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A man carries an Palestinian child injured in an Israeli attack at hospital in Rafah, Gaza on October 13, 2023.  (Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images) Israeli Airstrike on Gaza Civilian Convoy Kills 70—Mostly Women and Children: Report The alleged massacre followed an Israeli order for people in northern Gaza to evacuate to "save their lives" ahead of an expected massive ground invasion. BRETT WILKINS After warning 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of an expected ground invasion of the besieged enclave, Israeli forces reportedly bombed a civilian convoy on Friday, killing 70 people—mostly women and children—according to the territory's Interior Ministry. Interior Ministry spokesperson Iyad Al-Buzm said the convoy wa...

Demonstrators padlock their arms together in front of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco on October 13, 2023.  (Photo: Jewish Voice for Peace/Twitter "We as American Jews believe that 'never again' means never again for anyone, and that includes Palestinians," said Jewish Voice for Peace. JULIA CONLEY As the Biden administration's intent to silence dissent against the United States' backing of the Israel Defense Forces' onslaught in Gaza became increasingly clear Friday night, at least 80 Jewish Americans and other supporters of Palestinians' human rights were arrested for protesting outside the homes and offices of a number of Democratic lawmakers, where they demanded the U.S. government join growing calls for a cease-fire. The U.S. group J...

Palestinians fleeing Israeli attacks take shelter at a UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, Gaza on October 14, 2023.  (Photo: Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images). 'Humanity Must Prevail' in Gaza, Says UN Official as Refugee Shelters Become IDF Targets "Wars have rules," said the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. "Civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics, and UN premises cannot be a target." JULIA CONLEY The emergency relief coordinator for the United Nations on Saturday said that "humanity is failing" as officials in the United States and other powerful Western countries refused to hear the calls of a growing number of humanitarian groups, progressive lawmakers, and governments for a cease-fire in Gaza—allowing Israel to forge ahead with wh...

Children are seen crying because of Israeli raids on October 15, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.  (Photo: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) Officials in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. have attempted to "backtrack" on the widespread unconditional support that's been expressed in the last week for Israel's assault on Gaza. JULIA CONLEY The United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories expressed concern on Sunday that the international body has so far not publicly advocated for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, as rhetoric from the United States and other influential countries has offered tacit approval of an Israeli air campaign in the blockaded enclave where at least 2,670 Palestinians, including more than 700 children, have now been killed. Francesc...

Israeli persecution of Palestinians taken to a new level in January The zionists have seemed to get away with their crimes untouched for 75 years, but every sign is that this experiment in fascistic colonialism is doomed. Lalkar writers The ever-rightward lurching of Israel’s elected leaders and the rise of new Palestinian resistance forces are both signs of the decline of the zionist project, as is the shifting geopolitical climate in the wider region. As US imperialism, its attention and resources focused on Russia and China, is losing its dominance in the region, the zionists are going to find themselves increasingly exposed, while the Palestinians themselves are showing every sign of rejuvinating the internal resistance to the genocidal Israeli project. https://w.soundclou...

Ilan Pappe: it is high time the seventy-year project of extermination of Palestinians should be internationally recognised as a genocide. Ilan Pappe It is has been evident for quite some time that the official policy of zionism towards Palestinians is a genocidal one: that if they cannot be forced off the land, they must be gradually exterminated. Whether the Palestinians will accept such a fate is another matter. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1504995790%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-C2NQnO6bLIp&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following article is reproduced from Palestine Chronicle, with thanks. ***** I am writing this op-ed on 23 March 2023. Seventy-five years ago, on this date, the m...

The extreme fascism of the Israeli state is now clearly revealed – and a sign that the whole colonial endeavour is careering headlong towards the abyss. Lalkar writers Despite all the violence they mete out to their victims, despite the Nakba, the refugee camps, the seige of Gaza, the occupation of the West Bank, the destruction of homes, villages, olive groves, farms, mosques and churches, and the endless apartheid regulations aimed at making life unbearable, the zionist stooges of imperialist domination in the middle east have been unable to crush the resistance of the Palestinian people. And the more desperate and vicious does their suppression become, the more determined grows that resistance. Meanwhile, the seismic geopolitical shifts taking place in the region have left Israel...

Why aren’t Palestinians allowed to defend themselves? Gideon Levy Although the right to self-defence and the right to struggle against occupation are enshrined in international law and the UN charter, no effort is made to ensure that Palestinians under brutal occupation are allowed or facilitated in exercising these rights, nor is any attempt made to explain to the people of the west that these rights even exist. The zionist self-exculpatory narrative is parroted endlessly and Palestinian acts of defence framed as random and self-defeating violence without reason or purpose. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1591196655%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-EBbxfuAy3r4&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true The following...

The Palestinians are fighting a just war against imperialist-backed genocidal zionism. They will surely prevail. Party leaflet https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1636118673&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Download this leaflet as a pdf. In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces. – George Habash, Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) ***** As the Palestinian resistance launches its Al-Aqsa Flood battle, the CPGB-ML reaffirms ...

Violence Against “Human Animals”: Images from the Israel-Hamas War By Dr. Binoy Kampmark With the body count rising in this latest, and particularly bloody Israel-Hamas War, the narrative of Israel the wounded, Israel the desperate, has now been annexed to Israel the just warrior State, fighting darkness and primaeval stone age barbarism. This has taken two forms. The first is the way the victims of the Hamas attacks inside Israeli territory have been elevated, ennobled, sanctified. The second is the manner with which the Hamas killings have been rendered exceptionally ghoulish, visceral, blood curdling. Regarding the former, Israeli suffering has been personalised, individualised, and given the spit and polish of reverence. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, for i...