Days of Rage 2025 – 666 days of the war – and other upcoming anti-war events

Others upcoming, mostly local events are listed at:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/07/deep-river-riverkeeper-founded-upcoming.html

Watch some of the just concluded People’s Summit for Korea in New York City:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPi-nrtdbyM  On July 28th a march in Manhattan included the demands “US Out of Korea,” “U.S. Out of the Philippines,” and “US Out of Everywhere.”

There will be a webinar – "Who Really Won the US-Israeli War on Iran?" – Sunday, August 3rd at 11am ET, organized by the International Manifesto Group:  www.eventbrite.ca/e/who-really-won-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-tickets-1496736171179?aff=oddtdtcreator

On the NEA and the ADL:  icssmarx.org/drop-the-adl-why-rank-file-nea-teachers-got-it-right-and-why-their-leadership-got-it-wrong-marcy-winograd-august-3-2025-1030-am-pacific-time/

There will be a Canadian webinar – "How to Start a Divestment Campaign" – August 6th at 7pm ET ?; organzed by Just Peace Advocates, Retired Teachers Divest, Queers for Palestine Toronto, Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, and the Coalition du Québec URGENCE Palestine:   tinyurl.com/how-to-divest

[From JPA:

"Summary of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s recent report

“From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”: A Damning Indictment of the Corporate Machinery

Analysis of 7 major public sector pension plans shows over $16 billion USD invested in war crimes and genocide  

Our Pensions Are Funding Genocide

Canadian charitable sector evidence of financial complicity in Israeli war crimes and genocide  

Academic article by Dr. Miles Howe: Tracking Financial Complicity in Israeli War Crimes and Genocide: Instances of Aiding and Abetting in the Canadian Charitable Sector

Analysis of CPPIB’s 2024 investments shows more than $27 billion invested in complicit companies

CPPIB Investments in War Crimes, Genocide, and Apartheid Increase to Over $27 Billion in 2025

Analysis of BMO, TD, Scotiabank, RBC, and CIBC shows more than $132 billion invested in complicit companies       

The “Big 5” Canadian Banks Have Over $132 Billion USD Invested in Companies Complicit in Israel’s Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide

Analysis of CDPQ investments show over $27.4 billion invested in complicit companies 

CDPQ 2024 Report Analysis: $27.4 billion invested in 76 companies

Summary of 12 submissions to the UN Special Rapporteurs call for input on complicit companies     

Business and Human Rights, Canadian institutions and Sectors complicity, Submissions to the UN "

Note the Electronic Intifada news discussion ever week on YouTube, etc., news often omitted in the mainstream media.

August 2nd the BBC reported that the Israeli government is claiming that the prisoners or detainees being held in Gaza are being deprived of food, though the BBC didn't seem to give the claim more time than the segement  about the starvation in Gaza as a whole.

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/29/asesinos-natos-564-258/

sonar21.com/complicity-in-the-genocide-in-palestine-the-day-of-reckoning-will-come/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/01/declaracion-conjunta-de-las-facciones-de-la-resistencia-palestina/

samidoun.net/2025/07/british-repression-against-the-palestine-movement-continues-airport-detentions-under-the-terrorism-act/

samidoun.net/2025/07/the-zionist-prisoners-and-the-families-of-our-prisoners-in-the-enemys-jails-khaled-barakat/

samidoun.net/2025/07/georges-abdallah-will-be-free-palestine-will-be-free/

samidoun.net/2025/07/georges-abdallah-returns-to-lebanon-free-and-resisting/

tariqeltahrir.org/2025/07/17/george-abdallah-wins-his-freedom/

[ www.palestinechronicle.com/georges-abdallahs-message-to-gaza-palestine-chronicle-exclusive/ ]

samidoun.net/2025/07/what-the-2025-imposed-famine-in-the-gaza-strip-leaves-for-history/

samidoun.net/2025/07/a-call-from-the-students-of-gaza-take-revolutionary-action-to-end-the-genocide-and-forced-starvation-now/

samidoun.net/2025/07/hagana-group-israeli-security-bases-in-brazil-by-rawa-alsagheer/

samidoun.net/2025/07/what-to-do-when-you-too-become-a-terrorist-new-zine-launch/  

www.palestinechronicle.com/targeting-chris-smalls-how-racism-zionism-and-the-freedom-flotilla-collide/

"On the First Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Great National Leader Ismail Haniyeh" – masarbadil.org/en/2025/07/6439/

[On the annual week of action for the Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, etc.:  cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/TS5521.HTM#1 ]  

Originally posted August 2nd at:  samidoun.net/2025/08/on-august-3-and-the-days-of-rage-act-mobilize-and-escalate-for-gaza-and-the-prisoners-break-the-siege-and-end-the-genocide/

On August 3 and the Days of Rage: Act, mobilize and escalate for Gaza and the prisoners; break the siege and end the genocide

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“We call for active and massive participation on this national and global day in defense of our prisoners and our people in the Gaza Strip, to expose the brutal crimes of the occupation against them, and to support their rights and just cause….We look forward to making the 3 of August a pivotal day in all parts of Palestine, in the refugee camps and the diaspora, in our Arab and Islamic world, & among all the free people of the world, to support our people in Gaza and our free prisoners in the occupation’s prisons.” – Ismail Haniyeh, 29 July 2024

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins in the collective call for action on 3 August and throughout the first week of August, for days of rage and action in solidarity with Gaza, the prisoners, and the Palestinian people and their liberation, from the river to the sea. As the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide enters its 666th day of escalation — after over 77 years of a genocidal project being implanted in the region at the behest of imperialist powers — it is more urgent than ever for people around the world, especially in the heart of the imperial core, to organize, escalate, and answer the calls of the workers and students of Gaza, and of the heroic Palestinian resistance, for action to break the siege, liberate the prisoners and end the genocide.

The ongoing escalated genocide in Gaza is being carried out not only through bunker-buster bombs and artillery shells, but also through the massive use of the weapon of starvation against the Palestinian people. While the Zionist regime, with the full participation and complicity of the imperialist powers, has besieged Gaza for over 18 years, since 2 March 2025 it has almost entirely cut off entry of basic supplies and food, blocking access to the United Nations and internationally recognized food distribution projects like UNRWA and the World Food Program, initiating the US-Zionist death traps of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (actually a CIA-private military contractor joint project), and funding and arming collaborator gangs to attack and steal aid trucks whenever they do enter, particularly to UN facilities.

As a result of the Zionist siege, Gaza is currently facing a level 5 famine, entirely created by the Zionist military machine and its imperialist backers in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and fellow European Union powers. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been massacred at GHF “aid sites” — a mechanism to concentrate, surveil, abduct and ethnically cleanse Palestinians — while over 160 Palestinians, including 92 children, have been martyred due to starvation and malnutrition. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that over 1,200 elder Palestinians have been martyred in the past 2 months due to the effects of starvation and lack of health care, due to the all-out assault and destruction of the Palestinian health system by the Zionist war machine. While U.S. “mediator” Steve Witkoff, who appeared on stage alongside lead Trump donor and far-right Zionist advocate Miriam Adelson to pledge his support for the genocidal entity, appears at the GHF “aid” site in Rafah for a photo opportunity, Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif revealed that occupation forces were using suppressors (silencers) to shoot aid seekers in order to reduce the visibility of the crime amid the media attention.

Far from an “honest broker,” Witkoff and the United States — which claims to be a mediator while directing and arming the genocide — have repeatedly used ceasefire negotiations to instead slander the Palestinian resistance while presenting a false image to the public of the world, which is increasingly outraged by the widely shared images and testimonies of genocide and engineered starvation. While repeatedly claiming that an agreement is “near,” these parties have instead repeatedly rejected any kind of dignified ceasefire and instead plotted more war crimes and crimes against humanity, including ongoing aggression targeting Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran, not to mention the massive outbreak of settler violence and military attacks throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

At the same time, over 10,800 Palestinian prisoners — in addition to Lebanese and Syrian prisoners — are living the experience of engineered starvation and slow assassination inside the occupation prisons. Just days ago, Palestinian prisoners’ associations announced the martyrdom of Sayed Jamal Abu Rajab, the 75th identified Palestinian prisoner martyred inside the occupation prisons since 7 October 2023. The Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to extreme torture and abuse alongside malnutrition and denial of medical care, while the leadership of the prisoners’ movement have been held in complete isolation — and repeatedly beaten — for 22 months. In the prison camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot, Palestinians — especially from Gaza — are routinely subjected to sexual assault, physical violence and mass starvation. Palestinian prisoners are women and men, children and elders, from all political backgrounds — targeted as part of the ongoing assault on Palestinian existence and resistance.

Throughout the genocide, the heroic resistance, particularly the armed resistance, continue to confront the occupation and impose a cost upon the genocidaires with unparalleled bravery and commitment to the struggle. In every area of Gaza where the occupation claims that the resistance has been eliminated or defeated, a new operation emerges to prove that the opposite is true. In fact, the occupation has utterly failed to achieve its stated military objectives of freeing its prisoners or eradicating the resistance. It is instead seeking to rely on political and diplomatic power to achieve these goals, as the resistance in Gaza has blocked them on every occasion. Let us be clear — demands for a “demilitarized Palestinian ‘state'” or the “disarmament of the resistance,” whether in Palestine or Lebanon, are demands to continue the genocide without repercussions and achieve what they have failed to do on the battlefield. In fact, it is the weapons of the Resistance that are currently standing as the foremost shield of humanity in the face of a vicious death machine wielded by Zionism and imperialism.

August 3 and the first week of August take on an even more significant meaning when we recall that the call to action for August 3 in 2024 was the final public statement and call to action of the martyred Palestinian leader, Ismail Haniyeh, Abu al-Abed, the leader of Hamas and a national leader of the Palestinian people, who was assassinated by the occupation in Tehran, Iran, on 31 July, only two days later, alongside his companion, Waseem Abu Shaban. This assassination was, like the genocide itself, a coordinated attack with the participation of the U.S.; on the same day, the Zionists assassinated Lebanese resistance leader Fouad Shukr of Hezbollah, while the U.S. bombed Iraq, targeting four leaders of the Iraqi resistance.

He was renowned for his high level of principle and commitment to Palestinian liberation and national unity, and for his rejection of the unjust and unacceptable conditions placed upon the Palestinian people — indeed, the attempt to bargain Palestinian lives for basic rights and dignity. As he declared, “The fortresses will not fall, the strongholds will not be breached, they will not snatch our positions from us, and we will not recognize ‘Israel.'” Throughout generations of struggle, the Palestinian people have made clear that the martyrdom of their leaders will not hold back their struggle; as we mark 3 August one year later, we must also make that clear internationally, and make Haniyeh’s last call to the public one that resonates through the years, for action and solidarity.

Those principles are perhaps more urgent than ever, with the Palestinian cause facing multiple forms of attack: of course, the genocide and starvation regime imposed by the US-European-Zionist aggression on Gaza and throughout Palestine, the taking of nearly 100 martyrs daily, the horrific war crimes against the population. However, the proclamations of Britain, France, Canada and other directly complicit imperialist nations (as well as of Saudi Arabia and complicit Arab reactionary regimes) about “recognition of a Palestinian ‘state'” (without actual control over land, borders and trade; without sovereignty or self-determination; ‘demilitarized’ and serving as a security arm of the Zionist regime; without the right to return of Palestinian refugees; and with the elimination of the resistance) are not about recognizing Palestinian rights but instead about a new project to liquidate those rights. In fact, these statements come as a new report reveals ongoing and widespread Canadian arms trade with “Israel” and as Britain declares Palestine Action a “terrorist” organization for confronting Zionist arms factories.

If any of these states actually seek to support Palestinian rights, the first steps that they can and must take are to impose a two-way, full arms embargo on the Zionist regime; expel ‘Israeli’ ambassadors and close their own embassies; end the criminalization of Palestinian resistance and Palestine solidarity organizations as ‘terrorists’; immediately send trucks and observers, and accompany those trucks to demand the immediate entry of aid to Gaza through the Rafah crossing with no interference or role for the Zionist genocidaires — not to mention the moral obligation to actively support the Palestinian resistance. They are instead aiming to pacify the outrage among their populations about the ongoing genocide, cover up their own complicity and protect the future of the Zionist project rather than recognizing the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people — without conditions — to full self-determination and sovereignty, not to mention return and liberation, on their entire national soil.

This moment has also highlighted the complicity of reactionary Arab regimes that have engaged in normalization with the Zionist project, from Camp David to Wadi Araba to the “Abraham Accords,” in the continuing genocide. From Egypt refusing to open the Rafah crossing to enter goods and international journalists due to the dictates of the U.S. and the Zionist entity, to Jordan criminalizing support for the resistance and even protest while shooting down drones from Yemen and Iran, to the United Arab Emirates creating a “land bridge” to evade the Yemeni blockade of the port of “Eilat” (Umm al-Rashrash), these reactionary regimes are now facing real pressure about their active complicity in the siege, starvation and genocide of Gaza at the behest of the imperialist powers. Meanwhile, in Syria, despite the government’s repeated assurances of its interest in “peace” and normalization, the occupation continues to invade, take over territory and abduct Syrians.

In contrast, at the same time, every day, in Lebanon, resisters and people of the South are targeted for assassinations in rampant ceasefire violations while the U.S. demands the disarmament of the Resistance, while Yemen continues its massive popular mobilization for Palestine alongside and fully integrated with the actions of its armed forces to actively intervene to bring an end to the genocide and cut off its supply lines in an example that should serve as a challenge to all.

This 3 August — and every day from now — must be a time for action, but also a time for escalation. 22 months, 666 days of genocide, amid rampant engineered starvation, the deliberate promotion of disease, and the mass murder of Palestinian children, adults and elders, men and women, in schools, mosques, churches, refugee camps and residential buildings. 

We join the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement: 

Let the first week of August become Days of Rage everywhere—especially in North America and Europe.

We call upon the masses of our Palestinian people, the allies and supporters of the resistance, and all anti-colonial forces around the world to raise their voices loud and clear, take to the streets, besiege Zionist embassies, and turn every public square and city into a point of direct confrontation, until the siege is broken and the aggression is ended.

We must stand up for the martyrs, and for the imprisoned martyrs that the occupation continues to jail after death, and witness for them. Stand up for the wounded, for the health care workers fighting to save lives under the bombs. Stand up for the heroic resistance fighting every day for a free Palestine. Stand up for the prisoners, confronting the occupier daily behind bars, holding fast to freedom.

• Confront the arms factories that trade with the occupation or are owned directly by occupation companies — like Elbit Systems — with blockades and direct action. Shut down the economy of genocide.
• Besiege the embassies of the occupation and its complicit imperialist partners. Shut them down and make it impossible for them to carry out their genocidal business. 
• Shut down streets, government buildings and institutions of the imperial core. The genocide is an emergency. Every day, Palestinians are being massacred and it is clear that the imperialist states will not exert pressure for the genocide to end unless their own interests are on the line directly. 
• Continue the escalations at the embassies of complicit Arab reactionary regimes. These regimes must be concerned about their own futures in order to create counter-pressure to the Zionists and imperialists. 

Wherever you are, organize, escalate and act. Ramp up our organizing and our mobilization, be louder, more visible, and create a greater obstruction for the business of the war machine. It is clear that the genocide will not end so long as its perpetrators enjoy impunity; if we cannot rely or wait for the courts, we must impose popular accountability through action. 

The Palestinian resistance is today on the front lines defending Gaza, Palestine, the Arab nation, the Islamic world, and all of humanity. Our actions must live up to the example they set every day, to end the human-made famine, end the starvation, end the genocide — and fight for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

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Some statements on the June 2025 aggression against Iran/True Promise III

The war began June 12th before 8:26pm by the time here, but Friday, June 13th by the local time?  After initial reporting, the BBC and NPR are covering up Israel's apparent war crimes in Iran and Iran's successful retaliatory attacks on Israeli military and industrial infrastructure.  It is unimaginable that Iran could do anything to make Israel pay at all dearly or equally after it launched a war of aggression and purposefully targeted civilians in Tehran!  Alleged "nuclear scientists" and their families and neighbors aren't civilians?  When did trying to kill the enemy's leadership become standard operating procedure in the "West," and they don't think that it could happen to them?  In addition, on the 14th, NPR seems to think that a few days to weeks of bombing could result in the overthrow of the "Iranian regime."  It could happen, but it didn't happen on either side in WWII or in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, or in western Ukraine or Russia in recent years, yet NPR acts like it is not very improbable.  In Libya and Syria the "West" had Islamist proxy forces on the ground to overthrow the governments.  A former Israeli intelligence officer seemed to be asking the obvious question on the 14th – if Israeli bombing can't overthrow the Iranian government or destroy facilities protected deep underground, what is Israel's "political" goal here, and in Gaza?  What if the bombing goes on for much longer than a few weeks?  After the 13th the BBC and NPR seem to be trying to ignore the war, though NPR spoke of over 70 dead in Iran, when the figure was 78.  They reported three and then 10 Israeli dead, and aren't discussing the damage.  They will probably continue to refer to a war only in Gaza, when the war is or has involved all of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen. Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Azerbaijan, etc.  On the 14th NPR was talking about the risk of 'all-out regional war,' and the US being "dragged" in.  Was that Israel's entire plan?  As if the US and company weren't involved in the war from the beginning.  What is an all-out war now?  October 7, 2023 was Israel's 9/11, and here is their Iraq War, where they self-destructively or catastrophically over reach?   Is this just bringing into the open decades of undeclared war on Iran by Israel and the US, etc.?  They made sure to cut off the Internet in Gaza first, and apparently have cut the West Bank into pieces that they can ethnically cleanse one town at a time, though they also exploit the Palestinian labor.  NPR all but ignores anti-war demonstrations in the "West," but they talked up "No Kings" on the 14th somewhat.  I doubt that they will cover any opposition to the wars, and I might miss it if they do.  The morning of the 14th, NPR's Jackie Northum (spelling?), usually reporting from the State Department, was reporting on anonymous Iranians, one or more happy that their country is being bombed, while the BBC had an Iranian academic on, condemning the "West" on the 13th or 14th.  NPR claims that anti-government Iranians trust Netanyahu not to bomb them.  NPR apparently isn't interested in interviewing other segments of Iranian society, such as the mother of one woman they interviewed.  As in the Libya War, NPR is working for the subjugation of Iran.  I turned the radio on to find out how Israel and Co. are paying for their aggression, not "Western" imperialist fantasies about what they think can be accomplish through a few days of bombing.  NPR humanized the few dead in Israel, and underplayed the large death toll in Iran.  NPR doesn't deserve tax money, though given that it serves the government, why would it be defunded?  They say how barbaric and heinous Russia is, yet I notice that unarmed western Ukrainian civilians are alleged to have stopped advancing Russian tanks early in that war, while Israel apparently has very little regard for civilian life and trusts that Palestinian or other guerillas won't kill Arab civilians being used as human shields by the Israelis.  The Israeli government doesn't even seem to care much about the lives of Jewish Israeli civilians or civilians or military personnel from the "Western" allied countries.  [And NPR faulted Iran for not providing bomb shelters for civilians or directions about where to go for safety.  As if Israel told them what was to be bombed.  The US didn't provide warnings before blowing up bridges with civilian traffic in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Crimea, Russia, etc.  I thought that anti-government Iranians allegedly trust the Israelis not to treat them like Palestinian or Lebanese civilians, and it has been a very long time since even the rich US provided shelters for civilians in cities, and they might not have been of much help in WWIII anyway.]  

Of interest:  www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/gaza-the-sacrificial-ram-on-capitals-new-altar.html

There was a flurry of statements, commentaries, and news items June 12-13th that I might add later.

[There will be a No war on Iran! day of action June 18th, with events in Virginia, etc.:  www.answercoalition.org/iran?utm_campaign=iran_june_18_day_of_action ]

Sent out by UNAC early in the afternoon on the 14th:

Abolish NATO Now!

Hands off Iran!

A UNAC webinar

Sunday, June 15 at 12 PM EST

Click here to register

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty organization, today has little to do with the North Atlantic.  It is an aggressive alliance of Western imperial powers that has bombed, instigated and supported wars from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, Africa, Yugoslavia to other areas of the world.  NATO is preparing for a meeting in The Hague this month. They are meeting at a time that they are losing their war in Ukraine, are showing their true morals as their various member nations support the genocide in Palestine, are being challenged as never before in Africa and are having conflicts, even within their own organization.  At their coming meeting, forces opposed to NATO will also be there with alternative summits, meetings and protests.

In recent days we have seen Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran, and we have seen a strong response from Iran.  The US and other leading NATO countries have declared their support for the aggressor, Israel.  This threatens a wider war throughout the region and once again the threat of nuclear war.  The webinar will address this issue too.

Hear from the voices opposed to NATO who are speaking out and organizing to abolish the organization and bring about a more peaceful world.  

Speakers include:

Margaret Kimberley, Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report, UNAC

Pippa Bartolotti, Global Women United Against NATO, UNAC

Cody Urban,  Resist US-Led  Wars

Moderator: Joe Lombardo, UNAC

Click 

From Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) on the 13th:

Communique

Statement on Israeli Aggression against Iran and its People

The Party of Labour of Iran strongly condemns the terrorist and criminal aerial attack by the Zionist Israeli regime against Iran.

In the early hours of this morning, the Zionist and warmongering Israeli regime, with the approval and cooperation of the criminal American imperialism, launched an escalatory air assault targeting both military and civilian locations in Tehran Province.

In addition to Tehran, Israeli attacks have also hit Natanz, Khorramabad, Khondab, and Isfahan. According to video footage, several residential buildings in various districts of Tehran were targeted by airstrikes.

According to official reports, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces; Major General Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters; as well as Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi, identified by the IRNA news agency as nuclear scientists, have been killed in the Israeli assassination operation.

The Israeli aerial and terrorist attack on Iran, which could mark the beginning of a catastrophic and large-scale regional war, is a continuation of the aggressive war that Israel has long waged in various forms against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and others. This is an offensive, illegal, unjust, and piratical war that violates all international laws. It serves the interests of imperialism and is carried out within the framework of a reactionary and colonial world order. Our Party strongly condemns this aggression.

Iran's military response to the Zionist Israeli regime is defined as a defensive, legitimate, and just, defending Iran’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty within the framework of internationally acceptable laws and self-defence.

The Zionist hands off Iran and the region!

Down with the Zionist Israeli regime and its allies!

 

 Foreign Relations Committee of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)

www.Toufan.org

Friday, 13 June 2025

Originally posted June 13th at:  blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/israeli-and-us-imperialism-lit-the-match

The Middle East is On Fire Because Israeli and U.S. Imperialism Lit the Match 

Overnight, the zionist entity of Israel escalated its war of aggression against Iran by launching unprovoked attacks on the Islamic Republic. The notion that a rogue ethnostate that is currently carrying out a genocide believes that it poseesses the right to determine which countries can and cannot develop a nuclear weapon is both bizarre and egregious as well as brazenly hypocritical, and further demonstrates that the State of Israel operates firmly within the structures of white “supremacy” ideology, colonialism, and imperialism. Iran, like all sovereign nations, has the right to defend itself from aggression and uphold its security in the face of repeated threats and acts of war. This stands in stark contrast to Israel, which operates a settler colonial occupation of Palestine, as well as portions of Lebanon and Syria.

The idea of Israel, the zionist occupation, claiming a moral position is absurd. And the fact that the international community continues to give Israel any credibility is a dereliction of duty and forms a vacuum of morality for all of those who do not stand resolutely against its genocide in Palestine and its attacks on Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Israel’s immunity granted by Western colonial nations is a further reflection of the moral gulf between these states and the vast majority of humankind that subscribes  to values that uphold People(s)-Centered Human Rights, self-determination, and dignity. 

Israel’s unprovoked attack is another example of the lawlessness that is fully supported by the U.S. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) rejects the notion that the U.S. was unaware of this attack. The U.S. had the ability to stop this attack if it was serious about containing Israel’s perpetual war crimes and disregard for international law, which is a  major threat to any form of true peace. The combination of Israel’s continued genocidal assaults and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, and its bombings and occupations of portions of the sovereign nations of Syria and Lebanon prove that Israel and the U.S. are the most dangerous nations in the world. Their power must be dismantled. 

To conflate Israel’s actions with Jewish values is the height of antisemitism. Zionism, an ideology of white “supremacy,” must be wholly separated from Judaism’s teachings of justice, human rights, and inclusivity. Israel is no more a “Jewish state” than the U.S. is a “Christian state.” Both are violent constructs of ethnonationalism. BAP firmly rejects the conflation of Judaism with the barbarism of zionism, just as we denounce the antisemitic trope that equates zionism with Judaism itself.

Israel’s militarism further threatens global stability by spiking the price of oil by 8 percent in one night. This economic shockwave further demonstrates why we must continue linking the devastation of war with the devastation associated with the climate catastrophe that is fueled by capitalist war profiteering interests of fossil fuel cartels and the military industrial complex who both benefit from the Israeli war machine at the expense of human life and the ecosystems necessary to sustain it. Israel’s aggression is capitalism’s credit card with an unlimited spending limit. 

History will remember this moment and Israel’s barbaric acts as an indelible and ignominious stain on international “law” and cooperation, people(s)-centered human rights and the basic tenets of human dignity. 

In Response, BAP Demands that : 

• The UN Security Council and European Union impose immediate sanctions and consequences for Israel’s illegal acts, and institute an arms embargo.

• The international community must expel Israel from the United Nations. It has no place among fraternal nations.

• The international community categorically reject Israel’s fraudulent claims to jurisdiction over Iran’s lawful nuclear energy program.

• The IAEA investigate Israel’s unregulated nuclear program with the same rigor applied to others.

• U.S. lawmakers enforce laws prohibiting military aid to human rights violators by cutting off all arms transfers to Israel or face prosecution at the ICC and ICJ for complicity in war crimes.

• The ICC indict and prosecute Israeli and U.S. officials for continued war crimes throughout West Asia and the lawlessness of genocide perpetuated against the Palestinian people.

• All anti-imperialist, anti-war, pro-peace movements and organizations support Iran's right to sovereignty, self-defense, and self-determination against Israel’s murderous aggression.

No Compromise! No Retreat!

The Black Alliance for Peace, Coordinating Committee

Originally posted June 13th at:  www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/06/13/veterans-condemn-israels-us-backed-attack-iran-and-deploymen

Veterans Condemn Israel’s U.S.-Backed Attack on Iran and the Deployment of the Military in U.S. Cities

Veterans For Peace condemns Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and its targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders. This could not have happened without the agreement and support of the U.S. government.

We call on the Trump administration to:

• Hold back from any further participation in Israel’s war of aggression against Iran;
• Demand that Israel cease its attack on Iran; and
• Withhold military assistance and other aid from Israel as long as it is waging war on Iran and continuing its genocide against the Palestinian people.

Veterans For Peace is a 40-year-old organization with chapters in over 100 U.S. cities. Our mission statement calls on us to “expose the true costs of war,” and to “restrain our government from intervening, overtly or covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations.”

 

We are also protesting the alarming show of militarism in the U.S.:
1) President Trump’s $100 million military parade in Washington, DC,

2) The deployment of National Guard and Marines to suppress peaceful protests in defense of immigrant communities terrorized by inhumane ICE raids.

 

Veterans For Peace is calling for Peace at Home and Peace Abroad. We invite veterans, service members, military families and supporters to join us.

Some attempted assassinations, killings, other deaths, attacks on embassies, burnings, etc.

Two diplomatic staff (German-Israeli Yaron Lischinsky and Kansan Sarah Milgrim) from Israel's US embassy were assassinated and two injured outside an American Jewish Committee event for young diplomatic staff at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC around 9:08pm on the 21st.  The alleged shooter is Elias Rodriguez, 30 or 31, of Chicago, in police custody after the shooting.  Allegedly, according to Wikipedia, the event was about both "fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage" and ways "multi-faith organizations can work together to bring humanitarian aid to war-torn regions like Gaza." – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_killing_of_Israeli_embassy_workers_in_Washington,_D.C.  Apparently Lischinsky and Milgrim had backgrounds including Christianity, Messianic Judaism, and Reform Judaism, but attended the Episcopalian Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes in DC.  They had intended to get married soon. Lischinsky served in the Israeli military at some point.  An alleged manifesto from X/Twitter is online at:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto 

Commentaries on the shooting of four diplomatic staff from the Israel's embassy in DC, two fatally:

A Maoist news organization:  theworker.news/2025/05/22/a-just-act-just-not-a-correct-act/  (I wondered that evening if this event could be used to advance the repressive agenda of Trump-Vance and the supportive Democrats, similar to Bush-Cheney and 9/11, on a smaller scale, or Nazi Germany and the 1933 Reichstag Fire (Monday, February 27th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire ), and according to the article, the PSL is being blamed, though the alleged shooter was only a member briefly, in 2017, and not connected to the party since then, according to Wikipedia.  Federal hate crime and terrorism charges might be applied, in addition to murder.  [Also:  theworker.news/2025/05/22/israeli-zionist-diplomatic-staff-annihilated-in-dc/ ]

An alleged manifesto from X/Twitter is online above and at:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto  

More on Rodriguez' alleged social media trail:  the307.substack.com/p/breaking-x-is-blocking-searches-on (I noticed this) and www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats 

Ken Klippenstein ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Klippenstein ; born February 1, 1988) quickly became part of the story:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits-me-over-manifesto

On individual violent direct action or propaganda of the deed in general, posted before May 21st:  redphoenixnews.com/2025/05/12/urban-guerilla-theory-the-role-of-violence-in-capitalist-crises/

"Killing of 2 Israeli embassy staffers in D.C. seized on to slander opponents of Gaza genocide as antisemites and terrorists" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/27/xtdn-m27.html

[ masarbadil.org/2025/05/5806/ and masarbadil.org/2025/05/5857/ (Khaled Barakat)]

 caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/23/thoughts-on-the-israeli-embassy-staff-killings/ 

www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/05/22/stinking-to-the-high-heavens-of-a-false-flag – The shooting did cover up the news that Israeli forces shot at diplomats from several "Western" and other countries near Jenin in the West Bank of Palestine ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Israeli_military_operation_in_the_West_Bank#21_May ) and Israel was being threatened with consequences for starving Gaza.  Netanyahu talked about "rapists" and "babykillers," etc. the evening of the 22nd and there was something from him or someone about "incitement" and "bloodlibels," by the EU (?) for daring to criticize Israel's war crimes and atrocities.  In the morning on the 22nd NPR had a headline, something about someone condemning Netanyahu's promise to 'end' the war in Gaza if the prisoners are released, Hamas surrenders (and then ...?), and if Trump's "brilliant," revolutionary" (?) plan to depopulate Gaza is followed, "tantamount to ethnic cleansing" someone said – why add "tantamount?"  The liberal Town of Chapel Hill might stand with the US, EU, UK, Canadian, Israeli, and other war criminals from the recent wars in the Middle East to a greater extent than the City of Durham, though Durham isn't much better.

[ www.indiemediatoday.com/p/time-for-a-narrative-change-was-elias-rodriguez-a-false-flag-operation-hdwmt-161 ]

From Sam Husseini:  husseini.substack.com/p/false-flag

[ husseini.substack.com/p/guns-and-bombs-will-not-end-this ]

Chris Hedges on the bipartisan "anti-semitism" smear:  chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-useful-idiots

From Arun Gupta:  www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/25/dead-diplomats/

From John Wight:  consortiumnews.com/2025/05/23/elias-rodriguezs-murderous-gift-to-israel/

A satirical Substack:  www.normalisland.co.uk/p/47-of-israelis-want-to-kill-all-palestinians/ 

[ fair.org/home/nyt-assumed-antisemitism-in-dc-embassy-attack ]/

[From Yasha Levine:  www.nefariousrussians.com/p/a-letter-to-my-fellow-jewish-americans  Earlier:   www.nefariousrussians.com/p/cycles-of-violence ]

[From ADC (released May 22nd):  adc.org/adc-statement-on-the-killings-of-yaron-lischinsky-and-sarah-milgrim/ ]

www.moonofalabama.org/ ?  www.nakedcapitalism.com ? 

On the right:

envisioningtheamericandream.com/2025/05/22/murder-in-the-name-of-palestine/  (A supporter of the Democratic Party?)

www.counterextremism.com/press/counter-extremism-project-condemns-murders-israeli-embassy-workers-capital-jewish-museum 

[The Free Press:  www.thefp.com/p/dsa-torn-over-condemning-murder ]

[Pro-Trump Jason Jones in The American Conservative condemned Congressman Randy Fine (R-Florida) for advocating using nuclear bombs on Gaza following the assassinations in DC; Jones contrasts Fine's comments with those of Palestinian Christian Khalil Sayegh [ x.com/KhalilJeries/status/1925591787193741573 ]:   www.theamericanconservative.com/randy-fine-should-resign/ ]  [Fine, from Tucson and apparently Jewish, has a history of making extreme statements or hate speech about Palestine, Islam, and criticism of Israel; he represents an area south of Saint Augustine, in northeastern Florida:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Fine ]

[From Ben Cohen:  thebanter.substack.com/p/the-language-of-radicalism-a4b ]

[The Tablet on the "Leninist and Maoist" PSL, which they claim to have linked to the "sphere of influence " of "tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham," who they claim is connected to the CPC:  thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/may-23-do-phone-calls-link-museum ]  [Also:  thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/may-28-is-elias-rodriguez-an-antisemite ]  [I guess I have to explicitly point out that the PSL originated in Trotskyism, not Marxism-Leninism or Maoism.]  

[ www.wsj.com/us-news/who-elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-suspect-israeli-embassy-adcf9b65 ] 

Background:  

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_killing_of_Israeli_embassy_workers_in_Washington,_D.C.  

[A Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee (FEROC) sent out their statement and his prison information in early evening/late afternoon on May 30th; I haven't confirmed yet that TariqelTahrir.org is real; I don't remember that address.]  [I checked it out afterward and it might be safe and 'legit.'  Time will tell.]

On Aaron Bushnell (his "extreme act of protest" was done February 25, 2024 outside Israel's embassy in DC) and others:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/03/responses-to-self-immolation-for.html

January 2, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Saleh_al-Arouri

The Trump-Pence administration assassinated Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force (appointed a lieutenant general posthumously); Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, [leader of Iraqi Kata'ib Hezbollah (كتائب حزب الله , "Battalions of the Party of God") and] deputy chair of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); PMF chief of protocol and PR Muhammed Reza al-Jaberi; Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Pourjafari, Iranian Colonel Shahroud Mozafarinia; Iranian Major Hadi Taremi; Iranian Captain Vahid Zamanian; Mohammad al-Shibani from the PMF; Hassan Abdul Hadi (PMF); and Heydar Ali (PMF) early on January 3, 2020, outside Baghdad International Airport: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani , [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata%27ib_Hezbollah ,] and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mahdi_al-Muhandis 

A memorial procession to Soleimani's grave was bombed January 3, 2024, allegedly by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kerman_bombings

[Vehicles were shot at January 6, 2025 in al-Funduq, at the northeast of the West Bank, Palestine; three people were killed and 8 injured; the three alleged attackers were killed, two on January 22nd and one April 16th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_al-Funduq_shooting

[Israeli operatives using false passports from Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK assassinated Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh (محمود عبد الرؤوف المبحوح ; born February 14, 1961 in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp) of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades January 19, 2010 in Dubai, UAE:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-M1abhouh and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mabhouh ]

[Following Israel's January 26, 2023 attack on Jenin in the West Bank, Khairi Alqam, 21, allegedly attacked the Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov in East Jerusalem January 27th, killing 7 people and injuring 3; Alqam was killed in or near Arab Beit Hanina:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2023_Jenin_incursion and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Neve_Yaakov_shooting ]

[January 28-29, 2023 an ammunition plant in Isfahan and maybe oil facilities in Tabriz and Azarshahr and the city of Karaj in Iran were hit by unidentified drones:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Iran_drone_attacks ]

[The League of Blood Incident (血盟団事件, Ketsumeidan Jiken); or the Blood-Pledge Corps Incident) in spring 1932 in Japan began with assassinations on February 9th and March 5th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident  Nisshō Inoue (井上 日召, Inoue Nisshō; April 12, 1887 – March 4, 1967) was arrested as leader:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissh%C5%8D_Inoue ]

February 10, 2015:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Chapel_Hill_shooting

[A lone wolf ramming attack with a car carried out February 10, 2023, allegedly by an Arab citizen of Israel [Hussein Qaraqa, 31, of Isawiya, in East Jerusalem], in the Jewish settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ramot_Junction_attack ]

Free Joseon attacked DPR Korea's embassy in Madrid, Spain February 22, 2019 and turned stolen materials over to the FBI; Trump was negotiating with Kim Jong Un during this period; the attackers are allegedly citizens of Mexico, the ROK, and the USA:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Joseon  Adrian Hong Chang of Mexico has connections to Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), which has or had a presence at UNC, and he allegedly did aid work in Libya in 2011:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Hong

[The February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken) or the 2–26 Incident was an attempted coup February 26-28, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26_incident  People keep comparing the US today to inter-war Germany, but what about the example of inter-war Japan?]  [Among those arrested was Ikki Kita (北 一輝, Kita Ikki; he was born Kita Terujirō (北 輝次郎) April 3, 1883 – executed August 19, 1937): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikki_Kita ]    

An early (?) vehicle ramming attack, carried out by Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar (born May 3, 1983 in Tehran) around 12:01pm March 3, 2006 near the central Pit at UNC:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Chapel_Hill_vehicle_ramming_attack

[March 6, 2008 at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in West Jerusalem:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Jerusalem_yeshiva_attack ]

March 17, 1992 in Argentina:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Buenos_Aires_Israeli_embassy_bombing

March 22, 2004:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmed_Yassin

Ronald Reagan was shot March 30, 1981.

April 1, 2024 in Syria:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_airstrike_on_the_Iranian_consulate_in_Damascus

Cody Allen Balmer, 38 (born March 23, 1987), of Penbrook, Pennsylvania, allegedly set the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence in Harrisburg on fire around 2am Sunday, April 13, 2025 and intended to attack Governor Josh Shapiro, who was asleep inside, with a small sledgehammer  Balmer was allegedly angry over the war in the Middle East, but he also apparently has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and had stopped medication:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_Residence_arson and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_Residence

[Around 12:30pm on April 15, 2023, in Saikazaki, Wakayama, in Wakayama Prefecture, Ryūji Kimura ( 木村 隆二 ), 24, threw a 30 centimeter pipebomb at then Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida.  Kimura was tried February 4-19, 2025 and given a sentence of 10 years imprisonment:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Fumio_Kishida

April 17, 2004:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi

Matt Greenman, cloaked with an Israeli flag, was attacked and beaten by Saadah Masoud at a pro-Palestinian protest organized by Within Our Lifetime ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Lifetime ) in New York City April 20, 2022 (note the year);  apparently Masoud had attacked people thought to be Jewish previously:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Matt_Greenman

Iranian Arabs seeking the independence for Iran's Khuzestan Province (near Kuwait) seized the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London, UK April 30-May 5, 1980; two hostages and five of the six attackers from the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan were killed; two hostages and one SAS soldier were injured:  a recent article in the LRB and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

May 10, 2005 – an attempt to assassinate George W Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili of the Republic of Georgia with an RGD-5 grenade in Liberty Square in Tbilisi:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian

May 12, 1982 in Fátima, Portugal, an attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a 16-inch Mauser rifle bayonet:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mar%C3%ADa_Fern%C3%A1ndez_y_Krohn

Then-vice president Richard Nixon was mobbed in Caracas, Venezuela May 13, 1958 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade

May 13, 1981 in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City, by Mehmet Ali Ağca: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II

[The May 15 Incident (五・一五事件, Goichigo jiken) was an attempted coup in Japan May 15, 1932:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident ]

Guy Edward Bartkus, 25 (September 1999 – May 17, 2025),  allegedly carried out a car bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, for "pro-mortalist" reasons, late in the morning on May 17, 2025:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Palm_Springs_fertility_clinic_bombing and "California fertility clinic struck by car bomb, leaving 1 dead and 4 injured" –  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/23/voxo-m23.html

Joseph "Joey" Borgen, 29, of New York City was attacked and beaten on his way to a pro-Israel protest at Times Square by five men who had just left a pro-Palestinian protest organized by Within Our Lifetime on May 20, 2021 (note the year); apparently Borgen emigrated to Israel earlier this year:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Joseph_Borgen

May 21, 2014:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Taipei_Metro_attack

May 21, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taichung_Metro_attack

[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei (حسن صیاد خدایی; 1972 in Bashmaq, in the Kolah Boz-e Gharbi Rural District of the Central District of Mianeh County, in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran – shot five times and killed by men on motorcycles around 4pm on May 22, 2022 when he came to his home in Tehran); Naftali Bennett, prime minister of Israel at the time of the assassination, claimed in December 2023 that Mossad had carried out the killing):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Sayyad_Khodaei See also:  ] [ durhamspark.blogspot.com/2022/05/toufan-condemns-may-22nd-assassination.html ]

May 28th Israel claims to have killed Mohammed Sinwar (born September 16, 1975 in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza), said to be the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades; his older brother Yahya Sinwar (October 29, 1962, also in the Khan Yunis camp – October 16, 2024):  the morning BBC radio news program , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Sinwar , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar  [From a rightist organization:  www.counterextremism.com/blog/counterpoint-brief-death-hamas-leader-muhammad-sinwar ]  [Does Israel claim that he was in or under one of the Gazan medical facilities they attack and/or wreck so often?  This news quickly dropped from the headlines and might be doubtful.]

May 29th and June 6th in 2020 in Oakland and Ben Lomond (in Santa Cruz County), California:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_murders

 

[According to the BBC and NPR on June 2nd, an "Egyptian national," not wearing a shirt, allegedly attacked a regular (weekly?)  Run for Their Lives event held to remember the Israelis detained in Gaza the afternoon of Sunday, June 1, 2025 (around 1:30 or 1;26pm, in front of a town hall or government building?) in Boulder, Colorado, using either a homemade "flamethrower" or Molotov cocktails (both?); 8 [12?] relatively elderly people were burned/injured, two more seriously, and one critically.  The attacker swore at the group (?) and said something like 'Free Palestine?'  It is being called a 'terrorist attack' and the FBI has gotten involved.  NPR didn't immediately refer to the group being Jewish in the headline [more later (including unrelated events?); no mention of the events in Gaza].  Bigger news on the BBC than on NPR the morning of June 2nd?  The suspect is allegedly a Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boulder_fire_attack  Early in the War I think (Israeli?) tourists were shot at by a security guard in Egypt (Alexandria?).]  [Soliman's entire family was arrested; his wife and children (age?); no media comment.]  

[The attacks in Russia around June 1st and 3rd in 2025.] [And in West Africa?]

[An unrelated attempt to assassinate Israel's ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov, June 3, 1982 was used to justify Israel's invasion of Lebanon on June 6th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Argov ] 

[June 6, 1982:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War ]

[June 8, 1967:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident ]

[Daimyo Oda Nobunaga was assassinated June 21, 1582 (the second day of the sixth month, Tenshō 10) at the Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan, known as the Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変, Honnō-ji no Hen):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honn%C5%8D-ji_Incident ]

[June 25th, June 30th, July 2nd, July 4th, July 7th, July 9th, July 11-13th, July 18-19th in 2020:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iran_explosions ]  [The Stuxnet computer worm in 2010:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet ]  [In April 2011:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_virus ]  [The April 11, 2021 blackout at Natanz://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Natanz_incident ]

Targeting Israeli airline El Al at Los Angeles International Airport July 4, 2002:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting

Around 4:20am on July 10, 2016 in DC's Bloomingdale area, in the northwest quadrant:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich

July 13, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Pennsylvania and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks

[Shinzo Abe ( 安倍 晋三 ) (September 21, 1954 – he was shot around 11:30am JST at Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara on July 8, 2022 and passed away by about 17:03):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe ]  [And:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe ]

July 26, 1994 in the UK:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_London_Israeli_embassy_bombing

July 31, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniyeh

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019, both in New York City):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

[Israel assassinated 12 Ansar Allah Yemeni government ministers, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and Foreign Minister Jamal Ahmed Amer, August 28, 2025 in Bayt Baws, Sanaa:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_August_2025_Israeli_attacks_on_Yemen ]

[Two members (?) of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, from al-Qubeiba and Qatanna in West Bank, Palestine, attacked a bus stopped in the Ramot Junction area of East Jerusalem, on Yigal Street (?), [in the morning on September 8, 2025,] killing six (including a Spaniard?) and injuring 21; the Israeli government said that the two gunmen were "neutralized" – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ramot_Junction_shooting and NPR.]

[There was allegedly an incendiary attack, carried out by drone. on the Portuguese-flagged Familia Madeira, moored in Tunis, Tunisia (?) the night of September 8-9, 2025; there was a similar attack on the British-flagged Alma in Sidi Bou Saide, in Carthage, Tunis Governate, about a day later; mainstream media BBC, CNN , El País, France24, Bellingcat , etc. analyzed security camera videos as consistent with the activist claims of attacks by drone, but the Tunisian government denies that any drones were in the area when the Familia Madeira was attacked – are they covering something up, or was it internal sabotage?  The ships are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF; أسطول الصمود العالمي , Usṭūl aṣ-Ṣumūd al-ʿĀlamī)/Global Freedom Flotilla (أسطول الحرية العالمي , Usṭūl al-Ḥurriyya al-ʿĀlamī; "Sumud "is "steadfastness" or "resilience" in Arabic), an effort to break Israel's blockade of Gaza,  involving thousands of people, representing 44 countries or more, and a fleet of more than 50 ships; apparently ships occasionally got through the blockade prior to 2010.  Israel threatened to designate the crewmembers as "terrorists" and accused the Flotilla of being connected to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Sumud_Flotilla ]

[The afternoon of September 9, 2025 Israel attempted to assassinate senior leaders of Hamas, meeting in Doha, Qatar (in the Leqtaifiya or West Bay Lagoon district) to discuss a ceasefire proposal from the US.  [The attempt failed, but six people were killed, including a Qatari and low-level members of Hamas, and two or more people were injured; others in Doha witnessed the attack and might have been terrorized.]  This is thought to be Israel's first attack on Qatar, though Israel had long been demonizing Qatar, and expands the "Western" war in the Middle East to another country.  The US, which has a major military base in Qatar (home of CENTCOM), designates the country is a major non-NATO ally (if I'm not mistaken), and just received a Boeing 747-8 jetliner from ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One#Boeing_747-8_from_the_royal_family_of_Qatar ), condemned the attack and voted for the unanimous condemnation by the UNSC, but it has been suggested online that this is yet another example of the Trump-Vance administration using false peace negotiations to set up an assassination attempt to be carried out by Israel.  In which case, how can any country negotiate with the US under Trump, though the US (and other colonial powers) did that sort of thing during the Indian Wars as well  [Whatever happened, the US didn't protect its ally.]:   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_airstrike_on_Hamas_leadership_in_Qatar ]

[Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was assassinated September 10, 2025 around 12:20pm MDT while speaking at Utah Valley University (in Orem, Utah), at the beginning of his American Comeback Tour; according to Wikipedia, his last comments  at the outdoor event were: 

Audience member: 'Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?'

Kirk: Too many.

Audience member: Okay, well—[crowd cheers]—it's five, okay [DS:  I only remember two.]. Now, five is a lot, right? I'll give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?  

Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Audience member: Great— 

There was only one bullet, thought to have come from a building relatively far away, which Kirk received in the neck, apparently causing him to bleed to death. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk ]

An alleged assassination attempt against Trump September 15, 2024 at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in Florida:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Florida and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Wesley_Routh

[September 17-18, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions ]

[Around 6am on October 8, 1895 in the Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul, Joseon:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Empress_Myeongseong ]  [An Jung-geun ( 안중근 ; September 2, 1879 – March 26, 1910) assassinated Itō Hirobumi in October 1909, blaming Itō for the killing of the Empress (the Eulmi Incident) and other crimes:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Jung-geun ]

Allegations were revealed by the FBI October 8, 2020:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot

[October 12, 1960:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma ]

Landlord Joseph Czuba, 71, killed Palestinian-American child Wadea al-Fayoume, 6, with a "military knife" October 14, 2023 in Plainfield, Illinois:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Wadea_al-Fayoume

[There was a coup attempt, the October Incident (十月事件, Jūgatsu Jiken) or the Imperial Colors Incident (錦旗革命事件, Kinki Kakumei Jiken), October 21, 1931 in Japan; it was organized by the Sakurakai:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_incident ]  [It was a second attempt by the Sakurakai following the failed March Incident (三月事件, Sangatsu Jiken) earlier that spring:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_incident ]

October 28, 2022 in Pacific Heights, San Francisco:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi

Paul Kessler, 69, said to be "an ardent Democrat who was passionate about progressive causes and Israel" died November 6, 2023, and the government arrested someone, 50, who had attended a protest against the war in Gaza on November 5th in Thousand Oaks, California.  Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles and nearly Biden's running mate in 2020 or a cabinet secretary (derailed in part over a tweet about Castro?), said ..."As details emerge and are confirmed, we stand resolute in condemnation of violence and antisemitism," – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Paul_Kessler

Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood

Three ethnic Palestinian college students, all 20 years old, were shot, causing non-fatal but very serious injuries, while walking along a street near the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont early in the evening on November 25, 2023, allegedly by Jason Eaton, 48; the students attended schools in nearby states:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_shooting_of_Palestinian_students_in_Burlington,_Vermont

Iranian nuclear physicist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) brigadier general Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi (محسن فخری‌زاده مهابادی  Fa-Kh-Ree-Zadeh; 1961 or 1958 in Qom – assassinated on a rural road in Absard, a popular vacation area close to Tehran, November 27, 2020).  Reportedly a robotic/"AI"/remote-controlled gun was used.  Israel is thought to be the main culprit, but would that automatically implicate the US and maybe the EU and NATO, given how far they have been going for Israel in recent years?  The USS Georgia, an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, was seen in the Persian Gulf on November 27th, first in eight years, so did the US have foreknowledge?  An Israeli submarine was also reported to be in the Gulf.  The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) has also been accused.  Reportedly Fakhrizadeh was working on coronavirus testing and vaccination:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Fakhrizadeh ]

[See also:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists – Ardeshir Hosseinpour – January 15, 2007, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi – January 12, 2010, Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani (still alive) – November 29, 2010, Darioush Rezaeinejad – July 23, 2011, and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan – January 11, 2012.]

Luigi Nicholas Mangione of Honolulu, Hawaii (born May 6, 1998 in Towson, Maryland; his family hadn't heard from him since July 2024) allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Robert Thompson (born July 10, 1974) early in the morning on December 4, 2024 as he went to the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City.  Mangione was captured at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania on the 9th.  The ostentatious New York perp walk was on the 19th.  April 1st the Federal government announced that it was seeking the death penalty.  I've seen Mangione called something like 'Saint Luigi of the Court of Claims (?) Adjustment.'   Mangione is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn prior to being tried:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mangione and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

December 17, 1917:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Sacramento_Governor%27s_Mansion_bombing

In Germany:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsb%C3%BCrger_movement

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_the_United_States , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack December 3, 2022 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack April 16, 2013

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

An assassination attempt against Kim Jong Il using a bomb around 2001-2002? – CAQ magazine, now CAM. 

 A criminal fad –  "wrench attacks" to steal cryptocurrency through torture in France, etc.?

UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Lee Harriss Roberts ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Roberts_(university_administrator) ), known for the April 30, 2024 events against pro-Palestinian protests on the campus, got an easy interview on WUNC's Due South May 28th (broadcast at 12 and 8pm):  www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2025-05-28/chapel-hill-lee-roberts-unc-federal-funding-harvard-research-dei-belichick-big-beautiful-bill

samidoun.net/2025/05/77-years-of-ongoing-nakba-the-crumbling-zionist-project-and-the-revolutionary-road-to-liberation-and-return/ 

Anti-Palestinianism – I first saw this term on Wikipedia around 1-3 days ago; the media, etc. don't use it (related to the 'Palestinian exception to free speech?') and Islamophobia is rarely mentioned by the media, while "anti-semitism" is made into a very grave, powerful magic word.  Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism aren't so unfamiliar/:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Palestinianism  

[NPR's Morning Edition will interview an expert on " counterterrorism" regarding "anti-semitism" June 4th in 2025 –  wonder how far right they went in finding a guest?  NPR has interviewed John Yoo, Condoleezza Rice, Steve Bannon, John Bolton, probably Liz Cheney, etc. in recent years, when they no longer held government office.  They weren't pushed very hard on what they did in office.  They might have something interesting to contribute, but NPR rarely interviews even people who are just on the left flank of the Democratic Party, let alone further left.  NPR took the "democracy, if you can keep it" line leading up the election, and 1A still has a program along that line every Monday morning, but NPR won't do much in a new "Red Scare," if the Federal government or paramilitaries start arresting, deporting, killing, or firing and blacklisting alleged subversives, though a Trump might go after NPR as well.  NPR apparently considers leftists irrelevant and deplorable, except when foreign leftists are useful in pushing for the Ukraine War, etc.  A guest on the TED Radio Hour or whatever Sunday, June 1st in the morning painted a dire picture of much information tech companies have to share with the government, and there are the dire post-Snowden articles online.  Paper and ground organization is needed, instead of the Internet, but then there are the cameras, and softness on the Democratic Party.]  [They interviewed a Seamus Hughes from the University of Nebraska Omaha June 4th?]

 

The Coal Glen mine disaster in what is now Farmville (?), near the Deep River, in the southeast corner (?) of Chatham County, North Carolina was May 27, 1925:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Glen_mine_disaster and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmville,_Chatham_County,_North_Carolina

The Eclipse of Thales is supposed to have been May 28, 585 BCE, interrupting the Battle of Halys or the Battle of the Eclipse, during a war between Lydia and the Medes in Anatolia, which was ended by the eclipse:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_of_Thales

May 28, 1901 British-Australian William Knox D'Arcy received an exclusive right to prospect for oil in what was then Persia:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Knox_D%27Arcy

May 31, 1950 about 120 Palestinians held by the Israeli/military in Qatra (now Gedera ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedera ; the Haganah removed the Arab population May 17, 1948) were forced into the Wadi Araba (Arabah; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabah ) desert, part of the Negev Desert.  Survivors began to reach Jordan four later, but at least 30 are thought to have been killed or died out in the desert.  The survivors had wounds from torture, as might be the case in 2025:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/26/tkyf-m26.html

The Assyrian or Bur-Sagale eclipse was June 15, 763 BCE:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_eclipse

This is the 925th post on DS overall and the 52nd post in 2025.