Electronic Intifada:

A bank enabling Israel’s war crimes has issued a major loan for the purchase of a Dublin hotel owned by Bono and The Edge from the rock band U2.

The loan – worth more than $45 million – was announced this week at a time when the death toll resulting from Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza is rising rapidly.

The deal means that U2 – a group that constantly preaches about peace and nonviolence – is now tangled up with a bank profiting from Israel’s violations of international law.

Not all the Irish are on the right side of history.

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AJ:

“Too many massacres have been allowed. Enough.”

(Useless) Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has called for action to prevent an Israeli attack on besieged Gaza's Rafah.

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BREAKING: Harvard is now threatening immediate suspension against hundreds of students involved in the encampment.

This is one of the largest mass disciplinary action in Harvard’s history.

In case you wonder how big a role the universities play in sustaining wars worldwide.

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Channel 12 Hebrew:

Defense Minister Yoav Galant in a conversation with the families of the kidnapped:

“Hamas’s rejection of any plan that would allow the return of the abductees forces us to begin the operation in Rafah.”

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Israeli police encountered an unexpected reception last night in Mea Shearim, a neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem that's home to thousands of anti-Zionist Jews.

The residents waved Palestinian flags and chanted "free Palestine," asserting their identity as Palestinian Jews.


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Such clarity from Clare Daly speaking to Irish students at the encampment is an inspiration.

In her speech, she lambasted Ireland, Europe, colonialism, and Frau Genocide. It’s a bit long (10 mins), but worth listening to.

“The future of Gaza really is the future of humanity!”

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Earlier it rained in Palestine and this was the results for the displaced Palestinians in Gaza.

Islam Abu Mohsen writes,

“A tent is to burn and suffocate while you sit inside it, there is no air and no cooling means, a tent is to coexist with earth bugs all of them and you are in their home now

Tent is lack of privacy, diseases becoming a common thing, coexisting with the bathroom in its primitive form and forgetting the luxury of cleanliness you used to, your children playing with all the contents of the earth after they lost their toys”

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Iran’s first international nuclear conference has begun in Isfahan.

Foreign guests & ambassadors are attending the conference. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador is also seen at the conference.

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