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  • Terrorism arrests skyrocket under Keir Starmer – and he has no good answer for it

    Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been in power for just over 12 months. During that time, the number of arrests made under terrorism legislation have risen to their highest level on record:

    This sharp increase begs the question: are UK citizens facing a significantly increased risk of terrorism?

    Or is something else going on?

    Increased terror risk?

    The graph above is provided by Stats for Lefties. In their own words, the 1,339 figure for 2025 is “an approximate estimate”:

    as several dozen people were arrested at protests outside of London (e.g. Norwich). In addition, more London protests are expected. So when figures are officially released it will likely be well over 2,000 when the year concludes.

    The estimate includes figures from this past weekend when the Metropolitan police arrested hundreds of people:

    Tweet showing the Met made 857 arrests under section 13 of the Terrorism Act, and another tweet from Stats for Lefties stating they included the figures

    As Stats for Lefties makes clear, the figures for previous years are taken straight from the Home Office. Here’s their graph for the years going back to 2002:

    Graph show arrests by year under terror offence - the average is about 250 per year

    Given the stratospheric increase, you might come to the conclusion that terror is a bigger problem under Keir Starmer than it was during the ISIS years (i.e. when blowback from the illegal invasion of Iraq led to a wave of related terror attacks).

    Numbers alone don’t tell the full story, though.

    The elephant in the room over terrorism arrests

    As Stats for Lefties made clear, the majority of terror arrests relate to people supporting Palestine Action. Many of those suspected of terrorist charges have been pictured online:

    If they truly represent a terror threat to UK citizens, that’s very concerning, because many of them seem to have evaded arrest for decades given their advanced age. Just imagine how experienced they must be at this point.

    If they don’t represent a terror threat to UK citizens, the question must be asked: why are we policing them as if they do?

    The government response (or lack thereof)

    The Canary approached Number 10 and the Home Office for comment over the terrorism figures. Number 10 made it clear that this was a question for the Home Office, which is fair enough, although given the steep increase in terror arrests, we do think Keir Starmer should have to answer for this situation (especially true given the fact he’s such a control freak).

    After speaking with a Home Office press officer, we presented the following questions (emphasis added):

    When compared to other years (as recorded by the Home Office), the number of arrests made under terror legislation in 2025 is more than double that of any other year on record. According to some estimates, it’s actually even higher than that.

    In light of this:

    • Does the Home Office have any comment on this rise?
    • Does the Home Office believe this sharp increase in terror-related arrests means UK citizens are significantly more at risk of a terror attack?
    • Does the Home Office expect the number of terror-related offences to reduce?
    • If yes:
      • What is the Home Office’s target date for this reduction?
      • What level does it expect terror-related arrests to reduce to?
      • How does the Home Office intend to achieve this reduction?

    At the time of writing, we haven’t heard back from anyone, but it’s clear why they wouldn’t want to answer the highlighted question.

    If the Home Office says the arrests are justified and UK citizens are facing an increased risk of terror, it’s another way life has worsened under Keir Starmer.

    If the Home Office says there’s no increased risk to UK citizens, why the hell are we treating peaceful protesters like terrorists?

    There is no good to answer to this question, and so seemingly they’ve decided to ignore it.

    We’ll let you know if they get back to us, but in the meantime please to follow Stats for Lefties on Twitter and Bluesky to keep up with their latest analysis.

    Featured image via Number 10

    By Willem Moore

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Cops urged to investigate Israeli president Isaac Herzog for war crimes on his visit to the UK

    On the 10 and 11 September, president of Israel Isaac Herzog is expected to visit the UK to meet with UK ministers. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has now written to Scotland Yard demanding that it investigate the Israeli president upon his arrival in the UK. ICJP urges it to do so on suspicion of Herzog bearing criminal liability for alleged war crimes.

    Isaac Herzog visit to the UK: investigate the Israeli president for war crimes

    ICJP sent the correspondence to SO15, Scotland Yard’s War Crimes Unit. Isaac Herzog is suspected of bearing criminal liability for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and actions that constitute plausible genocide contrary to the Criminal Justice Act, the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) Act 2001.

    As a result, ICJP is calling for his investigation and interview. The group notes that diplomatic immunity would not preclude SO15 from interviewing him and otherwise investigating him. This would be in compliance with the UK’s international and domestic obligations.

    The ICC has already issued arrest warrants for two senior members of the Israeli government, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard evidence of dehumanising statements made by senior Israeli officials. Crucially, this included a statement by Herzog on the 12 October 2023, asserting:

    It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved…

    There should be ‘no safe haven for suspected war criminals’

    ICJP has previously provided the Metropolitan Police with two criminal complaints. These rely on extensive evidence which demonstrates Israel’s commission of international crimes. They include the crime of starvation as a method of warfare and indiscriminate targeting of civilians and civilian objects, specifically protected medical staff. All of these are crimes that fall within the remit of UK legislation and jurisdiction.

    This is therefore an opportunity for the UK government to pivot from arresting those who speak out against genocide to holding accountable those responsible for genocide, as required under UK and international law. From weapons exports to spy plane flights to trade, and diplomatic support, the UK government has failed at every step to live up to its legal obligations under international and domestic law to act to prevent the horrifying atrocities in Gaza.

    ICJP’s senior public affairs and communications officer Jonathan Purcell said of Isaac Herzog:

    This action represents a significant escalation in the global legal effort to hold senior Israeli officials accountable for war crimes and grave breaches of international law.

    The rule of law applies to all, regardless of office or nationality. If political leaders refuse to subject themselves to the legal process, it is their own soldiers who will be left exposed facing justice alone, without immunity or protection. There will be no safe haven for suspected war criminals. International law demands accountability, and we are determined to deliver it.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By The Canary

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Palestine Action Germany activists just carried on the group’s legacy by smashing up an Elbit factory

    On Monday 8 September, a group of five activists from Palestine Action Germany broke into the guarded Elbit systems’ factory in Ulm, Germany. Once inside, they barricaded the doors and damaged machinery, equipment, and weapons systems:

    Palestine Action activist inside Elbit's Ulm factory, with a Palestine Action banner attached to their back, damaging wires.

    Palestine Action activists inside Elbit's Ulm factory holding a Palestine flag, climbing on and damaging equipment.

    After an hour of dismantling the factory, German police detained and arrested them.

    Palestine Action Germany: taking on Elbit

    The Ulm factory is owned by Israel’s biggest weapons producer, Elbit Systems. The subsidiary prides itself on producing UAVs for air, sea, and land. It also advertises thermal imaging, night vision, and reconnaissance systems for target acquisition.

    Elbit Systems, is described as the “backbone” of the Israeli military, as it provides 85% of Israel’s military drone fleet and land-based equipment, as well as its missiles, targeting software, and digital warfare.

    A spokesperson from Palestine Action Germany said:

    The production and supply of weapons to Israel from companies in Germany for the ongoing genocide in Palestine must stop. The German state has failed to abide by its own laws, as the country remains a key partner to Israel’s genocide in Palestine, and has done so for the past 700 days. Rather than abide by international law, Germany has chosen to allow weapons companies to manufacture and supply weapons to Israel worth 100’s of $millions. Such companies include Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems and Rheinmetall and Co supply engines for tanks, small arms and explosive charges, to name but a few.

    Elbit Systems Germany prides itself on producing UAVs (military drones) for air, sea and land. They advertise thermal imaging, night vision and reconnaissance systems for target acquisition. All of their weapons are marketed as ‘battle-tested’ on Palestinians, and are used to terrorise the people of Gaza 24/7.

    In order to directly intervene in the supply of weapons to Israel, five activists from Palestine Action Germany took direct action to dismantle the Ulm factory of Israel’s biggest weapons firm, Elbit Systems. By doing so, they are breaking down the tools used to mass murder and destroy Gaza.

    Germany: a participant in Israel’s genocide

    The five activists which participated in the action today said:

    Elbit’s weapons are massacring people in Palestine – from the factory halls in Ulm into the hands of the IOF.

    From the factory halls in Ruhepot into the head of a 14-year-old girl.

    From German factories for the genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the colonization of the West Bank. Despite the legal proceedings for genocide and war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Despite the many human rights organizations that have been raising the alarm for years. And despite the protests of the civilian population worldwide. Despite the large demonstrations taking place in Germany against the Israeli occupation.
    Germany continues to supply weapons to Israel.

    That is why we are implementing international law ourselves. We are stopping the war machine that enriches itself on the suffering of people, and to do our part to end these cruel conditions. Because Germany is not doing that. Germany is fooling its citizens and the whole world by talking about humanity while supporting genocide. Today we are sabotaging the hypocrisy of the Western values – these states have exposed themselves as racist through their actions in recent decades until today. We are taking a stand against the ignorance, violence and contempt for humanity that has persisted in German and Israeli politics for decades. We are fighting for a free and good life in Palestine and the whole world.

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    By The Canary

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Destroying Gaza City

    Destroying cultures and eradicating the legacies of a people is a game the parochial and the dim-witted delight in. While this should be shunned and punished in international law, a general discomfort of purpose seems to trouble the friends of Israel as the state goes about its business of ruining what vestiges of living might exist in the Gaza Strip. As Israel’s warriors of vengeful virtue go about demolishing one of the last parts of Gaza that has any infrastructure worth mentioning, the usual ceremony of impotent effusion and concern is registered across the networks of the world.

    By the end of October 2024, Corey Scher and Jamon Van Den Hoek noted that the Gaza Strip had been subjected to “one of the most intense bombing campaigns of the twenty-first century, driving widespread urban damage.” With a focus on northern Gaza, the authors noted that 191,263 (three-fifths) of all buildings were either damaged or destroyed. In such outlets of sober discernment as Lawfare, we find the authors aghast that the operations in Gaza eclipse those of more recent operations of levelling mayhem, be it the destruction of Mariupol in Ukraine, where 32 percent of the buildings were destroyed or damaged, or the Syrian town of Aleppo, an ancient city victim to a war that saw damage to 40 percent of its buildings during three years of remorseless conflict.

    In language so corrupted it conveys the opposite of what is intended, Israel has again used the term “humanitarian zone” in areas it repeatedly bombs, whose residents are being consistently killed. Leaflets dropped over Gaza City on September 7 made the bold and mendacious claim: “From this moment it is announced that the al-Mawasi area is a humanitarian zone and steps will be taken to provide better humanitarian services there”. (They were evidently not up to scratch before.) The Gaza Ministry of Interior could only capitalise on this in a statement. “We call on citizens in Gaza City to beware of the occupation’s deceitful claims about the existence of a humanitarian zone in the south of the Strip.”

    Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports that the IDF is “using remotely controlled explosive robots, and detonating them in residential streets, destroying neighbourhoods.” He goes on to say that homes, public facilities, schools and a mosque were also hit in Sheikh Radwan. The head of the Palestinian NGOs network, Amjad Shawa, also observed that Israeli forces were “aiming to force Palestinians to the southern areas using these explosions, but everyone knows that there is no safe place in the south or any humanitarian zone.”

    Demolitions are now taking place at will, with the high-rise buildings in Gaza City falling to attacks. BBC Verify notes that the IDF is replicating its pattern of demolishing structures in southern Gaza. “Thousands of buildings in areas including Rafah and Khan Younis have been demolished by controlled explosions and demolition contractors in the area”.

    Along the way, tents have disappeared in such areas as Zeitoun. Palestinians, treated like much incidental livestock in war, have again been forced to move on under callous direction. Israeli military spokesperson, the gruesome Avichay Adraee, growled his bit of advice that residents leave the city to move to a designated coastal area of Khan Younis risibly called a “humanitarian zone”. On social media, Adraee assures his own conscience – and those of his colleagues: residents are told to leave such specific buildings as the Al-Ruya complex because of alleged Hamas “terrorist infrastructure” in it.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adds a vicious flourish, treating the systematic destruction of Gaza City’s infrastructure as entailing the necessary removal of “terror towers” and “nests of terror” (50, to date, having been destroyed). “Now all of this is just an introduction, just a prelude, to the main intense operation – a ground manoeuvre of our forces, who are organising and gathering in Gaza City.” Paying lip service to humanitarian considerations, he also wished it to be on record that those in Gaza “take advantage of this opportunity and listen” with care to his words: “You have been warned. Get out of there.”

    The time given for leaving such structures is a question of debate. Aida Abu Kas, resident of the now demolished Sousi Tower, claims that a mere 20 minutes was given by the IDF to take what belongings they could and leave the building before its razing. A better perspective of Israeli intentions is offered by defence minister Israel Katz. In posting a video on social media featuring the destruction of Sousi Tower, he ecstatically claimed (war crime prosecutors, take keen note) that, “The gates of hell are being unlocked in Gaza City.”

    In another post of ample blood lust on the X platform, Katz “a last warning to the murderers and rapists of Hamas in Gaza, and in luxury hotels abroad: Release the hostages, and put down your weapons – or Gaza will be destroyed and you will be obliterated.” In such exercises, distinguishing between civilians and combatants no longer takes place. Targets, and culpability, are conflated, as they have been from the outset. The next hellish stage is being set.

    The post Destroying Gaza City first appeared on Dissident Voice.

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  • DSEI arms fair host and exhibitors just got the Palestine Action treatment

    Overnight on Sunday 7 September, Shut The System activists threw blood-red paint and cut fibre-optic cables at the London headquarters of the companies behind the UK’s largest arms fair, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) and its host, Clarion Events:

    Black sign on a fence reads: "FulhamGreen" and "Pavilion" with arrows pointing right. Blood red paint is doused across it.

    Activists in a high-vis yellow vest, blue cap, and safety gloves cuts cables in underneath panels they've lifted on the pavement.

    The activists are calling out their complicity in the genocide in Gaza and atrocities globally.

    DSEI arms fair: building a fortune on genocide

    A Shut The System spokesperson said:

    How can anyone with a shred of humanity build their fortune on mass slaughter? Shut The System’s answer – they are a symptom of a global financial system that prioritises extreme, psychopathic profiteering for growth’s sake alone, above solid healthcare and the natural support systems underpinning all life on Earth.

    The action builds on Shut The System’s ‘Summer of Sabotage’ that the group declared on 18 August. To launch it, activists cut electric cables at the London offices of JP Morgan Chase, Allianz, and Barclays. Since then, Shut the System activists have also targeted Barclays branches and the offices of right-wing think tank Policy Exchange, smashing windows and dousing their buildings in paint. Mass protests are planned at the arms fair’s venue, London’s Excel Centre, till Friday.

    DSEI plays host to many of the world’s largest military equipment and surveillance companies, including Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer of Hermes killer drones and Merkava tank parts Israel has deployed on civilians in Gaza.

    Attendees also include BAE Systems, Britain’s partner manufacturing components for the F-35 fighter jets Israel uses to bomb families in Gaza, and American weapons company L3 Harris.

    US and Europe-backed slaughter in Gaza: a ‘blueprint to commit genocide’

    A Shut The System spokesperson said:

    The US and Europe-backed slaughter of families in Palestine is the front line of our struggle for climate and social justice globally. If we can’t stop this genocide, power holders will use it as a blueprint to commit genocides elsewhere. It demonstrates how financially-driven, imperialist powers will stop at nothing, wiping out entire populations in order to extract coal, oil, gas and minerals. In London, a global financial centre, Shut The System is taking on the powers standing in our way to a safer, fairer world.

    Featured image and additional images supplied

    By The Canary

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Lead boat of Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla, carrying Madleen crew including Thunberg, bombed and set on fire near Tunisia

    The lead boat of the Gaza-bound humanitarian ‘Global Sumud Flotilla – the boat carrying members, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, from the voyage of the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla vessel attacked and seized by Israel, along with its crew – has been bombed by a drone in Tunisian waters and set on fire.

    The fire was contained and the crew is safe, but the attack – there is no real doubt who committed it – again displays the arrogance and lawlessness of the terror state of Israel, which is determined to prevent the flotilla of more than fifty boats reaching the shores of Gaza to break Israel’s criminal blockade that is starving almost two million Palestinian people of the enclave, with more than half a million in the final, deadly stages of famine.

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • People’s Arms Embargo Campaign: No Weapons From Oakland To Israel

    The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Arab Resource and Organizing Center Action (AROC Action), and the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) have partnered together to call for an end to all shipments of military cargo from ports of Oakland to Israel and to demand an Oakland Arms Embargo on Israel.

    Breaking research has uncovered Oakland’s hidden and central role in transporting military cargo to the Israeli military. Shipments have been sent from Oakland to Israel multiple times per week, almost every single week this year. The fact that shipments of F-35 fighter jet components are flowing through the Oakland airport to the Israeli military has been concealed from the people of Oakland, our workers, our city officials, our families, and our educators. Together, we are launching a broad based coalition to demand an end to Oakland’s participation in genocide.

    The post People’s Arms Embargo Campaign: No Weapons From Oakland To Israel appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

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  • The Peoples Conference For Palestine: Another Step Forward

    The well-organized Palestine conference in Detroit brought over 4600 there, with a heavy Palestinian presence. Most of the speakers in the plenaries were genuine Palestinian activists tested in battle, not well-known writers or professors. The over 270 journalists who have been targeted and murdered for informing the world of the endless US-Israeli slaughter of civilians were honored throughout the three days that included over 20 sessions and plenaries, exhibits, including Palestinian cultural performances, a grand vendor fair and art exhibits. 

    It was made clear that Israel is the US garrison state in the Middle East, out to break the Palestinian people’s resistance.

    The post The Peoples Conference For Palestine: Another Step Forward appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

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  • ‘We Will Not Be Silent’: Hearing Stilled Voices Of The Gaza Genocide

    In his last minutes of freedom before the Israeli army arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of the hospital he directed. The artist, David Solnit, recently updated the poster’s caption. It now reads: Free Dr. Abu Safiya, Eight months in prison Dec. 27, 2024 – August 27, 2025.

    Dr. Safiya had already endured agonizing losses at the Kamal Adwan hospital. In late October 2024, an Israeli drone attack killed his son, also a doctor.

    The post ‘We Will Not Be Silent’: Hearing Stilled Voices Of The Gaza Genocide appeared first on PopularResistance.Org.

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  • Why US veterans are sailing to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla

    After multiple voyages by the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have been prevented from reaching Gaza’s shores by Israel’s military, a massive fleet of freedom flotillas are currently sailing towards Gaza to deliver life-saving humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the midst of genocide. The Global Sumud Flotilla “brings together a diverse coalition of international participants, including those involved in previous land and sea efforts like the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Global Movement to Gaza.” Including over 50 vessels, delegations from at least 44 countries, and activists, organizers, and people of conscience from around the world, the Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Zue Jernstedt and Zuleyka Morales Rivera, two US military veterans and members of About Face: Veterans Against the War, who are sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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    Maximillian Alvarez:

    After multiple voyages by the Gaza, freedom Flotilla have been prevented from reaching Gaza shores by Israel’s military, a massive fleet of freedom. Flotillas are currently sailing towards Gaza as we speak their mission to break Israel’s blockade and deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the midst of a genocide. This is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Global Saud Flotilla includes small and large vessels, delegations from 45 countries, and activists organiz and people of conscience from around the world. From Greta Thunberg to Man Mandela Nelson Mandela’s grandson. And we are recording on Monday, September 8th. The Global Saud Flotilla is currently docked at the Port of Tice and will be departing on Wednesday en route to Gaza. And joining us on The Real News today from uni are two American military veterans and members of the group about face veterans against the war who are sailing with the global Saud Flotilla. Zue Jernstedt is a US Army veteran, and Zuleyka Morales Rivera is a US Marine veteran and they join us now. Thank you both so much for joining us on the Real News Network. I really appreciate it.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    Thank you for having us.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Well, firstly, we’ve been seeing a lot of the videos and photos of this massive fleet of flotillas sailing towards Gaza, but I wanted to ask you both if you could tell us what it actually looks and feels like to be there right now, who is taking part in this? Just give our viewers an on the ground view of this historic effort.

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Yeah, well, it’s actually pretty crazy because we’re in these very tiny sailboats. This is a humanitarian mission. This is not a military mission. So we’re on these very tiny sailboats with people from all over the world who are just regular people sailing across a giant sea. So when we’re in these boats, it’s actually, we feel quite small and we’re just all stuffed in these tiny boats. And then we’ll look across the vast sea and just see all these little sailboats dotted around us, all flying Palestinian flags. So it feels so surreal to be on a giant ocean with all these tiny little boats bobbing around all with Palestinian flags. And it feels like we’re very separate almost at times. And then we can see the solidarity online and the people in Gaza who are talking about waiting for us, the actions back home of people saying they’re with us, and we realize how big it actually is from being seasick alone in our boat too, being connected with everyone around the world.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    Yeah, it feels very surreal. I think it’s one of those moments where you don’t realize just how big it is until months have passed and it finally sinks in and you’re like, wow, I can’t believe that this is actually happening or this actually is happening.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    And I guess just on that note, what was the reception like in uni when you guys got there?

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Well, actually we got here a bit later than everyone else. When the first boats came in, the streets were so crowded that people couldn’t get through, and there was just parties and dancing and singing, and yeah, it was completely crushed with people supporting. We didn’t get until very, very late last night. So by that time, everyone was sleeping and we were just happy to get to the hotel.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    Even as we were sailing in maybe six hours out from actually arriving in Tunis, there’s a boat of civilians that came up to our boat and just started screaming Free Palestine. Free Palestine, and stopped by each boat and just kept saying, thank you, free Palestine. So the solidarity that we feel in this movement is pretty incredible.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Wow. Yeah. What does that feel like?

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    It’s unlike anything that we’ve ever experienced before because it’s on such a large scale globally, 44 countries that are sailing to Gaza. To be part of that is something that I’ve never felt before.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Yeah, I can only imagine. And I wanted to ask as individual American military veterans and as a group representing about face against the War, because there’s a contingent of you sailing towards Gaza now, I wanted to ask if you could tell us more about why you all decided to join the global Saud Flotilla?

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Yeah, so actually most of the people on the boat are about face members. Most of us are also veteran for peace members. We’re all pretty much all anti-imperialist activists because we believe that the struggle in Palestine is interconnected with anti imperialism. But I joined personally because my Palestinian American friend who I met in the West Bank last year while doing protective presence, asked me if I knew any boat people, any captains or anything, and I said no. And then they said, Hey, there’s a veterans boat. And I said, sign me up here. Absolutely. I want to be a part of this. And then sent the information to other people. And about face

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    Mine is somewhat similar. I actually took part in the march to Gaza that took place in June and we weren’t able to get very far. But it really opened my eyes to the layers of systemic oppression that is not only against the Palestinian people, but against a lot of the global south and the people of the world. And so I had a comrade that was also in the March to Gaza that called me and asked me, they’re doing another Flotilla and it’s going to be dozens of boats. Would you like to go? And immediately I said, of course we have to make it to Gaga.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Is there anything about your identities as veterans, as people who took the oaths that you took and have gone through, what you’ve gone through? Is there anything about being a veteran of the US military that made you feel even more compelled to speak out about this?

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Yeah, absolutely. I’m someone who served in Afghanistan in 2009, and I feel like it’s my duty now to stand up against imperialism because I was a foot soldier of imperialism. I spread pain and violence through the world, upholding this American ideal and resource stealing. So I feel like I also now have to stand against it now that I see what’s going on, now that I have privilege in America for being a veteran, that it’s very important for us to say, Hey, no, we see what’s happening. We won’t take part anymore. We can change the narrative. We don’t have to follow orders. We don’t have to be these people. We don’t have to march to their tune. We are the people, we have the power.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    For me, I joined the Marine Corps straight out of Puerto Rico. I was born in Puerto Rico, the oldest colony in the world, and I wasn’t aware of the oppression and the second class citizen that we had. And as I opened my eyes when I got out of the military, I realized these systems are designed to be put against us and we have to do something. So it’s intertwined in our everyday lives and just had to do something about it.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Well, I spoke to Chris Smalls when he was on board the Last Freedom Flotilla, and we had that conversation about a day or so before the Flotilla was captured, and Chris himself was separated, beaten, and detained by Israeli forces. And Chris knew that he was putting his safety and possibly even his life at risk for this cause. And I know that everyone on this mission is fully aware of those risks as well. But I wanted to ask, what are you expecting the response from Israel to be like, we’ve never seen a fleet like this before, but we’ve seen how Israel has responded to individual missions before. So how are y’all prepared for the different range of outcomes here, including the possibility of violence and hostility from the Israeli military?

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Well, I just want to start with the violence and hostility from the Israeli military will be nothing compared to what the people of Gaza and the people in the West Bank face every day. So for us, it’s not, yeah, it means so much that they’re going through this that does not worry us. It’s nothing compared to what they’ve been facing for the last 700 days and since 1948 and before. So that isn’t our main concern. Our main concern is what are they going to do? Because they do not follow humanitarian law. They do not follow the Geneva Convention. They do not follow the ICC. They do not follow the IHL. So we are completely unsure. They’re a rogue state. They’re a complete wild card. So we are making all these scenarios up of what we could do in each way, but we really cannot say because they do not follow the laws and they’re inhumane and they are committing a genocide against the Palestinian people.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    And based off what we’ve witnessed and the slaughter that’s been going on in Gaza for over 700 days, we can honestly expect anything from them because that’s just how they are. Nobody sets limits on them. So we go over scenarios on a regular basis. Daily we have meetings, we talk about what if this happens or what if this happens or what would you do if you see this happen to another person? How do we remain calm? How do we deal with situations like that, which we most likely aren’t really prepared for, but we’re preparing as much as we can.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Just the very fact of this fleet existing. It really is a testament to the age old organizing principle that there is strength in numbers, and we’re even hearing about ways that others who are not on those ships are preparing to aid your effort, including the Italian dock workers who are saying that they will shut down the ports if you all are harmed. So it sounds like, and please do tell us if there’s more in that vein that folks should know about, but it does sound like the strength in numbers principle is being applied in its full force here from the amount of ships sailing towards Gaza to the amount of support around the world to protect those ships.

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Yeah, absolutely. The people are waking up and we are aware of American imperialism now. We are aware of billionaires controlling resources, and the people are waking up to say no more. This is multinational. We are coming together to say, it doesn’t matter how much money you have, you don’t have the numbers that we have. And the people of the world stand for humanity. The people of the world stand for Palestine. The people of the world stand for Congo. The people of the world stand for Sudan. The people of the world stand for Puerto Rico. We’re not going to take it laying down anymore, and we are all going to join up. And everyone can do their little part. You don’t have to be on a flotilla. You can do things in your everyday life that will subvert what they’re doing and show them that they don’t have the power of us over us and we can make changes.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    And I think that’s the difference with this movement is that it’s so big. Maybe we don’t realize it because we’re on a small ship, but it’s so big that I feel like this time people actually can feel like they can be in solidarity with us, even if it’s just sharing or sharing the voices in Gaza or sharing a post or speaking about it with their families or joining the discourse, or even the smallest little bit of effort that is put towards standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the Palestinian people all around the world is very different than the movements in the past.

    Maximillian Alvarez:

    Well, and on that note, I mean that hits very deeply, and I just wanted to make my own appeal to anyone watching this that please share the dozens of documentary reports that we’ve been publishing from Gaza itself, from the West Bank, our reporter in Gaza, ruida Amer, a brilliant documentary filmmaker, is starving, her family is dying. We are talking to her every day. I beg you, if you’ve been watching those documentaries, just know that the person behind them is dying like everyone else in Gaza. And that is where this urgency to do something is coming from. On my podcast Working People last week, which we published here in The Real News, I interviewed two Palestinians in Gaza talking about the horrific circumstances that they are living through and trying to survive in. This is as real as it gets. That is why this massive fleet is sailing towards Gaza this week. And so I wanted to end on that note because I know I have to let you both go. You’ve got a long week ahead of you. But while I still have you, I wanted to ask if you had any final messages about what you all and the rest of the Flotilla Coalition are advising people to do to help, and if you had any final messages to the world that you want to share here before we let you go?

    Zue Jernstedt:

    Oh, yes, absolutely. I mean, the biggest thing is what you were just saying of Center the Voices and Gaza Center, the voices on the West Bank, sure, we have this Flotilla, it’s a big media thing, but where’s the media for Gaza? Where’s the media for the West Bank? Those are the people who are going through it, are suffering under it. Those are the people you need to be listening to. One thing I would like to say is 26,000 people tried to get on the Flotilla and we didn’t have the room, but there’s other organizations that you can work with in solidarity with the Palestinian people. I was in the West Bank with ISM, the International Solidarity Movement. They need people in the West Bank. They’re undergoing right now some horrific, horrific ethnic cleansing, where they’re destroying the olive trees. They’re shooting people. They need observers from around the world to be there to keep them from doing these crimes without having anyone international to intervene. Like, please, please, there’s more ways of solidarity than just the flotilla.

    Zuleyka Morales Rivera:

    And I think it’s just important to realize that in our thousands, in our millions, we’re all Palestinians. And I really mean that We can’t look away from the suffering of Palestinian children. We can’t look away from the suffering of Gaza that has been going on for so long. It is one fight. It’s one fight, and it’s a fight of the whole world. And the more of us that there are, the better.

    This post was originally published on The Real News Network.

  • Spain Announces Measures Including Arms Embargo on Israel to Stop Gaza Genocide

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures — including a total arms embargo — aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “to stop the genocide in Gaza.” Sánchez, who leads the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), announced the steps during a speech in which he first acknowledged the historical…

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  • Israel Destroys Gaza Human Rights Group’s HQ, Days After It Was Sanctioned by US

    Israeli forces bombed and leveled the building housing the headquarters of a top Palestinian human rights group on Monday, just days after the organization was sanctioned by the Trump administration for its participation in an International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Israeli officials. On Monday, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued a warning that Israeli forces would be…

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  • Israeli Arms Maker Reportedly Shuts Down UK Branch After Repeated Protests

    Major Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has reportedly shut down a U.K. facility after it was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action activists, in a major victory for the group that was recently banned by the U.K. government. The Guardian reported on Saturday that one of the company’s Bristol facilities, in Aztec West, appears abandoned, with no staff other than a security guard…

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  • Israeli Forces Bomb, Loot, Vandalize Our Homes in Gaza. We Long for Normal Life.

    Your home is not just a building. It is a space carefully crafted by your family — a place that witnessed your first steps, heard your whispers, and held your laughter and tears. It is the place where your childhood lives. Every room tells a tale. A nook holds old toys. There’s a window where the morning sun kissed your face, and the threshold you crossed thousands of times.

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  • Love is stronger than war: marriage among the rubble of Gaza

    In the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza, where the rubble of houses lies scattered like autumn leaves and it is difficult to distinguish the sound of human voices from the sound of explosions, the story of Muhammad Mushtaha began, a young man who experienced life and death in a single moment. Before Israel’s genocide, Muhammad Mushtaha was a sighted young man, full of life and dreams, walking through the narrow streets, laughing with his friends, planning a future he believed would be bright despite all the difficulties.

    Muhammad Mushtaha: resilience in the face of horror

    One day, Muhammad Mushtaha  went out in search of food and aid for his family, accompanied by his friend. They were walking down a street that had become a death zone since the start of the war. Suddenly, a strike fell from the sky, killing his friend before his eyes, while Muhammad fell to the ground. The blow struck his head and eyes, and the light went out of his heart and soul. He could no longer see anything, but the pain was worse than the darkness: the pain of losing his sight, the pain of losing his security, the pain of losing the world as he knew it.

    Amidst the rubble and smoke, Muhammad did not collapse. He crawled through the ruins, gathering all his remaining strength, until he reached Al-Shifa Hospital. There he received medical assistance, but he left the hospital without light in his eyes. Nevertheless, his heart did not succumb to despair. Every day was a challenge for him, a journey between death and life, between fear and hope.

    Muhammad Mushtaha was not content to simply endure hunger and darkness; he decided to continue living. To love, to choose joy. He got married while blind, in a small ceremony attended by family and a few friends, where his wife’s hand held his to tell him that life was not over yet. The wedding was a cry in the face of war, a message that love is stronger than bullets, and that joy can be born in the heart of rubble.

    A symbol of resistance

    Today, Muhammad is no longer just a young man who lost his sight, but a symbol of humanity and resilience. His story carries a message to anyone who thinks that war can destroy the spirit: light does not die, even if it is absent from the eye, and love is capable of illuminating the densest darkness. With every step Muhammad takes, with every laugh he shares, there is a victory over death, over despair, over everything that war wanted to steal from Gaza.

    This story is not only about the loss of sight, but about the ability of the spirit to rise above it all, about a man who can find beauty and life amid destruction, about the joy that is born despite all the sorrow. Muhammad Mushtaha teaches us that life is stronger than war, that hope can sprout from the rubble, and that love can bring light back to a heart even when his eyes are darkened.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Banksy’s latest piece has already been shut down – because it’s about Palestine

    The street artist Banksy has unveiled a new piece at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Looking at it, it’s clear he’s making a statement about the how the UK is increasingly using legal means to restrict the right to speak out. Fittingly, the powers-that-be immediately moved to hide his message from public view:

    Don’t look!

    Under Keir Starmer, Britain is increasingly keen to tell people what they shouldn’t do.

    Don’t protest.

    Don’t oppose the genocide.

    Don’t even call it a genocide.

    Don’t look at the Banksy.

    For the love of god, don’t look at the Banksy!

    Analysing the image above, it looks they initially duct-taped black plastic over the piece before erecting a mini-Berlin Wall in front of it. Clearly that wasn’t enough, as pedestrians might still be able to sense the raw, unfettered symbolism behind their fortifications. Covering all bases, they instructed two of their best men to stand guard and prevent anyone from sneaking a peak.

    As the day goes by, we imagine they’ll add to the defences. Perhaps they’ll construct a gun tower or arrange for an RAF flyover. Probably they should build a moat around ground zero or just vaporise it with an orbital laser. If they don’t, the risk is that someone will see Banksy’s piece and think ‘maybe we shouldn’t be criminalising people for speaking out against war crimes‘.

    That wall they erected is no doubt bringing back bad memories for Banksy who completed several pieces on Israel’s ‘Segregation Wall‘ in 2005.

    You shouldn’t think about Israel segregating the Palestinian people, though, because that might lead to more thoughts and feelings, and we can’t be having that.

    You especially shouldn’t think about what Amnesty international called “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity”. Don’t think about how Israel subjected the Palestinians to decades of such conditions before October 7th either, or what you’d do if you found yourself in similar circumstances.

    Missing the point on Banksy

    The picture of Banksy’s latest is taken from his Instagram. When I grabbed a copy for this piece, I made the mistake of looking at the comments, and was bemused that some have assumed the piece was about the wave of flag shagging that’s swept the nation:

    People in the comments missing the point thinking the protester being beaten in the image should be holding an England flag

    Obviously, it wouldn’t make sense if the guy was holding an England flag, because no is being criminalised for holding an England flag. If some meathead happens to have a St George’s cross wrapped around his neck while he commits a racially-aggravated assault, the issue isn’t the flag; the issue is the racially aggravated assault.

    And let’s get something else clear; up and down the country people have sprayed crosses and hung flags wherever they like, and the authorities have mostly just left them to it. Banksy made a statement about actual oppression, and before you could shake a gavel, it was wiped from existence.

    Thankfully, plenty of people did understand what they were looking at:

    Defend Our Juries, one of the groups behind the recent protests, also commented on Banksy’s latest:

    Clearly the days of the establishment treating Banksy like a national treasure are over. As he’s always spoke out against the establishment, that can only be a good thing

    Featured image via Banksy

    By Willem Moore

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Spain retaliates against Israel and accuses it of committing genocide in Gaza

    Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday 8 September that his country has decided to adopt a series of immediate measures to pressure Israel and stop what he described as “genocide in Gaza,” stressing that previous efforts have failed to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people.

    Spain: taking action against Israel

    In a televised speech from the government headquarters in Madrid, Sanchez explained that the government had approved nine new measures, including closing Spain’s ports to Israeli ships carrying military equipment and closing airspace to aircraft transporting weapons or ammunition to Israel.

    He also announced a ban on tankers supplying fuel to the Israeli army from docking in Spanish ports, as well as the preparation of a bill imposing an effective ban on arms exports to Tel Aviv.

    Sánchez said that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip do not fall within the scope of self-defense, but rather aim to “exterminate a defenseless people,” noting that the Israeli army is bombing hospitals and deliberately killing civilians through starvation.

    On the humanitarian front, Spain’s prime minister confirmed that his country would increase its support for the people of Gaza by allocating additional aid and increasing its contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) by €10 million.

    He stressed that these steps are part of clear efforts to stop the genocide in Gaza and prosecute its perpetrators, in addition to strengthening support for the Palestinian people, who have been facing a continuous war since October 2023.

    Since that date, Israel has been waging a widespread war on the Gaza Strip with US support, including bombing, killing, starvation, and forced displacement, ignoring international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice.

    According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, this war has resulted in the martyrdom of more than 64,000 Palestinians and the injury of 162,000 others, while 393 people, including 140 children, have died of starvation.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Mass Media Under-count Indigenous Deaths in US wars

    The eminent, truth-telling and humane Australian web medium Pearls & Irritations has published a responding Letter from me about total sanctions demanded against Apartheid Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza Genocide deaths: Gideon Polya, “MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars,” 5 September 2025.

    I have been researching and writing about Indigenous deaths in US Alliance wars for over 30 years since discovering the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which 6-7 million Indians in British-ruled Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Assam were deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons with food-denying Australian complicity. Indeed the 1942-1945 Bengal Famine was the first WW2 atrocity to have been described as a “holocaust”. Re the WW2 Bengali Holocaust and the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, my dear late wife Zareena née Lateef was Bengali and Bihari, and I am an anti-racist Jewish Hungarian-Australian.

    I have published my findings about Indigenous deaths in US Alliance wars in a thousand articles and 9 huge books, but for the last 20 years Zionist and other gate-keepers have censored me in Australia. The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth. The key messages from the WW2 Holocaust, the WW2 Bengali Holocaust, all other WW2 holocausts (the Polish, Sinti and Roma, Soviet, European, and Chinese Holocausts), and indeed from all genocide and holocaust atrocities, are “zero tolerance for lying”, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness” and “never again to anyone”. We must all bear witness and endlessly inform everyone we can – racist and lying MSM certainly won’t.

    My Letter:

    MSM under-count indigenous deaths in US wars

    This is an extremely important article by John Menadue demanding total trade sanctions against Israel because of hundreds of thousands of Gaza deaths. Dr Zeina Jamaluddine and colleagues estimated that 64,260 Gazans died violently by day 269 of the Gaza massacre (30 June 2024) (The Lancet) and hence 136,000 Gazans died violently by day 569 (25 April 2025) with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.

    That is 28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million, and 11 times the present mainstream media under-counted estimate of 62,000 deaths. Western mainstream media under-count indigenous deaths in US wars. Thus, in December 2011, the Australian ABC reported on Iraqi deaths: “The [US] withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4500 American soldiers dead.”

    I estimated 2.7 million Iraqi deaths and seven million Afghan deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation (Gideon Polya, US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide, 398 pages, 2020). The Brown University Costs of War Project: “At least 4.5 million people have died in the post-9/11 [US] war zones.” Iraq has five million orphans – go figure.

    Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne.

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  • You Don’t Have to Believe in Their Supremacy

    [Note: if you didn’t watch me and Nick Estes talking about the Book of Joshua on Red Nation, that discussion and the books therein – the Joshua Generation, Laying Down the Sword, and Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians – might be good to check out before or after reading this one.]

    This replaces the Geneva Convention

    Human progress is over. We’re in the Book of Joshua genocidal timeline

    The history of the next thousand years is being decided in our time. Will the species survive? Should it? We certainly won’t solve climate change if we can’t stop a genocide. We won’t be reviving nuclear non-proliferation with nuclear-armed states whose leaders quote genocidal passages of the bible and name their doctrines (“Samson Doctrine”, “Gideon’s Chariots”) after the book’s most violent plot points.

    The changes happening go way beyond shifts in the locations of borders. We are far past the question of which corrupt ruling party will animalistically feed at the trough.

    These are changes in religion, ideology, the basis of belief and how we decide what’s true and false.

    The old world was one of a hypocritical liberal facade.

    That world is gone.

    You thought that science and technology were governed by a progressive spirit of open inquiry? Actually they are governed by ruthless, racist Darwinism.

    This is science now

    You thought that education, law, journalism and medicine were governed by professional standards and ethics about truth? In fact they are governed by insider-group corruption in which lying is as easy as breathing.

    You thought that warfare was governed by the United Nations charter and UN resolutions with the force of law, with its doctrines on the responsibility of occupiers, the right of resistance? In reality, warfare is governed by the Torah and the Book of Joshua’s entreaty to wipe out the memory of Amalek – men, women, draft animals, and especially children.

    You thought that the treatment of prisoners was specified in the Geneva Convention? The truth is, it is specified in religious texts on the treatment of slaves and in Hollywood tropes about how funny sexual violence is when committed against “criminals”.

    He’s hiding nothing: he’s proud and he’s protected

    It is sadder and sadder to watch people of conscience raised in the old system continuing to appeal to international law, screaming into the void that US / Israel actions are illegal.

    They’re not illegal in the book that matters, my friends, and that book is the Book of Joshua, a book of massacre and genocide.

    The world is ruled by elites educated in the Bible + Race Science

    What you believe is what you were taught at an early age. That’s why, for all the neoliberal restructuring, for all the austerity of constant budget cutting and degradation of the student experience, education will never be completely privatized. Elites will never abandon the chance to propagandize students from an early age, even if they wouldn’t dare send their own kids to those schools. What they want (and what they have) is a situation where they control what kids are taught in public school and they control what their own kids are taught in private school. Their kids are to learn superiority. Yours are to learn their place.

    Israeli academics wrote a study, Scenes from School Life, (in Hebrew) in 2014 (reported in Ha’aretz) going into schools and writing what they saw. The title of the Ha’aretz article: “Israeli teenagers: racist and proud of it.” Given how fast one rises through the ranks in the Israeli military, the teenage subjects of that book are likely in the middle- and upper echelons of the genocidal Israeli establishment. They learned a doctrine of their own ethnic supremacy and they learned to hate others – leftists, Arabs, and especially Palestinians.

    Note the date: 2014

    In Beverly Hills, the schools are flying the Israeli flag. North American educational institutions have adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. Kids whose parents take them to church are taught that God will bless them if they bless (the state of) Israel and will pull the plug if they don’t.

    Outside of the West it’s much the same. Evangelical churches are everywhere in Latin America and Africa and their progenies march under the Israeli flag.

    What’s nationalistic about a Brazilian politician flying the Israeli flag?

    Muslim kids in Asia learn that there is an Ummah, a Muslim nation, of billions, but the educational network financed by Gulf monarchies teaches them that their true enemies are other Muslims.

    The White Empire is a disciplined empire. It presents a united front to defend genocidal Israel. Western countries are willing to sacrifice honor, dignity, even handy underwater pipelines and cheap energy, for the greater genocidal good. Meanwhile those it rules like animals of burden are not united, but easily turned – until their turn comes to be slaughtered – against the enemies it selects.

    The genociders’ only book is the bible, their only science is race science and their only language is total violence.

    Reject it all: the lies of their old world and the depravity of their new one

    The only possible starting point to defeat them is to reject every element of their world view and all of the objects they created to fool you.

    Appeals to international law or courts, the UN, diplomatic channels, humanitarian rules, the human spirit or the transformative power of truth are, at this point, stupidity.

    No matter how minimal, they will never grant your demands. No matter how sound, they will never be persuaded by your arguments. They rule. And they will never be overthrown by international law or nonviolence.

    The fight for the future is not against a liberal ideology that doesn’t live up to its idealism.

    It is a fight against an ideology – propagated in schools, church, the movies and TV – that combines the most genocidal books of the Bible with the most vicious genetic Darwinism. They believe they have every right to kill and enslave you. To bring about the future they want, they have to believe that.

    You don’t.

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  • Child used by Israel-US to deny claims of murdered boy is ‘son of ISIS-linked gang member’

    At the end of July, US special forces veteran Lt Col Anthony Aguilar, who had been working as a contractor for the US-Israel run so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), came forward as a whistleblower and said that he had left GHF after seeing fellow contractors and IDF soldiers murdering civilians – including a boy known as ‘Abboud’. GHF denied Aguilar’s allegations as “categorically false” and claimed he was a “disgruntled employee who was terminated for misconduct”, which he denied.

    Abundant video footage and reports from the United Nations and other humanitarian organisations have shown the almost-daily shooting of Palestinian civilians desperate for food at GHF ‘aid’ stations. Well over two thousand aid-seekers have been killed and more than fifteen thousand wounded.

    Aguilar’s allegations gained significant international traction, in particular his account of meeting a young boy named Amir at a GHF station. Aguilar recounted Amir’s abject gratitude at receiving some food after walking around eight miles from his shelter to the station:

    He puts out his hand, and so I beckoned him to come to me. I said, ‘Come here.’ And he reaches out and he holds my hand, and he kisses my hand and he says, ‘Shukran [Thank you].’

    Moments later, Aguilar said, GHF mercenaries and Israeli troops fired tear gas to break up the crowd of aid-seekers and Amir ran to leave the camp. But he didn’t get far:

    They’re shooting to control the population that’s along the Morag Corridor. And as they’re doing that, they’re shooting into this crowd… and Palestinians, civilians, human beings, are dropping to the ground, getting shot. And Amir was one of them. Amir walked 12km to get food, got nothing but scraps, thanked us for it and died.

    Stills of ‘Amir’ at the GHF station.

    The murder of Abboud: an Israeli-US cover up begins

    Aguilar’s account immediately went viral, apparently a major public relations nightmare for the GHF and Israel. Al Jazeera ran a feature on it, interviewing a woman they said was the mother of the boy – whose real name they said was Abdul Rahim, known as ‘Abboud’ – and her family, who were demanding answers and trying to find his body.

    Then, apparently eager to defuse the outrage, the GHF put out a video and photos that it claims show ‘Amir’ – they say his real name is Abdul Rahim, known as ‘Abboud’ – alive, well and happily standing with GHF operatives.

    Top image shows a group of people, including a child named Abdul Rahim (short name Abood) wearing a white T-shirt with text and graphics, standing outdoors with adults in tactical gear and casual clothing. Faces are blurred. Bottom image shows Abdul Rahim (short name Abood) indoors, smiling, making a peace sign, wearing the same white T-shirt with text and graphics.

    The GHF counter-claim was, of course, eagerly amplified by right-wing media and Israel’s army of apologists and propagandists. Israel immediately exploited the ‘revelation’ with a by now unsurprising claim that the “United Nations are misleading the world”.

    But investigations by a senior journalist in the region tell a very different story – and neither possible side of it means what Israel and its apologists claim.

    Untrue

    MENA Uncensored editor Leila Hatoum, based in Lebanon, believes that if the GHF claim that Amir is alive is true then it is part of a coordinated attempt by US and Israeli authorities to discredit reports of the mass murders at the ‘aid sites’. But she also reports that according to local sources in Gaza the boy in the GHF video is a different child and is in fact the son of an ‘Abu Shabab’ gang member.

    Abu Shabab is the ISIS-linked, Israel-funded criminal gang in Gaza that has been filmed and photographed carrying arms around Israeli troops – something that would see resistance fighters killed in seconds – and whose attacks on aid convoys and aid-seekers have been used by Israel to claim that Israel is allowing adequate food into Gaza despite its blockade, but that ‘Khamas’ is stealing it.

    Hatoum believes that the most likely explanation for the course of events is that the entire ‘Amir’ story was planted in order to discredit the journalists, aid agencies and United Nations who have exposed Israel’s crimes throughout the genocide – but that, if so, it has failed in its objective:

    This is the story of how intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Mossad, have planted false narratives to damage the credibility of those exposing war crimes—and, in the process, cast doubt on documented atrocities and war crimes that are widely known to the public…

    Aguilar was never a whistleblower. He revealed nothing that Palestinian survivors had not already been saying for months. While starving civilians in Gaza described GHF’s alleged role in distributing aid as a form of psychological and physical control, mainstream media largely ignored them.

    Even after our team revealed GHF’s links to the CIA and Mossad back in February 2025—and raised concerns about its role in replacing USAID and UNRWA in Gaza—major news outlets remained silent. GHF was established as a fake aid group, offering the illusion of humanitarian support while causing civilians’ death. In Gaza, where more than 400,000 civilians have entered Stage 5 hunger—irreversible famine, according to top international NGOs—any hint of food is a lure. Palestinians risk their lives daily for even the smallest aid deliveries. Eventually, those who launched Aguilar to limelight, retracted the support. After two months of promoting him, they pivoted to discredit his story, thinking they had created an irreversible damage of eroding trust in many credible reports about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.

    But they thought wrong!

    Even if Aguilar’s story was false—even if Amir never existed—thousands of real stories remain: mutilated children, murdered pregnant women, and elderly victims of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF)’s bombardment, sniping and air strikes that used US and European-made missiles, bullets and weapons. All confirmed with solid evidence, eyewitness accounts, and NGOs’ reports.

    The other possibility is that the ‘Amir’ account was true and that the GHF are parading a different child altogether, but is in reality the child of a member of a terrorist gang member funded by Israel who was chosen for his resemblance to a murdered boy. More recently, it has threatened International Criminal Court prosecutors in an attempt to thwart or reverse the court’s arrest warrants, after which it mounted a mass intimidation campaign against chief prosecutor Karim Khan and pro-Israel lawyers tried to persuade female colleagues to make sexual harassment allegations against him.

    The false flag around Abboud is hardly new

    Israel has a long history of ‘false flag’ operations and other forms of misdirection to discredit opponents, provoke allies into action, or to try to achieve political and strategic aims, from the ‘Lavon affair‘ of the 1950 in which it bombed Jewish buildings in Egypt and tried to blame it on Muslim groups, to its air attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 to try to provoke the US into attacking Egypt, to the 1994 bombings in London blamed on Palestinian activists.

    Neither possibility is the least out of character for the genocidal occupier or its US backers, “They lie and they lie and they lie and they lie and they lie”.

    And neither changes the authenticity of reports by the UN and humanitarian groups of mass murders at so-called aid stations, nor of the abundant footage of shootings with tank and machine-gun fire and the shattered and shredded bodies of victims, many of them children.

    Israel is a terror state.

    Featured image and additional images via the Canary

    By Skwawkbox

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • The Conquerors of Tomorrow

    The tragic inheritance of the Shoah is that the victims of violence are often its next perpetrators.

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  • To truly honour Hind Rajab, let’s stop Israel killing even more kids

    One of the most shocking moments of Israel’s genocide in Gaza so far was its murder of five-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024. And a new film capturing her horrific story has just won second prize at the Venice Film Festival, following an unprecedented 23-minute standing ovation at its premiere. This importantly keeps Hind’s fatal ordeal in the spotlight. But it means nothing unless the world stops Israel from killing even more children in Gaza. The spotlight must become action.

    Hind Rajab’s mother: “save the other children of Gaza”

    As the film’s success dominated headlines, Hind’s own mother was among the hundreds of thousands of people under brutal Israeli bombardment in Gaza City. She gave what she suspected could be a “last cry for help” amid this “living hell”, saying:

    I am begging every influential person, every celebrity, every connection to save me… Tanks have surrounded our neighborhood. We must leave, but we have nowhere to go… I want to live. I want to protect my family. Please save us.

    Kaouther Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind The Voice of Hind Rajab, said she had immediately reached out to Hind’s mother, Wissam Hamada, after hearing “excerpts from Rajab’s calls for help”. She also contacted rescue workers including the Palestine Red Crescent Society. She explained how: “I listened, I cried, I wrote”. Western celebrities, such as children’s content creator Ms. Rachel, have also spoken to Hamada. But that hasn’t changed her fate or that of the people around her.

    Hamada has said her daughter’s murder “is just one case among thousands”, adding:

    I hope this film will help stop this destructive war and save the other children of Gaza,

    Up to this point, she lamented:

    The whole world has left us to die, to go hungry, to live in fear and to be forcibly displaced without doing anything.

    Her voice is the voice of Gaza

    After receiving her award, Ben Hania stressed that:

    The voice of Hind is the voice of Gaza itself. A cry for rescue the entire world could hear, yet no one answered.

    She added:

    It is tragically the story of an entire people enduring genocide

    She also shared some words from Hamada, who insisted:

    there are many children still waiting for hope.

    Ben Hania pleaded with the world to finally step up and act:

    this story is not only about memory, it is about urgency. Hind’s mother, Wessam, and her little brother, Iyad, are still in Gaza. Their lives remain in danger, as do the lives of countless mothers, fathers and children who wake up every day under the same sky of fear, hunger, and bombardment. I urge the leaders of the world to save them.

    The film industry has long faced accusations of silencing Palestinian stories, punishing workers who speak out, or merely offering supportive lip service to the people suffering. But right now, the industry has a new opportunity to truly honour Hind’s memory. It can and must use its wealth, platforms, and influence to challenge governments – particularly in the US, where the government has very much been a co-participant in Israel’s genocide. Real solidarity means action. It means using any privilege you may have to resist.

    Hind’s voice – along with the silenced voices of many thousands of Palestinian children – doesn’t just ask us to remember. It demands action.

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    By Ed Sykes

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Gaza’s infrastructure is now crumbling before people’s very eyes

    In the Gaza Strip, access to the most basic daily services has become an elusive dream. Since the start of Israel’s genocide in October 2023, Gaza’s infrastructure has continued to collapse almost completely, leaving the population in direct confrontation with hunger, poverty, disease, and the constant fear of death. Schools, hospitals, and emergency centers have been reduced to rubble or rendered virtually unusable, and electricity, water, and sewage networks are either shut down or severely limited, making daily life a daily struggle for survival.

    Gaza’s deteriorating situation and crumbling infrastructure

    Hospitals, which are the last line of defense for the sick and wounded, suffer from acute shortages of medicines and medical supplies, and power cuts disrupt ventilators and vital emergency equipment. Mothers of sick children wander between medical centers, searching for a bed, medicine, or simply clean water, while their children remain vulnerable to preventable diseases. However, the occupation and ongoing bombardment make everything nearly impossible.

    Water and sanitation networks, which have been severely damaged, increase the risk of disease outbreaks, including cholera and intestinal infections, while millions of residents are forced to rely on contaminated water to meet their daily needs. Limited electricity makes it difficult to operate pumps, and even obtaining water for drinking or cooking has become a daily challenge.

    Destroyed neighborhoods and temporary camps housing displaced people offer only temporary shelter from the bombing, while lacking any health or educational facilities. Children and adults live in crowded tents, exposed to extreme cold or heat, while schools that could provide a safe haven have become targets for destruction or storage for displaced persons.

    The blockade Israel has imposed since March on the sector’s crossings has made the situation even more tragic. Humanitarian aid shipments, which are already too few, are stolen or looted, adding to the suffering of the population and leaving them deprived of food, water, and medicine, amid growing epidemics and malnutrition that threaten the lives of thousands of children, pregnant women, and the sick.

    Worsening

    With each passing day, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, as the lives of the population are fraught with death, hunger, poverty, and disease, while infrastructure remains destroyed, basic services are absent, and society is unable to resist these harsh conditions. Gaza today is not just a besieged territory, but an area of constant pain and deprivation, where survival has become the most brutal battle.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

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  • Global Sumud Flotilla Advances Towards Tunisia Under ‘Harassment’ Of Surveillance Drones

    The Global Sumud Flotilla is advancing towards Gaza and is already sailing towards Tunisia, divided into two large groups. Both expeditions will meet in Tunisia at the end of the week, when they will be joined by another twenty boats in what the organizers consider to be the “largest humanitarian mission in solidarity with Palestine.”

    Technical problems and bad weather have significantly delayed the flotilla’s schedule, which set sail on August 31 from Barcelona and has so far only been able to cover a handful of nautical miles. Harsh sea conditions forced several boats to be repaired, and after a particularly violent storm on Monday, September 1, the expedition was divided between the ports of Mahón (Menorca) and Barcelona.

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  • Gaza Aid Whistleblower Arrested For Interrupting Senate Hearing

    Two United States military veterans, including a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) whistleblower, were arrested for interrupting a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. They said “the U.S. government is complicit” in the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and were quickly removed by U.S. Capitol police.

    GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar stood up. “You have an obligation to the Constitution of the United States.” Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Josephine Guilbeau also spoke up. “Israel is ethnically cleansing Gaza. They’re building a concentration camp!”

    Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman James Risch declared, “Off to jail,” and when he hear Guilbeau, “Someone else is anxious to go to jail.”

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  • Israel’s educational genocide in Gaza, in numbers

    The education sector in Gaza is entering one of its darkest periods in history, after the Israel turned schools into rubble, libraries into ashes, and classrooms into silence devoid of students’ laughter. Hundreds of thousands of children have been deprived of their natural right to education, while teachers’ faces have disappeared under the rubble of a war that targets both the present and the future.

    The Canary reviewed the report issued by the Government Media Office, which paints a bleak picture of the current state of education in the sector, revealing the extent of the disaster left behind by the Israeli bombardment, which was not limited to the destruction of educational buildings, but extended to the assassination of students, teachers, and scholars, making this war a war on the future par excellence.

    Israel’s widespread destruction of schools and universities in Gaza

    The figures reveal the scale of the tragedy: around 95% of schools were damaged to varying degrees, while Israel has completely destroyed 163 schools, universities, and educational institutions. Another 388 institutions were partially destroyed, leaving a profound impact on the infrastructure of the education sector and making its reconstruction an urgent humanitarian priority that cannot be postponed.

    The aggression did not stop at stones, but also took young lives. More than 13,500 students have been killed since the outbreak of the war, in a scene that sums up the occupation’s direct targeting of Palestinian children. These children were not just numbers, but the energy of the future and the pillars of progress. Their absence has left a painful void in homes and schools and an unhealed wound in the conscience of society.

    Israel’s ongoing aggression has deprived more than 785,000 students of continuing their education for the third consecutive year. This is more than previously-released figures showed. The educational process was forcibly halted, and with it the dreams of thousands of children and young people whose futures are now threatened with ruin. Depriving an entire generation of a safe educational environment means deepening the tragedy and imposing a tragic reality on Gaza’s present and future.

    Educators and scientists have not been spared by the Israeli war machine. More than 830 teachers and educational staff who were carrying out their mission of education have been killed, along with more than 193 scientists, academics, and researchers. These are heavy losses that represent a systematic assassination of Palestinian talent and an attempt to paralyze the community’s capabilities and deprive it of its creative energies, which form the basis of any project for advancement and reconstruction.

    Educational genocide

    Israel’s educational genocide in Gaza cannot be summed up in numbers and statistics, but is embodied in scenes of empty classrooms, torn school bags under the rubble, and dreams buried under the stones. It is a compound crime that confiscates the future as it has confiscated the present, turning future generations into victims of a never-ending war.

    In the face of this tragic reality, saving education in Gaza remains an urgent humanitarian and moral duty that requires international intervention to rebuild what has been destroyed and guarantee children’s right to education. Education is not a luxury, but the foundation for the survival and continuity of society, and any neglect in supporting it means condemning future generations of Palestinians to a new catastrophe.

    By Alaa Shamali

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • The latest figures on the children Israel has killed in Gaza are shocking

    Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza is about to enter its third year, with children remaining the most prominent victims after more than 700 days. According to a report issued by the Government Media Office, which the Canary has seen, the figures reveal the extent of the direct and deliberate targeting of children by the Israeli occupation forces.

    Child victims in Gaza

    Since the outbreak of the aggression, 19,424 children have been killed, equivalent to 30% of the total number of martyrs, including 450 children who were born during the war and killed in it, in addition to 1,009 children who died before reaching their first birthday, in a scene that sums up the tragedy of Palestinian childhood.

    Hunger and deadly cold killing kids

    The causes of death were not limited to bombing, as 134 children died of starvation and malnutrition, while 14 children died of severe cold inside tents, in extremely harsh humanitarian conditions that were repeated throughout two years of war.

    Injuries and medical suffering

    A further 864 children suffered injuries that led to the amputation of limbs as a result of the raids, while 5,200 children are in need of urgent medical evacuation to save their lives, amid the complete collapse of the besieged health sector, which lacks even the most basic resources.

    Orphans and children at risk in Gaza

    The war has left 65,320 orphans, while 40,000 infants face starvation due to a lack of baby formula, and another 650,000 children are at risk of death from malnutrition, reflecting the scale of the humanitarian disaster threatening an entire generation.

    The children of Gaza are caught between death, hunger, and cold. The numbers of victims are not just statistics, but innocent faces and stolen dreams, as the international community is unable to stop these systematic violations.

    Featured image via the Canary

    By Alaa Shamali

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  • Far-right Israelis attack residents in West Bank – pepper spraying a 3-month-old baby

    About 30 armed, far-right colonial Israeli settlers raided the Southern West Bank village of Khallet al-Daba, in Masafer Yatta, on Thursday night, assaulting and injuring Palestinians with sticks, knives, and pepper spray – even attacking a three-month-old baby with it.

    Far-right Israelis on the rampage

    Residents reported that at least 13 Palestinians were wounded, including a three month old baby who was pepper sprayed, two elders, children and women:

    According to WAFA, the Palestinian news agency, residents of Khallet al-Daba again had their homes raided, and were injured by settlers earlier this week:

    Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, in October 2023, settler violence has become systematic in the West Bank. Attacks on Palestinians have reached an all time high, with more than 430 recorded attacks in August alone. The situation has been compounded by Trump’s lifting of sanctions on more than 30 Israeli settler groups and entities, imposed by the Biden administration, soon after he came into office.

    Settlers act with total impunity, and absolutely no accountability, and are protected by the occupation’s army and funded by the Israeli regime. Their actions aim to not only damage Palestinian land and homes, but also to harass, intimidate and terrorise Palestinians, forcing them off their land, so colonial settlements can be built there instead.

    All settlements and settlers are illegal under international law.

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    By Charlie Jaay

    This post was originally published on Canary.

  • Brooklyn Activists And Residents Are Banding Together Against Genocide

    Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago—in which case, they are absolutely aware.

    The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and hand out flyers reading: “MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, EASY AERIAL & CRYE PRECISION, LOCAL WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS IN OUR BACKYARDS.”

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  • Israeli Arms Maker Shuts Site After Sustained Anti-Genocide Protests

    Israeli arms producer Elbit Systems closed its site in Bristol, UK, after years of protests by Palestine Action, The Guardian reported on 6 September.

    The facility at the Aztec West business park appeared deserted when the daily visited this week, with only a security guard present outside.

    Elbit Systems UK, a subsidiary of Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, has leased the site since 2019 under a contract running until 2029. The company did not comment on the status of the facility.

    The site had been the focus of repeated protests, including one on 1 July, just days before the UK government banned Palestine Action under the 2000 Terrorism Act.

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