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Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.
IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE
There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"
Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?
Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!
And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.
Francesca Albanese is that someone.
She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."
Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.
And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.
Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.
There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.
There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."
There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”
Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.
She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".
Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.
What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.
These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.
Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.
We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."
Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.
So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.
A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.
Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.
Let us stand with her.
Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.
[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]
![yanisvaroufakis's tweet photo. IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE
There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"
Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?
Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!
And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.
Francesca Albanese is that someone.
She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."
Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.
And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.
Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.
There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.
There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."
There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”
Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.
She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".
Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.
What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.
These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.
Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.
We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."
Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.
So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.
A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.
Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.
Let us stand with her.
Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.
[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HHsnlr9WIAEr4Cw.jpg)
We, the Lebanese and Palestinian, are the only people in history watching our genocide live, and we could get arrested or suspended for saying stop kill us, because it might hurt the feelings of the killers.
El Open Arms después de acompañar al resto de la flotilla a aguas territoriales griegas, se dirige a toda máquina a buscar a los barcos que han quedado inutilizados e incomunicados en alta mar, se acerca un temporal y Israel lo sabe, por eso ha boicoteado barcos, inutilizando sus motores y sus sistemas de comunicación quedando a la deriva, esto no es seguridad, es poner vidas en peligro en aguas de responsabilidad europea.
BREAKING: The Israeli naval vessel that abducted the 180 Sumud Flotilla crews off the coast of Crete (an act of piracy and a gross violation of the Law of the Sea) is intend on victimising two of them: Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish citizen of Palestinian origin, and Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian citizen who has distinguished himself with repeated attempts to break the illegal, genocidal, Israeli blockage of Gaza.
Unlike the remaining abducted members of the Sumud Flotilla crew, which the Israeli navy disembarked in Crete, Saif and Thiago are detained and bound for an Israeli prison. This is a double violation of International Law: First, Israel abducted them illegally at sea. Second, Israel is now transporting them, violently, illegally, to one of its notorious prisons.
Meanwhile, the Greek government is cooperating fully in Israel’s criminal behaviour, effectively surrendering its search and rescue obligations and conniving with Israel to victimise the brave crews of the Sumud Flotilla who are steadfastly, through their activism, defending International Law as well as the verdict of the International Court of Justice which has clearly and unequivocally declared Israel’s continued naval blockade of Gaza and its occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal.
Through their complicity and their silence, the Greek government, the European Union, the mainstream media, the West more generally, are flouting, indeed they are trashing, their supposed, much publicised, ‘Western values’. Let us all demand:
· The immediate release of Saif and Thiago
· An end to Israel’s criminal behaviour in international waters
· The termination of Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade
· That the Greek government and the European Union cease and desist from lending logistical and moral support to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing campaigns in E. Jerusalem and the West Bank
Macarena Chahuan, chilena, periodista de la U. de Chile, está incomunicada desde que su barco de la Flotilla a Gaza fue interceptado por Israel en aguas internacionales @Minrel_Chile @joseantoniokast debe asegurar el retorno seguro de Macarena y la garantía de sus derechos!!
Emi Nacher de @CGTPViM está en la @gbsumudflotilla.
Anoche fueron abordados por los sionazis, hablan de varias decenas de detenidos.
Esta flotilla, al no ir gente tan famosa, no está saliendo en la TV.
Así que os pido que le deis difusión.
No nos olvidemos de quienes poner el cuerpo por los nadies.
One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.
Link to the petition: https://t.co/z5xEqMuxSr
El mundo no se detuvo ni reaccionó ante el apartheid en Palestina ni ante los crímenes en Irak en 2003 y años posteriores.
Ni ante las torturas en Irak y Afganistán. Ni ante el centro de secuestro de Guantánamo. Ni ante el genocidio en Gaza.
Ni ante la matanza de más de 100 niñas en Irán.
No hubo presión ni suspensión de alianzas ni los grandes aliados de Washington cumplieron las obligaciones que dicta el derecho internacional ante esos crímenes y su prevención.
Todavía hoy los representantes de la UE exigen a Irán y evitan señalar a EEUU e Israel.
Captains and sailors worldwide: we need you.
We’ve assembled the largest fleet dedicated to breaking the siege of Gaza. The boats are ready, sea drills are underway, safety checks are complete, and the crews are ready.
We’re just missing some captains to set sail.
If you can lead a vessel, join us now.
https://t.co/3IBqQPL5vE
🇨🇺 Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio:
“Yesterday we published that 96,000 Cubans are waiting for surgery as a result of lack of fuel and lack of energy, among them 11,000 children. So I would think that the American people would feel, why does our government treat the whole population of Cuba in this way?
And I hope that the people of the United States would understand that it’s not correct to treat another nation in the way the U.S. is doing it simply to try to achieve political goals.”
Watch this full exchange. Additional key excerpts highlighted in the replies: ⬇️
Aucun, je dis bien aucun des pays qui font la leçon aux palestiniens sur ce qu’ils doivent concéder au projet sioniste, n’aurait accepté 1 millième de ce que les palestiniens ont accepté.
Demandez à Jean Noël Barrot et Emmanuel Macron de donner + de 80% du territoire de la France à Israël, de dire aux français vivant sous blocus depuis des décennies de renoncer à l’idée même de résister, de laisser le reste des territoires être colonisés et être la cible d’attaques meurtrières quotidiennes, d’avoir 6 millions de réfugiés français qui ne peuvent même pas rentrer chez eux. Vous ne ferez jamais accepter aux Palestiniens ce que vous n’accepteriez jamais pour vous-mêmes.
Es un artículo de hace algunos días pero conviene leerlo. Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, de Médicos Sin Fronteras: “El alto el fuego ha servido para eliminar a Gaza de las prioridades y de las primeras páginas” https://t.co/t02FkISG99
Since the “ceasefire” took effect, Israeli forces have continued to bomb, shell and shoot throughout Gaza, killing 422 people and injuring 1,189 others.
On 4 and 5 January alone, Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians in the Khan Yunis area. These include a 15-year-old shot by a navy vessel while fishing, a man shot in an area under Israeli control beyond the “yellow line,” and a girl hit by a drone strike on the tent of a displaced family.
In this time, Israel also expanded its control beyond the boundaries of the “ceasefire” agreement, to at least 56% of the Strip. The “yellow line” meant to indicate the Israeli withdrawal line is still not clearly marked on the ground in some areas, and Israeli forces continue to kill and injure civilians on either side of it.
The military is continuing the demolition campaign east of the “yellow line,” with recent satellite imagery showing hundreds of structures razed there.
The UN Mine Action Service assessed that Gaza is littered with some 7,500 tons of unexploded ordnance, causing daily injuries to civilians scavenging or searching among ruins. Israel is still restricting the entry of equipment and the work needed to clear these munitions.
Winter storms, unexploded munitions, collapsing buildings and destroyed infrastructure have turned daily life into a struggle for survival, especially for children. Nearly 1.5 million people are still living in makeshift tents or damaged buildings that offer no protection from rain, wind and flooding.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 17 people died from buildings collapsing in December. Since winter began, three children have died from hypothermia, including a two-week-old infant .
In early January 2026, Israel barred 37 international humanitarian organizations providing medical services, food and shelter from entering Gaza. A coalition of 53 aid organizations operating in Gaza estimates that the banned groups supply over half of all food aid there, run or support 60% of temporary hospitals, and deliver most care for children with severe malnutrition.
Since the “ceasefire” took effect, food availability in Gaza has improved. Yet due to months of malnutrition, limited food variety and unaffordable prices, the latest IPC report predicts that over 100,000 babies and young children, and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women, will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition by mid-April 2026.
In 90 days since the “ceasefire” began, Israel has continued to kill and displace the population in Gaza, retaining total control over their lives. The international community is abandoning the population of Gaza under the façade of a “ceasefire.”
El genocidio no ha concluido. Simplemente la mayoría de medios occidentales ya no hablan de lo que ocurre en Gaza.
https://t.co/SEXyGuUPn9
Israel has issued a demolition notice for the Aida camp football pitch near Bethlehem, a vital space for some 500 children to train and play, and one of the few open spaces in this crowded refugee camp.
Kids found the notice at the gate in December, threatening the pitch’s removal. Voices including Ms Rachel, the high-profile children’s educator, are amplifying this crisis, urging athletes, including FIFA soccer players, and journalists to spotlight the demolition threat and stand with the Palestinian youth.
Local leaders and former Bethlehem officials say the land was legally leased and the pitch built with community support, Al Monitor reported.
🚨Israeli tanks bomb Gazan civilians live on camera despite Trump's announcement of a ceasefire!
🚨Breaking: The Gaza Sunbirds boat, part of the Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleens mission to Gaza has been violently intercepted by Israeli forces. Organizers say two boats appear to have been intercepted.
Videos by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (Instagram)
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