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Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran. He assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, deliberately sabotaging US-Iran nuclear negotiations. The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war – either militarily or financially.

Israel’s greatest threat isn’t Iran or Hamas, but its own hubris A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat. By @NoyOrly: 972mag.com/israels-greate…

.@DrGaborMate sends a message of solidarity to the Madleen Freedom Flotilla:

The individuals on the #freedomflotilla #madleen, heading to Gaza, bringing humanitarian aid to starving people, deserve the widest attention. The aid is symbolic, the risk is real. They act in the noblest tradition of #nonviolence. Their only safety is the world's attention.

Everyone should send an email to [email protected]. Offer 5 bullet points of whatever you might want to say to them and hopefully we can clog up the system and get a little attention. For those of you who recognize this reference, please join us in saying 'I am Spartacus'.

-It is the finalization of a long term neo-liberal privatization -It is an authoritarian takeover of government -This is bullying and harassment of the entire federal work force -Its goal is to create fear and submission -It is a blow against all worker rights

Here are our 5 bullet point reasons for why Musk's 'What did you do last week' email to federal employees is important to us all and why we need to respond collectively:

Noam Chomsky explained to us long ago how those in powerful positions reach those positions after a long process of ideological conditioning and careful selection via the education system. Only the very best – those most obedient to power – make it to the top. They are there to keep the system of power running smoothly. But there is a fallback plan for when things go wrong, as they occasionally do. That happens when someone in high office steps out of line and acts in ways that threaten the power elite – when they serve the interests of humanity rather the interests of power. Then something must be done. Such individuals are invariably dragged very publicly through the mud – as a warning to others in powerful positions to keep their consciences very much in check. That is the context for understanding the latest "unspecified allegations of misconduct" against Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, from someone inside his office. Khan has been requesting arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant. Khan had little choice legally: both are clearly war criminals for using starvation as a weapon of war. What is astonishing is that the judges who need to approve the arrest warrants have done nothing for six months, despite the overwhelming evidence and the obvious urgency of his request. If you have been wondering why they have been dragging their feet for so long, well now you know. They do not want the same fate befalling them as is befalling Khan. The power elite that rule over us have an infinite numbers of ways of destroying any individual who poses a threat to their interests. Just look at the way they locked away Julian Assange for years on non-existent "espionage" charges. Khan's struggles – he's being actively smeared as an antisemite too by Israel – are another teaching moment for those not already so beaten down by the system that it would never occur to them to do the right thing anyway. The lesson they are meant to absorb is: Don't take on power – because power will destroy you.

Horrible news. Three colleagues killed as Israel targets journalists in Hasbayaa, in a compound used by Lebanese & international press, who sought safety in numbers as they reported on the war in southern #Lebanon. There was no warning. Video ⁦⁦@ajimran⁩ who was there.

The world must stop the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world. Ever since Israel’s current operation in the northern Gaza Strip began on 5 October, the area has been under a near complete siege, relentlessly pummeled by the military. Other than in the most exceptional cases, Israel does not allow humanitarian aid or emergency crews in, taking advantage of the fact that global attention has been diverted to irreversibly change reality on the ground. According to reports from humanitarian agencies, about 50,000 people have already been forced out of their homes since the offensive began. The three hospitals that still operate in northern Gaza are on the brink of collapse and themselves vulnerable to attack. The same goes for public buildings used as IDP camps, where many people who had sought refuge were killed in Israeli bombardments. The few testimonies that have trickled out of northern Gaza describe dead bodies lining the streets, hunger, drinking water nowhere to be found, and civilians being killed as bombs are dropped on their homes without warning or as they flee for their lives. For a year now, since the war began, the international community has shown utter impotence to stop the indiscriminate attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip. Now, when it is clearer than ever that Israel intends to forcibly displace northern Gaza’s residents by committing some of the gravest crimes under the laws of war, the world’s nations must take action. Without immediate, decisive action from the international community, without using every tool available - political, legal, economic - the mass killings in the northern Gaza Strip will continue and the suffering of its besieged civilians will grow. All international bodies and institutions must act now to compel Israel to stop the war and end the carnage.

Those who kept silent and did nothing when my people and own family were butchered 80 years ago in Europe, are the same who keep silent and do nothing when the Palestinians are butchered now in Gaza. "How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see... How many ears must one man have, before he can hear people cry How many deaths will it take till he knows, that too many people have died" (Bob Dylan, Blowin’ in the Wind, 1962)

@OrenZiv_ When exercising free speech takes more than the average amount of courage, a few do show up.

As long as there are Israelis like Gaia, there is hope.

Free speech, a concept so poorly understood by so many, including on the left - @LMdiplo mondediplo.com/2024/06/11free…

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

First they came for Tiktok, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not twelve years old. Then they came for the Telegram, and I did not speak out—      Because I was using some other app or sth idk. Then they came for literally every other platform for dissent, and I did not speak out—      because bro how tf could i that's the entire point wake up wake up wa—

U.S. Capitol police begin to arrest some of the hundreds of Jewish people protesting at the Capitol calling for a ceasefire & arms embargo to Israel

@MairavZ @nirhasson pogroms

@NTarnopolsky "violent messianic fanatics" ...a blind spot for many unconditional supporters of Israel