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Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech | CBC News (2025-06-16)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/valedictorian-told-to-stay-home-after-making-pro-palestinian-remarks-in-grad-speech-1.5758371
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>> The valedictorian at a west #Ottawa high school says she's been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

>> Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end...

>> "As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza," ... the crowd cheered.

>> The next day, ... a call from her principal, who said her statements had "caused harm" and told her she shouldn't come to school on Monday.

>> That decision is being criticized by some as going against Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (#OCDSB) policy, and Yao said she stands by her speech.

#Canada
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'We're Sentenced to Death Without a Voice': Palestinians Fear Israel-Iran Front Will Deepen Gaza's Suffering (Haaretz, 2025-06-16)

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000

archived:
https://archive.is/2025.06.15-211718/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/sentenced-to-death-palestinians-fear-what-israel-iran-front-means-for-gaza/00000197-7458-da16-ad9f-f4fe99440000
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>> When Gaza's internet flickered back to life after a three-day telecommunications blackout, the first images people saw … of missiles lighting up the sky over Israel…

>> On top of all the contradicting emotions came a sobering realization: This war was not Gaza's. While missiles crossed multiple regional borders, Gaza remained trapped. Aid was still blocked and Israeli airstrikes continued to rain down.

>> As global attention pivoted toward Tehran, Gaza continued to pay a heavy price. In the 48 hours following Israel's initial strike on Iran, the number of Palestinians killed in the Strip exceeded the combined death toll in both #Iran and Israel.

#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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From Gaza to Tehran, Israel's expanding war is defended by the West as self-defence - just as it was in 1967, when conquest was hailed as a triumph of the civilised

Former intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, Yossi Melman

https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1934355903450595680#m

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⚡️ The moment a missile struck the power generation station in Haifa.

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https://t.me/me/_observer/_TG/548784

This is exactly how I thought it would happen. Precision weapons can eviscerate any society, terror bombing is outmoded, air defense isn't enough, this can be the end for Israel. They need to hit all of their power and water stations now

Oh shit after the initial fakeout (cyberattack??) Iran is launching another enormous wave of missiles

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https://t.me/me/_observer/_TG/548751

Is this the tenth wave or how many are we on?

from +972 Magazine newsletter [published in Israel]

Other articles:

• Trolling the #Madleen reveals the depths of the #Israeli media’s delusion

• How# Israel is engineering #Gaza’s social collapse

• For pregnant #Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death

• The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway

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Malaysian groups plan '1000 ship flotilla' to break Gaza siege (The New Arab, 2025-06-15)

https://www.newarab.com/news/malaysian-groups-plan-1000-ship-flotilla-break-gaza-siege
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>> Malaysian civil society organisations on Saturday announced a plan to launch what they describe as the largest maritime mobilisation in the world to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.

>> The campaign, known as the "Thousand Ship Flotilla", aims to dispatch vessels from multiple continents in a coordinated effort to deliver humanitarian aid and pressure Israel to end its siege.

>> The initiative was unveiled during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur by Azmi Abdul Hamid, head of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisations (#MAPIM).

>> According to Abdul Hamid, coordination is already underway with civil society groups in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and the flotilla idea has received "unprecedented support"…

#ThousandShipFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #Malaysia
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A June 6 report by the Guardian newspaper revealed that the University of Michigan (U-M) has been using undercover contract investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian protesters and campus groups for nearly a year.

Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words.

Civilian convoy in overland bid to break past Israel blockade (The Continent, 2025-06-15)

https://continent.substack.com/p/civilian-convoy-in-overland-bid-to
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>> A self-funded convoy of lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and families is winding its way overland across North Africa, heading east from Tunis to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Their goal is to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. In the Caravan of Steadfastness are over 1,000 Tunisians and nearly 200 Algerians.

>> … authorities across the region have cracked down on people who have rallied in solidarity with Gaza, or criticised Israel’s war.

>> On Thursday, the convoy was blocked by authorities in eastern Libya, forcing them to camp overnight in the desert ... Egypt’s foreign ministry put out a statement saying that any delegation seeking to approach Rafah needs visas, and to co-ordinate with authorities. Israel’s defence minister also said that if Egypt doesn’t block the convoy, the Israeli army will.

#Soumoud #BreakTheSiege
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Israel's Own Actions Invalidate All Pro-Israel Arguments (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-06-14)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-own-actions-invalidate-all
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>> All arguments made in defense of Israel ultimately rest on the unquestioned assumption that the Jewish people must definitely have a homeland where Jewish people are in control, and that this homeland must definitely be in the location that Israel is in right now...

>> But we’ve seen the results of what that premise entails. It necessarily means nonstop violence, tyranny, war and abuse. It necessarily means genocide. It necessarily means ethnic cleansing. How do we know it necessarily means that? Because here we are.

>> So the premise upon which all pro-Israel arguments rest is invalid.

>> Which means all the arguments are baseless.

>> Which means there’s really no good reason to keep maintaining the status quo of modern Israel.

#StopIsrael #CaitlinJohnstone
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Ahmed Dahaby
Jun 14, 2025

"CAIRO, EGYPT—On Friday, some 200 participants in the Global March to Gaza were stopped at a security checkpoint outside of Cairo, Egypt as they made their way to Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal 80 miles east of Cairo. After being held at the checkpoint for several hours and having their passports temporarily confiscated, marchers were physically dragged onto buses back to Cairo by plainclothes security officials. Other participants who separately managed to reach the hotel in Ismailia were similarly rounded up, some beaten and forced onto buses back to Cairo."

Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it’s either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2.

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1933645188544516183#m

The wife and son of Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, the president of Azad University in Tehran and one of Iran's prominent nuclear scientist, were murdered alongside the him by the Israeli terrorist attack against their home in Tehran earlier today.

#Israel #Iran #Terrorism
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10:45pm CET: Air raid sirens are sounding in Iran's capital Tehran.

Al Mayadeen reports that clashes between Iranian air defenses and Israeli aircraft are still ongoing at this moment

#Iran #Israel #Tehran #IranUnderAttack
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