Ann Hawkins

DEMOCRACY Shocking video for German police cracking down on a little boy protesting against Israeli genocide in Gaza

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Banning media from covering this weekend’s PC party convention is being described as an “unprecedented move to limit scrutiny” on the Ford government scandals. But banning reporters isn’t the only secretive thing Doug has done over the last 8 years. ⤵️

Just in case u forgot: u don’t hate them nearly enough.

"If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies,...we [US police] will kill you." But Western media calls the murderers of hundreds of Iranian police officers and security agents, as well as roughly two thousand innocent citizens, "peaceful protesters."

The imperial boomerang has truly come home. The same forces and practices violating the human rights of people in Palestine and across the global South have now been unleashed on all of us living in the West. Even as the US-Israel Axis leaves a trail of blood across the globe, here at home, people are being surveilled by the state, sanctioned, expelled from school, fired from jobs, beaten and arrested by police, abducted by ICE, deported, and slandered by the government, just for defending human rights and speaking out against the Israeli regime and its US-funded apartheid and genocide. Now a rogue federal militia is terrorizing and murdering people in the streets. We are living in the belly of a beast that threatens to devour the very idea of human rights at home and abroad. The beast is buttressed by two corrupt parties, complicit media companies, corporations, tech oligarchs, billionaires, and ruthless lobbies. Most of all, it is buttressed by the apathy, ignorance, and inaction our neighbors. The hour is late. But the victory of tyranny over justice is not inevitable. This is our 1930s moment. Read history. Find courage. Resist this.

Absolute dereliction of duty as a premier and government of a province of 16 million people facing multiple challenges. @fordnation is a no-account hack who thinks his job is to issue building permits, give raises to cops and raise funds for the party.

No accountability. From the moment we arrived at this press conference we were instructed to ask “on-topic” questions only, and that we would be given “one question each” when we were called on. I was never called on & Premier Ford refused to take my questions.

"You said that Israel is at war with Hamas let me ask you a simple question.If you're at war with Hamas, why are you shooting children in the skull & in the chest? why are you killing journalists? Why are you killing medics? Why are you killing UN workers?" Norman Finkelstein

ISRAEL BREAKS ALL AGREEMENTS WITH IMPUNITY… Israel has committed over 700 violations of the ceasefire. Nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed. And Israel is occupying 50% of the Gaza Strip. @FranceskAlbs

Absolutely shameful, also absolutely predictable. Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs? The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic and economic consequences. This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation. dub.sh/atoLjaZ

Mini is on the comeback trail ❤️

🚨This is one of the most disturbing videos of ICE abuse I’ve seen. In Minnesota, ICE agents handcuffed a pregnant woman, forced her onto her stomach, and put their full body weight and knees on her, refusing to let her get up. In the video, you can hear the crowd screaming over and over that she is pregnant. They plead with the agents to stop. The woman is not resisting, not moving, not a threat. It doesn’t matter. The agents ignore them, continue pointing pepper spray at the crowd, and one agent even shoves a woman backward, assaulting her simply for speaking up. People keep begging them to let the pregnant woman off her stomach, to stop putting weight on her body. The agents refuse. The crowd grows louder and more desperate, because they are watching someone who could lose her pregnancy, right in front of them, at the hands of ICE agents. Only after the crowd begins throwing snowballs is the pregnant woman able to get off her stomach. And then it gets worse. The ICE agents begin pepper spraying the crowd. One agent drags the pregnant woman by the arm while she is still helpless and restrained. Pepper spray fills the air, hitting bystanders and the pregnant woman herself as she lies on the ground beneath them. This is not “law enforcement.” This is cruelty. This is reckless endangerment. This is state violence carried out in public, on camera, against a pregnant woman who posed no threat. If this is what they’re willing to do while being filmed, imagine what happens when no one is watching.

ANCHOR: You followed today’s Sydney incident, where civilians were killed. Do such acts serve the Palestinian cause, especially when Netanyahu uses them to speak of “Islamic extremism” and antisemitism? OSAMA HAMDAN: I believe the direct responsibility for such acts lies with the scale of genocide, international hypocrisy, and regional and global failure to stop Israeli aggression. Israel has placed every Jew in the world in a position of danger by hiding behind them. What is required today is for Jews around the world to clearly state that Israel does not represent them and that Netanyahu does not speak for them, but represents a racist, colonial, terroristic project that is a worse version of Nazism. The continuation of Israeli aggression opens the door to such distortions. Ending the occupation is what ends the cause of all these incidents. ANCHOR: But there is no justification for killing civilians, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. Isn’t that correct? OSAMA HAMDAN: Of course. We do not trivialize blood, whoever it belongs to. But the world stands on one leg for the killing of 20 people and turns its face away from the killing of 80,000 of our people, the wounding of 150,000, and the imprisonment of two million in the largest open-air prison. This hypocrisy must be confronted. The world should say to the Palestinian people: we are sorry, we are beginning to understand your pain.

Major investigation exposes Israel working to thwart war crimes prosecutions worldwide —— A major investigation led by Mediapart in partnership with eight European media outlets has found that Israel quietly set up a specialized government department in 2010 to counter legal action against its political and military leadership abroad. Operating within the Ministry of Justice, the unit was tasked with conducting what internal documents describe as “legal warfare,” using legal, diplomatic, and political pressure to obstruct war crimes cases in European and international courts. The investigation is based on a leak of more than two million internal emails exchanged between 2009 and 2023, which detail coordinated efforts to influence judges, lobby foreign governments, and derail proceedings behind closed doors. According to the findings, a core mission of the department was to prevent the arrest of Israeli officials under universal jurisdiction laws. Senior politicians and military figures were repeatedly warned against traveling to certain European countries to avoid the risk of detention. The leaked correspondence shows the unit claiming responsibility for the collapse of dozens of criminal and civil cases targeting Israel and its officials across Europe and beyond. It also documents direct interventions in cases involving companies accused of supplying the Israeli military or operating in illegal settlements, with legal maneuvers reported in Spain, the Netherlands, and France. In Spain, sustained lobbying reportedly helped shut down a case against a former defense minister and senior officers accused of involvement in an attack in Gaza that killed 14 civilians, including children. In the Netherlands, the investigation found that Israel covertly financed a settlement in a lawsuit against a Dutch company supplying attack dogs to the army, while concealing its role from the Palestinian victim’s legal team. The investigation further reveals that the department devoted significant resources to limiting action by the International Criminal Court. Internal emails cited by the media partners suggest officials believed they had managed to delay an ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Palestine by nearly a decade. This strategy reportedly relied on discreet lobbying in The Hague and the cultivation of informal contacts inside the court, aimed at keeping the ICC engaged in prolonged jurisdictional debates rather than advancing to a formal investigation.

“Gaza is a model: a preview of a global order where international law is discarded, colonial violence is normalized, and entire populations are sacrificed with impunity.” Journalist Chris Hedges says that Israel’s attacks on Gaza, rebranded from “self-defense” to “war” to a hollow “ceasefire, remains an ongoing genocide carried out against a besieged, defenseless population. He notes that despite the ceasefire, Israel has violated nearly all its terms, continued bombardment and killings, restricted aid to famine levels, expanded its military control to more than half of Gaza, and enforced a shifting “yellow line” where civilians, including children, are shot on sight. Hedges underscores that Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face systematic destruction: mass displacement, starvation, the obliteration of infrastructure, and denial of reconstruction materials. The genocide, he argues, has merely slowed, not ended, becoming a form of “slow-motion killing,” with daily deaths, rampant malnutrition, collapsing living conditions, and mounting prisoner abuse.

It’s so gross watching the tail-wagging excitement of Israel supporters in response to the Bondi shooting. They’re so happy they have another rhetorical weapon with which to bludgeon pro-Palestine voices into silence. They can barely contain their glee. Netanyahu immediately scrambled to hold a press conference proclaiming that the attack was the result of Australia taking some steps toward the recognition of a Palestinian state. New York Times warmonger Bret Stephens penned an article titled “Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like,” arguing that the shooters probably “were taking to heart slogans like ‘resistance is justified,’ and ‘by any means necessary,’ which have become ubiquitous at anti-Israel rallies the world over.” Iraq-raping war propagandist David Frum wrote a similar article for The Atlantic titled “The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach,” saying the beach “has been repeatedly targeted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators” and denouncing the fact that “Many in the western world have interpreted post-October 7 anti-Israel actions within the framework of free speech.” The virulently Islamophobic Australian senator Pauline Hanson swiftly slapped together a statement claiming that “the weekly anti-semitic protests across our nation” and “our obnoxious universities” were “warning signs” that such an attack was coming. Sky News hastened to give a platform to Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sharren Haskel in an interview where she declared that “this is what it means” to allow protesters to chant “globalize the intifada”, saying that “if you let that continue and run in your streets” you are inviting further terrorist attacks. Haskel has previously called pro-Palestine protesters in Australia “useful idiots” for Hamas. Political dynasty princeling Chris Cuomo took to Twitter to assert that people who’ve been accusing Israel of genocide helped “fuel the hatred on bondi beach.” The Jewish Chronicle’s Stephen Pollard tweeted a video of pro-Palestine protesters in Birmingham with the caption “It you deny the connection between this and what happened at Bondi Beach you are part of the problem.” A viral tweet from Australian right wing social media personality Kobie Thatcher features a video of a pro-Palestine protest with the caption “This was Sydney, Australia just 6 months ago. These scenes should have been an urgent warning.” From the earliest moments after this attack Israel apologists have been taken it as a given that it was an act of terrorism in response to Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza, but then framing the people peacefully protesting those atrocities as the problem. They’re openly acknowledging that the genocide is violently radicalizing people, but instead of coming to the obvious conclusion that Israel should therefore not commit genocide, they’re citing it as evidence that people should stop protesting the genocide. They could blame the shooting on the actual shooters. They could blame the people committing genocide for radicalizing the shooters. But instead they’re blaming the violence on the most peaceful people in the equation: the ones holding signs and saying violent massacres should NOT happen. It’s about the craziest, most evil manipulation you could possibly come up with. After the Manchester synagogue attack this past October, I made the observation that “Whenever western Jews get hurt these days you always see the Israel supporters having a big parade where they go ‘Okay that’s it, wrap it up, nobody gets to criticize Israel’s behavior anymore because you’re causing terrorism!’ And then everyone ignores them and goes back to protesting the genocide, because that’s ridiculous.” We’re seeing that same parade again today, and it’s just as ridiculous now as it was then. Massacring civilians is wrong. It’s wrong in Bondi Beach, and it’s wrong in Gaza. Today the worst people in the world are trying to claim that because the former happened, everyone needs to stop protesting the latter. This is pure, cynical manipulation designed to protect a genocidal apartheid state from criticism. It deserves nothing but a scoff and a dismissal.

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Jake Lang THREATENS Muslims at anti-Islam hate rally: “I suggest you leave now before the crusades really start.” Keep this in mind while the people who support this flood the timeline crying about “Zionist feelings 🥺”