New York City Council Member Chi Osse calls for ICE to be abolished and Nuremberg trials at a Union Square protest after a man named Alex Pretti was shot and killed earlier today in Minnesota by federal agents.
Fadi and Juma Abuassi were murdered today by Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza. Their father, previously injured by the same army that killed his sons, is disabled and in a wheelchair.
The Israeli military claims the two boys got too close to their invisible “yellow line”.
NEW: David Adler, a Jewish American on the Global Sumud Flotilla, details Israeli detention.
At one point, he says, he was dragged to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Israeli minister Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.https://t.co/9sxUJvYDyF
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announces sweeping measures after two Colombian citizens were detained by Israel while sailing on the Global Sumud Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza:
– Expulsion of the entire Israeli diplomatic delegation
– Termination of Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel
– Replacement of US-supplied weapons with national equipment
– Legal action in international and Israeli courts
Petro warned that Israel’s actions amount to “a new international crime” by Netanyahu, calling on global lawyers to support Colombia’s case.
This is what western states call the only democracy of the Middle East. Torturers through and through.
Cut ties with Israel now.
Break the blockade NOW.
End genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid.
Solidarity with the brave comrades on the Global Sumud Flotilla, which now faces immanent aggression from Zionist forces. We must all take inspiration from their commitment to the Palestinian people and their national struggle against genocide and colonial dispossession
Bernie Sanders has declared that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, becoming the first US senator to use the term.
“Over the last two years, Israel has not simply defended itself against Hamas,” Sanders wrote in an op-ed on his website on Wednesday. “Instead, it has waged an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people."
“Many legal experts have now concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”
Sanders has historically refused to use the word genocide when describing Israel’s actions in Gaza. In an interview with Novara Media in 2024, he refused three times to use the term, even saying he felt “nervous” about boycotts of Israel.
Sanders is not the only politician to change position recently: mayor of London Sadiq Khan made a similar announcement later the same day. Countries including the UK, France and Canada are also set to recognise Palestinian statehood at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York.
“The very term genocide is a reminder of what can happen if we fail,” Sanders wrote. “That word emerged from the Holocaust - the murder of six million Jews - one of the darkest chapters in human history.
“Make no mistake. If there is no accountability for Netanyahu and his fellow war criminals, other demagogues will do the same. History demands that the world act with one voice to say: enough is enough. No more genocide.”
Just like Israel, which came to this conclusion over a decade ago, the American right has determined its ideas are not worth, or capable of, being defended from criticism and instead the only response is to silence, intimidate or criminalize their critics all together.
Trump & Co understand that liberal institutions, long divorced from Labor or any of their radical elements, don’t have the language of solidarity. As they’re increasingly run by PR flacks, resume polishers and lawyers they are totally atomized and thus easy to pick off one by one
NPR just reported that white supremacists “took over” a Charlie Kirk memorial in Huntington Beach, which is kind of like saying stoners “took over” a Phish concert
🚨 Cops were caught on camera beating anti-ICE protesters on the Ohio–Kentucky state line bridge; then dragging them off in zip-ties like it was open season on dissent.
They didn’t de-escalate. They cracked down. And they made sure the cameras saw it.
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85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.
I cannot understand how there are people watching this horrific violence for two years who aren’t doing everything in their power to stop it. End the genocide now