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Israeli forces killed 11 members of the Abu Shaaban family in Gaza on Friday—the deadliest single violation of the fragile ceasefire since it took effect eight days ago. This is what 'ceasefire' means under necropolitics.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
#OTD November 10, 1975 the UN General Assembly passed resolution 3379 which “Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”

It is true, but of course much of the “western” world, incl Canada, voted against it. It was rescinded 16 years later with a US motion from GHW Bush.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“Never Again” is meaningless when it’s happening again.

I just can’t this year…

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Israel is heading towards legalizing the murder of Palestinian detainees, including children as young as 12 years old. They’re already torturing to death and stealing their organs, so I guess they plan to kill even more hostages. It’s not blood libel if it’s true.

Never again, right?!
"Psychopathic Israeli minister Ben-Gvir hands out sweets after Israeli Knesset approves first reading of new bill legalizing the execution of Palestinian detainees."

lsraeI is the skunkworks division for turning western democracies fully fascist.
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
They’re not wrong, and I would add utterly feckless.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Resigned BBC bosses weren’t simp enough to Trump or Israel 😒
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Israelis systemically torture Palestinians in their custody. They seem to take pleasure in it.
🧵THREAD: Systematic Torture and Degradation of Palestinian Prisoners After October 7 — Prisoners’ Media Office

📌 Testimony of Freed Prisoner Yousef al-Zhour as a Case Study

A new report based on the testimony of freed prisoner Yousef al-Zhour reveals the scale of abuses suffered by Palestinian...
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I don’t find US control of aid distribution in Gaza reassuring, especially after the US backed Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation killing fields, but hopefully aid entering Gaza will soon be enough and of the type to meet their needs.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called for an end to obstructions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza. The Washington Post reported yesterday that the U.S.-run Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), led by U.S. Central Command, has now assumed direct control of aid operations in the...
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi did the right thing and exposed the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee by IDF soldiers. Now the establishment and people of Israel are out for her blood, as they rally behind the torturers and their right to rape Palestinians. Israeli society is deeply disturbed.
Ex-top IDF lawyer hospitalized as authorities examine possible suicide attempt
Concerns Were Raised That Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, Former IDF Chief Legal Officer, Swallowed Sleeping Pills, a Source Said. She Was Arrested Last Week After Being Embroiled in a Scandal Over the Leak o...
www.haaretz.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Israel’s ecocide of Gaza
“Homes lie in ruins, and an essential water source, once a rainwater pond, now festers with sewage and debris. For many displaced families, it is both home and hazard.

Umm Hisham, pregnant and displaced, trudges through the foul water with her children. They have nowhere else to go.”
Gaza’s water turns poisonous as Israel’s genocide leaves toxic aftermath
As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now pose lethal risks.
www.aljazeera.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The whole world is breaking our balls
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Increased spending on “defence” and cutbacks on international aid.

So killing people rather than helping them for Canada under @mark-carney.bsky.social Liberals.
And how much of that extra defence $$$ will go to the US as they threaten our sovereignty?
In #Budget2025, Canada describes $2.7 billion in cuts to international assistance as “savings.”

But let’s be clear Mark Carney: aid cuts aren’t savings.

They cost people's lives: https://ow.ly/iGPq50XoytN #cdnpoli
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Ms. Rachel in a dress embellished with the art of children from Gaza that she knows 😍🥹
Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Just going to get my Jewish butt in front of the awful thinkpieces that are coming and say that if you think Jews are safer under genocidal racist piece of shit leaders like Netanyahu than under Mamdani, you don't want safety, you want to use Judaism as a cover for your own white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Power to the people ✊🏼
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
An unknown number of people are feared dead and injured in Tanzania following clashes with security forces after the October 29 elections.

Tanzanian authorities’ violent and repressive response to election-related protests further undermines the credibility of the electoral process.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
That’s how to write a headline
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Scratch the surface of any accusation levelled by Israel (or their supporters) against Palestinians, and you will find a tactic of the Israeli occupation.
Throughout the Gaza genocide, testimonies have documented the Israeli army’s use of Palestinian women as human shields. These are not isolated acts by rogue soldiers but a systematic practice known to Israeli commanders and acknowledged by soldiers. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...
Palestinian women share how Israeli forces used them as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank
Throughout the Gaza genocide, testimonies have documented the Israeli army’s use of Palestinian women as human shields. These are not isolated acts by rogue soldiers but a systematic practice known...
mondoweiss.net
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Israel is losing their collective minds that they are being scrutinized for their systemic practice of torture and rape of Palestinian detainees.

CW: very distressing article with descriptions of torture
Israel to appoint new army lawyer after Palestinian prisoner rape scandal
Suspects in the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee call for the trial to be cancelled after the advocate general admitted to leaking the video
www.middleeasteye.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Israel wants us to believe that they were just peacefully blooming in the desert on Oct 7, and were attacked out of the blue. Israel is, and has always been, a terror state.
#OtD 3 Nov 1956 the Israeli army massacred hundreds of Palestinians in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza during the Israeli-France-UK invasion of Egypt. They lined up men aged 16-50 and machine-gunned them. Between 275 and 1200 were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1245...
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Israel is forging ahead with a new way to murder Palestinians. 1000s of these hostages are detained without charge under “administrative detention, and hundreds are children. They secretly torture and kill them, but now they are making it “legal”.

Israel must be forcefully stopped.
According to Israeli Channel 12, Israel has approved in its first reading a law allowing the death penalty for Palestinian hostages. The report stated that the bill passed the National Security Committee’s initial reading and is expected to be presented for a full vote in the Knesset on Wednesday.
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Canada’s few actions against the genocide in Gaza have been performative acts to appear non-complicit. Meanwhile, Israel is repeatedly violating a precarious ceasefire, while also escalating violent settlement of the West Bank.

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The many ways Canada played the accomplice to genocide.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Meritocracy is 100% dead. All these pro-MIC, pro-surveillance, pro-foreign coups, pro-Israel grifters in both parties are not the best our country has to offer. They're the most evil. They were curated for leadership by elites because of their psychopathic willingness to gaslight millions of people.
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m sure the bulldozers are working hard to clean up bodies and rubble for these staged propaganda tours, sanitizing the tour sites just like they did at the GHF killing stations.
🔴REPORT | Israel is preparing a coordinated media campaign ahead of foreign journalists’ entry into Gaza for the 1st time after 2 years of genocidal killing and destruction, according to Israel’s YNET. Officials say the goal is to control the narrative as reporters document...

Here’s what to know:🧵
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#OTD 1917
The Balfour Declaration
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM