Place2Be and Predatory Social Impact Markets in Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing - Zoë Carter

"Children’s lives: children’s hopes and fears, neatly reduced down to a constantly updated data dashboard providing key insights for stakeholders. This is technocracy in action. Messages from distressed children are being used to feed artificial intelligence. Children’s DNA harvested, because ‘how we think and feel can make us ill, too’.

The Biosecurity State is gearing up its focus on children, and virtually none of us parents have been consulted or consented. The email from the school included a Place2Be contact, so I got in touch, to opt my kid out and briefly give my reasons for doing so. That was six weeks ago and I haven’t heard anything back yet.

My purpose in writing this article is to help raise awareness for when this stuff shows up at your children’s school. We must push back against this concerted attempt to turn our youth into data commodities to profit private investors—under the guise of providing ‘mental health support’ in response, largely, to the hyped fall-out from a manufactured public health ‘crisis’."

https://real-left.com/place2be-and-predatory-social-impact-markets-in-childrens-mental-health-and-wellbeing/

"'GENTLE GIANT' George Chigova dead at 32: Former Zimbabwe goalkeeper collapses and dies after suspected heart attack"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/24745892/george-chigova-dead-zimbabwe-goalkeeper/

August 30, 2018

"New York, NY. ― T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights filed complaints Wednesday against three American Jewish groups raising money for Israeli institutions that promote terrorism.

The complaints — against the Staten Island-based Jewish Heritage Movement, the Manhattan-based Central Fund of Israel, and the Skokie, Ill.,-based American Friends of Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi — call on the Internal Revenue Service to revoke their tax-exempt status because the dollars raised benefit far-right Jewish terrorist groups in Israel.

Organizations are ineligible for tax-exempt status if the income or assets they disburse are used for illegal or terrorist activities.

Jewish Heritage Movement raises money for Jerusalem’s Heritage House, whose director actively promotes the teachings of Rabbi Meir Kahane and encourages American Jews to volunteer at illegal settlements in the West Bank. Kahane’s Kach party and Kahane Chai, an organization founded in the late rabbi’s memory, were both outlawed in Israel in 1994, and both organizations have been on the U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1997. Heritage House, which operates a free hostel for American Jewish men, recently drew media attention for posting a “Haters of Israel” list inciting against numerous prominent Jews, including Peter Beinart, Natalie Portman, and T’ruah Executive Director Rabbi Jill Jacobs.

Both Central Fund of Israel and the American Friends of Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi fund Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi, a Kahane-founded yeshiva that actively promotes the American-born rabbi’s videos and that teaches his philosophy; Hemla, which serves as a conduit for funding to Lehava, a group that carries out violence against Palestinians and mixed Jewish-Palestinian gatherings; and Honenu, which sends money to Jews who are accused or convicted of terrorism. The leadership of Honenu, Hemla and Lehava includes proteges of Kahane such as Betzi Gopstein, a former Kach activist who was arrested in 1990 on suspicion of murdering an Arab couple.

This is not the first time T’ruah has spoken out against American Jewish organizations that support far-right Israeli terrorism with tax-deductible contributions. In 2016, the IRS investigated Central Fund of Israel’s funding of Honenu in response to a complaint by T’ruah. Funding has subsequently been resumed.

“As rabbis and Jews, we have an obligation to combat those who promote and support terrorism through a twisted reading of Jewish tradition,” said T’ruah Executive Director Rabbi Jill Jacobs. “As Americans, we refuse to allow our tax dollars to subsidize those carrying out the legacy of the two organizations tied to Rabbi Meir Kahane, which were banned in Israel as terrorist organizations in 1994 and designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. Department of State in 1997.”

“U.S. taxpayer subsidized funding, including that to the Jewish Heritage Movement, Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi, Hemla, and Honenu, directly supports incitement against Palestinians, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and Israeli and American Jewish human rights leaders,” Jacobs added. “In the worst cases, this funding has supported physical attacks, vandalism, and even murder.”

https://truah.org/press/truah-files-irs-complaint-against-u-s-jewish-groups-sending-funds-to-israeli-terrorist-orgs/

April 2023: "As part of the negotiations that led to freezing the judicial overhaul, the Israeli cabinet authorized plans for a militia sought by religious extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. We can only assume that this militia, which Ben-Gvir has said would deal with civil unrest in Palestinian communities in Israel, means that more violent days are on the horizon. Now is not the time for silence; we must continue using our voices and raising concerns about this coalition’s judicial plans and treatment of the Palestinian people."

https://truah.org/resources/israel75-israel-from-the-pulpit-on-april-21-2023/

"Opposition leader Yair Lapid called the government’s decision on Sunday an “extremist fantasy of delusional people” and slammed a separate decision to cut budgets from other ministries “to fund Ben-Gvir’s private militia”.

“The priorities of the government are ridiculous and despicable. The only thing that keeps it busy is running over democracy and promoting extreme fantasies of delusional people,” Lapid said on Twitter.

Under Ben-Gvir’s plan, the unit is to work alongside the police and military and deal with “civil unrest”, such as the “disturbances” or pro-Palestinian protests that occurred in mixed Jewish-Arab areas during the Gaza war of May 2021....

Critics warn that Ben-Gvir – a hardline Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank with past convictions for support for terrorism and incitement against Palestinians – could use the force of around 2,000 troops specifically against anti-government demonstrators or the Palestinian and Arab population."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/2/israeli-cabinet-approves-funds-for-national-guard-under-ben-gvir

PODCAST / LISTEN:

April 3, 2023: "Protests have rocked Israel for weeks and have been some of the biggest in the country’s history, while Israel’s government – its farthest right yet – is also testing relationships outside its borders. So what do the rest of the Middle East and Israel’s closest ally, the United States, have to say about Israel’s right-wing politics?"

https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2023/4/3/israels-right-wing-government-tests-its-boundaries

Irish surgeon with family in Gaza hospital

"Israel said the military had launched the raid because Hamas has a command centre under the hospital..
“We know this is a big lie,” Mr Mokhallalati said.

“All kinds of weapons were used around the hospital. They targeted the hospital directly. We try to avoid being near the windows,” he said, describing a large hole that had been blasted through the wall of a room in an outpatient building.
“Everyone got really, really terrified.”
Explosives sounds rang out as he spoke.
“It’s continuous shooting from the tanks,” he said

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/11/15/they-targeted-the-hospital-directly-irish-surgeons-family-trapped-in-gaza-unable-to-reach-border/

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

"The fight of oppressed people against colonialism, in any case, interests me because it's one of the most difficult moments of the human condition. And because our entire civilization is constructed within this matrix"

--- Gillo Pontecorvo

The Battle of Algiers - Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wd5Pz8KJeU4&feature=shared

Full film:
https://youtu.be/zpn4Htfrv88?feature=shared

Nov 12, 2023

"Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that anyone who supports Hamas should be “eliminated.”

During an interview with the Israeli Channel 12, Ben-Gvir said “To be clear, when they say that Hamas needs to be eliminated, it also means those who sing, those who support and those who distribute candy, all of these are terrorists.”

“They should all be eliminated,” the minister added.

Ben-Gvir, who has recently come to the fore with his distribution of weapons to civilians throughout Israel and to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, is known for his Jewish supremacist views.

According to Israeli media reports, approximately 25,000 weapons, as well as ammunition and other war materials, were purchased from Israeli arms companies as part of Ben-Gvir's campaign to arm civilians and settlers.

He also shared photos of people detained in front of the Israeli flag, handcuffed, due to their social media posts following the events on Oct. 7.

Ben-Gvir was a former member of the racist Kahane movement, which Israel banned in 1998 for terrorist acts and the US designated as a terrorist organization.

He was also exempted from military service due to the radical nature of his beliefs.

Moreover, 53 indictments were prepared for charges against the Israeli minister such as "hate, provocative speech and racism.”

He was convicted of "racism and supporting a terrorist organization" in 2007.

Ben-Gvir was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Ministry of National Security, responsible for law enforcement in the country."

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/anyone-who-supports-hamas-should-be-eliminated-israeli-minister/3051463

Eric Clapton and I as co-lyricist have signed the Music for a Ceasefire Open Letter from artists, musicians and performers calling for an end to the siege of Gaza. Robin
https://thecorbynproject.com/news/music-for-a-ceasefire/

Cornel West

Head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party (rebranded terrorist org. Kach), Itamar Ben Gvir (C) with Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel (L) at the launch of the party’s campaign, ahead of the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem on February 15, 2020. (Sindel/Flash90)

July 2, 2019

"Baruch Marzel: Advocate of ethnic cleansing"

"Marzel was one of the early leaders of hate activist Meir Kahane’s Jewish Defense League (JDL). After Kahane was killed in November 1990, Marzel played a larger role in the organization, which has changed names several times and was represented in Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) as the Kach political party.

Marzel has run for political office in the Knesset and is a member of the Otzma Yehudit political party, which was reorganized from the outlawed Kach.

He has openly advocated the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. “There’s no way we’ll have quiet or peace inside Israel as long as we have here millions of supporters of terror, people that believe in their religion that all of the Land of Israel … is theirs, and that we’re occupiers, and the Jews have no right to a state or can even exist here,” he said. “The only way to have peace is to get them out of Israel.”...

But his activism is not confined to Hebron. Alongside Ben-Zion Gopstein, Michael Ben-Ari and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Marzel founded and became a spokesman for the segregationist Lehava movement.

The Jewish far-right campaigning organization objects to almost every kind of personal relationship between Jews and non-Jews.

Marzel remains active in politics. He is a member of Otzma Yehudit, which calls for Arabs to leave Israel.

The willingness of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to work with such parties means their influence cannot be underestimated.

Netanyahu even received criticism from AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobby in the US, over the election alliance he agreed to with Otzma Yehudit."

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1519246/middle-east

Laura Aboli

https://t.me/robinmg

"The mask has fallen as the West backs genocide in Gaza"

Nov 14, 2023

Robert Inlakesh is a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker based in London, UK. He appears regularly in Al Mayadeen English.

"‘Freedom’, ‘democracy’ and a ‘rules-based international order’ are what the self-styled ‘civilized’ Western governments claim to be guiding them. The so-called ‘leader of the free world’ alleges that his administration upholds international humanitarian law and opposes all forms of racism and discrimination. This rhetoric may have held up in the past, but as the Western regimes participate in the genocide of yet another indigenous population, this time in Palestine, the mask that was once hanging from a thread, has finally fallen."

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-mask-has-fallen-as-the-west-backs-genocide-in-gaza

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast #96. Artist Hiroyuki Hamada wtites: "We open our discussion with the latest Wrong Kind of Green article on the rise of far right ideology among the Israeli political scene, how individuals with terrorist backgrounds have been appearing as policy makers. What does that mean within the western imperial framework? We dive into the social as well as psychological aspects of the phenomenon. Please listen and share. With John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur and Hiroyuki Hamada."

https://soundcloud.com/aestheticresistance/podcast-new

Nov 13, 2023

"'They call us terrorists': Inside the Palestinian resistance forces of Jenin, West Bank"

"The resistance will never be crushed... Any people under occupation have the right to resist. This is the case for all colonized people...

People in the West think we have no ambition. It's not true. I was studying computer engineering and I had an invention. All Palestinians have been subjected to the injustice of occupation. We grew up with ambition. We grew up playing in the street. Children around the world may play ordinary games, like PlayStation. Here we are forced to play with stones. There are no conditions for life here. No life... We had ambitions to become scientists, doctors, and engineers, but the occupation opted for violence."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfLVa1u4pk