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Lammy confirms UK and France in talks over Palestine recognition （Guardian, 2025-04-30）

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/30/uk-france-talks-palestinian-state-recognition-lammy
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>> The UK is in discussion with France and Saudi Arabia over the recognition of a Palestinian state at a June conference convened by the two countries on keeping alive the political path to a two-state solution in the Middle East, the UK foreign secretary has said.

>> David Lammy’s comments mark the first time the UK has acknowledged that a discussion with France about a recognition process around the conference is under way.

>> Recognition of Palestine by two permanent members of the UN security council would be a powerful statement but faces many diplomatic hurdles, including a need for greater clarity about what France is proposing and whether recognition could form part of a credible process towards a two-state solution, something Israel is opposing.

#TwoStateSolution
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[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)

https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-palestinian-release-dd95ffff78464df1b485d5912f1b3fcb

#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
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Kehlani Responds to Cornell Canceling Performance: ‘I Am Not Antisemitic, I Am Anti-Genocide’ (Billboard, 2025-4-27)

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kehlani-cornell-concert-statement-video-1235956561/
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>> Cornell had booked Kehlani to headline the school’s Slope Day, an annual celebration following the last day of classes, set for May 7 this year. Earlier this week, the invite was rescinded.

>> In a response video … #Kehlani said, “I am being asked and called to clarify and make a statement yet again, for the millionth time, that I am not antisemitic nor anti-Jew.”

>> “I am anti-genocide, I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti an extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women — that’s what I’m anti,” …

>> “… the very first Live that I did in the beginning of this genocide was with … Jewish Voices for Peace, and I still continue to learn from and work alongside really impactful Jewish organizers against this genocide.”

#FakeAntisemitism
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Is the Purpose of Israel to Destroy International Law? - Sam Husseini (2025-04-29)

https://husseini.substack.com/p/is-the-purpose-of-israel-to-destroy
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>> At the end of her comments to the International Court of Justice yesterday, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stated: “In addition to seeking to destroy the protective application of international law to the Palestinian people, Israel appears set on destroying the very international framework created to ensure compliance with international law with profound consequences that reverberate far beyond Palestine and Palestinians.”

>> I have been arguing for some time that this is actually imperial Israel’s purpose...

#SamHusseini #ICJ #InternationalLaw
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Youth Demand Disrupt London Marathon (2025-04-27)

https://youthdemand.org/2025/04/27/gaza-is-running-out-of-food-stop-arming-israel-youth-demand-disrupt-london-marathon/
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>> Youth Demand supporters have disrupted the London Marathon. Youth Demand is a youth-led civil resistance group calling for the [UK] government to impose a full trade embargo on Israel, and make the fossil fuel elite pay damages to communities and countries most harmed by fossil fuel burning.

>> At approximately 10:35am, two Youth Demand supporters jumped over the barriers and threw red powder paint in front of the men’s elite race at the London marathon as it crossed Tower Bridge. ... City of London police quickly moved to arrest the pair.

>> [a spokesperson from Youth Demand:] “This is a race against time: Gaza is running out of food. Millions of starving Palestinians are being bombed with UK complicity..."

#LondonMarathon #YouthDemand #StopArmingIsrael
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🇨🇭Swiss team turns back on Israeli gold medallists at fencing championship - The Jewish Chronicle (2025-04-27)

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/swiss-team-turns-back-on-israeli-gold-medallists-at-fencing-championship-y45wh43e
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( I understand -and appreciate- the action as against the State of Isr, not against the athletes.)

“The Swiss fencing team turned its back on the winning Israeli team during the medal ceremony at the under-23 European Fencing Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, on Saturday night.”

“During the podium ceremony, as Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, played, the Swiss fencers kept their backs turned to the Israeli team in alleged protest, rather than turn to the right, as was expected.”

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Japanese Hotel [rec. Guesthouse] Asks Israeli Settler Tourist to Sign Anti-War Crimes Declaration - Quds News Network (2025-04-26)

https://qudsnen.co/japanese-hotel-asks-israeli-settler-tourist-to-sign-anti-war-crimes-declaration/
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>> The tourist, a former combat medic in Israel’s navy reserves, said staff at the Wind Villa Hotel gave him the form after he presented his Israeli passport. The document demanded he confirm that he had never attacked civilians, killed prisoners, tortured detainees, committed sexual violence, or participated in forced displacement or looting.

>> The hotel reportedly requires all Israeli and Russian guests to sign the same pledge.

>> The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported the incident on Saturday. The Israeli tourist called the request “ridiculous and absurd,” but he eventually signed to avoid being denied a room.
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So far no coverage in Japanese media (ex. in X, maybe). Will post if something should come up.

#WarCrime
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Ahmed Alnaouq & Pam Bailey (eds.), _We Are Not Numbers. The Voices of Gaza’s Youth_, Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025 (ISBN: 9781529155174)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468800/we-are-not-numbers-by-bailey-ahmed-alnaouq-and-pam/9781529155174
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>> These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.

>> We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.

#WeAreNotNumbers
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Mark Carney condemns Israeli blockade on food to Gaza [on X] | CBC News (2025-04-25)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-gaza-blockade-1.7519408
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>> "The UN World Food Programme just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have run out because of the Israeli Government's blockade — food cannot be used as a political tool," Carney said on X.

>> The UN agency said no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all main border crossing points were closed, the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.

>> "Palestinian civilians must not bear the consequences of Hamas' terrorist crimes," Carney wrote in the social media post. "The World Food Programme must be allowed to resume its lifesaving work."

Link to the original X post ⬇️
https://x.com/MarkJCarney/status/1915892388721295618

#Canada #WFP

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Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard: Course probes the modern history of the Holy Land. (Harvard Magazine, 2025-03-27)

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/teaching-israel-palestine-at-harvard
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An example of alleged “anti-semitism” in Harvard?😏

Sarcasm aside, worth a peek.

>> Frost professor of Jewish history Derek Penslar has taught university courses about Israel for the past 35 years. But his current class in the history department, “One Land, Two Peoples: The Modern History of Israel/Palestine,” comes at an especially fraught time for the Middle East—and for Harvard.

>> [prof. Penslar:] “It is possible to have a very deep attachment to Israel and acknowledge Palestinian national rights and claims. How you reconcile them is another story.”

#HarvardUniversity
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Killing of Gaza Aid Workers: IDF Troops Fired Indiscriminately for Over Three Minutes, Some at Point-blank Range - Haaretz (2025-04-23)

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-23/ty-article/.premium/killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-idf-troops-fired-indiscriminately-for-over-three-minutes/00000196-6202-dd34-abfe-7b6f957e0000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.04.23-112019/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-23/ty-article/.premium/killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-idf-troops-fired-indiscriminately-for-over-three-minutes/00000196-6202-dd34-abfe-7b6f957e0000
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"The deputy commander of the Sayeret Golani force, a #reservist officer who was commanding the force, decided on his own initiative to alter the mission assigned to him and instructed the entire force to prepare to fire on the ambulance that was approaching the ambush site."

#paramedics #warCrime #CrimeAgainstHumanity
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Training for #NYPD Officers Categorized the Keffiyeh and Watermelon as Antisemitic Symbols (Jewish Currents, 2025-04-24)

https://jewishcurrents.org/training-nypd-keffiyeh-watermelon-antisemitism-israel-palestine
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>> a training on combating antisemitism [led by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (POE)] ... [alleged] to teach the police “how to recognize and address antisemitism in its many contemporary forms”... ” But the presentation itself, ... was in large part concerned with pro-Palestine activism, casting the Palestine solidarity movement as a significant threat to Jewish safety ... The training, which focused heavily on student protesters, repeatedly conflated antisemitism with anti-Zionism. It categorized campus demonstrators as extremists tied to Hamas, and branded as antisemitic Palestinian symbols like the watermelon and the keffiyeh, as well as phrases such as “settler colonialism” and “all eyes on Rafah.”

> to be cont.
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