastern Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. Shaker Hamed al-Zaro told Wafa that settlers assaulted him and his son Faraj while they were...
Day of Action for Palestine at The Entrance
Coast Community News
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August 18, 2025
A group of Central Coast residents will take part in a Nationwide Day of Action for Palestine on Sunday, August 24, with a local event planned for The Entrance. Glynn Ryall from Woy Woy, who has just turned 80, said she is looking forward to being...
Taking land by force and the limitations of law
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 20, 2025
Several centuries later, the aforementioned Thucydidean quote from The Melian Dialogue is a hawkish exposition of the warring vicissitudes of insatiability, power, and annexation or forcible land acquisition, that remains relevant in contemporary...
Israel-France row flares over move to recognise Palestinian state
Dawn
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August 20, 2025
PARIS: A row between Israel and France over Paris’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting “antisemitism”. The...
It’s official: Steven Meiner is running for a second term as Miami Beach Mayor
Florida Politics
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August 19, 2025
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has put months of speculation to rest. He’s officially running for a second term. Meiner, a 54-year-old federal enforcement lawyer-turned-real estate investment executive, just filed paperwork to seek re-election to...
Exclusive: Powerful Libyan official in talks with Israel to resettle Palestinians from Gaza
Middle East Eye
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August 19, 2025
A senior official in Libya's internationally recognised government has held talks with Israeli officials over a proposal to resettle hundreds of thousands of Palestinians expelled from Gaza, multiple sources have told Middle East Eye. Speaking on...
Israel-France Row Flares Over Macron's Move To Recognise Palestinian State
International Business Times
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August 20, 2025
A row between Israel and France over Paris's plan to recognise a Palestinian state next month escalated to crisis level on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fomenting "antisemitism". The Elysee hit...
Ex-Paramount chief hoped Trump lawsuit would force CBS to be more balanced on Israel
Fox News
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'Fox & Friends' co-host Charlie Hurt weighs in after CBS News and Paramount agreed to a settlement over the editing of the '60 Minutes' interview with Kamala Harris that the Trump team claims influenced the 2024 election. NEWYou can now listen to...
Top lawmaker's wife raises eyebrows after making Facebook appeal for new home 2,400 miles away from husband
Daily Mail
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August 19, 2025
By BRITTANY CHAIN, US SENIOR REPORTER Published: 19:37 EDT, 19 August 2025 | Updated: 19:40 EDT, 19 August 2025 The wife of conservative Canadian politician Pierre Poilievre has reached out to a small community in Montreal looking for a temporary...