DrALJONES5m ago

Interview: Gideon Levy explains how & why everyday Israelis deny the genocide.

In daily life in Tel Aviv, "people in the streets can hear the bombs but choose to ignore them."

"When you are brainwashed, you are not rational. You are still motivated by by this urge to punish Gaza for Oct 7 as if Oct 7 is the only crime here."

The world must treat apartheid Israel as it did apartheid South Africa: BDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hha6eL5-pbU

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #BDS #palestine @palestine .

Gideon Levy: an Israeli journalist standing up for Gaza | VPRO Frontlinie

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DrALJONES1h ago

Analysis: "It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth."

"Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-it-was-never-a-gaza-war-the

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #Press #BDS #palestine @palestine .

Listen: It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth

Read by Matthew Alford

Jonathan Cook
DrALJONES2h ago

Interview: Gideon Levy explains how & why everyday Israelis deny the genocide.

In daily life in Tel Aviv, "people in the streets can hear the bombs but choose to ignore them."

"When you are brainwashed, you are not rational. You are still motivated by by this urge to punish Gaza for Oct 7 as if Oct 7 is the only crime here."

The world must treat apartheid Israel as it did apartheid South Africa: BDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hha6eL5-pbU

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #BDS #palestine @palestine .

Gideon Levy: an Israeli journalist standing up for Gaza | VPRO Frontlinie

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securityaffairs4h ago
#SIMCARTEL operation: #Europol takes down SIM-Box ring linked to 3,200 scams
https://securityaffairs.com/183556/security/simcartel-operation-europol-takes-down-sim-box-ring-linked-to-3200-scams.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
SIMCARTEL operation: Europol takes down SIM-Box ring linked to 3,200 scams

Europol’s SIMCARTEL operation shut down a SIM-box network behind 3,200 frauds and €4.5M losses, using 40,000 SIMs for scams and extortion.

Security Affairs
DrALJONES5h ago

Panel: Is there enough international political will to probe war crimes in Gaza?

The UN says Israel has committed genocide in Gaza & South Africa is continuing its case at the ICJ. But UN member countries must act.

Panel
Sawsan Zaher, Palestinian human rights lawyer
Dr Mads Gilbert, medical doctor
Neve Gordon, Queen Mary Uni London

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2025/10/17/is-there-enough-international-political-will-to-probe-war-crimes-in-gaza

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #UN #Racism #Press #BDS #palestine @palestine .

Is there enough international political will to probe war crimes in Gaza?

The UN says peace without justice is not sustainable.

Al Jazeera
DrALJONES5h ago

Interview: "No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns”: Millions to Protest Saturday in 1000s of locations

Trump’s threats against the protests are classic authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, threaten, make people back off preemptively.

~Leah Greenberg, ⁠Indivisible

“There will be no fear but the fear of what will happen to us if we don’t mobilize."

~Byron Sigcho-Lopez, alderperson, Chicago

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/17/no_kings

#NoKingsProtests #USPol #Europol #Autocracy #press #news #racism .

“No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns.”: Millions to Protest Saturday in 1000s of Cities, Towns Nationwide

Even as President Trump has cracked down on dissent and sent troops into multiple cities, organizers of Saturday’s anti-authoritarian “No Kings” protests expect millions to join at least 2,500 rallies across all 50 states and several U.S. territories. The turnout could surpass the 5 million protesters who turned out for “No Kings Day” events in June. “We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government,” says Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of the progressive organization ⁠Indivisible. Trump’s threats against the protests are a “classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively,” she adds. “There will be no fear, but the fear of what will happen to us if we don’t mobilize,” says Byron Sigcho-Lopez, alderperson of the 25th Ward in Chicago, where mass protests are expected.

Democracy Now!
DrALJONES5h ago

Interview: “Cold-Blooded Murder”: David Cole on Trump’s Boat Attacks & CIA Covert Action in Venezuela

“These are sitting ducks, & we are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder of individuals who may or may not be drug smugglers."

"Trump is committing homicide by killing people without trial."

~David Cole, Georgetown University

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/17/david_cole_1

#USPol #Europol #Venezuela #USWarCrimes #News #USMurder .

“Cold-Blooded Murder”: David Cole on Trump’s Boat Attacks & <span class="caps">CIA</span> Covert Action in Venezuela

There are growing questions over the legality of U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. “These are sitting ducks, and we are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder of individuals who may or may not be drug smugglers,” says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Cole says that President Trump is “committing homicide” by killing people without trial. “These individuals who have now been sent to the bottom of the sea by this president, if they were tried, at most, would face a sentence of some period of years,” says Cole. “There would be no death penalty authorized under the Constitution for these individuals, even assuming they’re guilty.” This comes as Trump has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela aimed at regime change, raising fears of a military confrontation between the two countries.

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DrALJONES5h ago

Interview: "Israeli prisons became Israeli sadism in a nutshell."

"The way that prisoners were treated during these two years is unprecedented in Israel. And indeed.. people didn’t come only emaciated. They came out ill, sick. Some of them have lost their limbs."

"It’s undescribable, the conditions, the terrible conditions, which were they put in."

~Amira Hass

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/17/amira_hass

#IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #USPol #Europol #Sadism #PalestinianPrisoners #Racism #press @palestine .

“Israeli Sadism in a Nutshell”: Amira Hass on Israeli Prisons, Settler Violence & Gaza Ceasefire

Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement. “There is the fear all the time that the war will be renewed,” says Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who joins us from Ramallah. Hass is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and is the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.

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DrALJONES5h ago

Report: Greta Thunberg detailed the torture & abuse she & other Flotilla participants suffered in Israeli detention.

Thunberg says she was repeatedly kicked by guards, forced to undress, & deprived of food & water.

"If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/16/headlines/greta_thunberg_describes_israeli_guards_torture_of_gaza_aid_flotilla_activists

#Thunberg #IsraeliCrimes #GazaFlotilla #palestine #USPol #Europol @palestine .

Greta Thunberg Describes Israeli Guards’ Torture of Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has provided details about the torture and abuse she and other participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla suffered in Israeli detention, after they were abducted on the high seas while attempting to bring food and medicine to Gaza. Thunberg describes a visit by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Ktzi’ot Prison, where the activists were being held. She says he shouted, “You are terrorists! You want to kill Jewish babies!” and those who shouted back were taken aside and beaten. Thunberg says she was repeatedly kicked by guards, forced to undress, and was held in an insect-infested cell where she was deprived of food and water. She says she was repeatedly called a “whore” in Swedish by the Israeli guards, who scrawled the word and other profane graffiti on her suitcase. Thunberg said, “If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.”

Democracy Now!
DrALJONES5h ago

Interview: Walkout: Top U.S. Media reject New Pentagon Press Restrictions...

...that required Pentagon authorization on any reporting about the Pentagon.

"Dozens of reporters turned in their government-issued press badges & left the building rather than agree to the rules."

Trump "has made the suppression of speech that it doesn’t like a governing principle"

~David Schulz

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/16/pentagon_media_policy_boycott

#pentagon #Trump #USPress #USPol #Europol #Hegseth #Censorship .

Walkout: Top U.S. Media, Including Conservative Outlets, Reject New Pentagon Press Restrictions

The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. “The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn’t like a governing principle since it took office,” says David Schulz, who advised the Pentagon Press Association on their response. He warns the “desire of the Pentagon officials to control what is said about them” is “alarming” and signals a major rupture in U.S. press freedoms.

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