Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer

 

I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months of reciting to one another the most appalling of the news bulletins from Gaza that come our way from a great variety of sources. It is rather miserable to think life has come to this, reading aloud daily accounts of atrocities, but there is no turning away from the depths to which terrorist Israel has dragged the whole of humanity.

The subtext of each of these recitations is, “Can you believe this is happening? Can you believe the U.S. participates in this? Can you believe this is normalized?” It is indeed difficult to believe the things we read of are part of life in the third decade of the 21st century, and may this remain so: When it is no longer difficult to read or watch videos of the Israelis’ merciless barbarities, the Zionist army will have bombed and bulldozed our consciences as thoroughly as it has any Gazan or West Bank village. 

Over the weekend my partner told me she had read something that was simply too much even for our recitation routines. It was a piece Politico had published Friday, July 19, and it had arrived courtesy of Jonathan Cook, the estimable British journalist. “We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable” was written not by journalists, but by two American surgeons who had volunteered last spring for humanitarian work in Gaza by way of the Palestinian American Medical Association. Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma and critical care surgeon who practices in Northern California.

“I haven’t been able to mention this until now,” my partner began, her voice cracking. Then, holding back tears, she told me about the Politico piece. She related the stories of two Palestinians the American surgeons treated during their time at the European Hospital. The European Hospital sits at the southeastern edge of Khan Younis, the city in central Gaza where the Israeli Occupation Forces earlier directed Palestinians to evacuate, then bombed, then left, and now, Khan Younis having been resettled, is now being bombed again. 

Here are the stories.  (more...)

Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer

A Diary of Genocide

 

Palestinian novelist Atef Abu Saif and Chris Hedges explore Saif's experiences under siege by the Israelis in Gaza, and the meaning behind them, in a substantive and powerful conversation. Through it, the texture of the genocide and the damage it inflicts on its victims is captured, as Saif’s eloquence and vulnerability reveals the weight of the tragedy in a way only facts and data simply cannot.

The Gaza Holocaust

 

As we approach the ten month mark of the slaughter in Gaza, it's time to peel back the layers of deception surrounding October 7th, the Israeli response, and the true meaning of this conflict. We must call things by their right name. The Gaza holocaust must end.

Holocaust Survivor BLASTS Israel For Its Holocaust

 

Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest who has been protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza, which he describes as not only genocide but a holocaust. Stephen is a member of Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide.

Stephen lost 15 members of his extended family in the Holocaust and his father was interned in Belsen & Theresienstadt. He settled in London but when he visited Israel was “shocked” by the racism exhibited by Israelis, including his relatives who had also survived the Holocaust. Stephen joined The Labour Party in 1997, becoming an activist and office-holder at various local levels. Stephen resigned from the Labour party, after penning a widely circulated letter, after the Labour party warned him they would “investigate” him if he spoke at a leftist organization on Holocaust Memorial Day.  He is a member of Camden branch of PSC ( Palestine Solidarity Campsign ),Camden & Islington Momentum ( affiliate of the Labour Party) and lately of the small network ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against Genocide.’

Ziklag Exposed: Secretive Christian Nationalist Network Tries to Purge Voters in Battleground States

 

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made headlines this week after suggesting the 2024 election could be the last U.S. election if he wins in November. We look at a secret organization of wealthy Christians called Ziklag that is backing Trump's efforts by working to purge more than a million voters from the rolls in battleground states and mobilize Republican voters to back Trump. The news outlets ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag's internal files and found the group has divided its 2024 activities into three different operations: Steeplechase, which uses churches to get out the vote; Watchtower, which aims to rally voters around opposition to transgender rights; and Checkmate, which is focused on funding so-called election integrity groups, explains ProPublica investigative reporter Andy Kroll.

Why Palestinian voices cannot be silenced again

 

On Israel-Palestine, there is an enormous gulf between Canada’s rhetoric and its actual policies

The list of Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians grows longer every day. So far, Israel has killed about 38,000 people in Gaza, though the actual number may be far higher. Israel attacks aid workers, hospitals and their staffs, and journalists.  It has levelled Gaza’s health care and educational systems. It is starving 2.3 million civilians, half of whom are children. Right now, 500,000 Gazans face famine. Israel has made Gaza uninhabitable. In the West Bank, it has increased its attacks on Palestinians, killing more than 560 people since Oct. 7, 2023, and recently announced the largest illegal “land grab” in decades. Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are subject to physical and psychological torture, sexual assault, and starvation.

In the West, opposition to Israel’s conduct has been met with an extraordinary campaign of intimidation and silencing. The fear of being blacklisted has kept most of the supposedly “liberal” entertainment industry quiet. Across western media, numerous reporters have been fired for being overly critical of Israel while the media have been accused of pro-Israel bias. In Canada, the CBC has been accused of stifling efforts to critically cover the Gaza War. American Senator Mitt Romney admitted that the United States Congress’ primary reason for trying to ban TikTok is because the platform evoked support for Palestinians among young people. “Antisemitism” has been misused to muzzle Israel’s opponents. Pro-Palestinian protestors have been assaulted by police and attacked by counter-protestors.

The Guardian has revealed the extraordinary co-ordination between Israel and pro-Israel groups to “police” the political discourse around Israel within the U.S. and Europe, especially on university campuses. Professors have lost job offers— something familiar to the University of Toronto—and part-time instructors have lost their careers for daring to protest  Israel. Students have been punished and blacklisted with threats to their professional futures. Wealthy donors have threatened universities for failing to shut down pro-Palestinian protests.

Yet this effort to silence the Palestinian voice will, inevitably, fail. Donors may fume, university administrations may try to appease them, but Israel and Palestine/Gaza have become an unavoidable part of the curricula of thousands of classes. Every course on human rights, genocide, international law, racial discrimination, colonialism, etc., will need to examine Israel’s siege of Gaza and the Palestinians. There is no avoiding this.  (more...)

Why Palestinian voices cannot be silenced again

The Ghosts of Germany’s Past

 

The shutdown of "Compact" magazine signals a dangerous escalation in the German government's crackdown on free speech and democracy, argues Maike Gosch, a communication strategist, writer and former lawyer.

Toronto's growing pro-Palestine movement

 

At the University of Toronto, students, faculty, and community members successfully staged one of the longest-standing encampments on any campus, holding out for a total of 63 days. While the People's Circle for Palestine ultimately dismantled itself in response to a court injunction, the movement successfully brought the issue of divestment to the fore, and is far from over. Toronto itself has proven to be one of the most stalwart cities in North America's Palestine solidarity movement, and, come fall, UofT is certain to emerge once again as a major battleground in the international struggle for Palestinian liberation.

Samira Mohyeddin returns to The Marc Steiner Show for a retrospective on the People's Circle for Palestine, and how the pro-Palestinian movement is reshaping the politics of the US and Canada.

"Post-Christian Era" on Display in Paris

 

Given the blatant attack on classical culture and Christianity at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics,  it is no surprise that western governments are refusing to support diplomacy to end the destructive NATO proxy war in Ukraine, while continuing to support the genocide unleashed against Palestinians in Gaza.  The necessary cultural shift was the focus of Helga Zepp-LaRouche at a conference in Italy, while Viktor Orban spoke in Rumania of the coming end of 500 years of colonialism.

WAZ and the Big Trouble in 'Little Ukraine'

 

No Bozo like a Banderite Bozo

Max Blumenthal: Netanyahu SMEARED American Citizens

 

America's political class glorifies Netanyahu

Israeli Spies Plant Fake News In The Media

 

In this episode of The Watchdog, Lowkey catches up with journalist Alan MacLeod to hear about his latest investigations, including his exposure an Israeli intelligence-linked group spreading fake news about Lowkey and other pro-Palestinian figures in the mainstream media.

JNF’s loss of charitable status a win for international law and Palestinian rights

 

The charity has been openly flouting Canadian law with impunity for decades

In a small but significant step for defenders of Palestinian rights, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund, an organization that violates Canadian law by funneling tax deductible charitable donations to the Israeli military. According to CRA policy, funds intended to benefit the operations of a foreign military cannot be tax deductible.

The CRA decision follows an audit of JNF activities, launched after a complaint that the JNF is violating Canadian tax law by sending donations to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2017, a complaint filed by Independent Jewish Voices asserted that “JNF Canada works in violation of the Income Tax Act and in contravention of Canadian foreign policy in various ways,” including by funding infrastructure projects on Israeli army, air, and naval bases.

On top of funding the IDF through charitable donations, the JNF is a key participant in Palestinian dispossession through the sale of illegally occupied lands and financial support to illegal Israeli settlements. The JNF owns 13 percent of Israel’s land and, while claiming the “make the desert bloom” through tree-planting and other environmental projects, it sells lands stolen from Palestinian communities to Israeli settlers, helping to entrench Israel’s occupation.

The CRA cannot claim that JNF’s flouting of Canadian tax law is news. The organization has been openly flouting Canadian law with impunity for decades.  (more...)

JNF’s loss of charitable status a win for international law and Palestinian rights

‼️BREAKING: The CRA has revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund (@JNFca) for violating Canadian and international law by providing support to a foreign army and enabling Israel’s annexation of land within the Occupied Territories. https://t.co/8STK8Mt5dD

— Canadian Dimension (@CDN_Dimension) July 26, 2024

Freedom Flotilla’s Handala En Route to Challenge Israeli Blockade of Gaza

 

We want to update you, the supporters of U.S. Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, on the status of the 2024 Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

The ship Handala of the 2024 Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s mission to challenge the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza has entered a crucial phase of the three-and-a-half-month voyage.

After departing from Norway in May 2024, Handala has traveled across Europe, and making significant stops in 20 ports in Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Spain, and Portugal, with several more countries to come. This journey not only symbolizes solidarity with those in Palestine but also raises awareness about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza due to Israeli genocide in Gaza and 17 years of land, air and sea blockade.

The Gaza Flotilla initiative, led by participants and crew members representing 19 countries, underscores global outrage over the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. We call for a permanent ceasefire to end the genocide in Gaza, and for an end to the blockade that has severely restricted essential supplies, including food, medicine, and fuel, from reaching Gaza’s two million residents.

Handala has been received in each port by enthusiastic crowds of Palestinian solidarity supporters with cultural and educational community events. Handala is a great vehicle for Palestinian community efforts.  (more...)

Freedom Flotilla’s Handala En Route to Challenge Israeli Blockade of Gaza

Tell the UN to Suspend Israel!

 

U.S. lawmakers rose to their feet with a roaring applause when Netanyahu addressed Congress on July 24. On top of the countless crimes Netanyahu committed in recent months, just last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is illegal under international law. Our lawmakers have gone beyond failing us, and we know full well the only chance of holding this genocidal maniac accountable is by taking action ourselves. 

In 1974, the UN General Assembly suspended South Africa from participating in its work after unrelenting international pressure even though the U.S. and other Western nations objected. That international isolation forcibly dismantled apartheid in South Africa. We can pressure them to do the same for Palestine. The groundwork is already laid out for us since the ICJ established a ruling on Israel’s illegal settlements in Palestine. That means, even if the ICJ’s ruling on Israel is “nonbinding”, the UN General Assembly can vote to suspend Israel and send the genocidal state into international isolation. The U.S. and other imperialist nations have no veto power over this vote. This is a win we can achieve and use to further our liberation movement! 

Sign the petition below to tell member states of the UN General Assembly to suspend Israel!  (more...)

Tell the UN to Suspend Israel!

Rabbi Shapiro on how Anti-Zionism became the new Antisemitism

 

Is Anti-Zionism the new antisemitism? That is what Israel and the Israeli lobby would have you believe but last week I had the chance to sit down with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro and he says that this is wrong. He says that Zionism itself is antisemitism and that the Israeli government is dangerous for Jews all around the world.

Adidas' dark legacy from Nazi roots to modern-day Israeli crimes

 

Adidas has certainly lived up to its slogan, "Impossible Is Nothing," as its controversial legacy stretches from its Nazi-era past to its recent involvement in Israeli crimes and human rights abuses.

ICJ rules Israel guilty of apartheid

 

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate address the landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice.

Azov Fighter Visits Auschwitz to Mock Holocaust Victims

 

A fighter with Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade was caught mocking holocaust victims at Auschwitz. His unit has received training from France and a greenlight to receive weapons from the United States.

Decorated fighter of Ukraine's "elite" 3rd Assault Brigade visits Auschwitz, June 2024 https://t.co/NNJ6vqd1l1 pic.twitter.com/5EkjnoeAc6

— Moss Robeson 🇵🇸 (@mossrobeson__) July 17, 2024

Ukrainian Nazi Group Plotted Terror Attacks in NYC

A grand jury has indicted a leader of a neo-Nazi organization called the "Maniac Murder Cult" who had been encouraging terrorist attacks on Jewish children and other minorities in New York.

Surviving Zionist Propaganda Summer Camp

 

Daniel Maté is a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the co-author of "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture"  by Gabor Maté. He also co-wrote with Katie the Parody song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now: The Genocidal Remix" a duet by Biden and Bibi.

This song and video were inspired by Benjamin Netanyahu's statement, "Nobody will stop us -- not the Hague, not the axis of evil and not anybody else," and Joe Biden's unwavering support of Israel's war crimes. 

Lyrics by Katie Halper and Daniel Maté. Video edited by Kinky Roach Productions. Biden voiced by Mike MacRae. Bibi voiced by Daniel Maté. Parody of the song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" co-written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond and recorded by Starship.

Fireside Chat featuring Cliff Kiracofe, author, Dark Crusade: The Israel Lobby and Christian Zionism

 

War criminal Bibi Netanyahu’s speech—rather, desecration—of the United States Congress last night, would not have occurred, were the American Presidential system actually working. The obvious infirmities and absence from decision-making of the sitting President are being taken advantage of, as a de facto “War Party” secret government, in coordination with NATO, moves to push the United States into war with Iran and support for Israeli actions to come in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the nation of China has been responsible for pulling together 14 Palestinian factions in an effort at peace, and has also recently hosted the Foreign minster of Ukraine, only two weeks after Prime Minster Orban of Hungary’s “whirlwind diplomacy between Kiev, Moscow, Beijing, Washington and Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

When President Dwight Eisenhower was faced with French, British and Israeli aggression against the nation of Egypt, in what was called the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, he acted decisively against them. He clearly enunciated an independent American policy over that of all three other nations. Neither still-President Joe Biden, nor former President Donald Trump—nor, for that matter, aspiring President Robert Kennedy Jr.—have exhibited that independence. In tonight’s discussion, the British imperial origins, of the Netanyahu phenomenon will be discussed, in the context of international landscape now being positively affected by the international initiatives for peace now being undertaken by China, Hungary and other nations. Independent candidate for United States Congress Jose Vega will also join the discussion.

The Elders call for bold action by world leaders to end Israel’s unlawful occupation

 

Statement: The Elders call on global leaders to enforce the ICJ's ruling that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal. They emphasise the need for a ceasefire in Gaza, the provision of humanitarian aid and a commitment to justice and the rule of law.

 The Elders today call on political leaders worldwide, and especially those with influence on Israel, to enforce the historic ruling by the International Court of Justice and bring an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.

They welcome the authoritative opinion issued by the ICJ on 19 July as a definitive statement of international law. The legal consequences of this should now be implemented in full by Israel, United Nations member states and the UN itself.

The ICJ, as the principal judicial organ of the UN, found that Israel’s presence throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, is unlawful. It further found that Israel’s policies and practices amount to annexation of large parts of Palestinian territory, and constitute a breach of its international obligations on racial segregation and apartheid.

The Elders note the Court’s conclusion that Israel’s security needs can never justify permanent occupation or annexation of territory. Successive Israeli governments have been violating the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, and the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force, for more than five decades.  (more...)

The Elders call for bold action by world leaders to end Israel’s unlawful occupation

"Israel Is NOT The Answer To The Holocaust" - Former Zionist Rich Siegel

 

Anti Zionist Jewish activist Rich Siegel explains his journey in leaving Zionism and how he became a Pro-Palestinian activist.

Remo Ibrahim is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, LAOCIE chapter (@palestinianyouthmovement, @pymlaocie). He is committed to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and to confronting Zionism and white supremacy wherever it appears.

Rich Siegel is a musician and activist. Raised in what he calls “the cult of atheistic Zionism posing as Judaism”, in his youth Rich was very involved as a supporter of Israel, notably as a teenage Zionist youth group president. He then lived in Israel in his 20’s working as a pianist in a luxury hotel.  Rich’s change of heart began as a spiritual awakening, by which he came to see that Jewish tribal identity and the state of Israel were worshipped as idols. Then he became acquainted with Zionism’s crimes against humanity, which contradicted the Zionist narrative he grew up with. Organizing demonstrations against Zionist activity in the northern New Jersey suburbs where he lives, Rich’s activism hit a high note when a talk he gave in front of the Teaneck town council went viral. Recently Rich was fired from a teaching job at a local music school due to a pro-Palestine Facebook post. He is director of Deir Yassin Remembered, a pro-Palestine charity and activist organization. He is currently running for Congress in New Jersey, with the Ceasefire and Justice Party.

David Wallace, Brad Mitchell, Rod Diplock and Mick Strange

 

Preachers, pedophiles, private investigators, lawyers and liars, criminals, and crooked cops, big business, bibles, black eyes and bribery, and lots and lots of money. Welcome to the strange Jekyll and Hyde world of the “Universal Elderhood” of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, whose revered priests and leaders, Brothers Brad Mitchell and Rod Diplock, preach the Gospel of Christ Jesus by day, and transform like werewolves into “Frestey” and “Westwind” to hunt opposers by night. 

Meet Brother “Stranger Things” Mick Strange, the foul-mouthed priest of Oz, and his lackey “Prince of Darkness” Keith Prince who bankrolls their dark ops from Tillsonburg town.

Meet Gerald Chipeur, KC, Counsel to the Conservative Party of Canada, and the PBCC, who preaches in the temples of the 7th Day Adventist Church, administers Justice in the law courts of Alberta, and procures and pays criminals $5000 a time to sign false affidavits for his clients.

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” - and extraordinary evidence is exactly what we give you - a score or more of emails, recordings and text messages between the PBCC priesthood, and their operatives from the underworld, extracted from the famous Klondike papers and published here for the first time. 

And our special guest today? No less than David Wallace, political ratf@cker turned whistleblower, without whom Richard would probably be dead, and “Get-a-Life” would never have been conceived.

And there’s more…so much more…but watch, listen, and see with your own eyes the damning evidence from the Cult of Corruption – Bruce D Hales’ Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.

Dear Leader

 

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the gut-wrenching spectacle of Benjamin Netanyahu's welcome to Washington and report back from the mass protests that met him at the US Capitol.

Jewish National Fund revoked by Canada Revenue Agency

 

In a win for those against apartheid and genocide, the Canada Revenue Agency is reportedly revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada. Author Gabor Maté, Rabbi David Mivasair, Wesam Ahmad from Al Haq,  Professor Miles Howe and lawyer Shane Martinez will discuss this move that is likely to spur significant controversy at an online press conference today at 12 EST (Friday, July 26).

According to a statement JNF Canada released Thursday, the CRA has announced it will revoke the century-old organization’s charitable status. The reason reportedly given is its “support for military infrastructure in Israel” despite CRA charity guidelines stating clearly that “supporting the armed forces of another country is not” charitable.

In 2017 Rabbi Mivasair and three others filed a detailed complaint to the CRA and Minister of National Revenue over the JNF, which has had many Prime Ministers speak at its events. After an audit, the CRA required JNF Canada to adopt a series of measures it failed to comply with.

“While the Canada Revenue Agency has been too slow in applying its rules towards the Jewish National Fund of Canada, the CRA should be applauded for finally taking action against this powerful organization”, said Karen Rodman of Just Peace Advocates.

The Jewish National Fund of Canada is one of many Israel-focused charities that have violated CRA rules. Over the past 18 months detailed complaints have been submitted to the CRA asking it to investigate a dozen other Israel-focused charities.

In recent weeks there’s been significant campaigning on Israel-focused charities. At the start of last month Gabor Maté, Yann Martel, Linda McQuaig, Roger Waters, Monia Mazigh, Desmond Cole, Libby Davies and others signed “Stop Subsidizing Genocide”. The public letter  points out that “200+ registered Canadian charities funnel a quarter billion dollars a year to projects in Israel. Many of these groups finance projects that support the Israeli military, racist organizations and West Bank settlements in contravention of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) rules.”

In another challenge to Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession, NDP revenue critic Niki Ashton hosted a June 13  press conference at the parliamentary press gallery calling “on the Liberal government to investigate Canadian charities that allegedly funneled taxpayer money in support of Israeli military operations and illegal settlements in Palestine.” She also sponsored a parliamentary petition on the subject and sent a letter to Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau demanding the government investigate charities funding Israeli military operations in Gaza and illegal Israeli settlements.

Last Friday Le Devoir and La Tribune reported on a press conference held outside Minister Bibeau’s riding office in Sherbrooke calling on her to take action on the matter. The revenue minister was also asked about the subject at a press conference on Tuesday.

Zionist mayor in Canada gets permission to build his militia

 

Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada. As this author has detailed repeatedly in recent months, they’ve pushed to restrict civil liberties, dismantle democratic organizations and increase policing to suppress the movement against Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.

One of the most anti-Palestinian voices in the Liberal caucus Marco Mendicino recently called for “protective zones” around MP offices. According to the former public safety minister’s plan, anyone who harasses or intimidates people within 50 to 100 metres of constituency offices would be subject to harsher criminal penalties. Far from any parliamentarian’s office, Mendicino promoted banning anti-genocide rallies on a Toronto highway overpass during the winter.

The mayor of one of the wealthiest municipalities in Québec has been another of the most vocal prominent Zionist fascists in recent months. Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi has repeatedly called for arresting and deporting peaceful protesters and in a troubling escalation was recently granted the power to build a sort of municipal militia.

On X, Levi recently retweeted a post noting, “stop this nonsense and deport”. It showed people engaged in the democratic process under the statement “Pro Hamas supporters taking over the streets in Downtown Toronto. They are calling for an intifada which means indiscriminate terrorism.”

In another post, the mayor of the inner Montreal suburb called to imprison a man photographed at a Montreal mall with a shirt that seemed to celebrate the October 7 operation. “This is a blatant glorification of hate and violence, and this man must face charges immediately!”, wrote the mayor of the most Jewish municipality in the country.  (more...)

Zionist mayor in Canada gets permission to build his militia

Big win for Palestine: JNF charity status revoked

 

Score a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession. The powerful Jewish National Fund of Canada has reportedly had its charitable status revoked.

Under pressure from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and others the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) instigated an audit of the JNF in 2018. JNF Canada was eventually forced to differentiate itself from its parent organization in Israel and to stop “co-mingling” its funds with that organization. JNF Canada was also instructed to stop assisting projects in the illegally occupied West Bank and initiatives supporting the Israeli military. But, apparently it failed to fulfill the Revenue Agency’s requests and now the CRA has rescinded its ability to grant donors tax credits.

Revoking JNF Canada’s charitable status has been long in the making and has come at some cost for many individuals. Born in a West Bank village demolished to make way for the JNF’s Canada Park, Ismail Zayid has been complaining to the CRA about its charitable status for four decades. For years Lebanese Canadian Ron Saba has been “writing to various Canadian government departments and officials, corporations, and media to” denounce what he calls the “racist JNF tax fraud”. During the Liberal Party convention in 2006 Saba was widely smeared for drawing attention to leadership candidate Bob Rae’s ties to the JNF. Saba put in multiple Access to Information requests regarding the JNF, demonstrating government spying of its critics and long-standing knowledge of the organization’s dubious practices. Under the headline “Event you may want to monitor,” Foreign Affairs spokesperson Caitlin Workman sent the CRA a communication about a 2011 IJV event in Ottawa stating: “author of the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Yves Engler, will give a talk on Canada and the Jewish National Fund.” At the Green Party convention in 2016 Corey Levine pushed a resolution to revoke the JNF’s charitable status because it practices “institutional discrimination against non-Jewish citizens of Israel.” The effort brought the issue into the mainstream though she, IJV and the entire Green Party were smeared as “hard core Jew haters” for even considering the resolution.  (more...)

Big win for Palestine: JNF charity status revoked

Israeli Settlers Are the World’s Worst Neighbors w/ Mohammed el-Kurd

 

Useful Idiots rise up

DC Police Deploy Pepper Spray Against Netanyahu Protests As Congress Kisses the Ring

 

Israel is participating at the Olympics in Paris while Russia is banned, despite killing at least 80% fewer civilians in Ukraine than the Israeli state has killed in Gaza. 

Even the United States has prosecuted its own for War Crimes. Impunity for Israel. Enforcement of international law for everyone else. 

No clearer was this hypocrisy demonstrated than on Wednesday, July 24th, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a man with a pending ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, addressed Congress in order to shore up support for his political survival and request more weapons for his “war” against Hamas. 

Join us tonight on State of Play as we dissect this Historic speech and discuss the protests that took place outside.

Sports Media Complicity in Genocide

 

Derek is joined by Leyla Hamed, a sports journalist and Editor in Chief at the The Athletic FC. As one of the very few pro-Palestinian advocates in sports media, I can’t think of many folks better than Leyla to talk about media complicity in this ongoing genocide and the role that sports media should be taking in putting pressure on sporting organizations like the IOC and FIFA to enact its policies when considering banning Israel from membership in those organizations and participation in international sporting events.

‘This war criminal should not have come to US’ | Protesters speak on Netanyahu’s visit

 

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met with applause inside the hallowed halls of Congress, outside the public's sentiment was headlined with banners of war crimes and charges of genocide…

Journalist Manila Chan was on scene in Washington DC.

Israeli Spy Unit stealth capture of mind control in the West

 

On yesterday’s news program I covered the emergence of yet another Unit 8200 spin-off running a censorship campaign to silence pro-Palestine, anti-genocide voices on META platforms. I include an article actually in The Guardian which is a little teeth gritting for me to promote due to The Guardian’s generally hideous bias and protection of power in the UK (especially on Syria). However the authors of the article Lee Fang and Jack Poulson did write a follow-up article published on Substack which contains a lot more detail on CyberWell - the 8200-linked organisation I talk about.

Related:

Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers

Netanyahu protest live

 

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate do Washington D.C.

Why Did Divestment Negotiations at McGill Fail?

 

While the McGill administration has painted the encampment’s demands as unreasonable, pro-Palestinian protesters are adamant that more can be done to make divestment happen faster.

On July 10 at 4:30 a.m., protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment on McGill campus woke up to a wall of riot cops and private security officers hired by McGill administration surrounding the entire perimeter of the school.  

Over the course of 10 hours, the officers worked to get protesters out of the area and dismantle the encampment. An encampment member who was present throughout the day said the officers were using intimidation tactics to coerce the protesters and the students into leaving the camp, like threatening to arrest them.

“The private security officers had a canine unit, and they kept telling the protesters at the camp that if they did not leave, they would get arrested. And they also told the protesters that things will get violent if they do not leave,” said the SPHR spokesperson who wished to remain anonymous. 

The grounds where the encampment stood for over two months were reduced to a pile of wooden pallets, banners and signs on the ground, and tents ripped apart. 

After an incident like this, it would be hard to believe that the McGill administration intends to meet the demands of the encampment, or to divest from Israeli companies that are fueling the genocide happening in Gaza. Yet, a member of the McGill administration says the divestment process is underway.

But places like McGill work like molasses, explains the administration member who wished to remain anonymous.  (more...)

Why Did Divestment Negotiations at McGill Fail?

War Criminal to Address U.S. Congress

 

War criminal Netanyahu will be cheered lustily by war hawks of both parties when he addresses the U.S. Congress today.  He also hopes to have separate meetings with Biden, Harris and Trump.  Will any of them, or any member of Congress, have the guts and morality to tell Netanyahu to stop the killing, or all funds from the U.S. will be cut off?

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters unveils 15-minute NEW SONG

 

“It's not easy. We all of us wake up in the morning and burst into tears, and then think ‘All right pull yourself together you big lunk. There's work to be done.’ And we think what can I do today to make a difference? However tiny it is, what can I do today that is not standing by, silent and indifferent? What can I do?”

Roger Waters TAKES ON Piers Morgan

 

“Is the revolution around the corner? I effing hope so!”

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters returns to Useful Idiots as bold and funny as ever, with takes on the UK’s new “self-serving Nazi” Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the meaninglessness of the Trump assassination attempt, the real devastation happening everyday in Gaza, Julian Assange, and so much more.

Roger laments that our leaders are “Joe Biden, who thinks he rules the world” and “Keir Starmer, who's a self-serving, career Nazi. They would do anything, tell any lie, adopt any position that can give them power and influence.”

Waters asks what would have happened if the assassination attempt on Trump had been successful: “Nothing. There'd be another puppet there instead. It doesn't make any difference.”

Which is why Roger believes working hard to get these people, Trump and Biden, out of office is so important. “You have an opportunity now to take part in the existential battle for the human soul that Aaron and Katie and I and millions, billions of people all over the world are engaged in. Because we care about right and wrong and we care about human rights and we care about our brothers and sisters.”

And if we don’t? “We are heading towards World War Three very, very fast.”

Last week, Aaron appeared on Piers Morgan in a debate with two very angry Zionists. The week before, Roger debated Piers himself. The two trade stories of the frustrating environment and how blatant lies (beheaded babies, evidence-less sexual assault of Israeli women), and propaganda (the covering up of Israel’s mass violence of its own people on October 7th) are being shoved down our throats.

“People on this issue just repeat again and again claims that have been debunked. They've been doing it since Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goering suggested it in the late 1930s. The bigger the lie you tell, the better it is. You just have to keep repeating it.”

Americans protest Netanyahu visit to Washington

 

Israeli Prime Minister has arrived in Washington in hopes of conducting talks with the US leadership. Citizens refused to welcome Netanyahu as they protested near the US. Congress, waving Palestinian flags and holding banners describing him as a war criminal.

Gabor Maté's Anti-Zionist Awakening

 

This is part two of a never-before publicly streamed interview with Dr. Gabor Maté about how Gabor Maté survived the Holocaust and unlearned Zionism.

ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel: with Michael Lynk

 

On July 19th 2024 the ICJ court released its decision regarding Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. It concluded in its ruling that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied territory is illegal and must end as soon as possible. It included Israel’s prolonged occupation, it’s settlement expansion, continuous annexation of the territory, its apartheid policies, as well as providing full reparations, restitution and compensation including the return of all the land and the evacuation of its settlements. Additionally, the ruling said that all states, including Canada, are under obligation to cooperate with the UN in bringing an end to the occupation, and are not to render any assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 

Here to give us clarity on the ICJ ruling, its importance and significance, what to expect in how Canada would react, is Canadian legal academic, and associate professor at University of Western Ontario, professor Michael Lynk. He was the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the 1967 occupied Palestinian Territories.

Former UN Special Rapporteur: ICJ advisory opinion confirms Israel is committing apartheid

 

On July 22, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Professor Emeritus Michael Lynk about an Advisory Opinion issued on July 19 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). 

From 2016 to 2022, Professor Lynk served as the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council for the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

As Prof. Lynk explains, the ICJ concluded in its Advisory Opinion that Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is illegal and must be ended as rapidly as possible. He also interprets the ICJ's opinion as confirmation of allegations by numerous human rights experts that Israel is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid.

Finally, Lascaris and Prof. Lynk discussed the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, in contravention of the Genocide Convention.

Media Ignores World Court Ruling Against Israeli Apartheid

 

We discuss in detail what Friday's historic ruling against Israel being an apartheid state and what this means going forward with International Human Rights Lawyer Kristen Zornada @kristenzeta .

The pessimism regarding the efficacy and enforcement of international law and the notion of a “rules-based order” is understandable, yet all hope is not lost. 

We, of course, would never expect the mainstream media to report on the historic and unprecedented ruling of the International Court of Justice against Israel’s Apartheid and illegal occupation of Palestinian Lands. 

Prime Minister Netanyahu has made the torching of the Oslo Accords his career talking point. Now the Oslo Accords ARE torched, just not in the way he wanted them to be. 

Israel is no longer in a position to condescend to allow the Palestinians a right to self-determination, they are now compelled to without condition, according to the highest legal authority on Earth.