Author: Steven Sahiounie

The United States’ unfaltering support for decades-long Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people has snuck its way into the field of Artificial Intelligence, with Meta-owned WhatsApp introducing an AI feature that blatantly discriminates against Palestinians as opposed to Israelis. In a recently-unveiled feature by WhatsApp, the US-based social media platform allows users to generate cartoon-like images of people and objects based on prompts and to create their own stickers to send in messages. The AI feature, which is not yet available to all, has been found to create images of a gun-wielding young boy or a man when given Palestine-related prompts.…

On Saturday about ten thousand people flooded the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, once again, to stage a rally against what they call the “genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.” The initiative dubbed “Italy Out of All Wars” was attended by political parties and trade unions, including Power to the People, the Communist Refoundation Party, and USB trade union. High school students and their families, who called on the international community to put an end to Israel’s bloodbath in the besieged Gaza Strip, were also present at the rally. The figures speak for themselves. Over 10,000 civilians killed, more than 3000 children slaughtered, almost…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has hailed the massive gathering of Indonesians in support of the people of Palestine amid Israel’s ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip, saying the consensus formed in global public opinion against the occupying regime is irreversible. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a post on social media X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday, after hundreds of thousands of Indonesian people took to the streets in the capital Jakarata earlier in the day to express solidarity with the Palestinians and call for an end to Israel’s deadly siege of Gaza. The Iranian foreign minister also admired the “courageous”…

The international outcry against Israel’s brutal strikes on Gaza is growing every day, as demonstrated by the large-scale rallies across the globe, demanding an immediate end to the bloodshed in the besieged territory. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters filled the streets of Toronto and Ottawa in Canada’s Ontario province on Saturday, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Toronto police said in a statement that large crowds marched from the US consulate through the streets of the city’s downtown. The protests which were set to take place in more than two dozen Canadian cities were launched after a call by the…

President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has called for an immediate end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip as the international community ramps up pressure on the regime to halt its protracted brutality against the besieged territory. Abbas made the call in a meeting with the visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday amid a growing chorus of Arab leaders stressing the need for a truce as the death toll in Gaza nears the 10,000 figure. Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh was cited by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has told the top official in the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas that Tehran will continue to support groups fighting the Zionist regime as a matter of policy. “Supporting the Palestinian resistance forces vis-à-vis the Zionist occupiers is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s permanent policy,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a recent meeting with the chairman of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, according to a Sunday report by the official IRNA news agency. The leader said in the meeting that the Israeli regime is enjoying the support of the US…

Iran’s defense minister has warned the United States would suffer a heavy blow if it fails to stop Israel’s savage war machine against the besieged Gaza Strip. “Our advice to the Americans is to immediately end this war and implement a ceasefire, otherwise they will be hit hard,” Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said on Sunday. “We have always recommended the Americans not to support the Zionist regime.” The death toll continues to rise in the Gaza Strip. The Iranian minister said the United States has made several strategic mistakes, particularly in West Asia. Under the current circumstances, the minister…

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched on Incirlik Air Base to protest Washington’s support for Israel Police used tear gas and water cannons to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Incirlik Air Base in Türkiye on Sunday. A convoy of protesters arrived at the American base earlier in the day in a show of anger against the US and Israel. Cars and buses bearing Palestinian and Turkish flags left Istanbul on Friday en route to the base, which sits just outside the city of Adana near the Syrian border. The convoy was organized by the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish…

There will be a swift response if activists vandalize the Cenotaph war memorial, Suella Braverman has said Pro-Palestine activists should be jailed immediately if they attempt to desecrate the iconic London monument to fallen British soldiers – the Cenotaph – UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman warned, in light of plans to hold protests on Armistice Day on November 11. “If anyone were to vandalize the Cenotaph, they must be put into a jail cell faster than their feet can touch the ground,” Braverman told Sky News on Saturday. She promised that the authorities “won’t hesitate to act” if police need reinforcements to deal…

An angry crowd rallied outside the US president’s residence in Washington, DC on Saturday Pro-Palestinian protesters smeared red paint on the White House security fence in Washington, DC on Saturday evening, with some attempting to break through the gate, as they denounced President Joe Biden for backing Israel. Activists waved Palestinian flags and shouted obscenities directed at the president. They also violently shook the gate as security personnel looked on from the other side. Despite the heated atmosphere, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi later told reporters that “the attempted gate trespass from earlier was handled without incident,” and no arrests were made…