Seth Galinsky

1 month ago | themilitant.com | Seth Galinsky

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy were victims of a Jew-hating killer in Washington, D.C., May 21, in the wake of a flurry of false reports of a deadly famine in Gaza and blood libels that Israeli forces are deliberately targeting children there, widely repeated in the bourgeois news media. Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were shot multiple times by Elias Rodriguez after leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.

1 month ago | themilitant.com | Seth Galinsky

Thousands of truck drivers — mostly owner-operators — joined a one-week strike that began May 22 and shut down cargo depots and more in 130 cities across Iran. Above, strikers in Gilanegharb May 26. The strike was called in the wake of the April 26 explosion at the port in Bandar Abbas. Many of the 70 workers killed and more than 1,000 wounded were truck drivers.

1 month ago | themilitant.com | Seth Galinsky

In the largest protest against Hamas so far, thousands of Palestinians marched daily in Khan Younis in southern Gaza May 19-21. They chanted “Hamas, out, out!” “Hamas, you’re a bunch of losers — the people of Gaza don’t want to die,” and “Stop the war! Stop the displacement.”More and more Gazans see — and act on — the departure of Hamas as the only way to change their oppressive conditions.

1 month ago | themilitant.com | Seth Galinsky

Bakery owners and workers in at least nine cities in Iran protested May 17 and 18 over rising costs, delays in government payments of subsidies aimed at keeping bread prices low, and frequent power outages that ruin production. Bread is a key staple in the Iranian diet. “Last year the government told bakers not to charge people for 40% of the bread price,” one baker told the press. In return, the government was supposed to deposit that amount in the bakeries’ accounts.

1 month ago | themilitant.com | Seth Galinsky

Israel is taking the next steps to defeat Hamas, amid differences with Washington over the course of the war — fought to defend Israel’s existence — as well with the U.S. government’s moves across the Middle East. In the year and a half since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas death squads carried out the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the Tehran-backed group continues to deliberately use civilians — including women and children — as human shields.