‘Might makes right’ defines Israeli, US approach to Gaza
“It’s not about what is right. It’s about might, and Israel and the United States are projecting might through violence, through genocide, through war crimes, and trying to force that even into the agreements they would sign on to.”
Marwan Bishara
You're going to get kidnapped by the police or ICE for protesting against Israel, and for supporting Palestine — you might as well do something to them that's worth being arrested over! #freepalestine #zionism #bds #palestine #gaza #imperialism #genocide #antiImperialism #Israel #antizionism
#CaitlinJohnstone
"The western political faction doing the most to help kill children in #Gaza are not the "Yeehaw kill them Arabs" fanatics of the far right, but the "Gosh it's so complicated, both sides hate each other and they've been at war for millennia" fence-sitting of the so-called moderate.
The latter is far more destructive because it's much more widespread and accepted in mainstream western discourse. You can't be a good talkshow liberal if..." https://xcancel.com/caitoz/status/1911941205920985373#m
@palestine
Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview
A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.
#arrest #politics #immigration #protest #Gaza #Vermont
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mohsen-mahdawi-arrested-1.7510325?cmp=rss
Palestinians flee advancing Israeli forces in Gaza City on Monday [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
Palestinians carry an injured woman removed from under the rubble, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by #ICE in Vermont
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025
"A #Palestinian man who led protests against the war in #Gaza as a student at #ColumbiaUniversity was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement agents, his lawyers said. "
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech #StopTheDeportations
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
In a sign that the Trump regime plans to continue its fascist repression of student protestors legally in the US and dissent in general, even as its authority to do so is being challenged in court, ICE has kidnapped another Columbia University anti-genocide protest leader. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian who has legally been studying in the United States for the past 10 years, was arrested by ICE as he arrived for a citizenship test; now the regime seems intent on deporting him under the familiar Calvinball argument that Marco Rubio can deport anyone he deems "detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests" on a whim; a tactic the administration has used to justify prior attempts to deport political prisoners Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, among others:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
"Even before his friend and fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities, Mahdawi asked university administrators to help him find a safe place to live so he would not be taken by ICE agents, according to emails reviewed by The Intercept. The school did nothing in response, Mahdawi said.
After ICE abducted Khalil last month, Mahdawi sheltered in place for more than three weeks for fear of being picked up himself.
Instead of taking him off the street, however, immigration authorities scheduled the citizenship test at the Colchester USCIS office and took Mahdawi into custody when he arrived.
Now, Mahdawi is facing an order to deport him to the occupied West Bank, where escalating attacks from both the Israeli military and Jewish settlers have led to increased casualties among Palestinians.
“It’s kind of a death sentence,” Mahdawi said. “Because my people are being killed unjustly in an indiscriminate way.”
Please also note that a number of other kidnapping targets taken by ICE, Mahdawi was previously marked out for reprisal by pro-Zionist smear group Canary Mission, and Betar, a far right hate group that's widely considered a fascist organization even in Israel; because apparently US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now taking foreign policy and national security advice from ultra-Zionist extremist hate groups that openly advocate for violence against Palestinians and protestors. Like all of the other anti-genocide protestors the regime has kidnapped, there is no evidence that Mahdawi is a "terrorist" or committed any serious crimes, except of course the Trump administration's argument that protesting a genocide is in and of itself, domestic terrorism.
The Trump administration has reportedly detained another high profile Palestinian American student attending Columbia University.
Mohsen Madawi, was interviewed on 60 Minutes about the student protests and demonstrated a very balanced and nuanced views on the October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by Gaza's resistance fighters.
There are many similar cases now.
“US: Zio-McCarthyism, a 21st century political purge that has dangerous overtones”
by Omar Suleiman in Middle East Eye
“Zio-McCarthyism is not just about Palestine. It is about what kind of country the United States is becoming”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-zio-mccarthyism-21st-century-political-purge
What's left anyhow?
Not much what once was meant to take a a revolutionary antiauthoritarian antifascist and anticapitalistic stance from which you could differentiate in matters so profound as any question whose answer is about life or death, peace or war, resistance or subordination.
At least in Germany the so called left supports the #genocide in #Gaza in large parts
thus building a springboard to start a career in a lucrative government job or any other position that demands conformity with the reason of state which especially demands total acceptance of any move Israel takes against Palestinians no matter how cruel or deadly it might be.
I am Heba, from #Gaza, Palestine 
, a mother of 4 children in the war. Help us for food, drink and clothing. We have unhealthy food and contaminated water. We need medicines. Please donate 
https://gofund.me/04bdafcd
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The World Health Organization says hospitals in Gaza are damaged “beyond description” after recent Israeli strikes. @BBCNews has more
https://flip.it/zK9bVA
#WHO #Health #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Hospital
"Hamas retains a force of 20,000 fighters, while Israel’s reservists are increasingly unresponsive to mobilization orders"
"Israel's new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, has warned the government that the military lacks the manpower and resources to fulfill its expansive goals in Gaza without a political strategy to accompany military operations, Ynet reported"
https://thecradle.co/articles/hamas-not-defeated-reserves-forces-overstretched-israeli-army-chief
"Over 1,600 former IDF paratroopers & infantry soldiers have just joined a growing number of israeli reservists & other military-associated groups calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza."
#Netanyahu: No, because then I'll go to jail for all the criming I've done BEFORE the #Gaza genocide, and maybe face justice for all the crimes against humanity.
Germany, how much Palestinian blood do you need to wash your guilt from your past?
#zionism #bds #palestine #gaza #imperialism #genocide #AntiImperialism #Germany #Israel
This is a resistance operation from the Saraya Al Quds Brigade, PIJ, (not Hamas)
"As a result of a complex operation by the fighters on Monday, four Israeli troops sustained injuries when they were trapped inside a house in Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City" There was also a successful sniper operation in Shuja'iyya
"Separately, a number of Israeli soldiers were killed and wounded in the town of Rafah"
@palestine
#Israel #ethniccleansing #gaza
And these are the videos showing the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital and then medical workers, patients and sheltered people evacuating what is the only functioning hospital in North Gaza in the 5 minutes provided by the IOF. Shortly after midnight, IOF started bombing. It's the third time during the genocide that they targeted this hospital. May they burn in hell together with the entire Knesset
#Israel #ethniccleansing #gaza
@palestine
"Dr Mads Gilbert, who has volunteered in Gaza for 3 decades, says Gaza is worse than hell under Israel’s war crimes"
He talks to Al Jazeera in a 5 min video, embedded in this article.
He debunks IOF's claims that Hamas is operating from hospitals. They've been claiming that for decades. All they're doing is to turn Gaza into hell and ethnic cleanse it of all Palestinians. And where are the sanctions to Israel??
