The people of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) have shown the way for the whole country: To stop Trump, ICE, and the Border Patrol’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
On Friday, January 30, 2026, join a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping.
The entire country is shocked and outraged at the brutal killings executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas González, and Keith Porter Jr. by federal agents under color of law.
While King Dictator Trump [Israeli blackmailed] and other right-wing politicians are slandering their victims as “domestic terrorists,” video evidence from every angle makes it clear beyond all doubt: Innocents were gunned down in broad daylight simply for exercising their First Amendment right to protest mass deportation, Nazi Gestapo tactics, and other racist policies.
Every day, ICE, Border Patrol, and other paramilitary enforcers [not to call them jackbooted thugs because that would be rude] of Trump’s racist agenda are going into our American communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear in us.
It is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough! More
[Zionism promised to get Jews out of Europe and make them someone else's problem, namely, the Muslims of the Middle East?]
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The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem (btselem.org) has published a major new report documenting how the Israeli prison system has become “a network of torture camps,” where sexual, psychological, and physical abuse of Palestinian prisoners is normalized and routine -- [war crimes in accords with prison camp policy].
Gay right wing Zionists support dictators?
The report, titled “Welcome to Hell,” collects the testimony of 55 Palestinians who were detained by Israeli authorities since October 7th and later released, almost all without charges.
This comes as a group of U.N. experts condemned the widespread torture by Israel of Palestinians and as Israel’s Channel 12 News aired shocking gay gang rape footage of Israeli Jewish IDF soldiers sexually abusing a male prisoner at the Sde Teiman army base concentration camp, where thousands of detainees from Gaza are held without charges and abused.
Talmudic scholar rabbis say Jews can rape.
Sarit Michaeli, the international advocacy lead for B’Tselem, says the abuse in Israeli prisons is “systemic, ongoing, and state-sanctioned,” reflecting the cruelty and thirst for revenge among a growing number of Israeli Jews. “They would like to have a completely open field in terms of what they can do to Palestinians,” says Michaeli. Their biblical Talmud already allows Jews to rape non-Jews, but what about God's other genocidal tips? Are those allowed at the prison camps? More
As the stock market tanks, the West wants war. That means the CIA, EU, and client states like Israel. “This is one of the most perilous moments in the [Middle East] region in years,” says Ali Vaez, director of the International Crisis Group Iran Project, after Israel’s assassination of Hamas Political Chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in Tehran, Iran. Having provoked them for years, Iranian retaliation against Israel [and the US] appears imminent. “All bets are off,” warns Vaez, adding that Israel’s latest maneuver will put Americans “in harm’s way,” as Iran will no longer hold back fellow Axis of Resistance members, especially Islamic militias in Iraq and Syria [and possible forces in Lebanon, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt], from launching attacks on U.S. military bases in the region. “It is disastrous for a superpower who cannot control, basically, a client state that is destabilizing the region,” Vaez explains.
Moral Israel's gay military rapists
Do US and Israeli militaries receive, recruit, or create LGBTQIA+ soldiers with offers of perks?
. Unrest continues to brew in Israel after a right-wing mob, including members of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), broke into two Israeli military prison bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining nine soldiers who were under investigation for homosexual gang rape of a male Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility.
+972 Magazine's Oren Ziv, who was at one of the bases reporting on the events, says that the gay support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the pro-criminal riots, and the apathy of the military police all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers' charges are “the face of the state,” expressing what are “mainstream [war criminal]” views in Israeli society.
Israel's high court shuts down corrupt PM Bibi Netanyahu's attempt to overhaul judiciary
South Africa, formerly an apartheid state, knows what apartheid is, knows what genocide is, and knows what war crimes are. It has submitted evidence of Israel's guilt and war crimes to The Hague, the International Criminal Court.
New Year’s countdown 2024: Watch the New York ball drop
(Associated Press)
Streaming live from 4:00 pm PT. Crowds gather in the cold on New Year’s Eve to watch the annual ball drop, fireworks, and countdown in New York City’s Times Square to usher in 2024.
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How Israeli settler colonial violence forces Palestinians to flee in terror
(The Guardian) Dec. 14, 2023: WEST BANK, Palestine (Israel's "Occupied Territories"). Masafer Yatta, the most rural and desolate area in the West Bank, is home to about 1,000 Palestinians. The community is composed mostly of herders who raise goats and sheep and have steadfastly refused to leave their homes in the face of Jewish Israeli abuse.
This is despite the mounting difficulties posed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers there to ethnically cleanse them and steal their land for illegal Israeli settlers, on the one hand, and radical government-armed Israeli settlers on the other hand. Between a rock and a hard place, how do they survive? God must be laughing. Which god? Both.
But after weeks of intense Jewish settler colonial violence against Arab landowners in the aftermath of the Hamas retaliation against Israeli oppression on October 7th – and despite the decades-long struggle to remain in their homes – these communities are now being forced off their land.
IDF: Killing kids in Gaza? Don't blame us
Some have described it as “a new Nakba,” a new "Catastrophe" of displacement and dispossession as Israel steals neighboring land to grow itself into an unwelcome state in the region.
The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to Masafer Yatta to hear from Palestinian families on how armed Jewish settlers -- some in military reservist uniforms, others covering their faces like terrorists -- have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying children with their assault rifles, weapons, and violence committed with impunity backed by the IDF and an apartheid kangaroo court system built by Jews for Jews.
These West Bank Jewish settlements are illegal under international law, but Israel does not mind since the US and other Western military powers like England and France back this settler colonial project to take all of Palestine then Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and push up against Iran before deploying US-supplied nuclear weapons to threaten former-Persia and bombing them back a few centuries.
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"I had to carry a decapitated body": Gazan child after Israeli air strike on Jabalia
(Global News) Nov. 4, 2023: So Zionist Jews do behead babies, literally, while accusing Hamas of atrocity propaganda when they didn't behead any.
An Israeli air strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinian (noncombatant) civilians at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza slaughtered at least 15 people and injured dozens more, traumatizing countless here and elsewhere, according to a doctor at al-Shifa Hospital.
According to CNN, the Israeli Defense Forces allege their militant Central Jabalya Battalion took control of civilian buildings, adding collapsed tunnels were partly a reason for the destruction caused by the strike on Tuesday.
"I carried a body and another decapitated body with my own hands," a Gazan boy said at the site. At least 9,488 Palestinians including 3,900 children have been slaughtered by Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Saturday.
"There are 15 martyrs [murdered victims], and the number is expected to increase," Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, who is also an official in the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, said.
During the conflict, Israel has consistently claimed it's [not] targeting [children with heads, women, elderly, or civilians but just trying to murder or maim] Hamas militants [and anyone who looks like they might be one] following the Oct. 7 attack on the Israeli Be'eri kibbutz [civilian military outpost] next to their concentration camp called "Gaza," a massive open-air prison controlled by Israel.
(Al Jazeera English) Nov. 8, 2023: While attention has been on the war in Gaza, there’s been a rise in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains what’s happening.
00:53 - What is the West Bank?
01:25 - How control of the West Bank is divided between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel (IDF)
02:10 - How Israel restricts life for Palestinians in the West Bank
04:34 - Israeli Army raids in the West Bank
06:40 - Israeli settlers in the West Bank
07:04 - Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians
08:30 - How Palestinians have been displaced because of settler violence
09:12 - How the Israeli government supports illegal Jewish settlers
10:07 - U.S. Pres. Biden’s response to the Jewish settler attacks
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Jewish extremists kill Palestinians with impunity as tensions turn deadly in West Bank between Jewish colonial "settlers" and Palestinians on their own land in Palestine
(ABC News) Nov. 10, 2023: ABC News’ Ines De La Cuetara travels to the West Bank, Palestine, where decades of tensions between armed illegal Jewish settlers and impoverish, unarmed Palestinian landowners has been made deadly by Jewish extremists here to illegally occupy and steal the land, emboldened following Hamas’ (Al-Qassam Brigades') Oct. 7th resistance attack on Israeli kibbutz settlements on the edge of Gaza, Palestine.
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Journalist calls out double standard: 10,000 Palestinians held hostage by Israel
(BreakThrough News) Since October 7, 2023, Israel doubled the number of Palestinians it is holding hostage in jails in Israel to 10,000, including 170 children, it molests and abuses.
Amanda Yee, an editor of LiberationNews.org and host of @RadioFreeAmanda, discusses the corporate-owned media’s glaring double standard around Palestinian political prisoners.
There’s almost no coverage of Israel’s extensive history of mass incarceration, repeated arrests, and abusive treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
#BreakThroughNews
Protests in Israel after Dictator Netanyahu fires defense minister
(Guardian News) UK, March 26, 2023. ISRAEL - Protests erupted across Israel on Sunday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. His firing (sacking) came a day after he broke ranks with the government and urged a halt to a highly contested plan to overhaul the judicial system. In [the luxury coastal city of] Tel Aviv, protesters flocked to the main highway Ayalon, blocking traffic for hours and setting up bonfires along the multi-lane road in both directions. In Jerusalem, crowds gathered outside Netanyahu's residence and at one point breached a security cordon. ► Subscribe: Guardian News on YouTube.
Israel's "Day of Shutdown" sees arrests, roads blocked as Netanyahu destroys judiciary
(Global News) March 23, 2023. Roads were blocked and police clashed with protesters in Israel as a "Day of Shutdown" was held in opposition to proposed judicial changes ("reforms") by ousted and reinstalled Prime Minister Netanyahu's government.
Thousands of protesters carried flags and signs blocking roads in multiple cities, including Tel Aviv, as police also tried to disperse crowds with water cannons. The demonstrations have escalated since the start of the year when Netanyahu introduced the legislation that critics say would weaken Israel's democracy.
Earlier on Thursday, a law was ratified limiting the circumstances in which a prime minister can be removed [bringing Netanyahu closer to being an all-powerful dictator].
Amid the latest protests, Netanyahu appeared to crack down on his plan.
"We are determined to correct, responsibly promote the democratic reform that will restore the proper balance between the authorities," Netanyahu said in a televised address.
But in Jerusalem, those protesting criticized the remarks, saying it was sad a compromise could not be reached. #GlobalNews
Israeli protests intensify over Netanyahu gov’t weakening Israel's judiciary as Palestinian rights are ignored
(Democracy Now!) March 27, 2023. Israel's workers are taking part in a general strike Monday (3/27/23) to protest plans by newly re-installed CIA-groomed Prime Minister Ben "Bibi" Netanyahu to disempower Israel’s judiciary.
This comes after Netanyahu -- who is facing prosecution for corruption -- fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday (3/26/23) over Gallant’s warning that the judicial overhaul represents “a clear, immediate and tangible threat to the security of the state.”
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken part in protests in recent days, shutting down large parts of the tiny country [divided and occupied Palestine] and demanding the government withdraw its plan, which would give parliament more power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court and overturn its rulings.
The Supreme Court is one of the few independent checks on the Israeli government [which by design does not have a constitution], and critics warn Netanyahu’s judicial reforms would turn the country into a dictatorship. For more on the political crisis, we speak with journalist and activist Haggai Matar in Tel Aviv.
Israeli police evicts settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ofra,
following the evacuation of Amona outpost, Feb. 2, 2017. Israeli police removed the remaining Israeli protesters from the West
Bank outpost of Amona, which forces are evacuating under court order.
The evacuation began yesterday. Amona is the largest of about 100
unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without formal permission
but with tacit Israeli government support. The outpost was found to be
built on private Palestinian land and the Israeli Supreme Court ordered
it demolished (AP).
Israel passes law [retroactively] legalizing thousands of settlement homes
Hey, kids, you can't make such comparisons!
JERUSALEM, Palestine - Israel's
parliament [or Knesset] on Monday passed a contentious law meant to retroactively
legalize thousands of West Bank settlement homes built unlawfully on
private Palestinian land, a step that is expected to trigger
international outrage and a flurry of lawsuits against the measure.
Israel was a total headache for me, too.
The explosive law is the latest in a series of
pro-settler steps taken by Israel's hard-line government since the
election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
He is seen as more
sympathetic to Israel's settlement policies than his fiercely critical
predecessor, and the Israeli government has approved plans to build
thousands of new homes on occupied territory since Trump took office.
US gov't ministers love that Israel money (AP).
"We are voting tonight on our right to the land,"
Cabinet minister Ofir Akunis said during a stormy debate ahead of the
vote. "We are voting tonight on the connection between the Jewish people
and its land. This whole land is ours. All of it."
Critics say the legislation enshrines into law the
theft of Palestinian land, and it is expected to be challenged in
Israel's Supreme Court. According to the law, Palestinian landowners
would be compensated either with money or alternative land, even if they
did not agree to give up their property.
The
vote passed 60-52 in Israel's 120-member Knesset following a raucous
debate in which opposition lawmakers shouted from their seats at
governing coalition lawmakers speaking in favor of the vote from the
dais.
Some legislators supportive of the law took pictures of the plenum
during the vote while some spectators in visitors' seats raised black
cloth in apparent protest. More
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