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| Palestinians mourn over the bodies of those killed in Israeli air strikes, at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on 20 May 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP) |
Here is the next fight against any interaction with the world. Trump admin BLOCKS Harvard from enrolling international students. Trump is pressuring the elite school to fall in line with his agenda. Funding from international students make up +25% of the cost of the schools and the entire student body. The US will become dumber and more isolated with the young people more lost. The international students will flock to other countries who now have the opportunity to developed top class schools.
On a similar note, Microsoft bans words ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza’ and ‘genocide’ in internal emails —The censorship follows Microsoft’s firing of employees who protested the company’s ties to Israel. While Microsoft claims it is curbing ‘politically focused emails’ — staff say it’s an attempt to silence free speech.
Yair Golan, a former Israeli general and the leader of the country's left-wing opposition party, has been barred from wearing an Israeli military uniform, entering a military base or serving as a reservist, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday.
Before retiring, Golan had served as the army's deputy chief of staff. Katz cited Golan's remarks on Tuesday criticising the government's policies in Gaza.
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” Golan told Israeli public radio in an interview.
"A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations," Golan said.
A human rights group has documented the deaths of 26 Palestinians in Gaza, including nine children, in just 24 hours, due to starvation, malnutrition, and lack of medical treatment.
“These deaths are the result of a deliberate Israeli policy that weaponises hunger and denial of treatment to kill Palestinian civilians,” the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week.
A poll cited by Haaretz newspaper indicates that 82% of Israelis support the displacement of Gaza Strip residents.
In a statement drawing widespread condemnation, zionist freshman Republican Congressman Randy Fine (R-Daytona Beach, Florida) called for the United States or “Israel” to “nuke” Gaza, likening the besieged Palestinian enclave to Imperial Japan during World War II and invoking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a model for ending the war on Gaza.
Appearing on Fox News following the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers near the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, Fine said, “The only end of the conflict [in Gaza] is complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror.”
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-05-23/south-korea-american-troops-withdrawal-17884922.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
By Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)
With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman.
Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a durable deal that would provide sanctions relief. But they said their side could not seem to break through to a Trump team they described as dithering, divided, distracted by other conflicts and incapable of holding to a consistent position.
Worse, as the negotiations drag on, the Trump administration is defaulting toward the hardline Israeli position which rejects all uranium enrichment, even for civilian purposes, violating a right Tehran considers sacrosanct.
The Iranian diplomats have now begun to suspect the Trump administration held an ulterior motive for engaging in talks, and is exploiting the meetings in Oman as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.
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| Palestine solidarity protest in Yemen |
A renewed million-person demonstration was staged on Friday in Al-Sabeen Square in the capital Sanaa, and various squares in the Yemeni provinces in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized under the name of “steady with Gaza and more escalation in the face of the genocidal crime and starvation”.
Millions of people denounced the escalation of its heinous crimes and genocidal war that the Zionist enemy’s committing against civilians in Gaza, in addition to the ongoing killing and destruction, starvation and thirst, in an unprecedented tragedy, amidst a shameful Arab and Islamic situation and humiliating global inaction.
Russia and Ukraine have begun to swap prisoners as part of a major exchange agreed last week. The two sides each returned 270 soldiers and 120 civilians on Friday, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow. The exchange is set to continue in the coming days, it added.
Residents of Russia’s Kursk border region captured during the incursion launched by Ukrainian troops last year were among those returned as part of the exchange, the Russian military stated.
Kiev’s forces in Kursk Region have since been fully driven out by Russian troops, and the recently liberated region was visited by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.
Moscow and Kiev agreed to a 1,000-for-1,000 swap during direct talks in Istanbul last week. The negotiations were the first of their kind since Ukraine unilaterally withdrew from peace talks in 2022.
The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands.
Every university in Gaza has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of students and hundreds of educators have been killed. The genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase. Meanwhile, Israeli universities continue to develop the weapons and ideologies that made all of it possible. And the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) still refuses to sever ties, 8 months after being confronted with the undeniable proof.
The call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions is not merely symbolic. These institutions have never been neutral bystanders to state violence. They are engineers of it, embedded in the military-industrial complex, drafting demographic warfare strategies, justifying settler expansion, and persecuting Palestinian students and faculty. They provide the intellectual, logistical, and technological infrastructure of apartheid and genocide.
Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) provides strategic cover for collective punishment. Its April 2025 paper proposes using “sustained military pressure” and “voluntary emigration”, a thinly veiled ethnic cleansing proposal. This is the same institute that developed the infamous Dahiya Doctrine, advocating the use of overwhelming force to devastate civilian infrastructure as a military tactic. TAU collaborates with weapons manufacturers like Elbit Systems, and actively integrates soldiers into academic life. Students in uniform walk freely through campus while Palestinian students are surveilled, harassed, expelled, or arrested for dissent.
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