Police forcibly detained Global Sumud Flotilla members and their supporters at Bilbao Airport after the activists returned from Israeli detention.
Videos showed officers from the Basque regional police force beating and dragging people. Four people were reportedly detained.
Israel’s abduction of flotilla activists Thiago & Saif near Greece sets a chilling precedent: that it can seize anyone, anywhere, and hold them hostage indefinitely. What other norms will be obliterated to protect genocide?
ALARM!
How on earth is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe? Besides what you can think of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal leaders, this should send shock waves across Europe.
Apartheid without borders.
One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it.
Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe.
Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them.
And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced.
We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity.
And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice!
In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!
After I confronted @helenzille, one thing is very clear: South Africans can see the truth even when politicians refuse to. The DA should support South Africa’s ICJ case, stop coal to Israel, back boycott and sanction, and stop pretending genocide is too complicated to name.
US Marines train City of Cape Town Metro Police
I have no doubt that this is unlawful.
International relations including security agreements with other countries are national competencies.
JP Smith and Mayor @geordinhl must explain why the army led by Donald Trump, a criminally convicted president and Pete Hegseth, a White Christian Nationalist whose Bible is Kill Bill has been deployed by the @Our_DA@CityofCT to train our people.
Who decided to let the US Marines come and train JP Smith’s militia?
Who paid for the soldiers of a government that is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity to come to work in Cape Town?
If the City paid then how were the services procured and has the Service Level Agreement been published online as mandated by the MFMA?
What visas did the US soldiers use? Which arms were used in training?
Did the US soldiers enter our country armed?
Was the SANDF informed of this?
Publish all records between Smith, the City, MAYCO and the US Department of War. Now.
DG @Zwandid Minister @RonaldLamola@PresidencyZA President @CyrilRamaphosa@SGovza@brettherron@SongezoZibi@RediTlhabi@pierredevos
So this video of me has been trending... people have offered by land, klipdrift, even EFF membership... but all I want is the Madam to acknowledge there is a genocide and retire...
Absolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. The US and Israel have deliberately bombed over 30 universities across Iran, assassinating professors in their homes and massacring over 60 students. Washington is systematically trying to destroy Iranian scientific progress.
Spain condemns the death penalty for Palestinians passed by the Israeli parliament. This is an asymmetrical measure, as it would not apply to Israelis who committed the same crimes.
This is not justice. It is a further step towards apartheid.
The world cannot remain silent.