In this episode we speak with Emilio Dabed, the founding member of Legal Centre for Palestine, a lawyer specialised in international law and constituational matter. We talk about the legal proceedings in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against the Attorney General of Canada for Canada’s failure to act to prevent genocide and in violation of its legal obligations under the Genocide Convention of 1948 as well as the plaintiff’s rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom.
Fascistic politics in North America are on the rise, to defeat it, we must understand why
After watching the inauguration of Donald Trump, I am eerily reminded of the famous story from the Titanic when the band kept playing as the ship sank.
There is a certain moral responsibility to scream fire when a blaze has emerged, or in the case of the dance band, to keep playing its tune to the end.
There has been serious obfuscation of two overt Roman Salutes (also known as the Nazi Salutes) by Elon Musk. The salute was created in Fascist Italy and was adopted by the German Nazi Party as well. The handwringing about this is unacceptable. At this stage, he has talked like a duck, and now he walks like a duck. It’s become undeniable.
I am not one to thrust the sins of the family upon its children. But condemning those sins is still necessary. The grandfather of Elon Musk was a prominent Canadian fascist and anti-semite who left Canada to live in South Africa as a major supporter of Apartheid.
Musk repeatedly avoids discussing the politics of his grandfather and how it affects his family by calling his history “quirky.” The bar is set quite low, to disavow a family member you disagree with, but there remains a bar to be met. That remains the condemnation of their views.
I retain a similar opinion for Chrystia Freeland. She is by no means a Nazi supporter or an ideological fascist because her grandfather was one, but it remains unacceptable that she has repeatedly failed to publicly disavow his views. But unlike Musk, Freeland isn’t parroting fascist talking points like eugenics or the “great replacement theory.” Musk has even gone so far as to argue the eugenicist position that smart people create smart children.
In stark contrast to Freeland, Musk’s politics very clearly echo that of his grandfather, and is now clearly affiliated with the incoming US administration. (more...)
"The new US ambassador believes Palestinians should be removed from Israel to enable the second coming of Jesus Christ."
As several of President Trump's cabinet picks have indicated Israel is biblically entitled to annex the occupied West Bank, Peter Oborne discussed the threats that Christian Zionism poses to Palestinian livelihood and how these might be realised under the Trump administration.
Oborne spoke alongside several academics and experts at a four-day conference in Jordan convened to discuss Christian Zionism's impact on the Middle East's Christians.
In 1971 in the slums of West Jerusalem, a group of young Moroccan Jews established the Israeli Black Panthers to fight for equality Israel’s marginalized community of Middle Eastern, or Mizrachi, Jews.
While initially focused strictly on domestic issues, the group eventually came to find parallels between the mistreatment of Mizrachim and the Palestinian plight. Founding member Charlie Biton became the first Israeli to meet with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat in 1980.
Asaf Elia-Shalev, a reporter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service, published the book Israel’s Black Panthers last year. He joins the Orchardcast to discuss the treatment of Mizrachi Jews by Israel’s Ashkenazi ruling class, the Panthers’ complicated relationship to Zionism and the group’s legacy.
Grzegorz Braun called for a prayer for people killed in Gaza during a Holocaust commemorations at the EU Parliament
Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun called on his fellow legislators to “pray for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza” during a moment of silence in remembrance of Holocaust victims on Wednesday. He was swiftly asked to leave the chamber by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.
West Jerusalem launched a massive military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas' incursion into Israeli territory in October 2023, during which the militants killed over 1,100 people and took 240 hostages. By the time the two belligerents sealed a ceasefire earlier this month, the IDF response had claimed at least 46,000 lives in the Palestinian enclave, according to local Hamas-controlled health authorities.
After being ejected from the European Parliament’s commemorative ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the MEP from Poland’s right-wing Confederation alliance insisted in a post on X that he hadn’t wanted to “disturb” the event, but rather “supplemented” it.
The stunt has provoked harsh criticism from multiple lawmakers, including those from Poland.
In a post on X, the European Jewish Congress also denounced Braun’s action as a “vile display of antisemitism in the heart of European democracy.”
The politician made headlines in December 2023 when he used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles during a ceremony at the Polish parliament. Braun said at the time that “there can be no place for the acts of this racist, tribal, wild Talmudic cult on these premises.” (more...)
Polish MEP kicked out over ‘Jewish genocide’ comment
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🇵🇱🇪🇺 Polish Member of Parliament Grzergorz Braun interrupted a moment of silence for Holocaust victims at the EU Parliament with a call to prayer for “The victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza.”
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A new report exposes Google’s growing collaboration with Israel’s army by supplying advanced technology that harms Palestinians.
However, this is not the first time Israel and Google have worked together to oppress Palestinian people.
On January 15, after a year-long trial, ten jurors found four major U.S. military contractors—Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed and General Atomics—guilty on charges of willfully participating in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The prosecution of the “merchants of death” was coordinated by Brad Wolf, a former Pennsylvania-based prosecutor, and fellow peace activists Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern.
Over the past year, the three assembled video testimony by military and academic experts and eyewitnesses who observed first hand how weapons produced by the four major military contractors were used to slaughter innocent civilians and destroy vital infrastructure and the environment across the Middle East and in the Russo-Ukraine War.
When Wolf, Kelly and Mottern tried to visit with corporate executives to get their perspective as to why they were producing weapons of death, the executives refused to meet with them and failed to respond to subpoenas and other requests by Tribunal staff for information.
The same was true of 150 members of Congress to whom Tribunal staff sent questionnaires by mail which went unanswered—unsurprisingly, in light of their close ties to the war industry and complicity in U.S. war crimes.
The senators and congresspeople included some of the most prominent politicians in control of military spending and policy: Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), and House members Mike Rogers (R-AL), Mike Turner (R-OH) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), who spurned numerous direct outreach efforts after the original questionnaires were ignored. (more...)
Anti-Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro explains why Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism.
Yaakov Shapiro is a rabbinic scholar, speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He is a board director of the International Council for Middle East Studies, and the author of four books on Jewish theology and law.
His most recent work is The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Zionism and Judaism. His podcast, Committing High Reason, discusses topic relating to the history and ideology of Zionsim.
‘It’s a perfect example of how the memory of the Nazi Holocaust can sadly be used to justify fascist and even genocidal policies.’
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday by applauding Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza and calling for unquestioning loyalty to Israel.
Speaking at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in Ottawa, Poilievre celebrated the birth of the “great state of Israel” after the Nazi Holocaust.
He then praised Israel for its military campaign in Gaza, which has killed at least 47,300 Palestinians and prompted a genocide case against Israel at the World Court, as well as accusations of genocide from leading human rights groups and scholars.
“Israel has fought back the regimes, and the terrorist groups that sought to annihilate Israel have themselves been annihilated,” said Poilievre, referring to the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, which he compared to the Nazi Holocaust.
“And Israel has friends, as do the Jewish people, friends that will stand through thick and thin, through fire and water, not equivocating, not speaking out of both sides of our mouth.”
Besides the massive civilian death toll and ongoing humanitarian catastrophes unleashed by Israel’s multi-front attacks, Israel in fact failed to destroy Hamas and other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance groups in the region. (more...)
Poilievre Marked Auschwitz Liberation By Praising Israel’s War On Gaza
Background:
Pierre Poilievre’s Incoming War On Support For Palestine
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"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," said a fact sheet released by The White House.
Donald Trump will sign an executive order to deport non-citizen university students who have participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide.
“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” said the President in a fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
Although the order has not been issued yet, the White House has released materials in support of the order and unnamed White House officials have been quoted in the press saying the announcement can be expected as early as today.
These efforts are ostensibly being carried out to combat antisemitism, but are clearly being implemented to crack down on critics of Israel. “My promise to Jewish Americans is this: With your vote, I will be your defender, your protector, and I will be the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House,” reads the fact sheet.
The order reportedly instructs the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews” and “takes forceful and unprecedented steps to marshal all Federal resources to combat the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023.” (more...)
Trump to cancel student visas for Palestine protesters
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Trump in antisemitism executive order:
— Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) January 29, 2025
"My Administration has fought and will continue to fight anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world." pic.twitter.com/oyta7DgaYo
While Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn promotes himself as a “progressive”, the limits of his progressivism are apparent whenever it comes to the issue of Palestine. Cohn has long enjoyed a certain level of legitimacy as a reliable interpreter of events–in the Middle East especially–by highlighting his 11 years working as chief of the Middle East and Asia bureaus—though, mysteriously—his profile in the Toronto Star is unclear on how long he served in the former.
As it turns out, Cohn only spent four years in the Middle East, a factoid he inadvertently revealed during a January 2024 appearance as founder and host of the Democracy Forum at Toronto Metropolitan University. Capitalizing on his progressive bona fides, Cohn has repeatedly expressed racist, progressive-except-for-Palestine dog whistles to the public for the past year and a half.
In his Oct. 18, 2024 column “Hamas leaders have been killed before, and the movement lives on. This time is surely different”, Cohn engaged in a particularly disgusting form of Zionist genocide apologia masked as geopolitical commentary. He assigns blame for the destruction of Gaza on Hamas, its “gift to Gazans”, rather than Israel, which has dropped all the bombs that destroyed Gaza, and the Western states, which have supplied the murder weapons. Cohn repeats the lie about “the massacre of 1,200 Israelis…mostly civilians” in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, ignoring the fact that most Israelis have undergone mandatory military training and service in which they have abused and killed Palestinians, and the role the Hannibal Directive had in killing large numbers of Israelis.
He justifies Israel’s genocide by claiming that the Oct. 7 attacks—erasing the context of 16 years of the siege on Gaza and 76 years of Zionist colonization—had “created the conditions for self-eradication”. Self-eradication, folks. A truly callous, ahistorical statement particularly given the history of armed Jewish resistance to anti-semitic oppression. If this same characterization was ever made of Jews who rose up against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, it would rightly be considered antisemitic. Yet, Cohn blaming the Palestinians for their genocide is perfectly acceptable in the pages of the Toronto Star. (more...)
Can Martin Regg Cohen write about Palestine with any integrity?
There are considerable similarities in the arguments used by the two groups.
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released an order effectively stating that some of Israel’s actions in Gaza may amount to genocide. Many others, including Amnesty International, The Lemkin Institute and a United Nations Special Committee, have already concluded that Israel has committed genocide.
These findings have not been accepted by Israel or its supporters. Instead, they’ve engaged in genocide denial. In doing so, they’ve replicated many of the sorts of arguments used by Holocaust deniers, and for similar reasons.
I won’t bother addressing cruder examples of Gaza genocide denial here, such as that Gazans allegedly look too well fed or happy, or that Israel could have killed all Gazans if it wanted to. Instead, I’ll focus on the sort of denial that has entered mainstream Canadian media, presented as serious news and analysis.
It’s been impossible for all but the most deranged of Israel’s supporters to claim no Palestinian civilians are being killed in Gaza. As such, they’ve sought to distort/downplay what has happened, which if done when discussing the Holocaust is considered a form of genocide denial punishable by up to two years of prison in Canada.
Mainstream sources on Holocaust denial, including the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), state that disputing the fact that around six million Jewish people were killed is a form of Holocaust denial. This method of denial also happens to be how mainstream deniers generally try to dispute findings of genocide in Gaza.
They do so in three main ways: attacking the source of the most commonly cited death count, arguing certain types of deaths should not be counted and using incomplete data to try to cast doubt on the total number of fatalities. (more...)
Gaza Death Revisionists Are The New Holocaust Deniers
In 2024, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania became the first institution to terminate a tenured professor for a pro-Palestinian post. Associate professor of anthropology, Maura Finkelstein, taught at Muhlenberg College for nine years. She speaks with me about the campaign launched to get her fired for her position on Palestine and offers up a warning to others about the state of academic freedom vis a vis Palestine / Israel in North America.
Recently, it came to our attention that the Canadian media conglomerate Rogers has included the Israeli/Zionist channel i24 as part of its Xfinity TV package and also offering it as part of its free previews. It would be a disservice to push misinformation and Zionist hasbara at anytime, but it is heinous complicity to do it when the Zionist project of “Israel” has been profoundly de-legitimatized and at its most weakest due its escalation of genocide in Palestine since October 7, 2023.
For context, it was i24 News channel that started to spread the lie of “40 beheaded babies” to justify the genocide in Gaza. The “40 beheaded babies” talking point and false narrative surrounding it was used for months by western media outlets and Zionist supporting personalities to justify genocidal destruction of Gaza till it was no longer convenient to repeat the lie in the face of mounting counter evidence. It has also been reported that the ranks of i24 News are filled by former veterans of Israeli Occupational Forces (especially from its military intelligence and PR operations) and maintain a revolving door with Israeli military and government. i24 personnel also concurrently work with lobby and media groups in the “west” such as AIPAC and Deutsche Welle.
By promoting i24 News, as the International Court of Justice is pursuing a case of genocide against Israeli, Rogers/Shaw are complicit and willful participants in Israeli hasbara and spreading lies about Palestinians. (more...)
Rogers/Shaw needs to remove Israeli hasbara tv
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison.
But in the fired-up debate about Musk’s intent that followed, as the world’s richest man insisted he wasn’t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era South Africa offered an insight.
In recent months Musk’s promotion of far-right conspiracy theories has grown, from a deepening hostility to democratic institutions to the recent endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). He has taken an unhealthy interest in genetics while backing claims of a looming “white genocide” in his South African homeland and endorsing posts promoting the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory. Increasingly, his language and tone have come to echo the old South Africa.
He is not alone. Musk is part of the “PayPal mafia” of libertarian billionaires with roots in South Africa under white rule now hugely influential in the US tech industry and politics.
They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.
David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk.
Among them, Musk stands out for his ownership of X, which is increasingly a platform for far-right views, and his proximity to Trump, who has nominated Musk to head a “department of government efficiency” to slash and burn its way through the federal bureaucracy.
Some draw a straight line between Musk’s formative years atop a complex system of racial hierarchy as a white male, in a country increasingly at war with itself as the South African government became ever more repressive as resistance to apartheid grew, and the man we see at Trump’s side today. (more...)
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
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It’s not a secret that Elon Musk embraces fascist and reactionary political movements. He makes no attempt to hide his political leanings. Musk’s support not just for Trump, but also for the German neo-Nazi party, Alternative for Deutschland or AfD, is open and widely covered in the mainstream press. Musk also financially supports the British Reform Party, another fascist European political party with a deeply anti-immigrant platform.
In recent years, Musk has become a key public figure in the politics of the global ruling class. However, Musk’s personal politics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the role fascism plays in ruling-class politics and the United States’ history of recycling different fascist movements and figures to suit the imperialist agenda.
In fact, Elon isn’t even the first member of his own family to be prominent in right-wing politics and promote U.S. imperialist interests. South Africa itself provided the imperialists with a new bastion of right-wing demagogues and families after apartheid fell in the early 1990s. After Nelson Mandela took power, many white South Africans who supported apartheid found refuge in the U.S.
But the Musk family’s fascist legacy goes even further back than the 1990s. Musk’s maternal grandparents, Wyn Fletcher and Joshua Haldeman, were wealthy Canadian doctors with openly Nazi politics in the 1940s. In an interview, Elon’s father, Errol, spoke regarding the history of his ex-wife’s Nazi parents: “They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff. But they didn’t know, I don’t think they knew what the Nazis were doing. But they [the grandparents] were in the German Nazi party but in Canada. And they sympathise with the Germans.”
After the defeat of fascism at the hands of the Soviet Union and other allied forces, Haldeman and Fletcher continued their Nazi activism. However, explicit Nazism within Canadian politics was taboo at the time due to the recent war against Hitler’s Third Reich, a war that cost the lives of many Canadian soldiers.
There is an irony here considering the widespread amnesty Canada granted to hundreds of Ukrainian Nazi SS officers, such as Yaroslav Hunka. The Canadian government was widely criticized after the Canadian Parliament honored Hunka publicly. In addition to the Musk family, which is the focus of this article, the Canadian embrace of Ukrainian Nazis is another pertinent example of how the ruling class recycles fascist masses and institutions in the service of their own imperialist agendas.
Nonetheless, finding himself maligned and alienated, Haldeman moved his career and his family to apartheid South Africa, where his fascist politics were more openly supported. Once in South Africa, Haldeman stayed involved in political life, giving a speech in the 1950s where he asserted that apartheid South Africa was leading “White Christian Civilization” against the “International conspiracy of Jewish bankers” and the “hordes of colored people” he claimed the Jewish bankers controlled. This is Elon’s grandfather, and we are supposed to believe Elon’s recent Nazi salute was an awkward arm gesture. (more...)
Nazi billionaires: Fascism in the Elon Musk family tree
In today's show, we'll be examining the implications of the ceasefire in Gaza that was announced, just before the new US president, Donald Trump's inauguration.
Ukrainian children are victims of modern slave traders from Britain and the United States
Assessing Jews’ responsibility for Israel’s actions
The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of Israel.
This narrative is critically examined in Peter Beinart’s new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.
Beinart’s book says the maudlin story we Jews tell ourselves of our virtue and heroic endurance inoculates Jews from seeing Israel’s agency in creating the resistance it faces: “We must now tell a new story to answer the horror that a Jewish country has perpetrated… We are not history’s permanent virtuous victims.”
Beinart, former editor of The New Republic, is now an editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, and a New York Times contributor.
He has been in a 20-year progression of seeing, more and more sharply, the “Jewish and democratic” state of Israel as anti-democratic and incompatible with Jewish tradition. (more...)
Another video about my new book: How we distort Jewish tradition to justify Israel’s oppression of Palestinians pic.twitter.com/iej7AGCP7K
— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) January 26, 2025
In December 2024, Randa Abdel-Fattah, a lawyer, novelist, and Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University in Sydney, posted the following message on X-Twitter:
“May 2025 be the end of Israel. May it be the end of the US-Israel scourge on humanity. May we see the abolition of the death cult of Zionism and the end of the US empire and finally a world where the slaughter, annihilation and torture of Palestinians is no longer daily routine.”
She had previously accused Israel of “industrialized genocide, domicide, scholasticide, infanticide, femicide and ecocide” and described it as a “stolen land.” Every single one of these accusations stands proven from history and from facts on the ground during Israel’s onslaught on Gazan civilian life.
After December’s social media post, Dr. Abdel-Fattah was immediately set upon by Israel’s lobbyists and the Murdoch media, which includes Sky News television and accounts for most Australian national and capital city daily newspapers, as well as almost two-thirds of its regional and suburban newspapers. It also has a large social media and YouTube subscriber audience.
The head of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), Alex Ryvchin, questioned Dr. Abdel-Fattah’s “fitness” as a public educator and called on the government to cut off all grants to her. “She has created an unacceptable risk for the welfare and health of Jews and Israelis at the university,” he said.
The Australian Jewish Association (AJA), accusing her of spreading hatred, called for the termination of her employment. (more...)
The ‘West’: Suppressing Dissent while Enabling Genocide: PART 1 PART 2
Speech at Jan. 23 rally, 'Speak-out! On India’s Republic Day Expose the Unholy Alliance of HINDUTVA and ZIONISM'
Thank you all for being here today.
I’m speaking to you today as part of Academics for Palestine, a collective uniting members of the Concordia community—graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and organizations—who are committed to justice for Palestine and are active on Concordia campuses through the university’s local and international ties. We advocate for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) as a means to hold Israel accountable for its apartheid regime and systemic oppression of Palestinians. I am here to tell you about what we have been doing in the last 18 months and draw some similarities between Zionism and Hindutva in how they stifle dissent and silence solidarity.
Over the past few months, our community has faced a relentless wave of attacks on Palestine solidarity—attacks not only targeting us but also our allies on campus and in the wider Montreal community. We’ve been organizing petitions, writing letters, hosting events, and holding protests. We’ve been advocating for students and faculty in precarious positions who have been targeted by Zionist organizations and/or by Concordia’s administration. But despite our efforts, the repression has been unrelenting.
Let me give you a few examples of what’s been happening right here at Concordia:
Events are being canceled, often under the false pretext of security risks or accusations of anti-Semitism. This includes BDS motions passed in the spring and summer by student groups and departments in adherence to PACBI. These motions have faced well-financed attacks by organizations like Honest Reporting, whose mandate explicitly aims to conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. There website defines them as ““an independent grass-roots organization promoting fairness and accuracy in Canadian media coverage of Israel , the Middle East and matters affecting Canada’s Jewish community, and which works to challenge anti-Jewish rhetoric, particularly when antisemitism hides behind a mask of anti-Israel criticism.”
Following this and other complaints about support for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), in November, a memo from the Provost required political statements to be taken down from Concordia’s department websites.
Violence on campus has escalated. Protests have been met with police violence, undercover surveillance, and increased security measures. Concordia even hired a security company run by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces—directly embedding state violence into our campus. Students have faced profiling and violence. (more...)
Expose the Connections Between Zionism and Hindutva
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Katie talks journalist Max Blumenthal about why he interrupted Antony Blinken and how the U.S. Government enabled genocide and the targeted killing of journalists.
Max Blumenthal is the editor and founder of The Gray Zone and the author of several books including "The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump" and "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel."
The ceasefire that took effect this month brought an end to Israel’s horrific massacres that claimed dozens and sometimes hundreds of lives of men, women and children in Gaza every day over the last 15 months.
The official death toll of Israel’s genocide of 46,000 is widely considered a gross undercount, and already as people return to the ruins of their homes, they are finding the remains of loved ones whose fate had been unknown.
The ceasefire agreement and the announcements of various governments involved in mediating it are silent about the question of accountability for Israeli crimes, whose scale and savagery is difficult to comprehend and may not be fully uncovered for years.
One organization that does take justice for the victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza seriously is The Hind Rajab Foundation. It uses offensive litigation to hold responsible those involved in atrocities of violence against Palestinians.
We speak with co-founder Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Belgian-Lebanese political activist and writer, about the effort to pursue Israeli perpetrators of genocide and bring them to justice wherever they are.
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Bringing Israeli genocide perpetrators to justice
As a former reporter at the government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a current master’s student, I have heard from both academics and journalists that the situation in Gaza does not merit the word “genocide.” Instead, the catastrophe Israelis have inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is deflected, portraying Palestinians as the perpetrators, rather than the victims, of violence.
The media’s power to obscure Israel’s crimes against humanity and shift the blame onto Palestinians sets a dangerous precedent over the reality of the Gaza genocide. When the media conceal injustices, they erode urgency for accountability from government institutions.
In May 2024, an article by Molly Schumann (a pseudonym) for The Breach website exposed CBC’s double standards on Palestine.
The article describes how when Schumann worked for CBC, an unnamed colleague went to management with accusations of anti-Semitism against her. Schumann had acknowledged the influence pro-Israel lobby groups like HonestReporting Canada have on the coverage of Gaza through the targeted harassment of journalists.
This creates fear particularly among young, Arab and Muslim reporters, keen on keeping their jobs. (more..)
Absolutely insane that the anchor took time out of the interview to reprimand the interviewee, someone who has lost family in Gaza, for using the word 'genocide'. CBC has lost the plot. https://t.co/sXRuxdDBAy
— Selma Tobah (@stobah) January 20, 2025
The agencies investigated then -- the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS -- never stopped violating the laws that protect your freedoms and privacy. Back then, Dick Cheney was chosen by the White House to sabotage the investigation. He's still at it today, working with a handful of RINO Senators and the whole Democratic Party delegation, to protect the shadow government. Their goal is to prevent the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as Trump's Director of National Intelligence, and Kash Patel as FBI Director.
The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic, foriegn ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones, part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything near them.
Bases are many of the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air, soil, and water, and generating horrific noise pollution.
Foreign bases are often mini-apartheid states with second-class status for locals and criminal immunity for militaries — a situation that can often be traced back to stolen land and other injustices.
Through public pressure, bases have been closed, plans for bases have been blocked, and bases have been converted to other purposes, superior environmentally, economically, and in terms of achieving peace.
On February 23 people will be protesting bases with nonviolent actions around the world: rallies, vigils, peace festivals, protests, lobby visits, demonstrations, flyering at gates, teach-ins, and celebrations where bases have been prevented or closed and converted into something useful.
Find an event near you or see how easy it is to create one at DayToCloseBases.org
Some of the many organizations involved are
Israel's cleansing of Gaza on your home screen. Trump's son-in-law's resort plan for the land. Buying Congress. Sabby Sabs eviscerates the new regime.
Journalist Greg Hadfield is facing criminal charges for exposing Ivor Caplin, a powerful Labour Party politician recently caught soliciting under age boys. Hadfield sits down for an interview with ACTIVE MEASURES' Kit Klarenberg to discuss.
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I face a court hearing for posting on X a single screenshot of a pornographic post by Ivor Caplin - best friend of Hove Labour MP Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology), who is responsible for legislation to keep young people safe online.
— Greg Hadfield (@GregHadfield) January 26, 2025
I did so…
In this flashback from last year's Annual Fake News Awards, Dinos host Bent Krockman bestows the Fake News Story of 2023 on Benjamin Netanyahu and the liars in the Israeli government for their cartoon propaganda about secret terrorist headquarters under hospitals in Gaza.
William Ramsey with Matt Ehret: Frog-marching toward techno-feudalism
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal responds to an Israeli outlet attacking him for asking Tony Blinken about his family ties to the Israel lobby, and how they influenced his own actions as Secretary of State.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made an authoritarian statement at the 55th annual conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on January 21, 2025 that he does not support freedom of speech when it comes to supporting extreme right-wing views. Human rights activists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice are convinced that the German Chancellor’s statement reflects the disturbing reality of the FRG, where the ruling coalition deprives citizens of the right to freedom of speech, suppresses political dissent and criminalizes criticism of its own, thus violating a number of international agreements and conventions.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, that he does not support freedom of speech when it is used to express extreme right-wing views.
“We have freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany. Everyone can say what they want, even if they are a billionaire. But we do not accept speech in support of the extreme right,” Scholz said in Davos.
This came just days after former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton admitted that the EU intervened in Romania’s election to prevent the winning candidate Calin Georgescu from taking power, and warned that the same would happen in Germany if the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wins next month’s elections.
“We did it in Romania, and we will do it in Germany if necessary,” Thierry Breton said.
In the run-up to early elections in Germany, the government’s actions to curtail citizens’ freedom of expression are taking on an increasingly serious tone. Recent trends in Germany, reflected in the results of a recent survey and a number of cases of violations of German citizens’ rights, demonstrate that freedom of speech in Germany is increasingly under threat. The survey, according to which 74% of Germans believe that citizens censor themselves for fear of persecution, underscores the pervasive climate of fear that stifles open debate and undermines citizens’ basic rights. Instead of fostering a culture of robust debate, the German government is resorting to legal measures to stifle political dissent. (more...)
