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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 9h

"I have been appalled, but also intrigued, by the extraordinary ability of so many Israelis to simultaneously justify, deny, ignore or deliberately avoid speaking & thinking about the ongoing systematic obliteration of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinians"
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 19h

Crucially, @mark-bray.bsky.social is a historian. This is why fascists hate, defund & try to discredit the Humanities. We know how power operates, how lies are constructed, & we are experts at deciphering archives and keeping the stories they contain - including those the powerful want dead - alive.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

This is some serious Nazi shit. They pulled the boarding passes for him and his family.

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 1d

The intellectual purge is in full fledge in the USA
Full solidarity with History professor Mark Bray

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 1d

More context for this, since I realized people might not recognize his name. This is this professor. I'm seriously crossing my fingers that it's just some internet assholes social engineering a fraud alert on his tickets and not something much more serious given that "roundtable" that happened today

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 2d

The aid boat Conscience is currently being raided by the IDF in international waters. A helicopter was audible before the audio cut out.

The boat is full of medical staff and journalists trying to bring aid into Gaza.

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

www.youtube.com

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 2d

Give me nothing, Canada-style

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 6d

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

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That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it.

That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano.

I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 4d

I just want you to imagine how they treat palestinians if that’s how they treat people they know will be able to talk to western news about it later.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

THIS IS SAD ❗❗

"That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry"

Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4d

#WATCH | Three prominent Israeli figures, once in intelligence, the military and in government, offer surprising insights into the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d

#FREE_GRETA

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

This is so fucking sadistic. I’d like to hear the hasbara merchants try to defend this most recent depravity.

According to Turkish activist and Global Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik, who was recently released :

“They dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.”

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs

Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags flags in a high-security prison "Ansar III"

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 5d

"Whatever the Nazis did, they did the same"

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 5d

Activist Greta Thunberg was beat, forced to crawl and kiss the Israeli flag, and dragged by her hair in front of everyone as stated by freed abductee of the Global Sumud Flotilla, Ersin Celik.

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 5d

What's Sweden doing? What's the EU doing? Either way, this despicable spectacle of cruelty is giving desperation: 🇮🇱 has lost, there is no going back, and they know it

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 5d

Activist Greta Thunberg was beat, forced to crawl and kiss the Israeli flag, and dragged by her hair in front of everyone as stated by freed abductee of the Global Sumud Flotilla, Ersin Celik.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d

Absolutely heinous.

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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 6d

Surely NYC is organizing against this? Right?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

So, y’all know that the Brooklyn Nets are hosting an Israeli team at Barclays Center tomorrow, right?

BROOKLYN NETS VS. HAPOEL ‘BANK YAHAV’ JERUSALEM
PRESEASON GAME

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Manitoba holds over 13,000 shares in General Dynamics—the maker of bombs that have levelled refugee camps in Gaza. As those shares rose by $2.14M and paid $206K in dividends, the university chose profit over principle, making itself complicit. Divestment is the only credible path.

Blood in the endowment

The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...

canadiandimension.com

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 7d

I am told folks cannot see my comment under federal MP Evan L Solomon's ig post about orange shirt day. Why is that so? Because I asked him to be coherent in his supposed allyship by denouncing the apartheid and genocide in 🇵🇸 and by protecting Canadians onboard Global Sumud Flotilla?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d

‘This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much killing?’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 9d

Today the #FreedomFlotilla Coalition set sail with roughly 100 people aboard 'Conscience' - with many healthcare workers & journalists. Our goal is to break Israel’s illegal siege, to provide international correspondents chances to report from #Gaza, & deliver urgently needed medical support.

Background image of Conscience vessel at sea.
Text "The Conscience, MEDIA & MEDICS BOAT TO GAZA HAS LAUNCHED.
Joining the 8 boats that set sail on 27 Sept to break Israel's illegal siege.
For nearly 2 years, foreign reporters have been banned from Gaza. Palestinian journalists have faced assassination, imprisonment and daily danger. Gaza's health workers have been killed, abducted and tortured, while most international medics are barred from entering.
Today we sail in solidarity with our colleagues. We will keep fighting to reach Gaza's shores and amplify the truth of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza alongside them."
Top right: FFC and TMtG logos.

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