For Palestinians, "October 7th" started in 1948, & never ended:
"Six Basic Facts About the Nakba Everyone Should Know"
"Palestinians do not think of the Nakba just as a historic event, but as a type of ongoing existence. It is reaffirmed in every encounter with a soldier at a checkpoint, every land expropriation and restriction on movement, or war on Gaza.
When the Partition Plan was voted on, most of the land in the proposed Jewish state was not under Jewish ownership and was home to 350,000 Arab Palestinians. The Jewish state was to include the city of Haifa and its port, the country’s main economic asset; the coastal plain that was the home of most of the Palestinian citrus industry; the roads traversing the length of the country; and the fertile lands of the valleys. The entire Negev was designated for the Jewish state despite extremely limited Jewish land ownership there, on the assumption that Jews had a greater potential to develop it in the future rather than existing ownership or land rights.
5. Why don’t Palestinians put the past behind them?
For Palestinians, the Nakba is not the past. It is the present. The process that began in 1948 has essentially never ended. After the war, Israel expropriated Palestinian lands and imposed a military administration on its Palestinian citizens which lasted until 1966. Then, in 1967, Israel imposed military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The military government and the settlement project continue to appropriate more and more Palestinian lands, overrunning Palestinians’ individual liberties, human rights, and basic dignity, practically destroying the possibility of Palestinians establishing an independent state in the future.
The removal of the Palestinian population is what enabled Israel’s formation as a democratic country with a clear Jewish majority. The erasure of Palestinian culture and history is what enabled the modern State of Israel to draw a direct connection between itself and the biblical era, while ignoring the long and rich Arab history of the land.
Without the Nakba, Israel as we know it could not have come into being. This places a considerable responsibility on Jewish Israelis to recognize the loss upon which their country is built." Dotan Halevy, Maayan Hillel, and the Editors of the Social History Workshop. Haaretz. Israel.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/six-basic-facts-about-the-nakba-everyone-should-know/00000188-2e5d-d6e4-ab9d-eefdb0fe0000
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"Six Basic Facts About the Nakba Everyone Should Know"
"Palestinians do not think of the Nakba just as a historic event, but as a type of ongoing existence. It is reaffirmed in every encounter with a soldier at a checkpoint, every land expropriation and restriction on movement, or war on Gaza.
When the Partition Plan was voted on, most of the land in the proposed Jewish state was not under Jewish ownership and was home to 350,000 Arab Palestinians. The Jewish state was to include the city of Haifa and its port, the country’s main economic asset; the coastal plain that was the home of most of the Palestinian citrus industry; the roads traversing the length of the country; and the fertile lands of the valleys. The entire Negev was designated for the Jewish state despite extremely limited Jewish land ownership there, on the assumption that Jews had a greater potential to develop it in the future rather than existing ownership or land rights.
5. Why don’t Palestinians put the past behind them?
For Palestinians, the Nakba is not the past. It is the present. The process that began in 1948 has essentially never ended. After the war, Israel expropriated Palestinian lands and imposed a military administration on its Palestinian citizens which lasted until 1966. Then, in 1967, Israel imposed military rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The military government and the settlement project continue to appropriate more and more Palestinian lands, overrunning Palestinians’ individual liberties, human rights, and basic dignity, practically destroying the possibility of Palestinians establishing an independent state in the future.
The removal of the Palestinian population is what enabled Israel’s formation as a democratic country with a clear Jewish majority. The erasure of Palestinian culture and history is what enabled the modern State of Israel to draw a direct connection between itself and the biblical era, while ignoring the long and rich Arab history of the land.
Without the Nakba, Israel as we know it could not have come into being. This places a considerable responsibility on Jewish Israelis to recognize the loss upon which their country is built." Dotan Halevy, Maayan Hillel, and the Editors of the Social History Workshop. Haaretz. Israel.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/six-basic-facts-about-the-nakba-everyone-should-know/00000188-2e5d-d6e4-ab9d-eefdb0fe0000
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A statement by Andrew Bridgen MP:
"This morning, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to resign from the Reclaim Party.
I would first of all like to thank Laurence and all of the team at Reclaim who have been excellent and supported me wholeheartedly for the last 9 months.
I have come to this decision purely because of a difference in the direction of the Party, I will still wholeheartedly support the policies and values of the Reclaim Party and wish them all of the best in their future endeavours
However, I need to make a very important decision with a general election pending in the first half of next year. I need to put North West Leicestershire first, above any Party allegiance. I will continue standing up and fighting for the people of North West Leicestershire and delivering what is best for them.
I have consistently campaigned against HS2 since my first election in 2010, I have been at the forefront of exposing scandals such as the modern day slavery cover up in Leicester and the Post Office Horizon scandal which was debated in the House of Commons yesterday.
I have been standing up for those who have been injured by vaccines and exposing the worrying cover up of Trends in Excess Deaths on a national and indeed global scale"
ENDS
"This morning, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to resign from the Reclaim Party.
I would first of all like to thank Laurence and all of the team at Reclaim who have been excellent and supported me wholeheartedly for the last 9 months.
I have come to this decision purely because of a difference in the direction of the Party, I will still wholeheartedly support the policies and values of the Reclaim Party and wish them all of the best in their future endeavours
However, I need to make a very important decision with a general election pending in the first half of next year. I need to put North West Leicestershire first, above any Party allegiance. I will continue standing up and fighting for the people of North West Leicestershire and delivering what is best for them.
I have consistently campaigned against HS2 since my first election in 2010, I have been at the forefront of exposing scandals such as the modern day slavery cover up in Leicester and the Post Office Horizon scandal which was debated in the House of Commons yesterday.
I have been standing up for those who have been injured by vaccines and exposing the worrying cover up of Trends in Excess Deaths on a national and indeed global scale"
ENDS
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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR:
"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR:
"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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"The genocidal trip many Israelis [and Americans, British, Europeans] are on" - a form of collective madness, a mass formation psychosis, a collective hypnosis geared towards genocide & its denial:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737112308672016760.html?s=09
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Threadreaderapp
Thread by @YehudaShaul on Thread Reader App
@YehudaShaul: [1] Incitement, Racism, & Extremist Politics have spread amongst the rank and file of IDF units. Artists were invited to perform for the troops and are emboldening these trends and especially the call ...…
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NBC NEWS:
Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
'The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.'
"TEL AVIV — The fatal shooting of a mother and daughter in Gaza’s only Catholic church over the weekend highlights the pressure Christians in the enclave are under, with fears mounting that their tiny population could be wiped out during the war.
In the weeks since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, many members of the enclave’s ancient Christian community of some 1,000 sought refuge in two church complexes in the north: the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church and the nearby Catholic Holy Family Church.
On Saturday, a mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic regional body whose territory formally includes Cyprus, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories, said in a statement.
“They were shot in cold blood,” the patriarchate said of Nahida Anton and her daughter, Samar Anton, blaming an Israel Defense Forces sniper. “One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” while at least seven others were shot and wounded as they tried to “protect others inside the church compound,” it said."
Chantal Da Silva, NBC London
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fears-mount-gazas-tiny-christian-community-mom-daughter-shot-dead-rcna130132
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Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
'The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.'
"TEL AVIV — The fatal shooting of a mother and daughter in Gaza’s only Catholic church over the weekend highlights the pressure Christians in the enclave are under, with fears mounting that their tiny population could be wiped out during the war.
In the weeks since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, many members of the enclave’s ancient Christian community of some 1,000 sought refuge in two church complexes in the north: the St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church and the nearby Catholic Holy Family Church.
On Saturday, a mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic regional body whose territory formally includes Cyprus, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories, said in a statement.
“They were shot in cold blood,” the patriarchate said of Nahida Anton and her daughter, Samar Anton, blaming an Israel Defense Forces sniper. “One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” while at least seven others were shot and wounded as they tried to “protect others inside the church compound,” it said."
Chantal Da Silva, NBC London
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fears-mount-gazas-tiny-christian-community-mom-daughter-shot-dead-rcna130132
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NBC News
Fears mount for Gaza’s tiny Christian community after mom and daughter shot dead
The mother and her adult daughter were shot dead while walking inside the grounds of the Holy Family Church, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said in a statement.
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Europe On Cusp Of Mass Secret Censorship
Corporate news media and governments applaud crackdown on free speech as EU censorship officials open office in San Francisco
by @shellenberger
French President Emmanuel Macron; Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
In Europe, as in the United States and other free nations, people are going about their business as normal. Christmas lights illuminate city centers, where people are shopping for gifts. Students are taking final examinations and preparing to come home from the university for the holidays. And people are having debates over social and political issues, in person and online, as though nothing has changed.
But something has changed: the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation European Union, is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech. Its main target is X, formerly known as Twitter.
Unlike other large social media platforms, X has refused to comply with the secret censorship demands that Europe’s top censor, Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has demanded.
In response, Breton opened “formal infringement proceedings” against the company owned by Elon Musk today. They include, according to Breton, “Suspected breach of obligations to counter #IllegalContent and#Disinformation.”
Breton has not yet imposed censorship or threatened punishment of X. There is still time for Breton to back off and allow free speech to flow freely on the social media platform.
But it doesn’t look good. It looks as though the EU and X are headed toward a head-on collision, with the EU demanding secret censorship by committees of “experts” to decide what is true and not true.
X pulled out of the “voluntary” EU censorship pact in May but today said it “remains committed to complying with the Digital Services Act and is cooperating with the regulatory process.”
Whether or not X complies with EU demands, the EU appears to be headed for mass secret censorship of its citizens. X may be forced to decide whether to comply or leave Europe.
Corporate news media celebrated Europe’s crackdown on free speech. “The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory move to date against X,” enthused the New York Times, “which has seen a rise in incendiary content on the platform, according to researchers.”
Reporting by Associated Press had the tone of a class tattletale. “The EU has called out X,” wrote the reporter, “as the worst place online for fake news, and officials have exhorted owner Musk to do more to clean it up.”
It’s unclear if these reporters realize that Europe is taking a big step toward becoming as closed of a society as China. If X leaves Europe, Europeans would need to use a VPN, or virtual private network, to illegally access the website, as people in China must do to evade government censors.
The mainstream news media organizations do not mention that they, and governments, have themselves been spreading false information, including about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Many Americans may wonder why we should care. Europe is far away. Its leaders are doing what their citizens want. And we are still protected by the First Amendment.
We should care. Though Europe is backward on the free speech issue compared to the U.S., it has historically been allied with the United States in pushing for free speech worldwide.
What’s more, as Europe falls to totalitarian speech controls, the pressure will grow for social media to censor more in the U.S. Already, 7 out of 10 Democrats, up from 4 out of 10, want the government to help Big Tech censor wrongspeak.
And Europe’s ambitions are to censor us Americans, not just its own citizens. To make its intentions clear, the European Commission even opened an office near Twitter in downtown San Francisco.
Corporate news media and governments applaud crackdown on free speech as EU censorship officials open office in San Francisco
by @shellenberger
French President Emmanuel Macron; Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
In Europe, as in the United States and other free nations, people are going about their business as normal. Christmas lights illuminate city centers, where people are shopping for gifts. Students are taking final examinations and preparing to come home from the university for the holidays. And people are having debates over social and political issues, in person and online, as though nothing has changed.
But something has changed: the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation European Union, is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech. Its main target is X, formerly known as Twitter.
Unlike other large social media platforms, X has refused to comply with the secret censorship demands that Europe’s top censor, Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, has demanded.
In response, Breton opened “formal infringement proceedings” against the company owned by Elon Musk today. They include, according to Breton, “Suspected breach of obligations to counter #IllegalContent and#Disinformation.”
Breton has not yet imposed censorship or threatened punishment of X. There is still time for Breton to back off and allow free speech to flow freely on the social media platform.
But it doesn’t look good. It looks as though the EU and X are headed toward a head-on collision, with the EU demanding secret censorship by committees of “experts” to decide what is true and not true.
X pulled out of the “voluntary” EU censorship pact in May but today said it “remains committed to complying with the Digital Services Act and is cooperating with the regulatory process.”
Whether or not X complies with EU demands, the EU appears to be headed for mass secret censorship of its citizens. X may be forced to decide whether to comply or leave Europe.
Corporate news media celebrated Europe’s crackdown on free speech. “The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory move to date against X,” enthused the New York Times, “which has seen a rise in incendiary content on the platform, according to researchers.”
Reporting by Associated Press had the tone of a class tattletale. “The EU has called out X,” wrote the reporter, “as the worst place online for fake news, and officials have exhorted owner Musk to do more to clean it up.”
It’s unclear if these reporters realize that Europe is taking a big step toward becoming as closed of a society as China. If X leaves Europe, Europeans would need to use a VPN, or virtual private network, to illegally access the website, as people in China must do to evade government censors.
The mainstream news media organizations do not mention that they, and governments, have themselves been spreading false information, including about the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Many Americans may wonder why we should care. Europe is far away. Its leaders are doing what their citizens want. And we are still protected by the First Amendment.
We should care. Though Europe is backward on the free speech issue compared to the U.S., it has historically been allied with the United States in pushing for free speech worldwide.
What’s more, as Europe falls to totalitarian speech controls, the pressure will grow for social media to censor more in the U.S. Already, 7 out of 10 Democrats, up from 4 out of 10, want the government to help Big Tech censor wrongspeak.
And Europe’s ambitions are to censor us Americans, not just its own citizens. To make its intentions clear, the European Commission even opened an office near Twitter in downtown San Francisco.
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Meanwhile, advertisers and the corporate news media are waging the mother of all economic wars on Musk’s X, demanding that it engage in more secret censorship and “cooperate” with “researchers” who want X’s data, so that they can tell the company not just who but also which whole narratives to censor, just as they already do at Facebook, Threads, Instagram, and Google.
Concerns that Facebook would censor on behalf of a foreign government grew earlier this year when reporter Lee Fang reported that the Ukrainian government routed censorship demands through the FBI to Facebook, and that the company acted on them.
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Concerns that Facebook would censor on behalf of a foreign government grew earlier this year when reporter Lee Fang reported that the Ukrainian government routed censorship demands through the FBI to Facebook, and that the company acted on them.
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Donations:
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We don't DM from this channel account.
Rule: Be polite & respectful.
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Forwarded from MintPress News
Malaysia has banned Israeli ships from docking in their ports and passing through their waters.
"This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
"This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
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Well done Andrew for stepping away from the genocidal mass formation psychosis and putting your name on the right side of history, the one which still believes in human rights.
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Well done Andrew for stepping away from the genocidal mass formation psychosis and putting your name on the right side of history, the one which still believes in human rights.
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Forwarded from World Council for Health
Media is too big
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WHO IHR Debate in UK Parliament: Together We're Making History
A historic debate on the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations took place in the UK parliament this week, attended by a handful of mostly very thoughtful UK MPs and throngs of concerned men and women.
This important debate was made possible by a petition initiated by WCH co-founder Dr Tess Lawrie and the more than 116,000 concerned UK citizens who signed it. Thank you to everyone who signed and shared this petition and to those who joined us on Monday in London and to those around the world who watched online.
Guided by the principles of the Better Way Charter, the World Council for Health is here to help all people seeking to navigate through the wake of incompetence and corruption to calm waters. There’s a better way and we at the World Council for Health are with you all the way!
Monday's debate was a culmination of several months of work—a multi-disciplinary team effort that drew expertise from our policy and legal department, social media and graphics teams, administrative team, and teams on the ground in communities.
A big thank you to everyone who made this possible. Please help us to continue essential work just like this on the frontline of a Better Way by making a donation today: worldcouncilforhealth.org/donate
Follow: ➡️@WCH_org
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🌐 WorldCouncilforHealth.org
A historic debate on the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations took place in the UK parliament this week, attended by a handful of mostly very thoughtful UK MPs and throngs of concerned men and women.
This important debate was made possible by a petition initiated by WCH co-founder Dr Tess Lawrie and the more than 116,000 concerned UK citizens who signed it. Thank you to everyone who signed and shared this petition and to those who joined us on Monday in London and to those around the world who watched online.
Guided by the principles of the Better Way Charter, the World Council for Health is here to help all people seeking to navigate through the wake of incompetence and corruption to calm waters. There’s a better way and we at the World Council for Health are with you all the way!
Monday's debate was a culmination of several months of work—a multi-disciplinary team effort that drew expertise from our policy and legal department, social media and graphics teams, administrative team, and teams on the ground in communities.
A big thank you to everyone who made this possible. Please help us to continue essential work just like this on the frontline of a Better Way by making a donation today: worldcouncilforhealth.org/donate
Follow: ➡️@WCH_org
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EVIDENCE OF GENOCIDAL INTENT
2) Deliberate destruction of almost all medical facilities;
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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2) Deliberate destruction of almost all medical facilities;
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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EVIDENCE OF GENOCIDAL INTENT
2) Deliberate destruction of almost all medical facilities;
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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2) Deliberate destruction of almost all medical facilities;
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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NOTE: Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture is Israeli and a colleague and architect like me. We were at the Architectural Association at the same time and I attended his first thesis presentation on Israeli's architecture and urbanism of occupation when we were both students. Have not spoken to him in years but we had the same Professor of Political Theory as our PhD tutor around twenty years ago.
Forensic Architecture
cross-referenced and analysed hundreds of reports from Al-Jazeera, Alaraby and Shehab News, which describe attacks on, or near to, hospitals and medical infrastructure in north of the Gaza strip
The results of this analysis suggest a repeated and consistent pattern of attacks on hospitals across the region, defined by attacks on surroundings
direct targeting
siege
occupation
These cumulatively forced the hospitals out of service
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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Forensic Architecture
cross-referenced and analysed hundreds of reports from Al-Jazeera, Alaraby and Shehab News, which describe attacks on, or near to, hospitals and medical infrastructure in north of the Gaza strip
The results of this analysis suggest a repeated and consistent pattern of attacks on hospitals across the region, defined by attacks on surroundings
direct targeting
siege
occupation
These cumulatively forced the hospitals out of service
https://gaza-hospitals.forensic-architecture.org/
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Did we pop the Ardern belief bubble? 🗯 Going viral globally:
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1737316617149726968
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https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1737316617149726968
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