Thailand’s Anti-Israeli Protest Wave Isn’t About PalestineOn a hot and humid morning in early September, hundreds of people gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. While a few carried familiar symbols of Palestinian solidarity – a flash of red, black, white and green here, a watermelon there – a far greater number came carrying Thai flags. For every placard demanding an end to the genocide, or a boycott of Israel, many more bore nationalist statements, from “Thailand is not for sale” to the openly antisemitic “You Jewish folks don’t understand Thai culture, so get out”. Thailand has been awash with anti-Israeli sentiment over the past few weeks, resulting in unprecedented mobilisations in the capital and on the country’s largest and most touristic island, Phuket. While Palestine solidarity has played a small part in these protests, they have mostly been organised by prominent rightwing agitators calling on supporters to “take Thailand back”. Unlike in other parts of the world, where protests condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank have become a mainstay of progressive politics, until recently, few Thais seemed interested. Palestine solidarity was the quiet work of Muslim communities, a handful of student and left activists, and a small number of campaigning organisations.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/thailands-anti-israeli-protest-wave-isnt-about-palestine/ Statement by the Tudeh Party of Iran on the Fourth Anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising: The Struggle for Freedom, Social Justice, and the Liberation of Women from the Chains of Medieval Despotism, for the Establishment of Peace and the Preservation of National Sovereignty in the Face of Foreign Aggression, Continues!This year, the fourth anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising comes at a time when our homeland faces extremely difficult economic conditions and the continuing danger of war and foreign aggression. Two hundred days after what the statement describes as the criminal aggression against Iran by U.S. imperialism and Netanyahu’s Zionist regime, the killing of thousands of our compatriots, and the infliction of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic damage, tens of millions of Iranians continue to
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