Today in Labor History June 4, 1939: The U.S. blocked the MS St. Louis from landing in Florida. The ship carried 963 Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Nazis. Canada also refused. As a result, the ship was forced back to Europe. Over 200 of its passengers ultimately died in Nazi concentration camps. The ordeal is also known as the Voyage of the Damned. This event has been depicted in numerous books, including Julian Barnes’s novel, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989); Bodie and Brock Thoene's novel Munich Signature (1991); and Leonardo Padura's novel Herejes (2013). Cordell Hull, who was Secretary of State at the time, and who led the calls to turn the refugees away, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1944. It was one of the worst Nobel prizes ever awarded (along with Henry Kissinger (1973), who facilitated bloody dictatorships in Chile and Argentina, genocides in Bangladesh and East Timor, and carpet bombing of Cambodia. Or Elihu Root (1912), the U.S. Secretary of War who oversaw the brutal repression of the Filipino independence movement. And let’s not forget Shimon Peres, Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1994), who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize despite their histories of human rights abuses. Or Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). Or Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), who sent tanks into the Baltic republics less than a year after winning his “peace” prize, killing numerous civilians. Or Barack Obama (2009), who began assassinating civilians with his drones and arresting more immigrants than his predecessor, George W. Bush, not long after winning his Nobel. Or Woodrow Wilson (1919), an outright racist and apologist for slavery, who sent troops to occupy Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, and to “intervene” in Cuba, Honduras and Panama, and who oversaw the Palmer raids that led to over 10,000 arrests and over 500 deportations of union leaders, peace activists, socialists and anarchists. Or Menachem Begin (1978), who four years after receiving his “peace” prize launched the bloody invasion of Lebanon, and who refused to fire Ariel Sharon, even after the Kahan Commission found Sharon culpable for the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Nazis #Fascism #Jews #holocaust #NobelPrize #massacre #genocide #antisemitism #imperialism #invasion #occupation #ConcentrationCamps #HistorialFiction #novel #books #author @bookstadon

The actual most interesting man in the world.

"[A]s #Morin always insisted, truth is complex. So, too, was his career, which in many ways reflects the origin story of the #French #intellectual. Born as #EdgarNahoum in #Paris in 1921, his parents were #Jewish immigrants from #Salonica, a city that had been home to #Greece’s largest Jewish community until #WorldWarII. (Nearly 90% of the community, some 54,000 men, women, and children were eventually murdered in #Nazi #deathcamps.) A precocious student, #Nahoum spent his days in libraries studying #German philosophers like #Hegel and his nights in cinemas studying French films directed by the likes of #MarcelPagnol.

Yet everything changed, including his name, come #France’s defeat and #occupation by #NaziGermany in 1940. Making his way to the Unoccupied Zone, the 20-year-old Nahoum, who had been a pacifist before the war, soon joined both the banned #CommunistParty and the #FrenchResistance."

https://forward.com/culture/828986/edgar-morin-france-appreciation-104-jewish-intellectual-complexity-events/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Today in Labor History June 2, 1975: 100 sex workers occupied that Saint-Nizier church in Lyon to protest against police repression. They demanded that all their convictions be reversed. The police evicted them after a week. However, soon after, a judge cancelled their upcoming prison sentences.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #occupation #sexworkers #sexpositive #catholic #church #lyon #sexworkerrights #sexworkiswork #solidarity #directaction

#france #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #escalation / #internationallaw / #uno

„Why it matters: The crisis threatens to collapse #resolution1701: Israel’s presence north of the Blue Line violates Lebanese #sovereignty, while Hizbullah’s attacks and refusal to disarm also breach the framework. Beaufort Castle is especially symbolic because it recalls Israel’s 1982–2000 #occupation.“

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167618

En silence, Israël s'implante sur le versant syrien du mont Hermon

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://orientxxi.info/En-silence-Israel-s-implante-sur-le-versant-syrien-du-mont-Hermon

Israeli KKK finance minister Smotrich: The Palestinian Authority must be dismantled, the Area A, B, and C lines erased, and all territories annexed to "Israel."
- Smotrich: "It's either us or them, there is no compromise, and we are eliminating the idea of a Palestinian state."

I'm sure western nations will "condemn" this and look the other way when he actually dismantle the corrupt PA and officially takes over occupied West Bank.

I'm sure the western leaders will keep on talking about 2 state solution and roadmap to peace, before condemning Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran in their speeches.

#Smotrich #Occupation #WestBank #Israel #TwoStateScam #Paltstine #WestAsia #Hypocrisy

Kavita Naidu, spokesperson for Pasifika for Palestine Australia, a pro-Palestinian group formed by Pacific Islander diaspora members in Australia, condemned the opening of an Israeli embassy in Fiji, describing it as an “act of complicity”.

“From the Pacific to Palestine, we stand together in our responsibility to end Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid,” she said.

https://aje.news/yvduu6?update=4619160

#genocide #gaza #palestine #apartheid #occupation #icc #IsraelTerroristState #ZioNazis #fiji

These disgust daily terror attacks go unnoticed in the stream of pro Israeli news in the west.

Every night is "Kristal Night" for the Palestinians in occupied territories.

And the "world" keep on supporting this genocidal regime and its KKK hooligans terrorizing and torturing innocent palestinans who just want to live their lives.
#JewishKKK #KristalNight #Terrorism #Occupation #WestBank #Palestine #Israel

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