Gaza
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Tech giants help Israel muzzle Palestinians
Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to shut down all use of the popular video-sharing app TikTok in Israel last month. The attempt to censor TikTok, details of which emerged last weekend, is one of a number of reported attempts by Israel to control social media content during last month’s military assault on the… Continue reading
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Israel-Palestine conflict at inflection point
The well-known French philosopher, writer and political activist, late Paul-Michel Foucault has written about a conversation he had with an Iranian during his visit to Tehran in November 1978 on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. The stranger remarked, “They will never let go of us of their own will. No more than they did in… Continue reading
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Watch: Lowkey on the UK’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid & Settler Colonialism
18 May 2021 — Youtube Host: Mnar Adley w/ Guest: Hip-hop artist and antiwar activist Lowkey Continue reading
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Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia’s Crackdown on Protesters
BOGATA — For exactly one month now, a nationwide strike has crippled Colombia and has been met with deadly repression by the far-right government of Ivan Duque. As trade unions have shut down major cities, halting mass transit and bringing economic gridlock to the country, government forces have responded with violence. According to government figures,… Continue reading
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How To Sabotage The Pro-Palestine Movement
The US-centralized power alliance is losing control of the Palestine narrative as awareness continues to spread of the injustice of Israeli apartheid, and it’s one of the most interesting things happening in the narrative matrix today. Continue reading
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‘The Savage Punishment Of Gaza’: Israel’s Latest Assault On Palestine’s Open Prison
Recent media coverage of Israel and Palestine, not least by BBC News, has been full of the usual deceptive propaganda tropes: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, but Palestinians ‘have died’ from unnamed causes; Israel has ‘armed forces’ and ‘security forces’, but Hamas has ‘militants’. And, as… Continue reading
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The US Isn’t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn’t A US Puppet: It’s One Empire
Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. Continue reading
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Watch: World stands with Palestine
Huge numbers of people all over the globe have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians this month as Israel intensifiedits killing campaign in the Gaza Strip, and a massive uprising swept cities and villages all over historic Palestine. Continue reading
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Palestine is Winning the Legitimacy War
[Prefatory Note: This opinion piece was published in Middle East Eye on May 18, 2021, and republished in Il Manifesto and The Wire under different titles. It attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations. It also takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force in its attack upon an essentially helpless Gazan… Continue reading
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Ignore Starmer’s moral posturing. He’s the one we should blame for stoking antisemitism
No one should be surprised that Britain’s rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummelling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and many hundreds more seriously wounded. Continue reading
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The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe. Continue reading
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Marwa Osman on Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and the new precedent of united regional Resistance
A very informative discussion with Beirut-based journalist and political analyst Marwa Osman, on the litany of Israeli crimes against Palestinians in Gaza during Israel’s horrifying bombardment of the beseiged and densely inhabited Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault
In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift. A new wave of resistance has sparked militant mass protests not only in cities and towns across the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, but also in many Palestinian or “mixed” cities inside the 1948 borders of… Continue reading
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Palestine on Strike – Solidarity statement on events in Palestine
I am sure that you will have heard about the recent escalation of violence that Palestinians are experiencing, which began around two weeks ago with families in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem facing forced eviction as a result of a legal loophole. Continue reading
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Israel’s Pyrrhic victory in Gaza, Netanyahu is real winner
Egypt has once again been thrust onto the forefront of brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi remarked on Monday that a ceasefire might still be within reach. Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 16-17 May 2021
17 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Israeli strikes on Gaza hit Red Crescent building, killing 2, aid group says https://www.rt.com/news/524076-israel-hamas-gaza-strikes/ How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/how-the-united-states-helps-to-kill-palestinians/ Continue reading
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The unending nightmare of Gaza
The bombs rain down on Gaza city and the rest of the strip compounding the nightmare that Gaza is already for the people living there. Gaza, measuring 375 square kilometers (145 square miles) is home to around 2 million Palestinians, more than half of them refugees. Since 2007, the besieged enclave has been under a… Continue reading
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15 May 2021 – Nakba Day: Israel Punishes Media For Reporting Its Escalation In Palestine
Today is Nakba day which commemorates the violent expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes which began 74 years ago and is still continuing. Just yesterday Fares Akram. Associated Press reporter in Gaza, wrote in a diary about his families expulsion and his life under colonist bombing: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) —… Continue reading
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Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will follow
On Tuesday, Israel bombed the 10-storey Al-Jawhara Tower, causing it to collapse. Before doing so, it had ‘benevolently’ warned that the airstrikes were coming. The following day, it bombed the 14-storey Al-Shorouk Tower, also giving warning it was going to do so. Continue reading
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