Palestine

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews Updated 9:21 PM EDT, May 9, 2025

In a post remembering the Holocaust, Gil Kopatz called for the extermination of Palestinians and described the war on Gaza as an essential ‘pesticide’

Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025

Brett Wilkins May 08, 2025

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Tue 6 May 2025 06.48 EDT

Harvard has fashioned itself as a free-speech warrior on the national stage for refusing to negotiate with the Trump administration on its sweeping demands for the university to drop its diversity, equity and inclusion measures and punish student protesters.

Robert Mackey (now); Lucy Campbell, Marina Dunbar and Tom Ambrose (earlier) Wed 7 May 2025 20.23 EDT

Lauren Gambino Wed 7 May 2025 19.41 EDT

Sam Levine and agencies Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT

On Sunday, the #UN agency for Palestinian refugees ( #UNRWA) warned that the humanitarian situation across the #Gaza Strip is beyond imagination, calling on the international community to take serious action to stop this #catastrophe from reaching unseen levels. #Starvation #Genocide #Israel #FoodAsWeapon #Horror @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Researchers say Israel’s worst wildfires were exacerbated by non-native tree species that Israel has been planting for decades to cover dispossessed Palestinian villages with forests.

Edward Helmore Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT

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Israel’s large-scale planting of European pine trees, which are not native to the region, as part of efforts to reshape the landscape and cover depopulated Palestinian villages, has significantly increased the vulnerability of the region to wildfires.

GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.

Likud lawmaker Moshe Saada proclaimed on Channel 14 TV that he was "interested" in starving an entire nation. "Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this is our obligation;" a relatively popular singer, Kobi Peretz, is convinced that we are "commanded" to annihilate [the Biblical arch-enemy] Amalek. "I don't pity any civilian in Gaza, young or old…I have not a shred of pity," he was quoted as saying on the cover of the daily Yedioth Ahronoth's weekend magazine.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv Fri 25 Apr 2025 09.43 EDT

Brett Wilkins Apr 23, 2025

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Updated 11:37 AM EDT, April 22, 2025

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Tue 22 Apr 2025 10.32 EDT

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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Sat 19 Apr 2025 12.54 EDT

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews via #TheGuardian Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025

Facebook’s parent company Meta has been hosting paid Israeli adverts promoting activities including illegal settlement real estate, demolitions of Palestinian buildings and fundraising for Israeli forces in Gaza. Here’s what an Al Jazeera investigation discovered.

While this is The Onion, the following is true and did happen:

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.