Palestine Affairs

Posted by: John Phoenix Trinity College Dublin students gathered for an announcement of full institutional divestment and academic boycotts of Israeli institutions. (Photo via @jennymaguir on Twitter/X) In 2025, students around the world came together to challenge their schools’ complicity in the Gaza genocide. Despite heavy repression, they won major victories, including divestment and commitments to cut ties with Israeli institutions. By Cameron Baillie, Reposted from Mondoweiss, December 31, 2025 Beginning amid Israel’s scholasticide and genocide of Palestinians—still ongoing—the sustained global student uprising for Palestinian liberation, or the Student Intifada, has energized, nay radicalized, an entire generation of politically engaged youth...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   The Israel lobby is working frenetically to crush free speech world wide, while governments are either negligent in stopping it, or complicit. Reposted from Caitlin Johnstone, January 21, 2026 I’ve seen some Australians expressing confusion as to whether or not they can still legally criticize Israel online after new “hate speech” laws were passed on Tuesday under the pretense of combating “antisemitism”. The answer is yes, and you definitely should keep opposing Israel and its genocidal atrocities. I am worried that these new laws may indirectly have a bit of a chilling effect on pro-Palestine activism due to Australians not understanding these new laws and what people are allowed to do without b...

Posted by: John Phoenix Because of Israel's abusive policies, the human rights situation in Palestine and for Palestinians is alarming. (Pictured: a child in Gaza City.) (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Through the years, numerous humanitarian organizations have produced detailed reports on the situation in Israel-Palestine. Below are some of them.  – By IAK Staff While both the Israeli and Palestinian governments have committed human rights violations, the Israeli abuses have been far more numerous, significant, and causative. Moreover, many Israeli abuses are directly connected with Israel’s decades-long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, theft of Palestinian land, and imprisoning of Palestinians behind a barrier – all of which violate internationa...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org  Most of the two million people living in Gaza are sheltering in makeshift tents amid the ruins of Israel's devastating genocide. (screenshot) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 835th day.) Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in two separate incidents ⁠in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, despite the declared “ceasefire” that took effect on October 11, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 486 Palestinians. At least 1,341 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.  ...

Posted by: John Phoenix The moment Canada deemed two UN scholars a “security threat” Author’s NoteI wrote this essay to show what really happened when Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained at the Canadian border — and to explore what it reveals about power, accountability, and the fight to speak truth to authority. Introduction: Two Scholars Detained, A Truth Confronted Richard Falk has spent the better part of a century inside the world’s most serious rooms: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the international legal tribunals where the language of war, occupation, and human rights is hammered into shape. At ninety-five, he carries his papers in neat folders and moves with the slow care of a man who has spent a lifetime thinking rath...

Posted by: John Phoenix ACT I — The Arab Viewer’s Loop As an Arab viewer, I don’t turn on the TV or open the news website anymore expecting updates that resemble “normal” war coverage. The loop has changed since Trump’s ceasefire, which has turned out to be “cease” for us and “continue to fire” for Israel. Each broadcast drips with reports of daily Israeli violations both in Gaza and Southern Lebanon: airstrikes, drone incursions, and ground advances that kill and maim without reprisal, turning what was once a narrative of resistance into a one-sided chronicle of endurance and impotence. Before the ceasefire, the loop had a bitter symmetry — Israeli aggression met with Hezbollah rockets arcing over the border or Hamas ambushes in the tunnels, offering us a fleeti...

Not a Ceasefire Day 58   Israeli forces violate the ceasefire by targeting the tents of displaced Palestinians, killing five people, including two children in Khan Younis, Gaza on December 3, 2025. (Mahmoud Bassam – Anadolu Agency) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 789th day.) Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday. Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 373 Palestinians. Among the dead are at least 136 children. At least 970 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative. Israel has so far viola...

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestinians carrying bags return from a food distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netzarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025. (Drop Site News) (Photo) UG Solutions, which provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has been interviewing ex-soldiers for potential “robust security” operations. by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, reposted from Drop Site News, November 19, 2025 UG Solutions, a leading U.S. military subcontractor that provided security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), is stepping up its recruitment efforts amid possible plans for several aid distribution sites to be set up in Gaza by next month, Drop Site has learned. A former army officer who applied for a...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli Settler Soldiers (Wikipedia) By Jamal Kanj, November 18, 2025 In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villages have become open fields for illegal Jewish settlers operating under the protection of the Israeli army. In recent weeks, organized Jewish mobs, some armed with rifles and sticks, others carrying torches, have unleashed violence across occupied Palestinian towns and villages. It is not only that Israeli soldiers stand providing cover for the illegal Jewish mobs, but the army also blocks Palestinian farmers from accessing their farms for the annual olive harvest. The Jewish mob’s thuggery follows a clear pattern where settlers attack homes, burn olive groves, beat villagers, and drive ou...