Oksana Vasyakina in Equator www.equator.org/articles/whe...

Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved. There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence. Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt. 1/

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New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.

This hateful antisemitic vandalism in Minneapolis is alarming and unacceptable. Targeting synagogues with anti-Zionist/anti-Israel slogans isn’t political activism — it’s harassing and threatening Jewish communities.

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

Robert Malley on LRB pod podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

@danaelkurd.bsky.social writes the peace deal is "asymmetric, providing the Israeli government many of its political objectives while imposing multiple layers of international control on and vague assurances to the Palestinian people – and only if they comply." theconversation.com/gaza-peace-p...

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity. They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.

Jerusalem tonight. "We must resist against genocide"

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live. Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel killed 66 Palestinians in Gaza TODAY.

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

And here is the full audio. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-battle...

This is a perfectly appropriate message in response to a horrific event, and the responses to this post are filling me with sorrow.

Will try to have something more constructive to say eventually but this is unbelievably spiteful and stupid. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This was a fascinating convo and I reckon diaspora folks - and not just members of the Palestinian diaspora - will learn a great deal

First images of Tony Blair entering Gaza as head of the new temporary international administration

In Brighton on Monday 29 Sept? Join us for this. actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... @ayoub.bsky.social @naamoduk.bsky.social

Re-upping this thread today

Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

‎שיחה חשובה על הדרישות הקפדניות שממשלת ישראל משיתה על אירגוני סיוע בין לאומיים הפועלים בעזה ובגדה והשלכותיהן youtu.be/c-L-PLbRbdg?...

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

At least 15 people killed, including 4 children, in the latest Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, says Ukraine Interior Ministry. And EU mission and British Council buildings were damaged. Biggest attack since Trump met Putin, and one of the deadliest attacks this year.

1/ Why are Trump and Putin talking ceasefire without Europeans? Some facts in thread: Despite the shifting frontlines, prolonging the war at terrible human cost, there has been little territorial gain by either side and fundamental realities have not budged. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

This is a good companion piece to the Foreign Affairs article I shared yesterday, as it tries to provide a materialist analysis as to why the anti-Netanyahu alliance failed to become an anti-war one, and extended support for genocide. jacobin.com/2025/08/war-...

This piece, by @dahliasc.bsky.social, gives a very good and accurate overview of how right wing Israeli public opinion has become over the past decade, and why Netanyahu is not an outlier. These are my takeaways - and differences. 1/ www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...

Dozens of journalists gathered in Damascus to protest Israel’s war and the killing of five Al Jazeera staff members in Gaza, on Monday August 11, 2025. 📸 Andalou Agency

David Chichkan, 39, artist, anarchist, anti-authoritarian activist, gravely wounded defending Ukraine on August 8, died on August 9, 2025. Pictures below from moving tributes to him on Instagram, where you can also see footage of him appearing in Oleksiy Radynski’s 2016 documentary film ‘Landslide’

I wrote this to explain how we reached this point, in the hope it would be a resource for people arguing with friends and family, people with questions, perhaps even people thinking of joining a protest. Do share with anyone who might find it useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Today in London, two liberal Jewish representatives were shouted down and removed from stage in a "March for the hostages" event as they expressed support for an end to the war - which is widely supported in Israel. The establishment is fully aligned with the Kahanist govt.

23 Palestinians were killed by aid packages dropped from the air, hundreds have been injured while *thousands* of aid trucks are waiting at crossing points prevented from entering Gaza by Israel.

The Palestine Action proscription is a signature Starmer move: overreach, double down, lose the debate

Fascinating post by Or Bassok @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/fraenkel-isr...

"Every life - an entire world”: UK-Based Israelis staged Protest Outside Foreign Office in London yesterday to demand sanctions *Mi-neged activists raise 98 hand-made globes, one for every person Israel killed in Gaza in 24 hours* 1/

The Board of Deputies and various UK Jewish orgs have called a march this sunday, one which is really an anti-peace and anti-hostage demonstration. I felt compelled to write about it: josephfinlay.com/march-of-the...

"People don’t stop to think of the fact that every number was a human being ... Because surely, if they did, governments like ours would have done everything in their power to have stopped this war by now." Strong piece by @aloner.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Our mi-neged protest at the UK Foreign Office yesterday

With the brilliant Tirza Leibowitz on the Bosnian Hayat TV, speaking about the Gaza genocide. We address the centrality of the destruction of the health system, as well as the issue of special intent. youtu.be/k8O2Oj51Lhg?...

There are more Christian Zionists in the US than there are Jews in the entire world, and polls consistently show that they hold, on average, more right-wing views on Israel-Palestine than do American Jews. But no one is spray-painting "Stop the genocide" on a megachurch in Omaha.

Once again I'm hearing (@newsagents.bsky.social podcast) that the UK took the symbolic act of recognising Palestine because "what else could it do". Well look at the UK sanctions on Russia following the Crimea invasion, you'd be surprised what the UK can do when it wants to do something.

Former Israeli ambassador to France, Professor Elie Barnavi, and historian @vincentlemaire.bsky.social write in Le Monde, following Macron's recognition of a Palestinian state. "Mr President, if immediate sanctions are not imposed on Israel, you will end up recognising a cemetery."

Following a huge UK-Jewish & Israeli led protest at FCDO, organised by @naamoduk.bsky.social & mi-neged, Israelis in London are keeping up the pressure on the UK gov't & asking for support at a creative act of protest against Israel's genocide this Thursday in London. Sign up: tinyurl.com/yc6tysh8

Following a huge UK-Jewish & Israeli led protest at FCDO, organised by @naamoduk.bsky.social & mi-neged, Israelis in London are keeping up the pressure on the UK gov't & asking for support at a creative act of protest against Israel's genocide this Thursday in London. Sign up: tinyurl.com/yc6tysh8