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Jan 18, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | Sue Harris |West Asia
By Sue HarrisJanuary 17, 2025People rallied at Cyprus Central Airport Jan. 11 to express outrage at the visit from Israeli President Isaac Herzog. They were protesting Israel’s genocidal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon. Other people protested in front of the presidential palace. The Cyprus Peace Council organized the protests.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | West Asia
January 15, 2025After 15 months of U.S.-funded, vicious destruction by the Israel Occupation Forces of every city, including every hospital, school, torching tent cities and over 64,000 official deaths in Gaza, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, in consultation with representatives of the other Palestinian factions, on Jan. 15 announced that a ceasefire agreement with the Zionist state of Israel had been reached.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | West Asia
The following statement from Hamas was released on January 15:The ceasefire agreement is the fruit of the legendary steadfastness of our great Palestinian people and our valiant resistance in the Gaza Strip over more than 15 months. The agreement to stop the aggression on Gaza is an achievement for our people, our resistance, our nation and the free people of the world. It is a turning point in the conflict with the enemy, on the path to achieving our people’s goals of liberation and return.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | Sue Harris |West Asia
By Sue HarrisDecember 31, 2024Yemeni anti-imperialist fighters have proven so effective that the Israeli regime has now threatened to murder the leadership of the Ansarallah forces that govern most of Yemen — as it murdered leading figures of Hamas and Hezbollah. According to military analysts, so far the Israeli state has failed to locate the Yemeni leaders.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | West Asia
Mick Kelly, representing Freedom Road Socialist Organization, gave this presentation at a webinar on the U.S. role in Syria, organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition on Dec. 28, 2024. I am not a religious person, but I do agree with the statement in the good book that says, “Woe unto those that call good evil and evil good.” The events in Syria, the collapse of its progressive government, are not something to be applauded.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
iacenter.org | Gerry Condon |West Asia
January 9, 2025By Gerry CondonCondon, who was a leading activist among exiled military deserters in Canada, places the role of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in perspective, while presenting a survey of how repulsion against the U.S. occupation of Vietnam drove varied forms of war and draft resistance among U.S. youths. These forms included underground living, exile, organizing military veterans against war, and anti-war and anti-racist mobilization within the U.S. Armed Forces.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
iacenter.org | Sara Flounders |No To Nato |West Asia
By Sara FloundersDecember 16, 2024This edited talk was given at the “Americas Without Sanctions” hybrid meeting. This program was held in-person at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., on December 10, 2024 — Human Rights Day. In addition, more than 400 people registered for the Zoom. The program was carried live on WPFW Pacifica radio in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Virginia area.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
iacenter.org | Susan Abulhawa |West Asia
By Susan AbulhawaDecember 6, 2024The following remarks by Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa were delivered during a debate sponsored by the Oxford Union, Nov. 28, 2024, on the motion: “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” The motion was carried by an overwhelming majority of 278-59. Most members of the Union are students at Oxford University in Oxford, England.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
iacenter.org | West Asia
December 6, 2024This article is based on a mass email sent out by the Sanctions Kill! campaign. Join us Tuesday, Dec. 10, in person or by zoom for a program on “Solidarity with People-Centered Human Rights,” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 3:30 p.m. PT at Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20005. On International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, learn how U.S. sanctions violate human rights, with speakers from Palestine and diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
iacenter.org | Will Hodgkinson |West Asia
By Will Hodgkinson December 3, 2024Plymouth, MassachusettsThe article introduces speakers using the Indigenous nation(s) they are a member of in parentheses. Speakers use the original Indigenous geographical names. Hundreds of Indigenous activists and their allies defied wind, cold and driving rain to commemorate the 55th annual National Day of Mourning (NDOM) in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thousands of others worldwide watched via livestream.
