Oakland International Airport has become a key hub for transporting military cargo to Israel during the Gaza genocide. Now, over 30 groups and thousands of Oakland residents have come together in the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo to stop it.

The Israeli government defused a political problem today by reaching a deal to evacuate illegal settlers from the outpost called “Evyatar.” The government wants no sources of tension with the Biden administration as the two governments commence a lovefest. But Palestinians cannot be happy with the deal, which allows a yeshiva to remain in the illegal colony.

Unholy alliances: DP World, a company from the UAE, handed out suspensions to workers who honored a picket line and refused to unload an Israeli boat in Prince Rupert, Canada. They aided the Israeli Zim shipping company in trying to squash grassroots support for Palestine in that remote northern British Columbia town, whose port is under the jurisdiction of Canada’s Minister of Transport, Arab-Canadian Omar Alghabra. A scenario that even the most creative writer could not possibly make up.

Last week activists successfully stopped an Israeli cargo ship from offloading in Oakland. The Volans is a container ship operated by the Haifa-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd (ZIM), a company which has been a target of the BDS movement for years. “It shows what’s possible through BDS work when you can actually disrupt international commerce and build worker and community solidarity”: AROC’s Lara Kiswani tells Mondoweiss.

Bay Area activists successfully blocked an Israeli cargo ship from offloading in Oakland, CA. The “Block the Boat” effort has been led by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).

California has become the first state in the country to adopt an ethnic studies curriculum for its high schools, but the history of Palestine has been scrubbed from the educational program following pressure from pro-Israel groups.