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  • Israel hands over Palestinian bodies showing signs of brutal torture

    Israel has handed over 45 bodies of Palestinian hostages following their detention, and later death. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that its medical teams received the bodies from the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.

    The ministry explained that the bodies bore clear signs of torture, abuse, and field executions. Many of the dead were found with traces of handcuffs and blindfolds, indicating that their owners had been subjected to serious violations before their martyrdom.

    Israel suspected of grave violations

    In this context, the Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared issued a statement calling for the completion of the handover of all detained bodies and the complete closure of this painful humanitarian file.

    The centre indicated that it is following up on the process of handing over the 45 bodies through the Red Cross to the Nasser complex. They also praised the efforts of the International Committee in facilitating the process. Importantly, they also urged it to continue verifying the identities of the bodies through DNA testing and to ensure that the dignity of the martyrs is preserved and that they are quickly handed over to their families.

    The statement added that some of the bodies were delivered intact, while others arrived in the form of remains that raise serious concerns about the circumstances of their death and detention. They wrote:

    The Center warned that Israel’s failure to provide an official list of names deepens suspicions of enforced disappearance and manipulation of victims’ records. It called for immediate pressure on Israel to disclose the identities of all victims and the circumstances that led to their deaths.

    The statement further urged full transparency regarding all transferred bodies, including the publication of all available information as soon as it is received — such as the victims’ names, details of their deaths, and prompt notification of their families, in respect of their right to truth and dignity.

    Calls on international community

    The Centre also called on the international community, the United Nations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to pressure Israel to allow the entry of the equipment and machinery necessary to recover the bodies and identify the missing in the destroyed areas.

    It stressed that the continued detention of bodies and the denial of families the right to bid farewell to their children is a crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

    It emphasised that the human right to a dignified burial does not lapse with the passage of time, and that revealing the truth is part of the justice that the victims and their families deserve.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Al Jazeera English

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Belfast Palestine activists take over conference of F-35 jet funder

    Campaigners opposed to ongoing government funding of murderous F-35 fighter jets have burst through security to raid a major conference of Invest NI, the body responsible for pissing away public money on weapons of death for the likes of so-called Israel.

    Invest NI had had kept the conference under the radar, with no public advertising of the event. However, activists were able to uncover its existence and protests occurred outside the International Convention Centre venue on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Campaigners distributed leaflets to staff, some of whom were unaware that their employer was participating in a genocide by funnelling money to the likes of Moyola Precision Engineering and Survitec, companies known to make parts for F-35s.

    Invest NI backing modern day holocaust

    Organisers might have hoped that was the extent of it, but on Wednesday afternoon, when the so-called ‘Regional Economic Development Agency’ was meeting with clients, activists entered the plush Laganside venue. A video posted on the BDS Belfast page shows the interlopers entering the main hall, shouting:

    We’re here today to speak on behalf of the people of Palestine. Invest NI are complicit in the genocide in Palestine. The reason they’re complicit is they’re funding companies who are sending parts over to make the F35 jets.

    BDS Belfast member Martin Rafferty declared:

    When you see the historical pictures of the holocaust and people of that time, you ask yourself: “what would I have done if I was living in that time?” Well, you are living in that time now because there’s a holocaust going on now!

    Stoney-faced Invest NI executives are pictured communicating with the demonstrators, as the former admit their awareness of what their funds have been used for. A Judicial Review into the potentially unlawful funding was brought against Invest NI and the Department of the Economy (DoE) by Madden & Finucane solicitors, with a hearing due next week on October 22. The legal team, operating in concert with local activist group Cairde Palestine, hope to compel the government to “claw back” any monies paid out to companies involved in breaking international law, and terminate any ongoing payments.

    Invest NI has rendered all Six Counties citizens complicit in genocide by giving around £20 million pounds to four companies involved in the F-35 programme – Electronic Automation Engineers (EAE), Moyola Precision Engineering, RLC (UK), and Survitec. Only last week, new evidence was brought to light by local campaign group Act Now, who uncovered a document from 2021 headed “BAE Systems-Air (Aircraft Business Units) Supplier Quality Approval Letter”. It is addressed to Moyola and outlines that:

    …supply of product shall be in accordance with the BAE Systems F-35 Lightning II supplementary quality requirements…

    It states the limitation of approval shall be for the “F-35 Lightning II programme only”. Martin Butcher, who is a policy adviser on arms and conflict for Oxfam, has said it is certain parts from the North of Ireland are ending up in Zionist jets used for the pseudo-state’s barbarism in Gaza.

    Report lays out contortions of Invest NI and ministers

    Act Now have previously published a comprehensive report on Invest NI’s support for local development of F-35 parts. In it, there are contradictory statements, as a DoE spokesperson says they have been told by Invest NI that it:

    …does not support projects that supply arms to Israel.

    However, Invest NI was unable to refute claims from Act Now that it in fact was involved in such matters. The report contrasted the above denial with a statement from Invest NI in which they said:

    Invest NI does not hold the information as to whether these companies provide parts for F35s.

    The document outlines the tortuous process of email campaigns, Assembly questions and petitions that have been required to get to a point where the authorities concerned have still not admitted wrongdoing. It also highlights the linguistic contortions used by many governments to wriggle away from scrutiny on weapons dealing, as “arms” are only classed here as “finished weapons or munitions”. Likewise, the fact that parts end up in a global pool rather than going directly to ‘Israel’ has been a common method of evasion, allowing governments to claim they don’t send anything directly to the apartheid regime.

    A simple way to solve this matter is outlined by BDS Belfast on their statement accompanying the video of Wednesday’s action – cease entirely the production of all weaponry in Ireland. The group said:

    Funding of atrocities on the island of Ireland will not be tolerated, and no manufacturing of weapons of mass murder can be allowed to take place here. That counts double for the likes of Invest NI, who are using money that should go to schools and hospitals here, to destroy those facilities in Gaza.

    The Belfast Palestine solidarity movement will continue to hold them to account until this ceases.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Robert Freeman

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel has taken everything from Palestinian journalist Motasem Ahmed Dalloul – yet he will not be silenced

    CONTENT WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING

    Palestinian journalist Motasem Ahmed Dalloul is from Gaza City. He studied International Journalism in London, and works as a Staff Writer for Middle East Monitor. He has lived and worked in Gaza City throughout this genocide, and has paid a heavy price for speaking the truth. But he remains determined to continue reporting about his people’s suffering and the Israeli occupation’s crimes against them:

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul risked his life to find food – but his wife and baby were killed instead

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul has not left Gaza City in the past two years, although be has been forcibly displaced 13 times. Since his family home was attacked and destroyed in November 2023, he and his family have stayed many places, moving from place to place and fleeing the Israeli ground incursions. They are currently living in a tent.

    Near the end of February 2024, an Israeli occupation airstrike targeted his neighbour’s house. Dalloul’s three year old son who was named Abu Baker, and his beloved wife Riham, who was pregnant, were buried under the rubble and killed. Dalloul was heartbroken.

    He says:

    I lived with her a very nice life, very nice years, full of love and affection. I loved her so much, and she loved me so much. She was very beautiful. My wife was killed while she was very hungry.

    According to Dalloul, their dinner consisted of a can of corn, which did nothing to satisfy his wife’s hunger. So at dawn he went to an area in the West of Gaza City where aid organisations sometimes delivered food, to try and find something for his starving wife:

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul

    It was difficult for someone like me – I am 45 years old – to go through the crowds of young people and get any kind of aid, but I found the flour bag with someone, and he gave it to me, and I sent this flour back home with my son, Ibrahim.

    Ibrahim returned an hour later with the news that an Israeli strike had targeted their neighbour’s house. Dalloul’s wife and three year old son had been killed:

    Another son and daughter were wounded.

    I rushed to near my wife’s family’s house, and bid farewell to her and my two year old son, Abu Baker. And then I carried the body of my son, and relatives carried her body, and we buried them in a makeshift cemetery, because we couldn’t reach the cemetery where we used to bury our dead.

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul

    A day before his wife and son were killed, Dalloul posted this on X:

    Hunger has been a daily occurrence for Motasem Ahmed Dalloul and his family

    According to Motasem Ahmed Dalloul, him and his family have constantly suffered from a lack of food, experiencing starvation three times during this genocide. He recalls the first time, when his wife was killed and he was unable to provide for his family, as being especially difficult.

    He confides:

    One of my children asked me to give him some food one day, and I couldn’t find any, any, anything. I left the house and around an hour later, he followed me and came to the place where I was with my friends, not far from the house, and appealed for something to eat, and I couldn’t find anything.

    I started weeping, and hugged him, as I couldn’t afford anything for him to eat. We were hungry.

    I myself lost 40 kilogrammes, and went from 158 to 118kg. Even if I was a billionaire, it has been very difficult for me to live because – and it is continuous until now – there is a shortage of food, and I have to pay extremely high prices to get a very little amount of food.

    In May, three months after his wife and young son were killed, Dalloul and his other sons returned to the rubble of what once was their home to look for some winter clothes, as there were none available to buy in the markets. Many of his neighbours were also there, witnessing the destruction, and searching through the rubble. Then, all of a sudden, with no warning, shots were fired, and Dalloul’s 21 year old son was killed.

    He says:

    Suddenly, a sniper or a tank shot at us, and immediately I found my son, Yahya, shot in the head and he fell down. We ran very quickly. Me and the other children and neighbours. We left him on the ground because there was heavy gunfire and we couldn’t return back to that place until after one week. Then we saw his body. The tank had run over it.

    His children pray they are killed by the Israeli occupation forces, so they can see their mother again

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul says the young children he had with Riham, his second wife, have been highly affected by the deaths of their mother and siblings:

    They were very sad, and every time when they asked me, what happened, I tell them they went to paradise. They asked me, where is their mother. I told them, she is in heaven. And they told me they want to go and join her, and see her or meet her. But I tell them we can’t, until the Israeli occupation forces kill us.

    So they pray that the Israeli occupation shoots them, so they can go and meet their mother. When my sons were killed, they also asked me if they had gone to the place where their mother exists.

    Dalloul says he was feeling happy during the days leading up to the ceasefire, and was celebrating with friends and family, including his son Ibrahim, thinking about what they would do when the ceasefire took effect.

    But on the day it was announced by Trump, Ibrahim was not there, and there were no celebrations.

    Ibrahim used to help run the family’s supermarket in Gaza City, until it was bombed – just two months after it opened in November 2023, then he then became a street vendor. The Israeli occupation launched an intentional starvation campaign against the people of Gaza City, with the aim of forcibly displacing them Southwards. Both the Zikim crossing and Al Rashid Street in the West of the City were closed, which meant no food was getting into the North of the Strip.

    So, according to Dalloul, Ibrahim and his friends insisted on going to the south to bring back some food. But Ibrahim never returned.

    Israel killed him the day before the ceasefire:

    Dalloul says:

    On the first day of the ceasefire, someone told my friends that my son was killed near Al Nabulsi Roundabout, on Al Rashid Street. The next day, we went to bring his body, along with the volunteers and civil defense, and we found him, likely killed two days before. He was engaged and his fiancé was very close to him and loved him very much. She collapsed when she knew that he was dead and killed by the Israeli occupation forces. And it was very, very difficult for all of us, and the killing of all of them has affected me. This is the third son of mine to be killed during the genocide, along with my wife.

    The Israeli occupation has repeatedly targeted not only Palestinian journalists but also their families in Gaza, attempting to control the narrative and limit the flow of information to the rest of the world about its many war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    Journalists have been threatened, detained, tortured, and killed, while media facilities have been destroyed, and access by foreign journalists to the Strip has been forbidden.

    Israel’s systematic targeting of the press is a deliberate strategy to not only silence witnesses, but also to stop criticism of Israeli military actions in Gaza and maintain international support by imposing its untruthful version of events. But this strategy has not only been limited to the genocide in Gaza.

    The occupation’s army threatened to ‘hunt’ Dalloul. They then seriously wounded him

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul has been threatened and told several times by ‘Israeli agents’ to stop reporting during the genocide, and many of these agents and activists have been posting false information online about him. But he says these incidents also occurred before October 2023:

    In 2018, when I was covering the Great March of Return, the Israeli occupation army directly threatened me and told me, ‘we will hunt you’. The march was organized every Friday, and the next Friday, I was shot in the chest with an exploding bullet. There was a lot of shrapnel inside my body that affected my lungs, liver, intestines and other organs, and I remained in a coma for several days. This threat was repeated several times during this genocide, and I feel that I might be intentionally targeted.

    But Dalloul is not listening to the occupation’s threats, and he does not intend to stop reporting on the crimes inflicted on the population of Gaza. Instead, he believes the first commitment of a journalist is not to their life and safety, but to the truth:

    As a journalist, I have a duty towards my family, towards my people, towards my land, towards my country.

    I have to expose the lies and the crimes of the Israeli occupation against them, to let the world know that they are liars, they are thieves. They aren’t the real owners of this land, but because they are growing up on the propaganda and lies, the people around the world take them for granted as facts.

    If I remain silent, the people will not know that they are liars and thieves, and they are committing massacres against us. So this is the duty of me as a Palestinian, and the duty for me as a journalist. I am obliged to disclose the Israeli lies and Israeli deception and Israeli massacres, and tell the world the truth about our country, about the Palestinians who are the Indigenous inhabitants and residents of this land.

    The international community is supporting this rogue state – the state of lies, the state of criminals, the state which was established on the skulls and bones of my grandfathers.

    No hope for justice because world leaders provide the occupation with money, weapons, and troops

    Motasem Ahmed Dalloul has lost a total of 59 family members, including a brother and a sister, nephews, nieces, and cousins who lived in Gaza, but is not waiting for any justice because:

    The current world, international community, and the leaders of the great powers are not fair, and they support the Israeli genocide. We’ve not only been attacked, destroyed and massacred by Israeli arms and the Israeli army, but also by American, German, British, French, and other Western arms and weapons, money and also soldiers.

    Dalloul says although he is happy there is a ceasefire, the loss of his family and the destruction of Gaza leaves him feeling very sad.

    He has lost everything.

    He has no home, and he cannot even set up his tent where his house once stood, because of all the rubble, and his neighbourhood is now unrecognisable to him:

    I think the Israelis will not return to Gaza, because there is nothing left for them to destroy and attack. Only one street remains undestroyed in Gaza City, everything else is destroyed, so why would the Israeli rogue state come back to the genocide and resume the international isolation and attacks against it, and let the people resume marching and protesting against it. I don’t trust the mediators, or the international community, or Trump, but there is nothing left for Israel to destroy here in Gaza.

    Featured image and additional images supplied

    By Charlie Jaay

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • FIDH Report: The Repression Of The Solidarity Movement With Palestine

    Behind the fight against hate, a trend of repressing dissenting voices is emerging. Titled Criminalisation and Narrative Control: Solidarity with Palestine in the Crosshairs, the report documents how across all the countries studied, the dynamics observed since 7 October 2023 have intensified pre-existing structural trends: the continued shrinking of civic space, the weakening of democratic safeguards, the normalisation of Islamophobia, and the institutionalisation of racial profiling.

    Under the guise of maintaining public order, fighting antisemitism, or protecting national security, authorities have resorted to exceptional measures such as bans on demonstrations, arbitrary arrests, repression within academic institutions, media censorship, and legislative threats.

    The post FIDH Report: The Repression Of The Solidarity Movement With Palestine appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

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  • Freedoms We Took For Granted In Britain

    In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the U.K. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson made clear she plans to exploit the pause in the Gaza genocide to snuff out criticism of Israel’s criminal actions — and, of course, her own government’s collusion in that criminality.

    Naturally, the British establishment media have been keen to amplify her message that there will be painful consequences both for individuals who continue protesting against Israeli atrocities and for institutions, such as universities, that mistakenly assume they have a duty to uphold centuries-old freedoms by tolerating such protests.

    These protests, let us remember, are fully in line with a ruling last year from the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court.

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  • Gaza’s Post-War Future And The Collapse Of Foreign Illusions

    In the aftermath of the devastating war on Gaza, the most pressing question is no longer about a ceasefire or reconstruction, but about who will govern the enclave.

    This is a struggle over meaning, legitimacy, and sovereignty. Will the future of Gaza be shaped by its people, or by the same foreign powers that helped destroy it under the banner of “salvation”?

    Every time the gates of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘aid’ are opened, the windows of sovereignty are slammed shut. What unfolds is a recurring colonial spectacle: a Palestinian political order remade under foreign supervision, where ‘political realism’ is promoted as a substitute for justice, and ‘technocracy’ is marketed as a sterile alternative to resistance.

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  • Gaza’s Post-War Future And The Collapse Of Foreign Illusions

    In the aftermath of the devastating war on Gaza, the most pressing question is no longer about a ceasefire or reconstruction, but about who will govern the enclave.

    This is a struggle over meaning, legitimacy, and sovereignty. Will the future of Gaza be shaped by its people, or by the same foreign powers that helped destroy it under the banner of “salvation”?

    Every time the gates of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘aid’ are opened, the windows of sovereignty are slammed shut. What unfolds is a recurring colonial spectacle: a Palestinian political order remade under foreign supervision, where ‘political realism’ is promoted as a substitute for justice, and ‘technocracy’ is marketed as a sterile alternative to resistance.

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  • Israel is lying over Hamas breaching the ceasefire agreement by not returning dead hostages

    In a shock to nobody, Israel is trying to blow up it’s own ceasefire on the most tenuous basic imaginable – by, as usual, lying. Renowned investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill has warned that Israel is reneging on the peace terms it agreed.

    Israel is lying again

    Scahill said despite a clear understanding that it would take time to recover bodies from Gaza, Israeli is pretending there was no such agreement.

    This all the more important because Israeli is using this lie to justify limiting aid to Gazans:

    Tweeting Wednesday, Scahill reported on the shocking state of Palestinian bodies Israel was returning:

    And he commented on Israel’s habit of keeping Palestinian bodies – sometimes for decades:

    Independent journalist Jonathan Cook made a similar point:

    According to Scahill’s Drop Site News colleague Ryan Grim, mediators were very clear that finding bodies would take time. Israel knows this. After all, it has spent two years intensively bombing the area to rubble.

    Grim tweeted:

    Stopping aid to Gaza

    Grim cited an official communication by COGAT, the Israeli authority which regulates aid:

    Yesterday, Hamas violated the agreement regarding the release of the bodies of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

    As a result, the political leadership has decided to impose a number of sanctions related to the humanitarian agreement that was reached.

    Starting tomorrow, only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 trucks — will be allowed to enter, and all of them will belong to the UN and humanitarian NGOs, with no private sector involvement.

    No fuel or gas will be allowed into the Strip, except for specific needs related to humanitarian infrastructure.

    However, as Middle East expert Professor Marc Owen Jones point out: A) the return of dead hostages is NOT a condition of aid delivery and B) not allowing aid in was always illegal anyway:

    Palestinian body accidentally returned

    Legacy media is currently reporting that one of a group of four recovered bodies is not Israeli:

    AFP reported the same:

    As usual, the legacy press seemed to be following the Israeli line:

    Though there was at least some acknowledgment by reporters that this had likely been an error made in the fog of war:

     

    The Irish News correctly reported the nuances of the peace deal which have been lost in some reporting:

    The US-proposed ceasefire plan had called for all hostages – living and dead – to be handed over by a deadline that expired on Monday.

    But under the deal if that did not happen, Hamas was to share information about deceased hostages and try to hand over all as soon as possible.

    For its parts, Israel has already killed a number of Gazans since the ceasefire started. It is widely recognised that Hamas have taken a gamble on Trump imposing his will on the genocidal Israeli government.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Joe Glenton

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel is still punishing Gaza, with only half of aid going in

    The United Nations confirmed that it had received a letter stating that Israel would cut in half the number of aid trucks scheduled to enter Gaza, numbering about 600, which it had promised to allow to pass after the ceasefire. As of Wednesday 15 October, Israel had only allowed 300 aid trucks in.

    Israel is still restricting aid to Gaza

    Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq said at a press conference on Tuesday 14 October that the Israeli Government Coordination Unit in the Palestinian Territories had informed the UN in a letter received today that it would halve the number of humanitarian aid trucks going to Gaza, on the pretext that Hamas had not returned the bodies of Israeli prisoners.

    He added:

    We are aware of the contents of the letter from the Israeli Civil Administration.

    Haq explained that they want as much aid as possible to reach Gaza, saying:

    We call on all parties to abide by their agreements, including the return of the bodies of dead prisoners and the implementation of the remaining terms of the ceasefire, including the delivery of humanitarian aid.

    US media reported that Israel had sent a letter to the United Nations stating that it would reduce the number of daily aid trucks agreed under the terms of the ceasefire in Gaza from 600 to 300, on the grounds that Hamas had not immediately returned the bodies of Israeli prisoners trapped under the rubble.

    However, as of 15 October Hamas had been handing over Israeli bodies – yet the Zionist entity had still not opened all the crossings into Gaza. As of 10pm BST, reports stated only the 300 aid trucks had gone in. This was specifically due to Israel not opening the Rafah crossing.

    The ‘ceasefire’

    On Monday, Hamas released 20 living Israeli prisoners and handed over the bodies of four others, saying it needed time to recover the bodies of 24 others. On Tuesday evening, the Israeli army received the bodies of four additional prisoners in the Gaza Strip from the Red Cross, according to official Hebrew media, bringing the total to eight. Then, on Wednesday Hamas handed over several more bodies – saying that was all the ones it could locate.

    The Sharm El Sheikh summit was held on Monday, chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Trump, at the conference centre in Sharm El Sheikh, with the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries.

    The Egyptian presidency said that the ‘Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit’ stressed the need to begin ‘consultations on ways and mechanisms to implement the next stages’ of US President Donald Trump’s plan.

    The summit comes after a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel came into effect on Friday afternoon Jerusalem time, after being approved by the Tel Aviv government early that same day.
    On 9 October, Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement on the first phase of his plan for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, following indirect negotiations between the two sides in Sharm El Sheikh, with the participation of Turkey, Egypt and Qatar, and under US supervision.

    With US support, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza since 8 October 2023, leaving 67,913 dead and 170,134 wounded, most of them children and women, and a famine that has claimed the lives of 463 Palestinians, including 157 children.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel kills two Palestinians, abducts at least 24 others in Gaza today alone

    Israel has again blatantly violated the supposed Gaza ‘ceasefire’ today.

    Israel violating the ceasefire again

    It killed two civilians in Gaza City, while abducting at least fifteen Palestinians in Al-Nasr, northeast Rafah, and another nine in the town of Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Younis. The fate of the victims and where they have been taken is not yet clear. a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement.

    At the same time, according to local reporters, the colonisers fired heavy artillery at civilians in eastern Gaza City in the areas between al-Shujaiyya and al-Tufah.

    These crimes come after Israeli tank attacks on civilians killed several and wounded more in northern Gaza this morning. Israel has murdered Palestinians every day during the ‘ceasefire’, almost entirely ignored by UK and other western ‘mainstream’ media obsessed with covering supposedly missing bodies of long-dead Israelis almost certainly killed by their own side’s fire during the genocide.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Kamala Harris seethes as heckler calls her a ‘right-wing war criminal’

    In a video posted online by Climate Defiance, a furious heckler called Kamala Harris a “right-wing war criminal”:

    Harris didn’t seem to enjoy this.

    Maybe she should have thought about that before entering a right-wing Democrat administration which went on to oversee a genocide?

    Kamala Harris ‘furious’

    Kamala Harris was speaking at a talk for her book 107 Days. The premise of the book is that she lost the presidential race because she only had 107 days to get her act together, rather than because she was a terrible candidate who refused to offer the public anything besides empty platitudes.

    One key issue voters had was that incumbent president Joe Biden failed to stop Israel’s genocide, and Harris failed to speak out against this.

    As everyone suspected at the time, Biden did precisely fuck all to stop the genocide – something which would later be confirmed by insiders. Harris failed to object when she had the chance, and she failed to promise anything different when she ran for president.

    As we’ve seen in recent weeks, ending Israel’s genocide was always the call of the US president. Biden could have ended it on day one, or when it was obvious that it was affecting the Democrat’s ability to beat Trump. Instead he ended it never, only for Trump to call time a year later when the global backlash began to get on his nerves.

    We’ve yet to see if the ceasefire will hold, but if it doesn’t, it’s not because Trump doesn’t have the power to stop it; it’s because his donors have bent his ear better than his business partners in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

    While the genocide wasn’t the only issue which turned voters off, it was the most emblematic of the Democrat’s wanton depravity.

    So anyway, with all that in mind, here’s what the heckler shouted at Harris:

    Kamala Harris you are a right-wing WAR CRIMINAL!

    You funded genocide!

    For 161 days!

    Harris looked genuinely furious at this point – not like during the failed presidential run when she smugly told a Palestinian supporter “I’m speaking”:

    Back to the video, the heckler shouted:

    Hind Rajab was shot 355 times!

    During your administration!

    You lost the election because you would rather be a Republican than a Democrat!

    This is your fault!

    We have 4 years of Trump because of your 107 days!

    You are a war criminal!

    You sold out the youth!

    You sold out the climate!

    Shame on you!

    Harris was quietly seething by this point, as she well should. We’d be angry too if we were soulless monsters who were led to believe we’d never face a shred of accountability.

    It’s notable, by the way, that Kamala ‘I’m Speaking’ Harris has said next to nothing about Trump since he took power. Maybe she should have gone all in on that and never spoken publicly again?

    End of an era

    Kamala Harris is a dreadful, empty vessel of a politician, and increasingly these people can’t make it in politics.

    Empty slogans don’t work in an age of social media where people can fact check you in real-time. Unfortunately, flat out lies do work, which is why politicians like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage can monster figures like Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer.

    The only thing that can win now is a platform which actually offers something. And as American voters tried to tell Harris last year, they ain’t voting for genocide or growing inequality.

    Featured image via Climate Defiance

    By Willem Moore

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel Is Still Holding at Least 115 Health Care Workers Hostage, Org Says

    More than two dozen Palestinian healthcare workers held hostage in Israel’s torture camps were supposed to be released on Monday, October 13, according to Healthcare Workers Watch-Palestine (HWW), an organization that tracks Israel’s attacks on Palestine’s healthcare system. “While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics,” the group said in…

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  • Jewish woman has faced “hate campaign” of violent attacks over pro-Gaza protest

    Nadia Yahlom is a Palestinian-Jewish woman. In a peaceful protest, she cut yellow ribbons off the railings of a public park near her home. As a result, she has faced a “targeted hate campaign” from pro-Israel agitators.

    Nadia Yahlom

    As she explained to the BBC:

    I have been the subject of physical attacks, of a doxing campaign, threats of assault and rape and violence that have been threatened against me and my family on the basis that the people behind that campaign want to silence me.

    She insisted:

    I am a Palestinian-Jewish woman living in that community who has every right to take a stance against genocide – a genocide that is being conducted in my name

    She responded to critics of her action by saying:

    I think it’s antisemitic to imply that a Jewish person who is standing in principled opposition to a genocide is driven by hatred.

    Pro-Israel extremists cry over ribbons, but not over the murder of 20,000 children

    Israeli occupation forces have killed over 20,000 children in Gaza since October 2023. The ribbons, meanwhile, represented the remaining 20 Israeli prisoners of war in Gaza. As Nadia Yahlom stressed:

    To me, it’s astonishing that there can be moral repugnance about a handful of ribbons being cut and not generations and generations and generations of bloodlines [in Gaza] being cut.

    And she noted the difference between the response to her action and her own response to the destruction of Palestinian symbols in public. Pro-Israel agitators routinely rip down such symbols (whether flags or stickers), and she said:

    I myself once encountered a woman in Muswell Hill taking down a sticker with a Palestinian flag, I engaged her in discussion about it… What didn’t happen is that I called a mob to attack her, intimidate her, threaten her, film her without her consent, and subject her to a ceaseless campaign of physical attacks, threats against her life and threats against her family…

    Nadia Yahlom described how she considered the yellow ribbons to be ‘offensive, intimidating and threatening’ because they suggest that “the only lives worth commemorating, the only lives that have any value, are Jewish lives”. And this is what the mainstream media has done consistently throughout Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and amid this week’s exchange of hostages. It emphasises the humanity of 20 Israelis leaving captivity, while failing to do the same for 2,000 Palestinian hostages leaving captivity, the thousands that remain in Israeli torture centres, or the many thousands of civilians Israel has killed in the last two years and beyond.

    Consider the coverage of Israeli soldier Matan Angrest‘s release:

    And then consider the many scenes of Palestinian hostages that social media has shown us but mainstream media outlets haven’t:

    And remember, Israel has no problem taking children hostage:

    Nadia Yahlom is absolutely right. The implicit racism of the yellow ribbons, and the thugs who come after you if you touch them, is offensive. The ribbons have become a symbol of selective sympathy from ethnic supremacists who defend genocide. And in the interests of humanity, we must challenge that. Because neither Palestinians nor Israelis will be truly safe until Israel’s decades-long colonial oppression ends.

    By Ed Sykes

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Meet Jacki Karsh: training young journalists to be explicitly pro-Israel

    Last week, Drop Site News reported on a new fellowship set up by prominent US journalist Jacki Karsh, along with her husband Jeff. The fellowship’s website states that:

    The Jacki and Jeff Karsh Journalism Fellowship equips journalists to report with depth, rigor, and clarity on Jewish issues in the United States and around the world. Fellows participate in three intensive retreats — in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. — engaging with leading journalists, scholars, policymakers, and innovators across the arts, media, and business.

    As the world’s only journalism fellowship solely dedicated to Jewish topics, the program is resolutely nonpartisan and grounded in the principles of accuracy, independence, transparency, and accountability. Up to ten fellows are selected annually to advance public understanding through uncompromising, high-impact reporting.

    During the year-long course, up to ten fellows will participate in three 3-day retreats. All travel and accommodation expenses are covered by the fellowship. The expert-led sessions will cover topics like ‘How to cover antisemitism’, ‘Jews in the American mosaic’ and ‘Middle-East misinformation’.

    Jacki Karsh and her fellowship: ‘countering media bias’, apparently

    However, Drop Site highlighted the contrast between the fellowship’s professed neutrality and Karsh’s distinct pro-Israel stance.

    Jacki Karsh’s webpage describes her as a “six time Emmy-nominated multimedia journalist”. She’s reported for LA36’s LA County Channel, CityTV Santa Monica, Young Hollywood, Business Rockstars and Westside TV. She wrote about her reasons for starting the fellowship in an article for the Jerusalem Post, published under the headline “Countering media bias against Jews” on 20 August.
    Part of the introduction reads:

    The casual slanders, the subtle omissions, the reflexive framing of Israel as aggressor and Jews as suspect – these are not rare mistakes. They are patterns. And patterns, left unchallenged, become the record of history.

    On the contrary, mainstream US media has shown a historic bias towards Israel, both before and after 7 October. Analysis of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times’ coverage of the war showed a distinct bias against Palestine. Articles focused disproportionately on Israeli deaths, showed biased use of language, and focused on antisemitism in the US over and above Islamophobia.

    Likewise, “casual slanders” links out to another Jerusalem Post article, titled “Gaza starvation claims: Blood libel revisited”. It frames the claim that Israel is starving the people of people of Gaza as reheated medieval blood libel. The UN has confirmed the famine in Gaza. Over 100 humanitarian organisations signed an open letter criticising Israel for blocking supplies into Gaza.

    ‘Resolutely nonpartisan’

    Given that Jacki Karsh stated that she created the fellowship to help Israel win an “information war”, the description of the program as “resolutely nonpartisan” seems deeply questionable. Drop Site News submitted an inquiry on the matter, and fellowship director Rob Eshmen responded:

    The Karsh Journalism Fellowship trains and supports journalists committed to fairness and accuracy on Israel and Jewish issues. Jacki Karsh’s guiding principle is simple: the best response to misinformation and disinformation on these issues is excellent journalism grounded in evidence, integrity, and independence… Our mentors and fellows will represent a wide range of political and cultural perspectives, and we encourage open, nuanced dialogue on complex issues.

    Unfortunately, Jacki Karsh’s bias also seems to have been mirrored in the choice of expert journalists to lead the sessions. Drop Site reported that:

    Other fellowship mentors include CNN’s Van Jones, who recently issued an apology after drawing intense criticism for comments he made on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday making light of images of dead Palestinian children and saying they were part of an Iran and Qatar disinformation campaign; and Michael Powell, a staff writer at the Atlantic and a former national reporter at The New York Times, whose recent articles include “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World,” that criticizes groups like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming “stridently critical of Israel.”

    At best, the thinking behind the Jacki and Jeff Karsh Journalism Fellowship illustrates a stark problem with legacy media. If journalists view only one side of the Israel-Palestine war as being capable of accessing truth, then they will inevitably interpret even a neutral report of Israel’s actions as bias against it.

    The UN has officially recognised that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It joins a long line of other humanitarian agencies in doing so. At this point, if legacy media even begins to appear critical of Israel, well – it’s about damned time.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alex/Rose Cocker

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Starmer appoints genocide apologists to run university campus ‘antisemitism training’

    The Starmer regime has appointed the Union of Jewish Students to run six hundred so-called ‘antisemitism training’ sessions in UK universities to combat what Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson called the “poison of antisemitism” on UK campuses.

    The Union of Jewish Students is an explicitly pro-Israel and Israel–funded organisation that runs an ‘Israel portal‘ and has boasted of how many of its former members are ‘serving’ in Israel’s genocidal government and military:

    UJS alumni are currently serving in senior positions in Israeli gov, IDF & even the President’s office.

    The Union of Jewish Students

    The Union of Jewish Students is the group that played a key role in the antisemitism smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. They then hounded professor David Miller out of Bristol University despite two separate barrister-led inquiries finding that he had said nothing antisemitic. A tribunal later found that Miller’s anti-Israel views are protected political speech and awarded him damages against the university, but Bristol did not reinstate him.

    The group also denies Israel’s genocide in Gaza, despite the United Nations, human rights groups – including in Israel, academic genocide experts and ‘plausibly’ the World Court – finding Israel is committing genocide, alongside an endless flood of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Union of Jewish Students hosted articles by BICOM, an Israel lobby organisation that boasts of its “unique links to key figures in the Israeli government”, that regurgitated Israeli PM Netanyahu’s comments condemning South Africa for bringing its genocide case to the International Court of Justice and dismissing the very idea that Israel is committing genocide as “outrageous”.

    The Union of Jewish Students has since deleted the pages with the BICOM articles, although they were successfully archived on the Wayback Machine up to May this year:

    How the page looks now.

    Attacking academics

    One of the accusations the Union of Jewish Students flung at Miller during its campaign against him was that he accused “Jewish charities of ‘aiding genocide in Gaza’”. Despite its apparent unwillingness to consider Israel’s mass slaughter of almost 700,000 Palestinians in Gaza a genocide, it is quite eager to condemn China’s “Uyghur genocide”, despite no court agreeing that it is committing one and China’s critics mostly attacking China for attempting to assimilate the Uyghurs in a ‘cultural genocide’ that erases their separateness, rather than trying to end their existence.

    As well as attacking academics and politicians whose pro-Palestine views it dislikes, the Union of Jewish Students also targets student body leaders. In 2022, its smears against National Union of Students (NUS) president Shaima Dallali led to the NUS removing her from her elected position. Dallali’s ‘antisemitic’ ‘crimes’ were to repeat a slogan supporting Palestinian liberation from occupation – and to criticise the Union of Jewish Students for its “well-documented role” in smearing and attempting to silence Israel’s critics, such as rapper and political commentator Lowkey.

    And vitally, the Union of Jewish Students has been accused of acting to legitimise the Gaza genocide on British university campuses, whitewash the coloniser’s crimes, and de-legitimise Palestinian voices and groups.

    Legitimisation of Israel and Zionism

    In case there is anyone who has been asleep for the past decade and just woke up unable to imagine that a ‘Labour’ government would put the Zionist fox in charge of the university chicken coops in this way, Keir Starmer has long form for doing exactly that.

    Not long after taking over as party leader, as part of his determination to legitimise years of antisemitism smears against his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn and the political left and shore up the antisemitic proposition that all Jews support Israel and its crimes against the Palestinian people, Starmer gave pro-Israel fanatic groups the Board of Deputies (BOD) and the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) a veto over which groups are allowed to sit on the party’s ‘independent’ ‘advisory board’ on antisemitism. The move was part of manoeuvres that led to mass suspensions and expulsions of left-wing members, with others leaving in disgust – and all smeared by Israel supporting (then-Shadow) Chancellor Rachel Reeves as antisemitic.

    Starmer also gave control of Labour’s antisemitism ‘training’ of members to the JLM and other Zionist groups – training that was then slammed by Martin Forde, the barrister Starmer appointed to investigate racism among Labour staffers (then buried his report and did nothing) as inadequate and deeply one-sided against Jewish party members who do not support Israel and its attempts to control the narrative of its actions.

    Starmer and his fellow-travellers, then, are giving control of ‘training’ on the topic of supposed antisemitism to the Union of Jewish Students – a group that to all appearances exists to legitimise Israel, gloss over its crimes and de-legitimise Palestinians and their Jewish allies – and the move is as unsurprising as it is appalling.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • New Campaign Aims to Flood Churches and Christian Colleges With Pro-Israel Ads

    A newly-created firm called Show Faith by Works is embarking on a “geofencing” campaign to target Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-Israel advertisements. The pastors and congregations themselves are seemingly unaware of this campaign, and some have concerns with Israel’s methods to target Christians. According to the firm’s filing under the Foreign Agents…

    Source

    This post was originally published on Latest – Truthout.

  • Israel doesn’t bother hiding that dead Palestinians were bound, tortured, shot

    UK and other Western media have been obsessed with regurgitating Israel’s claims about a few missing bodies of Israelis almost certainly killed by their own side’s bombs but not yet returned by Palestinian militia groups, which Israel has used to justify its decision to again block Palestinians from receiving food after months of blockaded starvation.

    The same media have been silent about the fact that many of the bodies of Palestinians that have finally been released by Israel under the ‘you cease we’ll keep firing’ agreement have not only been returned without any identification, but in many cases still bound and bearing marks of torture, with some still blindfolded after being executed with a shot to the head.

    Tens, likely hundreds, of thousands bodies of Palestinian victims also remain buried under the fifty-five million tons of rubble caused by Israel’s mass destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza. In a gross insult to those victims and their families, Turkiye has announced that it is sending a team of 81 people with equipment to locate the bodies of Israeli captives, who were almost certainly killed by their own side’s bombing.

    Dr Shahd Abusalama, whose family was murdered in Gaza while she was on the Canary-Skwawkbox Your Show at the end of September, asked readers to imagine how that injustice must affect the Palestinians whose loved ones still lie rotting under rubble after Israel’s extermination campaign.

    An initial tweet, when translated, read:

    The Hebrew was: Turkey sends to Gaza a team of 81 people with equipment to locate the bodies of Israeli captives. In addition to an Egyptian-Qatari team

    Dr Abusalama responded:

    Israeli lives and deaths seem to count much more – and not only to ethno-supremacist Israel.

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Democrat Gavin Newsom malfunctions over Israel funding

    ‘Gruesome’ Gavin Newsom is the governor of California. Famous for his war on homeless people, Newsom is a controversial figure, albeit one who exists within the mainstream of the modern Democrat Party (unfortunately):

    Newsom is also a beneficiary of funding from Israel, which spurred the following exchange:


    Malfunction

    In the video above, host Van Lathan Jr. asked Newsom about funding from AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee). Newsom responded:

    Interesting, you’re like the first to bring up AIPAC in years, which is interesting.

    Lathan clarified:

    I will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from AIPAC.

    Following Israel’s genocide, this is an increasingly common opinion. It’s not just a left thing, either, with elements of the American right increasingly saying stuff like this:


    Back to Newsom, his malfunction continued:

    It’s interesting. I mean, it’s interesting. I haven’t thought about AIPAC. And it’s interesting. You’re like the first to bring up AIPAC in years, which is interesting.

    Asked “why”, Newsom said:

    It’s not relevant to my day-to-day life. Which is just interesting. It’s interesting you say that.

    We’re going to go out on a limb and suggest Newsom found this question ‘interesting’.

    Continuing, he noted:

    JPAC perhaps more, but AIPAC less and less.

    As people highlighted, JPAC is a regional equivalent of AIPAC:

    People also said stuff like the following:

    The tide is turning

    Newsom continued to waffle on about how interesting he found the question, but he didn’t – you know – pledge to stop taking money from a genocidal foreign power. He may have to eventually, of course, as all American politicians may have to. Israel has lost public support in the West, and even the most cynical politicians will have to recognise this reality if they want to keep the gravy train running.

    Featured image via Van Lathan

    By Willem Moore

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Damaging report shows how Starmer chose Israel over British democratic rights

    A new report has set out exactly how Keir Starmer has chosen to elevate Israeli interests at the direct expense of British democratic rights. And, the report also finds that, as a whole, Western democracies have turned counter-terrorism and anti-Semitism narratives against Palestine solidarity activists.

    And in doing so, the authors say, the UK and others have abandoned the basic democratic values they claim to espouse.

    The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) report was published 14 October. It is titled ‘Criminalisation and Narrative Control: Solidarity with Palestine in the Crosshairs’. The report focuses on repression in the UK, France, Germany and the US. FIDH describes itself as “an international human rights NGO federating 188 organisations from 116 countries”.

    the ‘Criminalisation and Narrative‘ report reveals a “dangerous instrumentalization”:

    …of counter-terrorism legislation and anti-Semitism discourse to suppress freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.

    The authors demonstrate a “growing criminalisation of dissent” against “journalists, human rights defenders,
    activists, students, artists, and even elected officials” who oppose Israel’s violence.

    Starmer part of group weakening ‘democratic safeguards’

    The 56-page document records how:

    Across all the countries studied, the dynamics observed since 7 October 2023 have intensified pre-existing structural trends: the continued shrinking of civic space, the weakening of democratic safeguards, the normalisation of Islamophobia, and the institutionalisation of racial profiling.

    It also shows how  ‘anti-racist’ narratives were selectively used to attack basic democratic rights. In particular, they mean accusations of anti-Semitism.

    The report found that:

    ..governments have weaponised counter-terrorism narratives and the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent, silence solidarity, and criminalise support for Palestinian rights.

    Solidarity under attack

    One of FIDH’s central concerns is a:

    …growing conflation of antisemitism with legitimate criticism of Israeli state policies. This deliberate confusion has allowed authorities to delegitimise and penalise a wide range of actors, activists, academics, students, artists, and even elected officials, who publicly denounce Israeli actions in Gaza or advocate for Palestinian liberation.

    In doing so, political speech, long regarded as a foundation of democratic life, is increasingly being equated with hate speech or extremist ideology, especially when it concerns Israel or Zionism.

    The authors identify a “surge of pro-Palestine solidarity” after October 7 “which builds on decades of global organising for the rights of Palestinians”.

    As has been noted, this rattled Western states to their core. Leading to “repression and censorship” against supporters of Palestinian rights.

    Tactics include:

    • false accusations of antisemitism and support for terrorism
    • monitoring and surveillance of activists and pro-Palestinian civil society
    • official denunciations of solidarity activists and actions
    • bureaucratic and administrative sanctions
    • threats to academic freedom
    • lawsuits and legal threats against activists and pro-Palestinian civil society
    • legislation against solidarity actions such as the Boycott Divest and Sanctions movement, and
    • criminal investigations and prosecutions -and in some cases the kidnapping and illegal detention – of students expressing solidarity with Palestine.

    Authoritarian Britain

    When it comes to Starmer’s handling of Israel with regards to British policy, the report found:

    The right to protest has come under attack from the British government across administrations and party lines. Protests in solidarity with Gaza and against Israel’s genocide have been met with high levels of police surveillance and police violence.

    Britain’s repression emerges from its historic relationship to colonialism in the region. But also its current economic relationship with Israel:

    The UK and Israel have signed several long term agreements underpinning a close strategic partnership between the two States that encompasses defence and security, cyber-security, trade and the economy and technology among other objectives.

    Sell-out MPs

    Additionally, the authors also note that 180 Members of Parliament:

    are reported to have accepted funding from pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals.

    After all, they add, the Labour Party has been:

    shaped deeply in recent years by polarisation on the issues of solidarity with Palestinians and criticism of Israel.

    Chiefly, the outcome of that is a Labour Party which has backed genocide militarily and politically for two years. The report, which can be read in full here, paints a similar picture of France, Germany and the US.

    The authors conclude:

    Ultimately, the crackdown on solidarity with Palestinians reveals a profound crisis: not only of human
    rights in the occupied territories, but of freedom itself , in societies that claim to be democratic.

    The legitimacy of the international human rights framework is at stake. Whether these states choose
    to uphold their principles or betray them in favor of political expediency will have far-reaching
    consequences, not only for Palestinians, but for the future of rights and freedoms worldwide.

    All in all, the fight for Palestinian rights and self-determination is a fight for democracy everywhere.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Joe Glenton

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory: there’s no end to Israel’s atrocities for Gaza’s children

    Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory has told the Metro that she:

    sees no end to the suffering for children in Gaza, even when they return to their homes under a ceasefire agreement.

    Holocaust survivor speaks out

    In August, Kory, 81, who survived the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Hungary’s Jews and has spent sixty-five years researching the Holocaust, accused Israel of constructing ‘Nazi show camps’ in Gaza to parade Palestinian survivors while continuing their extermination and expulsion from their homeland.  Now, with a supposed ‘ceasefire’ in place, she has pointed to Israel’s daily violations of its agreement and continued slaughter of Palestinian civilians, saying that:

    After I survived, nobody was trying to bomb me and kill me anymore. There was an end to the atrocities, but I don’t see any end for the Palestinian children. I am not convinced that these people in Gaza will not continue to be under threat of being killed and hurt.

    The Israeli government does not want a Palestinian state, I don’t believe that there is any peace coming to the Palestinians.

    She also pointed to Israel’s continued and unpunished ethno-supremacism, as well as the ingrained dishonesty of both Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and US president Donald Trump:

    Once the Holocaust was over I had equal rights with everybody else.

    The Palestinians, including the Palestinian children, they still don’t have equal rights like with Jewish citizens of Israel. The ceasefire is just a con. Mr Trump was keen to get his Nobel Prize.

    They’re not even getting the whole of Gaza back. So the big concentration camp where they once lived, now it’s going to be a smaller concentration camp. Netanyahu did announce that if the Palestinians don’t behave, then the ceasefire will stop, so the Israelis are still the rulers.

    Kory said she had been “haunted” by the Nazis’ murder of her family but that finding stability in the UK after the war had allowed her to have “a good life” that is being denied to Palestinian children:

    I have had a good life, which was haunted by memories and the memories of my family.

    All the children in Gaza now will be damaged for life, and they have had a sustained campaign against them. They had to live in fear for two years. They were starved.

    Human nature can be resilient. The Palestinians did show amazing, astonishing resilience. Presumably a lot of them will be hopeful because if you don’t hope, you cannot live.

    And Kory said that she is “outraged” by the tactic of Israel and its mouthpieces of presenting its genocide as if it has been done on behalf of all Jews and is supported by all Jews – and as if those who oppose it are therefore antisemitic ‘hate marchers’:

    That’s not a war. It was a killing field and what else can you call a killing field? It’s a genocide. A lot of what Israel does is supposed to be doing in the name of Holocaust survivors, in the name of Jews.

    I resent that. I’m outraged by it. It’s definitely not in my name.

    Targeting of anti-Zionist Jews

    To protect Israel’s narrative, UK media continue to airbrush out the many Jews who are front and centre of the anti-genocide movement’s marches every week. During the summer, Agnes Kory and hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews signed a letter to PM Keir Starmer demanding action to end the genocide and his government’s collaboration in it. Starmer refused to allow them to deliver their letter to Downing Street and did not reply after they posted it to him.

    Many anti-Zionist Jews are among those being targeted by the Starmer regime misusing anti-terror laws against peaceful peaceful protesters, just as he targeted left-wing Jews to hound them out of the Labour party.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/IJAN UK

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • ‘Ex-Israeli’ writer urges activists to make copies of genocide info as ‘scrubbing’ cover-up begins

    An anti-Zionist Jewish writer has called on activists in the anti-genocide movement to start copying – and saving in multiple locations – online evidence of Israel’s genocide after social media giant Meta deleted all posts by Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi. Saleh was murdered by an Israel-funded criminal gang last weekend. Archives of his articles were also deleted.

    Alon Mizrahi, who describes himself as an “ex-Israeli, anti-Zionist Arab Jew”, posted the call on his X account:

    Mizrahi’s warning comes on the back of observations by Palestinian author Susan Abulhawa, who also noted the deletion of al-Jafarawi’s posts and linked it to previous warnings that Israel was about to ‘scrub the internet’ of references to its genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity:

    The ‘Wayback Machine’ archive shows results for al-Jafarawi’s Instagram, but the linked archives are not there.

    Al-Jafarawi is not the only account apparently hit similarly. After Israel attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) of humanitarian, volunteer-crewed boats, abducted its crews and seized its vessels this month, the GSF’s X account disappeared, along with its record of Israel’s bombing of the crew in other nations’ waters, the ultimate attacks on its forty-plus boats and the video testimonies of its volunteers:

    If you have time and storage capacity, save what you find to ensure that the ‘scrubbing’ fails.

    Featured image via Unsplash/Julio Lopez

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Video: ITV described captured Israeli soldier as ‘kidnapped from tank’

    ITV’s Good Morning Britain has described Israeli tank driver Matan Angrest, who was released this week in Gaza as part of the ‘ceasefire’ deal, as ‘kidnapped from a tank during a battle’:

    It seems the term ‘prisoner of war’ is too much of a stretch for the UK ‘mainstream’ media – though even that is too kind a description when what Israel is doing in Gaza is perpetrating genocide, not ‘war’. ‘Captured terrorist Matan Angrest’ would be a more apt decision, even if the Greens are the only UK political party honest enough to designate the occupation military as a terrorist organisation while the Starmer regime hunts supporters of a non-violent protest group as ‘terrorists’ and actively assists in the genocide.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Good Morning Britain

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Video: EU chief spokesperson refuses to say Israel should build Gaza like Russia ‘should’ Ukraine

    A senior European Commission (EC) spokesperson has refused to say that Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza after its two-year campaign of genocide and wholesale destruction – despite the EC saying that Russia should pay to ‘rebuild’ Ukraine, which has been far less damaged.

    Asked by Italian journalist Gabriele Rosana, the spokeswoman would only call it “definitely an interesting question” but one on which she had no comment to make:

    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has calculated that Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its war on Palestinian homes, schools, hospitals, industry, commercial buildings, water treatment, and sanitation have left more than 55,000,000 tons of rubble and that the rebuilding will cost at least seventy billion dollars and take years, far beyond any comparable regional disaster. Thousands of victims remain buried under the rubble and Israel refuses to allow any heavy equipment into Gaza to begin clearing the destruction as survivors reel from their psychological devastation.

    Even after two years of inflicting a Holocaust on the people of Gaza as well as attacking most of its neighbours and murdering and torturing international aid workers, Israel continues to enjoy impunity from governments and organisations that have covered for and abetted its crimes all along.

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Italian journalists put BBC to shame in their remembrance of murdered Palestinian journalists

    With FIFA conspicuously still failing to ban Israel despite its genocide in Palestine, Italy had to end the apartheid state’s chances of entering the 2026 World Cup itself. And as it did, its state broadcaster put its British counterpart to shame by openly honouring the hundreds of journalists Israeli occupation forces have killed in the last two years.

    BBC shamed for ignoring murdered journalists in Palestine

    RAI journalist Alessandro Antinelli explained to viewers why he was wearing a black ribbon, highlighting that more than:

    250 journalists killed in the war in Gaza, in what the United Nations commission of inquiry defined as a genocide. They tried to report, but regrettably, it is a fact that they didn’t return home.

    Another journalist reporting on the match suggested that, despite all of the international impunity Israel has benefited from, “at least we could beat Israel on the pitch”:

    Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has killed at least 273 journalists and media workers since October 2023. That means it’s taken the life of at least one journalist every three days in the last two years. Scholars say the apartheid state has committed infocide (journocide / mediacide) in Gaza, systematically waging information warfare not only via propaganda efforts but by working to ensure the censorship or murder of Palestinian journalists.

    It’s almost unimaginable that the BBC would highlight Israel’s systematic murder of Palestinian journalists in the same way. Instead, the BBC has consistently echoed Israeli propaganda over the last two years while demonstrating racist double standards in their reporting of Palestinian and Israeli suffering.

    Italians refused to give Israel an easy ride

    Italian coach Gennaro Gattuso had said before the match:

    There is nothing worse than what we have seen in the last two years.

    A national strike showing solidarity with Palestine had previously gone to Italy’s national training centre to call for the cancellation of the match against Israel. But Italy ‘had to play’ to avoid forfeiting the game, Gattuso stressed. And he added:

    it’s very sad to see what’s happening to innocent people, children, it hurts my heart to see all of that.

    More than 10,000 people protested peacefully before yesterday’s match, calling for Israel’s suspension from FIFA. There was a heavy police presence, and officers eventually used “water cannons and tear gas” against protesters. With helicopters flying over the city and a number of restrictions in place, one resident insisted that “such a deployment of forces for a match should never take place”.

    The demonstration included a massive Palestinian flag and banner saying “Show Israel the red card”:

    Show Israel the red card!

    FIFA and UEFA have faced significant criticism for their hypocrisy, having suspended Russia but refused to suspend Israel. And FIFA may even seek to punish Italy now in response to some of its fans booing the apartheid state’s national anthem.

    For now, Israel’s defeat has only been on the field. But the movement to ban the settler-colonial nation from the sport altogether is growing. And the more people join those efforts, the harder the corrupt officials at the top of the sport will find it to ignore the demands.

    Featured image via X

    By Ed Sykes

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Breaking: Israeli tanks open fire on civilians in northern Gaza

    Israeli tanks have opened fire on civilians in several places in northern Gaza, including in Gaza City, according to local sources.

    The occupation regime, which murdered at least nine civilians in Gaza yesterday, has violated the supposed ‘ceasefire’ every day since it came into force last week.

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel Violates Ceasefire With Deadly Attacks On Palestinians In Gaza

    The Israeli army killed several Palestinians in Gaza on 14 October despite the new ceasefire agreement which has taken effect across the strip.

    In total, nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli ceasefire violations, Palestinian media reports said. Three bodies arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, while another six arrived at Gaza City’s Baptist hospital. An Israeli quadcopter targeted civilians in Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood while they were inspecting their homes.

    Israeli artillery also shelled areas in Jabalia and Al-Tarans, accompanied by gunfire. There was also gunfire reported in the Al-Tahlia area of Khan Yunis in south Gaza.

    Additionally, a group of young men near Al-Fukhari, east of Khan Yunis, was targeted by Israeli forces, resulting in one death.

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  • Israel Says It’s Halving Aid Into Gaza After Receiving Last 20 Living Captives

    Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage. UN officials said they were notified by the Israeli military that it would only allow 300 aid trucks into the famine-stricken…

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  • Israeli Lawmaker Who Was Expelled for “Recognize Palestine” Sign Speaks Out

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  • Israel waged a two-year genocide war to free the prisoners – and still failed spectacularly

    For two full years, Israel waged one of the fiercest wars in modern history, a war described as a ‘slow-burn genocide.’ It used all kinds of prohibited weapons and relied on international intelligence agencies, yet failed to achieve its primary goal: recovering its prisoners from Gaza.

    Since October 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed his war on Gaza as a battle for “existence and security,” using the liberation of the prisoners as a pretext. However, after 735 days of continuous bombardment, Israel dropped more than 200,000 tons of explosives—the equivalent of approximately 13 Hiroshima bombs—over an area no larger than 365 square kilometres, turning Gaza into a scorched, lifeless wasteland.

    The result, as revealed by the facts, was horrific: more than 67,000 martyrs and missing, 170,000 wounded, and the near-total collapse of civilian infrastructure.

    Israel’s genocide

    The Israeli failure here is multifaceted. First, it was a military failure in converting firepower into tangible political results. Second, it was an intelligence failure in locating the prisoners or securing routes leading to their recovery. Third, it was a moral and political failure, as this process produced bloodshed and destruction, perpetrated by a government that relied on war as the only solution to internal and political pressure.

    On the other hand, what happened reflects the resistance’s tactical and organisational superiority: its ability to withstand a besieged structure, its ability to manage a sensitive issue such as the prisoners, and its ability to intelligently use information as a tool of pressure and dignity. The issue here is not just that the prisoners survived; rather, the resistance was able, in a single hour, to transform years of bombardment into a spectacle announcing the enemy’s failure to achieve its central goal.

    In a moment that seemed to sum up the futility of two years of genocide, the Qassam Brigades announced the handover of living prisoners during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement—a move that effectively ended the war that force had failed to end.

    Israel’s twisted actions

    While Israel needed two years of bombing to fail to free a single prisoner, the resistance was able to hand over the living prisoners within just one hour, in a scene that observers considered:

    a symbolic end to a futile war waged by Netanyahu in the name of electoral deception and political survival.

    This was not merely a symbolic event; it was a stark reflection of the shifting balance of power. The resistance, besieged and cut off from electricity, water, and medicine, maintained its organisational, military, and intelligence capabilities until the very last moment.

    Israeli military analyst Yaron Avraham bitterly remarked on Channel 12:

    They had maps of Israeli army bases, so what’s so strange about them having the family numbers of soldiers?

    This statement reads like an implicit admission of the failure of the Israeli military and intelligence establishment, which had spent two years searching in the dark. While Israel utilised satellites, aircraft, and artificial intelligence, the resistance was able to hide prisoners in a small, besieged territory completely exposed to the world.

    How did Israel have the backing of the world and still fail?

    As the tanks withdrew from the rubble, the most important question within Israel returned: How could a state with its entire military and technological arsenal fail, while the besieged resistance succeeded in preserving its prisoners and managing their situation intelligently and professionally?

    Thus, the short communication from Gaza became something of a final statement of the war. Israel did not win with weapons, but was defeated by sound—a sound coming from under the rubble, carrying messages that did not require missiles to hit their targets.

    Israel wanted to recover its prisoners to prove its strength, but its war ended to prove the opposite: that force does not provide security, that annihilation does not produce victory, and that Gaza, despite the ashes, is still capable of redefining the meaning of survival.

    The conclusion is harsh: bombs do not restore spirit or build confidence. Massive firepower may destroy cities, but it does not guarantee political or intelligence results. More importantly, it does not deter a people built from its ashes with the capacity to endure and manage critical issues. Thus, after two years of annihilation, which Israel intended as a final resolution, the war did not empty its adversary; rather, it revealed that victory in the age of media and intelligence is not measured by destruction, but by the ability to protect people, narrate their stories, and capture them—a capacity the resistance succeeded in preserving when the state machinery failed.

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    By Alaa Shamali

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