🎥 Professor Rashid Khalidi on the dangers of “purity politics” and why meaningful political change requires broad coalitions, strategic alliances, and building power beyond politics as “self-satisfaction.”
Khalidi says that if the goal is to stop arms sales, advance divestment, and shift policy, movements cannot remain trapped in a “tiny, ineffective minority.”
Source: Shu-Kaman (full interview below).
“As an Israeli you should pause before using the phrase ‘terror regime.’ Since you live in a country that murdered thousands of children in Gaza.
It’s a little hard to hear that from an Israeli right now, I have to say.”
— Tucker Carlson to Israel’s Channel 13.
F-Droid, the open-source Android app store, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat" to alternative app distribution. The EFF warns it creates a pathway to censorship. https://t.co/rnnJdCFWpM #KeepAndroidOpen
🚨 Flotilla Activist Reportedly Tortured Aboard Israeli Vessel Headed to Israel
The Global Sumud Flotilla says eyewitnesses confirmed that Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish-Swedish national of Palestinian origin, was tortured aboard an Israeli military vessel after Israeli forces illegally intercepted 22 flotilla boats in international waters roughly 80 miles west of Crete.
175 civilian participants were taken aboard the Israeli vessel Nahshon to Greece. All were eventually released except Abukeshek and Brazilian national Thiago Ávila. 36 activists required hospital treatment. Witnesses say they heard Abukeshek’s screams after he was separated from the group.
Greek authorities did not act on legal interventions to prevent the transfer, GSF said, and the Nahshon has now left Greek waters and is expected to arrive in Israel on May 2.
The flotilla is calling on Spain, Sweden, Brazil, and Italy, under whose flag the vessels sailed, to demand the two men’s immediate release.
Source: Global Sumud Flotilla press release
🎥 Drop Site’s @NoaAvishag interviewed Abukeshek on April 12 ahead of the launch of the mission ⬇️
🚨 URGENT: GSF PARTICIPANTS BRUTALIZED BY IOF AFTER 40 HOURS AT SEA 🚨
Global Sumud Flotilla participants have just survived 40 hours of calculated cruelty aboard an iOF navy vessel in Greek waters.
They were denied adequate food and water. They were forced to sleep on floors that were deliberately and repeatedly flooded.
When the military moved to abduct two participants, Saif Abukeshek (Spain / Palestinian origins) and Thiago Ávila (Brazil), our crew peacefully resisted and the response was sheer violence.
Participants were punched, kicked, and dragged across the deck with their hands bound behind their backs. They suffered broken noses, cracked ribs and bloody beatings. Shots were even fired at them in the chaos.
The nightmare isn't over. Greek police are now trapping our battered crew on buses, denying them the freedom to leave while Saif and Thiago have been abducted and taken back to Occupied Palestine.
Our participants remain unbroken: 60 participants have immediately launched a hunger strike.
This is a vicious attack on peaceful civilians. We will not look away. We demand their freedom and international accountability NOW.
BREAKING: Former GHF spokesperson's Berlin restaurant now PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
Gila & Nancy, the Israeli restaurant opened in Berlin last year by chef Eyal Shani and restauranteur Shahar Segal, formely the spokesperson for the American-Israeli genocide facilitation outfit GHF, was recently shut down, quietly and without any public announcement.
The restaurant's opening was postponed twice due to protests. Apparently, they should've gotten the hint.
BREAKING: Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil has been killed in an Israeli attack, confirms her employer. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israel “pursued” Khalil by “targeting” the house where she took shelter after an Israeli attack.
🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/DwMTyK2AOV
The Israeli settler who shot dead two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old child, during today’s attack on a school in Al-Mughayyir, has been identified as Shmuel Vandy, director of “Yeshivat Chomesh.”
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue.
She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.
She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.
Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now.
Israel has launched 100 airstrikes on Lebanon in 10 minutes.
Striking South Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley simultaneously.
This isn’t a ceasefire.
It’s mass bombardment of civilian areas.
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania refused to accept the award won by the film The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Berlin International Film Festival after the honoring of former Zionist general Noam Tibon.
- The text of the speech she delivered.
המורה: ״מחנכים אתכם להיות פשיסטים נאצים, אתם רוצים להרוג 2 מליון עזתים״, התלמידים: ״הם 2 מליון שלא אוהבים אותי ורוצים להרוג אותי״: בלעדי בדניאל עמרם ללא צנזורה, שוב ויכוח סוער בין תלמידים למורה, הפעם בכיתה לימודית בבית ספר המשותף - חוף הכרמל הבוקר בנושא עזה, ו2 מליון פלסטינים, התלמידים התעקשו ״זה לא אמירה נאצית שימותו 2 מליון אנשים שלא אוהבים אותי ורוצים להרוג אותי״.
ביום הראשון של המבצע בשועפט הצטרף לשוטרים צוות של ע. 14, כל כתבה זה התלהמות על "מחנה הטרור שועפט", "מחבלים" וקצינים שעושים אבו עלי בסגנון הסדרה "מחוז ירושלים".
בדקתי. 32 אנשים נעצרו עד כה, רובם שוחררו, 3 הובאו להארכת מעצר, 2 נותרו במעצר. 0 עצורים בגין עבירות ביטחוניות.
בעל עסק לשטיפת מכוניות בדרך בן צבי בתל אביב מספר כי לפנות ערב הגיעו למקום אוהדי מכבי תל אביב, צעקו ״מוות לערבים״, והשליכו לעברו ולעבר העובדים חפצים. ״ניסיתי לברוח ברכב אבל שוטר שהיה במקום אמר שאם אזוז הוא ירה בי כי זה יהיה פיגוע דריסה״, אמר ל״הארץ״ מוחמד אבו רמדאן. ״הוא פשוט עמד שם ונתן לאוהדים להכות אותנו״
Warning: Distressing content.
Palestinian journalist Sami al-Saai has described being tortured and raped while detained in Israel’s Megiddo prison. Al-Saai was detained by Israeli forces on 23 February 2024.
He also described the torture and sexual abuse endured by other prisoners at the hands of Israeli soldiers and prison guards, particularly detainees from Gaza.