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Palestinians in Latin America organize against erasure
Ana Maria Monjardino 16 September 2025 Rawa Alsagheer at a demonstration in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on 17 May, 2025. Ratib Al SafadiSiman Khoury left his hometown of Aboud, Palestine, in May 1980. Just 25 and recently married at Bethlehem’s Church of...

Palestinian designer crowdfunds his way from West Bank to London
Victoria Brunton speaks with Ayham Hassan, the award-winning Palestinian designer who crowdfunded his way from the West Bank to Central Saint Martins. After debuting his graduate collection in London, fashion designer Ayham Hassan quickly found...

Palestine resounds in Emmy Awards gala
“Fuck ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Free Palestine,” said Einbinder, winner of the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, as she took the stage last night at a packed Peacock Theater filled with celebrities. In...

Netanyahu’s ‘super-Sparta’ vision braces Israel for isolated economic future
Hours before unleashing a ground offensive against Gaza City on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu braced his country for a future of mounting economic isolation, urging it to become a “super Sparta” of the Middle East. The future the prime minister laid...

HEAL Palestine
HEAL Palestine, founded in January 2024, is a US-based 501c3 charity. It claims to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, as well as facilitate travel to the US from Gaza for medical treatment. Steve Sosebee is the founder and...

President Higgins backs Palestinian state as he opens Ploughing
IN remarks which prompted applause and cheers when he opened the National Ploughing, President Michael D Higgins condemned the famine in Gaza and predicted the emergence of a Palestinian state. President Higgins has attended all of the annual...

Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) / United States of America: Sanctions against Palestinian civil society organisations must stop now!
OPT 002 / 0925 / OBS 056 Judicial and administrative harassment / Obstacles to freedom of assembly Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) / United States of America 16 September 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a...

Norfolk Southern announces completion of East Palestine site restoration following 2023 toxic train derailment
'Site restoration activities are complete, and the associated particulate air monitoring has concluded in accordance with approved plans.' EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Norfolk Southern has announced that the site restoration in East Palestine following...

The Economics of Donald Trump’s Mass Deportations
On September 4, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia and arrested about 475 mostly South Korean nationals. Images of them shackled by the wrists and ankles have caused outrage. The workers were engineers and...

Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Could Be Next.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump during a dinner in the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Sarah Leah Whitson is the executive director of DAWN. For decades, the Treasury Department has politicized its...

Trump heads to a UK state visit where trade and tech talks mix with royal pomp
Jill Lawless and Michelle L. Price London — U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the trans-Atlantic...

H M Sultan Haitham reviews development plans and economic progress
Salalah – His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik chaired a Council of Ministers meeting at Al Mamoura Palace in Salalah on Tuesday, reviewing local, regional and international developments. The council examined the outcomes of the 10th Five-Year...
'Threat To Peace': India Slams Israeli Attack On Qatar After Voting In Favour Of Palestine State
Google’s New AI Is BANANAS: How To Use Gemini Nano Banana Ghibli art trend was a classic example of a new creative trend taking over social media. Now, Google has launched its most advanced image editing model ever, and it's creating a new wave of...

Police respond to pro-Palestine encampment at BU
Local News The Boston University campus. Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe, File By Ross Cristantiello September 16, 2025 | 12:26 PM 2 minutes to read Share Close Send this article to your social connections. Share Send this article to your social...

Israeli Troops Push Into Gaza City, Forcing Desperate Palestinians to Flee
The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had launched a ground incursion into Gaza City overnight, embarking on a risky operation to take control of a key urban area even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents remain there. The...

Former Paramount Chair Shari Redstone Joins Israeli Film Company As Chair—As Hollywood’s Israel Boycott Grows
Topline Shari Redstone, who until Paramount’s merger with Skydance served as the media company’s chairwoman, joined Israeli film studio Sipur as its chair, amid a Hollywood boycott of the Israeli film industry that has garnered thousands of...

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist
Even before immigration authorities began rounding up international students who had spoken out about Israel’s war on Gaza earlier this spring, there was a sense of fear among campus activists. Two graduate students at Cornell University — Momodou...

Palestinian firms launch renewable energy company
The new company called Taqa will develop clean power projects to reduce reliance on electricity imported from Israel Become a MEED subscriber for unlimited access to: Exclusive news, comment and analysis on the MENA region An unrivalled 20-year...
President calls for action on Palestine crisis in final Ploughing address
Published: Tue 16 Sep 2025, 3:44 PM Last updated: Tue 16 Sep 2025, 3:45 PM By Rebekah O'Reilly President Michael D. Higgins used his final visit to the National Ploughing Championships to deliver a powerful address on the urgent need for...

At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself
Many world leaders will arrive at the United Nations for their annual high-level meeting in the last week of September with a sense of trepidation. Although the U.N. is marking the 80th anniversary of its founding, three less happy themes will...