Jon Aston

World citizen. #Landback. Anti-capitalist organizer/integrator. He/Him/Comrade. Should I disappear, look here: #SearchTheLandfill

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis have murdered another two more Palestinian people during their deadly air strikes targeting civilians in Jenin refugee camp, Palestine https://t.co/ox9vyFedar

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

And this is how the people of #Cuba commemorates the birth of the most universal and anti-imperialist heroes of our nation, #JoseMartí.

[Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate]

🚨 Mikael Rochman is a student at @Columbia

Students, be aware of who is on your campus:

[Morningstar 🇵🇸 🔻 @MissRinaIdrus]

Palestinian artist: Salem Assi

[John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) @Harryslaststand]

This has become a small 🆘It's a struggle to make Feb's rent which was increased & 3 days away. Your help in part keeps me housed & Harry Leslie Smith's Green & Pleasant Land ready for publisher next month-45k word excerpts on my substack
https://t.co/pKPBvtpnN1

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

Zionists should not be welcomed nor feel welcomed anywhere.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

KEEP YOUR EYES ON JENIN! 💔

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

Footage from Jenin shows occupation army soldiers using civilians' homes to fool around. Such actions, including the unauthorized occupation of civilian homes, are illegal under international law.
Source: albaladmedia (IG)

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Jon Stewart, on his show for liberal boomers, claimed that the only reason Chinese AI Deepseek kicks American AI’s ass is because the Chinese “have no labor laws or rights for that matter”

In China they have PAID maternity leave and they get free healthcare. Meanwhile in America we have none of those things

Why are liberals so stupid?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Uhh pretty sure the Israeli contractor was shot exactly BECAUSE he was unarmed and dressed in civilian clothing, guys.

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

14 hours in the dark, cold and waiting in long lines.. to reach the checkpoint before going back to the NORTH!

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Spot on.

[Niki Ashton @nikiashton]

After WWII Canada shamefully provided safety to thousands of Nazi soldiers, SS, and collaborators involved in the holocaust.

To this day Canada refuses to release the Deschenes report.

That is unacceptable.

Reconciliation requires justice.

[Jessa 🎙️🔻 @Jessa_McLean]

I repeat.

The Ontario NDP couldn’t find ANYONE from Hamilton to run in that riding.

Hamilton. The NDP.

Let that sink in…

[Jon Aston @JonAston]

@parismarx @wtfis2bdone This is a brilliant thread:

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

[Jon Aston @JonAston]

@VWLegal @wtfis2bdone Lol. What a maroon.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[🇵🇸 Rafeef Garbi #FreePalestine @RafeefGarbi]

Being a doctor is not a crime! #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #FreeThemAll