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  • Anti-genocide activists’ trial exposes Starmer collusion with Israel

    The trial of six anti-genocide activists in London has once again exposed close coordination between the Starmer regime and the organs of the illegitimate state of Israel. The trial of Palestine Action activists known as the ‘Filton 24′ has revealed that Israeli-owned arms company Elbit had access to evidence the activists’ defence barristers did not. Concerningly, evidence bagged by the Met Police was found in a safe on Elbit’s premises just days before the trial started.

    Moreover, prosecution witnesses had to – and were allowed to – change their statements mid-trial after body-cam footage showed that what they had previously said was false. All this raises serious questions about the conduct of the British state and its collusion with Israel during and before the activists’ trial.

    Anti-genocide activists

    The six activists on trial are members of the Filton 24 group and have been held in prison for more than a year. Many are facing delays of one or even two years more before their cases are heard. They were arrested last year before Starmer proscribed Palestine Action, a non-violent campaign group, as a terrorist organisation in July 2025. None of the six have been charged with terrorist offences, although the government is still applying terrorism legislation to hold them beyond the 180-day statutory limit.

    The activists have denied charges of criminal damage and, in one case, of grievous bodily harm, levelled at them.

    The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claims that the six activists used violence against police and security guards, releasing a heavily-edited body-cam video before the trial purportedly showing an attack. However, the defence was not allowed to release its own footage. The video is unclear, and it’s difficult to identify the attackers or their targets.

    The move appears to be a transparent attempt to sway public opinion about the trial and the regime’s decision to ban Palestine Action.

    Accusations over evidence

    However, crucially the body-cam footage draws attention to concerns about the handling of evidence in the case, and acts of apparent collusion with Israel.

    As journalist Jonathan Cook has pointed out, for over a year the police and the prosecution allowed Elbit — a military technology company co-founded by the Israeli government — to have unrestricted access to video evidence central to the case against the activists currently on trial, among other materials. Cook noted:

    the “full” footage – that is, the footage shown to the jurors, but not the public – is far from full. Elbit, the police and the prosecutors appear to have colluded in keeping some of the footage out of the trial. One can only speculate about why they would wish to do this.

    He then went on to list the following “key points about the video evidence”:

    * The state initially failed to provide the defence lawyers with accurate plans of the Elbit factory site. It was eventually forced to submit revised plans that revealed previously missing CCTV camera locations.

    * Conveniently, multiple cameras in an “alcove” area, where most of the confrontations took place, were not working, according to Elbit.

    * In an email revealed in court, suggesting that Elbit may have edited the footage, a police officer in charge of handling the video evidence warned Elbit’s security manager: “There’s a huge opportunity for the defence counsel to use the gaps and jumps [in the footage] to their advantage”…

    * Inexplicably, the police allowed Elbit to retain exclusive control over the camera footage for two days after the confrontation. Some of the other footage, from critically important cameras, was not sought by police until “much later”, according to a police investigator.

    * In a further sign of collusion between the police and Elbit, it was revealed that during a search of the Filton premises last month, as the trial got underway, an Elbit safe was opened that contained Metropolitan Police evidence bags, holding USB sticks of security camera footage.

    In other words, evidence collected and bagged by the police had been given over to Elbit, one of the parties involved in the trial, who had been allowed to keep it for more than a year.

    Expressing his concerns on these issues, journalist and former British ambassador Craig Murray, said:

    The last fact is simply astonishing. The evidence collected and apparently correctly bagged by the police had simply been handed over to Elbit, apparently for over a year. This is only a part of a much wider collusion between Elbit and the UK state, including the police…

    It is hard to imagine a plainer admission that a serving British police officer saw her primary duty as helping Israel’s largest arms manufacturer to secure convictions, rather than establishing the truth…

    It is also simply remarkable that the prosecution’s highly selective and edited video evidence has been put into the public domain and has notably affected the public narrative, but that the defence video evidence may not be made public.

    Contradictions

    Murray’s own summary of the exposures also notes that:

    Every single prosecution witness who gave evidence about the melee was obliged to change their statement when confronted by the defence with video evidence which contradicted it. This included much more video than was released by the prosecution.

    This is because claims by police and security guards about who was holding weapons and who attacked who are consistently contradicted by the video evidence:

    • The first sledgehammer shown in the footage is in the hands of a security guard – confirmed by testimony in court.
    • In his testimony security guard Nigel Shaw, who had claimed he was hit by the actionists, was forced to agree that, “no one in the building had struck him”.
    • Guard Angelo Volante had claimed an activist had held an angle-grinder during the confrontation but had to concede that the video showed that he, not the activist, was wielding the tool and also holding a hammer in the other hand and later a whip.
    • Footage shows Volante grabbing a sledgehammer from a activist Zoe Rogers and pointing it at her.
    • Another activist had to defend himself with a sledgehammer from a guard coming at him with a sledgehammer.

    Real Media notes that Rogers’s barrister:

    suggested [Volante] had swung his sledgehammer at Zoe, showing some more footage, in which the shadow of the hammer appeared as though raised, and Zoe covering her face in response. [Volante] had already accepted that he had kicked [another defendant Jordan] Devlin, and he now acceded that Zoe might have ‘thought’ that the hammer would hit her, but maintained he hadn’t swung it at her.

    The evidence also appeared to show that Volante may used a sledgehammer on Devlin and bitten him on the neck, though Volante denied causing bite marks found on Devlin’s neck after Volante put him in a choke hold that Volante admitted in court was potentially dangerous. Devlin suffered serious injuries, according to a an examination after his arrest:

    his “shoulder tricep area was swollen” and there were ”injuries to both wrists and his right cheek, a bump on his head, black right eye, bruised shins, thighs, and left arm, a bruised right elbow, and his left pectoral”

    ‘Unreliable witnesses’

    Murray noted:

    What is evident from these exchanges is that the security guards and police are unreliable witnesses.

    It is not merely that their evidence differs from what is shown by the video cameras.

    It is that, consistently, their sworn evidence is untrue in a way that always makes the Palestine Action activists more aggressive, and themselves more passive, than in fact was the case.

    The criminal trial overlapped with the High Court’s judicial review of the legality of Starmer’s proscription of Palestine Action. In that case, the state removed the original judge at the last moment and replaced him with a panel of three judges. All of these judges have links to Israel.

    Of course, the British state’s collusion with Israel was on the record before. For example, the CPS and the Attorney General’s Office had previously been consulting with the Israeli embassy – again, over the Filton 24 anti-genocide activists. Similar collusion has also been seen in earlier cases. Additionally, the court has allowed police officers and security guards to change their sworn statements after video evidence showed them to be false.

    The Starmer regime has no boundaries it will not cross in its eagerness to defend and support Israel and its interests at any cost.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Renowned Irish republicans back Palestine Action hunger strikers

    The eight Palestine Action-linked prisoners on hunger strike are mounting the most significant challenge to the British state since the 1981 hunger strikes by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Police arrested the activists for anti-genocide actions including alleged raids on weapons manufacturer Elbit and spraying paint on British warplanes.

    It was significant that Tommy McKearney, a participant in the 1981 strike, was present a London meeting on Friday, 5 December, to show solidarity with the anti-genocide campaigners.

    Also in attendance was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a leading advocate for prisoner rights 45 years ago. Partly as a result of that work, loyalist paramilitaries shot her nine times in 1981. Gary Donnelly also spoke at the event. He is one of the Raytheon Nine, the precursor to the establishment of Palestine Action. The group is best known for driving out war criminals Raytheon from Derry after occupying their factory and smashing up computers used for illegal activity.

    Irish activists organised the meeting on Friday, whose intention was to show solidarity with the prisoners and all those campaigning for them.

    Prison authorities have been subjecting them to appalling conditions of confinement, which include extended periods of solitary confinement, frequent strip searches, censorship of letters and inadequate access to legal representation.

    In response to this, and out of a desire to continue highlighting British involvement in so-called Israel’s genocide in Palestine, the strikers have issued five demands.

    Among these demands are calls for the de-proscription of Palestine Action, and the closure of Elbit. The number of demands issued echoes that used by republicans in the early 1980s.

    Irish hunger striker once hours from death speaks on his experience

    As several of the Palestine Action prisoners enter a dangerous new phase of their strike after over four weeks of refusing food, McKearney outlined how close he came to death in 1980:

    We were on hunger strike for 53 days. By the final week, I had succumbed to severe malnutrition. I collapsed into a state of semi-consciousness, enduring considerable distress. My eyesight was failing due to the collapse of the optic motor nerve, causing my vision to flicker up and down. My hearing was impaired, and I suffered from intense headaches and sharp pains in my stomach and legs.

    This intensified until, unknowingly, I was receiving daily visits from my parents. The medical authorities in the prison believed I was close to death. When the hunger strike finally ended after 53 days, I later learned that doctors had estimated I had only 24 to 48 hours left to live. That is how close I believe I came to dying.

    It took me about two months to get back on my feet, and several years before my optic motor nerve was fully restored and my eyesight was steady once more.

    McKearney and his fellow strikers campaigned to be treated as political prisoners, rather than the criminals the British state wanted to characterise them as.

    Among their demands were the right to refuse wearing a prison uniform and the right to be excused from prison work. Ten prisoners starved to death before the strike was called off on 3 October 1981. The British government under Margaret Thatcher had refused to meet the prisoners’ demands, though negotiations occurred in secret. Thus far, those representing the Palestine Action prisoners have reported no official response from the Starmer regime.

    The Labour Party has doubled down on its authoritarian decision to proscribe Palestine Action, treating its young, non-violent members and supporters as terrorists, with thousands arrested, while Downing Street appears indifferent to their suffering, even as they risk permanent harm or death for opposing a holocaust the British state has enthusiastically participated in.

    British government lawlessness is nothing new, it’s just returning home

    However, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey reminded those in attendance that massive abuses of power have long been the modus operandi of the British ruling class:

    …you see that the colonial mindset is deeply embedded in the political class, regardless of party. This is understandable, as it is difficult to give up the power secured on the rape, plunder, and conquest of other continents.

    McKearney, in a statement seen by the Canary, outlined the hypocrisy of a state that presents itself as a beacon of lawfulness but which has been engaged in incessant criminality:

    This is the state that proudly claims to have inherited an ancient legal system dating back to the Magna Carta. Yet, within living memory the British state’s armed forces have carried out mass killings of innocent, unarmed civilians in Ireland.

    He continued:

    …simultaneously British governments introduced interment without trial, abolished jury trials and were responsible for brutal interrogation techniques meted out to detainees and persistent mistreatment of prisoners.

    McAliskey went on to denounce the cowardice of the media in failing to adequately cover the mistreatment of Palestine Action:

    The Filton case is now being used as a gag order on the press. Journalists are using “Filton 24” as an excuse not to report on the hunger strike, claiming it’s “complicated” and requires legal consultation. There is nothing complicated about reporting on a hunger strike.

    The Filton 24 are a group of activists cops arrested for targeting Elbit. Among the group is Irish citizen, Jordan Devlin. Despite police arresting him prior to the Palestine Action proscription, prison authorities nonetheless treat him as a terror suspect would be. He has been held on remand since August 2024.

    Speaking to the Ditch, Devlin’s sister Brogan told of his treatment and that of others from the Filton group:

    They’ve all had their mail withheld. Visits are blocked. Jordan is locked up 23 to 23 and a half hours a day. Anything he’s made, even art projects, is confiscated.

    She also said:

    They’re x-raying him and strip-searching him twice a day. He’s freezing too.

    Jailers often hold the prisoners in cold cells for hours prior to court appearances.

    Tragedy and comedy as hunger striker defies prison regime

    It was left to Ella Moulsdale, close friend of striker Qesser Zuhrah, to highlight the spirit of defiance still being shown by those suffering through the gruelling protest action. Describing a scene that comical, tragic, and inspiring, she spoke of Zuhrah’s recent visit to a hospital. The hospital had no private rooms available, forcing her to use the crowded public waiting area.

    Moulsdale explained:

    Now, if anybody knows Qesser, this is their first mistake because she made sure everybody in that waiting room knew about the hunger strike, knew about Palestine.

    In a further reminder of the link between Ireland and those currently enduring the brutality of the British government, she said Qesser was:

    …desperately trying to look around the room and try to find a friendly face. And she told me, “I never look for white people.” But then I remembered the Irish and I thought, “Well, there could be Irish people here.” So she desperately tried to look and see if she could identify Irish people in the waiting room.

    Despite dehydration and exhaustion, as the guards dragged Zuhrah out of the hospital:

    …she went “Free Palestine!” And the whole waiting room looked up and finally met her gaze.

    Featured image via the Crispin Flintoff Show

    By Robert Freeman

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Genocide Experts Slam Hillary Clinton for “Genocide Denial” in Gaza Remark

    A group of genocide prevention experts has accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of “outright genocide denial” after she baselessly claimed that “made up” social media content is to blame for young people’s opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In a statement Monday, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said that Clinton sought to sweep aside young…

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    This post was originally published on Latest – Truthout.

  • Standing Together: Inside Israel’s Jewish-Arab movement for equality and peace

    Out of the rubble of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens inside Israel has emerged to forcefully reject a future of endless war and occupation. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Alon-Lee Green, national co-director of Standing Together, explains how their movement is confronting state repression, settler violence, and rising fascism while working to build a new Jewish-Palestinian majority in Israel.

    Guest:

    • Alon-Lee Green is the national co-director of Standing Together, a progressive Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that aims “to build a new majority within Israeli society that supports peace, equality, and social and environmental justice.” Green has organized numerous campaigns against the recent wars between Israel and Palestine, and for a just peace and equality and social justice in Israel.

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    Credits:

    • Producer: Rosette Sewali
    • Studio Production: David Hebden
    • Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
    Transcript

    The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.

    Marc Steiner:

    Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here on The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s great to have you all with us as we begin this conversation with one of the founders and leaders of Stand Together, an organization of Israelis and Palestinians in Israel calling for an end to the war in Gaza, an end to the occupation and to the end of oppression Palestinians. On this very moment, over 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed in Gaza. 90% of Gaan have been displaced. It’s a war of annihilation. Standing together was founded by Alan the Green and ud, a Jewish, Israeli and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, respectively. The national co-directors are standing together, which is the largest Arab Jewish GSU movement, opposing the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories and advocating for peace, equality, and justice for everyone living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In 2022, Udin Green were recipients of the Gallagher Prize from the New Israel Fund in October, 2024, they were selected for Time Magazine 100. Next 24 lists for their activity, opposing occupation for promoting Jewish Arab solidarity and guaranteeing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Today we are joined by Alon-Lee Green.

    So, Alon, it’s good to have you with us, and thank you so much for taking the time today.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Thank you for having me.

    Marc Steiner:

    So let me take a step backwards here for our people listening to us today and talk about this movement standing together, because I think that if you look at the press in the United States, many of the places you think there was no opposition in Israel itself, from Jews especially to the occupation and to what’s happening in Gaza. So talk a bit about your group first standing together.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So standing together is a Jewish, Palestinian grassroots movement operating within the borders of Israel, organizing people from both the bigger societies on our land in the fight against occupation and the wars and for freedom and equality and social justice and Israeli-Palestinian peace. We organize the citizens of Israel, which are both Palestinian citizens and Jewish citizens of Israel. But we also work across the border in solidarity with Palestinian communities in Gaza and in the West Bank In the last two years, referring to the question whether there was a position in Israel or not, I think there was a opposition in Israel. We were for sure positioned to all the genocidal intentions of our government and ministers to annihilate Gaza, to ethnically cleanse Gaza to just kill and destroy. We were opposition to the refusal of our government to release the hostages by a deal, but we also saw other kinds of opposition that I do insist to describe them as a position, even though they wouldn’t be exactly what I chose to do.

    But still, they went out to the streets in masses in the hundreds of thousands, they protest against the government. They demanded to release the hostages. A lot of them also demanded to end the war from different reasons. That can be a reason of not sending our soldiers to kill and get killed. It’s a self-interest of not having this war. Others saying that we killed too many, we destroyed too much, and I think we should see also other parts of the movement of the opposition in Israel and welcome it instead of looking at it and say, it is not good enough. I know it is complicated. I know when you see the images that came out of Gaza in the last two years, and then you see a hundred or 200,000 Israeli citizens going only with the pictures of the hostages, you can say it’s not enough. And I agree it’s not enough, but still it is important and it’s the beginning.

    Marc Steiner:

    There’s so many things I’m interested to hear from you, but one of this, how is it for you and others in Israel at this moment who are standing in opposition to the war in Gaza and to build a different future with Israelis and Palestinians? I mean, it makes me think of what it was like for white Southerners in the Civil rights movement when I was a young person in this civil rights movement to stand up against that mass of segregationists who did not want to integrate and give black people rights. So I’m curious, what is it like for you and others to stand up the way you’re standing up?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    It can be tough. It can be tough, and it’s getting tougher and tougher. There is a crackdown on the democratic spaces on our ability to operate. This weekend, the last weekend we have gathered in Haifa. It’s a mixed city of Jews and Palestinians in the north of Israel. We gathered for a national convention of the movement, celebrating also 10 years for the movement, but also looking ahead after these two last years on our mission. And the police decided to come to a convention with 1,500 Palestinians and Jews with rifles storming into our convention, telling us that they’re there to make sure that what we say on the stage or the placards and signs we present are according to the law, meaning that they felt they can censor us or silence us. And that was a threatening message to what we believe we can say or not say, or what they believe we can say or not say.

    So this is the kind of atmosphere some of us are getting arrested for saying what we say. Of course, if you’re a Palestinian citizen of Israel, the crackdown on you is so much harder than if you’re a Jewish citizen of Israel. You get a lot of death threats from just normal Israelis that can say, we will hang you. We will come to your home. We will find your address. People can shout at you, the streets for just being in the positions that you are. So this is the atmosphere, and I think it is encouraged by the government. There is a high level of political tension and political violence, but next to it, we’re growing. The reality is so harsh and so violent that it pushes a lot of people that used to be different in the past to pick a side and people do pick our side. And seeing the last rally, seeing us being able to mobilize tens of thousands of people supporting our messages, it’s an indication that there is a thirst to this voice calling to go to the different direction instead of eternal war and occupation towards actually the past of Israeli Palestinian peace and freedom and safety to all.

    Marc Steiner:

    Your co-director couldn’t join, say ruler. And I wonder, this is a very personal question in some ways and get back to politics in a minute, but you and ruler and others, Palestinian Israelis, what happens to you when you’re just in a normal every day you go out for a cup of coffee, for a drink, for dinner, sit in the park and talk. I mean, how threatened do you feel when you’re together? Describe what that’s like.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So it can be very normal actually. It can be very, very normal and daily and it can feel so natural. We have five offices and centers across Israel that we call them the Purple Houses of the movement,

    Which is also the offices of the staff, but it’s also community and cultural and political and activist centers in Jewish cities or Palestinian cities or mixed cities in Israel. And you will find every day Jews and Palestinians coming there to do activities together to watch a movie or to have lessons, horses, dinners, or to prepare for demonstration together. Then we can go for a coffee or for a beer afterwards. It’ll be very normal. But then if the police will come, a Jewish person might pump their chest and say, what are you doing here? You have no right to disturb us. And the Palestinian person will be immediately more afraid and immediately more intimidated. And that’s just one example. Another thing is that we have a very strong daily activity in the West Bank in protective presence that we go to be with Palestinian communities. And there of course, that the Palestinian citizens of Israel that are members of our movement, they feel afraid to go stand in front of the settlers and the army in the West Bank. So then it’s something only allows Jewish citizens to participate in this activity. So there are a lot of gaps. The reality is not equal, but still in an unequal reality. We managed to have a lot of natural connections and daily normal things. And also not only in the movement, go to a hospital in Israel, 40% of all the hospital personnel in Israel are Palestinians. It’s normal.

    Marc Steiner:

    Yeah, the contradictions abound, obviously.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Yeah.

    Marc Steiner:

    So talk a little bit more about your experiences going to the West Bank to protect Palestinians and Palestinian land and property. Tell us more about that.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So we are facing right now the toughest and most historic violent wave of settler violence in the West Bank. And we’re talking about daily attacks of settlers that are raiding Palestinian villages that are attacking Palestinians in their cars, on the roads that are coming to businesses, bashing them, setting homes and cars on fire, looking at people, torching trees and fields. And all of this is backed by the army and the police, if the police will show up or if the army will show up, they will protect the settlers that are committing violent crimes and will arrest or even allow the violence towards the Palestinians. So we as a movement are coming daily to the West Bank to protect villages or communities only if we’re called. We’ll not show up in places where the people, the local residents will not want us there. And we stand between the settlers and the local communities and the people

    Marc Steiner:

    You mean. You literally stand between settlers intent on violence against Palestinians and the Palestinians themselves.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    In the last month, the month of the olive harvest, this is what we did every day. We helped to pick the olives, but we also stood between the Palestinians and their olive grids and the settlers that came. And we tried to make the police to interfere because of that, because it wasn’t Israeli citizens who are settlers versus Palestinians. It was Israeli citizens that are settlers versus other Israeli citizens. And then the police felt that there is a need to interfere and not to allow the violence. So we are using, in a way, we’re using our bodies and our existence there and our presence there to try and dismantle the violence and the attacks and the Palestinians. It can get violent. Some of my friends got shot at their direction, others came to the hospitals because of a stone or a stick. But it’s something that allows you to do something really profoundly amazing on the ground. It is very powerful. It’s very important. You’re changing the reality by your existence

    Marc Steiner:

    There. So given the reality of this moment where at least 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, Muslim women and children, that the war is raging just destroying Gaza, its infrastructure, and you have this movement in Israel of Jews, Muslims and Christians, Palestinians and Israelis together saying no to all of this violence and standing up to it, how do you see it playing out politically? It another step backwards. I’ve said this before when I was talking to other people in Israel in 1968, I was in Cuba and I came home with a poster. And that poster is the map of all of the holy land with an Israeli flag of one side, a Palestinian flag on the other. And down the front was written one state, two people, three faiths, which seems way off, but it’s one of my mantras. So I’m curious where you think this struggle takes everyone where you live because you’re not leaving Israel, you’re there and you’re dedicated to finding peace. So where do you see this going?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So I think we need to look at two parts of this question. One is the dire reality and the dire needs of this moment. You cannot ignore, even if you look at the bigger picture, you cannot ignore the details and you cannot ignore the needs of people. Right now, Gaza has been annihilated. We’re talking about cities in plural that do not exist anymore. Not even one house was remained standing after the war, after the bombings of Israel. And people are intense right now. People are with running rainwater in their tents with diseases, with no hospital, no schools, no infrastructures. And this needs to be taken care of. It cannot be taken care of if Israel will assume the control of a 53% of Gaza. And it will also not be taken care of if a foreign army, even if it’s not the Israeli army, will come and control the Palestinians instead of them controlling themselves.

    So what I’m saying here is that there is the only possible resolution for Gaza right now is to allow the Palestinian authority to enter Gaza, to build a government, to build a governing body of Palestinians, to control themselves and to rebuild their lives from where they are right now. But then we need to also understand that Gaza is not disconnected from the West Bank, from East Jerusalem, from the greater Palestinian people. And then there’s only one way to look at it. There are 7 million Israeli Jewish people living on the land. Yes, they have their own country, they’re independent, they’re free, they have the right to vote and to get elected, they have passports. But there are also 7 million Palestinians living on the same land, and only 2 million of them are citizens of the Israeli state. Not equal citizens, but still citizens. And the others have no country in the world, no passports, no freedom of movement, no ability to vote or to get elected.

    They’re living under occupation. The only possible solution is to allow a reality in which we are all free, equal and independent. I personally believe that this reality means that Palestinians will have the right to form their own independent state alongside Israel right now. And that means that we will all be living under a state, not the same state with a passport, with the ability to control our lives. Whether it will move on to a different solution in 50 years, maybe. I personally believe that maybe a socialist federation of the entire Middle East is a good idea, but maybe we have some years before we reach there. I would say, yeah, one step after the other. Right now, the only way to move forward is to allow Palestinians their independent state. And it is our role as the Israeli movement of both Palestinians and Jews to build the political will within our society for this.

    Marc Steiner:

    So standing together as an organization of Palestinian Israelis, Christmas, Muslim Jews pushing for peace and fighting to end the occupation. What happens to you and other Israelis, Jewish Israelis, when they’re called up to serve? What do you do?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So it’s a very fascinating and good question. There are a lot of different kinds of people that exist in our movement. We will never be a movement that says you’re against occupation. Good. You’re against racism. Good. You’re against Jewish supremacy good. You believe that all Palestinians should be living freely on this Islamic good, but if you define yourself in one ideologic name or other ideologic name, or you served in the past in the army, you cannot join our struggle. No, we’re all about building power and having enough power to change the reality. So this is why we’ll not have gatekeeping and purity tests indentions to our struggle and to our camp. A lot of the people that served in the West Bank in the checkpoints in Nalu ended their service and woke up and said, I did something that I shouldn’t have done. I did something that I want to speak about.

    I did something that I want to resist now, and I think we should listen to them and allowed them to fight against occupation today. I personally believe that people that committed war crimes in Gaza should pay for the war crimes they committed. I am not saying that we need to forget about the terrible things that happened there, but I also believe that there are still people that need the change right now, and we’re not in the time that history ended and now it’s time for the trials. No, now is the time for change. Now is the time to build power for change. And I think that we need to accept in open arms people that say, yes, I believe that this is the reality that we need to change. I recognize this reality and I’m part of the change.

    Marc Steiner:

    So when I think of my Israeli family that I have in Natanya and other places where they live, they all are called up to serve at some point. How many of the people in your movement have to end up going to jail for not serving?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    We have some. In the last two years, we had quite a few members that were arrested by the police, the Army police, for refusing to enter Gaza or to enter Lebanon. We organized demonstrations to support them. We actually organized a campaign calling soldiers to refuse to enter Gaza, to refuse to enter Lebanon, to refuse to commit war crimes, to refuse to starve people or to kill children. And we managed to sign hundreds of soldiers at the beginning and then thousands of soldiers on this refusal call. We don’t have the exact numbers because the army is hiding the numbers,

    But we do know that those people pay the personal price. Some of them went to serve at the beginning of the war and then joined the refusal call. Some of them said, I’m just not coming from the beginning. I know we got a bit of criticism for the ones that are later adopters that went at the beginning and then refused. I am saying here in the very possible clear way, welcome. If you at the beginning thought it’s the right thing, and now you’re thinking it’s the wrong thing and you’re joining the refusal movement, it is okay, at least as long as you are with us and refusing to commit these crimes.

    Marc Steiner:

    How optimistic are you that your movement will grow again? Let me take a step backwards again. I can remember the dangers we felt in Mississippi and Alabama in the sixties, in the eastern shore of Maryland, facing down segregation of some police people being killed, standing up to say in segregation. And I think what you’re facing in many ways is even more dangerous. So how do you see the movement building? How do you see the change, the possibility for real change taking place within Israel and Palestine?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    I think that the question we need to ask ourself is are we in the last stop of history? Is this definitive? Is this the end? And I believe the answer is no possibilities exists in our societies. Spaces exist in our society. People that want to see change or do not want to submit or to accept this reality, they exist. And as long as they exist all this together, as long as the struggle exists, there is still hope. The motto of our movement is where there is struggle, there is hope, and there is the struggle. It exists

    Marc Steiner:

    Where there is struggle, there is hope.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Where there is struggle, there is hope. That’s the slogan of standing together. And it exists. The struggle, it exists. You have 20% of all the citizens of Israel are Palestinians. They have the inherent interest to change the reality because they’re paying the price for this reality. But what about the mother of a soldier that has been sent now to Gaza and in two years will be sent to kill and get killed again? Does she not have the interest to end this reality and to change this reality? I believe she does, and she has this interest, and I think this is a revolutionary component of our reality. Using the interest of people and going past, just the awareness of today is something that every person that wants to see change needs to be serious about. And if you will only ask me whether there is a chance for change, whether there’s a reason to be optimistic only upon the awareness, the political awareness of the Jewish people today on Israel, I will tell you that the situation is dire and extreme. But if I know to recognize their interest and I know that people can change, then I will tell you that I’m extremely optimistic because the struggle exists and the reality is full of contradictions, and these contradictions push people towards change.

    Marc Steiner:

    So do you feel in your daily work personally threatened?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Yes. Yes. Those daily levels and occurrences of violence, if we go to a demonstration, right-wing activists that are bullies will come and will try to attack us. The police can attack us, the police can arrest us. We go to the West Bank and settlers can come with rifles in front of us every day. There are threats and reasons to feel threatened, but then I have the ability to feel that I’m part of a movement and I’m part of a big group of people that is just getting bigger and bigger. And this gives a lot of power.

    Marc Steiner:

    When you watch the Daily News, we see it from afar and we watch the destruction going on in Gaza. And then we also see these demonstrations. The demonstration You just had had massive demonstrations in Israel, didn’t you?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Yeah, all through the two years of the war, there were massive demonstrations in Israel. Some of them reached 400,000 citizens, which is a big proportion of the Israeli general population.

    Marc Steiner:

    Yes,

    Alon-Lee Green:

    The largest of them was 400,000 people out of 9 million citizens. It’s quite a lot. The main demand was to sign a deal to release the hostages to end the war. A lot of the people also said things about Palestinian lives, about the children that are being killed in Gaza, about the starvation in Gaza, about the killing in Gaza. Some people felt that this shouldn’t be part of the protest. There was an argument within the movement. I am proud that our role was to take this movement to the left to deal with the question of Palestinian lives, with the question of the genocidal calls and genocidal war and the annihilation of Gaza.

    Marc Steiner:

    People listening to us today need to know a great deal more about standing together, about where your movement came from, how big it is. Talk a bit about what you actually stand for in the face of Warren Gaza and the genocide taking place because people have, many people have never heard of standing together unless you’re like read the news a lot, you’re in the movement, you don’t hear, so tell us.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    So standing together is a movement that is active in Israel, and we believe that as Jews and Palestinians together, we have the ability to build a new majority in our society and not to work across the normal division lines of Jews against Palestinians or periphery against center, but actually to see the interest of both Palestinians and Jews building a new reality here on the ground of freedom and peace and dignity and safety for all people. We believe that even though we can recognize the fact that Palestinians are paying the ultimate price for the occupation, for the violence, for the sub education, for the war crimes, and the historic crimes that have been committed on this land, the Jewish people also pay a price for this reality and also has many things that we lose. So if we are losing from the reality together today, we can win together from a new reality. And this is the majority that we’re building. It’s a majority that has the interest for social justice or economic justice or equality for democracy, and yes, or ending the occupation and achieving Israeli Palestinian peace. And this is the theory of change of standing together, recognizing these interests and bringing Palestinians and Jews together.

    Marc Steiner:

    I think what you’re describing here in Standing Together is a movement that is really broad. You’re not following a narrow ideology in terms of what you’re doing, but a broad movement to bring peace and find a new way for the future that lets people of many ideas come in together. Is that correct?

    Alon-Lee Green:

    It’s a broad movement, yes. We don’t tell a person that you can only join us if you hold one very specific ideology and we care about the change. And if you really want to change reality, you just move away from just condemning the reality. Reality. This is something we’re very serious about.

    Marc Steiner:

    So before you go Ilan, I’d like to hear your analysis of where you honestly think this will be going, where this movement takes you, where it takes Israel, Palestine and how, because there are many of us here. I mean, there are tens of thousands of people in the United States, Jews and others who are standing up and saying, no, we do not support this. That’s good. So where do you see it going

    Alon-Lee Green:

    Politically? So I believe we are in the historic juncture

    Of this land after the last two years towards the coming years. We need to make a choice. Are we going to allow our leadership to continue, push us towards the direction of eternal war and genocide and annihilation and occupation and apartheid and just the mess, killing a rivers of blood on this land? Or are we going towards a historic solution of Israeli-Palestinian peace of freedom and dignity and equality and safety to all? And I believe that it is a choice that people can make. So this is why we are an active force within our society to convince people to make this choice and go towards the direction of Israeli Palestinian peace. I think that the reality is open, the opportunity and the possibilities they exist, the dangers also exist, but it is the question of power and organizing. And I believe that we have the ability to win in this fight and in this historic juncture, we will need the help of the world. We will need the help of many different partners, but eventually it is upon the people that live here, the 7 million Palestinians, the 7 million Jews to make this decision

    Marc Steiner:

    Along. Let me say, first of all, thank you for taking the time today, and thank you for the bravery of you and the others, Palestinians and Israelis standing up to say no in standing together to build a different world. Thank

    Alon-Lee Green:

    You so much,

    Marc Steiner:

    And we’re here to be your voice, so you’re always welcome.

    Alon-Lee Green:

    I appreciate it so much. Thank you.

    Marc Steiner:

    Thank you.

    Once again, I want to thank Alan Lee Green for joining us today, and we’ll be linking to Standing Together and their work so you can follow what they do, and we’ll be continuing our conversations with them in the weeks and months to come. And thanks to David Hebden for running the program today, audio editors Stephen Frank for working his magic producer Rosette Sewali for all of her work and research that makes our program sound good and the tireless Kayla Rivara for making it all work behind the scenes. And everyone here at The Real News for making this show possible. So please let me know what you thought about, what you heard today, what you’d like us to cover. Just write to me at ss@therealnews.com and I’ll get right back to you. Once again, thank you to Alon-Lee Green for joining us today and for the work of Standing together. So for the crew here at The Real News, I’m Marc Steiner. Stay involved. Keep listening, and take care.

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  • Annual Defense Bill Includes Provision to Effectively Undo Israel Arms Embargoes

    The 2026 military funding bill released this week would require the U.S. to assess Israel’s weapons arsenal and suggest ways to undo any “gaps” that may be caused by arms embargoes imposed by other countries protesting Israel’s violence. A provision in the “must-pass” National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bill for 2026, released by lawmakers on Monday, requires the Secretary of Defense to…

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  • The colonial fault lines that divide Lebanon and Palestine

    The boundary separating Lebanon and Palestine today wasn’t a random accident.

    It was shaped by European colonial powers, you guessed it Britain and France, with little regard for the people it would impact. What they saw as a “backward” border would later fuel Zionist expansion into the Galilee and Israel’s multiple incursions into Lebanon.

    As a Lebanese subject opposed to Zionism and committed to resistance, I cannot view this history as detached. The line drawn in the sand in 1923 was the start of a century-long struggle of fragmentation, dispossession, and resistance. This struggle still echoes in the lives of millions today.

    Severing economic lifelines

    Regions that once formed a single economic unit were sliced in half like an experimental collage—torn apart and reassembled. This was done with no regard for the local trade networks and lives they disrupted.

    The regions of Marj‘Ayoun and the Hula Valley illustrate this violent separation.

    Marj‘Ayoun, home to landowners, mill operators, and grain merchants, became part of Lebanon and the Hula Valley was assigned to Palestine.

    The division impoverished the region. Its inhabitants fled outwards as their economic lifeblood dried up. In subsequent years, after the establishment of the Israel colonial-settler state, Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town, would emerge as the new economic hub of the Galilee.

    The town of Bint Jbeil is another casualty of colonial partition. It had historically connected key cities across Lebanon and Palestine — Tyre with Acre, Safad, and the Hula Basin — while facilitating the flow of goods and people. The boundary drawn by the British diminished these exchanges and mobility. It also stunted future economic prospects for agricultural communities.

    The rural communities lost the mobility they depended upon. They could no longer graze livestock in adjacent valleys, sell crops in neighbouring towns, or undertake odd-jobs for additional income. As livings standards declined people migrated to distant cities. The Lebanese south predominantly home to Lebanon’s Shiite community and long neglected by the Lebanese capital had no alternative economic lifeline.

    For its inhabitants, access to the markets of northern Palestine was essential for its survival.

    These boundaries were not drawn arbitrarily but deliberately. They laid down the groundwork for future domination.

    Policing a fragile frontier

    Still, locals, especially farmers, repeatedly defied the new boundary — and not always intentionally. It wasn’t, after all, ironclad — an idea Israel would eventually execute through its unlawful partition wall in the occupied West Bank.

    Fearful of Arab communities rising-up to express their dismay, British and French officials hatched a plan to regulate cross-border movement.

    In 1926 an agreement was signed in Jerusalem giving them administrative powers to police the porous frontier. Residents from Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria would cross without passports and transport livestock, tools, and agricultural produce without customs duties.

    This was no act of generosity but an admission that people’s old ways of living, fractured by the colonial boundary, needed to be restored, albeit under a colonial guise.

    For Lebanon’s southern community, they turned their sights to northern Palestine — a critical lifeline at the time.

    Some sought employment opportunities, while others turned to cross-border smuggling of hashish, weapons, and produce. At times, even Jewish migrants were smuggled illegally into Palestine. Goods produced in Jewish settlements were sold into Lebanon and Syria. People abandoned by their state had no choice but to adapt.

    The enduring wounds of partition in Southern Lebanon

    The 1926 agreement wasn’t long lasting either, terminated after the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.

    Israel refused to recognise any treaty the British has signed into existence and the closure of the border dealt a fatal blow to the South of Lebanon.

    On the occupied side, Arab villages were emptied and repopulated by Jewish settlers. These settlers had no interest in maintaining economic ties with their Lebanese neighbours. On the Lebanese side, economic isolation deepened.

    Beirut’s political elite—many of whom believed Israel might one day annex the region—saw little incentive to invest in the Shiite-majority south.

    By the late 1960s, the frontier turned into a battleground between Palestinian fighters and Israeli forces.

    The presence of Palestinian guerrillas and recurring Israeli raids served as a convenient excuse for the Lebanese state to side step is welfare duties towards communities along the frontier.

    The deeper truth was the structural marginalisation of a population. They had the least representation in the halls of power.

    Mounting poverty, displacement, and devastation endured by South Lebanon, exacerbated by unending Israeli assaults (until this present day), can be directly traced to the Franco–British partition of in the 1920s.

    A colonial line, drawn with arrogant indifference, divided communities and shaped the conditions that later enabled both occupation and resistance.

    Featured image via National Library of Israel

    By Mohammad Fakih

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Reeves claims ‘I am a Zionist’ while receiving over £200k from Israel lobby

    Rachel Reeves has said publicly that she will always be a friend of Israel – a genocidal terrorist state, whilst taking over £200k in donations from Israeli lobbyists.

    Reeves made the comments during the keynote speech at the Labour Friends of Israel’s (LFI) annual dinner on Monday, 8 December. Also in attendance were deputy prime minister David Lammy and verious backbench MPs.

    In her speech, she said:

    The progressive friends of Israel, whatever their criticism of particular governments, must be willing to say, unapologetically, I am a Zionist.

    To translate quickly, ‘progressive friends of Israel’ means genocide supporters who are okay with Israel murdering countless innocent people, of course.

    Rachel Reeves pocketing Zionist lobby funding

    And let’s not forget, the Israel lobby has paid Rachel Reeves thousands of pounds.

    She received £2,500 from LFI and £35,210 from Trevor Chinn. He is a long-time Israeli lobbyist who has financed at least eight members of Starmers’ front bench at various points. He’s also donated to former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, current Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, and Health Secretary Wes Streeting.

    Reeves has also previously received close to £175,000 from Israel lobbyist Victor Blank. According to This is Money, he gave the money to her Westminster office between 2021 and 2023, when Reeves was Shadow Chancellor.

    Of that money, £100,000 was reportedly for ‘office costs’ for a year. Sounds like a pretty expensive stapler.

    This means that in total, Reeves has received over £200k from the Israel lobby over the course of her career.

    It’s reassuring to know that it’s not morality or right and wrong that dictates what our politicians say and do. Instead, it’s a fat wad of cash.

    Labour Friends of Genocide

    Of course, we still don’t know who funds Labour Friends of Israel – sorry, Labour Friends of Genocide.

    LFI is one of the biggest lobbying forces in UK politics. However, it still refuses to disclose who actually funds it. Clearly, it has something to hide. In 2024, Declassified published a list of LFI’s parliamentary supporters, which, at the time, were listed on its website.

    At the time of publication, LFI was counting 73 of Labour’s 197 MPs as parliamentary supporters or officers of the organisation. Additionally, it listed 37 lords and 4 MSPs.

    As Declassified reported:

    Failure to be transparent raises the prospect of undue interference in British politics.

    Declassified added that:

    One former British minister, writing anonymously, has criticised LFI’s “opaque funding and underhand conduct” as a “national disgrace and humiliation” which “must be stamped out”.

    Reeves probably needs reminding that she is, in fact, the chancellor of the UK, not Israel. But follow the money – how can we take anything she says about Israel seriously when she is nearly £200k up because of a terrorist-state’s chequebook?

    What is clear is that no politician should be endorsing a foreign, genocidal state whilst taking money from its supporters.

    Featured image via HG 

    By HG

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Zarah Sultana says David Lammy is lying about political prisoner hunger strikes

    Your Party’s Zarah Sultana has accused justice secretary David Lammy of “lying when he says he doesn’t know about the hunger strikes” of non-violent activists whom the state has held captive without trial for months. The hunger strike began on 2 November.

    Zarah Sultana calls for a stop to Britain’s descent into authoritarianism

    Sultana highlighted that the current Labour government is overseeing the “largest coordinated hunger strike since the 1980s” because of its highly controversial crackdown on free speech. Parliament’s dodgy decision to proscribe direct-action group Palestine Action for its opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza has attracted international criticism. But as Sultana pointed out, “the complicity of a media landscape that does not hold power to account” has so far enabled the government’s repression. The corporate media’s “lack of coverage for the hunger strikers”, she stressed, has been “deeply shocking”.

    Slamming Lammy’s duplicity, she said:

    I have written to him. It has been raised in the Commons. There’s also an Early Day Motion. So he is lying.

    He knows about the hunger strikers. He just doesn’t want to listen to them and address their demands.

    Ultimately, Lammy is consciously participating in Britain’s descent into dictatorship. And as Sultana stated:

    we need to have a conversation about the authoritarianism of this government that is handpicking judges for the Palestine Action judicial review and is conflating our right to protest with terrorism. It’s incredibly dangerous.

    A massive national scandal that everyone should care about

    Sultana insisted that we all need to highlight the fact that:

    we have politicians serving in the highest offices in the land pretending that they don’t know what’s going on

    She also asserted that:

    it’s important that all of us raise awareness about the eight hunger strikers that are putting their lives on the line to raise awareness not just about the conditions that they are suffering in prison, but the fact that they have been denied bail. They want to have the right to a fair trial as we expect with our legal system.

    And she stressed that:

    David Lammy needs to meet the hunger strikers and listen to their demands.

    No matter where people stand on the political spectrum, this state overreach in defence of Israeli war criminals is of great concern. Because when ordinary people allow the repression of one group, that gives governments the green light to repress all groups that threaten their power or the power of their friends. As German theologian Martin Niemöller famously said of Nazism in his homeland:

    First they came for the Communists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Communist
    Then they came for the Socialists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Socialist
    Then they came for the trade unionists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a trade unionist
    Then they came for the Jews
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a Jew
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me.

    The whole of Britain must stand up to the repression of Keir Starmer’s regime and the establishment politicians who have enabled it (from Labour to the Conservatives, and Reform to the Liberal Democrats). Because fascists are currently leading the race to replace Starmer, and history has shown us exactly what happens when they control the repressive machinery of the state.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Ed Sykes

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Funeral images show tiny size of Israel-backed Gaza gang

    An Israel-backed Gaza gang, known as The Popular Forces of Gaza, appear to be getting close to emulating Life of Brian’s one-man Popular Front of Judea. Images from the funeral of recently assassinated leader Yasser Abu Shabab show a tiny number of mourners, with around 20-30 present. The anti-Hamas militants have been backed by the modern day ‘State of Judea‘, to use historian Ilan Pappé’s term. It refers to the current incarnation of the Zionist state, characterised by religious fundamentalism and brutal colonial expansion that outstrips even the prior barbarism of the settler-colonial project.

    Shabab was killed on Thursday December 5, with conflicting reports about how his life was ended. Israeli Army Radio reported that he had been killed in an ambush carried out by resistance factions. However, as pointed out by the Canary, ‘Israeli’ and and Western sources have claimed he was killed when:

    …an internal dispute among several families escalated into an armed confrontation during which one of those involved opened fire at Abu Shabab.

    Israel-backed Gaza gang betrayed Palestinians

    The gang leader had a criminal past that involved drug trafficking and smuggling, before forming the ‘Israeli’ proxy Popular Forces. The traitorous force was used by the Zionist regime to hijack aid convoys delivering food to starving Palestinians, and to secure sites for the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The latter was a front set up to lure Palestinians with food, only to massacre them at distribution points.

    The images of Shabab’s funeral were shared by Muhammad Shehada, a former resident of Gaza who is now a political analyst and visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is an immensely articulate and knowledgeable commentator on Palestinian affairs, and has been featured at length on Western alternative media giving detailed analyses of developments in Gaza.

    His assessment is that the death of the Popular Forces leader will have little bearing, describing him as “just a front guy”, with the “de facto leader” always being one Ghassan Duhaini. He now appears to have officially taken charge, and has spoken to Zionist media N12 News to declare that he is unafraid of Hamas. A video has emerged of the new betrayer-in-chief greeting a group of troops that is similarly feeble in number to the funeral attendance. Of the broadcast, he says:

    The purpose of the video that was published is simple and clear: to show that the Popular Forces continue to operate. It was meant to show readiness, to check the status of the forces and the guys there with high morale.

    Tiny numbers of traitorous gang prove Palestinian resolve during genocide

    Shehada’s assessment is that Duhaini has more about him than his predecessor, saying:

    He’s better trained (having once served in the PA security agencies, but got fired), more well-connected & more charismatic than Yasser (& didn’t drop out of elementary school like Yasser).

    He states that Duhaini gave the:

    …interview to Israeli media from the Israeli hospital he was evacuated to…

    Whether the change of official leadership will make any difference given the paltry numbers remains to be seen. Shehada points out that the failure to attract greater numbers to the gang is a vindication of Palestinian steadfastness in the face of overwhelming adversity:

    Israel burned and starved Gaza to its very foundations over two years of genocide, while showering money, weapons, shelter, luxury cars, and cigarettes on those who sold themselves to its army.

    Despite all the pressures and temptations, only a few dozen pursued criminals, disowned by their families, joined Abu Shabab’s gang.

    He continued:

    The people of Gaza preferred hunger, sleeping in the open, disease, cold, thirst, and death over selling themselves.

    He points out how this contrasts with the Zionist canard that Palestinians have only themselves to blame for failures over the years due to supposedly selling out. This can be traced all the way back to early myths about Palestinians selling huge amounts of land to Jewish settlers, when in fact it was likely to have been at most 5-7% of the territory. Much of it was done in good faith without knowledge of the colonisers’ intention to steal all of historic Palestine.

    Impossible decisions for those under occupation and genocide

    Of course, at times Palestinians have been pressured under impossible circumstances to serve the Occupation. Despite constant attempts to pinkwash the land theft project, Zionist intelligence services have blackmailed LGBTQ+ people in Palestine. They threaten to out those targeted unless they cooperate with the likes of Shin Bet and Unit 8200. DropSite News spoke with:

    …dozens of queer Palestinians who had encounters with Israeli intelligence. Many had received threatening messages via Grindr, Instagram, or Facebook from an anonymous individual who had their identifying information, forcing them to turn into informants.

    Similarly, people with urgent medical conditions are threatened with refusal of treatment unless they betray their fellow Palestinians. Those in the Popular Forces are certainly a less sympathetic case, though still are in some sense victims – doomed by being born Palestinian to live under the thumb of a brutal and manipulative colonial master.

    Featured image via X/Muhammad Shehada

    By Robert Freeman

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Greenstein organises protest webinar ahead of his ‘terror’ trial

    Tony Greenstein (image: S Walker).

    Left-wing Jewish activist Tony Greenstein’s trial date has been set for 6 January.

    He faces charges for comments he has made in opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and in supporting of Palestinian’s right to armed resistance in the context of military occupation — a right enshrined under international law.

    This is not the first trial of its kind. Jersey peace activist Natalie Strecker who stood trial on charges of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, was acquitted last week. According to former Derby North MP Chris Williamson, the jury was reported told to over look international law. Nevertheless, the presiding judge was careful not to challenge the government’s decision to  bring charges against the activist.

    In contrast to Natalie Strecker who asked for a ‘quiet show of support’ outside her trial, the outspoken Greenstein is not holding back. His supporters will be able to attend a webinar organised on the day of the trial to express their solidarity. In a recently published article, Greenstein addressed Strecker landmark acquittal and his coming trial:

    The Prosecution will say that it is a crime to support the resistance of Palestinians to the genocidal Israeli army because Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Using this ‘logic’ it would have been a crime to support the French Resistance, whom the Nazis also termed terrorists. My response at 6.30 a.m. was just 3 words ‘this is Orwellian’…

    What the Met are doing is supporting British foreign policy which is giving support to the genocide in Gaza. Having received no less than 9 complaints from Zionists like @Heidi Bachram, they decided to spare no expense in arresting me. Ms Bachram was operating in the best traditions of Jews who had betrayed fellow Jews to the Nazis.

    I was arrested initially under s.12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 which makes it an offence to ‘express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed (i.e. terrorist) organisation.’

    My Police interviewers did not understand when I told them that I would have supported the Devil himself against the IDF. I gave them the example of how, in 1944, over 200 Jews deserted from the Polish Home Army (AK) because they had been told by their officers that they would be shot in the back when they went into action.

    A saying common in AK was that ‘’Every Pole has two bullets—the first for a Jew and the second for a German’. It caused a major scandal when Tom Driberg MP raised it in the House of Commons, against the wishes of the Board of Deputies. Anti-Semitism was rife in AK so it is unlikely that I would have supported it.

    However when AK led the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 against the Nazis then of course I would have supported it. The same with Hamas. I support it against a genocidal army but not against its own people.

    Greenstein has organised a webinar for 11 December at 6pm, titled ‘Freedom of Speech and Protests Against Genocide are not Terrorism’. He plans of rallying his supporters to demonstrate outside the courtroom during his trial, and to campaign against the Starmer regime’s criminalisation of pro-Palestinian speech and independent journalism:

    Because my trial is imminent I am organising a webinar around not only my case but the attack on Palestine solidarity activists. Natalie Strecker is awaiting a verdict in a similar trial in Jersey and her charges are similar to those facing me. The trial of the first six of the Filton 24 has already begun. Richard Medhurst who is speaking also faces the prospect of being charged.  Despite being a journalist he is the ‘wrong type’ of journalist.

    Please register and join us and also get involved in the campaign against the persecution of Palestine solidarity activists. I am calling for a demonstration outside Kingston Crown Court on January 5th at 9.30 and for people to attend the trial which is estimated to last a week. It is important that the movement makes its presence felt.

    You can join Thursday’s webinar by registering here.

    Featured image via Tony Greenstein/YouTube

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel’s Continued Defiance Of World Court And United Nations

    The United States pushed its resolution on Gaza through the United Nations Security Council on Nov. 17, moving forward on President Donald Trump’s purported peace plan while disregarding Israel’s violations of the ceasefire and despite its rejection of Palestinian statehood, a quintessential element of the U.S. resolution.

    Contrary to the pronouncements of the International Court of Justice, successive resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly and even Trump’s Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity, Israel is further entrenching its occupation in Gaza; exponentially expanding its illegal settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem; and publicly planning to annex significant parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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  • Israel Reportedly Spying on American Troops at US Base Monitoring Gaza Ceasefire

    Israeli authorities are reportedly conducting widespread surveillance and recording in a U.S. base set up in southern Israel in October to monitor the Gaza ceasefire. The Guardian reports that foreign diplomats and other visitors to the base like humanitarian officials are sometimes told to avoid sharing sensitive information for fear that it will be exploited by Israel…

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  • Israeli Leaders and Settlers Aim to Create a Fully Colonized “Greater Israel”

    As Israel’s genocide in Gaza drags into its third year, more than two million Palestinians have been hemmed in by a military border. In “East Gaza,” as the Israeli Defense Forces-controlled zone east of the border has become known, more than two million Palestinians live surrounded by rubble, decaying corpses, and unexploded munitions, as they struggle to survive in makeshift shelters without…

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  • Israeli Ministers Wear Noose Pins to Symbolize Support for Killing Palestinians

    Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their “commitment” to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for “terrorists” who kill Israelis. The pins resemble the yellow ribbon pins that Israeli leaders have worn throughout their genocide to to…

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  • Israeli settlers attack and injure Palestinian family and solidarity activists

    The International Solidarity Movement has sent details of an attack by Israeli settlers near Ramallah, in the West Bank. It marks yet more settler violence and bears the hallmarks of attempted ethnic cleansing:

    Settlers and military in collusion?

    Eight Israeli settlers, masked and armed with clubs, brutally attacked the Abu Hamam home in the village of al-Mughayyer, east of Ramallah.

    The settlers injured a 13-year-old boy, Riziq Abu Naim, and a 59-year-old woman, Fadda Abu Naim (Umm Hamam). They also injured four international solidarity activists from the UK, Colombia-US and France.

    All six were evacuated to the Ramallah Hospital, suffering bruises and gashes to their heads, limbs and torsos. During the attacks, the settlers threatened the family that they will return and burn the houses with them in it if they did not leave within two days.

    The Abu Naim residence is on the outskirts of al-Mughayyer. It’s the target of near-daily Israeli attacks and harassment by both settlers and soldiers, often working in coordination.

    The attack took place at 1:40am on 7 December, only a short time after an Israeli military force raided the village, and ended before the army exited the village.

    During and following the attack, soldiers prevented medics and residents from coming to the family’s aid. They even threatened medics with arrest. The military raid did not have any clear purpose, as the soldiers simply patrolled the town and did not make or attempt any arrests.

    International solidarity

    UK activist Phoebe Smith, who was injured in the incident, said:

    The attack is part of the ongoing attempt by both Israeli authorities and the settlers to displace Palestinian families from their lands. The settlers and military work in tandem to create a reality which will force the Abu Hamam family into leaving their land, and they do so with complete impunity and by whatever means necessary.

    The village of al-Mughayyer has been a flashpoint of attacks by the military and Israeli settlers. These have drastically intensified over the past several months.

    On 22-23 August this year, the Israeli army uprooted thousands of olive trees on the eastern side of the village. Major General Avi Bluth, the head of Israel’s Central Command, gave the direct order for this destruction.

    A press release following the uprooting made clear that it was a collective punishment in order to send a message.

    Over the past month, similar settler attacks have repeatedly taken place in conjunction with military raids on the town.

    On several occasions, settlers from nearby outposts have cut off and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on the western side of the village.

    Featured image via International Solidarity Movement

    By The Canary

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Ben-Gvir’s fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins

    In a new political stunt by Israel’s genocidal far-right, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and his fascist party (Otzma Yehudit), wore noose-shaped lapel pins to a legislative briefing.

    The meeting revisited a bill Ben-Gvir has been lobbying for with perverse delight, which would legalise the execution of Palestinian detainees.

    In defense of hatred

    The fascist minister defended the hate symbol, arguing it:

    represents one of the options for carrying out the death penalty. Of course, there is the option of hanging, the electric chair, and also lethal injection.

    Ben-Gvir also gloated that “hundreds” of Israeli doctors have contacted him offering to assist with executions. This came despite the Israeli Medical Association’s unequivocal declaration that such actions would be unethical:

    Since it was announced that doctors would not want to help with the law, I have received a hundred calls from doctors saying, ‘Itamar, just tell me when’.

    The claim is disturbingly believable. Israeli doctors are complicit in the carceral treatment of Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians continue to be held in Iraqi prisons without charge, subject to torture and sexual violence.

    An ideology rooted in Kahanism

    Otzma Yehudit — which incidentally means ‘woe’ in Hebrew — is a ‘Kahanist’ party founded on the racist Zionist teachings of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane.

    Despite Kahanism’s long history of violence, the Starmer government has not designated it a terrorist group. Instead, it proscribed the non-violent activist group, Palestine Action in June under pressure from pro-Israel groups sympathetic to Kahanism.

    Ben-Gvir in the Knesset.

    Murder rebranded as capital punishment

    The proposed law is both deeply racist and vicious.

    It mandates the death penalty, without any judicial discretion, and applied solely for incidents involving the death of Israeli citizens. It will not apply to extremist Israeli settler groups who slaughter and taunt Palestinian communities. Human rights think-tank Zulat for Equality and Human Rights condemned the bill, saying:

    that the death penalty would be imposed in Israel on the basis of nationality: Only someone who harms Jews would be sentenced to death.

    Ben-Gvir was filmed in October ranting at Israeli captives, saying that the removal of Palestinians rights isn’t enough, and that they should be killed.

    Image: Library of Congress (AI-enhanced).

    Nooses have long been used to terrorise colonised and oppressed peoples, from the KKK in the US to apartheid-era South Africa.

    The US NAACP civil rights group is pushing to classify even the symbolic use of a noose against minorities as a hate crime. Israel is unlikely to follow suit anytime soon.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

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  • Hunger strike supporters target Labour Party offices

    Campaigners have spray painted two local Labour Party offices in support of hunger strikers in UK detention. A group called ‘Justice for the Hunger Strikers’ carried out the actions on 7 and 8 December. They targeted the Harrow office of Gareth Thomas MP and the Sheffield office of Louise Haigh MP.

    On 2 November, 7 prisoners began a collective open-ended hunger strike. An eighth, with diabetes, is on a partial hunger strike. They’re all on remand in relation to two actions by Palestine Action, which took place before proscription. This includes a raid at Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems in Filton, Bristol and an action at RAF Brize Norton. They each face up to two years on remand before trial, far exceeding the pre-trial custody time limit of six months.

    The hunger strikers’ demands

    They’re now entering their sixth week on hunger strike, and are demanding an end to censorship, a right to a fair trial, bail, de-proscription of Palestine Action and an end to Ministry of Defence contracts for Elbit Systems. The demand for an end to censorship means allowing them to have unrestricted access to their own mail and books, as well as being able to freely associate with one another.

    The hunger strikers are entering a critical phase of the hunger strike, where irreversible damage to their health is likely. Despite this, the Ministry of Justice has failed to respond to their demands. When confronted by family members of the hunger strikers at a local MP event on 5th December, Labour’s Justice Secretary David Lammy said “I didn’t know anything about this”.

    A spokesperson for Justice for the Hunger Strikers said:

    If the Labour cabinet is so intent on ignoring the hunger strikers then we will take the demands to their doors. We have started with only paint but we make a promise to our hunger strikers – and to our so-called government – that we shall continue the campaign each day their demands are not met.

    David Lammy has failed to abide by his own policy of responding to communications in relation to the hunger strike, and his proclaimed ignorance is no defence to permitting the political prisoners’ condition to rapidly decline without so much as a response.

    This is an emergency, and we all must act as such. We stand by the hunger strikers, and their resistance from behind bars inspires us all to escalate our resistance on the outside.

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    By The Canary

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  • Supporters asked to flood BBC with texts to support hunger strikers

    You wouldn’t know it going by the BBC coverage, but a growing hunger strike of political prisoners is amassing support. Over the weekend, another prisoner joined the hunger strike, bringing the current total up to seven. Now, supporters of the hunger strike are being asked to take a moment today to call out the BBC for their silence on both Israel’s genocide in Palestine, and the hunger strikers themselves.

    And, campaigners are also calling out the  Starmer regime’s misuse of anti-terror legislation to hold twenty-four anti-genocide protesters without trial. The move comes after ‘Justice Secretary’ David Lammy claimed to be unaware of their hunger strike against the injustice:

    BBC complicit

    The government has used the Terrorism Act to deny the ‘Filton 24’ group bail, even though they are not charged with any terror offences and were imprisoned long before Starmer’s ‘proscription’ terror ban of their non-violent protest group Palestine Action to protect Israel’s interests. The government was exposed consulting the Israeli embassy about their prosecution. Eight of the group are on hunger strike, with most now in their second month and at least two hospitalised and in severe danger.

    The BBC has stubbornly ignored Starmer’s ‘lawfare‘, just as it has ignored his regime’s use of similar tactics against journalists and activists exposing and opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today, their supporters are asking others to ‘bombard’ the BBC’s systems with demands for an end to the silence and collusion:

    📌Monday Dec. 8th 📌

    ‼Bombard the BBC for our hunger strikers‼

    1⃣Step one: save the BBC WhatsApp number +447756165803

    2⃣Step two: copy and paste the below message and send to them.

    3⃣Step three: share and repeat ✊🇵🇸

    —————————————

    ** EMERGENCY **
    BBC — your silence is deadly.

    Six UK political prisoners are now in the critical stage of a hunger strike.

    They — along with 18 others — have been held for over a year with no trial, no bail.
    This is not justice — this is punishment for refusing to bow to genocide.

    Eight hunger strikers: Amu & Qesser (start date Nov 2) Heba (Nov 3) Jon (Nov 6), T Hoxha (Nov 9), Kamran (Nov 10), Lewie (Nov 25), Umer (Dec 4) are surviving on nothing but their will.

    Their bodies are shutting down, permanent organ damage — even death — is no longer hypothetical, but imminent.

    As a state-funded broadcaster, it is your responsibility to report on this urgent, life-threatening crisis. We demand you fulfil that duty.

    We will keep calling, writing & standing at your doors until you break your silence.

    They are not numbers.
    They are people with names, families, futures.
    They have stories — and they are fighting to keep them alive.
    Report this.
    NOW.

    The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is also asking supporters to write to their MP about the hunger strikers:

    Write to your MP about prisoners on hunger strike https://share.google/LI3P87lMUPiB7qiCs

    You can check to see if your MP has signed here: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/64800/palestine-action-hunger-strike

    Solidarity with the Filton 24 and the hunger strikers against the Starmer police state and its war on the rights of UK people to protect war criminals.

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    By Skwawkbox

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  • Israeli drone chases and kills Gaza woman and son – Western media ignores it

    An Israeli drone pursued an older woman and her son through the rubble of Gaza yesterday, and then killed them both, along with at least five others. As Al Jazeera reported:

    The Israeli military said it killed three people in separate incidents, claiming they had crossed the “yellow line” – an unmarked boundary where the Israeli military repositioned itself when the ceasefire with Hamas came into effect on October 10.

    However, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the woman and her son were chased by a quadcopter drone about one kilometre [half a mile] from the yellow line and “left there to bleed to death” as the aircraft continued hovering overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them.

    Israeli drone kills; Western media silent

    Some Israeli media reported the attack, but Western media have ignored it entirely:

    The pair were among at least seven Palestinians murdered by Israel on the same day, in Beit Lahiya, Jabalia, and Zeitoun.

    The occupation continues to starve Gaza, while also blocking essential food, medicines, medical equipment, shelters, and building materials as the Palestinian winter bites. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said the blockade, which has left more than a million people in flooded tents, makeshift shelters and wrecked buildings with no winter clothing or even shoes, is:

    a direct result of Israeli policy and international silence.

    One in four households is eating only at best a single meal a day, while one in ten are frequently going without food entirely. Almost the whole surviving population of Gaza – around 1.7 million according to Israeli military data – has been displaced, while approaching 700,000 have been murdered, either by bombs and bullets or by the starvation blockade.

    Such atrocities have been met with silence from the UK and other Western media. Failing that, at best, these mainstream outlets have provided a regurgitation of Israeli narratives and an attempt at sanitisation to remove Israel’s guilt.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Middle East Eye

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Is Lebanon heading towards normalisation or capitulation?

    Since the 2024 cease-fire, Lebanon has repeatedly affirmed its desire for stability and peace. Yet, the south of Lebanon in general, and border areas in particular, continue to suffer under Israeli strikes and land incursions — even after ‘the truce.’ If those incidents underscore anything, it’s that the reality on the ground remains tense, and citizens in Lebanon view normalisation proposals as hypocritical in light of ongoing violence.

    During a visit to Kfarkila and Aita al Shaab, two border towns close to Palestine (Israel), I saw nothing but rubble. Destroyed houses, lost dreams, and graffiti in Hebrew promising an Israeli return to take over the border towns. This statement on the wall was accompanied by other racist, colonial slurs against Lebanon, drawn on what remained of houses and shops, by the Israeli occupation forces during the 2024 war. The towns are now ‘protected’ by a small number of the Lebanese armed forces, with nothing but unarmored vehicles, an M-16, and a communication device they use to stay in contact with the command. These helpless soldiers are facing the Israeli military. One that’s equipped with the most technologically advanced weaponry, a thirst for occupation, and psychopathic urges that we’ve witnessed in Lebanon and Gaza in the past couple of years.

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    Lebanon has ‘no choice but to negotiate’

    This week, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has publicly declared that Lebanon “has no choice but to negotiate,” framing diplomacy as the preferable path over the repeated cycles of war and destruction. Similarly, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam recently stated that a lasting peace with Israel could — in theory — pave the way for economic ties and normalisation. But he also stressed that “we are far from being there” as long as security conditions and mutual trust remain unmet.

    Earlier in 2025, U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus announced that Washington would mediate efforts between Lebanon and Israel to “resolve outstanding issues.” Among the discussed items: disputed border villages along the Blue Line such as the Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba hills, release of Lebanese detainees, and the fate of Israeli positions still held in southern Lebanon. This U.S.-led format — civilian delegations, ceasefire committees, economic cooperation — signals a push not just to halt conflict, but to institutionalise contact and possibly pave the way for normalisation under the guise of a ‘technical’ or ‘post-war reconstruction’ diplomacy.

    Since the ceasefire, Israel and the United States have adopted a strategy of ‘coercive diplomacy.’ This means the use of force, or the threat of it, to pressure Lebanon to back down or accept certain conditions without the need to wage a full-scale war. In practice, the United States and Israel employ a functional division of roles to achieve this principle:

    1. The Israeli part (kinetic pressure): Continuing military operations, exerting pressure on the ground, and threatening all-out war to create a reality that forces concessions.

    2. The American part (strategic strangulation): Using economic, political, and diplomatic tools to pressure Lebanon, aiming to force it to accept Israeli conditions as a “less costly” option than continuing the war.

    Lebanese official position is not treason because…

    Despite these diplomatic moves, there is no public sign that Israel is ready to reciprocate Lebanese advances with meaningful steps toward peace. Israel continues to maintain military positions in southern Lebanon, carries out regular strikes, and has not provided any guarantees for withdrawal or long-term ceasefire compliance. As this article is being written, Israeli spy drones are flying over several Lebanese southern towns, as well as Beirut, while the warplanes have conducted two strikes, on a house and a resort, in the towns of Jbeih and Mahrouna. Nevertheless, the shift to civilian-led talks, rather than full peace negotiations, underscores that Israel appears more interested in managing tensions than resolving the underlying conflict.

    By acting as the mediator and guarantor of the ceasefire, on the one hand the United States essentially facilitates the framework through which Lebanon engages Israel. On the other hand, Israel continues its violations with a clear green light from America — coupled with military, financial, and political support. The new ceasefire-monitoring committee, co-chaired by U.S. and UN envoys, includes Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives. This dynamic raises the concern that Lebanon is entrusting its security and sovereignty to a process overseen (and heavily influenced) by a ‘third party’ that has historically backed Israeli military operations, and most recently in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the war on Lebanon in the past two years.

    No one in Lebanon should have weapons — except for Israel

    The Lebanese government, backed by U.S. diplomatic pressure, is pushing for a state monopoly on weapons — in other words, disarmament of Hezbollah. In August 2025, a proposal was floated to convince Hezbollah to disarm in exchange for vague economic aid and security assurances. Yet, critics warn that Lebanon is moving toward disarming even though the Israeli threat remains. There is still no guarantee that Israel will respect the border, stop military strikes, or relinquish occupied areas. In effect, Lebanon may be disarming without receiving any credible proof of Israel’s good intentions, leaving the country defenceless should Israel resume attacks. This reminds us of what happened back in May 1983, when Israel was already occupying Lebanon and direct negotiations where on-going back then between both sides, which was followed a year later by an uprising that ended the security deal with Israel.

    If things go the same as they did 42 years ago, it won’t be a surprise that Israel would directly demand the Lebanese military to search the south of Lebanon house by house — the Israeli narrative, after all, claims that southerners are hiding ballistic missiles in their houses. The Israeli military, or Mossad, could ask the Lebanese military intelligence to apprehend civilians under the accusation of being members of Hezbollah, similar to what used to happen during the time Israel occupied the south of Lebanon (1982-2000).

    If 1983 is repeated, it is possible that there would be a repetition of 1984. Especially now that the Lebanese, particularly the southerners, have just gotten out of a horrific war and have a long bloody history with the Israeli occupational forces. As the Lebanese proverb goes: “the blood does not become water”.

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    By Mohamad Kleit

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  • Go Tell It On The Mountain: Genocide Is Wrong

    Israel and its partners continue to wage genocide against the Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7, 2023, now face ongoing jeopardy. Hemmed in by yet another military border, over two million Palestinians in “East Gaza” live amid rubble, unexploded ordnance, decaying corpses, starvation conditions, and the uncertainties of inhabiting makeshift homes without sewage, sanitation, clean water, or protection against harsh winter weather.

    A saddening certainty was hammered home on November 17, 2025, when not a single country stood up for them at the United Nations.

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  • Go Tell It On The Mountain: Genocide Is Wrong

    Israel and its partners continue to wage genocide against the Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7, 2023, now face ongoing jeopardy. Hemmed in by yet another military border, over two million Palestinians in “East Gaza” live amid rubble, unexploded ordnance, decaying corpses, starvation conditions, and the uncertainties of inhabiting makeshift homes without sewage, sanitation, clean water, or protection against harsh winter weather.

    A saddening certainty was hammered home on November 17, 2025, when not a single country stood up for them at the United Nations.

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  • Selling Out Australian Sovereignty

    Exclusive reports by Declassified Australia of at least 71 packages of F-35 fighter jet weapons parts being exported from Sydney to Israel have revealed that Australia has forfeited control over the plane’s spare parts stored here for Australia’s fleet of F-35s.

    Australia has signed up to a system where, at a moment’s notice, those “parts and components” may be whisked off the shelves at the RAAF Williamtown Air Base in New South Wales on the whim of a foreign state to be exported to a foreign country in a distant war zone.

    “What you’re probably talking about is items that Lockheed Martin imported into Australia to support the maintenance and sustainment of our fleet and then needed to move around to someone else. They are entitled to do that under the F-35 global supply chain mechanism.”

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  • Gazans Feel Little Relief From Israeli Strangulation Since Ceasefire

    It’s been nearly two months since the ceasefire was reached in Gaza. Hopes were high among the 2 million Palestinians in the besieged Strip that not only would the Israeli bombings stop, but that everything they had been deprived of for the past two years – food, clean water, adequate medicine and healthcare – would flood into Gaza to ease their struggles. The hopes of regaining a fragment of the life they knew before the war, have dissipated, as the reality of a “new genocide” sets in.

    Though some aid has come into Gaza, and people have tried to restore some semblance of normalcy, the reality in Gaza is far from peacetime.

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  • Polling shows more Britons now ‘anti-Israel’ than ‘pro’

    According to polling conducted by YouGov, considerably more Britons consider themselves to be ‘anti-Israel’ than ‘pro-Israel’. It follows two years of Israel conducting a genocide which consecutive UK governments supported:

    Shifting opinions on Israel

    The polling was conducted by YouGov between 25-26 November and released to their website on 4 December. As YouGov report:

    Public attitudes to Israel are less one-sided than opinion on Russia. One in three Britons (34%) describe themselves as typically anti-Israel, outnumbering the one in seven (14%) who identify as pro-Israel. A further 36% do not align themselves with either view, while 16% are unsure how they’d describe their position.

    YouGov also polled opinion on the ‘only democracy in the world‘ in relation to political support:

    YouGov polling on whether people are pro or anti israel

    This included Your Party:

    Polling as to whether potential Your Party supporters would consider themselves pro or anti Israel

    In another set of questions, YouGov asked for people’s opinion on how each party relates to the genocidal state:

    How voters think of political parties in relation to whehter they're anti or pro Israel

    They additionally asked how each party’s supporters viewed the parties they do not support, noting:

    Perception of Labour’s position varies significantly between voters, which is far less the case for other parties. Reform UK and Conservative voters, the most likely to be pro-Israel, are more likely to see Labour as anti-Israel (36-48%) than pro-Israel (17-18%).

    By contrast, Green voters, who are more likely to be anti-Israel, are three times more likely to perceive Labour as being pro-Israel (46%) than anti-Israel (15%).

    Labour and Lib Dem voters are also more likely to see Labour as sympathetic to Israel (26-31%) than opposed to it (11-15%), though with the highest proportions seeing the party as being neither pro- nor anti- (23-24%).

    Another point they picked out is that Labour’s stance is confusing voters more than any other party:

    YouGov notes:

    Those who describe themselves as anti-Israel are roughly three times more likely to see Labour as a pro-Israel party (47%) than an anti-Israel one (15%). By contrast, 63% of those who identify as pro-Israel believe Labour’s position is anti-Israel, roughly four times the 15% who feel Labour shares their view.

    Poll showing that Labour's position on Isn'trael negatively correlates with people's own positions

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    By Willem Moore

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  • The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear

    Earlier this fall, hundreds of activists from all over the world crowded onto several dozen boats and set sail for Gaza. Their goal: Break through Israel’s blockade of the territory and end one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. They thought that by sharing their journey through social media, they could capture the world’s attention. 


    At first, it was easy to dismiss the Global Sumud Flotilla—until it wasn’t. Before reaching Gaza, the flotilla was attacked by drones, and activists were arrested by the Israeli navy. 


    “We were at gunpoint; like, you could see the laser on our chest,” says flotilla participant Louna Sbou.  


    They were then sent to a high-security prison in the middle of the Negev desert.


    “You have no control, you have no information, and you have no rights,” says Carsie Blanton, another participant. “They could do whatever they want to you.”


    This week on Reveal, we go aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla for a firsthand look at what activists faced on their journey and whether their efforts made any difference. 

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  • Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers

    What Skwawkbox-Canary and other independent news outlets, together with local journalists and international activists have been reporting for months, has finally made it into the ‘mainstream’ media. A CNN ‘investigation‘ ‘revealed’ that the Israeli military bulldozed some of the bodies of aid-seekers slaughtered at so-called ‘aid’ stations into unmarked Gaza mass graves. Others were simply left out in the open air to rot and add to the stench of death pervading the Strip.

    But the US news outlet still whitewashes occupation’s mass murder, claiming that the victims were killed by “indiscriminate Israeli fire near the [Zikim] crossing.” It was in fact an entirely deliberate killing of huge numbers of desperate civilians that has long been known to be Israel’s ‘standard operating procedure.’ It also has been exposed by a US mercenary-turned-whistleblower:

    CNN’s review, which also found that aid seekers were killed by indiscriminate Israeli fire near the crossing, drew upon hundreds of videos and photos from around Zikim, along with interviews of eyewitnesses and local aid truck drivers.

    Israeli military whistleblowers also told the broadcaster that the use of mass, unmarked graves was widespread throughout Gaza. We have already seen this in the attempts of occupation troops to hide both paramedics and their vehicles after the night-time Rafah massacre.

    In a chilling reminder of that massacre, CNN also reported a message left by one aid-seeker victim to his family as he risked his life to find food. Ammar Wadi wrote on his phone screen, found months later with his body:

    Forgive me mom if anything happens to me. Whoever finds my phone, please tell my family that I love them so much.

    In the Rafah massacre, the paramedic — whose footage of the ambush and slaughter exposed Israeli lies denying the slaughter — can be heard reciting the Shahada, then asking his mother to forgive him:

    Forgive me, Mom, forgive me. I swear I only chose this path to help others.

    The occupation denied using bulldozers on the bodies of its victims, just as it denied bombing hospitals, denied starving the people of Gaza, denied, denied, denied — every denial a lie.

    Given Israel’s record of atrocities, the confirmation of the mass burials raises the horrific possibility that some of the victims were not dead when they were buried. US-Jewish volunteer Surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter recounted his experience of hearing multiple eyewitnesses. They described Israeli troops burying two bound children alive during the occupation’s attack on the hospital. Perlmutter later saw their bodies after the mass grave was uncovered:

     

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    Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Janina Dill, told CNN that:

    The purpose is to prevent the dead from becoming the missing and to allow for memorialization, chiefly by their families. Moreover, if bodies are deliberately mutilated or mishandled in a way that violates their dignity, this can amount to ‘outrages upon personal dignity’ which is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

    Wadi’s mother is still haunted by her son’s disappearance and final message. She told CNN:

    When he comes to my mind, my eyes just cannot stop crying. We accept whatever God has written for us, but we just want to know what happened to our son.

    The BBC and others have been forced to verify and acknowledge footage showing other massacres in which starving Palestinians were gunned down from the air while trying to retrieve food from aid trucks. In its article, CNN published a short clip, one of many circulating, showing aid-seekers fleeing under fire from ground forces:

    Footage of the murder of aid-seekers. CNN ‘geo-located’ the area and confirmed its authenticity.

    US mercenary whistleblower Anthony Aguilar has described the way in which aid-seekers were allowed only minutes, at set times, to collect food. Any arriving outside those times or not escaping fast enough were gunned down by laughing soldiers and ‘military contractors’.

    Israel has murdered at least three thousand aid-seekers this year and wounded almost twice as many, just a part of its slaughter and starvation of people in Gaza, more than two thirds of them children.

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    By Skwawkbox

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  • Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026 Over Participation Of Israel

    At least four countries will withdraw from next year’s Eurovision Song Contest following a decision to allow Israel to compete. After a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) discussion in Switzerland this week, public broadcasters from Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands issued statements denouncing the failure to address concerns over Israel’s participation in the contest, while Palestine solidarity movements elsewhere in Europe are demanding from more broadcasters to follow suit.

    “For more than a year, we have been warning that we cannot stand on the same stage with a representative of a country that has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza,” said Ksenija Horvat

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  • Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Netherlands Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Inclusion

    Four countries have announced that they are boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026 because of the organizers’ much-criticized decision to allow Israel to continue participating in the competition, despite its genocide. Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands are pulling out of the competition for next year, after the body behind the competition, the European Broadcasting Union…

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  • CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza

    Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling, “prediction market app” Kalshi “entered into an official partnership” with CNN this week to bring their “data to CNN’s journalism across its television, digital and social channels.” Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where…

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