Under cover of Iran war, Israel accelerates West Bank annexation
New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised…
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Israel enforces draconian Gaza closure during Ramadan
Israeli settlers have set a mosque on fire in the West Bank.
The flames of holy war are burning bright in Israel.
Bibi Netanyahu, no doubt, is pleased. And he’s fanning the flames to burn even brighter.
#rewatch 📲 This week’s MEMO episode begins with a tribute to the late Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi before turning to the stories being overshadowed by the #war on #iran
Muhammed Shehada unpacks what is happening in #gaza and the #westbank while global attention shifts elsewhere, explains why rising #settlerviolence and deepening Israeli control should not be ignored -
Also: The disturbing similarities between Israel’s conduct in Iran and its genocidal war
Looking forward to launching a more politically and environmentally responsible set of badges.
They’re designed as a creative and critical response to the extractive, exploitative and dehumanizing logics that lie behind the idea of putting a logo on #books to certify they were written by #humans - such as the new scheme launched by the UK’s Society of Authors.
Rather than reinforcing a simplistic human vs nonhuman divide, the project asks what kinds of #labour, resources and #infrastructure are being obscured by these kinds of labels.
#DefundCulture #SettlerViolence #environment #ai #societyofauthors
‘Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” #book to protest against #AI firms using their work without permission.’
Yet #copyright itself has long been criticised as part of broader systems of enclosure and #SettlerViolence. So the assertion of copyright is not a victimless crime, any more than is the training of AI #chatbots and image generators on vast #datasets (often scraped without permission from the open web, digital repositories and shadow or #pirate libraries containing copyrighted books).
So what exactly is being defended here? Do the authors protesting against the training of AI really not know the long history of critique of copyright? Or do they know perfectly and are just too selfish and are profiting too much from it themselves to want to challenge it or think of something different?
Military raids target West Bank education
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Israeli settlers and soldiers kill three Palestinians in West Bank village | West Bank | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/08/israeli-settlers-idf-soldiers-kill-palestinians-west-bank
Attorney General’s legal adviser, Gali Baharav-Miara, upheld the decision not to open a criminal probe into Bezalel #Smotrich primarily because he repeatedly explained at the time that he did not intend to call on private citizens to commit violence but was urging the political and military leadership to act; she also cited the ambiguity of merely “liking” another’s tweet as insufficiently clear evidence of incitement and noted that the tweet’s author was not investigated, which weighed against accepting the human-rights groups’ appeal.
[…] Asked about a weekend settler rampage through the Palestinian village of Huwara, which an Israeli general on Tuesday described as a "pogrom," Smotrich said: "I think that Huwara needs to be erased". Smotrich added: "I think that the state of Israel needs to do it, but God forbid not individual people." State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters that Smotrich's comments "were irresponsible. They were repugnant. They were disgusting."
[…] The organizations argue that the qualifier Minister Smotrich added at the conference is understood by extreme-right activists as a "wink," and they point in this context to then‑Shin Bet head Ronen Bar El’s letter to cabinet members about the "covert backing" the perpetrators receive. "One cannot but interpret the minister’s statements and publications as incitement and encouragement to continue carrying out pogroms in Huwara and other Palestinian villages," they say.
Hebrew https://www.the7eye.org.il/578726
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's call for a Palestinian village to be "erased" amounted to incitement to violence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly disavow it, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
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