Palestine

Finally Free - The Last Three Head Home - Ask You to Keep Mobilizing - Freedom Flotilla (2025-06-16)

https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/16/three-head-home/
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>> The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that all the international human rights defenders and journalists that were aboard the civilian aid ship #Madleen are now en route home. The twelve were forcibly abducted and detained by Israeli forces while attempting to break Israel’s illegal and inhumane siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to its besieged population.

>> The last three detained #FreedomFlotilla volunteers, Marco van Rennes, Pascal Maurieras, and Yanis Mhamdi, were released from Israeli detention this morning and have begun their return to their home countries via the Jordanian border…

#BreakTheSiege @[email protected] @israel

The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

If anybody votes against this, they’ll say they voted to support Colorado terrorist attack.

Update (from comments): A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot:
https://
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#USpol #FreePalestine #Genocide #Israel #Antisemitism #Fascism
#Palestine @[email protected]

Yes 🙏❤️

#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #HumanRights
#Gaza #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine #HumanRights #Palestine

FREEDOM FLOTILLA COALITION SAYS THE LAST THREE DETAINED VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM ISRAELI DETENTION, RETURNING TO HOME COUNTRIES VIA JORDAN

@[email protected] @israel

Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC News (2025-06-16)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/valedictorian-told-to-stay-home-after-making-pro-palestinian-remarks-in-grad-speech-1.5758371
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h/t https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/114692813424144197

>> The valedictorian at a west #Ottawa high school says she's been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

>> Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end...

>> "As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza," ... the crowd cheered.

>> The next day, ... a call from her principal, who said her statements had "caused harm" and told her she shouldn't come to school on Monday.

>> That decision is being criticized by some as going against Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (#OCDSB) policy, and Yao said she stands by her speech.

#Canada @[email protected]

'We're Sentenced to Death Without a Voice': Palestinians Fear Israel-Iran Front Will Deepen Gaza's Suffering (Haaretz, 2025-06-16)

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.06.15-211718/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000
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>> When Gaza's internet flickered back to life after a three-day telecommunications blackout, the first images people saw … of missiles lighting up the sky over Israel…

>> On top of all the contradicting emotions came a sobering realization: This war was not Gaza's. While missiles crossed multiple regional borders, Gaza remained trapped. Aid was still blocked and Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down.

>> As global attention pivoted toward Tehran, Gaza continued to pay a heavy price. In the 48 hours following Israel's initial strike on Iran, the number of Palestinians killed in the Strip exceeded the combined death toll in both #Iran and Israel.

#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine @[email protected] @middleeast

From Gaza to Tehran, Israel's expanding war is defended by the West as self-defence - just as it was in 1967, when conquest was hailed as a triumph of the civilised

Malaysian groups plan '1000 ship flotilla' to break Gaza siege (The New Arab, 2025-06-15)

https://www.newarab.com/news/malaysian-groups-plan-1000-ship-flotilla-break-gaza-siege
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>> Malaysian civil society organisations on Saturday announced a plan to launch what they describe as the largest maritime mobilisation in the world to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

>> The campaign, known as the "Thousand Ship Flotilla", aims to dispatch vessels from multiple continents in a coordinated effort to deliver humanitarian aid and pressure Israel to end its siege.

>> The initiative was unveiled during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur by Azmi Abdul Hamid, head of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (#MAPIM).

>> According to Abdul Hamid, coordination is already underway with civil society groups in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and the flotilla idea has received "unprecedented support"…

#ThousandShipFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #Malaysia @[email protected]

Civilian convoy in overland bid to break past Israel blockade (The Continent, 2025-06-15)

https://continent.substack.com/p/civilian-convoy-in-overland-bid-to
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>> A self-funded convoy of lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and families is winding its way overland across North Africa, heading east from Tunis to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Their goal is to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. In the Caravan of Steadfastness are over 1,000 Tunisians and nearly 200 Algerians.

>> … authorities across the region have cracked down on people who have rallied in solidarity with Gaza, or criticised Israel’s war.

>> On Thursday, the convoy was blocked by authorities in eastern Libya, forcing them to camp overnight in the desert ... Egypt’s foreign ministry put out a statement saying that any delegation seeking to approach Rafah needs visas, and to co-ordinate with authorities. Israel’s defence minister also said that if Egypt doesn’t block the convoy, the Israeli army will.

#Soumoud #BreakTheSiege @[email protected] @middleeast

Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words.

Ahmed Dahaby
Jun 14, 2025

"CAIRO, EGYPT—On Friday, some 200 participants in the Global March to Gaza were stopped at a security checkpoint outside of Cairo, Egypt as they made their way to Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal 80 miles east of Cairo. After being held at the checkpoint for several hours and having their passports temporarily confiscated, marchers were physically dragged onto buses back to Cairo by plainclothes security officials. Other participants who separately managed to reach the hotel in Ismailia were similarly rounded up, some beaten and forced onto buses back to Cairo."

Israel's Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-06-14)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-own-actions-invalidate-all
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>> All arguments made in defense of Israel ultimately rest on the unquestioned assumption that the Jewish people must definitely have a homeland where Jewish people are in control, and that this homeland must definitely be in the location that Israel is in right now...

>> But we’ve seen the results of what that premise entails. It necessarily means nonstop violence, tyranny, war and abuse. It necessarily means genocide. It necessarily means ethnic cleansing. How do we know it necessarily means that? Because here we are.

>> So the premise upon which all pro-Israel arguments rest is invalid.

>> Which means all the arguments are baseless.

>> Which means there’s really no good reason to keep maintaining the status quo of modern Israel.

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone @[email protected] @israel @middleeast

10:45pm CET: Air raid sirens are sounding in Iran's capital Tehran.

Al Mayadeen reports that clashes between Iranian air defenses and Israeli aircraft are still ongoing at this moment

#Iran #Israel #Tehran #IranUnderAttack @[email protected] @israel @iran

A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the Columbia University graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.

By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET

https://archive.ph/o4Lvd

Japan vows to work with G7 partners to ease Middle East tensions (Al Jazeera, 2025-06-13, 15:50 GMT)

https://aje.io/auoxkc?update=3772588
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>> Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has condemned the attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, and promised to work with other G7 members to ease tensions in the Middle East.

>> Ishiba was quoted as saying by the local media that Israel’s move was “totally intolerable” and “extremely regrettable,” adding, “any actions that could further escalate the situation must be refrained from”...

Oh, wow... 😮 “TOTALLY INTOLERABLE” !!

#Japan #StopIsrael @[email protected] @israel

The wife and son of Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, the president of Azad University in Tehran and one of Iran's prominent nuclear scientist, were murdered alongside the him by the Israeli terrorist attack against their home in Tehran earlier today.

#Israel #Iran #Terrorism @[email protected] @israel