Regional Round-up from Drop Site News Iran is pushing a seven-day roadmap to end the war with the U.S., as Iranian officials held meetings with Qatari and Pakistani mediators on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The plan, which Tehran said was transmitted via mediators, calls for an end to hostilities on all fronts, including Gaza and Lebanon, the release of at least $12 billion in frozen [...]
After months of student opposition, USC has said it will not renew its contract with the U.S. Navy. By Jackson Mills Daily Trojan photo byyKaijel Mairena USC will end its cadaver contract with the U.S. Navy on Sept. 24, according to a statement from the Keck School of Medicine to Annenberg Media. USC Keck School of Medicine will stop selling corpses to the U.S. Navy for Israeli military training. , Under the contract, [...]
by Marcy Winograd, Jewish Voice for Peace, CTA Caucus Jewish and Allied Educators for Palestine Almost overnight, the CA Jewish Public Affairs Committee (JPAC) changed its name to “Jewish California” [see: https://www.jewishcal.org/], a re-branding likely aimed at distancing JPAC’s image from that of AIPAC, a rhyming acronym for the toxic American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The re-branding of JPAC followed a 2025 interview [see: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DP0JTBhDRgh/] in which podcaster Van Latham asked California [...]
Take Action - Sign the Petition https://www.blockthebombs.org/action Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has entered its third year — and the US is still arming it. Since the start of Israel's genocide in October 2023, American taxpayers have footed the bill for more than $30 billion in weapons sent to Israel. Those weapons have been used to kill more than 65,000 Palestinians, flatten hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches, and drive more than [...]
Yassamine Mather addressing the Cork (Ireland) Palestine Solidarity Campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhQMMeyUrrQ Yassamine Mather is an Iranian political activist, who was involved in the 1979 events in Iran and who has continued her struggle throughout her life. She's also an academic and involved in the school for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford or the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Oxford. She writes very regularly on the subject of Iran and the Middle [...]
by Robert Inlakesh https://english.almayadeen.net [Excerpts] If it were easy to launch a regime change operation against Iran, it would have been carried out many years ago. While it is impossible to predict precisely what the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran and its regional allies will result in, the ability to win the regional conflict is clear. The only thing driving this attack is sheer Israeli arrogance, as there is no [...]
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/18/usc-navy-program-appears-linked-to-specific-israeli-brigade-that-massacred-paramedics-photo-shows/ In the featured graphic: People wearing a modified version of the Israeli military's Golani Brigade logo were photographed near the Navy Trauma Training Center. By Reo, Sasha Ryu, and Jackson Mills People who appear to be part of the Israeli military’s Golani Brigade were seen walking through Los Angeles General Medical Center [AKA County/USC], amid ongoing reporting by Annenberg Media about a program where USC trains Israeli military medical personnel using [...]
How to Defeat Zionism and Imperialism by Bella De Soto Zionism can be squelched if a majority of global countries joined forces, including China, Russia and India... Please study this map of the so-called "Middle East", see how tiny the illegal State of Israel is in comparison to the rest of that territorial map, circa 2012. No wonder the US has been pumping it up militarily for so many years! So we [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) A "year in review" summary, as has been traditional in the January issue of Change Links annually, would recapitulate the horrors of the first year of Trump II, with which we are all too achingly familiar. I am instead going to take a longer view, and look back over the past quarter-century to see what got us into this deepening political, moral, economic and [...]
By Victor Rothman President Donald Trump’s 20 point Gaza peace plan is now underway, but the jury is still out. Will the plan succeed, or will it fail because of its vagueness or deliberate Israeli actions? This is what we know so far: After two years of war, Hamas is still intact, and Israel has not forced the approximately 2,000,000 surviving residents of Gaza to leave. A 21st step, regarding Israeli settlements [...]
A new law claiming to be vital for protecting Jewish students from antisemitic bullying and discrimination was opposed by every statewide education group and dozens of community organizations who say it creates a threat that criticism of Israel, or discussion of topics like the Nakba, could be challenged as discriminatory towards Jewish students. The legislation - AB 715 and SB 48 - creates state “discrimination prevention coordinators” who train K-12 educators and [...]
by Sandra Tamari, Adalah Justice Project Last night, Israel killed more than 100 Palestinians, including at least 46 children, as it renewed its bombardment of Gaza. The attacks came after Netanyahu announced he ordered the Israeli military to “carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip” on Tuesday, breaking the precarious ceasefire negotiated by the Trump administration. This escalation demonstrates what we have known all along – Israel has no intention of [...]
