French-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan was taken into police custody in France on Thursday for "apology for terrorism" after a post about Palestinian resistance.

On 26 March, the 33-year-old politician shared on X an article about Japanese pro-Palestinian activist Kozo Okamoto, a former member of the Japanese Red Army, who participated in an attack on Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel in 1972 that killed 26 passengers.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-palestinian-mep-custody-apology-terrorism-x-post

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Austria has rejected multiple US requests to use its airspace for military operations against Iran, citing neutrality laws, Austrian Defense Ministry spokesperson Colonel Michael Bauer announced on 2 April.

“There have indeed been requests, and they were refused from the outset,” Bauer said in a statement reported by public broadcaster ORF, adding that “every time a similar request involves a country at war, it is refused.”

https://thecradle.co/articles/austria-denies-us-military-access-to-its-airspace-for-iran-operations

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Greek shipping companies have been secretly transporting oil, coal and military cargo to Israel, Middle East Eye can reveal.

According to a new report, produced by the No Harbour for Genocide campaign and seen exclusively by MEE, at least 57 covert crude oil shipments were delivered to Israeli ports between May 2024 and December 2025, while Israel was carrying out its genocide in Gaza.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-greek-ships-secretly-supplying-israel-oil-and-military-cargo

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Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party (YP) and Zack Polanski’s Green Party appear to be making moves towards rehabilitating Zionism.

A recent landmark motion which declared Zionism as a form of racism was railroaded by pro-Israel members at the Green Party’s spring conference. The blatant filibustering on display has devastated the huge proportion of the Green’s membership who rightfully demand an anti-Zionist stance.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/04/02/zionism-is-racism-saga/

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The picture of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir jubilantly trying to open a champagne bottle on the Knesset floor over the passing of a death penalty law for Palestinians will be anchored in history as one of those photographs that needs no caption.

It’s the image of a country that has never truly left the colonial moment into which it was born.

https://truthout.org/articles/israels-palestinian-only-death-penalty-law-draws-on-britains-colonial-playbook/

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The American press does its best not to cover savage Israeli views of Palestinians, but a leading New York synagogue gave an honored platform to those views ten days ago.

Benjamin Anthony said that all “Palestinian Arabs” in Gaza pose such a threat to Israel that the international community should use “muscular diplomacy” with Egypt so as force the population out of Gaza into an “enclave” in the Sinai peninsula.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/04/prominent-new-york-synagogue-hosts-presentation-on-why-u-s-jews-should-support-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and immediately retire, CBS News reported Thursday, Anadolu reports.

Citing sources familiar with the decision, the broadcaster said Hegseth wants someone in the role who would implement President Donald Trump and Hegseth’s vision for the Army.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260402-us-defense-chief-asks-army-chief-of-staff-gen-george-to-step-down-report/

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A Democratic National Committee member says she will introduce a resolution rejecting AIPAC spending at this month’s DNC meeting.

“At a time when Democratic voters might really not have felt represented or seen when it came to Gaza or seeing their party support Palestinian rights or stand against military conflict, this could be one step toward bringing those voters back into the party,” Allison Minnerly, told The Intercept.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/04/the-shift-the-democratic-party-battle-over-aipac-heats-up/

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Donald Trump is costing American taxpayers billions of dollars for a lethal long-range missile to illegally bomb Iran, even as he slashes funding for public services at home.

The Tomahawk has already been used in at least one documented war crime. The New York Times reported that videos showed a Tomahawk had struck near the Minab girls’ school in the early hours of the US-Israeli war in Iran.

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-iran-tomahawk-missiles-buy

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If Donald Trump can be depended on for anything, it’s saying the quiet part out loud.

At an Easter lunch event at the White House yesterday, the president explained that the cost of war meant the the US government couldn’t afford to spend money on helping Americans meet their basic needs: "The United States can’t take care of daycare [..] We have all these other people; we’re fighting wars."

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-war-iran-cost-childcare

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