The time for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel is now

 

The U.S. is starting talks on a new military aid deal for Israel as support for the country hits an all-time low. Israel’s supporters are feeling the pressure and pushing for cosmetic changes, but don’t fall for it. We need a full arms embargo

Israel’s standing among the U.S. public is at an all-time low after Americans have witnessed two- and-one-half years of live-streamed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, fueled by tens of billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer-provided weapons and diplomatic cover. 

Last August, a Quinnipiac poll found that 60 percent of all Americans, including 75 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of independents, opposed U.S. military funding for Israel while only 32 percent supported it.  

Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to recognize the unpopularity of asking U.S. taxpayers to further subsidize weapons to Israel. In an interview with 60 Minutes earlier this month, Netanyahu suggested transitioning from “aid” to a “partnership.”

This was not a surprise. Netanyahu had announced earlier this year that he wanted to “taper off” formal U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons, known as Foreign Military Financing (FMF), to Israel over the next decade, in favor of increased co-production and co-development of weapons between Israeli and U.S. weapons manufacturers. This proposal garnered the backing of pro-Israel stalwart Sen. Lindsey Graham and aligns with proposals for strengthening the U.S.-Israeli relationship put forward by The Heritage Foundation and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), two pro-Trump think tanks with a hard-edged anti-Palestinian animus and clear pro-Israel agendas.

However, American taxpayers should be aware of the bait-and-switch nature of these proposals, especially as the U.S. and Israel now enter into negotiations for a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will outline the parameters of the bilateral military relationship over the next decade.  (more...)

The time for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel is now

Why is the US spending more than half a billion dollars on a facility near Montreal?

 

The US Army is gearing up for a massive $682 million upgrade to the General Dynamics facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. The upgrade is set to increase production capacity from 6 to 16 million pounds of munitions and ordnance. This facility is of great importance as it is the sole supplier of the M31A2 propellant used in 155mm artillery ammunition. Investigations have revealed this propellant to have been actively used in Gaza by Israel.

On this episode of Local 514, host Kalden Dhatsenpa speaks with two activists organizing against this planned expansion. The #StopGDExpansion campaign is organizing a protest in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield this coming Saturday, May 30th, in conjunction with concerned residents who believe the expansion will negatively affect their health, the environment around Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, and who have qualms about the end use of the facility’s output.

Poland Is Now The Last Country Standing In The Way Of A Federalized Europe

 

Its conservative president is totally against this project and can veto related legislation tabled by the liberal prime minister since the latter’s ruling coalition doesn’t have the two-thirds majority to overrule him, thus enabling Poland to play the role that Hungary did prior to Orban’s downfall.

Politico earlier reported that “European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen waited less than a day after Hungary voted Viktor Orbán out of office to call for the EU to get more power over national governments to force through foreign policy decisions.” In particular, she wants qualified majority voting on foreign policy matters whereby at least 55% of member states vote in favor and they represent at least 65% of the EU’s population, which hasn’t yet happened in order to safeguard state sovereignty.

Spanish journalist and analyst Javier Villamor published a piece at The European Conservative that same day about how “Hungary’s Fall Clears Path for a More Centralized EU”. In brief, “The removal of Brussels’ most persistent opponent is set to accelerate plans to curb national vetoes, expand EU borrowing, and tighten control over member states.” The combined effect would amount to furthering the plan to federalize Europe in alignment with what the EU elites have wanted for some time already.

Von der Leyen’s plan in summer 2024 to “build a veritable union of defense” as well as Germany’s “two-speed Europe” proposal earlier this year and the proposal to fast-track Ukraine’s EU membership are all complementary means to this end that’ll now be easier to implement after Orban’s downfall. If progress is made on any of what was mentioned thus far, then states will lose even more sovereignty than they already have, and this could have disastrous implications for their national identity and social cohesion.  (more...)

Poland Is Now The Last Country Standing In The Way Of A Federalized Europe

Faith leaders hold ‘Moral Monday’ peace rally in Washington to decry Trump's 'unholy war’ in West Asia

 

Faith leaders held a Moral Monday peace rally outside of the White House against what they called the ‘unholy war' in the West Asia region.

Their demands were simple, no to war, no to policy violence, yes to peace and yes to justice.

A new poll finds that just 13% of Americans believe that the US has won the war against Iran.

There is increasing admission in the United States that the war is looking like a loss, economically speaking, no matter what happens next.

After over 70 days of war, the costs are being paid for by the nation's lower class at the gas pumps and the supermarkets.

Research shows, however, that most war costs are incurred after the fighting ends.  (more...)

Faith leaders hold ‘Moral Monday’ peace rally in Washington to decry Trump's 'unholy war’ in West Asia

National Coalition Promises To Fight Canada’s War Bank

 

“Security comes from funding homes, food and education. Security does not come from an economy built on war.”

It was January 2026 when Canada’s anti-war organizers realized what they were dealing with. Activists from groups like World Beyond War and Davenport For Palestine jumped on a Zoom call to discuss Toronto’s bid to host a new global bank that will fund the arms industry. 

The organizers, who mostly knew each other from Palestine solidarity protests and Signal chats, created a document and got together online to look for information about the bank.

“Could it really be that this was a financial institution whose sole purpose was to channel money into arms manufacturing?,” Rachel Small, an organizer for World Beyond War Canada, said they wanted to figure out. “Yes, that is indeed what it is.”

“That was definitely when we coined it a ‘war bank.’”

Since then, Small and her fellow activists held dozens of one-on-one conversations with organizers from the student movement, labour unions, and civil society groups to build what they hope will be a national movement to stop the bank from coming to fruition in Canada. 

On Friday, at a press conference in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, they launched their campaign with the slogan: “Stop the DSRB: No war bank in our city.”

The “Defense, Security and Resilience Bank,” or DSRB, was originally an idea proposed by NATO. Last week, Canada was officially selected as the host country, and some of its major cities — Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal — are vying for the chance to host the bank’s headquarters. 

“The last thing Canada needs is a new military financial arms race,” said Sharmeen Khan, a member of World Beyond War Toronto, at the press conference. “Security comes from funding homes, food and education. Security does not come from an economy built on war.”  (more...)

National Coalition Promises To Fight Canada’s War Bank

NEW: Legacy media largely framed Canada's new War Bank as a win for Mark Carney.

But as @emmapaling reports, a national coalition is mobilizing to oppose it. https://t.co/lVtlbGJZho

— Alex Cosh (@AlexCosh_) May 5, 2026

The lessons from the Gaza student encampments, two years on

 

Two years ago today, activists at Columbia University occupied a campus building, renaming it ‘Hind’s Hall.' While campus protests for Palestine have mostly receded from view, they continue to offer vital lessons for the movement they inspired.

On April 17, 2024, Columbia University students hoisted tents onto the grass of the East Butler Lawn, initiating an international reckoning with the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The initial encampment was met immediately with a police sweep and the mass arrest of student participants, but this did not deter activists and only prompted a second mass entry into the adjacent lawns mere moments later.

I was at the second encampment as an admitted student attending spring orientation. The dynamism of that moment feels surreal now – hundreds of people waving hand-painted banners and flags, cheering to song and chant, and the almost comical, stiff communication from the university as it attempted to maintain a veneer of business as usual, all a portent of the institutional reprisal to come. I remember standing on the cobblestone that divided the Butler lawns, my eyes glued to the border that delineated the beginning of the grass, resolutely convinced that if I stepped over, I would risk the revocation of my admission.

The dissonance of the spectacle – students in their thousands, reprising the movements of the 1968 student occupations against the Vietnam War, refusing to surrender physical space in pursuit of a total divorce between their university and the genocide – resonated deeply across and beyond American society.

Within days, encampments sprang up at hundreds of other schools. The movement’s rallying cry – “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” – embedded itself deeply into the American consciousness.

On April 30, following the occupation of a Columbia academic building renamed ‘Hind’s Hall’ in honor of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl martyred by the occupation forces, a second police sweep and mass arrest concluded the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University.  (more...)

The lessons from the Gaza student encampments, two years on

“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

250 Years Later: The Throne Must be Flushed Again

 

Tonight’s Weekly Battle Report covers the LaRouche Organization’s response to the highly embarrassing “state visit” of British King Charles III to the US Capitol. Gerry Belsky reports live from Washington DC, where we received international media coverage as we conveyed the demand “King Tampon, Go Home!,” and “250 Years Later: The Throne Must be Flushed Again.” We held banners, spoke to passersby, and distributed the statement “The British are Back to Finish the War of 1812— This Time by Invitation.” (https://www.laroucheorganization.com/the_british_are_back)

The King’s motorcade drove right by our demonstration!

Our other battle report tonight is a crucial media appearance of Helga Zepp-LaRouche. This past Friday night, as the world awaited the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran–Abbas Araghchi–to Islamabad, Pakistan, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche was featured on Pakistan TV, the official English news of Pakistan State Broadcaster. She was interviewed at some length about the prospects for upcoming negotiations. We watch excerpts from Helga’s contributions.

600+ Google employees protest Gemini AI use in Pentagon ops

 

The employees cite risks of misuse, lack of oversight, and potential harm to civilians.

More than 600 employees at Google have called on the company to abandon a potential agreement with the United States Department of War that would expand the use of its artificial intelligence tools into classified military operations, according to a statement released Monday.

The appeal, addressed to Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, was signed by staff across multiple units, including DeepMind and Cloud, and includes more than 20 individuals in senior leadership roles. It comes as the company is in discussions with US defense officials over deploying its Gemini AI system in sensitive, restricted environments.

Workers behind the initiative warned that the nature of classified programs makes meaningful oversight impossible. “Classified workloads are by definition opaque,” one organizing employee, who was not named in the statement, told AFP. “Right now, there's no way to ensure that our tools wouldn't be leveraged to cause terrible harms or erode civil liberties away from public scrutiny. We're talking about things like profiling individuals or targeting innocent civilians.”

The proposed deal would build on Google’s existing collaboration with the Pentagon under the genAI.mil program, which currently focuses on non-classified applications. Extending those capabilities into classified domains has raised concern among employees who argue that internal safeguards cannot be reliably enforced once the technology is handed over.  (more...)

600+ Google employees protest Gemini AI use in Pentagon ops

Germany's complicity in US-Israeli war crimes

Germany and Italy have blocked a bid by Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland to suspend a European Union's partnership agreement with Israel.

Germany has long extended support to the Israeli regime despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank, and the aggressions against elsewhere in the region, including Iran and Lebanon.

Michigan Dems Came Down Hard On Student Protests Against the Gaza Genocide. It Just Blew Up in Their Face.

 

Two upset primary at the Michigan Democratic nominating convention are material and symbolic victories for pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan.

For two years, establishment Democrats have led a wide-ranging legal attack on University of Michigan pro-Palestinian student activists, aiming to shut down their protest of Israel. On Sunday, Democratic Party delegates symbolically rebuked the establishment’s draconian campaign. Two pro-Palestinian candidates notched upset wins against pro-Israel-backed opponents in statewide primary races in this critical upper Midwest swing state.

The races, decided by the Michigan Democratic Party’s delegates during a nominating convention, mark material and symbolic victories for pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan (U-M)—some of whom continue to face investigations over their protests of the genocide. And, as more polling shows the extent to which support for Israel has collapsed across the political spectrum, the wins indicate that the pro-Israel playbook is failing even in lower, state-level races.

In the state Attorney General’s race, Ann Arbor’s progressive Jewish prosecutor, Eli Savit, beat Karen McDonald, who was backed by major corporations and pro-Israel donors. And in the race for a seat on the U-M board of regents, the school’s governing body, defense attorney Amir Makled defeated incumbent regent Jordan Acker, who helped lead the school’s legal attack on the pro-Palestinian students. Makled represented some of the students who beat the U-M prosecutions.

Makled, who is Lebanese-American, overcame an onslaught of allegations that he is antisemitic and supports Hezbollah. He told Drop Site the wins show “the electorate is done with AIPAC-aligned candidates and their smear campaigns.”

“People are done with it, and the establishment has to recognize that,” Makled added. “It is the only way this party moves forward because it’s the right way.” His win also came after The Guardian on Friday reported on lewd text messages Acker appeared to have made about a student and Democratic strategist.  (more...)

Michigan Dems Came Down Hard On Student Protests Against the Gaza Genocide. It Just Blew Up in Their Face.

When Lunacy Goes Unchallenged...

 

When Netanyahu came to the U.S. and called on Pres. Trump to join Israel in a war against Iran, the NYT reported that some of Trump's leading advisers were opposed to the war -- Rubio and Ratcliffe -- but did not speak up. Polls show 60+% opposition to this war.  If you are opposed to more tax money and American lives lost to fight these wars, are you speaking out?

Write or call your Congressman!  Send a clear message: No more funds for the bankers' wars, no more giving in to support the policies which benefit the City of London and the Epstein Class!

If you are joining our mobilization, send your reports to me:

harleysch@gmail.com

Handala Telegram Channel Suspended: What the Sudden Takedown Means for Hacktivist Operations

 

Introduction

A major development has emerged in the hacktivist and threat intelligence landscape as the primary Telegram channel linked to the group known as Handala has been suspended. Telegram has long been a central hub for cyber activist coordination, propaganda distribution, and operational announcements, making such a suspension noteworthy but not necessarily decisive. While takedowns often appear to signal disruption, history shows that these groups are highly adaptive, frequently rebuilding communication infrastructure within hours or days. This incident raises broader questions about platform enforcement effectiveness, resilience of decentralized threat actors, and the ongoing cat-and-mouse dynamic between messaging platforms and cyber groups operating in the digital underground.

The Incident

The main Telegram channel associated with the hacktivist group Handala has been suspended.

The channel is currently inaccessible to users and external observers.

The suspension was observed recently, indicating a fresh enforcement action.

No official confirmation has been provided regarding the cause of removal.

Such suspensions are commonly linked to Telegram policy enforcement actions.

Mass reporting campaigns may have contributed to the takedown.

Violations of platform rules are another possible reason for removal.

Handala is categorized within the broader hacktivist ecosystem.

Hacktivist groups often rely heavily on Telegram for communication.

The channel served as a primary coordination and messaging hub.

Despite removal, group activity is not expected to fully cease.

Historical patterns show rapid migration to backup channels.

Alternative communication platforms are often prepared in advance.  (more...)

Handala Telegram Channel Suspended: What the Sudden Takedown Means for Hacktivist Operations

The Trump Administration's War on Cuba

 

The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.

Quebeckers Fight U.S.-Backed Expansion of Arms Plant

 

GD-OTS Canada plans to spend $682 million to add 12 buildings to its 150-building campus in Valleyfield.

More than 100 Quebeckers and 23 civil society groups have signed a memo calling on the Quebec government to reject a proposed expansion to a General Dynamics facility southwest of Montreal.

“The expansion of the General Dynamics facility is a moral disaster and Quebeckers say no,” reads the memo, which was submitted to Quebec environmental agency Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE).

The plant in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que. is operated by General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems – Canada (GD-OTS), a subsidiary of American weapons giant General Dynamics.

The Valleyfield factory produces what the company calls “energetic materials,” which are propellants used in mortars, tank ammunition and heavy artillery.

GD-OTS plans to spend $682 million to add 12 buildings to its 150-building campus in Valleyfield, according to BAPE.

The expansion is entirely funded by the U.S. military, GD-OTS strategic advisor Daniel LePage said at a public hearing on February 17, according to a transcript posted in French and machine translated into English.  

The expansion will allow GD-OTS to increase its capacity to produce M31A2, a propellant used in heavy artillery, from 6 million pounds to 16 million pounds per year, LePage said at the meeting.  (more...)

Quebeckers Fight U.S.-Backed Expansion of Arms Plant

‘Kuffiyehs in Buchenwald’ campaign challenges Germany’s anti-Palestinian culture of remembrance

 

Since October 7, the Palestinian kuffiyeh has been criminalized by German authorities and institutions out of support for Israel and Zionism. A new campaign is challenging this “hypocritical and deceitful ‘culture of remembrance.’”

For more than ten years now, Germany has seen a large-scale campaign against alleged antisemitism that in reality targets nothing more than criticism of Zionism – or even criticism of Israeli policy. This campaign has been driven primarily by the major political parties, the mainstream media, and several foundations, and initially focused above all on the arts and cultural sectors. Those targeted included the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe, the U.S. philosopher Judith Butler, the Israeli sociologist Moshe Zuckermann, the former director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Peter Schäfer, the British musician Roger Waters, and the late Syrian artist Burhan Karkutli. For a long time, the main goal was to defame and criminalize the global BDS movement. Commemoration of the Nakba was also turned into a taboo.

In the early years, these intensified campaigns were still masked as “discourses” in order to give them a liberal veneer. A few voices spoke out publicly against them, for example the Australian historian and genocide scholar Dirk Moses with his noteworthy 2021 essay “The German Catechism.” But the debates provoked by him and others largely remained confined to the cultural pages of bourgeois newspapers.

All of this changed in October 2023. The uprising in Gaza and the genocide that followed at Israel’s hands revived solidarity with Palestine in Germany. Tens of thousands poured into the streets day after day, week after week. The attacks by the authorities – from police violence to censorship and bans to the destruction of people’s livelihoods – suddenly affected a critical mass. And this was a movement that marched, resisted, and made itself heard. 

Since then, the Palestine solidarity movement has sought to carry the struggle into every public space and fight it there: from the streets to cultural institutions, trade unions, university campuses and lecture halls, and even courtrooms. Even the Bundestag is no longer free of protest by spectators and individual members of parliament. Memorial sites for the victims of German fascism are no longer exempt either.  (more...)

‘Kuffiyehs in Buchenwald’ campaign challenges Germany’s anti-Palestinian culture of remembrance

U of T must cut ties with Israeli universities

 

U of T must learn from history and cut ties with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

At this point, it’s an open secret that U of T has financial and institutional ties to Israel.  

Israel is a settler-state that has been committing genocide in Gaza for over two years, while continuing to enforce its illegal occupation and apartheid oppression of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank. To resist this oppression, Palestinians have called on the world to support the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel. 

U of T does not have a policy that prohibits its endowment from being invested in weapons companies, whose products have been used in Gaza to bomb universities and murder thousands of students. Additionally, U of T continues to partner with Israeli universities and institutions deeply complicit in colonial violence and human rights violations. 

Beyond investments, U of T has extensive ties and partnerships to Israeli institutions and universities, including Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and, worst of all, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, otherwise known as HUJI. 

I believe that cutting U of T’s institutional ties to Israeli universities is key to pressuring Israel to comply with international law. Israeli security leaders are on record stating that an academic boycott of Israeli universities is a threat of the highest order. So much so that universities like HUJI outline specific propaganda strategies against academic boycotts.  (more...)

U of T must cut ties with Israeli universities

Paul Mason instigated GCHQ targeting of The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, leaks reveal

 

Leaked material reviewed by The Grayzone reveals failed ‘journalist’ Paul Mason conspired with GCHQ to monitor and attack this journalist and other critics. What did the British intelligence agency do with the sensitive information he secretly provided?

Leaked correspondence reviewed by The Grayzone reveals disgraced journalist Paul Mason covertly collaborated with  a unit of the GCHQ intelligence service to monitor and inform on perceived adversaries, including this reporter. In addition to feeding intel on independent reporters to British intelligence, the material shows that Mason privately coordinated his public narrative about a supposed Russian “hack” of his emails with British agents.

The revelations come as a national scandal has exploded in Britain after the ruling Labour party was caught targeting journalists, including me, because they’d been investigating financial corruption by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top aide, Morgan McSweeney.

On January 27, The Grayzone exposed how former celebrity leftist journalist-turned-security state snitch Paul Mason employed the services of a high-priced legal firm in hopes of silencing his critics. Mason launched his revenge plot after a Grayzone investigation exposed his secret collaboration with state-connected operatives to undermine the British anti-war left. His crusade fell flat, with lawyers warning him against taking any action, while confirming The Grayzone’s reporting on his leaked emails was in the public interest.

Desperate for retribution, Mason went to the a division of the GCHQ intelligence services called the National Cyber Security Centre for a second opinion. From June 2022 to December 2023, he corresponded regularly with a high level contact within the Centre, sharing information about individuals he falsely accused of being somehow implicated in the “hack” of his emails, including this journalist.

In his frantic bid to destroy those who accused him of collaborating with the security state, Mason would only confirm their harshest allegations, placing journalists like myself in the crosshairs of the GCHQ for exposing his vindictive schemes.  (more...)

Paul Mason instigated GCHQ targeting of The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, leaks reveal

Ombudsman Rules in Favour of Student Suspended for “F*ck Israel” Post

 

The English Montreal School Board was ordered to retrain staff on its anti-bullying policy and students’ rights.

Royal West Academy has been rebuked by a provincial watchdog for suspending a student who posted “Fuck Israel. Holy shit” on her private Instagram last year.

Quebec’s student ombudsman has ordered the school and the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) to retrain relevant staff on the school board’s antibullying policy. It also demanded they review how to apply disciplinary sanctions in a way that respects students’ rights.

In a February ruling, the ombudsman overturned Royal West’s decision to punish a student because she used a curse word to criticize Israel on her private social media account. An administrator told the student, who we’ll call Dawn, that her post made Jewish classmates feel unsafe. 

Dawn’s family challenged the decision before the ombudsman, who ruled in their favour late last month.

But while the EMSB responded to the ombudsman’s ruling on Feb. 27, it did not inform Dawn or her family. It only wrote an email to the student two weeks later, after her parents inquired about the case.

“Unfortunately, we neglected to forward the letter to your attention,” an employee on the EMSB wrote in an email to Dawn’s family.

Members of the group Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) protested outside EMSB’s head office on March 17, demanding the board publicly apologize to Dawn. They also denounced the school board’s participation in a fundraiser that would send three EMSB students to Israel as it wages a war that killed 1,300 Iranian civilians in less than a month.  (more...)

Ombudsman Rules in Favour of Student Suspended for “F*ck Israel” Post