Category: 1. Palestine

Here are the key events on day 1,237 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Tuesday, July 15:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern regions of Kharkiv and Sumy, killing at least one person and wounding 21 others, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing local authorities.
• The Ukrainian Red Cross said the attacks also damaged buildings in Sumy, including an educational and medical facility.
• The death toll from Russian attacks on Ukraine on…

Makers of Sesame Street blame an unknown hacker for slew of offensive social media posts.

The makers of Sesame Street have deleted a slew of offensive social media posts after hackers hijacked the puppet Elmo’s X account to launch a tirade about Jews and Jeffrey Epstein.

The posts on Elmo’s account on Sunday called for the extermination of Jewish people, referred to United States President Donald Trump as a “puppet” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded the release…

Israeli forces have continued to pound the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 72 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, as ceasefire talks stall amid a deepening fuel and hunger crisis.

An Israeli attack near an aid distribution point in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least five people who were seeking aid on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The killings raised the death toll of Palestinians killed near aid sites run by the controversial Israeli and…

Court reverses lower court ruling that said large staff cuts would effectively hamstring the Education Department.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can proceed with plans to slash funding and resources for the federal Department of Education.

The conservative-majority court ruled on Monday that the government could move forward with plans to lay off nearly 1,400 employees as part of Trump’s push to effectively dismantle the…

Officials from California, New York, Kentucky and 20 other states allege the US administration acted unconstitutionally.

Two dozen states have sued the administration of United States President Donald Trump after the federal government froze $6.8bn in education funding.

On Monday, a group of 23 attorneys general and two governors filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island arguing that the decision to halt funds approved by the US Congress was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, and…

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- At least 15 Israeli soldiers have killed themselves since the start of 2024, according to Haaretz. Since the Gaza genocide began, that number has risen to 43, with most cases involving reserve soldiers overwhelmed by battlefield horrors.

Israeli social media accounts bypassing military censorship reported the latest suicide on Monday. A soldier reportedly killed himself inside a military base in northern occupied Palestine. It marks the third…

By Sony Thang

I’m Vietnamese.

In 1954, Western powers decided to split Vietnam in two. Not because we asked for it. Not because it was just. But because it served their imperial interests. The South was handed to a US-backed regime we never chose, and this foreign-imposed division was packaged as a “solution.” We were told to accept it, and there would be peace. That half a country was better than none.

But we refused.

Vietnam is not a bargaining chip. We are not a piece of…

By Ramzy Baroud  

It’s becoming clear that Zionism is finally being undone, primarily by Gaza and the sumud of the Palestinians, but also by international solidarity, a large part of which has always been, and now increasingly is, expressed by anti-Zionist Jews.

Future historians, remember this place and date: Vienna, June 13-15, 2025. This was when hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews, joined by Palestinians and…

Cuomo says he will challenge progressive Zohran Mamdani in general election after being trounced in the Democratic primary.

Andrew Cuomo has said that he will run as an independent in the race for New York City mayor, following a stinging loss to progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic Party primary last month.

The former New York State governor, who resigned in 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations, vowed to continue his mayoral bid in a video posted to social media on…