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  • Israel intentionally destroyed Gaza fertility clinic, says ex-UN head

    Among the thousands of bombs that rained down on the Gaza Strip during Israel’s war of annihilation, one single bomb was enough to extinguish thousands of dreams at once. In December 2023, the Al-Basma Fertility Clinic in Gaza City—the only medical centre in the Strip for embryo preservation and infertility treatment—was reduced to rubble and smoke after being directly targeted by Israeli warplanes. In an instant, four thousand tiny lives, preserved in nitrogen tubes, awaiting their birth, were destroyed.

    Israel has committed another act of genocide

    The bombing was not random. The building was separate from the main hospital, yet the planes precisely targeted the metal storage tanks that held Palestinian embryos on their way to life. In a few minutes, those tubes turned to ash, and with them, the dreams of thousands of couples who had spent years on the journey of treatment and the hope of motherhood vanished.

    Former chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine Navi Pillay stated that the targeting of the fertility clinic was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a recurring pattern of systematic destruction of Palestinian healthcare infrastructure. She has asserted that the strike was “deliberate and planned to prevent births among Palestinians,” describing it as a full-fledged act of genocide targeting the very existence of humanity in Gaza.

    In the place that once held the pulse of life, only the smell of burnt metal and shattered glass, tainted with the remnants of hope, remained. Inside the clinic, charred equipment and twisted pipes lay piled high, while a cloud of white vapour rose above the spilt nitrogen, like tiny souls bidding farewell to the world before they could be born.

    The tragedy was not merely a medical loss, but a symbolic collapse of the last thread of human hope in Gaza. Women awaiting their next implantation appointments found themselves facing a cruel void: no clinic, no embryos, no new opportunity for motherhood. The bombing was enough to erase the very idea of ​​a future from their memories, leaving them in perpetual mourning for children who were never born.

    Long-lasting impacts

    In the displacement camps in the southern Gaza Strip, many women sit clutching medical scans instead of children, talking about unborn babies whose faces they never saw. Some weep not only for the loss of hope of having children, but also for the extinguishing of the dream that gave them the strength to endure and survive amidst the daily death.

    Israel’s shells shattered the dreams of thousands of mothers, declaring that the war no longer only kills the living, but also seeks to kill those yet unborn. Even the Palestinian womb, under this prolonged siege, has not been spared from the bombing, and life in its simplest forms has not been exempted from targeting.

    Today, the tragedy of the “smile” stands as one of the most horrific images of the war on Gaza, where the hope of motherhood has turned to cold ash in nitrogen tanks, and the laboratories that once created life have become witnesses to a crime targeting the future itself.

    In Gaza, mothers no longer grieve only for their martyred sons, but also for unborn children who never had the chance to cry their first tears.

    In a war that obliterates homes and memories, a single shell has come to confirm that this war is not content with destroying bodies, but seeks to erase life itself.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Exposing The Tata Group: Major Sponsor Of New York Marathon

    On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of runners and spectators from around the world gathered in New York City to celebrate endurance, achievement, and community. Yet, this bright imagery masks the grim reality of the marathon’s title sponsor, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a company complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

    In the weeks leading up to the largest marathon in the world, the “TCS” logo has become ubiquitous across the five boroughs. From special-edition New Balance “TCS Marathon” shoes that light up Times Square, to TCS-branded half-zips donned by every other runner in Prospect Park, reminders of the upcoming race are everywhere. 

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  • YouTube Deletes Hundreds Of Videos Documenting Israeli War Crimes

    YouTube, owned by Google LLC, has deleted more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations, citing compliance with US sanctions imposed on Palestinian human rights groups cooperating with the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to an investigation by The Intercept published on 5 November.

    The investigation revealed that the videos were removed after US President Donald Trump’s administration sanctioned three Palestinian organizations over their work with the ICC on war crimes cases against Israeli leaders.

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  • Leaked Israeli military docs confirm raped Palestinian prisoner had done nothing wrong

    The leaked Israeli memo’s contents.

    A leaked Israeli military order has confirmed that the Palestinian man raped by Israeli occupation soldiers at the Sde Teiman torture camp was a civilian, not the “Khamas fighter” that the Israeli regime and its supporters had falsely claimed – as if it would justify such a horrific crime even if it was true.

    Footage of the rape was leaked by a senior Israeli military lawyer. She has been arrested for the leak, while the rapists appeared, masked, on Israeli TV to demand ‘justice’ — by which they meant for no action to be taken against them.

    The leaked document confirms that the victim was never charged with any crime and was among 1,700 Gaza detainees held without charge who were then freed in the prisoner exchange of 13 October 2025.

    The United Nations has repeatedly condemned Israel’s use of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees, while human rights and legal groups have exposed incidents of such torture – even to death, like Palestinian doctor Adnan Bursh and the clients of Palestinian lawyer Khaled Mahagna:

     

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Gaza children are losing more than their lives — their childhood

    In one of the displacement camps in Khan Younis, amidst rows of tents where dust mingles with the smell of gunpowder, ten-year-old Jamila Basla sits silently, her hand hidden behind her back, watching Gaza children from afar. She once ran among them with lightness and joy, before play turned to crime, and a packet of Indomie noodles became a deadly trap.

    Days earlier, an official source in the Palestinian Ministry of Health revealed that the occupation forces had left behind booby-trapped toys and other explosive materials among the rubble of homes and in displacement areas of the southern Gaza Strip, in what the ministry described as “a continuation of the policy of extermination and targeting of children even after talk of a ceasefire.”

    Gaza children negotiating death traps

    Jamila was one of the victims of these traps. While searching for something to bring her a taste of life amidst the oppression and hunger, she spotted a packet of Indomie noodles lying on the ground. She picked it up with childlike joy, and moments later a small explosion shook the tent and blood splattered on the ground.

    Her mother, fighting back tears, says:

    I ran to her and found her hand bleeding, her fingers torn off, her face twisted in pain… From that day on, she wasn’t the same as before.

    Today, the child suffers from fainting spells, learning difficulties, and psychological distress. Doctors confirm that her condition is complex, involving both neurological and orthopaedic injuries, leaving her trapped between physical pain and recurring nightmares.

    Despite her mother’s attempts to encourage her to play again, Jamila prefers to sit silently near her tent, hiding her severed hand behind her back. Whenever someone approaches, she whispers a single word: “I want a finger.”

    A Childhood Trapped by Death

    Jamila’s story is not unique. According to reports from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), more than 50,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza since October 2023. Save the Children reports that at least 15 children a day suffer permanent disabilities due to bombings or unexploded ordnance.

    Reuters and international demining agencies warn that Gaza has become an “open killing field,” with the removal of explosives estimated to take more than 30 years. The Associated Press (AP) confirmed that many child injuries were caused by small bombs mistaken for toys or shiny objects, which exploded in their hands.

    Incomplete Memories and Severed Dreams

    In the displacement camp, Jamila gazes silently at the sky, remembering the day of the explosion. She tries to laugh, but hides her severed hand. When the mothers in the camp see her, they whisper bitterly:

    She was playing… as if playing has become a crime.

    This is how Jamila encapsulates the story of an entire generation, a generation snatched from the pages of books and the games of the neighbourhood, finding itself growing up amidst destruction. A child who dreamed of a small meal lost both her finger and her childhood, in a land where food, dreams, and play have become different faces of death.

    Featured image via Times of Gaza

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Gabriele Nunziata dared to question Israel — now he’s sacked

    Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziata has been sacked by his employer, Agenzia Nova, for daring to ask the European Commission (EC) last month why Israel shouldn’t pay to rebuild Gaza like the EC is demanding that Russia pay to rebuild the parts of Ukraine destroyed in its war with that country.

    Nunziata has posted today on Instagram to confirm that “Yes, I lost my job because of a question I asked about Israel”. He then explained what he experienced – and his continued defiance:

    Last week I received a letter from Agenzia Nova informing me that our working relationship had been terminated. The decision came after I asked the European Commission the following question on October 13: “You have repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”. I learned through phone calls that my question had not been appreciated by my agency. Then on October 27, I received a letter informing me that the working relationship would end on December 1.

    In the note sent by Agenzia Nova to [Italian outlet] Fanpage, the decision to terminate our collaboration was justified on the grounds that the question was “technically incorrect” and based on inadequate assumptions that would call into question the objectivity of my work as a journalist.

    My question can only be considered biased if one needs to deny reality. It is a fact that Israel has almost completely razed Gaza to the ground; this is not an opinion. It is a fact that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Benjamin Netanyahu and some of his ministers. These, and many others, are facts. On the contrary, it would be biased to deny them and not question them.

    I fully stand by the legitimacy of my question. The right choices sometimes come at a cost, and I do not regret having paid it.

    Gabriele Nunziata becomes the latest in a string of journalists sacked by ‘mainstream’ media after challenging Israeli actions and narratives, like former LBC presenter Sangita Myska, Sky’s Belle Donati, and six BBC Arabic presenters, along with three Muslim journalists at US broadcaster MSNBC — and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker. The ‘mainstream’ sackings have been inflicted alongside Keir Starmer’s ‘lawfare’ war on independent journalists who dare to expose Israel’s crimes in Gaza and elsewhere.

    Featured image via L’Espresso

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Lawsuit Charges That CA Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine

    Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715, which amends the California Education Code to police what teachers can teach and what…

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  • British-based firm set to rob gas from occupied Palestine to Cyprus in $400 million deal

    The genocide economy is set to get a big boost, with British-based energy firm Energean preparing to construct a pipeline that would see gas pumped to Cyprus from an offshore rig in stolen maritime territory in Palestine.

    The planned project just needs approval from both governments to go ahead. The land thieves in West Jerusalem are keen to sign off on the move to plunder more resources, having already taken over 78% of historic Palestine, and occupied the rest. Cypriot energy group Cyfield have given the deal their go-ahead, so now all that remains is the signature of the Cypriot government. Cyprus will be the first European nation to import natural gas from the apartheid settler-colony, a disgraceful breach of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and international law, as it funds a genocide.

    Britain and Cyprus jointly assist genocide in Palestine

    This wouldn’t be the first case of joint British-Cypriot complicity in Zionist crimes. Throughout the genocidal onslaught against Gaza, Britain has used land it still occupies in the Mediterranean nation to launch spy flights that have assisted the Zionist entity in gathering intelligence over Gaza. Using RAF Akrotiri as the launching point, at times during the last two years Britain has been operating the plurality of such operations over the besieged strip, more than so-called ‘Israel’ itself. This is a level of involvement that goes beyond complicity in a holocaust, and instead amounts to active participation. DropSite News also reports “senior sources” from the British military divulging the capacity for Zionist F-35s to “render technical assistance at the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus”.

    Meanwhile, the Cypriot government has allowed Israelis to essentially establish colonies across the island in recent years, with the Cradle reporting the acquisition of over 4,000 properties since 2021, which have been in many cases turned into “nearly inaccessible ‘gated communities’”.

    Stefanos Stefanou, a spokesperson for the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) referred to Israeli newspapers which:

    …speak of a targeted policy of expansion of Israel in Cyprus.

    He continued:

    These are not just holiday homes. These are settlements in all but name.

    Given the scale of Israeli crimes, there’s a very real possibility these areas may now harbour Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF) war criminals. The Cradle also quote Israeli newspaper Haaretz, reporting that:

    …Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was active in Cyprus and was using it for “safehouse operations.“

    Zionists have always had an eye on Cyprus

    Middle East Eye has reported how the Zionist project since its inception has had its eyes on Cyprus, with an article on the topic describing how:

    The Zionists have always referred to the ancient Hebrew colonies in Cyprus, whose ancient Hebrew name (which is still used in modern Hebrew) is “Kafrisim”, including Paphos and Salamis, as a precedent for future colonisation.

    Davis Trietsch was a frequent correspondent with Zionism founder Theodore Herzl, and spoke of his:

    …natural and beautiful idea [that] a return to the Old Land could very well be combined with a colonisation in Cyprus.

    Various colonies were established around the turn of the 19th century, including by the unambiguously titled Jewish Colonisation Association, who set one up for Jewish people from Russia in 1897. Over time Cyprus moved to a position that was largely in solidarity with Palestinians, before a recent warming of relations with the Zionist entity over the last 15 years.

    The pipeline will extend from the Karish gas field, which had been the centre of a maritime border dispute between the illegitimate Zionist state and Lebanon, until it was resolved under US mediation in 2022. Interestingly, Hezbollah did not ultimately oppose the deal, having previously described it as a “red line”. It seems the dire state of the Lebanese economy was sufficient to push even the Iran-backed group to back down and accept a deal that Marc Ayoub, an associate fellow at the American University in Beirut, described as one that “gives more advantages to Israel…than Lebanon.”

    Energy deals bolster Zionist regional position

    Various deals with potential regional adversaries have been a means of the Zionist entity shoring up both revenues and bolstering its strategic position. An agreement is at an advanced stage for supply of gas to Egypt, under a:

    …15-year transmission agreement for Israel’s planned Nitzana pipeline…

    Similar to Lebanon, the Egyptian economy is in a sorry state, and has been suffering an energy crisis in recent years. From this weak position, it seems they too will place themselves partly at the mercy of the criminal regime to their east. We have seen the devastating effects suffered by Gaza through having its fuel supplies cut off by the settler-colony which blockades them, and now Egypt and Cyprus may find themselves in a similar position, though to a less extreme extent.

    Setting up these relationships also creates a deterrent for any future Iranian missile campaign. Tehran already seemed reluctant to extensively target Zionist energy infrastructure, and that position may deepen if it realises it will generate additional ire in those countries supplied by West Jerusalem. Karish was one of the oil fields ‘Israel’ turned off as a precaution while under Iranian bombardment.

    An insight into the strategic thinking can be seen in comments made by Israeli Energy and Infrastructure Minister Eli Cohen, when he said of the Cypriot deal:

    Selling gas to Cyprus will strengthen Israel’s diplomatic standing in the region and among European countries, contribute to greater stability and prosperity in our area, and generate billions of shekels in revenue for the state. I intend to continue advancing the expansion of Israeli gas export targets.

    Britain must take action against corporations for their role in economy of genocide

    Britain’s role must be to hold to account the company it hosts both physically and on its stock exchange. Energean is a long-time partner of the Zionist pseudo-state, having begun its relationship there in 2012 through work related to the Tanin Field. From there it has continued on pipe laying and the Karish facility. CEO Mathias Rigas enthused about the potential Cyprus deal:

    Our proposal offers a practical and efficient solution to reduce Cyprus’s energy isolation by providing direct access to natural gas from a neighbouring source, thereby enhancing regional energy cooperation and supporting the transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy.

    Cleaner than oil perhaps, but new climate wrecking fossil fuel developments simply amount to another arm to ‘Israeli’ destructiveness. It begs the question why such energy ‘solutions’ are being undertaken rather than the likes of solar or offshore wind in a region bathed in sunlight and with a vast coast.

    Energean’s role in the Zionist market makes it a key player in what Francesca Albanese termed the “economy of genocide“. She spoke of corporations’ key role in “colonial racial capitalism” and insisted on:

    …accountability for corporate entities and their executives at both domestic and international levels: commercial endeavours enabling and profiting from the obliteration of innocent people’s lives must cease.

    Fuel plundering has its own section in the report, with BP singled out for criticism:

    At a time of increasing brutality, British BP p.l.c. is expanding involvement in the Israeli economy, with exploration licences confirmed in March 2025, which allow BP to explore Palestinian maritime expanses illegally exploited by Israel.

    A British government up to its neck in Palestinian blood can add gas to a list of holocaust participation that now includes – at minimum – arms exports, spy flights, diplomatic cover, reputation whitewashing, war criminal harbouring and IGF training. With a list like that there’s slim hope of a sudden shift, but eager eyes in the Palestine solidarity movement can add Energean and BP executives to the list of those who must face justice when the reckoning eventually comes.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Robert Freeman

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • YouTube caught deleting evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

    YouTube has deleted hundreds of videos which evidence Israeli war crimes against Palestinians since October 2025. The NGOs affected warn that this is part of an assault on truth. They also highlighted how Donald Trump has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against accountability for Israel.

    Three Palestinian human rights groups had their accounts terminated in October. Between them Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights had posted over 700 videos.

    The videos included investigations into killings and torture by Israel and a documentary about children murdered in an airstrike on a Gaza beach.

    A YouTube spokesman gave an obtuse response, claiming that:

    Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws.

    The Palestinian groups, and others, say the tech firm is destroying the truth. The Trump regime sanctioned the groups in September due to their work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

    The ICC is investigating Israel for genocide.

    YouTube is destroying the truth

    Gazan group Al Mezan had their account deleted on 7 October. A spokesperson said:

    Terminating the channel deprives us from reaching what we aspire to convey our message to, and fulfill our mission and prevents us from achieving our goals and limits our ability to reach the audience we aspire to share our message with.

    Al-Haq are based in the West Bank. A spokesperson said:

    The U.S. Sanctions are being used to cripple accountability work on Palestine and silence Palestinian voices and victims, and this has a ripple effect on such platforms also acting under such measures to further silence Palestinian voices.

    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said:

    YouTube said that we were not following their policy on Community Guidelines, when all our work was basically presenting factual and evidence-based reporting on the crimes committed against the Palestinian people especially since the start of the ongoing genocide on 7 October.

    By doing this, YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims.

    Trump’s war on justice

    Trump has made it his business to attack the ICC in behalf of Israel. But it didn’t start with him. In 2002, George W. Bush created a law by which the US could use military force to rescue war criminals in ICC custody.

    As the Intercept reported in 2024:

    While no president has yet made good on this military threat, it serves as shorthand for the U.S. relationship to the international institution of justice.

    That law was made in the context of the War on Terror but US leaders always had one eye on their apartheid colony, Israel:

    The law was meant to fend off the specter of American troops standing trial for atrocities committed during the fledgling “war on terror,” but the U.S. horror of The Hague has its roots in the longstanding policy of unconditional support for Israel.

    Digital evidence is very fragile

    The Accountability Archive describes itself as a “crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists”.

    Alex Foley, co-founder, told the Canary digital evidence was very fragile:

    The Internet is not durable for storing evidence. In reality, digital evidence is incredibly fragile, more so than real evidence. We don’t have bundles of letters laying around… like when you finish a job and your email date gets wiped.

    In the space of war crimes evidence, the ICC, and the being videos erased, what we see is that terms of use and service for big social media companies… we think they’re there to promote connection. In reality, these firms aren’t pro freedom. If something falls afoul of their terms of service it gets black-boxed, unless law enforcement requires it.

    Foley gave the example of evidence of Libyan war crimes from 2017 which had been posted online:

    The Libyan evidence got scrubbed because it was considered too violent. It took an extremely lengthy legal process to recover it. It was very contentious.

    On Trump’s assault on the ICC, Foley added:

    This move highlights the ‘why’ around the [ICC] sanctions, this is the intended effect, this is what was meant to happen… a broader chilling effect. It says “you might be next” to organisations. This is intended.

    The Intercept reported that some of the videos are still available where they’ve been reproduced. Trump and the Israeli war criminal’s can run from justice and hide from accountability, but the dawn is coming.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Joe Glenton

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • YouTube caught deleting evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

    YouTube has deleted hundreds of videos which evidence Israeli war crimes against Palestinians since October 2025. The NGOs affected warn that this is part of an assault on truth. They also highlighted how Donald Trump has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against accountability for Israel.

    Three Palestinian human rights groups had their accounts terminated in October. Between them Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights had posted over 700 videos.

    The videos included investigations into killings and torture by Israel and a documentary about children murdered in an airstrike on a Gaza beach.

    A YouTube spokesman gave an obtuse response, claiming that:

    Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws.

    The Palestinian groups, and others, say the tech firm is destroying the truth. The Trump regime sanctioned the groups in September due to their work with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

    The ICC is investigating Israel for genocide.

    YouTube is destroying the truth

    Gazan group Al Mezan had their account deleted on 7 October. A spokesperson said:

    Terminating the channel deprives us from reaching what we aspire to convey our message to, and fulfill our mission and prevents us from achieving our goals and limits our ability to reach the audience we aspire to share our message with.

    Al-Haq are based in the West Bank. A spokesperson said:

    The U.S. Sanctions are being used to cripple accountability work on Palestine and silence Palestinian voices and victims, and this has a ripple effect on such platforms also acting under such measures to further silence Palestinian voices.

    The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said:

    YouTube said that we were not following their policy on Community Guidelines, when all our work was basically presenting factual and evidence-based reporting on the crimes committed against the Palestinian people especially since the start of the ongoing genocide on 7 October.

    By doing this, YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims.

    Trump’s war on justice

    Trump has made it his business to attack the ICC in behalf of Israel. But it didn’t start with him. In 2002, George W. Bush created a law by which the US could use military force to rescue war criminals in ICC custody.

    As the Intercept reported in 2024:

    While no president has yet made good on this military threat, it serves as shorthand for the U.S. relationship to the international institution of justice.

    That law was made in the context of the War on Terror but US leaders always had one eye on their apartheid colony, Israel:

    The law was meant to fend off the specter of American troops standing trial for atrocities committed during the fledgling “war on terror,” but the U.S. horror of The Hague has its roots in the longstanding policy of unconditional support for Israel.

    Digital evidence is very fragile

    The Accountability Archive describes itself as a “crowdsourced record of journalists, politicians, and public figures endorsing or encouraging the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and/or defaming pro-Palestinian activists”.

    Alex Foley, co-founder, told the Canary digital evidence was very fragile:

    The Internet is not durable for storing evidence. In reality, digital evidence is incredibly fragile, more so than real evidence. We don’t have bundles of letters laying around… like when you finish a job and your email date gets wiped.

    In the space of war crimes evidence, the ICC, and the being videos erased, what we see is that terms of use and service for big social media companies… we think they’re there to promote connection. In reality, these firms aren’t pro freedom. If something falls afoul of their terms of service it gets black-boxed, unless law enforcement requires it.

    Foley gave the example of evidence of Libyan war crimes from 2017 which had been posted online:

    The Libyan evidence got scrubbed because it was considered too violent. It took an extremely lengthy legal process to recover it. It was very contentious.

    On Trump’s assault on the ICC, Foley added:

    This move highlights the ‘why’ around the [ICC] sanctions, this is the intended effect, this is what was meant to happen… a broader chilling effect. It says “you might be next” to organisations. This is intended.

    The Intercept reported that some of the videos are still available where they’ve been reproduced. Trump and the Israeli war criminal’s can run from justice and hide from accountability, but the dawn is coming.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Joe Glenton

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Ms Rachel collects Woman of Year award in dress with Gaza kids’ art

    Rachel Griffin Accurso – known to millions of children as popular children’s entertainer and educator ‘Ms Rachel’ – is officially one of the world’s most influential entertainers. She is also now officially Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year – and she accepted her award last night in a dress featuring art by children in Gaza, with a powerful, moving speech that was all about the children whose drawings it featured:

    Ms Rachel: standing firm

    Ms Rachel has been the target of hate and threats from the US Israel lobby for months for her outspoken empathy with the children of Gaza being maimed and slaughtered by the occupation during Israel’s genocide. She was also refused by three venues in New York City when she tried to arrange a birthday party for Rahaf, a three-year-old Palestinian girl she has befriended and supported and who lost both legs in an Israeli bomb.

    But last night she put the Israel lobby to shame – and not just in the US. Her dress is reminiscent of a display of plates featuring Palestinian children’s art that Zionist lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ pressured Guy’s hospital in London into removing by falsely claiming that Jewish patients had felt threatened by it. There had been no complaints at all from Jewish patients.

    UKLFI, which has hounded those who speak out against Israel’s genocide, particularly in the NHS and the entertainment industry, is now under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for alleged “vexatious and baseless” legal threats to silence support for Palestine. The group also has US links – Natasha Hausdorff, one of its main spokespeople, reportedly screamed at far-right US podcaster Charlie Kirk at an ‘intervention’ about his plan to abandon his support for Israel and for ‘platforming’ right-wing critics of Israel.

    UKLFI will probably be horrified this morning at Ms Rachel’s dress and even more so by her speech, which made clear why the Israel lobby so fears Palestinian children. Hopefully, in New York she is out of their reach if not that of their fellow advocates for the genocidal colony.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Ms Rachel collects Woman of Year award in dress with Gaza kids’ art

    Rachel Griffin Accurso – known to millions of children as popular children’s entertainer and educator ‘Ms Rachel’ – is officially one of the world’s most influential entertainers. She is also now officially Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year – and she accepted her award last night in a dress featuring art by children in Gaza, with a powerful, moving speech that was all about the children whose drawings it featured:

    Ms Rachel: standing firm

    Ms Rachel has been the target of hate and threats from the US Israel lobby for months for her outspoken empathy with the children of Gaza being maimed and slaughtered by the occupation during Israel’s genocide. She was also refused by three venues in New York City when she tried to arrange a birthday party for Rahaf, a three-year-old Palestinian girl she has befriended and supported and who lost both legs in an Israeli bomb.

    But last night she put the Israel lobby to shame – and not just in the US. Her dress is reminiscent of a display of plates featuring Palestinian children’s art that Zionist lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ pressured Guy’s hospital in London into removing by falsely claiming that Jewish patients had felt threatened by it. There had been no complaints at all from Jewish patients.

    UKLFI, which has hounded those who speak out against Israel’s genocide, particularly in the NHS and the entertainment industry, is now under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for alleged “vexatious and baseless” legal threats to silence support for Palestine. The group also has US links – Natasha Hausdorff, one of its main spokespeople, reportedly screamed at far-right US podcaster Charlie Kirk at an ‘intervention’ about his plan to abandon his support for Israel and for ‘platforming’ right-wing critics of Israel.

    UKLFI will probably be horrified this morning at Ms Rachel’s dress and even more so by her speech, which made clear why the Israel lobby so fears Palestinian children. Hopefully, in New York she is out of their reach if not that of their fellow advocates for the genocidal colony.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • The PR firm that planted the Palestine Action/Iran story has direct ties to the Zionist lobby

    The PR company CMS Strategic that reportedly planted a false story in the Times about Palestine Action has a series of intimate connections to the shadowy pro-Israel lobby group We Believe in Israel (WBII). This is of course the same WBII that boasted its role in machinating the proscription of the group.

    What’s more, vis-a-vis these WBII ties, the firm appears to have a wealth of links to the Labour Party and key figures in government.

    Palestine Action Iran funding smear: PR firm exposed

    As the Canary’s Alex/Rose Cocker detailed, the article in question had claimed – completely without basis – that the Home Office was investigating Palestine Action receiving funding from Iran.

    However, repeated Home Office denials over the allegations had suggested for a while that something else was afoot.

    Private Eye had previously approached the Home Office over the Times article. However, according to the magazine, this was only for it to come back and say that it did not recognise the claim.

    The Canary had also submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Home Office. But once again, the Home Office confirmed that it had not supplied any information directly to the Times for the story.

    At the time, there was a mainstream media frenzy from the usual suspects. GB News, the Daily Mail, the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Spectator all ran a series of stories trumpeting the potential Iran link. Declassified UK traced them all back to the dubious claims in the Times article.

    Now, Private Eye has revealed how:

    CMS Strategic has acted as Elbit’s UK PR firm for some years. A witness known by the Eye heard Georgia Pickering, CMS’s managing director and owner, claiming credit for getting a story into newspapers about Palestine Action, the “direct action” group that damaged Elbit factories and other premises the group says are linked to the war in Gaza.

    Source of the Times claims – long unclear

    Since the Times published the article, multiple outlets have speculated over the source of the claims.

    The Guardian had highlighted how We Believe in Israel had tweeted just two days before the Times article calling Palestine Action a “shell front” and stating:

    Behind Palestine Action’s theatre of resistance stands a darker puppeteer: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

    It’s well documented that the Zionist lobby group was chief among those lobbying for Palestine Action’s proscription. In June, just weeks ahead of Palestine Action’s ban, it published a report titled Palestine Action: A Case for Proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000. And notably, the Guardian pointed out how home secretary Yvette Cooper’s statement on the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was “similar” to the wording from this report. WBII even boasted it was thanks to its briefing that the government decided to proscribe Palestine Action.

    What’s more, the Canary has identified how WBII’s current director, Catherine Perez-Shakdam, had in the year leading up to Palestine Action’s proscription, penned op-eds not only calling for the ban, but also insinuating a link to Iran. Notably, in November 2024, she wrote an article calling Palestine Action activists “Tehran’s ideological sentries” and arguing that:

    To look at Palestine Action is to see not an “activist” group, but an ideological proxy for the Iranian regime, operating as Tehran’s enforcers in a country they otherwise could never reach.

    The piece goes to great lengths to paint Palestine Action as “proxies of a foreign power”, describing them as:

    foot soldiers whose purpose is to inject Tehran’s twisted worldview into the heart of Britain’s public discourse.

    At points, the article implies Palestine Action tactics are “inspired” by the Iranian regime. In others, she goes further to almost imply they are active foreign agents, making baseless claims like:

    Tehran, unable to influence Britain directly, deploys groups like Palestine Action to project its authoritarian ethos across borders.

    Of course, opinion article that it is, for the Zionist Times of Israel no less, Perez-Shakdam was compelled to provide no evidence for her conspiracist diatribe.

    We Believe in Israel: cropping up again, naturally

    To date, the Canary has been unable to source evidence of Perez-Shakdam and the numerous organisations she heads lobbying the Home Office. However, the Home Office has obviously categorically denied any role in seeding the story anyway – at least directly.

    Now, these facts take on new significance in light of Private Eye’s revelations.

    This is because, if CMS Strategic really did plant the story in the Times, its worth emphasising some particular links to WBII – and their timing.

    To start with, there’s the company’s senior account executive Kira Lewis. Lewis joined CMS Strategic in March 2025 from the infamous Israel lobby group British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM).

    Of course, this was just months before the Labour government announced the proscription of Palestine Action. As the Canary’s Ed Sykes previously highlighted, We Believe in Israel is:

    “a side-project” of BICOM – “Britain’s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation”. And its longstanding director was awful Labour right-winger and self-proclaimed “Zionist shitlord” Luke Akehurst (who isn’t Jewish, by the way).

    And Lewis evidently has clear connections to the group, not least through her role with BICOM.

    In July 2022, they penned an op-ed for Jewish News about their trip to Israel with:

    the Labour Friends of Israel and the We Believe In Israel campaign group.

    Then, in June 2024, they were out on the campaign trail for Akehurst. Akehurst only stepped down from his near 13-year stint as We Believe in Israel director that very same June.

    What’s more, it appears CMS Strategic has made use of Lewis’s links with the parachute North Durham MP. In May, Labour First (where incidentally, Lewis also previously worked), hosted an event with chancellor Rachel Reeves.

    In a LinkedIn post, Pickering posted chummy photos with the chancellor and thanked Akehurst for arranging for the company to support the event.

    Labour links in abundance

    What’s also apparent is that CMS Strategic has tangible inroads with this current Labour government as well.

    Pickering is a Bracknell Labour Party councillor. Alongside this, she is also co-chair of Labour in Communications’ (LIC) defence and aerospace policy network group. The organisation describes its remit as:

    Labour’s fastest-growing professional network of supporters working in the communications, media and public affairs industry.

    In a LinkedIn post, Pickering put out a call to recruit new Labour Party members from the PR and defence sectors to the group. A group gathering together Labour members with defence lobbyist experience – nothing to see there of course.

    Lewis, a Young Labour member, is also a Labour Party councillor, for Higham Hill. In 2023, they resigned their role as junior whip on the Waltham Forest council after posting a tweet stating that:

    What Israel is doing is bad – killing thousands of innocent people, including children. But not evil. Hamas is evil.

    Additionally, Lewis’s LinkedIn details a number of short-term gigs as an organiser for the party.

    However, perhaps most significantly, as mentioned above, Lewis previously worked for Labour First. Journalist and author Paul Holden has described the group in his explosive new book as the “base camp for the Labour right’s overt fightback” against Corbyn and the party’s left-wing. By this, he was referring to the organisation’s very public efforts to oust Corbyn and his allies, namely by spearheading repeated coup attempts during his leadership.

    And low and behold, Akehurst had his fingers in this pie too. He co-founded Labour First alongside former LFI vice-chair and MP John Spellar and Labour councillor Keith Dibble. Naturally, Akehurst is still a director.

    CMS staff were also at the Labour Party’s 2025 conference arranging “1-1 discussions” for ministers, MPs, and “industry voices”.

    CMS Strategic shilling for DSEI

    Moreover, CMS is no stranger to publicly gloating about helping defence companies get coverage in the corporate media either:

    So despite the company denying the claims from the Eye, it would be quite on-brand for Pickering to have boasted this – and for the company to be the actor behind the scenes.

    As the Eye underscored, CMS has shilled for notorious Israel-linked arms corporation Elbit Systems. Of course, Palestine Action has long made the number one Israel arms manufacturer the main target of its direct action. The magazine also highlighted that in 2024 Palestine Action targeted CMS over its lobbying for the company.

    Indeed, the PR firm is one of just two companies the arms producers has employed in recent years to lobby the UK government. CMS isn’t currently listed as its lobbyist.

    However, CMS itself has maintained a murky menagerie of arms manufacturers amid its clientele. It was none other than CMS running media and comms for the UK’s largest arms fair Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI). In fact, Pickering was bragging about CMS delivering this for DSEI for the 10th time:

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgia-pickering-60331b24_dsei-defence-activity-7372595480180080640-m9DL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAF2OYo0BSE0SivVWCPD3hjkt_6nXLu6_qeA

    This was the same DSEI that exhibited arms giants that have armed and sustained Israel’s genocide. It included drone and F35 manufacturers Elbit, Rafael, Lockhead Martin, and BAE.

    Times peddling propaganda for CMS Strategic? What’s new

    The Canary approached CMS Strategic and the Times for comment. We asked the Times whether it had verified that the Home Office were purportedly “understood” to be investigating Palestine Action’s funding and links to Iran. In addition, we queried if CMS/Georgia Pickering were the source for its article. The outlet did not respond by the time of publication.

    Meanwhile, CMS Strategic came back with an identical comment to what it told the Eye:

    Any suggestion that CMS was involved with The Times article dated 23 June 2025 or discussed being involved with it are categorically untrue.

    Ultimately, the Times in its top-quality due diligence journalism, published what appear to be outrageously fabricated claims. Those claims may have originated from a long-term lobbyist and PR outfit for major arms companies abetting Israel’s genocide.

    There’s no definitive proof – at present – that WBII had a hand in this. However, these connections to CMS Strategic do raise significant questions nonetheless. As its swagger around Palestine Action’s proscription underscores – pumping out propaganda sure wouldn’t be out of character.

    By Hannah Sharland

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Zionists flip their lid over Palestine flag set to fly at Belfast City Hall

    A vote has been passed at Belfast City Hall to fly the Palestine flag on Saturday 29 November following a council vote passed by a margin of 41 to 15. Sinn Féin Councillor Ryan Murphy proposed the motion at the council’s monthly full meeting. Referencing the ongoing ceasefire violations of so-called ‘Israel’, he said:

    I’ve had people contact me in regards to what they can to try and highlight those ongoing human rights abuses and to try and support the people of Palestine in any way they can.

    He put forward the display of the flag as another means to show support for those still enduring Zionist genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing. November 29 is International Day for Solidarity with the People of Palestine, and the flying of their colours will seemingly be the first occasion on which a non-Union Flag has been flown at a government building in the North of Ireland, other than those displayed in specific exempted circumstances. The European flag is put up on Europe Day, and those for the visiting heads of state of other nations can also be flown.

    No fleg, no peace: Palestine flag set to fly in Belfast

    ‘Fleg‘ flying remains a hugely contentious issue, with a Belfast City Council vote to restrict flying of the Union Flag to 18 days per year triggering months of rioting and protests in 2012-2013 from irate loyalists. They claimed the disappearance of the flag for much of the year was an attempt to erode ‘Britishness’ from the Six Counties. Previously the banner – often referred to by Catholic, Nationalist and Republican (CNR) community as The Butcher’s Apron for its association with imperial brutality – had flown every day of the year since 1906.

    There are already attempts to stage fresh street opposition to the Palestine colours loathed by the genocide-backing wing of Belfast politics. The Official Protestant Coalition’s (OPC) Facebook page is urging protest on 29 November. In a deeply confused statement, they say:

    On November 29th, you have two options – two ways – to resist the Islamic Republican movement.

    This is part of a recurring attempt to dishonestly tie the Palestine movement to republicanism and Islam, trigger words for a significant number of loyalists opposed to a united Ireland and all non-Christian religion (other than Judaism to the extent they unfairly link that faith to ‘Israel’). In text adjoining an image featuring People Before Profit (PBP) MLA Gerry Carroll and Alliance party leader Naomi Long, the OPC go on to say:

    We need to make a stand. This cannot be the same one-hour protest that we all forget about. This has to make headline news. Here we stand – we can do no more. No organisation, no leaders: just people power.

    Flag in support of human rights also set to fly

    Carroll has prominently led the campaign for the resignation of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Education Minister Paul Givan following his propaganda junket to stolen Palestinian land. The DUP have accused the Alliance party of meekly following along – i.e. being insufficiently pro-genocide for a party associated with neutrality. It is likely a large contingent of Palestine supporters will also be present on November 29 at the City Hall, perhaps the city’s most prominent building.

    An additional proposal to fly the Human Rights Day flag alongside the United Nations flag for Human Rights Day on December 10 was also passed. Following the successful proposal for the Palestinian flag, Councillor Murphy said in a statement on the Sinn Féin website:

    In light of the continued genocide against the people of Gaza, it is right that we show solidarity and support to them as they face a continuing barbaric onslaught from the Israeli military,

    The council meeting featured additional controversy, as a number of councillors walked out of the meeting following a decision by DUP Lord Mayor Tracy Kelly to shut down discussion of Givan’s trip to the Zionist entity. Sinn Féin Councillor Caoimhín McCann had attempted to raise Givan’s transgressions before being cut off by Kelly on the basis that his points were not relevant to council business. McCann said he had a relevant proposal to submit, but was cut short from doing so by Kelly, who sat stony-faced through the later vote to hoist the Palestine flag.

    Council meeting descends into farce as mayor blocks genocide discussion

    Deputy Lord Mayor Paul Doherty of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) spoke afterwards about how he and colleagues “sought clarity on process” (i.e. whether it was legal for the mayor to take action in this way) following Kelly’s intervention, but said “that was shut down as well”. A walkout of councillors followed, leaving a half-empty chamber. He said:

    If the mayor’s going to shut down the conversation around genocide and the crisis in Palestine, we’re shutting down the meeting.

    Traditional Unionist Voice deputy leader Ron McDowell, who joined Givan’s Zionist-bought holiday in the settler-colony, said:

    [The] attempt to twist routine minutes into an opportunistic political attack was irresponsible, transparent, and fundamentally disrespectful to the institution.

    Political attacks in a political setting, who’d have thought it? He went on to say:

    The people of Belfast expect their Council to deal with the business before it – not to become a stage for last-minute political ambushes and point-scoring.

    The people of Belfast, including his own constituents, also want their elected representatives to serve their constituents rather than acting as the bought-off stooges of Zionist terrorists. Compounding that, McDowell and his cohorts are likely to remain more exercised by a piece of cotton on a flagpole than the mass murder of Palestinian children or the material needs of those they are meant to serve.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Robert Freeman

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia appears to distance itself from founder’s pro-Israel interference

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is at the centre of a “huge scandal” after intervening in the online encyclopaedia’s page on Israel’s genocide in Gaza to soften its assertion that Israel is, indeed, committing genocide – a conclusion that aligns with the findings of the United Nations, World Court, human rights groups and genocide experts.

    Wikipedia: sorry – but kind of not

    And it seems that the site’s parent foundation is attempting to distance itself from his position in response to what may be an exodus of donors disgusted at Wales’s continued siding with the genocidal, apartheid colony.

    In an email seen by Skwawkbox, a ‘Senior Donor Relations Specialist’ – presumably following an approved script – responded to a now-ex donor who ended his financial support for the platform “in disgust” at Wales’s pro-Israel stance by emphasising Wales’s lack of official role in the organisation (emphases added):

    Thank you for your email and per your request, I’ve unsubscribed you from our fundraising mailings.

    I truly apologize to hear you have found a comment or statement of Jimmy Wales’ objectionable. While Jimmy is the founder of Wikipedia, he is neither a paid employee nor an executive of the Wikimedia Foundation, and his opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Wikimedia Foundation.

    Even as the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy is one of hundreds of thousands of editors, all striving to present information, including on contentious topics, in line with Wikipedia’s policies.

    Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by hundreds of thousands of volunteer editors who share information from reliable sources. No single person can determine what appears on Wikipedia. By design, its content is shaped through diversity of viewpoints and a process of open, collaborative discussion, debate, and consensus by its community of volunteer editors. Every edit, comment, and citation is recorded transparently for anyone to see. Articles on Wikipedia are updated as new information emerges and must follow three core policies, which require all content to be fact-based, neutral, and attributed to reliable sources. The aim is always to provide a well-rounded view on a range of topics for readers. Wikipedia is unique because it is a perpetual work in progress as a living encyclopedia: this means that content can evolve based on dialogue, feedback, and discussion in line with Wikipedia’s policies. This sometimes messy, very human process makes the quality of the encyclopedia stronger.

    Anyone who thinks articles can be improved is encouraged to participate in improving them; please see the tutorial to learn how you can contribute to Wikipedia directly. If you would prefer to just voice your concerns for the community to review, this input from readers is welcomed by the volunteers, too. Each article has a discussion page that can be edited with notes about the article. Please see the “Talk page” section of the Tutorial above.

    If you would like to call Jimmy’s attention to your concerns, you can even raise the issue on his own user talk page where he frequently responds to questions and concerns from Wikipedia readers.

    Thank you again for your generosity and your investment in the Wikimedia Foundation’s integrity. We hope you continue to stay involved in these conversations on Wikipedia, and that you will find the plurality of viewpoints expressed by volunteers — even that of the founder himself — ultimately contributes to the creation of a balanced encyclopedia, one respectful to all viewpoints and never reflective of those of a single individual.

    For more information about how Wikipedia works, you can visit our website and new blog series.

    A logical fallacy

    The email, however, echoes the same logical fallacy as Wales’ original intervention by referencing Wikipedia’s ‘core policy’ of being ‘neutral’, as if a neutral person cannot conclude based on overwhelming evidence that Israel is (of course) committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The fallacy is reminiscent of the BBC’s insistence that it is ‘balanced’ – which it appears to apply as meaning it has to treat the view of someone who denies it’s raining as equal in value and significance even though it’s clearly raining in torrents outside.

    More interesting is the inference that Wikipedia may be haemorrhaging donations, given that it is responding to an individual, and presumably relatively minor, donor with a personal message trying to change his/her mind.

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israel’s genocide has left Gaza with just 5% of its farm land remaining

    The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has released its annual report highlighting global food crises. However, it particularly shows the deteriorating humanitarian and agricultural situation in the Gaza Strip.

    UN issues severe warning over Gaza

    The report indicated that agricultural infrastructure in the Strip is in severe decline, with less than 5% of arable land remaining. Israeli military operations have damaged more than 80% of cultivated areas, and 77.8% are now inaccessible to farmers.

    It explained that more than 70% of agricultural greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed, and most irrigation wells have been damaged, leading to a severe shortage of agricultural water.

    The FAO emphasised that what is happening in Gaza represents a “near-total collapse of the agricultural and production system,” warning that if the current situation continues, the Strip’s residents will become almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid for their food.

    This warning comes as the organisation continues to call for facilitating the entry of agricultural and food aid into Gaza and rehabilitating damaged land and infrastructure to ensure a minimum level of food security.

    The FAO has classified the Gaza Strip as one of the worst food crisis areas in the world for 2024-2025, alongside Sudan, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

    Desperate shortages

    Regarding the fishing sector, the report indicated significant damage, with severe restrictions imposed on fishermen’s access to the sea, exacerbating the shortage of animal protein in the population’s diet.

    The organization also explained that more than 90% of Gaza’s population is unable to access sufficient food, and that local production of vegetables and grains has fallen to less than half of its level two years ago.

    The FAO recommended the urgent provision of agricultural support, including seeds, animal feed, and well repairs, to prevent further collapse in local production. It also emphasized that the continued restrictions on the entry of supplies and fuel through the crossings are exacerbating the crisis.

    The organization concluded its report by emphasizing that approximately 2.2 million people in Gaza are in dire need of urgent food and humanitarian assistance, warning that continued conflict and supply disruptions could lead to “widespread famine in the coming months” unless aid is allowed in immediately.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • 40 NGOs accuse Israel of using aid as a political weapon

    The Financial Times revealed that Israel is deliberately obstructing the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip by imposing a new registration system for international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), resulting in the freezing of tens of millions of dollars in vital relief supplies outside the besieged territory.

    Israel: deliberately obstructing aid into Gaza

    The newspaper reported that more than 40 humanitarian organisations – including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and the Norwegian Refugee Council – confirmed that Israeli authorities rejected 99 requests to bring in aid during the first 12 days of the ceasefire. It added that almost all of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s requests were denied because these organisations were “not authorised to provide aid.”

    This comes as Israel has imposed new rules since last March, forcing organisations operating in the Palestinian territories to re-register with Israeli authorities before the end of the year, under penalty of losing their licenses. The director of the Norwegian Refugee Council said his organisation is “stuck in a dead end,” as it is being told its registration is “under review,” preventing it from bringing in any relief supplies.

    Meanwhile, UNRWA confirmed that winter shelter supplies intended for more than one million people are stockpiled in warehouses and are being prevented from entering by an Israeli decision, despite the bitter cold faced by hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

    Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents are still living in “catastrophic” displacement camps, where 93% of the tents are worn out, and more than 900,000 people, including tens of thousands displaced from Rafah, are living in inhumane conditions.

    The displacement camps lack water, sanitation, and basic supplies, and are in urgent need of new tents, especially before winter arrives.

    An ongoing genocide

    Despite the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel on 10 October – which was supposed to pave the way for the flow of aid – Israel is only allowing the entry of symbolic amounts that cover a tiny fraction of the Gaza Strip’s needs. The United Nations estimates that approximately 600 truckloads of aid are needed daily, but the Israeli occupation has only permitted 25% of that to enter.

    This comes in the wake of Israel’s devastating genocide in Gaza, and which, according to Palestinian figures, left more than 68,000 dead and 170,000 wounded, most of them women and children. The United Nations estimates the cost of rebuilding the Gaza Strip at approximately $70 billion.

    Under the guise of “administrative procedures,” Israel is tightening its grip on Gaza once again. Humanitarian observers believe the new registration system is nothing more than another bureaucratic tool to perpetuate the siege and starve the civilian population.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.

    More To The Story: Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader. At a time when the Trump administration is putting increasing pressure on private and public universities to conform or lose funding, Stanley recently left his position at Yale University and moved his family to Canada, where he’s now the Bissell-Heyd chair in American studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. The move, he says, has allowed him to talk about the US in a way that wouldn’t have been possible if he remained in the country. On this week’s More To The Story, Stanley traces the recent rise of fascist regimes around the globe, and explains why he describes what’s happening in the US today as a “coup” and why he thinks the speed and scope of the Trump administration’s hardline policies could ultimately lead to significant pushback from those opposed to the president.

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    Read: He Studies Fascism: Is He Now Living Through It? (Mother Jones)

    Listen:Trump’s New World (Dis)Order (Reveal)

    Watch: We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US (The New York Times)

    Read: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House)


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  • REVEALED: cops banned Maccabi Tel Aviv thugs because they are ‘organised’ IDF fighters

    More details have broken about the Maccabi Tel Aviv ‘fans’ – violent, racist thugs – whose ban by West Midlands Police (WMP) from a match this week in Birmingham Keir Starmer tried to overturn with the help of an organised campaign by the UK Israel lobby.

    Maccabi Tel Aviv – yes, they are the IDF

    Middle East Eye has revealed this evening that police in the Netherlands told WMP that more than two hundred ‘fans’ were not just a racist mob that had run riot in Amsterdam last November, attacking Muslims and other locals, but were “linked to the Israel Defence Forces” (IDF) – with “hundreds more” also “highly organised” “experienced fighters” who were determined to cause “serious violence” in Birmingham.⁠
    ⁠
    Starmer and his front-benchers tried to insist that WMP imposed the ban because it couldn’t guarantee the safety of ‘Jewish’ fans – a lie that was quickly and embarrassingly exposed – while Israel lobbyists claimed to be members of an invented ‘Jewish Villans’ supporters club. The new information about the WMP assessment further exposes the Starmer regime’s collaboration with Israel and its lobby groups⁠.

    Dutch intelligence services have classified Israel as a security threat to the Netherlands, in part based on the Maccabi violence and racist incitement a year ago.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • After Decades of Resistance, a West Bank Village Faces Israeli Demolition Orders

    In the hills of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, a small Bedouin community in the village of Umm al-Khair has fought for decades to remain on their land, a rocky landscape dotted with olive trees, where they farm and raise livestock. As a community with a steadfast commitment to nonviolent struggle, they document and fight back against increasing settler violence and land annexation for…

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  • Israel has now destroyed almost all of Gaza’s communication and internet networks

    At a time when digital infrastructure plays a pivotal role in the global economy, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip find themselves isolated from the world, amid the near-total collapse of communications and internet networks as a result of Israel’s widespread military targeting of digital infrastructure. This collapse is not limited to service disruptions but extends to an emerging economy that was relied upon to mitigate the effects of years of blockade by the Zionist occupation.

    Digital paralysis and disconnection from the world

    Economic researcher Ahmed Abu Qamar told the Canary that Israel has destroyed about 74% of communication towers and 50% of the public network, turning wires, towers and exchanges into ‘battlefields’ and causing losses estimated at more than $2.6 billion to the Palestinian digital economy.

    According to Abu Qamar, the Gaza Strip is experiencing near-total paralysis of telecommunications and internet services, leading to a breakdown in communication between residents and their families, disrupted humanitarian coordination efforts, and preventing direct media coverage in many areas during periods of fighting.

    Fifteen cases of complete or partial communication blackouts have been documented since the start of the war, which Abu Qamar described as ‘a strategic blow [by Israel] to the emerging Palestinian economy,’ confirming that thousands of workers in the fields of digital services, remote work, and e-commerce have lost their jobs and sources of income.

    Israel’s systematic targeting – and a technological gap

    According to the data provided, more than 580 cell towers and fibre optic networks were targeted by Israel, in strikes that affected vital components that were supposed to be a civilian safety net and a conduit for information and emergencies.

    Abu Qamar emphasised to the Canary that this targeting ‘cannot be considered collateral damage,’ but rather points to a systematic Zionist policy of digitally isolating the sector and restricting the flow of information.

    Despite the world’s reliance on high-speed data transfer and fifth-generation technologies, Gaza continues to operate on second-generation networks only as a result of Israeli restrictions imposed for years on the introduction of modern communications technologies.

    Experts believe that this policy deepens the technological divide, hinders investment in technology projects, and limits young people’s ability to integrate into the global economy.

    A stalled economy and an uncertain future

    Abu Qamar told the Canary that the damage was not only material, but also affected the future of the Palestinian economy, particularly the start-up and technology sector, which was experiencing growth before the war. Thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises that relied on the internet as an alternative economic outlet were also disrupted.

    He points out that rebuilding this sector requires major international investment and political will to ensure that civilian infrastructure is not targeted again, as this is a prerequisite for any future economic recovery.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Board of Deputies ridiculed for calling the BBC on Louis Theroux

    Documentarian Louis Theroux recently interviewed punk singer Bob Vylan, touching on topics that included his controversial ‘Death to the IDF’ chant. In response, the Zionist pressure group the Board of Deputies of British Jews sought to hold the BBC responsible for Theroux and his interview.

    The problem?

    The interview had absolutely nothing to do with the BBC:


    With all this being the case, why did the Board announce this?

    Accountability

    For clarity’s sake, when we reference ‘Zionism‘, we’re talking about the colonial project of creating a Jewish ethno-state in the Middle East. This project led to the creation of Israel; if left unchecked, it will expand in to ‘Greater Israel’:


    Remember when Hitler attempted to create a greater Germany? Essentially it’s like that, only this time the Allied Forces are aligned with the Axis Powers.

    When Vylan chanted ‘Death to the IDF’, he was referring to the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF is the military force of Israel, and for the past two years they’ve subjected the Palestinian people to genocide. People have described the chant as antisemitic, although many of these same people insisted that Labour adopt the IIHRA definition of antisemitism, which clearly states that antisemitism involves:

    Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

    Wishing bad things upon the IDF is only antisemitism if you believe that the IDF represents all Jewish people, and that in turn all Jewish people hold some responsibility for the actions of the IDF.


    When Vylan chanted what he chanted, the Board of Deputies wrote to the BBC, who broadcast the performance:


    You’ll notice they were vague about who Vylan was chanting about. You’ll also notice they didn’t reference the ongoing genocide.

    And now this

    People have criticised the Board’s latest intervention:


    Journalist Barry Malone said the following:


    Theroux’s last documentary with the BBC was The Settlers in April this year. Israel’s advocates didn’t like that one either:

    Shelf life

    Increasingly, more and more people are asking why British institutions are attacking British citizens to protect the feelings of a genocidal foreign regime. The answer, of course, is because America see Israel as a key asset, and Britain is subservient to the US.

    Quite how long this continues we can’t say; Israel and its defenders have clearly overstepped the mark, and now even the American right are turning against them:


    Featured image via Zscout370 (Wikimedia)

    By Willem Moore

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Scandal as Wikipedia’s founder edits Israel’s genocide out of online entry

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been accused of ‘caving’ to the Israel lobby after he intervened on the online encyclopedia’s entry on Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

    Wales jumped in on the edit discussion page to describe the article as “particularly egregious” for concluding that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and stating “in Wikipedia’s voice” that:

    The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war.

    How could anyone with a smartphone or computer sensibly argue against that conclusion? Well, Wales did, saying on the discussion page that he had been:

    asked point-blank in a high profile media interview about this article, and I answered with transparency and honesty: this article fails to meet our high standards and needs immediate attention.

    Wikipedia founder

    Wales went on:

    As many of you will know, I have been leading an NPOV [Wikipedia Neutral Point of View] working group and studying the issue of neutrality in Wikipedia across many articles and topic areas including “Zionism”. While this article is a particularly egregious example, there is much more work to do.

    He maintained that:

    I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Gaza “genocide” article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested. This is a violation of WP:NPOV [Wikipedia Neutral Point of View] and WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV [Wikipedia Attribute Point of View] that requires immediate correction.

    And, he insisted that:

    This policy is non-negotiable, and the principles upon which it is based cannot be superseded by other policies or guidelines, nor by editor consensus.

    Instead, he demanded that the following approach be taken:

    A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: “Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterization of Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.

    Of course, as Al Jazeera explained:

    Several major international bodies, including the United Nations, have asserted that Israel’s assault on Gaza is a genocide. This view has been backed by human rights organisations and scholars.

    Turmoil within Wikipedia

    The intervention has caused what US journalist Ryan Grim called “a huge scandal… inside Wikipedia”, with other platform editors condemning the interference and insisting that Wales’s opinion should have no more weight than anyone else’s and needs to be proposed, argued and either accepted or rejected by the editing community like any other:

    An example of the outraged reactions of some participants in the Wikipedia discussion.

    Grim assessed that:

    top dog Jim Wales swoop[ed] in to edit the Gaza genocide article and some others, buckling to pressure from the ADL and Israel.

    The main article page has now been locked to prevent editing until at least tonight.

    Online backlash

    On social media, others considered that Wales had humiliated himself by wanting to give the opinions  of the Israel lobby equal weight to those of United Nations experts, human rights groups and genocide scholars, and by ‘caving’ to the Israel lobby:

    The insistence that everyone editing the article has to be treated as a good-faith actor is also humiliating, given that the Israeli regime has long admitted deploying armies of supporters to edit Wikipedia articles (and flood social media) to make them positive about Israel. Several posted this clip of former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett saying the same:

    History of Zionism

    Even more embarrassing is the fact that Wikipedia has a page listing “political editing incidents” that includes a examples of editing wars funded by Israel or its proxies including, alongside Bennett’s admission, those of:

    • Israeli firm Percepto (formerly Veribo), which was exposed by Wikipedia’s own internal newspaper for using sockpuppets (fake online identities) to edit articles for paying clients, a breach of Wikipedia rules

    • right-wing Israeli think tank Kohelet Policy Forum allegedly using sockpuppet accounts – after openly using paid editors in the past

    • Wikipedia administrators being forced to ban pro-Israel activists pushing a 2008 campaign organised by the ironically-named Israel propaganda group Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)

    Wales’s own personal history of Zionism is no less troubling. He has said of himself that:

    I’m a strong supporter of Israel, so I don’t listen to those critics [of Israeli apartheid].

    Wales also joined in the UK antisemitism scam, accusing then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being antisemitic and ‘supporting Hamas’ – a position that saw him accused of being a supporter of apartheid by an Israeli citizen:

    Last month, Wales was accused by X owner Elon Musk for not being right-wing enough. Musk then set up Grokipedia, an alternative pushing “far-right talking points”. Musk’s own Grok AI has repeatedly admitted its programmed pro-Israel biases and Islamophobia.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Channel 4 News

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • ‘Drop Adani’: activists take on genocide-enabling fossil fuel firm at Science Museum

    Activists have taken on a genocide and climate change-linked arms and fossil fuel firm on London. Adani Group, who are based in India, have perversely been allowed to sponsor the ‘green gallery’ at the Science Museum. Hundreds of teachers have threatened a boycott.

    Opponents of the green-washing project projected the words ‘Drop Adani’ onto the museums and demonstrated outside. They also put up posters which read “Our energy revolution fuels genocide” and “Our energy revolution runs on firepower”.

    The campaign describes Adani as “the world’s second largest developer of coal power”.

    Adani directly fuelling genocide

    The educational and cultural boycott has been taken up by Parents for Palestine, Education Climate Coalition, Culture Unstained and others.

    In a press release, a spokesperson for Parents for Palestine explained:

    There’s no question that Adani is directly fuelling – and profiting from – repression, violence and genocide. The posters were quickly removed, making it only too clear that the museum doesn’t want people to know the truth about Adani.

    Just last month, the museum agreed to host a private cocktail reception for Adani and its corporate clients in the ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery it sponsors, when instead, it should be holding them accountable for their crimes by denouncing and disengaging from Adani.

    Blood money and arms firm

    Adani has a deep relationship with Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. This has been been criticised by human rights organisations:

    Adani-Elbit Advanced Systems India Ltd, located in Hyderabad is a joint venture between Adani Defence and Aerospace and Elbit Systems, Israel to manufacture advanced drone systems

    And, Adani has maintained its support throughout Israel’s genocide:

    Even as Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues, Adani Elbit has recently supplied 20 Hermes 900 drones to the Israel military. While several countries have withdrawn support to Israel in the face of its inhuman carnage of Palestinians, Adani continues to profit from it, lining its pocket with blood money.

    The campaign aims to put pressure on the museum to divest from unethical firms. Energy Embargo for Palestine previously carried out an action at the so-called ‘pink ball’ for corporate donors:

    Their spokesperson said:

    The Science Museum must immediately drop Adani as a sponsor. At Energy Embargo for Palestine, we have a campaign against the British Museum for its £50m sponsorship deal with BP.

    These companies are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, and in climate collapse, and they rely on these partnerships to whitewash their image. We will continue opposing these deals until they are permanently dropped.

    And a spokesperson for Climate Resistance said

    Gautam Adani is a billionaire coal baron who has made his obscene fortune supplying arms for genocide and fueling climate collapse. That the Science Museum is taking this filthy cash is beyond shameful.

    We have to end his climate wrecking empire, tax him and his billionaire mates out of existence, and use their obscene wealth to fund climate action.

    Adani also operate Haifa port, where a lot of Israeli weaponry arrives. Needless to say that equipment gets used against Palestinians.

    Featured image via Parents for Palestine

    By Joe Glenton

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Deranged Zionist senator Lindsey Graham says the quiet part out loud again

    Deranged Zionist US senator Lindsey Graham is, once again, saying the quiet part out loud.

    In a speech to the ‘Republican Jewish Coalition’ – a lobby group that claims to represent Jewish people but makes its real agenda clear by attacking those they consider to “possess strong anti-Israel biases” – Graham wasn’t shy about telling his audience, to frequent cheers, that the US is “killing all the right people” and that if anyone wants to object to US support for Israel they’d better argue with God, exulting that “we’ve run out of bombs” and adding that he feels “good about where we’re going as a nation”:

    This is far from a one-off for the rancid Graham, who has previously threatened to invade the International Criminal Court for daring to issue an arrest warrant for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s called for Gaza to be nuked, called for Israel to sink humanitarian boats trying to deliver aid to Gaza, demanded the US bomb Iran just in case it ever posed a danger to Israel and accused the United Nations relief agency, UNRWA, of teaching Palestinians in Gaza to “kill all the Jews”.

    Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Forbes Breaking News

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • BBC changes headline on Israel rape story after backlash

    The BBC has climbed down and amended an appalling headline about the rape of Palestinian abductees by gangs of Israeli troops and guards – but without acknowledging the amendment in accordance with usual journalistic practice.

    The broadcaster had published an article about the arrest of Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who had admitted authorising the leak of video footage exposing the brutal rape. However, the BBC framed its headline to suggest that the leak, rather than the repeated raping of Palestinian detainees, was the scandal:

    BBC called out

    The BBC was called out by Chris Doyle, a director at the Council for British and Arab Understanding (CAABU), who wrote on X:

    Dear @BBCNews – the scandal is not the leak of the video – it is the contents of the video.

    The BBC subsequently – and quietly – amended its headline about Tomer-Yerushalmi. The latter also appeared to have tried to fake her suicide and disappear. However, rather than describing the rape as the scandal, it deleted the word ‘scandal’ completely – and didn’t even mention the rape, instead using the less explicit term ‘abuse’:

    ‘Abuse’, of course, is nowhere near as explicit a term to describe what actually happened: the repeated anal rape of a bound man with blunt objects, leaving him severely injured and psychologically traumatised. But the BBC didn’t bother to note the amendment anywhere in its article.

    BBC News editor Raffi Berg.

    Both versions of the article appeared in the Middle East section of the BBC News website. The editor of the Middle East section of the BBC News website is Raffi Berg. Berg has been described as a “Mossad [Israel’s foreign intelligence agency] collaborator” and accused of being the “tip of the iceberg” of a broadcaster that is:

    packed to the rafters with Zionists who will frame the reporting on Gaza to centre Israeli interests.

    Berg, who once posted a photo of himself with a letter from wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu on the wall behind him, has held private meetings in London with an accused Israeli war criminal and once:

    boasted about being indirectly employed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) while working for the US Foreign Broadcast Information Service.

    “One day, I was taken to one side and told, ‘you may or may not know that we are part of the CIA, but don’t go telling people’”, Berg recounted. “I was absolutely thrilled”, he continued.

    The BBC has been under intense pressure over its coverage of Israel and Palestine.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Israeli troops who (allegedly) almost raped a prisoner to death claim they’re the victims

    Content warning: this article contains discussions of rape and sexual assault, which some readers may find upsetting

    Israeli troops who (allegedly) raped a bound Palestinian prisoner so brutally that he almost died have appeared, masked, on Israeli TV to demand ‘justice’ and criticise those who condemned their actions and “tried to break us”.

    Zionist Israelis are always the victim – even when it comes to rape they perpetrated

    Their victim’s injuries were so severe that he almost died – and the senior military lawyer who leaked video of the crime has been arrested for causing Israel what wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu described as Israel’s worst ‘PR’ crisis.

    But the men – three of the five accused perpetrators – are horrified at the supposed injustice of the charges against them, because they “defended the home and only thanks to [us] are we all here today”:

    On Israeli Channel 12 last week journalist Guy Peleg, who published the original video of the gang rape, read out horrific details of the injuries the rapists inflicted on their victim, as they are laid out in the indictment against them. A panel member tried to stop him, saying it was “like playing that video again”:

    Defendants kicked, stomped… used a taser… stabbed the detainee in the buttocks with a sharp object… caused a tear in the rectal wall… Ordered the detainee to put a club in his mouth.

    Peleg has been targeted by Israeli right-wing media and politicians since publishing the video and has received death threats. The incident for which the five soldiers have been charged is just one out of dozens, even hundreds, of such incidents of sexual violence and torture perpetrated against civilian Palestinian abductees.

    But Israel is always the victim.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Terms Of Surrender: The Conspiracy To Obstruct Justice In Palestine

    In the wake of two years of the globally broadcast extermination of the people of Palestine, three distinct tracks of international response have emerged. One is grounded in justice, international law, human rights, and accountability. Two others are dedicated to impunity, the continued subjugation of the victims, and the normalization of the perpetrator regime.

    In the diplomatic struggle that has ensued, the justice track is under sustained attack. Left to their own devices, most states — the directly complicit and the timid alike — will undoubtedly take the easy way out, opting for impunity and normalization. But a growing people’s movement from across the globe is mobilized to demand justice.

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  • Trump Failed To Pressure Countries To Support Illegal Blockade Of Cuba

    A study by the firm Reputation Lab polled people in 60 major countries, and found that the United States has a very bad reputation. The US ranking fell from what was already a low rank of 30 out of 60 in 2024 to an even worse 48th place in 2025.

    A clear demonstration of the political isolation of the US government can be seen in votes at the United Nations.

    The vast majority of countries on Earth voted at the UN General Assembly on 29 October to demand an end to the illegal US blockade of Cuba, which has been maintained in blatant violation of international law for more than six decades.

    165 countries, representing 85.5% of the UN’s 193 member states, voted in support of a resolution that emphasized the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.

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  • Trump Failed To Pressure Countries To Support Illegal Blockade Of Cuba

    A study by the firm Reputation Lab polled people in 60 major countries, and found that the United States has a very bad reputation. The US ranking fell from what was already a low rank of 30 out of 60 in 2024 to an even worse 48th place in 2025.

    A clear demonstration of the political isolation of the US government can be seen in votes at the United Nations.

    The vast majority of countries on Earth voted at the UN General Assembly on 29 October to demand an end to the illegal US blockade of Cuba, which has been maintained in blatant violation of international law for more than six decades.

    165 countries, representing 85.5% of the UN’s 193 member states, voted in support of a resolution that emphasized the “necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.

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