More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....
The longstanding partnership between California State University, Long Beach and Boeing is a showcase of higher education's complicity with US-Israeli militarism and the Gaza genocide.
"In 2023, the Israeli military censor barred the publication of 613 articles by media outlets in Israel,"
"Even before the war, the Israeli government had advanced a series of measures to undermine media independence. This led to Israel dropping 11 places in the 2023 annual World Press Freedom Index, followed by an additional four places in 2024 (it now sits in 101st place out of 180)."
"..a handful of Arab states, including Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, began clamping down on pro-Palestine activism in their own countries"
Crackdown on protest is expected in authoritarian states. As for Palestine, "no Arab state wants to confront Israel...this has much to do with their relations with the US on which they rely for security and, in some cases, as a source of critical financial assistance"
Also, pro-Palestine seen as leftist.
"Biden is suffering huge damage to his base because of his support for genocide"
"The question that must be asked again and again is, Why is an accomplished politician taking such risks with his reelection campaign by supporting a genocide?...It's the donors."
Here's a list of the main donors and their motivation. And the money ... huge amounts of money.
ICC is seeking arrest warrants for PM Benjamin Netanyahu and war minister Yoav Gallant, in addition to three Hamas figures
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in addition to six others, die in a helicopter crash on the border with Azerbaijan. The cause of the helicopter crash remains unknown.
From DemocracyNow. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani explains what it really means, the shortcomings as well as the significance of placing "Israel's leaders of this genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Strip in the dock".
Really interesting.
12 min long.
Netanyahu arrest warrant: #Israel PM accused of #Gaza war crimes
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants against Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammad Deif and Ismail Haniyeh for alleged war crimes in Gaza.
"World exclusive: The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan tells me in an exclusive interview"
The arrests and violence against protesters are meant to tire the movement for liberation and scare us into complacency. They are afraid of the power we hold as a collective.
"For #KarimKhan history begins on October 7, even though his investigation has, by his own account, been ongoing for a number of years and is supposed to take into account all crimes committed since 2014. He has yet to address any crimes between 2014 and 2023, notably the crime of #apartheid, the crime of #IllegalSettlements in #OccupiedTerritories..." - #MouinRabbani
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
Was für ein Tag heute, neben dem was ich vorhin schon tootete/postete noch der Beschluss vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (#ICC) gegen die Anführer von #Israel & #Gaza und den #Hamas zum #Haftbefehl und das an einem freien Tag für mich.
P.S. Wenn die überhaupt deswegen daran kommen könnten?
> Compte tenu des preuves recueillies et examinées par mon Bureau, j’ai de bonnes raisons de penser que la responsabilité pénale de Benjamin #NETANYAHU, [...] et de Yoav #GALLANT[...] est engagée pour les crimes de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité ci-après commis sur le territoire de l’État de #Palestine (dans la bande de #Gaza) à compter du 8 octobre 2023 au moins.
Why UC grad students are going out on strike (calmatters.org)
More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month....