HONORING MARTYRED PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS | ACTIVISTS UNDETERRED IN THE FACE OF ESCALATING REPRESSION INTERNATIONALLY | PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE CONTINUES TO HUMILIATE ZIONIST FORCES
Contents:
I. The Coverage Continues: CUAD Honors the Martyred Palestinian Journalists
II. Repression Breeds Resistance - Worldwide Activists are Undeterred
III. Netanyahu's ‘Total Victory’ becomes a Total Collapse: Zionist Forces Fall Before Steadfast Palestinian Resistance
IV. ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ - Another Tool in the Genocide
THE COVERAGE CONTINUES: CUAD HONORS THE MARTYRED PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS
Palestinian journalists hold a revolutionary role and legacy. For over 75 years, they have exposed the occupation for every avenue the genocidal campaign attempts. In the past two years alone the zionist entity has murdered over 220 reporters, cameramen, and crew in the Gaza Strip. The occupation is desperate to silence the exposition of their colonial narrative and do their worst where it's hidden. They publish hit lists, send threatening messages to the cell phones of journalists, and offer evacuation deals in exchange for the journalists to stop reporting on the genocide. Israel has murdered fifteen journalists this past August alone. The journalists, however, will not stop reporting. Countless final wills and testaments share this sentiment. In Hossam Shabbat's last message, shared by his team after he was martyred at just 23, he writes:
"By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people."
On August 10th, the occupation bombed the Al Jazeera Press tent, deliberately murdering the six-person crew inside. Correspondents Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qurieqaa, and Mohammed al-Khalidi, photographer Ibrahim Zaher, and cameramen Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Nofal were martyred together in their tent, having denied the pressure to evacuate and continued in their steadfast reporting, despite the heightened targets on their backs amidst life under total siege and starvation. Just two weeks later, on August 25th, the occupation targeted Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis twice in a row. The brutal strikes killed journalists Hossam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Moaz Abu Taha, Ahmad Abu Aziz, and Maryam Abu Deqa. These five journalists were taking refuge in what remained of the already bombarded hospital when 'israel' struck it, martyring them either on the spot or through fatal injuries days later.
In total solidarity with Palestinian resistance and self-determination, it is our duty to honor those who actively destroy the zionist entity through its narrative, which necessitates repulsive lies. Though their bodies may have died, these journalists are immortalized through the coverage they have captured and exposed.
CUAD and community members held a vigil on August 15th in honor of the Al Jazeera crew targeted on the tenth, and in greater recognition of the deliberate and heinous strategy to silence and suffocate Gaza by assassinating the journalists who remain on the ground there. Gathered around candles and banners for the martyrs, we shared biographies of each journalist in the August 10th massacre, partially compiled from memories relayed by friends of the martyrs. Juxtaposed with journalists' documentation of destroyed buildings and 'aid' site massacres are videos of their grief. In their cars and tents, they share details about the colleagues who were living through almost two years of constant bombardment. A loved one described the loving spirit of Moamen Aliwa, the 23-year-old cameraman, who had been an engineering student before October 2023. Many of the young journalists never planned to report, while many of the older journalists have been reporting on the massacre of their loved ones for decades. Regardless, we honor them alike in their unwavering dedication to their land and people.
At the vigil, poet Fady Joudah read his 'dedication' poem, the first in his book, titled "[...]" In long lines and full pages, he writes directly to various, but often universal, Palestinian experiences. His words reckon with the multiplicity of grief, but they also remind the audience that to understand the whole of one person's martyrdom, you must bear the entire lineage and land that have existed in different iterations of the same steadfastness.
"...from the collective to the one under the same assault, no matter our location on Earth. “Our bodies have different ways of knowing, but our bodies know.” To the martyrs who witness from above, and the living who witness on the ground. To those who will be killed on the last day of the war. To those who will be killed on the first day after the war ends..."
We left our offerings and gratitude around the altar, overlooking the park and undisturbed. Simultaneously, Within Our Lifetime held a protest downtown against the targeting of journalists and the total siege and starvation of the Gaza Strip. They brought the protest uptown, flooding Morningside Drive beside our vigil. In a matter of seconds we were engulfed by our comrades. The SRG officers struggling up the hills on their bicycles failed to prevent us from joining our forces. Our grief is criminalized. Our solidarity is criminalized. But we choose to learn lessons from Palestinians resisting occupation on the ground. We know that our collective grief is a strength, we allow it to move us to action instead of weighing us down. We allow it to be the foundation of everything that we do and every action that we take. So we marched toward Columbia University, stopping outside of Columbia's Pulitzer School. Here we spoke on Anas Al-Sharif, a true journalist in complete opposition to the Pulitzer building - an absolute perversion of journalistic values and a mockery of journalism due to their complicity in their imperial, propagandist reporting on Palestine.
"A few days before he was assassinated, Anas had said that he'd only leave Gaza for paradise after being offered to leave to Qatar. They killed his body, but not his words. His vision remains etched into the hearts of those who seek liberation. In every photograph he took, every story he told, Anas still lives among us. A witness, a truth teller, and a stark reminder that Palestine's story will be told no matter the cost."
Our drum line continued as we returned to the spot where we had set up the vigil. Upon dispersal, we lingered at the vigil in continued company to grieve. Every Martyr is a Universe hung upon the statue. The Coverage Continues lay beside it. Finally, a portrait of Anas Al-Sharif and a piece of his final words, painted in bold, stood out starkly as a crucial message to the world:
"I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people."
REPRESSION BREEDS RESISTANCE - WORLDWIDE ACTIVISTS ARE UNDETERRED
Across the world, actions in support of Palestinian liberation have been facing increased targeting, scrutiny, and repression from states aligned with the zionist entity. Germany has been caught freezing the bank accounts of anti-zionist groups and organizers. Marchers in Sydney have been subjected to brutal beatings by police, resulting in permanent injuries in some cases. Britain has proscribed Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist group’, making any expression of support for it an arrestable offense and subjecting its suspected members to convoluted legal proceedings and disproportionate prison stays. In the USA, political prisoners like Casey Goonan, Tarek Bazrouk, and Elias Rodriguez are being subject to inflated charges and penalties, including vague accusations of “terrorism” and “antisemitism” in relation to their alleged actions.
Even focusing on New York City alone, police have been responding to mobilizations for Palestine with increasing force and frequently upcharging those who are arrested. In the spring and summer of 2025, individuals connected to the Palestine solidarity movement were arrested and charged for alleged actions such as holding banners at a commencement ceremony, drumming at a rally, hosting jail support outside a precinct, and remaining in a building they had been locked in (while those who locked them in faced no charges). Likewise, local district attorney offices have been zealously pursuing protest-related charges rather than issuing the previously common dismissals or ACDs. Tarek Bazrouk has been accused of “hate crimes” regarding alleged attacks on Jewish counterprotestors. However, the indictment glosses over the fact that all of the supposed ‘victims’ were wearing specifically pro-‘israel’ political attire and one of them, Columbia student Jonathan Lederer, is known for doxxing and harassing pro-Palestine protesters.
Across the country, in Tarrant County, Texas, Palestine solidarity activists Raunaq Alam and Afsheen Khan are also facing up to a decade in prison on trumped-up hate crime charges for allegedly spray painting "Fuck Israel." Under Texas law, hate crime enhancements are meant to protect individuals from targeting based on characteristics like race or nationality—not to shield governments or countries. Yet neither police nor prosecutors have provided evidence that any alleged victim was targeted based on nationality. These cases reflect the state’s increasing reliance on legal overreach to suppress growing solidarity with Palestine.
Meanwhile, local and national political leaders continue their demonization of Palestine and those who support it. Donald Trump continues to express support for ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and like Biden before him, provides the zionist state with the equipment and weapons to facilitate a genocide. Florida Senator Rick Scott calls the Palestinian resistance ‘terrorists’. Mike Huckabee, an ambassador to the zionist state, praised the GHF, a faux ‘aid group’ notorious for facilitating the deadly shootings of aid-seeking Palestinians by IOF soldiers. Marco Rubio sends official memos claiming that “there will be no peace in Gaza”. More locally, NYC mayor Eric Adams has adopted the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’ that prohibits criticism of the zionist entity and condemned protestors. One of NYC’s 2025 mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo, served on Netanyahu’s legal defense team, while another, Zohran Mamdani, has attacked the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’ as ‘overly divisive’.
These factors combine to create a political climate that enables such brutal responses to support for Palestine, covering the violence of law enforcement in a blanket of poisonous ‘legitimacy’. While politicians tepidly call for ‘civility’ and ‘dialogue’, police and prosecutors are facilitating the attacking, criminalization, and erasure of tangible support for Palestine— all while the genocide in Gaza and the apartheid in Jerusalem and the West Bank rage on.
However, repression breeds resistance, both in Palestine and around the world. The increased crackdown on Palestine organizing is a sign that the facade of the status quo is crumbling. The thinner the veneer of ‘business as usual’ becomes, the more force the state extends to try to maintain it. This has been the case time and time again throughout history. And it’s clear why the West, and the USA in particular, is so afraid of the fall of the zionist entity. The zionist project is a vector for them to exert control and continue colonial presence in a region where their most prominent legacy is one of exploitation and destruction. Without supporting the genocidal zionist entity, their grip on hegemony weakens, and a liberated world becomes closer. The state will fight to protect what it values— imperial power and accumulation of wealth. Therefore, we must fight back to protect what we value— Palestine, our comrades, and the hope for a future free of imperialist and capitalist domination.
We must not abandon Palestine amidst increased repression, nor can we abandon our comrades imprisoned or otherwise impacted by said repression. The state is not invulnerable, and its increase in repression goes hand in hand with an increase in its vulnerability. This is not the time to retreat. This is the time to push onwards, through the storm, until Palestine is free from the river to the sea.
NETANYAHU'S ‘TOTAL VICTORY’ BECOMES A TOTAL COLLAPSE: ZIONIST FORCES FALL BEFORE STEADFAST PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
On August 7, in a bid to save face after the massive failures of their “Operation Gideon’s Chariot”, the zionist cabinet approved Netanyahu’s proposal to occupy Gaza City. This plan, itself a diluted version of Netanyahu’s earlier goal to reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, exposes the growing desperation of the zionist entity. The original proposal was shelved after israel’s military chief, Eyal Zamir, admitted the army could not deliver “victory.” Now, even the scaled-down objective of seizing Gaza City proves unachievable.
According to zionist media, the military estimates the operation would require between 120,000 and 250,000 reservists. These numbers are a fantasy. While there was an initial spike in enlistment following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, those numbers have since plummeted. The zionist press is quick to include that this disinterest in serving is not due to any widespread moral awakening about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but rather because morale has collapsed.
Over a year has passed since the IOF successfully rescued a single living hostage. Meanwhile, suicide rates among conscripts and reservists are rising. Zionist media refers to “fatigue” and prints sympathetic profiles of soldiers who say they no longer want to leave their families to fight. By contrast, the Palestinian resistance continues to fight with unmatched courage—starved, bombed, and grieving, yet steadfast.
Occupation soldiers, despite their advanced weaponry and full backing by the world's most powerful empire, are losing the will to fight. They are cowards who want to maintain an apartheid regime without lifting a finger. Palestinian resistance fighters, on the other hand, are defending their land, their people, and their dignity. They are fighting a just war for liberation.
Two years into the siege of Gaza, the zionist entity has failed to dismantle the resistance. Netanyahu’s promise of “total victory” has dissolved into a prolonged, unwinnable war. Hamas and other resistance factions continue to replenish their ranks, strike the occupation’s forces, and maintain territorial resilience. Meanwhile, the occupation bleeds soldiers, loses international legitimacy, and is leaning more heavily on U.S. intervention to manage its unraveling crisis.
This is not just a tactical failure; it is a structural one. Like other imperialist-backed armies, the IOF is built for short, high-tech wars—designed to crush enemies quickly with overwhelming force. It is not equipped for a war of attrition. Prolonged conflict exposes its weaknesses: reliance on reservists who no longer want to serve, an economy that cannot support endless militarization, and a population that does not want to give up its luxuries for an unwinnable campaign.
By surviving, adapting, and continuing to strike, the resistance imposes unsustainable costs on the occupation. The zionist exhaustion is a direct consequence of the steadfast Palestinian resistance. The longer occupation forces remain in Gaza, the more untenable their position becomes. Resistance does not need to win on conventional terms—it only needs to make occupation impossible. And it is succeeding, contrary to what the monopoly media chooses to spin.
While zionist soldiers complain of “fatigue,” Palestinians fight for survival under conditions of starvation, siege, and slaughter. While zionist soldiers mourn their comfort, Palestinian fighters bury their children and loved ones, then return to the frontlines the very next day. One side fights for apartheid and domination; the other fights for freedom and dignity.
Despite billions in aid, the most advanced weapons, and unconditional diplomatic support from imperialist powers, the zionist regime is losing to a people with no tanks, no air force, and no navy. What Palestinian fighters have is an unbreakable will and a just cause worth fighting for. People, not weapons, are the decisive factor in warfare, and this is why the Palestinian resistance is not only surviving, but winning.
‘GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION’ - ANOTHER TOOL IN THE GENOCIDE
In our last edition, we exposed Columbia University’s connection to the ongoing siege of Gaza through its employee Jenn Counter, an architect of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). This article continues our investigation into the GHF—an institution designed to entrench U.S.-zionist control over Palestine under the guise of aid.
Launched in May 2025, the GHF emerged in response to a coordinated wave of zionist propaganda claiming that Hamas was systematically stealing aid shipments. Just months later, even the most obedient imperialist mouthpieces like The New York Times were forced to debunk these lies, in an article titled "No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say". Yet, this false narrative persists and provides cover for israel's monopolization and militarization of aid distribution. Over two million people are being forcibly starved and the hypocrisy is clearer than it ever has been: the occupation which engineered the famine also claims to be managing its relief.
Under the GHF framework, legitimate aid organizations have been coerced into rerouting supplies through occupation-controlled distribution points. These sites are scenes of violence and chaos. Stun grenades, tear gas, and live ammunition are routinely used against Palestinians attempting to access food. Many international aid groups have refused to collaborate with the GHF and have consequently been banned from entering Gaza. In a further propaganda push, the occupation has even tried to enlist Gazans with large social media followings to promote GHF sites as “safe zones,” claiming there are no soldiers present. Yet every video on the ground blatantly shows the opposite.
As of September 7, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 2,416 Palestinians have been martyred during aid distribution attempts, with over 17,709 injuries reported. Hospitals have also documented 387 starvation deaths—138 of them children.
While the GHF is unique in its terror, the essence of the project is not unique. US foreign aid has always been about control, not relief. Even Samantha Power, the former administrator of USAID under the Biden administration, laid this out explicitly in a New York Times op-ed: “USAID has become America’s superpower... In fact, USAID has generated vast stores of political capital in the more than 100 countries where it works, making it more likely that when the United States makes hard requests of their leaders—for example, to send peacekeepers to a war zone, to help a U.S. company enter a new market, or to extradite a criminal to the United States—they say yes.”
Far from being a neutral or humanitarian project, the GHF is part of a broader—but failing—campaign to fracture Palestinian unity and suppress resistance. In June 2025, Netanyahu publicly admitted to arming criminal gangs like the so-called “Popular Forces,” led by Yasser Abu Shabab. These israeli-backed collaborators have looted aid convoys, terrorized civilians, and blamed resistance fighters for the chaos. In November, they hijacked a UN convoy, stealing 98 out of 109 aid trucks.
Despite being the source of aid looting, Shabab was platformed in The Wall Street Journal and lauded as a “Palestinian voice” opposing Hamas. In truth, he does not represent the people of Palestine. He is a warlord propped up by the occupation and has even been publicly disowned by his family, who declared: “We call on everyone who was led behind him or became involved in his security groups to disavow him immediately… We have no objection to those around him eliminating him immediately, and we tell you that his blood is forfeit.”
In July 2025, the Palestinian Joint Operations Room denounced Abu Shabab’s gangs as zionist proxies, created by the occupation and openly acknowledged by its leadership. They declared these collaborators enemies of the people, warning that they would be treated as traitors. Field reports later that month confirmed that Gaza’s internal security forces had eliminated six members of these gangs in Khan Younis.
The occupation arms groups to steal aid, then wages a propaganda campaign blaming the resistance, who are actually combatting the traitors israel relies on. Yet despite the starvation, the siege, the betrayals, and the bombs, the Palestinian resistance continues to fight for dignity, justice, and liberation. Since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, global consciousness has shifted. Millions now see through the lies of zionist terror. The resistance is not isolated—it is supported and sustained by its people and widely beloved by the people across the world.
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