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  • Netanyahu skips 'Board of Peace' signing in Davos over fears of arrest

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  • Why haven't they arrested Trump?

  • The Australian Parliament has passed a new hate crimes law that could potentially throw critics of Israel in prison for years.

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  • Yes

  • The Shift: Israeli-American Council summit was the latest reflection of Israel’s failing brand

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  • So I tried to upvote this earlier, but it disappeared on this instance, but still showed on kbin, where I posted the quote. My apologies, but I also crossposted elsewhere.

  • Israel accused of extracting billions from Gaza through wartime trade controls

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  • Israeli occupation authorities have intensified economic measures against the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war, imposing what Palestinian sources describe as “forced arrangements” that have enabled Israel to extract vast sums from Gaza’s economy while deepening humanitarian suffering. According to information obtained by Arabi21 from informed sources, Israeli forces have effectively turned Gaza’s markets and commercial sector into a new arena of pressure, using trade restrictions and financial controls as tools to punish the population and exhaust its remaining resources. The sources said these measures have contributed to financing part of the cost of the war from the pockets of Gaza’s residents themselves. The sources explained that Israeli authorities have restricted the import of goods into Gaza to a very limited number of merchants, allowing only 10 traders to bring in commercial supplies. These arrangements, they said, are carried out through opaque procedures that are not subject to Palestinian oversight and do not involve the Gaza Chamber of Commerce.

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  • Thank you. I appreciate your dedication to your great work!

  • From CBS to TikTok, Pro-Israel Ellisons now in the driver's seat

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  • Blech 🤮

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  • Nope, I'm engaged when I can be.

  • Here are four ways Zohran Mamdani can end financial support in New York City for Israeli settlements, and he must act soon

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    1. Attorney General Enforcement of Nonprofit Law The NY Attorney General can investigate nonprofits that mislead donors, operate outside their charitable purpose, or fund illegal activity, and can revoke registration, impose fines, or seek injunctions under Executive Law § 63(12) and the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law. While this authority rests with the state, the mayor can refer cases, coordinate with the AG, and ensure city contracts do not support these organizations.
    2. Consumer Protection and Advertising Law Deceptive business practices, like marketing property without disclosing legal or title risks, are prohibited under NYC Administrative Code § 20-700. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection can investigate and act. As mayor, Mamdani could direct enforcement or issue public advisories warning New Yorkers of these risks.
    3. Zoning and Permit Enforcement The NYC Zoning Resolution and Administrative Code Title 28 allow city regulators to shut down or fine unpermitted real estate events within the city. Mamdani oversees the responsible agencies and could have prevented city spaces from being used to promote illegal settlement land sales.
    4. Public Advisories and Consumer Warnings The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) can issue public alerts under NYC Charter Chapter 64 about legal, financial, and political risks of buying land in occupied territory. The mayor could use these advisories to educate the public and signal the city’s opposition. None of these tools requires new laws. They already exist. What’s missing is political will, and as mayor, Mamdani can make them happen. Inaction is complicity The sale of land tied to illegal settlements and the flow of U.S. tax-exempt dollars into groups that enable this expansion are not abstract harms, they directly fuel the dispossession, violence, and deaths of Palestinians. Mamdani has the power to challenge and stop this but so far has not exercised it. Unfortunately, activists are afraid this might be a broader pattern. Mamdani was elected on the power of a movement energized by his rhetoric on Palestine prior to and during the campaign, but we have seen him back away from other positions he took before the election. For example, he once publicly criticized the Cornell Tech–Technion partnership due to Technion’s ties to Israeli military research, but later stated he did not view the partnership as violating law or city policy in his capacity as mayor.

  • Leaked Documents: “Planned Community” in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon

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  • Which is more heart-rending and disgusting? The ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, or the global West's collective shrug?

  • Report warns that ‘Jewish terrorism is out of control’ and could lead to major security escalation

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  • United Nations data, however, present an even darker picture. In 2024, about 1,420 attacks against Palestinians were documented, a 16 per cent rise compared with 2023 and the highest level since systematic monitoring began in 2006. The report says these attacks led to the killing of five Palestinians and injuries to around 350 others. More than 300 Palestinian families — nearly 1,700 people — were also displaced from their homes. The report adds that the upward trend has continued, noting that the number of attacks in 2025 has “exceeded 1,770 incidents”, surpassing the peak recorded the previous year.

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    the Empire closes its fist on Iran as it makes final preparations to strike.

    thespectaclemag.substack.com /p/the-empire-closes-its-fist-on-iran
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    Venezuela and Iran: A Shared Struggle

    orinocotribune.com /venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/
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    ‘Eulogy for globalist hypocrisy’: Netizens react to Canada PM’s speech on end of ‘rules-based order’

    www.presstv.ir /Detail/2026/01/21/762667/%E2%80%98Eulogy-for-globalist-hypocrisy%E2%80%99--Netizens-react-to-Canada-PM%E2%80%99s-speech-on-end-of-%E2%80%98rules-based-order%E2%80%99
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    Found 16mm footage "we can do it"

  • John Mearsheimer: The Israel-US Tag Team Fails in Iran

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  • If fact, what happened in Iran is an attempt by the Israeli & American tag team to overthrow the government in Tehran and break apart Iran, much the way the US, Turkey, and Israel fractured Syria. The playbook in Iran is one we have seen before. It has four elements. First, the US has long been working to wreck the Iranian economy with sanctions. Indeed, President Trump redoubled those efforts after moving into the White House last January (2025). His aim was to bring “maximum pressure” to bear on Iran’s economy and he did just that. There is no question that Iran’s leaders mismanaged their economy in certain ways, but Western sanctions did far more damage than government ineptitude. The ultimate goal of the sanctions, of course, is to inflict so much pain and punishment on the Iranian people that they rise up and overthrow their government. Second, the tag team went to work in late December 2025 to foment and support violent protests that would precipitate a violent government response, which would hopefully set off a spiral of violence that the government could not control. To be more specific, there is clear evidence that Mossad agents were on the ground in Iran and surely there were CIA operatives working alongside them. They worked closely with local agitators — the rioters who were bent on destruction and assassination — to turn the peaceful protests into violent protests, which would then lead the government to turn to violence. There is abundant video footage of the agitators at work. Moreover, the tag team sent many thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran before the protests began. Should the government shut down the internet and the phone system – as expected – the Starlink terminals would allow the protestors to communicate among themselves and with the outside forces helping them. Unsurprisingly, Trump was cheering on the protestors, saying on 13 January 2026: “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!… HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” Trump’s first CIA director, Mike Pompeo, said on 2 January 2026: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also, to every Mossad agent walking beside them.” And just as the protests were beginning in late December 2025, Mossad sent a message in Farsi to Iranians saying: “Go out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” Third, the Western media played along with the tag team and purveyed the story that the protests were principally a response to the policies of an evil government in Tehran, not because of outside interference. Moreover, the protests were peaceful and it was the government that initiated the violence. Naturally, Israel and the US were portrayed as the good guys. This propaganda was not only designed to win over support for the protests in the West, but also to influence events inside Iran by fostering the narrative that the regime was brutal in the extreme, yet the protestors were destined to topple the government.

  • Brutal Beatings, Arson, and Impunity: A Palestinian Plant Nursery

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  • He’s running for his life, this older man, pursued by a large group of masked men brandishing metal rods. He trips and falls on his stomach. One of the pursuers kicks him, another smashes his back twice with a rod. The man gets to his knees, as if begging for his life. The first assailant kicks him again as he sprawls on the ground. The group circles its prey – a choreography of terror. He raises his arms to shield himself from the blows. But then, as the gang is about to leave, a second group of pogromists appears from another direction. Taking turns, they proceed to kick the man, all over his body; one especially brutal boot is aimed at his face. Before departing, after a few minutes, the thugs wallop him one more time with their clubs.

  • On MLK Day, the Truth About the Fake ‘Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend’

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  • Each MLK Day, supporters of Israel invoke the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to draw a false parallel between the civil rights movement and Zionism. While MLK did sympathize with the state of Israel, he consistently supported nonviolence. During the Six-Day War, MLK supported a UN-mediated peace settlement that addressed the economic and security concerns of all parties. However, a letter attributed to King called ‘Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend’ has a starkly different tone. Unfortunately for the pro-Israel crowd, this letter is a forgery which reveals the willingness of some Israel supporters to use disinformation to influence public perception. Unsurprisingly, the forgery is deeply connected to the Anti-Defamation League and ideological neoconservatives. One theory for the creation of the letter was that it was inspired by statements made by King at a Cambridge, Massachusetts dinner party. Seymour Martin Lipset, one of the first neoconservatives, recorded King’s supposed statements in a work published by the ADL. According to this account, King responded to a young black activist who criticized Israel by saying “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.” However, even pro-Israel historians admit that “There’s plenty of room to debate the meaning of King’s words at the Cambridge dinner.” While Lipset’s testimony is technically possible, it is not a historical fact and should not be treated as such.

  • Every Time, the Media Sides With the Discredited Apologists for Genocide

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  • The case was initiated by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a fanatical pro-Israel lobby group that seeks to use abusive legal procedures to intimidate and silence critics of Israel. But more disturbing still, the case was taken up by the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory authority overseeing the medical profession. Had the case been successful, Abu Sittah would have been struck off on the entirely spurious basis that he is antisemitic and a supporter of terrorism. **Hundreds of patients who depend on his world-renowned reconstructive surgery skills would have been denied treatment from him as a result. ** The three-person panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which cleared him, dismissed all the allegations. It concluded that the UKLFI and the GMC had “cherrypicked” and misrepresented two posts on X and an article published in Arabic, and failed to provide accurate translations of Abu Sittah’s arguments. Ian Comfort, chair of the panel, said the tribunal could find nothing antisemitic or that supported terrorism or violence. Afterwards, Abu Sittah correctly described UKLFI’s goal as “trying to destroy my life”.

    Bolding mine. For everyone "uncomfortable" about things people/governments are doing to infringe on rights of the "othered" du jour, but still support these people and governments, consider how many your tacit support is robbing from others.

  • Israel prevents Palestinian committee members appointed by Trump from entering Gaza

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  • Israel has blocked members of the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to administer Gaza from entering the besieged strip, Hebrew media outlets reported on 20 January. Israel is “refusing to allow” their entry, Palestinian sources told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The technocratic committee was supposed to enter Gaza this week via the Rafah border crossing and take over civil administration. However, Israel is refusing to open the crossing in violation of the ceasefire agreement and despite US calls to do so. According to Israeli reports, the committee members still do not know when or how they will begin their work in Gaza due to the rejection of their entry via the crossing.

  • On Iran’s protests, Israeli hypocrisy knows no limits

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  • I see Israelis shaking their heads self-righteously about the fact that no one knows the real number of victims among the protesters in Iran. Do they know the real number of victims of the Gaza holocaust? Do they even care?

  • What it means to live as an Arab in Germany today

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  • The most striking feature is the constant, persistent cognitive dissonance. Germany prides itself in having overcome its genocidal past, but we see every day that this is an abject lie made to distract from the violence of its present. In the last two years, Arabs in Germany have watched laws being changed to better surveil, harass, and criminalize us. Phrases such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” were declared symbols of Hamas and are used as justifications for violent arrests. Berlin alone is investigating 10,000 court cases related to Palestine solidarity protesters. New police laws with expanded police powers have been introduced in multiple federal states. As described in Palestinian-German legal scholar Nahed Samour’s excellent essay, “The Arab in the Law of Berlin, or: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’” the Berlin police specifically invented a category of crime just to criminalize Arabs. Now, the city’s large Arab population – the largest Palestinian diaspora in Europe, plus lots of Syrians, Lebanese, and other Arab nationalities – is facing a new police law that allows police to covertly break into apartments and install surveillance technology. All of this is done under the guise of needing to “protect against terrorism.” In Berlin, the police have received carte blanche by politicians and civil society to brutalize Palestine solidarity protesters as much as they please, beating, choking, kicking, mass-surveilling, arresting, and imprisoning. The more Arab and more masculine you look, the more the black-clad fists of the ever-present riot cops are attracted to your face, stomach, or balls...

  • Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Israeli-American Council: "We have a problem generationally… The next generation of Americans … does not understand the importance of a strong Israel…"

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  • LAST NIGHT: Settler pogrom in East Ramallah, four hospitalised

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  • No problem, it's probably for the best since I need sleep and instead I'm logged into several instances. I appreciate your hard work.

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    The Unbreakable Nael Barghouti - Lemmy

    www.dropsitenews.com /p/nael-barghouti-palestinian-prisoners-liberation-palestine-israel-united-states
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    Trump’s circus of ‘peace’ in Gaza is a cash grab and blueprint for occupation.

    thespectaclemag.substack.com /p/trumps-circus-of-peace-cash-grab