!!! “For two years and 10 months, the army has barred media from around the world from doing their work. It is a scandalous situation in terms of the right to information, and it cannot be justified.”
Henrik Plaschke@henrikplaschke.bsky.social · 21h ago1. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu talks about an information war: independent reporting has been elevated to the status of enemy, and the journalists who embody it have become targets. Targets who are deliberately killed. Never before has a conflict been so deadly for the press.
🎥 Watch: Dozens of activists from Rabbis for Human Rights, Bnei Avraham, and @standing-together.bsky.social arrived to install a fence at the home of Palestinians who have been subjected to harassment by settlers, and to visit another home that had been vandalized 🧵 www.instagram.com/reel/DceFnBi...
שיחה מקומית on Instagram: "עשרות פעילים מקול רבני לזכויות אדם, בני אברהם ועומדים ביחד הגיעו כדי להתקין גדר בבית של פלסטינים שסובלים מהתנכלויות של מתנחלים ולבקר בבית נוסף שהושחת. העבודה בבתים עברה ...
254 likes, 20 comments - mekomit.co.il on August 25, 2026: "עשרות פעילים מקול רבני לזכויות אדם, בני אברהם ועומדים ביחד הגיעו כדי להתקין גדר בבית של פלסטינים שסובלים מהתנכלויות של מתנחלים ולבקר בבית נ...
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Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 2d ago#ResistanceEarth The fossil fuel industry has dodged responsibility for climate change by claiming we can't prove whose products cause a particular disaster. Now we can. A new study provides a framework for drawing a line from a GHG emitter to a weather event. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
!!! ““Far-right []Security Minister Ben-Gvir participated in the raid [and]praised the operation, stating that authorities had begun an “operation to evacuate the building” and asserting that “there is no place for the agency in Jerusalem and Israel.” He also posted on X that “UNRWA in our hands.””
Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉@katsikajules.bsky.social · 2d agoIsraeli forces raid UNRWA training centre in occupied East Jerusalem. They took over the building and raised the Israeli flag in the courtyard. If you only listened to Western MSM you wouldn't have a clue what is going on. I now believe it was always like this. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
!!! “Make no mistake about it: The delegitimization of the two-state solution began long before October 7. Terms such as "occupation," "peace" and "Palestinian state" were excised from the Israeli lexicon long ago. It is not only words and ideas that have been erased from the public discussion.”
Editorial | The last thing Israel needs is another leader afraid to say 'Palestinian state'
Israel's political leaders treat the mere mention of a Palestinian state as a threat. But anyone seeking to replace Netanyahu must offer Israelis a different path – not just a different prime minister
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❗️ then who did it? “German authorities alleged that [the group] had acted “on the orders of state authorities in Ukraine." []the plan was to "destroy the Nord Stream []pipelines" with the objective of "permanently halting gas supplies []preventing Russia from using the revenue []to finance its war”
Zelenskyy repeats Ukraine not behind Nord Stream attack
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was assisting German authorities with their investigation into the Nord Stream explosions. A second Ukrainian national was arrested in connection with the blasts.
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!!! “Gadi Eisenkot, a leading opposition candidate, pledged that no [Pal] state would be established if his party wins October's Knesset election, after United Arab List Chairman Mansour Abbas called Saturday for an end to Israel's occupation of the [WB]. and the establishment of a [Pal] state.”
Netanyahu rival Eisenkot vows no Palestinian state: 'Not now, not in next gov't'
After Mansour Abbas called for an end to the occupation and a Palestinian state, Likud and its allies attacked Eisenkot, accusing him of backing statehood and a coalition with Arab parties
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!!! www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...
Germany seeks to extradite Ukrainian man to face charges in Nord Stream pipeline prosecution | CBC News
A Ukrainian man was arrested Wednesday in Croatia in relation to undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022, Germany's federal prosecutor said.
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Shame on us all for doing nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban
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Remember when the Canadian flotilla members were tortured and sexually abused by Israel? He won’t do anything.
TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian@tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 6d agoCarney's silence echos around the world. "On Wednesday, prior to Anand's statement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East wrote that Prime Minister Mark Carney's silence on the findings could "allow Israel to get away with the murder of a Canadian aid worker, with no consequences."
(GIFT ARTICLE) A flotilla of about 50 boats carrying humanitarian aid departed Marmaris, Turkey, in May, intending to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israeli forces boarded the boats and detained 400 people. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
Turkey Requests Netanyahu’s Arrest, Saying Israel Abused Flotilla Activists (Gift Article)
Turkey’s request for an Interpol ‘red notice’ came at a time of escalating tensions between the two countries.
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The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines is set to hit cinemas as an action film, starring superstars Adrien Brody and Sean Penn. Ironically, one of the alleged perpetrators was arrested right on the edge of the filming location. www.spiegel.de/panorama/nor...
(S+) Actionfilm über Pipeline-Sprengung: Nord Stream goes Hollywood
Die Sprengung der Nord-Stream-Pipelines soll als Actionfilm in die Kinos kommen, mit den Superstars Adrien Brody und Sean Penn. Ausgerechnet am Rand der Dreharbeiten wurde einer der mutmaßlichen Täter...
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🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️Note section title… ‘AMERICAN STASI’ ☠️ 🚩 Be forewarned ⚠️ newrepublic.com/article/2144... “Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.”
❗️ as commentator to the article CV points out: “Oh, look, poor dear German leaders are looking totally ridiculous, and their decades old policy of supporting Israel as a way to redeem themselves from a genocide has firmly landed them into complicity with yet another genocide. Oops. It …” cont’d👇🧵
Germany's Merz condemns Ben-Gvir as his allies say sanctions 'long overdue'
All parties in Germany's Bundestag, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz, deplored Ben-Gvir's call to kill '30-40' Palestinians daily in Gaza, with notable calls from the CDU party to impose EU sanctio...
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“German vice chancellor [], said []that Ben-Gvir's comments "must have consequences," [&] that sanctions were being discussed at the [EU] level. Several [EU]countries have called for EU-wide sanctions against the far-right minister, but the proposal has failed to win the required unanimity.”
France, Germany and UN condemn Israeli minister Ben-Gvir's 'inhumane' call to kill Gazans
Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Israel should 'take out 30 or 40' people in Gaza per night, prompting protests from Paris, Berlin and the United Nations.
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!!! “"The question isn't how well you know Arab-Israeli history. The question is: Do you or do you not support the murder of children? Do you or do you not support the torture of physicians? Do you or do you not support the bombing of hospitals?"” www.france24.com/en/live-news...
'American Doctor' shows brutality of conflict in Gaza
Mark Perlmutter has treated patients hit by natural disaster and conflicts across 30 countries, including in his native United States. Yet, nothing prepared him for the horrors he would witness under…
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!!! “The development would in effect divide the West Bank in two and isolate East Jerusalem. The deadline for bids is days before Israel's October's general election, making it much harder for any future government to overturn any tenders issued. Settlements are illegal under international law.”
Israel opens up bids for highly-sensitive West Bank settlement project
Israeli plans to build on the area east of Jerusalem - which would divide the occupied West Bank in two - have long been internationally condemned.
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!!! going through the motion… www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...
Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe | CNN
The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the 202...
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!!! in an effort to undermine the ceasefire & Board of Peace, Israel is apparently listening to Ben Gvir who called for killing 30-40 Gazans per day: 10 killed today, & “Tuesday, medical sources said six Palestinians were killed and 14 wounded in an Israeli strike in the coastal Shati refugee camp…”
Israeli strikes kill 10 in Gaza; IDF says it targeted Hamas commanders
Medics said nine were killed in a strike in Gaza City. In a separate strike, the IDF said it targeted a Hamas platoon commander who participated in the October 7 massacre. Hamas said the strikes showe...
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❗️ “Here are reels of genocide shows. A broad public that is not only not shocked or embarrassed and ashamed, but cheers. [] An entire nation that is gradually losing the ability to identify basic moral boundaries, not out of fear or obedience, but in an atmosphere of hafla, a festive celebration.”
Opinion | I resist historical comparisons. Then Israel marks people with numbers
Perhaps we are stuck trying to find historical precedents instead of looking at what is happening before our eyes
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!!! “Eight Israeli airstrikes hit an unused airbase in northwestern Syria's Idlib province early on Tuesday, Syrian state media reported, in attacks widely condemned by Damascus and Washington.” www.dw.com/en/syria-us-...
Syria, US condemn Israeli strikes on military base
Israel has not officially claimed the strikes on Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib, some 70 kilometers from the Turkish border. US envoy Tom Barrack called the Israeli strikes an "unnecessary escalation."
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!!! ICC: “When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk,” apnews.com/article/inte...
US hits ICC president and senior prosecutor with sanctions in another move against the court
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court and one of its top prosecutors.
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!!! always looking to expand war: “Israel carried out airstrikes on the Abu al-Duhur military airfield in northwestern Syria…” “The continued attacks showed that Israel wanted to push the region into a new phase of tension and instability…” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Live updates • Six reported killed in Israeli strike on Gaza port; IDF says it targeted Hamas
Report: Pentagon weighs pulling U.S. forces from Persian Gulf after Iran war. Child among 6 Palestinians killed, several wounded in Israeli strike in Gaza, medical sources say. 'Like animals and beast...
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!!! just when you think they can’t sink any lower… “…This is what dehumanization looks like: erasing the person and turning them into a number. An image reminiscent of dark periods, and one that should shock everyone."” www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
IDF marks detained Palestinians with numbers as northern West Bank raids expand
After a West Bank raid the IDF said targeted Palestinians involved in planning attacks, several Palestinians were released with numbers written in marker on their face or bodies
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🏴☠️Go to Qusra to See What Israel Is Trying to Hide By Dahlia Scheindlin 🧵🚨 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
1/ This is what dehumanization looks like. Not seeing Palestinians as people with families, fears, and dreams — but as numbers and targets that can be killed. Once you convince yourself that an entire people are somehow less human, there is no limit to the violence you can justify against them.