A Palestinian man digging in the rubble of Gaza’s Jabalia Camp after Israel bombed it earlier today.
A Palestinian man digging in the rubble of Gaza’s Jabalia Camp after Israel bombed it earlier today. (@AbujomaaGaza/X)

News Update: “Israel Flattens Gaza’s Jabalia As Officials Present Genocide Defense at ICJ”

As we’re closely watching the news in Gaza’s Jabalia Camp, the political theater worldwide is getting even tenser. Here’s a full roundup of what’s been going on so far, from Donald Trump wanting to deport students to Israel bombing the Camp while expropriating it has the right to defend itself in front of the ICJ.


Trump Promises to ‘Immediately Deport’ Foreign Students Involved in Anti-Israel Protests

What’s that blasphemy?! How dare you? If you really want to deport students and the Biden administration wants to send them to do community service in Gaza, why not include those like myself? Graduates like myself would love to hop in too, y’know!

Israel Flattens Gaza’s Jabalia As Officials Present Genocide Defense at ICJ

Double standards grabbed hypocrisy by the hand and left the chat room.

Denying Israel’s Right to Self-Defense Dangerous and ‘Unthinkable,’ Legal Expert Warns ICJ

Denying that Israel’s crimes and human rights violations have been there since 1948 is what’s truly unthinkable and tone-deaf.

Halting Arms Exports to Israel “Not Wise Path” – UK Foreign Secretary

Corruption is for your benefit, yeah.

The University of California Union Authorizes Strike Over Response to Gaza Protests

Power to you for standing up for your students and colleagues who need your support more than anyone else at this moment.

Protesters Convene in Tel Aviv To Call for New Elections and Release of Hostages

I can’t be the only one waiting for them to just burn that flag in one of their protests.

No ‘Credible Plan’: U.S.′ Blinken Issues Harshest Criticism Yet of Israel’s Gaza Operations

The harshest?? Pfft please, is that all you’ve got? What happened to the radical vocabulary y’all use with Pro-Palestinians?

Israel’s War on Gaza: Ben Gvir Urges ‘Emigration’ of Palestinians at Gaza Settler Rally

That Gvir is the face of modern-day terrorism and radicalism, I swear to God. Like, look at him, or don’t actually; he’s unpleasant to the eye.

BlockOut 2024: Social Media Users Stage ‘Digital Guillotine’ to Protest Celebrities Who Remain Silent About Palestine

Did anyone else just realize that they’re really good for nothing? Like they don’t add any necessary value to life, so much so that things are so pretty normal without them.

Ben & Jerry’s Board Calls Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests ‘Essential’ to Democracy

The co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s are yet another two Jewish people who stand on the right side of history.

Israeli Anti-Zionist Academic Ilan Pappe Interrogated by US Intelligence on Gaza Views

The man is Israeli, Jewish, and a renowned historian who clearly knows what he’s doing when he chooses not to side with Zionism. But no, Zionism is the new Gospel in America and it’s diabolical.

Biden Administration Advances $1 Billion Arms Sale to Israel

Nobody fell for the claim that he would refrain from selling weapons to the Apartheid state.


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