Today in Labor History May 31, 2010: Israeli commandos boarded the Turkish ship MV Mavi Marmara, part of a six-boat Gaza Freedom Flotilla, while it was in international waters, and killed ten Turkish civilians, a few of whom may have been armed with metal bars and knives. The flotilla had been organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH). They were carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials to aid Gazans, living under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza. The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) concluded that six of the deaths had been summary executions. Israeli commandos boarded the other five ships, too, where activists employed passive resistance without any violent deaths.

A UNHRC report deemed the Israeli blockade of Gaza illegal. In 2013, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and offered $20 million in compensation. The Freedom Flotilla was the ninth attempt by activists to break the blockade of Gaza.

The Israeli blockade of Gaza began in 2010, in response to the Hamas election victory in 2007. It lasted the entire twelve years until the events of October 7, 2022, when Israel tightened the blockade further and initiated the final stages of their genocide. During the periods of total closure, Israel completely banned all movement of people or goods between Gaza and Israel, the West Bank, and foreign markets, including neighboring Egypt. The world Bank estimates that in 1996, alone, the blockade caused Gaza to lose 40% of its GNP.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #freepalestine #gaza #genocide #israel #palestine #idf #massacre #freedomflotilla #humanrights #civilians #endtheoccupation

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I I hope the next photo of them will be in their new Eid clothes, with smiles on their faces that they haven’t known for the past three years because of the war. 💔🥺

Only $200 is left to make this happen, and there are only two days left before Eid arrives.
Don't forget them
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#EndTheOccupation

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Today in Labor History May 22, 1968: New York police broke through the barricades at Columbia University, busting the student occupations there. As a result, 998 were arrested and over 200 injured. Students were demanding a black studies program and an end to military recruitment and ROTC on campus. Sound familiar? However, today’s student protests are bringing back the worst of 1960s-‘70s police brutality and university intolerance for Free Speech along with McCarthy era firing, blacklisting and doxing of academics for the crime of criticizing the Israeli government, under bogus claims of antisemitism.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #columbia #policebrutality #antiwar #police #policebrutality #racism #antiracism #student #protest #antisemitism #mccarthyism #freespeech #academicfreedom #studentprotest #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation

#Breaking: #Flotilla Participants Released:
Ehab Lotayef @lotayef58, "We, they let us go, but what about the #Palestinians. The world is failing the Palestinians."

Read here 👉 https://canadaboatgaza.org/.../breaking-flotilla.../

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#Breaking: #Flotilla Participants Released:
Ehab Lotayef @lotayef58, "We, they let us go, but what about the #Palestinians. The world is failing the Palestinians."
Read here 👉 https://canadaboatgaza.org/.../breaking-flotilla.../

#FreedomFlotilla2026 #FreedomFlotilla #EndTheSiege #EndTheOccupation #EndGazaBlockade #FreePalestine #justice #humanrights

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@rumboagaza @mycarehq @FreedomFlotITA
@shiptogazaswe @ShipGazaNorway
@PSA_SouthAfrica @USBOATTOGAZA
@ICBSOFGAZA @CJPME

‘As #doctors, we are effectively blinded’: Inside Gaza’s MRI crisis
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=192199&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=92b4d8b3a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-92b4d8b3a5-1401528606

With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel's siege, we cannot diagnose our patients, forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage.

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in #Israel]
May 17, 2026

Also:

• At Jerusalem's Flag March, #BenGvir's #Israel was on full display
• Reviving #Gaza's #cultural scene from beneath the rubble
• A #Palestinian photographer's 'search for what remained' from 1948
• PODCAST: Remembering the #Nakba of #urban #Palestine

#SanctionIsrael
#StopStarvingGaza
#FreePalestine
#EndBlockadeOfGaza
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics

Israel’s war on the #WestBank comes for Palestinian greenhouses
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8&section_id=192069&utm_source=972+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b0f9836f20-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_9_12_2022_11_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f1fe821d25-b0f9836f20-318820309

from +972’s Sunday Recap
#972Magazine [published in #Israel]
May 10, 2026

In Jayyous and neighboring villages, #Palestinian farmers have been served dozens of new demolition orders intended to push them off their land.

Also:

• Despite global outrage, #Israel is still blockading our children’s education
• Palestinians out, foreign workers in: How Israel is remaking its labor force
• Something is shifting in Israel’s peace camp
• The Israeli left is speaking only to itself
  

#SanctionIsrael
#StopStarvingGaza
#FreePalestine
#BlockTheBombs
#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity
#StopGazaGenocide
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #politics

Gaza and the #WestBank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (II)
https://world-outlook.com/2026/05/01/gaza-and-the-west-bank-dispatches-from-catastrophe-ii/

[2 of 2 parts of a dispatch from #JewishCurrents, with an intro by #WorldOutlook]
May 1, 2026

“The resulting testimonies are difficult to read,” says the introduction to these stories. “They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in #Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years. The Gaza dispatches are a portal to a place where dystopian science fiction — the exporting of killing to artificial intelligence and robots, the shooting of children lining up for food aid, the crushing of people under air-dropped food parcels — has become reality.”

#SanctionIsrael
#StopStarvingGaza
#FreePalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank #EndTheOccupation
#SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism
#Israel #Palestine
#news #politics