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Jury Refuses to Convict Palestine Activists Over Arms Factory Raid After more than 17 hours of deliberation, the jury at Birmingham Crown Court was discharged after failing to reach a verdict.

🚨 Hezbolá agradece a Irán por su firme resistencia ante Israel y Estados Unidos.

El sheij Naim Qasem, líder del Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica del Líbano (Hezbolá), expresó su profundo agradecimiento a Irán. Qasem destacó el papel fundamental de la República Islámica en el fortalecimiento del frente libanés de la resistencia y su contribución para forzar a Israel y EE.UU. a detener su agresión.

Qasem afirmó que los planes hegemónicos de la "arrogancia mundial" fracasaron gracias a los sacrificios y la inquebrantable resistencia del pueblo iraní.

Sostuvo que Irán se enfrentó a las potencias dominantes y logró derrotar los objetivos de Estados Unidos y del régimen sionista, subrayando la importancia de la experiencia iraní.

DIVESTMENT WIN! At their convention this week, the United Auto Workers voted to completely divest from Israel Bonds in a historic victory for the labor and Palestinian freedom movements. This is a huge step toward ensuring our unions aren’t profiting from investing in genocide and apartheid.

This important win was made possible by years of constant organizing and continual solidarity by rank-and-file members. UAW members have been fighting to divest dues money from Israel Bonds for over fifty years. In the 1970s, the UAW Arab Workers Caucus picketed UAW events, held strikes, and organized for the 1974 UAW Constitutional Convention demanding divestment. Workers redoubled their efforts after the Israeli military escalated its genocide in October 2023.

Israel Bonds are direct, unrestricted loans to and investments in the Israeli military and government that fuel every aspect of violence against Palestinians–from the Israeli military’s genocidal assault on Gaza, to the Israeli government’s apartheid system of racial segregation. And because of UAW’s historic vote, the union will no longer be participating in this economy of death.

Speaking from the convention floor, ACT-UAW Local 7902 delegate Raha Rafii invoked the legacy of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., “Reverend Jackson taught us that all struggles are intertwined. Divesting means refusing to fund campaigns against Palestinian workers: the hospital, emergency health, agricultural, and sanitation workers whose daily survival and work is nothing short of heroic. Solidarity is not selective!”

Our movements are growing and we will not stop here. Until the siege and genocide end, the occupation is dismantled, and Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.


JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP; JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work.

June 20, 1967: Muhammad Ali Convicted for Refusing the Vietnam Draft Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing induction in the U.S. armed forces.

Iran says it has postponed a meeting with US officials set to take place in Switzerland on 19 June to formalize the Memorandum of Understanding to end the war between them.

This comes after Israel launched massive attacks on Lebanon overnight in violation of the agreement, killing almost 50 people by Friday afternoon.

Resistance fighters continue to exact a heavy toll on the Israeli invaders. Overnight, Hizballah killed four Israeli soldiers and injured five more in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Tibnit.

The Iranian foreign ministry is warning of “serious and immediate” consequences if the United States does not stop Israel’s attacks – likely indicating that Iran is preparing to make good on its pledges to strike Israel directly.

The Israeli onslaught came in spite of unusually strong criticism and demands for restraint from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance a day earlier.
Israel’s direct defiance of the United States appears calculated to wreck the deal with Iran, whose first clause declares “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

The details of the deal – and the severe obstacles to its implementation, most notably Israel – were the topic of my report on The Electronic Intifada Livestream on 18 June.

Excerpt from "Israel tries to wreck US-Iran deal after losing war” by Ali Abunimah. Read the article at electronicintifada.net.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-tries-wreck-us-iran-deal-after-losing-war

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