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Less than one week after Israeli warplanes launched an aggression on the Qatari capital, Doha, in an attempt to assassinate Hamas senior leaders, an emergency Arab-Islamic summit was held in Qatar to discuss possible ways to confront Israel after the offensive.

A final communique was issued at the end of the summit, condemning the Israeli aggression on Qatar and other countries in the region, including Syria, Iran, and Lebanon. It also denounced Israel’s ongoing genocide, starvation, and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, as well as settlement activities and expansionist policies in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

Moreover, the communique called on Arab and Islamic states to exert diplomatic pressure and take all possible legal measures against Israel, without mentioning any military action as a potential response to its continuous aggression and violations.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/arab-islamic-summit-produces-embarrassing-response-to-israels-crimes-says-dr-issam-khawaja/
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Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a “strategic mutual defense agreement” in Riyadh on Wednesday, September 17. Analysts speculate that the agreement could unleash fundamental shifts in regional politics.

Among other things, the deal, signed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during the latter’s visit to Saudi Arabia, provides for joint responses in the case of an attack against one of the signatories.

The joint response provision was confirmed by a statement issued by the prime minister’s office in Islamabad on the same. The statement says that the agreement “aims to develop aspects of defense cooperation between the two countries and strengthen joint deterrence against any aggression,” Dawn reported.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/pakistan-and-saudi-arabia-sign-landmark-defense-agreement-in-a-step-toward-regional-alignment/
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Solidarity with Palestine has long been a recurring theme at Belgium’s ManiFiesta, yet it has taken on particular significance since Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip began. Between September 13 and 14 in Ostend, at least two dozen events – including discussions, film screenings, dabke workshops, and concerts – highlighted the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the role of European movements in supporting it.

“It’s very evident how Palestine is front and center here at the festival,” Basil Farraj of the Bisan Center for Research and Development told Peoples Dispatch. “It’s nice to see how Viva Salud and other organizations have managed to create these international solidarity connections, not only with Palestine, but also with Cuba, the Congo, and others.”

“It’s very important work that’s being done to transnationalize our struggles, because the struggle in – and for – Palestine is not isolated from other struggles worldwide,” he added.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/palestine-solidarity-takes-center-stage-at-manifiesta-2025/
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Lying over blankets spread out on the dirt in isolation centers thatched up with mud and straw, thousands, many visibly malnourished, suffer cholera with no medical care in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

Since the outbreak in Darfur this June, the deadly disease has infected almost 12,200 people, claiming at least 509 lives as of Wednesday, September 17, when 135 new cases and 17 deaths were reported by the General Coordination of Darfur Displaced People and Refugees.

Its spokesperson, Adam Rojal, added that the rate of spread is increasing, killing at least 48 last week, when 1,665 fresh cases were recorded, “in addition to malaria” and “malnutrition among children”.

Numbers understate the severity of the epidemic because the underdeveloped healthcare infrastructure in Darfur, already ravaged by a regional civil war in the 2000s, has completely collapsed amid the fighting between the army and the paramilitary since April 2023.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/thousands-suffer-cholera-with-no-medical-care-in-war-torn-sudans-darfur/
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The documentary “Sahel: Homeland or Death” (“Sahel: La Patrie ou La Mort”), produced by BdF, premiered this Tuesday, September 16, in São Paulo. The film examines grassroots resistance and the new development trajectories being charted in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali following waves of civilian and military uprisings in recent years.

BdF reporter Pedro Stropasolas spent two months traveling across the Sahel to document the foundations of what locals describe as “real independence”. Stropasolas, who was on assignment in the region, directed the film which presents the role of popular resistance in sustaining revolutionary processes and draws on in-depth reporting of social dynamics and geopolitical struggles.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/19/bdfs-new-documentary-sahel-la-patrie-ou-la-mort-highlights-africas-struggle-for-sovereignty/
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A funeral was held in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, September 16, for 31 Yemeni journalists, who were assassinated in Israeli airstrikes that targeted the offices of 26 September and Al-Yemen newspapers in the city one week earlier.

Over 20 other journalists, and dozens of civilians were injured in the aggression, which destroyed the headquarters of the two newspapers completely.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/20/yemen-bids-farewell-to-31-journalists-assassinated-by-israel/
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On September 15, the body of 21-year-old student Demartravion “Trey” Reed was found hanging near the pickleball courts at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. An autopsy conducted by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be a suicide. But civil rights leaders and Reed’s family are questioning the official narrative.

Before the official autopsy results were announced, the NAACP wrote in a post on Instagram that “our people have not historically hung ourselves from trees,” referring to the history of violent lynching of Black people in the US, concentrated in Deep South areas of the country during the Jim Crow era.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/20/after-black-man-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-mississippi-civil-rights-leaders-question-official-story/
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With slogans of “Down with Trump”, “Down with imperialist agenda”, Swaziland’s pro-democracy activists exiled in South Africa protested outside the US embassy in Pretoria on September 19, condemning the Trump-King Mswati deportation deal.

For an alleged USD 500 million, Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III, reached a deal with US President Donald Trump allowing him to deport migrants convicted of crimes to Swaziland. The first group of five deportees, none of whom were from Africa, was flown into Swaziland (renamed eSwatini by Mswati) on June 15.

The US Department of Homeland Security’s spokesperson had described the deportees – convicted of violent crimes including murder and child rape – as “so uniquely barbaric that their home countries” in Asia and Latin America “refused to take them back.”

However, in a decision condemned as “treacherous” in Swaziland, Mswati agreed to take them in, “only because he wants more money to enjoy with his children and 15 wives”, said the president of Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO), Sakhile Nxumalo, in his address to the demonstration.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/20/exiled-swazi-activists-protest-trump-deportation-deal-outside-us-embassy-in-south-africa/
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The Second World War as seen from Asia, is a different story than that one shown in Hollywood, and remembering it is fundamental to face the challenges of our time.

The official histories of the Second World War, curated by Western powers, are built upon a foundation of deliberate omissions. They typically mark the war’s beginning with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 or the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This chronological sleight of hand is a profound political act, framing the conflict as a primarily European affair and erasing a full decade of war, fascism, and resistance that had already engulfed Asia.

📲 Read the full article by Tings Chak on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/21/the-war-that-began-in-asia-revisiting-the-roots-of-the-world-anti-fascist-war/
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🇮🇹🇵🇸 Italy goes on strike for Palestine and Global Sumud Flotilla, facing violent repression

Tens of thousands participated in a national strike called for by unions in Italy in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla. In cities across Italy, thousands on the streets demanded an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, and for the safety of the humanitarians, activists, journalists, and health workers who are taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest attempt to break the blockade on Gaza. Protesters also demand that their government cut all ties with Israel and stop enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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“When the world stays silent, we set sail.”

Artists and musicians are onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla that is headed towards Gaza to break the blockade. Phill Campbell reflects on the power of song.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/sailing-to-break-the-siege-singing-to-break-the-silence/
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🇵🇸VOICES FROM THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA!

Ayoub Habraoui, from the International People's Assembly, narrates the difficulties faced by the flotilla as drones (accused of being Israeli) are hovering ahead in an attempt to deter them from advancing forward. However, activists have reaffirmed their commitment to continue towards Gaza to break the Israeli blockade on the enclave and deliver aid.
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Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío, along with Cuban diplomats from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, gathered in Harlem alongside US-based activists and organizational leaders to commemorate the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and Malcolm X which took place 65 years ago.

“The meeting at the Hotel Theresa was not a photo-op or passing event,” said Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of New York City-based movement incubator The People’s Forum. De Los Santos addressed the crowd gathered in the Riverside Church in Harlem. “It was a profound act of solidarity that showed the world a different way forward.”

In September 1960, Black leaders, including Malcolm X, invited revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and the rest of the Cuban delegation to stay at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. This was after the delegation was met with hostility and state repression during their stay at the Shelburne Hotel in downtown Manhattan.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/amid-washingtons-escalated-hostilities-diplomats-and-activists-gather-to-commemorate-historic-meeting-between-fidel-and-malcolm-x/
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Alaa’s release by way of a presidential pardon came after a long international solidarity campaign calling for his freedom and a 10-month hunger strike by his elderly mother.

Abd el-Fattah has been one of the most visible faces in the struggle to free the tens of thousands of political prisoners in Egypt.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah played a prominent role in the 2011 protests which brought down long-term ruler Hosni Mubarak and paved the way for democratic elections in the country. However, following the 2013 coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alaa faced severe state persecution for his activism. He and his family members have been in prison several times in the last decade. Alaa was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014. However, within months of his release in 2019, he was rearrested along with lawyer Mohamed al-Baqer and placed under pre-trial detention for over two years, in violation of Egypt’s own laws. In December 2021, he was again convicted by an Egyptian court to five years in prison on charges of “spreading fake news”.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/egyptian-british-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-released-from-prison/
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The Lebanese state accused Israel of undermining the US-brokered disarmament plan with its fresh aggression.

The IOF claimed that the purpose of the new aerial campaign is to prevent the Lebanese resistance group from restoring its capabilities in the targeted areas.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) issued a statement on Friday, denouncing the new Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon. The UNIFIL described the Israeli airstrikes as violations of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701. It further cautioned Israel against jeopardizing regional stability by launching such assaults.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/23/israel-escalates-aggression-on-southern-lebanon-in-new-violation-of-un-resolution-and-ceasefire-deal/
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Marita, whose father was killed by Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile in 1976, sails toward Gaza to break the Israeli blockade.

María “Marita” Rodríguez is a Swedish and Chilean woman who lives in Stockholm. She spoke to us from her boat about her journey and why she was there in the first place.

The journey, Marita said, “has been unique”. There was a drone attack on the boats in Tunis harbor, but that is now behind them. They are looking forward to breaking the Israeli blockade. There are only six people on her boat.

“We are all normal people,” she said, “who cannot stand idly by when genocide is happening before our eyes”. The morale on the boats, Marita says, is high because the people on them “know that we are on the right side of history”.

📲 Read the full article by Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad on our website.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/the-memory-of-chilean-resistance-sails-toward-gaza/
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🇵🇸"Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza."

🇧🇷Brazilian President Lula da Silva spoke today in the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly underway in New York City to sharply condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza and call for immediate action to stop Israel's criminal actions. Lula also condemned the US veto of the decision of 150 countries to recognize Palestine as a State.

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Several European countries announced their recognition Palestinian statehood during a session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22.

However, these recognitions are likely to include caveats that undermine the officials’ stated intentions. Such disclaimers already accompanied British and Portuguese announcements.

Solidarity movements across Europe have repeatedly demanded recognition of Palestinian statehood during their campaigns over the past 23 months. Yet they stress that such announcements now come late and risk being reduced to token gestures by governments supporting genocide. During the time it took these leaders to reach a decision and draft their statements, Gaza was reduced to rubble and at least 65,000 Palestinians were killed.

Governments preparing to announce recognition also carry a record of repressing pro-Palestine movements at home. Multiple solidarity groups and activists faced legal attacks not only in Britain, but also in France and Belgium. The recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UNGA makes little sense knowing that the same administrations have attempted to punish people campaigning for peace.

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https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/22/what-to-expect-from-the-european-wave-of-palestinian-statehood-recognition/
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