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Anti-Israel Groups, Activists Mourn Nasrallah’s Death, Condemn Jewish State for Killing Terrorist Leader

Pro-Hamas protesters outside the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Photo: Ron Sachs via Reuters Connect

Anti-Israel groups and individuals have largely condemned the Jewish state’s military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, eulogizing the Iran-backed terrorist group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and falsely accusing Israel of targeting civilians.

Following Israel’s recent successful elimination of several high-ranking terrorists in Lebanon, including Nasrallah, critics of the Jewish state have accused the country of waging an “indiscriminate” bombing campaign. Many of these critics have outright praised the terrorists as vanguards of a so-called “resistance movement against Israel.

The “Arab Feminism Movement,” a group which purports to advance women’s causes throughout the Arab world, issued a statement mourning the death of Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday.

“The Arab Women’s Movement mourns Secretary-General of Hezbollah, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The leader who confronted all the colonial powers in the world, supported the oppressed of our Arab nation, offered his sons as martyrs for the liberation of our homelands, and refused to ascend except as a martyr,” the group wrote.

Various chapters of the anti-Israel activist groups “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) and “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP) also praised Nasrallah in official statements.

Following Nasrallah’s death, JVP’s chapter at the University of Michigan called for the eradication of the Jewish state, posting on social media that “death to Israel is not just a threat, it is a moral imperative and the only acceptable solution. May the entire colony burn to the ground for good.”

Meanwhile, Columbia University’s chapter of SJP hosted an “anti-genocide rally” to protest the killing of Nasrallah, one of the world’s most notorious terrorists for the past three decades. In addition, Columbia SJP shared a social media post which claimed, “Hezbollah and Hamas were only formed in response to the brutality, Israhell [sic] has been killing people in the Levant region for years prior.”

SJP and JVP have been instrumental in organizing widespread anti-Israel protests on  university campuses across the US in recent months.

Katie Halper, a Jewish leftist podcast host, posted that Nasrallah “understood Zionism more than Zionists do.” Halper has repeatedly invited guests on her show who have downplayed the prevalence of antisemitism in society and insisted on the dissolution of the Jewish state.  

Rania Khalek, a host for the so-called “anti-imperialist” media outlet Breakthrough News, praised Nasrallah as the leader of “the most, I think, important and powerful armed resistance groups in the Middle East.” Khalek continued, arguing that Nasrallah correctly identified Israel as a puppet for “American imperialism” in the Middle East and “the head of the American snake.” Notably, Khalek has repeatedly defended Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical attacks against the Syrian population, denied the existence of Uyghur concentration camps in China, and has expressed support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Nasrallah has been linked to several terrorist attacks that have murdered hundreds of Americans, Lebanese, Frenchmen, and others, including the suicide truck bombings in 1983 and 1984 in Beirut that targeted the US embassy, the US Marine barracks, and the US embassy annex. More than 300 Americans and Lebanese died in those attacks alone. As the leader of Hezbollah, he was also involved in orchestrating several attacks targeting Israeli and Jewish targets around the wold.

Nonetheless, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with documented connections to terrorist groups such as Hamas, condemned Israel’s military operations in Lebanon as a “slaughter” of innocent civilians. The group did not mention Israel’s successful elimination of Nasrallah, nor did it mention Hezbollah’s unrelenting barrages of rockets, missiles, and drones into Israel for the past year that prompted the current Israeli operations.

“As Israel slaughters civilians and destroys cities with impunity throughout the Middle East, the Biden administration ignores US and international laws and norms by supporting — through actions and inaction — the far-right Netanyahu government’s obvious desire for an all-out regional conflict,” the group said in a statement. “The Biden administration’s complicity in this killing and destruction must end. President Biden must act to force a ceasefire.”

Shaun King, an American social justice activist, posted, “​​They have no idea how resistance works.” He also shared an X/Twitter post from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei which called on “all the Resistance forces in the region [to] stand with and support [Hezbollah].

Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets, missiles, and drones at northern Israel almost daily following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists on the Jewish state’s southern region. Since then, both sides have been exchanging fire constantly while avoiding a major escalation as war rages in Gaza to the south.

About 80,000 Israelis have been forced to evacuate their homes in northern Israel and flee to other parts of the country amid the unrelenting attacks from Hezbollah.

The post Anti-Israel Groups, Activists Mourn Nasrallah’s Death, Condemn Jewish State for Killing Terrorist Leader first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War

Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.

Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.

“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”

GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’

Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.

“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.

“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.

“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.

After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”

RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL

Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”

Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.

“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”

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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests

A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco

Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.

People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.

“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”

Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.

On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.

Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.

On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.

“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.

Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.

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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.

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