Systematic torture and rape of Palestinian captives - such a routine of the Israeli death cult that even the Guardian reports it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Systematic torture and rape of Palestinian captives - such a routine of the Israeli death cult that even the Guardian reports it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Huge props to the students at University of Manchester voting to demand UoM cut ties with Tel Aviv University, with an amazing 94% majority - and winning ‘cops out’ motion too 🔥✊🏼 manchesterstudentsunion.com/news/article...
Telegraph headline: Shabana Mahmood: Some pro-Palestinian protesters don’t want peace in Middle East. Subheading: Home Secretary questions motives of some activists over marches held after Gaza peace deal struck
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
For the benefit of the cops and the Telegraph, "Intifada 87" is clearly a reference to the First Intifada, where Palestinian mass protests, civil disobedience and strikes were brutally crushed by Israel.
Read a book, FFS...
On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".
Now it's happening
Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.
Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Desperate to do anything and everything to keep the apartheid colony’s genocide on the road, the Labour government now appeal the granted right to an appeal. Keep digging you absurd ghouls
Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.
time.com/7319164/phil...
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Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.
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Coming soon in paperback!
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
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ALL SYSTEMS GO ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year. Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains" Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two: Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent. Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors: Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June - see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley. The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond. • Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.
Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
Another scumbag Labour council high on its anti-Palestinian racism
Happy to have a chapter in this wonderful collection of essays “Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition”, thanks to Luisa Lorenza Corna and Mark Crinson
Yvette Cooper’s determination to protect the Israeli killing machine is something to behold. Resigning is too good for her - may she never have a day’s peace for the rest of her life.
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Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk
The Guardian’s shameless attempt to rehabilitate Lammy would be laughable if it wasn’t so disgusting. The man is a war criminal drenched in Palestinian blood. It won’t wash off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Made my day 😁
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Just sayin’
This is 100% world-class bullshit
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[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month:
drive.proton.me/urls/AEVX3HF...
[5/5] Against their mischaracterizations, which only serve for the continuation of the genocide and settler colonialism, please support our petition (above) and other efforts such as this one:
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
[2/5] Also, if you have not already, please add your name to our petition in support of ISA's suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society. Your support is crucial to pressure National Sociological Associations in ISA for the continuation of the suspension. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Among the peers who signed the letter are Lord Pannick, a patron of the genocide deniers UK Lawyers for Israel; Baron Mendelsohn, a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel; and Lord Walney, a prominent lobbyist for Israel. There's a pattern emerging... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...