This is my home. This is what our street turned into. I literally have no place to call home now. Most Gazans have no home now. But this isn't that important, it's more important for mainstream media to ask us about our opinion on the lies and rumours israelis are sharing.
You can bicker as much as you like about specific words, but in the end any material change (not just feel-good slogans) delivered by politicians will be due to those demanding and organizing for it, not those demanding that those organizing for it shut up. There’s never a downside to demanding more from politicians, especially when they and/or their supporters want you to be grateful and quiet.
Your definition of Zionism does not matter. Nor does mine. Zionism is defined by its material manifestations. The purpose of a system is what it does. And the Zionist system does racism and genocide. Simple. Please spare me the arrogant insufferable graaating Oxbridge debates. Your opinions are irrelevant. People are dying.
This is a non-answer. Mamdani cannot arrest Netanyahu (The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, foreign affairs are a federal matter, etc.) Moreover, as a sitting prime minister, Netanyahu has a strong claim to immunity ratione personae before U.S. courts.
If Mamdani wants to take tangible action within the bounds of his office, he could easily urge Attorney General and other relevant authorities to go after New York-registered tax-exempt organizations that funnel tens of millions of US dollars into Israeli settler expansion and violence every year (not niche, irrelevant orgs like Betar that are discredited by even the ADL, but consequential organizations like the Smotrich-founded Regavim, or the Israel Land Fund). Why won't he do that?
Our analysis of Andy Burnham's statement:
Burnham didn't use the term genocide and instead said it was a matter for the "international courts... rather than politicians" to establish accountability. This is the same as the Starmer government and is in defiance of most of the world's human rights organisations who are referring to Israel's "genocide".
He said war crimes only "appear" to have been committed despite documentation by human rights groups and the UN, and the reason for the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu.
He said the UK should be "looking" at "further sanctions... on those involved in the violence in Gaza" but did not make the obvious call for sanctions on Netanyahu who is wanted by the ICC.
Burnham said the UK should only be "looking" at a ban on trade in goods with Israel's illegal settlements (which is now the Starmer government's position), instead of explicitly calling for this now.
He did not call to end all arms exports to Israel, nor for an end to UK military cooperation such as withdrawing the 2020 military accord or ending all military training programmes.
We note his specific words. His statement was that (a) "many people feel" (only) that (b) at the "start" (only) of (c) "Israel's military action in Gaza" (not genocide) the Labour government "didn't get it right", but only apparently because Labour "was too slow to call for a ceasefire" (Yet the issue is not only that, it is that Labour has been supporting Israel through military, intelligence, trade and diplomatic support during the genocide).
If you were to attend one funeral per day, for every child killed in Gaza, it would take over 52 years.
Andy Burnham believes Israel “MAY” have committed war crimes.
A new Palestinian Feminist Collective report concludes that sexualized violence, including rape and sexual enslavement, has been used by Zionist militias and later the Israeli state as a deliberate tool of displacement, domination, torture, and control—from the Nakba to the present. The report demonstrates that the sexual humiliation, torture, rape, blackmail, and targeting of Palestinians since October 2023 are not aberrations but the continuation of a longstanding, institutionalized architecture of settler colonial violence.
What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It’s infuriating that we’re pretending that there’s a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel’s endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land.
Mr. @nmladenov,
I am Asem Alnabih, Gaza correspondent for @AlarabyTV. I have been trying hard to reach you but unfortunately haven’t succeeded.
I kindly request a statement or comment from you in your capacity as representative of the Peace Council regarding Netanyahu’s remarks, in which he said he had given orders to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip’s and further reduce the already very narrow area in which nearly two million people live.
Thank you!
after Ben Gvir assaulted that woman, he said, I'm told, "welcome to hell. the summer camp is over."
Now Gideon Sa'ar, Israel's Foreign Minister, is upset because it was televised. He's not worried about the harm done to European civilians, but harm to Israel's image.
You see? These people are parasitic demons. The lot of them.
This is what they do to westerners. Imagine what they're doing to Palestinians behind closed doors.
Ridiculous- Creating loopholes to bypass sanctions. The point of sanctions, including cultural, is to create conditions that lead Israelis to pressure their governments and leaders. God forbid the 10 anti-Zionist Israelis standing are slightly inconvenienced!
I still believe justice is coming. I look forward to the full exposure of how our loved ones were used as pawns in a political battle to justify the proscription of Palestine Action and defend Israel's odious weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
11/11
@MujammaHaraket@saeedziad هم الشيخ ياسين والدكتور الرنتيسي كانوا في قيادة المكتب السياسي؟ مش كان ابو مرزوق ومن بعده مشعل قيادة المكتب السياسي منذ نشأته وحتى بعد استشهاد الشيخ والرنتيسي؟
هذا سمير، نائب قائد كتيبة بيت حانون في سرايا القدس. تلك هي الرتبة الأخيرة التي بلغها قبل استشهاده بعد عشرين سنة من الجهاد. دخل السرايا فتىً، وخرج منها قائداً شهيداً. الحديث عن صفاته يطول؛ هدوء بسيط غير مريب، وسماحة صادقة، وتواضع لا يعرف التكلّف.
لكن ما شدّني في سمير أنه خرج من هذه الدنيا دون أن ينال منها شيئاً: لا مالاً، ولا زوجة، ولا أولاداً، ولا وظيفة، ولا راتباً. كان فهمي القاصر، وقلة بصيرتي، يعزوان ذلك إلى سوء الحظ والنصيب، وغفلت عن معنى الزهد.
قد تبدو عبارة أننا لا نكتشف حقيقة من حولنا إلا بعد رحيلهم كليشيه مستهلكة، ولعل ذلك هو تمام معنى الشهادة، أشخاص عاديون تماماً، يشبهوننا، لكنهم في لحظة من الصدق والإرادة يرتقون إلى مرتبة الشهادة، وهناك فقط يُزال عنهم غطاء الدنيا وزينتها، فنراهم على حقيقتهم شهداء علينا نحن الأحياء.
للجهاد في بلادنا هيبة، ولأمراء الفصا��ل والسرايا والقادة الميدانيين بريق وحضور. إلا سمير. اختار أن يكون خارج هذا كله. رفض راتب الجهاز، وعمل في مهن مختلفة إلى جانب عمله الجهادي الطويل، رغم أن من هم دونه نالوه. حتى سلاحه الشخصي، كان يُخفيه بلا تكلّف، خشية النظرة وما يتبعها من وساوس.
في هذه الحرب، ومنذ يومها الأول، مضى سمير إلى طريقه. صبر وصمد في الشمال، وقاتل في بيت حانون بداية، ثم كان حاضراً في الاجتياح الثاني لجباليا. تنقّل بين بيت لاهيا وجباليا وبيت حانون، يناور ويتحرك، فكان كما قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "رجل ممسك عنان فرسه في سبيل الله، يطير على متنه كلما سمع هيعة أو فزعة".
حتى لقي ربه م��بلاً، في أقصى نقطة من بيت حانون، في يناير 2025. كان فوق الأرض، في منزل تحصّن فيه مع مجموعة من الشبان، في نقطة يصعب تخيّل الوصول إليها، في ذروة حملة الجنرالات على شمال غزة.
لو أنتَ/أنتِ:
- بغزة.
- بين 18-25 أو بتحس حالك شاب.
- عندك وقت بسيط شهريا.
- حابب تشارك بنشاط شبابي دوري داخل غزة.
لطفا عبي هذا النموذج (يحتاج دقيقة فقط).
ولو بتعرف حد مهتم ابعتله الرابط مشكور.
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سماح، 35 عام، متزوجة وأم ل 3 أطفال، نازحة في خيمة، وتعاني من مرض أقعدها منذ أشهر ولا يستطيع الأطباء تشخيص المرض بدقة بسبب منع الاحتلال دخول أجهزة الرنين المغناطيسي إلى القطاع بعدما قام بتدمير كل الأجهزة أثناء حربه على غزة.