The decision by George Washington University to ban a student from campus after she spoke out about the Gaza genocide during a graduation ceremony was criticized by the school’s International Youth and Students for Social Equality group that said it is in “full solidarity with all students facing repression.”
The independent board behind Ben & Jerry’s, the popular ice cream brand, identified Israel’s military campaign inside Gaza as a genocide, breaking from other major corporate brands that are too afraid to criticize the Israelis in fear of being called antisemitic and boycotted.
The Israeli military, backed by the U.S., has killed or injured over 50,000 Palestinian children in Gaza since the genocide broke out in October 2023.
The death toll in Gaza’s 598-day genocide reached at least 54,056 along with 123,129 injured. There are at least 11,000 people considered missing.
Microsoft admitted last week that it took action to prevent its employees from emailing large groups with keywords such as “Palestine,” “Gaza,” “genocide,” and “apartheid,” because “emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate.”
The standoff between U.S. President Donald Trump and Harvard over his administration’s pressure campaign on universities to squash freedom of speech on campus when it is in opposition to the Gaza genocide escalated last week when a federal judge blocked the White House’s attempt to ban the Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students.
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said the quiet part out loud during an interview Thursday and argued that the U.S. should nuke Gaza like it did to Japan at the end of WWII because the Palestinians, as a people, are irredeemable.
The Israeli military launched a missile strike on a home in Khan Younis that killed nine of 10 children of two Gazan doctors, which “encapsulates the ongoing genocide faced by the Palestinian people in Gaza,” according to the enclave’s media office.
On 19 May 2025, Paris, London, and Ottawa issued a joint statement that stressed their opposition to Israel’s renewed massacre campaign inside bombed-out Gaza and called Tel Aviv’s meager food plan for the starving enclave “wholly inadequate.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, for the first time, that U.S. President Donald Trump’s “revolutionary” plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians is now an official condition to end his revamped massacre campaign inside the enclave.