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A recent announcement that Israel intends to "concentrate" Gaza's population into camps built on Rafah's ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited widespread international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.
A recent announcement that Israel intends to “concentrate” Gaza’s population into camps built on Rafah’s ruins before forcibly displacing them has elicited international condemnation. But Israel has already been rolling out this plan for months.
Solução prática e urgente é isolar e dizer verdades sobre IsraHell e israHellenses! Humilhá-los perante todos no Mundo, condená-los a pagar em dinheiro (bloqueando os seus bens) por cada crime contra cada um dos palestinos! Que sejam punidos de forma pior que os alemães nazistas, só assim esses desgraçados israHellenses irão aprender que nessa vida nada fica impune! Nunca serão perdoados pelos crimes hediondos cometidos por décadas ao povo palestino e descobertos por milhões de pessoas ao redor do Mundo! Eu já odeio israHellenses e a cada dia ODEIO ainda mais! Se algum dia morrerem israHellenses não irão fazer NENHUMA falta, são monstros, sádicos, pervertidos, psicopatas, estupradores e pedófilos. Sem israHellenses, o mundo será um lugar melhor!
The experience of genocide is, beyond agony, a peculiar one. While it is the bombs above your head, it is also the seeing those dearest to you retract their hands from a burning child for fear of a legal code, and a baton. As for the child engulfed, he discovers quickly who suffices themselves with tears, and who dares the flames.
If the past century had not, these last 21 months have evoked the sharpest of contradictions. Rage is a prevalent theme. Devastation. Inertia. Erecting walls and widening the divides has been an effortless task. With every massacre—the families burned alive tonight in Khan Younis, and every slaughter before and after it—we erupt in rage and renew our unwavering allegiance to the resistance. Taking sides is a forgone conclusion. Cursing the Jewish death cult, burning flags, and castigating traitors—we perform these rituals multiple times a day.
And yet today, I am confronted by an all-together more jarring reality. That this rage is a lie. These immovable convictions too. That the bodies once hidden in our closets now fill our homes. That they surround us at every turn. That we are drowning in blood. That there is hypocrisy in every word I pen. Our revolution makes no appearance beyond these pages, beyond weekends, beyond slogans bellowed—all too knowingly into the abyss. And it vanishes, instantly, at the first forecast of rain.
The devastation, and the required path of action—of searing bullets and blood stained knives—have never been more stark. Today, our cowardice is legendary. It stands as naked as the emperor, cocooned in all manner of exoneration. Our unbreakable spirits and rivers of wrath perish in the face of sacrifice. And what sacrifice?
When the people of Yemen exclaim, “our blood is not more valuable than the blood of Gaza,” they do so from hospital beds, in scattered bouts of consciousness, with exposed flesh. They speak, having fired rockets.
As for us, ours is a world of performance. An entire ethos governed by fear, inferiority complexes, sculpted by the sensitives of empire. Here, we are the harem, flaunting our bodies for western eyes, parading the limbs of our people. There are corpses everywhere. And we dance all around them. Some of us grieve. We weep. In the face of charred flesh we proclaim shamelessly that our hearts are aflame.
Imprisoned by fear, the escape routes are endless. Out of risk mitigation, wisdom, and greater goods, we forge careers. Life must go on. Sitting in cafes, we persuade ourselves of our piety. We clutch at our pearls and convince ourselves that these manicured hands are shackled. We appease ourselves with tears, frolic in prayer, and pour our guilt into carpets. At best, we demonstrate our convictions in humanitarian charity—here too, we escape the resistance.
We escape the rifle at every turn. Of course, we preach earnestly of its virtues. We celebrate the green headbands, romanticise the miraculous faith. A stone-throwing child confronting a tank— we adore the spectacle. Asked to join him, we all flee. The child’s bravery was heroic only at distance. Suddenly, the futility of a stone fills the room. The child is a martyr, but our lives are not to be given recklessly. There are long standing conventions to abide by. The fervour of youth must never cloud sound judgment.
For even the best of us, the sheer impracticality renders resistance logistically untenable. Never mind the material precedents, the distance is immense and the walls insurmountable. And when, by some divine feat, a tenable scheme is devised, we remind ourselves quickly that liberation requires a multiplicity of tactics.
But if, amidst the rabid fluttering of our lips, we catch a glimpse of our eyes, we would find them revolving, overcome by death.
I know, because even as I write, I struggle to admit that I see it in my own.
Any mention of concrete action, any diversion from the opulent comforts of advocacy, and we see the uniforms charging, the steel of the batons against our skin, the frigid depths of incarceration. Blind to the irony, we conclude that the detriment dwarfs the good. Seated still all the while, we are defeated from the start.1
Looking ourselves in the eye, we realise, instantly, the truth of our condition. That the words we so ritually, and vehemently recite, the creeds we claim adherence to, pass no deeper than our throats. That with every convolution, and under every breath, we crystallise our sole conviction: that our lives are more precious than Gaza’s.
All of this, however, is not in pursuit of mourning. For Palestinians in Gaza, mourning has been an impossibility; for us, it is a notion all too convenient. Gaza demands a reckoning. A reckoning of flames. And it begins with those closest, the millions who chant at protests and—like me—sit behind screens. Those with clear consciences. Because the urgency of the moment cannot be reasoned away.
The unbridled barbarity demands we interrogate the pretenses of our absolution.2 The mental contortions we internalise and spew. The endless means by which we evade, and delay, the inevitable. The doctrines by which we maintain a godless sanity and stifle the rattling of our hands.
Are we not accountable? What have I and those like me given? What have we sacrificed? What sanctity did we preserve? Did we shatter the monotony of our daily lives in the face of genocide? How many times did we stutter? How often did we forsake the skins of our people to save our own?
Already, before we have had a chance for introspection, I hear calls for a solution. For a pristine path. The glaring apparency of the answer reveals the question’s insincerity. I am tempted to ask what you would do if it was your child. Your father? Your fighters calling? Such rhetorics, however, are centred in selfishness. It’s the same egoism by which the ‘Nazi’ becomes the global byword for evil, when Europe has enacted graver horrors on the reds, blacks, yellows, and browns, for centuries. We shouldn’t need to superimpose ourselves in an imagined suffering to heed the screams of the burning. Or have the fashions of liberal capitalism, and the isolation of the harm principle, forged our hearts? Have we forgotten how to act in the service of others?
Today, all of us stand in awe of Gaza. We look upon its people with the greatest admiration. From our living rooms, we lust over their faith. The scenes are undoubtedly breathtaking. Children reciting prayers in lieu of anesthetic; Kites—white, with a long tail; A mother ululating for her fallen sons; Prostrations atop the rubble.
Romanticizing the spectacle is natural. Still, I cannot help but notice the expediency of our tales. Our privilege as observers renders the idylls perverse.
At some point, the question begs: why are the suicides never mentioned at the party?3 The children who threw themselves from windows. The men who trampled women in the daily wars for food. The women who looked to men for a price. And what about the thieves?
Are these subjects taboo by virtue? Perhaps there’s something more sinister at play. Perhaps they threaten the serenity of our lullaby. Why is it that we worship the miracle, but turn our backs on its calling?
Revolution is the skeleton in our closet. We are all only too aware of its presence. How could we not be? We’ve spent the past 15 months running from it.
I know my fingers have not left this page. To some extent, we all rationalise our inertia—else there would be no reader, and I would not be sitting here writing. We remain dinner-table revolutionaries. But our indolence cannot endure.
I see light in the barrel of a rifle. In Molotovs. Shattered ceilings. And if the flame of the Molotov must scorch the compatriot before the enemy, so be it.
When I speak of mass popular mobilisation in revolutionary action, it is envisioned or manifests as a program of chaos, which is to say the spontaneity, anarchic decentrality, and unconfined radicality of organic instinctual rage. It is the decided intent to enact change that progresses at a rate almost too fast—where operations occur across the land, each complimenting, inspiring, and mimicking the other, where the settler’s safety is shattered irreparably, and the umbilical of impregnability is severed. Undoubtedly, the response will be brutal and the losses crushing—at end, it is a question of will.
Why does a march to the border disperse at the first fire of teargas? Why does the presence of a uniform allow us to watch a man pummeled without eliciting a response? Why does a blaring crowd of a thousand flee a baton? These are questions of will, of belief, intent, and the willingness to sacrifice, this unfiltered manifestation of the revolutionary impulse, will not occur until the colonizer’s violence encompasses all, until it barges through the front door and leaves no alternate path—but it is also true, that if this intellectual condition is not developed, if the fear and attachment to personal luxury is not expelled, that even as the coloniser’s bullets pierce flesh, the body will not writhe.
Even so, the absolute governing principle remains that a thousand shells of words do not equal a single shell of iron. Tens of thousands of true fighters won’t be stopped by the fractured tears of men searching in the depths of defeat for scraps of armour.4
There is no parallel between the man who visits the camps to distribute toys, and the man who emerges from that camp with a rifle.
Still there are some nagging questions. Absolution clings to us like a soul being ripped from the throat of the dying.
In the scales of pragmatism, this battle is unwinnable, and in it, we have no part.
Yet, how many a small party triumph over the invincible?5 The parables are quite literally clichés. Gaza stands.
But doesn’t victory require formal organisation?
Victory is inevitable. Isn’t that what we tell ourselves when action becomes too agitating, before sighing and moving on? Gaza has shown us that victory requires only a handful of true men, holding themselves to account. So fight—you are accountable for none besides yourself.6
But the risks are too great, and we cannot compromise our families, our livelihoods.
The audacity is stunning. It might have been humorous if the reality wasn’t so morbid. If the backdrop wasn’t protruding collarbones and exposed nerves. If we hadn’t heard the fading shrieks of relatives under the rubble. If our brothers weren’t being raped to death. If we hadn’t the breaking of our fathers, and seen men pulverised under tanks.
Our fear is a charade. Nothing could be more despicable.
At this gruesome juncture, the question is not when the hour shall arrive, nor even if victory is possible at all. Today, away from the cameras, each of us are faced with a more pressing quandary: at what point do we decide to join Gaza in blood? And are we worthy?
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, New York 1963, p. 63. ↩︎
Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, Chicago 2025, p. 191. ↩︎
source: Unity of Fields Editorial disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Unity of Fields.Image by Rifle and Pen (@Rifleandpen5 on Instagram).
"The experience of genocide is, beyond agony, a peculiar one. While it is the bombs above your head, it is also the seeing those dearest to you retract their hands…"
Statement from the DFW Support Committee on the Praireland Defendants
Texans are facing increasing repression by both the federal and state governments. Those on the frontlines of protecting people targeted by the state are especially being met with this repression in spite of our constitutional right to protest and dissent. Instead of listening to us, the government is arresting protestors, creating false narratives about their actions, and wholly ignoring their own obligation to due process.
Acknowledging this, we have formed a committee of loved ones, friends and comrades of defendants who are committed to supporting them through the legal process and have experience with legal support and anti-repression organizing.
We do not know what happened at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, but we do know that 11 people were arrested and still sit in jail without legal representation. The framing of the case by the federal government should be concerning to all of us. The glaring inconsistencies in the official narrative and the alarmist accusations are a clear attempt to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that the United States is on the verge of chaos, warranting a dramatic increase in militarized police action. This, in turn, will almost certainly be used as a justification for broader expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. As such, what is happening to the 11 people connected to the Prairieland Detention Center protest should be a concern for anyone who does not want to see this country descend further into authoritarianism.
The Trump administration has consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance its political narratives. In particular, they created news and propaganda that seem to confirm the far-right conspiracy theories that have fed Trump’s rise to power. Time and again these narratives have been proven false and dangerous.
These 11 people are some of the first arrested under this unbelievable narrative, but we should expect this sort of repression to spread further and wider. Trump does not distinguish between these defendants, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, 50501, or anyone else standing against him. They are coming for undocumented migrants, they are coming for supporters of Palestine, they are coming for those protesting ICE’s violence.
The first months of this adminstration have been a disaster. People have been kidnapped in broad daylight by masked agents and sent to hellish prison camps in other countries, with detention centers like Prarieland as stopping points along the way. Natural disasters have killed hundreds with little warning or care from the government, and even now we’re still trying to count the losses from flooding in North Texas. Decades of advancement in public health have being eviscerated: measles killed more children in Texas in the last month than in the last 30 years. Transgender people are being erased from our society. US-made bombs are slaughtering millions around the world. The list goes on. People see the nightmare that is unfolding, and the state is furiously looking for ways to distract, confuse, immobilize, and terrify. In this context, it should be clear that these recent criminal charges in Alvarado, Texas, are a dangerous and unconscionable stunt in service of this goal.
We are all affected by these disasters already, but criminalization of protest means that we risk arrest and worse as the state moves to crush everyone under its power.
However, the people of this country will not accept authoritarian rule. From the initial waves of protest, resistance and antagonism have generalized and deepened. It has involved not only elected officials and formal organizations, but more importantly, millions of ordinary people taking bold action to protect their communities and reclaim their autonomy. This spreading resistance has been met with violent state repression such as deployment of active duty military on the streets of Los Angeles and the arrest of sitting judges and US senators. Now the state is attempting to ruin the lives of 11 people and their communities in North Texas. It is clear that no amount of appeasement and capitulation will stop these threats to our freedoms. We must then support those facing repression and not bow to this state terror.
This is a historic moment and what will happen next is not clear. What we do know is that the best chance for all of us to live full and free lives is to join together and be brave. We in the DFW Support Committee have no choice but to push forward and fight for those we care deeply about who are currently sitting in jail. To the rest of you, we call on you to join us in our support. We will be releasing future updates and statements about concrete actions people can take. The first and most important action today is raising funds so that these 11 people have the best legal defense possible.
"Texans are facing increasing repression by both the federal and state governments. Those on the frontlines of protecting people targeted by the state are especially being met with this repression…"
Υπεραισιόδοξοι οι Wolff & Hudson για την σοσιαλιστική τροπή των BRICS. Όλοι ελπίζουμε ρε σεις αλλά δεν έχουμε ακόμα κάτι σίγουρο και δεν ξέρω ακόμα πως ελέγχονται (γιατί αυτό κρίνετε, αυτές οι πολιτικές του ΔΝΤ των BRICS (NDB? & IMF reforms).
Η κάθε χώρα που ενδιαφέρεται μπορεί να επιλέξει που θα χρεωθεί. Το ΔΝΤ ξέρουμε πολύ καλά ότι είναι ένας μηχανισμός υπερχρέωσης [κρατώντας την όμηρο των "επενδυτών"] και ξεπουλήματος της χώρας που - και γι αυτό - επιβάλλει νεοφιλελεύθερα μέτρα. ΤΑ ΕΖΗΣΕΣ ΤΑ ΛΕΝΕ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΙΑ ΕΔΩ.
@foufoutos Το πως επηρεάζουν τις σοσιαλιστικές - καπιταλιστικές σχέσεις έχει να κάνει απόλυτα ότι το αντίπαλο στρατόπεδο είναι νεοφιλελεύθεροι ολοκληρωτικοί. Έτσι εκ φύσεως δημιουργείται αυτή η πόλωση. Για την Ινδία συγκεκριμένα, έχει φιλελεύθερη κυβέρνηση. Πάγια πολιτική της εδώ και δεκαετίες είναι να μην [ξανα]εμπλέκεται ανάμεσα στις υπερδυνάμεις. Αυτό και μόνο εξηγεί γιατί είναι στους BRICS. @Feleki
BAP Stands Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism
In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted by the U.S. lackey president William Ruto. In typical fashion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded increased taxation and funding cuts to a country whose leadership has privileged the dictates of imperialism over its own people. Kenya’s police killed 60 people during those 2024 actions but the popular struggle resulted in the plans for taxation being cancelled.
On the first anniversary of these actions, the young people rose up again in opposition to the Ruto government, which sent its troops to Haiti at the behest of the U.S. government, and which was designated a major non-NATO ally in gratitude for its posture as a vassal state. Kenya’s police state is again killing those who oppose, including journalist Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody, and more recently Boniface Kariuki, ostensibly for protesting Ojwang’s assassination.
The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm of the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) once again stands in solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the neo-liberal austerity schemes and obedience to U.S. imperialism. Despite the fascist repression, the youth of Kenya are fearless in their resolve and persist in declaring and exposing the illegitimacy of the compradors of neo-colonialism.
The Gen-Z Movement represents the offspring or torch bearers of the unfinished revolution of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), known also as the Mau Mau, whose valiant fight paved the path toward the defeat of their British colonizers in 1960. Gen-Z are the political cubs of their predecessors: Comrades Dedan Kimathi, Mzalendo Bildad Kaggia, Wasonga Sijeyo, Pio Gama Pinto, and Mzalendo Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, true revolutionary heroes who stood firm in the fight for the genuine independence of Kenya.
BAP and the USOAN are clear that for the movement to decolonize Kenya to be complete, the running dogs of imperialism must be driven from office and the neo-colonial economic structures must be dismantled, allowing a truly sovereign Kenya to be established, untethered to the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination.
BAP remains unequivocal in the demand for U.S. imperialism to cease propping up the Ruto regime, for the unconditional and immediate release of our Kenyan family detained and jailed during these protests, and for reparations to be dispensed to the family and loved ones of those killed by the state and their goons.
Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!
Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!
"In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted…"
"Nous, cultivateurices, agris critiques, paysan.nes avec ou sans terre et employé.es des métiers du vivant appelons à la manifestation unitaire du futur, contre CIGEO et les enfouissements de déchets toxiques à Bure et ailleurs. Retrouvons nous, le 20 septembre, à cheval, à pied et avec nos tracteurs, pour dire non à
Nous, cultivateurices, agris critiques, paysan.nes avec ou sans terre et employé.es des métiers du vivant appelons à la manifestation unitaire du futur, contre CIGEO et les enfouissements de déchet...
Al-Qassam Kill Zionist Soldier in New ‘Scandal’ for Occupation Forces
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, revealed on Friday that its fighters attempted to capture an occupation soldier during a daring daylight raid east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The group confirmed the operation targeted Zionist soldiers and military vehicles, including a Merkava tank and a troop carrier, using Yassin-105 rocket-propelled grenades.
In a statement, the al-Qassam Brigades said that although the battlefield conditions did not allow for the capture of the soldier, the fighter responsible killed him and seized his weapon. “Abraham Azulai’s luck was bad, and soon, the next soldier’s fate will be better as a new prisoner,” the statement read, referring to the failed capture attempt.
Footage exposes vulnerability of occupation forces in Gaza
Al-Qassam had earlier released a video as part of its David’s Stones operation series, documenting the moment its fighters engaged a military convoy in the same area. The footage showed direct contact with Zionist troops, capturing one soldier fleeing while others appeared unprotected and unsupported during the confrontation.
The video also showed resistance fighters attempting to seize the fleeing soldier, before ultimately killing him and confiscating his weapon. Notably, the footage highlighted the absence of covering fire or any immediate response from nearby Israeli forces.
Zionist media call video a “scandal”
The footage, which quickly circulated online, was described by Zionist newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth as a “new scandal,” pointing to repeated tactical failures within the occupation army. The paper noted this marked the second time in a month that occupation soldiers were left exposed without adequate protection or backup support.
Drawing a comparison to the deadly incident involving the Puma armored personnel carrier, in which seven Zionist engineers were killed, Yedioth Ahronoth criticized the occupation military’s lack of preparedness, especially as resistance fighters operated in broad daylight with cameras and heavy weaponry.
Zionist writer Zeev Rubinstein also weighed in on the footage, stating: “Hamas publishes a brutal clip from the Khan Younis bulldozer incident. At the end, the soldier’s weapon is in enemy hands, and his body nearly too.” He expressed disbelief at how al-Qassam fighters were able to move freely in the open battlefield, documenting their actions without interference, calling the scene “deeply frustrating.”
Occupation failed to break Resistance’s morale
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, affirmed on Tuesday that after 640 days of the genocidal war, the occupation has failed in its objectives to break Gaza’s morale or suppress its armed resistance.
In a statement, the movement declared that slogans of “total defeat” and “complete eradication” have collapsed in the face of Resistance tunnels and ambushes, which continue to defy the occupation’s military advances.
Hamas stated that the illusion of freeing captives by force has been shattered by the Resistance’s ongoing strikes and upper hand on the battlefield, emphasizing that Gideon military vehicles were destroyed with their crews inside and that Resistance fighters continue to confront the occupation forces despite the siege and starvation policy imposed by the occupation.
The group added that “the occupation now openly admits its inability to both liberate its captives and defeat the resistance, as all its invasion routes have turned into fields of death.”
Hamas also addressed Zionist plans for forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing, stating they were thwarted by the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their refusal to accept political or intelligence dictates.
Occupation on blast amid discrepancies
Zionism is facing mounting scrutiny and accusations of suppressing real-time information from the public, following a deadly ambush by the Palestinian Resistance in northern Gaza that was initially misreported.
On Tuesday, the military confirmed that five soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion were killed and two others seriously wounded after explosive devices detonated during battles in the area. The announcement came only after occupation media had circulated inaccurate preliminary casualty figures.
Later reports indicated that the total number of wounded occupation soldiers had reached 14, including two in critical condition, six with moderate injuries, and six with minor wounds.
The discrepancy between the initial and updated figures sparked public scrutiny over the concealment of accurate casualty data, raising further concerns about the deliberate withholding of critical data from the public.
"The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, revealed on Friday that its fighters attempted to capture an occupation soldier during a daring daylight raid east…"
The Zionist Prisoners and the Families of Our Prisoners in the Enemy’s Jails — Khaled Barakat
From the moment the Palestinian resistance in Gaza announced the capture of a number of Zionist soldiers and settlers during the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the issue of the Zionist “hostages” became the center of global attention. Hours upon hours of television programming are devoted to it. Political pressure is exerted, tents are erected in public squares, and tears are shed for those whom the media describe as “innocent victims.”
Meanwhile, more than 10,800 Palestinian prisoners, including women and children, remain in the occupation’s cells — some for more than thirty years —without the hypocritical world so much as blinking an eye, or hearing the cries of a Palestinian mother who has waited decades for a long-delayed embrace.
The Zionist captive is presented as a wronged human being, kidnapped from among loved ones, shown through emotional family photos and touching stories broadcast night and day. Western media is diligent in feeding this narrative: the child waiting for his father, the sleepless wife, the mother who never stops crying. All this is done in complete detachment from the context of war and occupation, as if these “hostages” were not part of a military machine that destroys Gaza, besieges the Palestinians, and squats on their land.
Governments, embassies, and international organizations are mobilized to pressure the Palestinian resistance, and any attempt to demand a prisoner exchange is condemned as “humanitarian blackmail,” while the root of the crisis — the Zionist occupation and settler colonialism — is entirely ignored.
No one hears about the 73 martyrs who have died in the enemy’s prisons since October 7, 2023, or about the 10,800 Palestinian prisoners suffering in the occupation’s cells, including about 400 children, 50 women, 500 sick detainees, and some who have been imprisoned for over three decades. There is no mention of their denial of visits, medical care, and education; no mention of the children snatched from their homes at night and thrown into interrogation dungeons; no mention of the 3,600 administrative detainees held without charge or trial. There are no images of Palestinian mothers’ tears or families awaiting news from behind bars.
For the Western media machine, the Palestinian prisoner is merely a “terrorist,” not treated as a human being, and not factored into calculations of justice and conscience. The resistance’s demand for their release is painted as a moral crime, not a legitimate right.
Amid this grossly uneven struggle, the “Palestinian Authority,” along with the defeated official Arab governments, stands in a position of impotence and complicity. The Authority does nothing, save for a few hollow statements on ceremonial occasions. Its embassies practice selective deafness and deliberate muteness, taking no part in solidarity campaigns for the prisoners or in legal and political battles on the international stage. There is utter silence in the face of daily massacres and mass arrests. In fact, the Authority has reached the point of repressing popular events in solidarity with the prisoners if they dare deviate from the official line.
The security coordination with the occupation, which the Authority secretly prides itself on while publicly disavowing, is one of the direct causes of the continued and systematic arrests and the collapse of popular trust in the Authority. This cannot be excused as weakness, but must be understood within the context of a political-security function that aligns with the logic of “managing the occupation,” not resisting it, and a futile reliance on negotiations, not a struggle to liberate the prisoners.
What makes matters worse is the state of paralysis afflicting the majority of Palestinian “factions” in the West Bank. With the exception of some individual and youth-led initiatives, there is no organized movement or sustained campaign that provides platforms for the voices of prisoners’ families, exposes the realities of imprisonment, or expresses the voice of their loved ones. Active prisoner committees have disappeared. These “organizations” and so-called “human rights institutions,” which were supposed to lead the street in defense of their sons and daughters in prison, have become incapable of addressing their own constituencies, let alone the world.
While weekly marches are organized in Tel Aviv for the families of Zionist soldiers, the cities of the West Bank lack continuous actions expressing the voices of Palestinian prisoners’ mothers, fathers, spouses and children. This silence is the result of organizational decay, bureaucratic stagnation, and the political division that has torn apart the national movement.
The world’s hypocrisy is laid bare when the Zionist soldier is presented as a victim worthy of sympathy, while the Palestinian prisoner is reduced to a “security number” or accused of “terrorism.” As soon as someone hears the phrase “families of the prisoners,” they immediately imagine the families of Zionist captives in Gaza. Western media does not see the Palestinian detainees as human beings—it does not record their stories, convey their suffering, or give them a platform to speak of their suffering. In contrast, doors are thrown open for the families of Zionist soldiers in international organizations and parliaments, and they are used as political pawns to pressure the resistance.
A Palestinian mother says:
“My son has been in prison for twenty years. He grew up without me, and I grew old at his prison gate. I haven’t touched him, haven’t hugged him, I don’t know what he looks like now. Why does no one hear my cry? Am I any less of a mother than others? Or is my blood cheap because I’m Palestinian?”
But these words fall on closed ears, because their speaker belongs to the “wrong side” of the colonial equation. The world does not care, and the human rights organizations are busy counting the breaths of Zionist soldiers — not the cries of Palestinian mothers.
The experience of the resistance in Gaza has shown that the issue of prisoners is not just a negotiating file, it is a symbol of national dignity. Indeed, the cause of the prisoners and their liberation was one of the main reasons behind the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood operation. Whoever seeks equality in suffering must begin by achieving justice, and breaking the wall of silence, complicity, and hypocrisy that has surrounded us for decades.
What is needed today is not only the adoption of a balanced and humane discourse, but the forceful extraction of the prisoners’ cause and their families from the grip of marginalization, neglect, and silence—returning it to its natural and rightful place at the heart of the national liberation struggle, as a central issue.
These brave prisoners in the enemy’s jails are in fact the trusted, legitimate, and true Palestinian leadership. They are, with the armed resistance, the sole legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle. And whoever does not stand with Gaza and the valiant armed resistance will never stand for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, which remains the first line of defense for Palestine.
The Zionist Prisoners and the Families of Our Prisoners in the Enemy’s Jails Khaled Barakat The following article, by Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and member of the Executive Committee…
The Zionist Prisoners and the Families of Our Prisoners in the Enemy’s Jails — Khaled Barakat abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/202…
"From the moment the Palestinian resistance in Gaza announced the capture of a number of Zionist soldiers and settlers during the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the issue of the Zionist…"
The reason why this should work is because on a surface grinder, you really don't care that much about the X or Y axes, Z needs to be fucking perfect but the others really don't matter. Well, a surface plate is a piece of stone that has a Z-axis guarantee, so if you have a carriage that can skate around on that with predictable distance from it, then you can use a stupid mechanism to push the carriage on the X and Y axes, it needs basically the precision of a sawmill.
„ [...] Wie soll man auf #autodestruktive #Protestierende reagieren, die fordern, weniger geschützt zu werden. Hören sie auf #Argumente? Fehlanzeige! Dafür #Hass und #Verunglimpfung kübelweise. Jetzt versuchen sich die #Impfgegner neu zu organisieren. Mit mäßigem Erfolg. Denn es fehlt ihnen etwas: das eingeübte #Feindbild Merkel.
Wie sich also neu positionieren? Mit alten Mitteln. Also nutzen sie Twitter und den Hashtag #nichtmeinkanzler, was wenigstens den Vorteil hat, dass anders als bei den Demos nicht gegen Hygienemaßnahmen verstoßen wird. Merkel fehlt ihren Gegnern schon jetzt, bei der Kanzlerin hatte man 16 Jahre Zeit, sich einen Besteckkasten von Verunglimpfungen zurechtzulegen. Der triggerte die #Wutbürgerschaft zuverlässig – und nun? Jetzt fehlt dieser Unordnungsrahmen, dieses über Jahre eingeübte Wutschnauben. Ein neues Feindbild muss her. Und so treten die Empörten die alte demokratische Gepflogenheit, 100 Tage einem neuen Amtsträger als Schonfrist einzuräumen, mit Füßen. [...]
Es ist schon traurig, dass Menschen sich wie der Suppenkasper weigern, die #Infektionsbrühe auszulöffeln, die ihr Verhalten uns eingebrockt hat. Nein, ihr seid nicht das Volk. Nein, ihr seid auch nicht die Stimme des Volks. Ja, die Mehrheit wünscht sich einen #Kanzler, der die Corona-Politik nicht nur fortsetzt, sondern sogar noch härtere Maßnahmen durchsetzt. Fest steht: Wir sind also grundsätzlich unterschiedlicher Meinung. Richtig ist: Ihr seid wenige, wir viele. Deswegen kann ich nur in einem dem Twittermob zustimmen: Besser im Netz sich versammeln als auf der Straße. Da steckt ihr euch nur mit Dummheit an, aber nicht mit dem Virus."
Helt enig, men den utm source er jo ikke så gale da. Tenker da på nyhetspublikasjoner som legger ut linker her på Mastodon, gjerne har utm source = Mastodon. Det er jo greit for å få synliggjort Mastodon som en tjeneste å satse på.
Men det kan vel hende at det blir overflødig med Mastodon versjon 4.4?
"all after ? Can be removed" fun misinfo, qnd this does not prevent people from shating tracking like its done in amazon with path params instead of queryparams xD
Not everything after a ? can always be removed, for instance with youtube.com/watch?v=(barf) the v=(barf) bit is the video ID and you need that. But most things can go!
You can even do that automatically thanks to uBlock Origin, you need to activate the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" list (for some reason it's not activated by default) and all tracking shit in the url is removed
Enough people have already mentioned that you can NOT just remove everything after "?", but there's more wrong here.
While YouTubes "si" query parameter can track you and who you send a link to, that is NOT true for static parameters like "utm_source" with "newsletter" or "utm_medium" with "email". All they tell the website operator is that the link was clicked X times from within the newsletter and Y times from an e-mail, but it's impossible to draw any connection here between two individuals that shared this link in some way.
These parameters aren't only important to advertisers (they usually aren't at all), but they are important to the website operator, especially if it's a small business with limited resources. It shows them if a newsletter is actually read or how many clicks they received from Mastodon and so on. It shows them that the mediums they are using are actually worth pursuing or if they should focus their attention on something else.
@ everyone in these comments, you don't have to do it all yourself and decide which parameters you can delete. There's a plugin for Firefox (and I'm sure there's also one for chromium as well for those who care more than me to find it): addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
if you are providing a public service supported by public grants, those funding agencies needs "key performance indicators". They essentially ask you to prove that you have users and where they are coming from, if your outreach is successful etc ... It's debatable if that is good, but it is how it is atm. And at least in research those links are needed from time to time 🙁
Yes! Never use the SHARE button. This may have already been suggested but just select and copy the web address from the address bar at the top of the page of your browser. I've been doing it that way for years.
I don't know about si= 's but, I did run a website with Google Analytics and the utm_source, utm_medium, etc are used to identify where you put a link and what medium of media it was placed on so you can tell if you're reaching your audience. So if you print paper flyers with a QR Code in the Pizza Shop, your utm_medium=paper and your utm_source=pizza%20shop%20flyer.
Also, if you are on Mastodon and use the Mastodon web UI, you should check whether it allows the browser to send the referer header to remote links that users click on. Just some time ago, Eugen "recommended" instance admins to change settings to allow it "to make website owners more aware of Mastodon." (This setting can only be changed by Mastodon instance admins, not by users.) In my opinion, this usually reveals more information about the user clicking on the link than any of the tracking params present in the link. For example, the targeted website will know that a user coming from a certain IP "is most likely to" have an account on a certain instance. The privacy problem will be more serious if the user clicking the link has an account on the targeted website, because the website now knows a certain logged-in user is most likely to have an account on another website. While this threat is relatively small for huge instances, users on smaller instances will be tracked more easily.
Moreover, if the user lives under the rule of a government that can possibly get them into trouble for accessing the Fediverse, the referer header will sell them out to the websites (that may well give this info to that government) whose link the user clicked from the Mastodon instance.
I am not aware of any other Fediverse software that encourages sending referer header to remote links or does this by default. Pleroma sets the referrer-policy to same-origin.
The latest on the #Enshrinkifcation of consumer goods. Take a look at the net weight on those bags of ground coffee next time you're at the market. They're all over the place, 10, 11, 12 ounces. I remember when ALL packaged coffee was a standard 12 ounces. So even if that sale price looks attractive, you might be getting gypped out of a pot of Joe.
And while I'm on the subject, it's probably time for you to go de-calcify your #coffee maker. You know it's passed due. Let's pull together for the sake of a better pot of wakey juice.
**"Sometimes it’s so quiet down here, you can hear the concrete grow."** Not noise. Not silence. Something in between. As if space is shaping itself. And in those moments, I realize — we’re not building walls. We’re building the feeling of home.
Die Dame steht für eine gefährliche #Staatshörigkeit, mit der, wenn sie sich mal durchsetzt, alles gerechtfertigt werden kann, was vermutlich für das Kollektiv gut ist, dem Einzelnen aber seine Grundrechte und seine Menschenwürde nimmt.
Mit solchen furchtbaren Juristen steht der Totalitarismus vor der Tür.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division will submit a statement of interest in an antitrust case alleging that big tech and big media organizations colluded to censor an organization founded by Robert F.
The Department of Education (DOE) on Thursday announced it will end taxpayer subsidization of career, technical, and adult education programs for illegal immigrants.
Economist Prof. Richard Werner: "The European Union is modelled on the Soviet Union." “The Soviet Union claimed to be a democracy. Why? Well, it had a parliament. Ah, but the parliament had no power to actually come up with laws. All the laws were written, predetermined by the unelected Politburo."
"That's exactly the setup they chose for the European Union."
Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) has placed a hold on the promotion of an Air Force colonel advocating for military promotions based on race and gender, not merit.
“True, but there is more than one way to implement a request. Malicious compliance is always a possibility in this sort of relationship.”
The way President Trump handled the Epstein coverup, via Pam Bimbo and Kash Pajeet , really does look like malicious compliance. RE: poa.st/objects/69883ad8-6ef7-4…
The Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged on Thursday the news of the arrest of two Chinese nationals in Ukraine on charges of espionage for allegedly attempting to steal missile designs, offering few details and claiming Beijing was still “verifying…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is skewering the media for suggesting that the alleged illegal immigrant pedophiles arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of operations in Minneapolis had a fundamental “cultural misun…
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday said the department would work to bar illegal aliens from accessing benefits offered by the department.
Investigators remain at a loss as to what motivated 20-year-old Thomas Crooks to allegedly try to kill Donald Trump as the first anniversary of the assassination attempt approaches.
Good Morning, Pam Bondi, I’m done with the runaround on Jeffrey Epstein’s case, and so are millions of others. We’re sick of being lied to about this so-called “file list”—names, documents, that “desk” everyone’s talking about. Where is it?
You said on Fox News it was on your desk for review, but now it’s vanished? How does that even happen? If you lied, Pam, come clean.
If Joe Biden or his people shredded it, spill the truth. Those children—Epstein’s victims—deserve closure, and you’re stonewalling their justice. This isn’t your first rodeo with this case.
As Florida AG, you looked over Epstein’s file when his sweetheart deal was cut in 2008. You knew the stakes then, and you know them now.
What’s the holdup? Why are details about that desk and the rest of the evidence still buried? This isn’t a game—those kids, now adults, are haunted, and we’re furious at the cover-up.
You’ve got the power to demand those files be released, unredacted, and you’re not new to this mess. Step up or explain why you’re letting this slide. We want answers, not excuses. Speak up,
Something tells me that Ms. Bondi was informed by her boss to "cool it" on the Epstein issue. So she had to backpedal; maybe DJT even gave her the words to say. --?
DJT did jump in at that presser last week to answer a reporter's question to Bondi re. Epstein. This was a BIG tell for me -- Bondi seems to be doing the bidding of her boss.
🛡️ Personal ethics serve as your safety anchor against constant narcissistic justifications. Knowing your boundaries clearly helps protect you from being gaslit into thinking you’re “overreacting” or “misunderstanding.” Without these internal limits, you become vulnerable to toxic twists of reality. Setting and trusting your own ethical standards is a vital step in reclaiming your mental and emotional freedom. #NarcissisticAbuse #Boundaries #MentalHealth
Gestern wurden jetzt die Zahlen für das #EEG Konto für den Monat #Juni2025 veröffentlicht. 🙁
Den Einnahmen von 155,6 Millionen Euro standen hingegen Ausgaben in Höhe von 2,480 Milliarden Euro gegenüber! Das war somit ein Minus von 2,409 Milliarden Euro! 💸
Das bedeutet, dass der Staat allein für diesen Juni 2,409 Milliarden Euro aus dem Steuereinkommen der Bürger für die #Energiewende aufwenden muss!
Der Wahnsinn der Energiewende mit seiner #Umverteilung von Unten nach Oben nimmt seinen Lauf...
Accounts across different banks closed or threatened as they ‘decide’ simultaneously to ‘review’ Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein in Liverpool (being filmed by another Je…
This new version brings the theme up to date with Mastodon 4.4, with support for all the new features included in the release, and more.
This includes support for displaying Quote Posts, for Mastodon's revamped navigation on smaller screens, for the new Featured tab and Pinned Posts carousel on profiles pages, as well as for the new List editor.
Tangerine UI v2.4 brings the theme up to date with Mastodon 4.4, with support for all the new features included in the release, bug fixes, and more.
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This is a follow-up to v2.4, with a handful of small fixes:
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@nileane 👏👏👏👏 well done on getting it out so quickly! I know it was a struggle. Very much looking forward to @hachyderm upgrading when the time is right 😊
Ξεκινά σήμερα ένα τριήμερο θερινού σινεμά με συζητήσεις, μουσικές και συλλογικό φαγητό σε αγρόκτημα καρπουζιών στη Μεσσηνία, με οικονομική ενίσχυση για Παλαιστίνη.
Amelia McDonald couldn’t believe her ears. She had been navigating what she calls “a horrible experience” trying to get her claims paid by State Farm after the Eaton Fire burned down her Altadena home and ranch in January.
She, along with her father, daughter and the goats that survived the fire, have been displaced since then.
Now a $876,354.07 check the insurer wrote her wouldn’t clear.
Wait, wait, wait - she received a large check. Can be from anywhere. She does not have an equal amount in her checking account as the check she is depositing (or anywhere near the amount).
The bank puts a hold on the check and slowly releases the check amount over several days from hold status to deposit status in her checking account. This is normal. The insurance company is not lacking cash.
If she needs the full amount quick, the bank will release it.
Après le Madleen, le Handala, navire de la Freedom Flotilla, partira le 13 juillet de Syracuse en direction de Gaza, pour briser le blocus criminel d'Israël. A son bord, 16 humanitaires et 2 élues LFI.
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.
Αληθεύει; Αν ναι, χρειάζεται πολλή σκέψη και ανάλυση
The spokesman for the Turkish Justice and Development Party, Omar Celik, said that the disarmament process is not limited to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq, but also includes the militia of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, along with the PJAK movement in Iran. - MenaLive
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement prior authorization requirements for certain traditional fee-for-service Medicare services in six states starting next year.
Θα παραμείνουμε, Χριστιανοί και Μουσουλμάνοι σε αυτήν την περιοχή, ένα έθνος, με την πυξίδα μας στραμμένη προς την Ιερουσαλήμ και την υπόθεσή μας να είναι η Παλαιστίνη. Δεν πρέπει να επιτρέψουμε σε κανέναν, σε καμία δύναμη, να προωθήσει σχέδια που στοχεύουν σε περαιτέρω διαίρεση και διάσπαση. Είμαστε μια οικογένεια, έτσι ήμασταν και έτσι θα παραμείνουμε».
Αυτά είναι στην άλλη πλευρά των παπάδων, που κανένας δεν θα προβάλει. Οι μεν με τους σιωναζί οι δε με τους καταπιεσμένους στα χώματα της Παλαιστίνης. eksegersi.gr/politiki/ayto-to-…
20 Φεβ 2025, 11:12 - Το Ισραήλ δεν έχει κανένα δικαίωμα να ισχυρίζεται ότι διατηρούμε σχέσεις με τρομοκρατικές οργανώσεις, γιατί αυτό που το Ισραήλ αποκαλεί τρομοκρατικό μπορεί για εμάς να είναι εθνικό, αγωνιστές της ελευθερίας.
Να σας ρωτήσω ο άγιος Παΐσιος που είναι λέει προστάτης των διαβιβάσεων, προστατεύει μόνο το στρατόπεδο που του έκανε λειτουργία στη σχολή διαβιβάσεων ή μπορεί να κάνει κάτι και για τη σύνδεση μου όταν πέφτει το ιντερνετ?
Φυσικά και μπορεί Μόλις πέφτει η σύνδεση πρέπει να ανάψεις ένα κεράκι πάνω στο ρούτερ, να βάνεις την εικόνα του αγίου δίπλα και μετά να πεις ΦΤΟΥ ΦΤΟΥ ΕΞΑΠΟΔΩ ΜΑΚΡΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΡΟΥΤΕΡ ΑΥΤΌ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ ΣΤ' ΑΓΡΙΑ ΒΟΥΝΑ ΣΤΑ ΒΑΘΗ ΣΤΑ ΛΑΓΚΑΔΙΑ και να κάνεις λιτανεία το ρούτερ μέσα σε όλο το σπίτι. Αν θες μπορείς να πεις στον πνευματικό σου να σου δώκει λίγο λαδάκι ευλογημένο και με ένα μπαμπακάκι να αλείψεις το ρούτερ.
@dougroudouvari Έχω απορία. Το ρούτερ το κάνω λιτανεία στο σπίτι με το καλώδιο που συνδέεται με την πρίζα ή μπορώ να το βγάλω για να μην πρέπει να ρίξω τριαντάμετρη μπαλαντέζα RJ45 και μετά μπουρδουκλωθώ και ψάχνω να βρω τον προστάτη άγιο για τα σπασμένα γοφιά?
τίποτε απ όλα αυτά. Βάζεις το ρούτερ πανω σε λευκό σεμεδάκι, αριστερά μια εικόνα του Παΐσιου και δεξιά τον εσταυρωμένο, 100% σταθερή σύνδεση @dougroudouvari
«Καπιταλισμός... Πάνω απ' όλα το χρήμα… Κύριε, θέλεις να γίνεις πλούσιος; Σκότωσε, ρήμαξε, κλέψε, εξαπάτησε, κι όταν έρθει η ώρα σου εξομολογήσου και άντε στο καλό... Ο Άγιος Πέτρος σε περιμένει στον Παράδεισο των καλών χριστιανών».
Read my new Weekly Briefing newsletter: This week, the world saw even more clearly the brutal logic driving U.S. and Israeli policy in Gaza—and the moral clarity of the people who are rising to stop it.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and Boston Consulting Group helped design a plan to displace Palestinians under the guise of aid. But resistance to this violence is rising, from BDS to American classrooms.
Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama once again knelt before meeting Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Italy.
In the West Bank village of Taibeh, the only entirely Christian Palestinian village, Israeli settlers reportedly set fire to St. George's Church and the adjacent Christian cemetery.
The incident comes amid a broader wave of settler violence in the West Bank. Villages such as Ein Samia and Kufr Malik have faced arson attacks targeting homes, vehicles, and farmland. At the end of June, four young Palestinians were killed while resisting settler raids.
Linux geeks, what package would you use to run 24/7 , monitor line input from ham radio, and record radio traffic when squelch is exceeded. saving each instance in its own audio file?
im thinking of setting a raspberry pi to do this. hook it to an external usb drive.
and Kash Pajeet 
, really does look like malicious compliance.
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