“Two Nations. One Voice”: Palestine and Lebanon rally grips Victoria Park

 

“I was born in Haifa. I am older than Israel,” said Lilian Mattar-Patey, a Windsor-based United Church minister. She addressed crowds gathered beneath a grey sky at Victoria Park in London on April 19 for a Palestine and Lebanon rally; a social media post about the protest read Two Nations. One Voice. Together, we rise. “In 1948, the first day of the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’, my brother was carrying me. I was less than two years old then, and he said that the Israeli soldiers were shooting at us, and one bullet came beside my ear and he said if he didn’t jump, it would have gone in my head. And so the killing continues for so many years…They are doing the same in Lebanon what they did in Gaza. This is repeating itself and the world is sitting watching rather than trying to stop them…What can we do? What you can do is contact politicians and tell them to do something, to speak up for human rights. For Lebanese, Palestinians, and all of humanity, we need to be free to live in our own homelands.”

She listed some of the policies that form Israel’s apartheid state: arbitrary detentions of Palestinians, restricted movement of Palestinians, and demolitions of Palestinian homes. 

A 2022 UN report by former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk states that Palestinians can be “imprisoned indefinitely through administrative detention” by Israeli forces. They are incarcerated without charges, evidence, trials, or convictions. The conviction rate is over 99 percent. This includes Palestinian children. Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem reports that Israeli forces had 351 Palestinian children detained or imprisoned at the end of December 2025. 

“In the middle of the night, they can come to your home, and take one of your children, and they will have no reason to tell you why they are taking your child,” said Mattar-Petey. 

In 2017, fourteen year old Obaida Jawabra was detained by Israeli forces while on his way to a store. The Israelis bound his hands in plastic cords, covered his eyes and nose in a blindfold that made it “hard to breathe”, made him fall as he walked sightless, and beat him “in places that would leave no marks” so that he couldn’t testify to being brutalized. The next year, he shared his story in a 7-minute film, OBAIDA. He had dreams of becoming a chef; in the film, he fries vegetables in sizzling oil, presses sliced tomatoes in a pan, flips a mass of steaming lamb, vegetables, and yellowed rice – maqlouba – onto a dish to the faces of his smiling family. Jawabra asked: “Why are we so different from other children in the world? Why are we detained when we’re young and made to suffer, while others are happy playing sports, and with many opportunities that we don’t have? To this day, no one can answer me.” 

Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Israeli-administered territory “Area C” of the West Bank are barred from building homes. Lynk’s report states: The United Nations has observed that, because permits for construction for Palestinian homes and property in East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank “are nearly impossible to obtain,” Palestinians often build without one. In turn, the Israeli military frequently orders the demolition of Palestinian homes and property built without a permit. The report outlines that land is seized for “military needs”, “public needs” for “exclusive Jewish Israeli use”, and for “state land” of which 99.76% has been for Israeli settlements. 

“Israelis can destroy or bulldoze your home if they want to,” said Mattar-Patey. “They say it is for their own security – what security? They continue to say ‘we need security and that is why we need the Palestinians out’.”  (more...)

“Two Nations. One Voice”: Palestine and Lebanon rally grips Victoria Park

Montreal provides a model for student activism

 

In Montreal, the air has carried a specific resonance for over two years.

Every week, the city’s central arteries are filled with rhythmic chants in French, English and Arabic, all echoing the demand for a liberated Palestine. They belong to a movement that refuses to be ignored, and while the world’s eyes often fixate on the Ivy League centers of the United States, Montreal has quietly emerged as a primary engine of the global student intifada, a city where the current struggle for Palestine is grafted onto a deep, radical root system of student syndicalism.

We realized that our universities could not claim to educate us while simultaneously profiting from the erasure of an entire education system in Gaza.

However, the urgency of this movement is not born of student politics alone. As the world witnessed the livestreamed genocide of Gaza, the systematic destruction of every university, the targeted killings of academics and members of the press, and the scholasticide of an entire generation, the geographic buffer between Montreal and Palestine was incinerated.

For us, the destruction was an indictment of our own institutions. We looked at our university endowments and realized we could no longer read about justice in textbooks while our tuition fees funded its erasure.

The anger on Montreal campuses is not directed aimlessly, but at documented entanglements with Israel.  (more...)

Montreal provides a model for student activism

Launching the Needed Anti-Colonial Movement

 

Times of India author Mrutyuanjai Mishra provides a valuable reflection on the recent, highly symbolic visit of Britain’s King Charles III to the United States—and that, in particular, from a formerly colonized nation of the Global South. He writes in a May 1 op-ed:

“The 250th anniversary of American independence should have been a moment of clarity, a reaffirmation of the principles that gave birth to a republic. Instead, it has revealed a profound contradiction at the heart of contemporary political life. At a time marked by war, economic strain, and institutional breakdown, Donald Trump chose to celebrate not the rejection of monarchy, but its legacy.”

Mishra continues: “The American Revolution constituted a decisive rupture with monarchy and imperial rule. It was not an extension of British political culture but a rejection of it. The Declaration of Independence established that sovereignty resides with the people, not with a crown or inherited authority. This position diverged sharply from European traditions shaped by thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, whose frameworks, despite their differences, remained tied to hierarchies of power and property. The American founders advanced a more radical proposition: that human beings possess inherent dignity, rational capacity, and the ability to pursue the common good. Government, in this view, exists to cultivate these qualities rather than restrain them under the authority of a sovereign ruler. To celebrate monarchy at the symbolic center of American governance is therefore to invert the very principle upon which the republic was founded.”

If only Americans were as offended at this embarrassment as Mishra is for them!

This topic was taken up in full at the May 1 weekly meeting of the International Peace Coalition. Professor Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, said one reason for Trump’s fondness for Charles was that he sees himself as the “first American king,” and pointed to the increasing alienation of today’s ruling elites from the worsening conditions of life for the average citizen. He attributed this to the Western financial system’s transition from industrial productivity to financial profiteering, which has generated tremendous profits for a wealthy elite while wreaking destruction for the many. Even wars and genocides have become “good for business,” Falk noted, showing the amorality of this system.  (more...)

Launching the Needed Anti-Colonial Movement

Sanctions Architect Hacked: Handala Publishes Robert Malley’s 150k Secret Emails

 

Today, Robert Malley, the chief architect of criminal sanctions against the Iranian people and former advisor to the U.S. President, has been completely hacked in a complex cyber operation.

150,000 up-to-date and highly classified emails belonging to Robert Malley, along with thousands of private chats from his official X (formerly Twitter) account, are now available for public download on the Handala website for the first time.

Within these documents, you will find undeniable evidence exposing the direct role of the Zionist lobby in designing and imposing economic sanctions against Iran, with unprecedented detail.

Additionally, there are numerous secret files that reveal how several Arab Gulf states have been closely collaborating with Malley and his sanctions team, serving as the operational arms of economic pressure projects against Iran.

These leaks deliver a devastating blow to the so-called security of America and its network of allies.

Just as all top Zionist regime officials were previously targeted and exposed by Handala’s cyber operations, now it is America’s turn, and the turn of the architects behind economic crimes.

Handala’s intelligence reach and infiltration capabilities know no borders and no limits.

At the appropriate time, we will also expose other key American figures and their confidential communications and documents.

Researchers, journalists, and independent activists should download these emails from the Handala website as soon as possible, before they are removed or taken down; these documents will stand as historic evidence to condemn economic criminals and their accomplices in the court of world public opinion.

Robert Malley, for his role in orchestrating cruel sanctions and complicity in the suffering and deaths of innocent children, is without question the primary defendant among the ranks of terrorist criminals.

Handala  (more...)

Sanctions Architect Hacked: Handala Publishes Robert Malley’s 150k Secret Emails

Handala to unmask US mastermind of anti-Iran sanctions and leak thousands of top-secret documents
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Germany's Self-Destruct Pact: Merz Pushes Europe to the Brink

 

Germany is in crisis. Friedrich Merz and the CDU are pushing Germany toward confrontation with Russia, slashing social services to fund a massive military buildup, and picking fights with both the United States and China — all while Germany's industrial economy collapses to 2008 financial crisis levels. Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou of The Duran break down how Germany is abandoning the very foundations it was built on, why the CDU is united behind this self-destructive course, and whether stoking fear of Russia is the establishment's last desperate move to block the AfD from taking power. Is Germany heading toward a complete political and economic breakdown?

• Intro — Merz, Germany, and the Russia escalation debate
• Mercouris: Germany hurtling toward the cliff
• The foundations of the German Federal Republic explained
• Why German leaders are always sensitive about the US alliance
• Quarreling with America during an economic collapse
• Germany's industrial PMI drops to 2008 crisis levels
• CDU fully on board — a kamikaze approach to policy
• Why Merz's unpopularity is an asset for the CDU
• Regional elections — CDU stable, SPD and FDP collapsing
• Is stoking Russia fear the CDU's plan to block the AfD?

Britain & NATO - A Devil's Bargain

 

In this weeks edition of Decline & Fall we start off by looking at the Ukrainian “male model” trial in London.

From here we move to examine the expansion of NATO and how this has been guided by British policy.

Travesty: Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for The British Malthusian

 

Friends of the International Peace Coalition,

Americans of conscience may be casting around for a phrase or even a word that captures the repulsive spectacle this week of King Charles and Queen Camilla being wined, dined, and treated almost like the founding fathers of the United States by the U.S. President, a Joint Session of Congress, and almost the entirety of the fawning Establishment media.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche called it a travesty.

In her April 29 weekly webcast, Zepp-LaRouche stated about the King’s visit: "I think it was a travesty. And obviously, it's up to American patriots to remedy this disaster," such as those represented by the independent candidacies of Diane Sare and Jose Vega. Zepp-LaRouche elaborated: "It was an amazing spectacle. I think there are several aspects to be noted. The most obvious one is that it was a blatant attempt to completely wipe out the memory of what the American Revolution was all about, that it was, after all, a war of independence against the British Empire.

"And what happened, or what was attempted to make happen with these two speeches—the speech of King Charles in the Congress and the earlier speech of President Trump—what was basically attempted by both was to wipe out any memory of what the American Revolution was all about. And to completely replace it with what Trump unfortunately called the ‘Anglo-American Revolution.’ As if this would be one piece, as if it could have been a joint venture, when one was clearly directed against the other."

Fortunately, two things broke through the controlled environment designed to brainwash Americans into accepting the so-called "special relationship" with Great Britain as the centerpiece of U.S. policy—and that on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! One, organizers with The LaRouche Organization deployed in force, first in Washington, D.C. and then in New York City, to give the visiting king a proper welcome—to cut through the disgusting pomp and circumstance and remind Americans of the true, bloody history of the British Empire, from India, to Africa, to the Americas.

The TLO organizers also made sure that citizens did not forget why we fought and won a war against that empire, and, most importantly, to never forget the underlying principles about the nature of Man that are at stake. As Zepp-LaRouche reminded, in her weekly webcast:

"The American Revolution was the first anti-colonial war in history. And the American Revolution established the young republic, defined by principles which Benjamin Franklin and the other Founding Fathers had basically gotten from republicans in Europe, such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. And it was an attempt to establish a republic which only has legitimacy with the consent of the governed. And it has a constitution which is devoted to the common good of the people, not only of the present, but also of future generations. It established the American System of political economy."

All of this made the revolutionary United States the most deadly enemy of the British Empire—then and now.

The second thing which pierced the bubble of unreality surrounding the King’s visit, was a well-timed phone call that Russian President Vladimir Putin made to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, April 29—right in the middle of the King’s triumphal tour of the United States. Putin’s "friendly, frank and businesslike" call lasted an hour and a half, and in it Putin made specific proposals to Trump for concrete steps to help solve both the Iran war and the Ukraine war. It was a dose of reality from a statesman who is still searching for a way to pull President Trump—and the United States—back from the brink, and stop him from jumping off the cliff holding hands with King Charles.

As Putin explained in welcoming remarks to the second Open Dialogue International Forum in Moscow on April 28, the world has entered "an era of deep structural shifts," in which Western states "are losing their leadership and are being replaced by new centers of growth, such as the countries of the Global South." He noted that, like it or not, "a more complex, multipolar architecture of international development is taking shape," and that "the global development model can be stable and just only when based on the principles of equality and mutual respect, while taking into consideration the interests of all countries."

For a conceptual roadmap of how to get from “here to there,” readers are encouraged to study EIR’s October 28, 1994 in-depth report, “The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor”.