The University of Melbourne, one of Australia’s most prestigious universities, has expelled two students and suspended two others for their involvement in pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

The decision marks a further shift to outlaw political free speech on the campuses and more broadly and must be opposed by students, staff and all those who defend basic democratic rights. It comes amid a deepening offensive spearheaded by the federal Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to outlaw opposition to Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people which Australian imperialism, along with the major powers in North America and Europe, has supported for the last year and a half.

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UK firm RCV Engines has officially cancelled its agreement with Israel for the supply of drone engines, after the deal and the use of the drones to attack civilians in Gaza was exposed by Declassified UK in April.

A Declassified UK investigation exposed the company’s involvement in supplying the engines for the ‘APUS 25’ “long-endurance TactiQuad” drone manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for use by the occupation against the people of Gaza.

... Over recent years, India has become Israel’s most dependable buyer. Between 2001 and 2021, India imported $4.2 billion worth of Israeli arms.

India’s support for Israel has also grown during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

In May 2024, Spain denied docking rights to the Marianne Danica ship carrying 27 tonnes of explosives bound for Haifa, a port city in Israel. The cargo had originated in Chennai, India.

The incident underlined India’s role not just as a buyer but also as a supplier of arms.

Companies such as Adani-Elbit Advanced Systems India (a joint Israeli-Indian venture), Premier Explosives and the state-owned Munitions India have emerged as key actors in this trade. During Israel’s genocide in Gaza, fragments of a missile marked “Made in India” were found in the ruins of a bombed UN shelter in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

This arms flow has become crucial for Israel. With some European countries facing growing public pressure to suspend military support to Israel, India has emerged as a stable, less scrutinized partner.

Israel, in turn, has maintained a steady supply of arms exports to India during this period. This is noteworthy, as arms shipments to other parties have faced delays...

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem
Sat 7 Jun 2025 01.00 EDT

"Reem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children. As they trudged for hours through the ruins of Gaza towards a food distribution centre, she rehearsed over and over again with her 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son what they should do and where they should wait if an Israeli attack turned the column of hungry people into a chaotic, panicking mass and the family were torn apart.

It was the last conversation she had with them. She was dead before dawn broke on Tuesday, killed by a single bullet through her forehead. Her daughter and son spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire."

#UNRWA Agency: The aid distribution model in #Gaza is an invitation for people to their death.

#Genocide #Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Israel
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Conference to recognise Palestinian state to weaken scope of its ambition, diplomats say | Palestinian territories | The Guardian (2025-06-07)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/07/saudi-arabia-conference-to-recognise-palestinian-state-weakens-scope-ambition-diplomats-say
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>> UK, France and other western states will not recognise Palestine at New York meeting, instead focusing on agreeing steps towards it

>> A planned conference in New York this month that supporters of Palestine had hoped would push western governments to recognise a Palestinian state has weakened its ambition and will instead hope to agree on steps towards recognition, diplomats have said.

>> The change to the aims of the conference, due to be held between 17 and 20 June, marks a retreat from an earlier vision that it would mark a joint declaration of recognition of Palestine as a state by a large group of countries, including permanent UN security council members France and the UK.

#WesternTradition #StateOfPalestine
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June 6, 2025 Updated 5:39 a.m. ET

"The rollout of the new aid effort over the past week by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an effort conceived in Israel and endorsed by the United States, was supposed to help Palestinians get aid while keeping it out of the hands of Hamas.

Instead the effort, criticized by multiple aid groups and the United Nations, has devolved into scenes of chaos and death. The New York Times spoke to eight witnesses who described how attempting to reach the sites had become a life-threatening endeavor."

https://archive.ph/dt0Z7

A Palestinian woman was killed as a result of occupation bombing on Al-Nasr Street in #Gaza City

#Genocide #Israel #Palestine

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Keep your eyes’ on the flotilla

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has urged people around the world to keep track of the flotilla as it nears #Gaza amid concerns the Israeli military could attack the #Madleen.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7

#Israel #FreedomFlotilla #Starvation #Media
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Sami Vanderlip and Younis Tirawi Jun 06, 2025

"“You just need to destroy the neighborhood, so that they can’t come back there. Why to destroy? That’s the mission; that’s what I carry out.”

Those are the words of an Israeli sergeant from the 432 Tzabar Battalion of the Givati Brigade who spoke to Drop Site News on condition of anonymity due to Israeli military policy. Givati was one of the brigades involved in implementing the General’s Plan—a policy devised by former General Giora Eiland that used the lack of access to water, food, and medicine as a weapon of war to force the besieged Palestinians in the north of Gaza to starve or surrender."

Macklemore endorses the Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ on stage, playing a special video that Greta Thunberg recorded from the vessel. Keep all eyes on deck, and all eyes on #Palestine.

#GretaThunberg #Macklemore #BreakIsraelsSiege #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #EndTheBlockade #StandWithGaza #FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael #Starvation #FreedomFlotilla’s
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Tom Perkins Fri 6 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT

"The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.

The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian."

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"Do not bury my photos. Let them scream for me, tell my story, expose all I have seen and all I could not save.”

– Fatima

In Haifa, ‘coexistence’ requires silence about Israeli war crimes (Ghousoon Bisharat | +972 Magazine, 2025-06-06)

https://www.972mag.com/haifa-protest-genocide-coexistence/
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A report from #Haifa, "a mixed Jewish-Palestinian city". Do click ⬆️ and read the whole article.

>> Last Saturday, I joined thousands in the streets to protest the genocide. But the ensuing backlash has made me question whether I'm welcome in my own city.

>> I would like to start with a confession: this was the first time I joined a demonstration against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza...

>> The demonstration was organized by the Peace Partnership, a broad coalition of dozens of organizations and political parties ...

>> The backbone of this coalition is the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash/Al-Jabha), the only Arab-Jewish party in Israel, though the vast majority of its members and voters are Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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By Al Mayadeen English 4 Jun 2025 23:17

Macklemore endorses the Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Madleen’ on stage, playing a special video that Greta Thunberg recorded from the vessel. Keep all eyes on deck, and all eyes on #Palestine.

#GretaThunberg #Macklemore #BreakIsraelsSiege #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #EndTheBlockade #StandWithGaza #FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael #Starvation #FreedomFlotilla’s
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James Dennis Hoff
May 26, 2025

"Although it seems highly likely, even to the State Department, that Rodriguez acted entirely alone and on his own initiative, this hasn’t stopped the mainstream media, the Trump administration, or the Israeli government from attempting to use the shooting to silence its critics, sanctify and romanticize the lives of the victims (a privilege denied to the more than 60,000 people murdered by Israel in Gaza), and to actively propagate the lie that the movement for Palestine is a violent and antisemitic threat to domestic peace. "

#Palestine is 2 wins away from making history: its first ever World Cup appearance.

A #WorldCup spot would send a global message of Palestinian resilience. They face #Kuwait today at 18:15 GMT.

#Football
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French dock workers block shipment of military material for Israel (Radio France Internationale, 2025-06-05)

https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20250605-french-dock-workers-block-shipment-of-military-material-for-israel-union-1
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>> The stevedores at the port in Fos-sur-Mer outside Marseille have refused to load crates of links used to assist the rapid fire of bullets aboard the cargo vessel, the #CGT trade union said.

>> Links are small metal pieces, used to connect machine gun bullets and allow rapid bursts of fire. There has been concern in media and among rights groups that they have likely been used against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

>> According to the union, the cargo is 19 pallets of links manufactured by the Marseille-based company #Eurolinks.

#StopArmingIsrael
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