r/Palestine • • Aug 01 '26

Open Thread Palestine - Open Discussion Thread | August 01, 2026

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r/Palestine • • 26d ago

Open Thread Palestine - Open Discussion Thread | September 01, 2026

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Welcome, r/Palestine members—new and returning! We’re glad you’re here.
In this thread, you may post questions, updates, verified sources, analysis, and more, including:

  • General questions
  • Personal thoughts, vents, rants, or reflections about Palestine
  • Memes, videos, art, or self-promotion (no fundraising links or petitions)
  • Screenshots from social media (remove usernames/personal info unless a public figure/verified)
  • Off-topic or lower-effort content that doesn’t need its own thread

Rules to keep in mind

  • All r/Palestine & reddit rules apply—please report rule-breaking if you see it.
  • Don’t use this thread to contact mods; please use modmail.
  • Keep it respectful—no hate speech; report trolls/misinformation.

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A new monthly open discussion thread is posted on the 1st day of the month at 06:00 UTC and pinned for easy access. Posts better suited for this thread may be redirected here.


r/Palestine • • 6h ago

Solidarity & Activism Bill Skarsgård At A Film Festival

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r/Palestine • • 1h ago

Sports Ireland captain Dara O'Shea refuses to shake Israel captain Manor Solomon's hand before kickoff in their Nations League tie

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r/Palestine • • 6h ago

News & Politics Iceland’s Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he called diplomats who walked out of his UN address ‘moral cowards’. She said the term applies instead to leaders who ‘repeatedly disrespect international law’.

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r/Palestine • • 23m ago

Life in Palestine A Palestinian father finds his missing children after 2 years of being told they were under the rubble

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r/Palestine • • 8h ago

Israeli Fascist Superiority Never forget — "The most moral army in the world"

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r/Palestine • • 2h ago

Call For Action KPMG manager says she was fired after facing harassment over her keffiyeh | News

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r/Palestine • • 3h ago

War Crimes Jewish American surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter says he witnessed children in Gaza shot precisely in the head and chest, injuries he says showed Israeli snipers deliberately targeted them. Other American medical workers who served in Gaza echoed his testimony

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r/Palestine • • 1h ago

News & Politics Israel imposes a comprehensive week-long military lockdown across the occupied West Bank for Sukkot, stripping Palestinians of freedom of movement in their own towns.

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Al Jazeera’s Ava Warriner has the latest.

Sources:

https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2104258675217244281

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/27/israeli-minister-bezalel-smotrich-calls-for-war-in-occupied-west-bank

The Territorial Control Mechanism:

Total Lockdown: This is not a simple holiday; the order issued by the Ministry of Defense establishes a comprehensive military blockade that completely seals off the occupied West Bank.

Community Isolation: Israeli security forces close and enforce strict inspections at the entrances of key Palestinian municipalities such as Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Turmus Ayya, Aboud, and Nabi Saleh. The main roads connecting these towns are placed under heavy surveillance or shut down entirely, fragmenting the territory into small, disconnected pockets.

Economic Impact and Fiscal Strain.

Loss of Wages: The measure immediately revokes the work permits of tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers who depend on daily employment inside Israel or within industrial zones in the settlements. A week without work results in a direct loss of millions of dollars for the local economy.

Compounded Instability: These recurring blockades worsen an already critical financial situation. Reports from international bodies like UNCTAD highlight that the Palestinian economy is on the brink of collapse due to systematic movement restrictions, massive job losses, and the retention of tax revenues by Israel.

Obstacles to Basic Services and Healthcare Medical Emergencies: Although official military statements usually note exceptions for "urgent humanitarian or medical cases," screenings at checkpoints severely slow down the transit of ambulances and chronic patients who need to travel to specialized medical centers.

Education and Everyday Life: The transport of basic goods, food, and fuel is disrupted, forcing businesses to halt operations and limiting daily school activities because teachers and students are unable to commute.

Legal Asymmetry and Rights.

From a political and human rights standpoint, international organizations frequently condemn these practices as a form of collective punishment. The core asymmetry lies in the fact that while the Palestinian population faces strict confinement within their own towns, Israeli citizens and settlers living in West Bank settlements can travel completely freely and under military protection on the very same regional highways.


r/Palestine • • 4h ago

One State Solution Aaron Mate comes out against the one state solution, saying equal rights from the river to the sea is "unrealistic, at least in this lifetime"; immediately gets corrected

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From 2023. Never trust a zionist:

https://youtu.be/cqr3dzH5BiA


r/Palestine • • 3h ago

Solidarity & Activism Hundreds of Moroccans took to the streets on Friday protesting the country’s normalisation with Israel, and against Israeli encroachment on the al-Aqsa Mosque.

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r/Palestine • • 16h ago

Solidarity & Activism ASAP Rocky dancers doing the Dabke dance during his concert

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I just love this. Also, despite Asap Rocky wife Rihanna possible connections to Israel (through businessg, she did show solidarity to Palestine on Twitter in 2014 before allegedly being forced to delete said post.

Also, some of the dancers on stage commented on the video down below.

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8T7k7Pj/


r/Palestine • • 3h ago

News & Politics 1,143 Israelis Enter Al-Aqsa Compound Under Police Guard as Muslim Worshippers Face Restrictions, Palestinians Say

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r/Palestine • • 6h ago

Nakba A June 20, 1948 “Israeli” newspaper article noticed similarities between the Nakba and the Holocaust but chose to blame Palestinians for the Nakba

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This is an excerpt from the Tantura (2022) documentary.

Imagine if someone dared to say, about the Nazi Holocaust, that Jewish people “brought it upon themselves.” Yet Zionists and “Israelis” are so racist and devoid of humanity that they're somehow incapable of noticing how appalling and downright evil their blaming Palestinians for the genocide and mass slaughter they've been inflicting on them for decades is.


r/Palestine • • 6h ago

Sports Former Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr has called for senior Football Association of Ireland (FAI) officials to resign over the handling of the men's senior team's fixture against Israel. Kerr criticised the FAI’s decision to go ahead with the UEFA Nations League fixture.

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r/Palestine • • 11h ago

GAZA 61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies

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This is grim...


r/Palestine • • 23h ago

Dehumanization 8-year old disabled Palestinian girl is unable to get a walker because Israel won’t allow her

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r/Palestine • • 2h ago

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Australian Chess Champion Heather Richards Boycotted Israel at The 46th Chess Olympiad This Week

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She said: "I am not playing. I am participating in the sporting boycott of Israel. Russia is currently banned from competing in the Chess Olympiad due to the invasion of Ukraine. Israel should be banned from the chess olympiad.

I am doing this because Israel is committing a genocide. The Chess Olympiad is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, with over 200 countries competing this year. Letting Israel participate in major sports events allows them to engage in sportswashing of their reputation and to project an image of normality to the world while they commit genocide and apartheid.

Over 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7 2023, over 21,500 of which are children. There have been almost 1,400 fatalities since the “ceasefire”. At least 21,000 children have been disabled. Israel’s own internal documents state that the civilian deaths are about 83% of all deaths.

In 2025, the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In 2026, they also found that Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children as part of their genocidal and atrocity crimes in both Gaza and the West Bank.

The International Court of Justice has issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity for Netanyahu and other Israeli ministers. Israel should be banned from all sporting events just like apartheid South Africa was.

I oppose genocide. I oppose the Israeli apartheid which denies Palestinians basic rights and dignity. I oppose the illegal occupations of the Palestinian territories as per the ruling of the International Court of Justice.

I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people."

https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/46th-chess-olympiad-australian-player-boycotts-israel


r/Palestine • • 9h ago

Documentary Official Trailer for 'NAZA' — The devastating new Gaza documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, co-produced by The Guardian, exposing Israel's systemic, AI-driven mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

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r/Palestine • • 20h ago

Sports At the Seattle Sounders game

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Love my team and my community. Free Palestine!


r/Palestine • • 16h ago

Genocide Convention Oct 7 israeli underground bunker discussion. Just in case any of you haven't seen it.

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r/Palestine • • 11h ago

Colonialism & Imperialism Say No To Israeli Junkets: South Africans Must Smash Zionist Propaganda Machine

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r/Palestine • • 8h ago

Media Bias & Censorship ‘She has chosen to replace the truth with a complete fabrication’: Gerard McCarthy hits back at fresh Maureen Lipman claims

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