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If the EU does not act to stop Israel from ethnically cleansing Gaza, they'll eventually have to deal with hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees on their shores. If human rights won't make them act, maybe racism will.

The contradiction between "We support and advocate for Israel" and "we're not Israelis and should not be held accountable for its actions" becomes impossible to ignore when Israel is pursuing the extermination of a society of two million people. You advocate for Israel? You bear responsibility.

Listening to a discussion on the state of Israel's economy, it appears that falling exports to the EU (as a result of sanctions, boycott or just consumers' preference) is the most urgent challenge. 1/

Haaretz reports that de jure annexation is off the table following UAE ultimatum. Israel is considering almost -annexation moves instead

If you really "believe in the two state solution", there's no reason for you to object to international recognition of a Palestinian state. But you don't really, do you.

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Good chance of Israel being suspended from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) this week. This move would have devastating implications for Israeli football, and would be the most significant move of cultural sanction against Israel in decades.

Will Israel announce annexation of parts of the West Bank, following the recognition of a Palestinian state? Normally I would dismiss it as empty threats - but this time I'm not sure. If Netanyahu chooses this path, he would be courting further international sanctions.

In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war. Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...

This is a campaign organised by friend to help a family who lost a baby to famine, were able to escape Gaza City and are now struggling to pay for food and shelter. pay.collctiv.com/donate-here-...

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies. www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

Ilan Volkov, the Israeli conductor who spoke out in the Proms concert last week, was arrested an hour ago in a protest near the Gaza border "We must stop this genocide" he said "it's destroying everyone's life. Stop it now. It must end."

"The Israeli Government continues to murder, destroy, and starve Gaza, and while doing so, risks killing those of the hostages who are still alive. *Sunday, September 21, 12:00* outside Kings Cross Station N1C 4BU Only pictures (which we will provide) No signs or slogans No flags No speeches"

At 6:29 this morning, Rabbi Avidan Friedman was arrested after blowing a shofar at the hostage families’ encampment in front of the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem 🧵

My former teacher R’ Avidan is no stranger to sudden arrest and police violence— he founded a small NGO called Yanshoof, dedicated to creating moral limits on Israel’s international arms sales. Bibi is afraid of the shofar, of a call to accountability? Clearly.

Looking ahead, I cannot see any specific points of crisis that could force Israel to halt, let alone end its campaign in Gaza. It can be stopped, but it is a question of accumulating pressure - not a specific action or date.

Israel's defence minister forgot to add [laughs an evil laughter] to this b-movie script

This is a well-reported deep dive into the movement to turn academic Jewish Studies into the junior partner of Christian nationalists by creating bad scholarship on "Judeo-Christian civilization," a project now being supported by the Trump administration. arcmag.org/the-mind-of-...

If you want to read conspiracy mega brain seeing Zionist conspiracy behind... The Palestine benefit concert, this is your guy english.almayadeen.net/articles/opi...

More than 80% of the death toll in Gaza took place under President Biden, with his very active support. Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation. But without Biden we wouldn't be here.

Drone from Yemen hitting a hotel in Eilat (no casualties)

"Finally, this moment represents a catastrophic failure of foresight by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has successfully alienated what was arguably the most pro-Israel European Commission in history." responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-israe...

Major story from @jacobmagid.bsky.social in @timesofisrael.com www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-ton...

Mi-neged demonstration against the invasion of Gaza City, outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Tuesday 16th September 2025.

Smotrich: the Gaza Strip is a real estate bonanza, we're already discussing with the US how to parcel the land

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Now the question is whether Italy / Germany would support this.

Horrifying

Testimonies of Israeli doctors from the torture camp of Sde Teyman. By my colleagues Hagar Kotef and Meirav Amir. theconversation.com/israeli-doct...

Israel had already occupied Gaza City and forced its population out - in late 2023. The difference this time is that Israel pledges loud and clear to destroy the city in its entirety, and not to allow the population back. This is what it makes this occupation into a crime against humanity.

I've seen a lot of people on here in the past day or so repeat the line of "Arabs are Semites, too, so anti-Arab racism is also a form of antisemitism." This is and understandable mistake, given how weird the word is, but it's a misunderstanding of the word.

Liza Rozovsky of Ha'aretz reports that the EU commission will finalise tomorrow its proposal for trade sanctions on Israel, subject to approval by a special majority of EU states.

Emergency demo Stop the occupation of Gaza City UK Foreign Office Today 4.30pm

Unfortunately this gives a good idea of the support or indifference of most Jewish-Israelis to the mass slaughter in Gaza. It's a shame no Palestinian citizens of Israel are interviewed, as they make up 20% of the citizens, and they see things very differently. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

"Every state has an obligation to prevent genocide wherever it occurs. That obligation requires action ... using all available diplomatic and legal means to stop the killing. To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity."

Netanyahu talking about Israel as "super Sparta" is particularly dissonant as he is the most hedonistic prime minister in Israel's history. His love for cigars, Champagne, luxury hotels, ended in sleaze trial. Israel had some spartan prime ministers (Ben Gurion, Golda, Begin, Shamir). Bibi??😂

"My opponent supports Israel's PM, that's why you should vote for me" is now used by the leading candidate for NYC mayor The times, they are a'changing

I met the commission some three years ago and I was deeply impressed by their professionalism, rigour and common-sense.

‼️ #Emergency demonstration‼️ 📍 16:30 today, Tuesday, 📍 Opposite the Foreign Office in #London SW1A 3AH Stop the occupation of #Gaza City!

אני לא יכולה להגיע ללונדון היום, אבל מי שכן יכול/ה: ‼️הפגנת חירום‼️ 📍 16:30 היום, יום שלישי, 📍 מול משרד החוץ בלונדון SW1A 3AH עצרו את כיבוש העיר עזה!

Emergency demo - Mineged - Israelis against the Gaza Genocide Foreign and Commonwealth Office, today 16.30 Stop the occupation if Gaza City End the genocide Sanctions now

Netanyahu appoints his henchman, Tzachi Braverman, as the next ambassador to the UK. The appointment of this useless and unqualified person gives a good idea of Netanyahu's view of the UK. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

In the US but also elsewhere, some right wing Jews are happy to become a the fascists' pet minority, and the "protection of Jews" to serve the persecutions of Muslims and others. Those Jews who are unwilling to play along with our new Nazi friends are, obviously, antisemites.

The UK is rolling the red carpet for Trump At the exact moment he green-lights the next stage of the Gaza genocide Pleasantries in Windsor castle As people burn to death in bombed tents and ruins

In the past 24 hours: 33 Palestinians were killed and 316 were injured by IDF fire. Of those, three were killed and 47 were injured seeking aid. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The hostages families are on their way to protest outside Netanyahu's mansion, in a desperate attempt to prevent the killing of their loved ones