marc liam

@vellichoro.bsky.social

citizen of the universal republic / academic / born @ 338 ppm in the Capitalocene

A double tap airstrike on a paramedic and a 15-year-old teenager. A building damaged by genocidal assaults collapses and kills 21 people. These are all atrocities that happened in Gaza this week while mainstream media did everything in its power to distract you.

The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

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In 1982, an Israeli-backed Lebanese militia massacred over 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in Sabra and Shatila, still remembered as one of the worst atrocities in modern history.

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⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence...


⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank.”

The report says this effort has accelerated since the current government took office in December 2022 and especially since October 7, 2023, identifying five interconnected mechanisms used by Israeli forces in the territory: violence and intimidation, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, and ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover.

Israel has established 200 new checkpoints since October 7, 2023, the report finds, seized about 18% of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank through settlements and illegal outposts, and depopulated 64 Palestinian shepherding communities.BildB'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم
@btselem
Israel is dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank.

A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how these mechanisms form one political project: dismantling Palestinian collective life while expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence.

Since late 2022, and especially since October 2023, this process has accelerated and become more openly violent. Palestinians live under constant threat from soldiers and armed settler militias. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,107 Palestinians, including 245 children. State-backed settler farms and outposts seize vast areas, communities are expelled, and movement restrictions fragment Palestinian space.

Israel is also strangling the Palestinian economy, criminalizing political and social organizing, shutting down civil society organizations and arresting journalists and activists.
Together, these mechanisms cut Palestinians off from land, livelihoods and one another, dismantling the conditions they need to exist as a people – with institutions, leadership, shared history and a political future.

The Elimination Project is not new. Its logic has shaped Israeli policy for decades through dispossession, fragmentation, military rule and apartheid. In 2017, Bezalel Smotrich published the “Decisive Plan,” centered on making Jewish-Israeli control irreversible. It gives Palestinians three options: relinquish their collective aspirations and live under Jewish supremacy, leave, or face military repression. Under the current government, central elements of this vision are being translated into policy, budgets, powers and practices. In Gaza, this logic has reached its most extreme manifestation: the genocide Israel is committing there.

The international community must stop treating Israel’s violence and violations as isolated incidents, stop enabling Israel’s crimes, and end the impunity that allows the Elimination Project to continue.

Connect the dots. See the system.

Read more in our new report.
https://btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

Arrival of refugees from Málaga to Barcelona's Estació de França, 1937. They had escaped from the worst single massacre of the war, when 3000-5000 civilians fleeing from the city were killed, including numerous children, in air and ground attacks along the road to Almería known as La Desbandá.

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#OTD 25 years ago, Rep. Barbara Lee cast the sole vote against rushing to war in the days after 9/11. Although she endured terrible backlash, Rep. Lee was backed every step by broad, anti-war grassroots movements. This is what principled leadership looks like.

“We broke open the world. Despite our century of distance, Itka and I share a few common experiences. We both have taken over a street and mistaken it for a country, both grabbed hands with a stranger and mistaken it for a vow.” - Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country

Nick Lloyd@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2w ago

Memorial to the ~3000 German International Brigaders who fought against Franco in Spain. El Fossar de la Pedera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona.

24 israelische Soldaten berichten, wie sie in Gaza ganze Familien ausgelöscht und Tausende Menschen gezielt getötet haben. Yuval Abrahams neuer Film NAZA hat heute Premiere. Bin ja gespannt, wer und wie in D über dieses weitere Zeugnis des Genozids in Gaza berichtet. www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

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Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.

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This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit

Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

theguardian.com

It's not enough that they pay half the price that households pay for electricity. Now they're going to get cut price gas too! It's time we stopped pandering to Big Tech and their data centres which create no jobs, and use our electricity, water and gas. No more data centres!

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Während sich die dt. Öffentlichkeit zu Recht über den Siegeszug einer faschistischen Partei die Haare rauft, verteidigt sich Deutschland gerade live vor dem IGH mit grotesk formaljuristischen Argumenten gegen den Vorwurf der Beteiligung am Genozid in Gaza (und inszeniert sich als Opfer Nicaraguas).

Most of Germany is rightfully horrified by a far-right party almost gaining an absolute majority in Sachsen-Anhalt. The simultaneous disinterest in a possible breach of the genocide convention is mystifying, to say the least. Nicaragua v Germany at the ICJ this week www.un.org/unispal/docu...

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