As countries around the world recognize a Palestinian state, Israel is doing everything it can to prevent the possibility of any future state. One way it plans on doing that is through financial strangulation.
The recognition of Palestine as a state is more of a symbolic gesture than a meaningful act, like imposing sanctions on Israel would be. Still, it shows that even Israel’s allies have been forced to take action as Israel’s genocide in Gaza deepens.
As several Western nations announce their recognition of a Palestinian state ahead of an upcoming UN General Assembly vote, Israel is accelerating its illegal annexation measures of the occupied West Bank to render a Palestinian state impossible.
Immigration Judge Jamee Comans has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to either Syria or Algeria, in a move seen widely as retaliation for Khalil’s Palestine activism.
As the Israeli army’s ground invasion advances into major residential areas in Gaza City, some residents say they’re not moving. “There’s no point in struggling to find a better place in hell,” one resident said.
Netanyahu officially approved a settlement plan last week and announced his intentions to greenlight other settlements just like it. Together, these plans would end the West Bank as a geographic and political entity.
The University of California, Berkeley has provided the federal government with the private information of more than 150 students, staff, and faculty. The university is being slammed for caving to the Trump and his war on Palestine activism.
A UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The commission is urging governments worldwide to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
Despite reports of a rift following Israel’s failed attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Marco Rubio reaffirmed the Trump administration’s strong support during a trip to Jerusalem.
Activists in Morocco are demanding an investigation after well-known human rights leader, Sion Assidon, was found unconscious at his home under suspicious circumstances. Assidon is a leader of the Moroccan movement against normalization with Israel.