Chiara Capretti

[Ciro Pellegrino @ciropellegrino]

La Questura di #Roma dice che «un Paese terzo europeo» (non specifica quale, apprendiamo ora che è la GERMANIA) ha chiesto i controlli in Italia sull'eurodeputata (italiana!) Ilaria Salis.
E dice, cito testualmente:
«il Questore di Roma precisa che la predetta attività origina, quale atto dovuto, da una segnalazione proveniente da un paese europeo, che non consente margine di discrezionalità negli adempimenti richiesti alle autorità italiane».

Non consente margine di discrezionalità?

E in virtù di quale rischio/accusa/sospetto la polizia italiana bussa all'alba alla camera d'albergo della europarlamentare (chiedo: @SalisIlaria è seguita passo passo dalle forze dell'ordine?) e la tiene un'ora a far cosa?
Che doveva esibire?
L'Italia obbedisce pedissequamente alla richiesta di un Paese terzo?

[il manifesto @ilmanifesto]

Aiutare le associazioni che operano a Gaza è sempre reato. È l’assunto alla base dell’inchiesta di Genova sulla «rete italiana di Hamas». La fonte è l’intelligence israeliana: i palestinesi della Striscia sono «terroristi». Le procure italiane si adeguano, il movimento è avvisato

[Neighbors Not Profits @NNPNYC]

Airbnb is pouring $10 million into our local elections to try to turn critical housing supply into short-term rentals, but we won’t let that happen

[Freedom Flotilla Coalition @GazaFFlotilla]

ALERT! A drone has been detected flying over the #Madleen. Please continue to track this ship and this mission. Bring as many people's eyes onto the #Madleen as possible.

Track: https://t.co/la3BdUXrrf

Updates from Thiago on IG: https://t.co/bupomuFJUR

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Ehud Olmert, the former PM of Israel himself, now says that what Israel is doing in Gaza is a "criminal war of annihilation". And yet Western politicians and journalists cannot bring themselves to acknowledge this fact. It is absolutely wild.

[Matteo Pucciarelli @il_pucciarelli]

Ma colpire con un drone una nave con *aiuti umanitari* per Gaza, e farlo nelle acque vicino Malta - guardare la cartina geografica del Mediterraneo per osservare dov'è Malta e dov'è Israele -, che cos'è? Com'è definibile? Livelli di impunità che superano ogni limite

[Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo]

Musk è figlio di una donna che veniva da una famiglia di membri del partito nazista del Canada e pro-apartheid (come svelato da suo padre), e lui stesso grande ammiratore di fascisti di tutto il mondo. Quel gesto è inequivocabile.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Lessons from Syria: An imperialist’s enemy is not always an anti-imperialist’s friend

On 15th August 2021, when the Kabul US-puppet regime fell, I expressed relief that US imperialism was defeated and, simultaneously, horror at what the women of Afghanistan were about to suffer in the hands of the jihadist Taliban.

Immediately, the US liberal-imperialist lobby attacked me for… celebrating the Taliban victory. You see, for imperialism’s stooges, if you do not support US imperialism you must be a supporter of jihadists who opposed US imperialism. The imperialist mindset refuses to see the obvious: we had a duty to oppose, with equal fervour, both US imperialism and the jihadists that US imperialism strengthened through its brutality. They could not see that a US imperialist invasion only strengthened the jihadists who wanted to place the women of Afghanistan under gender apartheid.

Last Sunday, Assad’s regime collapsed and the jihadists stormed Damascus. Again, I expressed relief that a tyrannical regime had fallen, adding: “Syrians have suffered enough. The task now is to ensure they do not suffer more, as the Iraqis and the Libyans did after the fall of their dictators. To that end, foreign powers, Western and non-Western, must also be kept at bay.”

Immediately, I was (as in the case of the fall of Kabul) attacked for celebrating the… jihadist victory – this time by opponents of US-imperialism. For them, if you did not support Assad you must have been a supporter of the jihadists who opposed Assad, and their US-Israeli cheerleaders. Same logic as that of US imperialism’s cheerleaders: “If you are not with us you are against us”. My anti-imperialist detractors could not see that the Assad regime, because of its tyrannical ways, only strengthened the jihadists who overthrew Assad.

So, here is my message to anti-imperialists who think it a good idea to support tyrannical figures like Assad (or, before him, Saddam) because he is the enemy of our imperialist enemy: To fight imperialism and win in the long run, we must win the hearts and minds of people. And we cannot do this by supporting tyrants, whom the people loathe, just because they are enemies of our enemies.

But was Iraq not better off, some ask, before Saddam was overthrown by the US army? Of course it was. Was Libya not better off before the West took out Qaddafi? Of course it was. Is Syria not running the risk of becoming an even worse bloodbath after Assad’s fall, just as Iraq and Libya were? Of course it does. But, this is no reason to treat Saddam, Qaddafi or Assad as the ‘solution’, as the antidote to imperialism. Their tyrannical regimes alienate their own people and, in the end, crumble – thus proving incapable of resisting imperialism. That they may be, for a while, the enemy of the chief imperialist, the US, does not make them a friend of anti-imperialists.

In short, anti-imperialism will only succeed if anti-imperialists maintain some minimum ethical standards. That’s our greatest weapon, not AK47s or anti-aircraft missiles.

For if we stick to minimum ethical standards we can win over the masses worldwide who, in the end, appreciate a principled humanist stance. We can also expose more readily the duplicity of the Western media who, without blushing, went so rapidly from (a) justifying the two-decade-long occupation of Afghanistan as essential in the fight to prevent the jihadists from taking Kabul to (b) celebrating the take over of Damascus by the… jihadists!

Alas, if we don’t maintain minimum ethical standards, and instead support tyrants who are opposed to our enemies, our opposition to the enemy’s favourite tyrants will sound as hypocritical as the Western press. And that, believe me, would be the greatest gift to the Western press, to imperialism, to tyranny. For, at that point, it would be reduced simply to a contest between their “tyrants” and our “tyrants”.

To conclude, there is nothing confusing about condemning both Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush's criminal invasion of Iraq. Both Milosevic and NATO's bombing of Serb civilians. Both the Taliban and the US invasion of Afghanistan. Both Assad's regime and the US-backed jihadists that overthrew him. Not only is there no contradiction but it is the only right and effective way to be anti-imperialist. Not only is it not neutrality but it is the only right and effective way to take the side of the many, not the few.

Turning to what really matters today, what we now have after the fall of Assad is a Western press waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born without saying a word about the US and Israeli bombs falling from the sky all over the new Syria - or Israel’s encroachments into it.

Also, have you noticed that no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is a major victory for Netanyahu, his US minders and their EU genocide cheerleaders.

So, comrades, let us maintain minimum ethical standards in combating imperialism. And let’s keep talking Palestine!

[Irene Montero @IreneMontero]

Estos días, para las hormigas que además de odiadoras son machistas y también para quienes llaman linchamiento a la ruptura del silencio de las víctimas, en esta campaña os preguntábamos: si no eres tú, ni tu amigo, ni él, ni él… ¿entonces quién? 👇🏼

[Antonella Napoli @AntonellaNapoli]

Con questa analisi sulle elezioni in #RdCongo finiva nel dicembre del 2023 la mia collaborazione con #Repubblica. Senza annunci e clamori me ne andavo semplicemente perché la narrazione su #Gaza, imposta da #Molinari in quei primi due mesi di massacri, era per me inaccettabile.
Nonostante il legame pluridecennale con il giornale e l’intero gruppo, da quando non era ancora #Gedi, il tentativo di giustificare tanta violenza, quella complicità neanche tanto mascherata, i il silenzio sugli orrori e i crimini contro una popolazione inerme, mi hanno spinta all’unica scelta dignitosa: lasciare.
L’indifferenza e la correità nella propaganda israeliana
hanno trasformato la mia Repubblica, quella di Scalfari e di 600 mila lettori, nel megafono di #Netanyahu.
E non credo che la linea della testata cambierà. Resterà una mesta voce incapace di esprimere una condanna netta e chiara degli orrori di Gaza.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy describes the conditions in which 61-year-old Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar is being held by Israel. She is in total isolation. She has been accused of no crime since she was arrested a year ago.

'Her cell has no windows. There is no air, no fan, only a concrete bed and a thin mattress as well as a toilet that has no water most of the day. This week she told her lawyer that in order to breathe a bit, she lies down on the floor and tries to draw in a bit of air from the crack under the cell door. She doesn't drink much, in order to avoid having to use the toilet, which emits a horrific stench.'

More here: https://t.co/kKa8T073g2

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

While Kamala Harris waxes lyrical about her telling Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire is needed, he laughs orders intense bombardment of population centres in North & South Gaza. So much for the new Democratic nominee's resolved & powers of persuasion
https://t.co/r5y9BlayNT

[Giuliano Granato @Giul_Granato]

Il Ministro degli Esteri @Antonio_Tajani è megafono della propaganda di Netanyahu.

Sono queste complicità che permettono a Israele di proseguire nella pulizia etnica della Palestina.

Romperle è l'unico modo per fermare il genocidio.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Keep thinking of the doctors at Al Shifa who were executed after refusing to abandon their patients.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed @WCKitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity.
Sanctions now.
Indictements now.

[Karem from Haifa @RohanaKarem]

Molinari ha fatto un podcast, 3 editoriali, 4 articoli e 2 ospitate tv da quando gli è stato tolto il diritto di parola. Cosa non volevamo ascoltare perché ce lo ripete da 5 mesi? Che il genocidio del popolo palestinese è giusto.
Grazie direttore, abbiamo capito.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Visto il livello del dibattito sul tema del genocidio in Italia, mi preme ricordare che cosa costituisca genocidio è stabilito dalla Convenzione sul Genocidio e da tribunali internazionali come TPIY, TPIR, CPI, e CIG, non da emozioni, opinioni o dolorose esperienze personali.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Norway’s recent divestment from Israel Bonds is the latest piece of bad news for an Israeli economy that has nosedived during the war on Gaza — creating a huge opening for other divestment campaigns to hit Israel where it hurts and bring the war to an end. https://t.co/HN74UNS17g

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The horror that we, UN Independent Experts, have been investigating in the oPt these past months, is unspeakable. We ask for immediate ACCOUNTABILITY and effective PROTECTION.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Incredibile il direttore #RAI esprima solidarietà solo alle 1200 vittime israeliane del 7 ottobre e non anche alle successive 30mila vittime palestinesi sterminate dall’esercito israeliano a Gaza (70% donne e bambini). Una delle pagine più buie della storia della TV pubblica.