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If someone commits an offense because they have some important grievances (say like Luigi's hunting down of a CEO), why doesn't the government demolish the home of their family and bulldoze the infrastructure of their neighborhood? I mean their family and community should be punished for allowing the mere existence of the offender, right?

Of course not. Yet, somehow this is acceptable to most when it's done systematically by #Israel to those who resist the occupation.

🔥 They stole the land. They bombed the beaches. They poisoned the water. But the people of #Vieques fought back—and they won.

For 60 years, the U.S. Navy used Vieques as a war playground, displacing families and turning paradise into a toxic wasteland. The people resisted with blockades, occupations, and mass disobedience—until they forced the empire to back down.

But colonialism doesn’t end when the soldiers leave. The land is still fenced off, contaminated, stolen. Sound familiar? #Gaza. Kanien’kehá:ka lands. Different places, same colonial script.

They want us to accept displacement as normal. We never will.

🎥 Read the full story + watch my short film: amplifierfilms.ca/vieques-colo

AmplifierVieques: Colonialism, Resistance, and the Fight for Liberation | AmplifierVieques, Gaza, and Kanien’kehá:ka lands share a history of colonial militarization and displacement. This post explores the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques, the resistance that forced them out, and the ongoing fight for land reclamation—connecting it to Palestinian and Indigenous struggles worldwide.

Condemning Dana Nessel’s Hypocrisy

"Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a self-styled progressive who has attempted to build a reputation opposing Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, now exposes her own hypocrisy by weaponizing the legal system to suppress pro-Palestine protesters.

...

Where was this zeal for “accountability” when white supremacists plotted to kidnap Michigan’s governor? Where is her outrage over “israel’s” US-funded genocide in Gaza, which has slaughtered over 40,000 Palestinians? Her selective application of justice exposes a dangerous truth: For Nessel, opposing Trump is a political brand, not a commitment to dismantling oppression."

unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2025

“One of the first shocking things I saw driving in is the dogs going through the rubble. And I said to my colleague who was with me, why are the dogs so fat? And he said, well, because the dogs are looking for corpses. And you notice that the people are thin, and then you see that for miles and miles and miles.” Tom Fletcher (head of the UN’s humanitarian affairs bureau)

middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li

Middle East EyeUN aid chief describes shock at seeing dogs fattened from eating corpses in Gaza

Now we know who to read to get the truth on Israel

Report: "Israeli police again raid the Education Bookstore in East Jerusalem".

They confiscated books "by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé & Rashid Khalidi, among others."

Previously police arrested the owners, accusing them of selling books that incited terrorism, including a children’s colouring book entitled "From the Jordan to the Sea."

aje.io/nswai5?update=3573186

#EducationBookstore #IsraeliCensorship #Fascism #USPol #FreePalestine .

Report: Pakistani architect Yasmin Lari has turned down an Israeli prize due to Israel’s continuing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

“Almost on a daily basis, I have been watching the horrifying genocide in Gaza for the last 17 months", said Lari.

"There was no choice except to decline the honour. I just think that’s the right thing to do.”

aje.io/nswai5?update=3574042

#GazaGenocideNotWar #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USPol #FreePalestine #BDS .

Now we know who to read to get the truth on Israel

Report: "Israeli police again raid the Education Bookstore in East Jerusalem".

They confiscated books "by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé & Rashid Khalidi, among others."

Previously police arrested the owners, accusing them of selling books that incited terrorism, including a children’s colouring book entitled "From the Jordan to the Sea."

aje.io/nswai5?update=3573186

#EducationBookstore #IsraeliCensorship #Fascism #USPol #FreePalestine .

#ICE Secretly Hauled #MahmoudKhalil to #Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege

By moving the campus #activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.

by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,

"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening.
Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

"By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away.

"Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the #LaSalleDetentionFacility in #JenaLouisiana, a #PrivateJail operated by the #GEOGroup.

"Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '#RetaliatoryTransfer' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched #FirstAmendment case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.

"Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'

"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/11/ma

Archived version:
archive.ph/7uhSa
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #FloodingTheZone #ShockAndAwe #FirstAmendment #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #Censorship #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinian #Protests #FreeKhalil #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #CenterForConstitutionalRights #TrumpRegime #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #PrivatePrisons #IndefiniteDetention

The Intercept · ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers AllegeBy Jonah Valdez

"Genocide alert": Francesca Albanese:

"Countries that are yet to impose sanctions or an arms embargo on Israel are “AIDING & ASSISTING Israel in the commission of one of the most preventable genocides of our history”.

aje.io/oxy9et?update=3568163

Albanese has also called for the UN to suspend Israel's credentials (as with apartheid South Africa). See:
theconversation.com/gaza-can-t

Why the UN is failing Palestine
youtube.com/watch?v=tpwfMgYOqdo

#UN #US #USPol #GazaGenocideNotWar #BDS #FreePalestine .

Palestine Action trash Tr*mp golf course in Scotland

"The most expensive golf course in Britain saw it's clubhouse sprayed red and the greens dug up, including the course's most prestigious holes. Whilst Donald Trump attempts to treat Gaza as his property, he must realise that his own property is within reach.

Yesterday, the course was ranked #3 in Europe. Today, it's shut down."

palestineaction.org/trump-golf/

Judge blocks removal of Palestinian activist who was detained at Columbia University - ABC News

abcnews.go.com/US/ice-arrests-

> In an update on Monday, his attorney, Amy Greer said she spoke with Khalil and that he is "healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament."

Greer also hinted that some of the administration's comments about Khalil, including President Trump's social media posts, may be used by Khalil's legal team to argue for his release.