© Sputnik / StringerIn the wake of recent Western threats to deploy ground troops in Ukraine, along with other aggressive steps threatening to escalate NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, Russia announced upcoming tactical nuclear missile drills to “cool down the ‘hot heads’.”
Britain’s “mandate” over Palestine from 1920-48 left an apparatus of repression which Israel inherited and still uses today in its ferocious war on Palestinians, writes A. Bustos.
Members of the U.K. Royal Commission during the Palestine “disturbances” of 1936. (Library of Congress)By A. Bustos
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Israel’s present use of collective punishment against Palestinians owes much of its origins to British rule in Palestine.
So too do the aerial bombardments, military raids, use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and the infrastructure of military law deployed against an occupied, overwhelmingly civilian population.
Brilliant news!
Thanks to your commitment and thanks to the tenacity and care of a group of artists in Bristol, Arnolfini gallery have published a detailed apology for cancelling events curated by Bristol Palestine Film Festival back in November, and have committed to reparative work.
You can read our report on what happened here – including statements by Bristol Artists for Palestine, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), and of course Arnolfini’s statement.
The story has been reported in Arts News, Arts Professional and Bristol Cable, and we believe the repercussions will be felt far and wide. Bristol Palestine Film Festival’s statement can be found here.
Our official statement:
‘We welcome Arnolfini’s statement and applaud the hard work of those involved in the mediation process.
We hope this sends a clear message to other cultural institutions. Amid a repressive political and media climate, cultural institutions are too often failing in their duty to uphold freedom of expression and to protect against discrimination.
At a time of unprecedented dehumanisation of Palestinian people, artists and audiences expect cultural spaces to amplify voices that articulate the realities of Palestinian experiences and aspirations, as vital contributions to cultural understanding and to our shared humanity’.
With love and solidarity.
According to local reports, Turkish police in the city of Adana arrested at least five Israelis on allegations of organ trafficking.
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Short-lived scenes of celebration after Hamas announced that it had accepted a truce proposal on Monday gave way to renewed fear and confusion in Gaza, as Israel rejected the negotiated deal that had been signed off on by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
By Alastair Crooke
The police repression of student protests exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza.
The Transformation is accelerating. The harsh, often violent, police repression of student protests across the U.S. and Europe, in wake of the continuing Palestinian massacres, exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza.
“When the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no Moving Backwards”
The world is at a dangerous crossroads. The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.
The ultimate objective is World conquest under the cloak of “human rights” and “Western democracy”.
On 18th April, Andrew Bridgen finally secured a full length debate on this vexed topic, the original text of which is available here. Full length in theory, but shortly before the debate was due to begin, the deputy Speaker told him he only had 15 minutes instead of the 30 minutes he had prepared. After he complained to the Speaker’s office, the compromise was 20 minutes, as highlighted in an interview he gave afterwards.
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Proletarian writers
Students in the USA are risking both present academic and future career prospects to oppose US academia’s widespread collaboration with and investment in zionist Israel, its institutions and especially its arms industry. Their example is one that should be followed by workers and students everywhere. We need to build the British wing of an international ‘Hands off Palestine’ campaign that will stop the genocidal regime in its tracks by starving it of every aspect of the outside assistance it relies on to carry out its crimes.
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No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!
It was May 10th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire. Most authors were German—Jewish, atheist, liberal, leftist, Bertolt Brecht, Anna Seghers, Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld, but also some foreign works were thrown into the flames—Maxim Gorki, Hemingway, Jack London, Dos Passos.
Iranian firebrand MP Mahmoud Nabavian reveals the calculated strategy, diplomatic intrigue, and bold military prowess that showcased Tehran’s 13 April missile strikes on Israel.
By Lucas Leiroz
Only in a new geopolitical order will it be possible to overcome current economic and social problems.
May is one of the most important months of the year. This month several relevant dates are celebrated, starting with Labor Day. May 1st is celebrated all over the world. Among Western nations, this is a time to celebrate the important achievements of workers, such as their labor rights, while in the former socialist bloc the date serves as a reminder to mobilize the masses in the constant struggle between capital and labor.
Last week, billionaire former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg released Screams Before Silence, which is being promoted as “a documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas” on 7 October 2023.
But it is a total fraud. Seven months after that day, Israel has still not identified a single survivor of the alleged mass rapes on 7 October, nor a single credible eyewitness.
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has reported that there is likely to be almost a million tonnes of asbestos contained amongst the rubble of Gaza. Asbestos is a carcinogenic material used in building.
Mnar Adley
Dear supporters,
We are being censored once again!
Without warning or explanation, Instagram removed our ability to go LIVE & collaborate with other accounts for 68 days.
This has significantly decreased our reach by the millions.
We believe we are deliberately being targeted because of our journalism, which is why you should join our ‘Say No to Censorship’ campaign.
Big Tech, which works closely with the Israeli government and military, shouldn’t have this much control over our news feeds.
Our journalists work tirelessly to cover the war state that continues to profit from death and destruction across the Global South, including in Gaza.
Join our ‘Say No to Censorship campaign’ to help us continue our work here at MintPress News.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the International Criminal Court’s rumored plans to indict Israeli officials for war crimes by claiming that for the ICC to do so would be an “antisemitic hate crime”.
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the militarized raid that dislodged them from campus.
BY WYATT REED AND MAX BLUMENTHAL
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TheGrayzone.com https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
As our calendar of racism and resistance shows, within days of the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act, which received Royal Assent last week, and days before local elections in England, the Home Office began detaining asylum seekers as they arrived for routine immigration bail appointments and rounding them up nationwide in immigration raids, as if they were public enemies – which the government tries to pretend they are – and protesters against the Act, demonstrating outside immigration centres are being arrested too. No wonder increasing numbers of terrified asylum seekers are fleeing from Britain to Ireland, whose supreme court has ruled that since the Rwanda deal, the UK is no longer a safe country to which asylum seekers can be returned.
The New Dark Age 