Category: 1. Palestine

Officials, including California’s attorney general, question what will happen to the data collected by the firm.

Genetic testing firm 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States amid weak demand and losses from a 2023 data breach. Its co-founder and CEO has resigned.

San Francisco-based 23andMe announced on Sunday that it will look to sell “substantially all of its assets” through a court-approved reorganisation plan.

The company’s shares fell 50…

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce blamed Hamas for “every single thing that’s happening” in Gaza when asked Monday about two journalists killed in Israeli attacks, including Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat.

Demonstrators protest Jared Kushner’s plans to transform former army HQ bombed by NATO into luxury hotel and shopping site.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Serbia’s capital Belgrade to voice discontent over a luxury real estate project spearheaded by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of United States President Donald Trump.

The protests took place on Monday in front of the country’s former army headquarters, which were destroyed in a US-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999 as…

Last week, 18-year-old Ella Keidar Greenberg was sentenced to an initial 30 days in Israeli military prison for refusing to enlist in the army. The first openly transgender conscientious objector in a decade, Keidar Greenberg declared her refusal at the military recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, on March 19, articulating her ideological opposition to the occupation and Israel’s…

Major protests are being held in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

His firing of the internal security service chief is blocked by the Supreme Court – for now.

But the opposition is calling for a general strike.

How serious is this political crisis for Netanyahu?

Presenter:

Nick Clark

Guests:

Yariv Oppenheimer – Board member of the advocacy group Peace Now and member of…

By Jeremy Salt

Thus encouraged, Israel knew that in the future it only had to ask to get what it wanted, whether the bombs now supplied to destroy Gaza and Lebanon or war on Iran sometime this year.

Gaza has fully exposed the limitless violence inherent in a colonial settler state. Israel’s genocide is aimed at extinguishing everything that is Palestinian, the people, the water they drink,…