Week in Review

BREAKING: HSBC fully withdraws its shareholdings in Israel’s biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems. In the previous quarter, the bank dumped 96% of its shares in Elbit. After sustained direct action, HSBC has now ended all of its investments in Israel’s Elbit Systems.

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BREAKING: HSBC fully withdraws its shareholdings in Israel's biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems. In the previous quarter, the bank dumped 96% of its shares in Elbit. After sustained direct action, HSBC has now ended all of its investments in Israel's Elbit Systems.

9:44 AM · May 8, 2026 · 65.9K Views

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The annexation of the occupied territories continues under the radar.

apartheid: separate systems for separate communities, military laws/courts for Palestinians, civilian laws/courts for Jewish Israeli settlers

If Jews who survived the Nazi Holocaust can get reparations from Germany, why not Palestinians who survived the Nakba?

The Israeli dispossession of Palestinian property in 1948 did not only include homes and lands. Many also lost access to bank accounts and other wealth. Today that stolen property is estimated to be worth over one hundred billion dollars.

How Israel used its soft power-hasbara to influence Eurovision, challenging a boycott and influencing votes - all a cultural whitewashing in the midst of a well-documented genocide and international condemnation.

chanting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free”

A flier that read “Love Jews Hate Zionism”

Graffiti that read: “End Zionism”

stickers that read: “Zionism is Racism” and “Zionism is Genocide.”

flyer “A GENOCIDAL ISRAEL IS BAD FOR ALL JEWS”

“Thank you, Bari Weiss.”

That was the message delivered by Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, following CBS News’s mostly deferential interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Bari Weiss, “self-avowed “Zionist fanatic” makes a mockery of critical thoughtful reporting on Israel.

Watch | Palestinians run Gaza marathon in defiance after two-year halt amid genocide. Palestinians gathered in central Gaza to take part in the 10th Palestine International Marathon, with around 1,900 participants joining the event, according to organizers. The marathon resumed after a two-year halt caused by Israel’s ongoing genocide, as runners took to the streets in a display of resilience despite destruction and siege.

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Watch | Palestinians run Gaza marathon in defiance after two-year halt amid genocide - Reuters Palestinians gathered today in central Gaza to take part in the 10th Palestine International Marathon, with around 1,900 participants joining the event, according to organizers. The

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For the first-ever ‘Beyond Israelism’ LIVE event, host Simone Zimmerman sat down with Emmy award-winning actor and comedian Hannah Einbinder, British-Palestinian novelist Isabella Hammad, and Columbia University graduate and former ICE detainee Mahmoud Khalil at New York City’s famous Riverside Church.

(Free subscribers get a 5-minute preview of the video above while Zeteo’s paid subscribers can watch it in full.)

In disturbing news from Gaza, the wife of Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlout, the former Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was seized during the first raid on the hospital by Israeli forces, on December 12, 2023 — a year before Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who took over his role, was also seized — has stated that a lawyer for the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs was finally able to visit him on May 5, and that, the day after, the family was informed that his administrative detention, under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatants Law”, has been renewed for another six months.

Shockingly, Dr. Al-Kahlout’s wife also confirmed that “his weight has dropped to only 55 kg”, and that he is being held “under extremely harsh conditions” in the administrative section of Ayalon Prison, a maximum-security prison in Israel that was formerly known as Ramla Prison.

Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

“Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced writer and reformer Julia Ward Howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage. Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society.

from Dr. Elizabeth Berger: “academic chapter on Palestine that Samah Jabr and I co-authored with a third writer Sarah Mohr. Our chapter was published by Springer in an edited textbook one month ago; a few weeks later, we received an email from Springer informing us that its senior management intended to retract our chapter!”

Similar to my latest experience publishing in an academic journal (Brill) where my article was accepted and never published….

This struggle has always been about land and power. Israel seizes 1,000 sq km across Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria: Israel has occupied around 1,000 square kilometers of territory in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria since October 2023, according to the Financial Times. The land—roughly five per cent of Israel’s 1949 borders—includes large areas of southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have established a “security zone,” almost two-thirds of Gaza now under Israeli occupation as it pushes past the agreed-upon “Yellow Line,” and positions inside Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime.

Israel intercepts all vessels in Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters: Israeli forces intercepted all vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters Tuesday, ending the convoy’s attempt to break Israel’s siege of Gaza, organizers reported. The 54 civilian boats carrying 428 participants had departed Marmaris, Turkey four days ago before being surrounded roughly 250 nautical miles off Gaza’s coast. All five Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessels were also intercepted. Israeli minister posts video showing abuse of detained flotilla members: Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted Wednesday on X a video showing mistreatment of detained flotilla activists in Ashdod Port alongside the caption “Welcome to Israel.”

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BREAKING: All vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla have now reportedly been intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters, according to organizers, ending the convoy’s attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. Organizers say 54 civilian boats carrying 428 participants

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⚡️Watch the live Israeli interception of another Gaza-bound aid boat on AP’s livestream. Activists threw their phones into the water and raised their hands as Israeli naval vessels tracked and then approached the ship. At least 5 boats have reportedly been intercepted overnight https://t.co/HExeDAd3M7

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ככה אנחנו מקבלים את תומכי הטרור Welcome to Israel 🇮🇱

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The United States has imposed sanctions on four activists for their involvement in the flotillas trying to break Israel’s siege on Gaza, alleging without evidence that organisers of the vessels are trying to reach the Palestinian territory “in support of Hamas”.

Most media is not reporting this. AIPAC-backed challenger defeats Rep. Thomas Massie in most expensive House primary in history: Republican Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary Tuesday to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein after AIPAC and allied pro-Israel groups poured more than $15.8 million into the race, making it the most expensive House primary in U.S. history at roughly $32 million in total spending—surpassing AIPAC’s 2024 spending to oust Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

Under the radar, the slow creep of erasure of Gaza using Israeli military and Palestinian militias. How Israel is using militias and concrete blocks to seize what remains of Gaza. Israeli forces have pushed past the “Yellow Line” that divides the Gaza Strip in half and now control 65% of the territory. Residents call the new border Gaza’s “apartheid wall.”