Geri Danton

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 6 Oct 2023 the Palestinian town of Huwara was attacked by Israeli settlers, and 19-year-old Labib Dumaidi, was killed while Israeli soldiers stood by. Troops then attacked his funeral with plastic bullets and live ammunition. Learn more: https://t.co/lYNZ7mpnjc

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

You should probably begin by looking at yourself in the mirror because you’re obviously incapable of objectivity here.

Israel has committed countless atrocities far greater than anything that happened on October 7th, both before and after that day.

Where the fuck is your sympathy for its victims? What right do you think you have to cry victim for the perpetrators of the greatest collection of crimes in the last 80 years?

What is truly beyond comprehension is the gargantuan black hole in your awareness of evil, because that evil serves your cause, while you sit atop a high horse built of your own delusions.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons and military detention camps over the three years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs.

That count covers only those whose identities have been confirmed. The fate of dozens more detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance.

The report documents an escalating system of arrest, torture, starvation and denial of medical care that has led to killings inside prisons and camps. It also found:

➤ More than 26,000 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem
➤ More than 800 women and 2,000 children arrested
➤ More than 3,100 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial, and 1,419 held as "unlawful combatants"
➤ Israel is holding the bodies of 100 Palestinians who died in custody

The groups also pointed to Israel's approval of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and to the growing use of "incitement" charges to arrest Palestinians over their speech, which they say has created a climate of fear and self-censorship.

With no independent oversight and the Red Cross still barred from visiting prisoners, the report says what is happening inside Israel's prisons "cannot be separated from the genocide."

🔗 Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documented his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin for Drop Site. Read our latest: "Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison" below.

https://t.co/Ee819FVUOR

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Jenin journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi, held for 22 months in administrative detention without charge, wrote for Drop Site about life inside Israel's Megiddo prison, where he lost nearly a third of his body weight:

“Megiddo prison consists of 10 sections. Each section contains 16 cells, with 10 prisoners held in each cell, in a space no larger than 20 square meters (around 215 square feet). At the end of each cell, there is a single bathroom shared by the 10 prisoners.

I was taken into one of the cells and thrown onto the floor. I spent the first night without a mattress or a blanket. A day later, I was given a thin mattress that reeked—it was probably more than 10 years old. This was how the ritual of abuse and torture began, with prisoners deprived of even their most basic rights.

There was hardly any food given to us. The morning meal consisted of no more than 50 grams of yogurt, a few small pieces of cucumber or tomato, and three slices of bread. Meals like this were distributed to all the prisoners. This was the first thing I was given to eat in the 48 hours since my arrest.

Lunch consisted of no more than 30 grams of rice and around 50 grams of legumes, such as chickpeas. The food was served cold. Dinner was just as meager: no more than one egg, 10 grams of hummus, and a few slices of bell pepper.

I weighed 89 kilograms when I was arrested and 59 kilograms when I was released—I lost nearly a third of my weight during my imprisonment.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation has both reduced the amount of food provided to prisoners and shut down the “cantina,” or “market,” inside each prison section where detainees used to be able to buy personal hygiene products as well as some food and canned goods they could take into the kitchen and prepare themselves.

Some prisoners would save their breakfast, lunch, and dinner and eat all three together as a single meal—just so they could feel full.

An adult male typically needs between 1,500 and 2,000 calories a day, but the three meals we were given amounted to no more than 5% of that. And that’s not to mention the poor quality of the food.
Personal hygiene items were also taken away or withheld from us, including toothbrushes, razors, and nail clippers, along with other basic personal cleaning supplies. My first shower was a full 15 days after my arrest, when I received my first 30-gram packet of shampoo. We would receive just one shampoo packet per week for bathing or any other use.

Deprivation of basic hygiene products led to some 95% of prisoners contracting scabies, a skin condition that spread because of poor hygiene, a severe shortage of cleaning supplies, and a lack of clothing. The shortage of clothes was so severe that prisoners were often forced to share.

Scabies is so pervasive and persists for so long in prison, that some prisoners have attempted suicide because of it. Symptoms include rashes that appear all over the body and on sensitive areas, accompanied by constant, distressing itching that prevents prisoners from sleeping or resting. Boils develop that discharge infected blood. Prisoners have also been martyred as a result of systematic medical neglect. One prisoner developed boils on his body near his heart—they burst, causing internal bleeding and infection inside his body.”

🔗 Read his full account linked below.

📸 1: Mujahed Al-Saadi reporting from Jenin on June 5, 2024.
2:Mujahed Al-Saadi with colleagues in Jenin on April 22, 2024. Photos courtesy of Mujahed Al-Saadi.
3: Mujahed Al-Saadi immediately after his release from prison on July 14, 2026.
4: Mujahed Al-Saadi in Jenin on September 30, 2026.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

While many Democrats are demanding that Biden officials complicit in the genocide of Gaza not be re-hired (if not fully prosecuted), Cory Booker is actively promoting the book of one:

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Genocidal @kajakallas does not even mention the three-year ongoing holocaust by the Zionist genocide regime, let alone ever call that EU-backed murderous entity "barbaric." European white supremacism is alive and well.

[ICBSG | اللجنة الدولية لكسر الحصار عن غزة @ICBSOFGAZA]

27574 days before the October 7th.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Yet another example of the disgraceful way the immigration system is being leveraged by "liberal democracies" as a tool for censorship & repression, particularly to support war.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Praying for those in Palestine who will inevitably face horror violence on October 7th. What we’re already seeing is horrible I can’t imagine it will be an easy day.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Did you know? In 1975 the United Nations general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination" (the resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks)

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Worried you might be getting Zionism wrong by thinking it’s racist? Listen to Israelis:

[Simon de Jever @de_jever]

People like Dale viscerally reject the proposition that Palestinians are people with human rights at all, regardless of the day on which the proposition is asserted. He is an irredeemably wicked bastard.

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

This is how the ruling elite protects its loyal, dim-witted servants: it appoints them to Ivey League positions.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

This story is insane.

The Palestinian Bedouin Israeli Yusef Alziadna is widely regarded as a hero in Israel after having saved 30 lives on Oct. 7.

Today, in recognition of his bravery, Israeli security forces arrived at his home with bulldozers & demolished the foundations of his family's home. They also demolished his storage shed & a chicken coop & damaged the area used by his brother’s flock of sheep.

It's not just his own property -- it's the whole neighborhood Israel wants to destroy. 65 demolition orders hang over the homes in the neighborhood. Just a week ago, his nephew got married; shortly before the wedding, he, too, had received a demolition order for his home. When the bulldozers arrived, it turned out that the newlywed had already demolished his own home to avoid a forced demolition.

There is 1 and only 1 reason Israel is trying to wipe Yusef's neighborhood off the map:

Yusef and his family have P-positive DNA. They are Palestinian Arab Bedouin, not Jewish. But Israel is a state for people with J-positive DNA. Jews. That means Israel will do whatever it can to push Yusef, his family and community off their land, because they have the wrong DNA.

Rahat itself was constructed decades ago to force Bedouins off their ancestral lands in the Naqb, into settled communities where they would have no access to land where they could tend to their flocks of goat, sheep, animals, etc.

Today, Yosef was scheduled to give an interview on Reshet Bet and recount once again how he saved... ...many on October 7th. He cancelled the interview. Instead of coming to the studio, he invites people to come to him and see what the bulldozers did in his neighborhood today. https://t.co/k2Pvfw4Gud

[Basel Adra @basel_adra]

URGENT: Since yesterday, Israeli settlers, backed by occupation forces, have been besieging a Palestinian family in Wadi al-Rakhim. Dozens are surrounding the home, trapping the family inside

This is a growing tactic used to pressure Palestinian families into leaving their homes

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nobody gives a fuck about October 7.

No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. Everyone understands.

After Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on the morning of October 7, there was an outpouring of love and sympathy for Israel from around the entire world. Every major landmark from the Eiffel Tower to the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building were illuminated blue and white in solidarity with the Israeli people. Grown men wept. Bono permanently ruined "Pride (In The Name of Love)" by changing the lyrics to "Early morning, October 7, as the sun is rising in the desert sky, Stars of David, they took your life, but they could not take your priiiiide."

Anyone who hadn't been following the Israel-Palestine issue very closely was on Israel's side that day. And then the bombs started dropping.

And dropping.

And dropping.

And dropping.

And as the bombs dropped, Israel's approval rating dropped with them.

There are only so many children you can see shredded to bits by Israeli military explosives before you start suspecting that there's something terribly wrong with the Zionist project.

There are only so many pictures and videos you can see posted by IDF troops dressed in the underwear of dead and displaced Palestinian women before you start wondering if there's something terribly wrong with the culture of the Israeli military.

There are only so many Israeli polls you can see published showing overwhelming support for the Gaza onslaught before you start believing there is something terribly wrong with Israeli society itself.

There are only so many mainstream humanitarian institutions who can determine that Israel is guilty of genocide before you start recognizing exactly what it is that you are looking at.

There are only so many bombed-out hospitals, so many miles of completely flattened neighborhoods, so many grizzly accounts of Palestinian prisoners being savagely raped and tortured by Israeli soldiers you can see before all the excuses, justifications and spin stop working on you.

And once the hasbara stops working, it's just you and the unadorned reality of the situation, staring each other right in the eyes.

The propagandists and spinmeisters have been falling all over themselves trying to frame the world's plummeting support for Israel as an epidemic of "antisemitism", but that's not working anymore either. Everyone knows it's a lie. Nobody's buying it. It just feels like they're insulting your intelligence.

The Gaza holocaust was the single worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Day after day, month after month, year after bloody year staring right down the barrel of that waking nightmare changed me forever, and there is nothing in me that will ever forget the horrors I witnessed. And the world is full of people who had the exact same experience I had.

Support for Israel is never coming back. When the lights flicker on and you see that the room you've been standing in is full of scorpions, you're not going to forget what you saw when the lights go out again.

All of the events which occurred after October 7 showed the world what life was like for Palestinians before October 7. Israel threw a stone into the air and spent three years crying after the stone came down on its head.

The hasbarists have been flailing all over the place trying to erase everything that happened before October 7 and to justify everything that has happened since, but their words are just words now. They have no power anymore. And now it's just a matter of time before the world turns against Israel to right the wrongs of the past and set everything back the way it ought to be. From the river to the sea.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No One Gives A Fuck About October 7

https://t.co/ckdCzAuV06

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Yes! Because the real victims here are not the Palestinian children trapped under rubble but members of the UK political/media aristocracy who've got hurt feelings.
Yeah that'll be it.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

Some Green Party leaders oppose the Zionism is racism motion because it “undermines Jewish self-determination.” But Zionism requires the destruction of another people’s self-determination. Those people are the Palestinians.