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Israeli police stormed into the bookstore, searching for books that contained Palestinian flags. Because the Educational Bookshop primarily sells books in English, the officers used google translate to find books that they could remove and use as an excuse to arrest the shop owners. In the end, they seized eight books, including a children’s coloring book.
This is a critical moment in history. As the US and Israeli governments push forward with plans for the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza, Jewish voices must be clear and unwavering: We say no to ethnic cleansing and to genocide.
The majority of Jenin refugee camp’s 20,000 residents were forcibly displaced from their homes by the Israeli military.
This week, Israeli bulldozers razed farmland and roads in Jenin, escalating devastation to levels unseen in over two decades in the occupied West Bank.
Over the past few weeks the Israeli military ramped up their ongoing assaults on Masafer Yatta — a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank — working with Jewish supremacist settlers to burn and destroy homes and property and arrest anyone who dissents.
Last week, President Trump signed several Executive Orders that were supposedly issued to address antisemitism, but do nothing for Jewish safety and instead clearly target the Palestine movement. One order lays the groundwork for deporting international students who have spoken up for Palestine.
Netanyahu faces multiple arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Many countries have pledged to carry out the ICC’s charges. Instead, the US is welcoming him with open arms, and threatening to sanction the ICC.
In just 31 days, the Israeli military has killed over 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the northern areas—Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas—bearing the brunt of the Israeli military’s deadly Operation Iron Wall. In the past week alone, the Israeli military killed 22 Palestinians, while Israeli settlers continue to escalate their takeover of Palestinian land through illegal settlement expansion and pogroms.
At the same time Basel’s film No Other Land was shortlisted for an Oscar, settlers from the illegal outpost Havat Maon launched pogroms throughout Masafer Yatta, the area featured in the film. In the 1980s, the Israeli military designated this area as Firing Zone 918, putting Palestinian residents at heightened risk of home demolition and forced displacement.
Next to the Star of David, the numbers 7979 appear—likely referencing the Israeli military’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion. This unit is implicated in numerous human rights violations since at least 2015, including the killing of unarmed Palestinians, and is notorious for its cruelty in the occupied West Bank.
@PalestineRCS medics Ahmed Al-Madhoun and Yusuf El-Zeino attempted to rescue Hind, but the Israeli military killed them before they could reach her . An investigation by @ForensicArchi revealed that Israeli soldiers fired 355 bullets into the car, despite having a clear and unobstructed view of Hind trapped in the car, and receiving messaging from dozens of medical and human rights organizations begging to be allowed to rescue the child.
“A 2023 report from Save The Children notes ‘several forms of torture and cruel treatment: beatings; positional torture/stress positions; sleep deprivation; denial of human needs (food, water, and access to a toilet); demeaning detainees by screaming, cursing, and spitting at them; forcing detainees to witness others, sometimes their own family members, being interrogated and/or tortured; and extended isolation or solitary confinement."
Last week, Meta announced new profit-driven policies that undermine user safety by dismantling fact-checking, enabling disinformation, weakening enforcement, removing content restrictions, and promoting “personalized” political content.
Just hours into the ceasefire, Israeli settlers, enabled by the Israeli military, intensified their assaults against Palestinians—torching villages and orchards—while the Israeli military launched mass arrests and raids. The Israeli government named its military assault on the West Bank “Operation Iron Wall,” referencing Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement. In his 1923 essay “The Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky argued that “Zionist colonization... can proceed and develop only... behind an iron wall.”
Just hours into the ceasefire, Israeli settlers, enabled by the Israeli military, intensified their assaults against Palestinians—torching villages and orchards—while the Israeli military launched mass arrests and raids. The Israeli government named its military assault on the West Bank "Operation Iron Wall," referencing Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement. In his 1923 essay "The Iron Wall," Jabotinsky argued that "Zionist colonization... can proceed and develop only... behind an iron wall."
This is horrific. Unfortunately, it’s also what Palestinians warned of. The Israeli military typically increases its attacks days and hours before a ceasefire is implemented, and this time is no different.
The total and expanding devastation in Gaza is a result of Zionism—the racist colonial movement that led to the establishment of Israel, an apartheid state built on land stolen from massacred and forcibly exiled Palestinians.
UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini says, “If implemented, the decision will have a disastrous impact on the people we support. This includes the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in Gaza + basic services in the occupied West Bank including education for 50,000 children who go to UNRWA schools. Other UN agencies have acknowledged they cannot fill in the void & provide direct education & healthcare.
This surge in activism has proven that intensifying pressure to end state and corporate complicity in the Israeli military’s war crimes leads to tangible victories. Check out the slides above for key BDS victories in the United States. There are countless more global wins to celebrate.