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[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

One of the jurors in the previous Palestine Action trial speaks out about the travesty of justice we've all just witnessed.

Hopefully more will do the same when they realise the judges intention to make a terrorism link was deliberately hidden from them.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Calling every Palestinian in Gaza “Hamas” has normalized every killing, rape, torture and act of destruction. Forgive us, Marwa, Motaz, Montaser,& the dozens of thousands already lost -along with the millions still trapped in this genocide- for being so late, slow, and complicit.

[baenke-saenger @ChProtto]

@RashadAlhindi windelweiche Sprache

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el este de Camerún, asi se ven las minas de oro, con madres con sus bebés en brazos y niños de menos de 5 años recolectando el mineral en aguas contaminadas, para llenar los bolsillos a los capitalistas.

Esto es el capitalismo, pero como no ves su cadena de producción esclavista en los paises donde los buitres capitalistas saquean los recursos, parece que este otro mundo no existe.

Ya lo decía Lenin hace más de
100 años: "El capitalismo convierte incluso a los niños en mercancía; millones de niños en países colonizados africanos mueren de hambre y trabajan como esclavos para que las damas burguesas de París Ileven seda, oro y diamantes".

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

She is lying. Brazenly. Israel has forced over a million people (a million!) from their homes, razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, told Christian villagers to not let Shia villagers stay in their villages, and killed multiple first-responders in double tap strikes.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

If you watch anything today, watch this Palestinian man's testimony about what's happening in Israeli prisons.

UPDATE
They released him over a year ago and we heard he had been
abducted AGAIN because he spoke out about Ben Gvir putting him in a black plastic bag and dancing on his body.
We don't even know if he's still alive.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

“Bloody Gina used to come out of torture sessions feeling energized”

He’s talking about Gina Haspel-Former Director of the CIA

Whoahhh murica!!!

[baenke-saenger @ChProtto]

@Jonathan_K_Cook @PBahners
@faznet
@FAZ_Politik

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[baenke-saenger @ChProtto]

@TheCradleMedia https://t.co/D46yj4jhFl

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

Die Financial Times behauptet, Kaja Kallas wäre als EU-Außenbeauftragte so d̶u̶m̶m̶ grottenschlecht gewesen, dass Deutschland, Frankreich & paar andere überlegten, zusammen mit ihr gleich das ganze (erst 2009 geschaffene) EU-Außenamt abzuschaffen.

Wie fast jeder in Brüssel weiß, ist das natürlich falsch. Denn es ist nicht der Plan irgendwelcher EU-Mitgliedsstaaten, sondern der vonderLeyens. Nachdem sie Kompetenz & Widerspruch in ihrer Kommission gründlich ausgerottet hat, ist die piefige Deutsche mit dem nervtötenden Hang zum Autoritarismus im siebten Jahr der Amtsausübung nun v̴ö̴l̴l̴i̴g̴ ̴v̴e̴r̴r̴ü̴c̴k̴t̴ ein wenig übermütig geworden:
Sie will den EU-Ratspräsidenten abschaffen, weil sie es selber machen will.
Sie will die EU-Außenbeauftragte abschaffen, weil sie es selber machen will.
Und eigentlich will sie auch das EU-Parlament abschaffen, weil… Sie wissen schon.

DU SOLLST KEINE PRÄSIDENTIN HABEN NEBEN MIR!
… soll der offizialisierte Wahlspruch & das erste Gebot im demokratisch-europäischen Neofeudalismus sein.

VonderLeyen sieht sich tatsächlich als eine Art Queen: Sie hat sich vorgenommen, lustige Hüte aufzusetzen und im Amt zu sterben.

Und es mag ja sein, dass Deutschland und Frankreich das unterstützen. Aber damit unterstützen sie nicht die Kritik an der falschen Ausrichtung, Ineffizienz oder Dummheit irgendeiner Institution oder estnischen EU-Beamtin, sondern die weitere Entmündigung der EU-Bürger, die weitere Zentralisierung von Entscheidungsgewalt in einer demokratisch nicht (hinreichend) legitimierbaren EU-Struktur und vonderLeyens absolutistischen Würgegriff nach der (total totalitären) Macht.

Allein, dass sie offen ein derartiges Ansinnen verfolgen kann, ohne hochkant aus dem Amt zu fliegen, zeigt, was für ein kranker Alp aus dem Fiebertraum einer „europäischen Demokratie“ geworden ist.

Und lassen Sie sich Folgendes von einem sagen, der alles gesehen hat & es daher wissen muss:

„Seien Sie vorsichtig. Wenn eine Demokratie krank ist, kommt der Faschismus an ihr Bett, aber nicht, um sich nach ihrem Befinden zu erkundigen.“
(Albert Camus)

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel has killed more Palestinians since agreeing to a “ceasefire” than Israeli civilians who were killed on 10/7

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel operates the most well-documented network of rape dungeons on earth.

@AliAbunimah: "I want to contrast that with what the same UN Secretary General's report says about the sexual violence against Palestinians. The headline finding from his report to the security council is that the UN actually verified conflict related sexual violence including rape and torture by Israeli forces against 31 Palestinians from Gaza in the West Bank.

The victims were 14 men, 7 women, 9 boys and 1 girl. The crimes that the UN verified included and this is going to be very graphic. I warn people in advance:

Rape, rape with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, forced nudity, threats of rape, unwanted touching of breasts and genitals, genital violence, targeted shooting of the genitals, and strip and cavity searches without apparent justification.

Rape and gang rape, sometimes repeated, were verified against 9 victims, most of them from Gaza. The perpetrators identified by the UN include the Israeli army, the Israel prison service, its Keter special forces, and Yamam, the police counter terrorism unit.

These abuses took place mainly during detention and interrogation at prisons and detention sites including Etzion, Megiddo, Offer, Ramla, Hasharon, and the Gushkon police station.

The victims included journalists and human rights defenders. Some of the violations were filmed or photographed, including one rape. Men and boys were subjected to rape, attempted rape, and genital violence.

5 male victims suffered severe rectal bleeding or swelling for days or weeks, in some cases without medical treatment.

So this is what the UN's report says about the 31 cases and it stresses that these are 31 cases that it verified but that there are many many more cases, where there are strong allegations that it could not yet verify, and that is, again, largely due to obstruction by Israel because Israel refuses to allow uh UN access to its detention centers or to allow investigators into Gaza where many of those detainees were released back after lengthy detention.

And again, this is entirely consistent with other independent reporting which is all based on firsthand accounts and medical evidence such as the @EuroMedHR report I mentioned which contains utterly horrific firsthand accounts. We've written about that as well. And you find nothing analogous on the Israeli side.

Absolutely nothing analogous. you find these vague uh uh accusations, these very uh sweeping general statements, but no really specific well documented cases.

@briebriejoy: "I think that it is so important that you did what you just did...."

[baenke-saenger @ChProtto]

@Acyn Do Americans really need test results to be able to judge a desastrous foreign (and demestic) policy?

[Fabian Goldmann @goldi]

Das Baby ist nicht einfach irgendwie gestorben. Ein israelischer Soldat hat ihm in den Kopf geschossen. @ntvde

[Pat Yale @patyale]

We all watched Dr Hussam Abu Safiya standing up for his patients until the very last moment in a Gaza hospital. His name shld be on everyone's lips. The world shld be fighting for his freedom. https://t.co/SvQzRcAnC2

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Imagine your girl being this frightened. Go on. Imagine it.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

Gaza Changed the World. German Academia Stayed Silent – latest guest essay on my Substack (link below)

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Why Anthony Bourdain wanted to ‘beat Henry Kissinger to death; a list of the crimes of one of the US’ most notorious war criminals:

-Oversaw the US’ carpet bombing of Cambodia, which killed between 150,000-500,000 civilians, approving each of the 3875 bombing raids between 1969-70

-Gave the green light for Pakistan to launch its brutal killings in Bangladesh, which led to 3 million deaths

-Approved Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ against left-wing Argentinians, which killed around 30,000 people

-Oversaw many of the years of the US bombing of Laos, in which the United States dropped 260 million bombs on the country, which killed an estimated 200,000

-Oversaw the Nixon years of the US’ imperial was on Vietnam, the final death toll of the war was 2.5-3 million Vietnamese deaths

-Helped organise Augusto Pinochet’s fascist coup in Chile, thousands killed in the formative years of Pinochet’s regime

-Gave the green light for Indonesia to invade East Timor, resulting in a brutal occupation that would last 24 years. Hundreds of thousands died

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Pressure works.

[Jules El-Khatib @ju_khatib]

Der Europäische Presspreis geht in diesem Jahr an eine investigative Recherche der niederländischen Zeitung De Volkskrant. Unter dem Titel „Was die Wunden erzählen" dokumentieren die Journalisten Maud Effting und Willem Feenstra 114 Fälle: Kinder in Gaza, allesamt unter 15 Jahren, getroffen von einer israelischen Kugel in den Kopf oder in die Brust. Die meisten starben, die wenigen Überlebenden sind nun schwer behindert.