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Aug 25, 2026

Listen to Awdah Hathaleen’s last message of solidarity
Green Olive Collective, Aug 1, 2025
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2025.08.12: Video: Gaza Apocalypse with Mouin Rabbani
Online, 6:00 pm CT
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2025.08.09: Nagasaki Day Peace Summit
First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, 2 – 4:30 pm. Online option.
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The Changing Map of Palestinian Recognition
Ashley Wu, New York Times, July 30, 2025
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Israeli forces storm Umm Al-Khair and Tuba and arrest 14
Youth of Sumud, July 30, 2025
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Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic, July 29, 2025
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In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, July 28, 2025
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Adalah Demands Immediate Release of 21 Activists Aboard the ‘Handala’
Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 27/07/2025
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Desperate for Fuel in Gaza
MARK HERTSGAARD, THE NATION, JULY 24, 2025
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Israel is Starving Gaza to Death
Visualizing Palestine, Jul 24, 2025
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Hudia’s Diary
Dec 2023 – Jul 2025
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James Gunn’s Superman cements Israel’s villain status in the American imagination
MITCHELL PLITNICK, MONDOWEISS, JULY 18, 2025
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Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, Jul 2025
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“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza
DEMOCRACY NOW! JULY 21, 2025
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Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System
Dylan Saba, Jewish Currents, May 25, 2023
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Kufiya Fish Prominent in Origami Display
“Sierra Club, Eco Groups Break Record For World’s Largest Display Of Origami Fish To Protest…
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UN rapporteur calls for global action to stop ‘genocide’ in Gaza
MANUEL RUEDA, AP, July 15, 2025
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New UN report reveals the companies getting rich off Israeli occupation and genocide
JONATHAN OFIR, MONDOWEISS, JULY 6, 2025
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In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, The American Conservative, Jul 11, 2025
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Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
Alana Wise, NPR, JULY 12, 2025
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