Unity of Fields

Anonymous submission: Allianz Global Investors is a premier financier of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company. Taking inspiration from Palestine Action's coordinated hit on Allianz across five European countries last week, a group of actionists struck Allianz' Midtown Manhattan headquarters Tuesday night. Just blocks from Times Square, the group defaced the Allianz sign and logo in a symbolic act of dissent against its support for genocide. From the group: Allianz, we are putting you on notice. You and any other corporation who enables Israel's wanton slaughter of Palestinians will pay a price. You are not welcome in NYC.

"We should thank Trump for revealing yet again the true face of the U.S. administration—a racist, criminal, murderous, bloodthirsty entity that confiscates freedoms, plunders wealth, conspires against oppressed peoples." "Neither Trump nor his father, nor his grandfather, nor George Bush, nor his father, nor his grandfather, nor any of these racists can touch the courage, will, conviction, or faith of even a child among us, let alone our men and elders. Therefore, we are not worried; rather, we are very optimistic, because when an idiot resides in the White House and openly flaunts his foolishness, it marks the beginning of relief for the oppressed around the world." Martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah - February 12th, 2017

The resistance has both material and epsitemological dimensions. It materially works to overturn the equation of force that underpins the colonization of Palestine. But the next necessary step is epistemological - the resistance becomes the basis for "knowing" differently. Specifically, for knowing how the world is shifting, how power is shifting, and how the nature of threats issued by the US and Israel can be assessed. Do you just watch the resistance or take it seriously as a source of knowledge about the world? And particularly in terms of how the world of imperialism and colonialism is being challenged? The perhaps you will come to know a world in which the colonizer and imperialist is not always in control. (Bikrum Gill)

An unworkable, unfeasible plan that if actually attempted would only deepen the crisis of zionism and accelerate the collapse of US imperialism in the region and globally. Is Trump going to climb down into the tunnels with Netanyahu and disarm Qassam? (Bikrum Gill)

New Syrian resistance faction begins operations against Israeli occupation forces The group also announced it would carry out operations against 'the terrorist gangs' led by former ISIS and Al-Qaeda warlord Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was appointed as Syria's transitional president this week

City-Owned Bulldozer Burned in Honor of Cornelius Taylor – Atlanta, GA In the early morning hours of january 30 some concerned citizens incinerated the bulldozer that the city of atlanta used to murder Cornelius Taylor while he slept. just as the IDF uses bulldozers to demolish refugee camps in Palestine, the city of atlanta uses bulldozers to flatten homeless encampments. they clear streets for parades honoring civil rights heroes while the poor freeze to death. the death of Cornelius Taylor was not a tragic accident but a continuation of the violent process of gentrification. we will not wait for the city to investigate itself and declare itself innocent of wrongdoing yet again while another person's blood stains the ground. the city of atlanta does not care about human life but they do care about dollars. we destroyed their murder weapon on january 30 in direct retaliation against their cruelty, knowing they will only stop when their tools are broken. we call on other autonomous actors to join us in avenging Cornelius. Via unravel.noblogs.org

An Al-Qassam Brigades fighter says: "The only message we send to our people and the occupation is that bodies die, but ideas will never die."

Recent Dispatches from Comrades in Germany, 2024–25 By the time Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg, and Volker Staub ended up on wanted posters, the group they were accused of belonging to—the Red Army Faction—had been in existence for over two decades. The RAF was a clandestine organization that had waged armed struggle throughout the 1970s and 1980s in order to create an anti-imperialist pole of resistance in West Germany, as the country was known at the time. Several members died in the course of the struggle, and dozens of guerrillas and their supporters served lengthy prison terms. It is alleged that Daniela, Burkhard, and Volker were active in the group in its final years, the 1990s. Daniela was captured in 2024, and Burkhard is now the focus of a newly energized manhunt. We have produced this document to inform comrades in the English-speaking world of their situation and politics.... Daniela Klette was captured on February 26, 2024. The apartment building she had been living in was raided, with news reports about dangerous weapons on the premises necessitating the evacuation of the residents. Realizing the police were outside her door, she managed to send a quick text message before disposing of her phone’s sim card; Burkhard was long gone before police raided the alternative caravan park he had been living in and working at as a caretaker. For the first two months, Daniela was held in a cell constantly under video surveillance and was kept isolated from other prisoners. She was initially charged with participation in thirteen robberies committed between 1999 and 2016 and “attempted murder” (a cash transport vehicle driver was allegedly shot at). A separate trial is being prepared for her based on charges stemming from RAF actions prior to the group’s dissolution... The state has targeted a number of former RAF members since the group disbanded, trying to dredge up new charges for actions the group carried out when it was active, often actions that other people have already served years or decades in prison for. The fact that the RAF was active for so long and was never defeated but instead chose to disband, and that most former members have refused to recant or to provide information, sets a precedent that is dangerous to those in power. It is an example they have long hoped to snuff out. Similar to the prosecution of elderly former militants in other countries for actions long past, the goal is to stamp out the memory of a certain kind of resistance, lest it become a factor once again as contradictions unfold and the capitalist edifice crumbles ever more. We are presenting here a letter from prison by Daniela that was read by actor Rolf Becker at the thirtieth International Rosa Luxemburg Congress in Berlin, on January 11, 2025. We are also presenting a letter by Burkhard that late last year was delivered to the taz, a progressive newspaper with its origins in the 1970s radical left, by an attorney acting on his behalf. All footnotes are additions by the translators. These texts can be viewed on this site: Greetings from the Underground, Martin (Burkhard Garweg) Letter from Daniela to the Rosa Luxemburg Congress These texts can be downloaded as a pamphlet here. For more reports on this case in German: political-prisoners.net The most extensive online collection of documents by or related to the RAF can be found at socialhistoryportal.org/raf Daniela reads English, Spanish, Portuguese, and, of course, German. Mail takes about a month to reach her and cannot include any enclosures such as flyers or newspaper articles. You can write to her at: Daniela Klette JVA für Frauen An der Propstei 10 49377 Vechta Germany Read the full article here.

"Samidoun’s upholding of the legitimacy of Palestinian armed resistance, and specific support of the organizations leading the Palestinian resistance, broke out of the confines of that chilling effect and was inspiring to many, especially young people who had grown up in the political fog of the war on terror. While these political positions are not technically illegal under Canadian law, they raised a real ideological threat to the Anglo-American Imperialist Alliance, and led to the state repression leveled against them. In the broader context of the Palestine solidarity movement the Samidoun terror designation should be seen as one point, and an important one, denoting a particular boundary, on a continuum of repression that includes spurious charges and harassment at demonstrations, bogus ‘hate speech’ charges, firings and workplace discipline for speaking out, and the general chill on talking about Palestine, all intended to contain the movement." https://unitedinstruggle.ca/2025/01/28/from-the-picket-line-to-palestine-we-need-to-build-resistance-to-state-repression-into-the-dna-of-our-movements/

Anonymous submission from Columbia: "Im so scared. Please come." One year ago today, these were Hind's last words as she called for an ambulance, while Israeli forces unleashed 355 bullets murdering her as she hid in a car. One year ago, the world failed Hind. But today and everyday we owe Hind, all our martyrs, and ourselves, action. So today we acted. Inspired by Hind, and the bravery of every Palestinian child who has faced down Israeli genocide for the last century - whether they threw a molotov at a checkpoint, a rock at a tank, or made a call for help. So long as they resist, so must we. We attacked two targets at Columbia University. First, the Kravis Columbia School of Business, one of Columbia's most recent violent gentrification projects into Harlem, the construction of which was conditioned on the creation of Columbia's Apartheid Global Center in "Tel Aviv". We will not allow this land-grab to go unchallenged. Second, we attacked the School of International and Public Affairs - the first Columbia institution to expel a student for their support for Palestinian liberation, currently run by a former "Israeli intelligence officer" - Killer Keren, and staffed by Rebecca Weiner, head of the Counterterrorism Unit of the NYPD, who directed the brutal police assault on our comrades in Hind's Hall last May. We left Hind's call painted on SIPA, and we cemented the sewage lines of the entire building, forcing them to shut down business-as-usual. We are not experts in what it means to take revolutionary action. We are people - just like you - who, today, chose to act. We were afraid- to be arrested, suspended, and expelled; and that is exactly the point. The goal is not to be fearless, but to recognize that to be afraid is merely a symptom of our moral clarity. We are soberly aware of what we may lose if we act, and we are soberly aware of how much more we will lose if we don't. The most severe consequence we could face today is not expulsion or prison time- it is the knowledge that we had the opportunity to act, and, instead, chose cowardice. The most severe consequence we could face is not only to have failed Hind one year ago, but to have continued to fail her today. So we invite you to join us. Let us identify the actions that elicit fear in us, find the people who we can be courageous with, embrace the fear, and take collective action. As Hind's mother watched the scene of Hind's Hall unfold, she said "I wanted these movements and support to come while Hind was still alive and not after... but I was still happy that there's a possibility that Hind's cause could move and mobilize people in this world." Let us act together and transform that possibility into a reality. For Hind, with love and rage from Columbia.

Solidarity Wins: Jury finds Eugene, OR Protesters Against the Genocide in Palestine Innocent (article) On April 15th, 2024 thousands of people around the world participated in an autonomously organized and coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine. “There is a sense in the streets,” the proposal for the action stated, “in this recent and unprecedented movement for Palestine that escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy.” In 82 cities, 19 countries, actions blockaded ports, airports, highways, city squares, and weapons manufacturers, seeing potentially millions of dollars in unrealized profits and over 400 arrests. 62 of those arrests were in Eugene, Oregon, where Interstate 5 was blockaded by cars and protestors for about an hour before over 100 police from state, county, and city departments cleared the highway. Those arrested were charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the second degree. The majority of the defendants were offered diversion “plea deals,” while the state singled out three protestors to whom they refused to offer deals, including a Palestinian student organizer. The defendants organized over the following months intentionally to engage in collective defense, hoping that threatening to take 62 cases to trial would be leverage enough to force the state to offer everyone equal treatment or even to drop the charges. The state refused every attempt at negotiation after rallies, letters, phone zaps, and meetings between the DA and public defenders and movement lawyers. As time went on, and defendants felt the mounting impact of the arrests and pending charges on their housing, jobs, health, and broader lives, more and more defendants accepted the plea deals. Many still intended to take their cases to trial in solidarity with their comrades facing more serious repression. 11 trials occurred between October 2024 and January 2025, with 11 guilty verdicts returned. Defendants attempted to put the US government’s unwavering support of genocide on trial, using pre-trial ‘choice of evils’ hearings to bring in experts to testify about Palestine and direct action, such as a UN special rapporteur, and taking the stand themselves to explain their actions. The state attempted at every avenue to de-politicize the action, framing it as a case about “selfishness,” and judges frequently denied defendants’ ability to even talk about Palestine on the stand, while also rejecting expert testimony or defense strategies that could bring the US funding of genocide into view. When it came time for the Palestinian student activist to go to trial along with their Lebanese co-defendant, it seemed like all strategies of collective defense had failed. The “choice of evils” pre-trial hearing ended with the judge refusing multiple expert witnesses the ability to testify in front of the jury about US complicity in the genocide in Palestine. Yet, at the end of the trial, the jury returned a “not guilty” verdict, acquitting both defendants. Was it jury nullification? Was it simply that the state’s clear political repression of Palestine solidarity was more evident than “evidence” of crime? Was it the defendant’s powerful testimony on their personal relationship to the land, people, and resistance in Palestine and Lebanon? All we know is that the state failed in all regards –especially in its attempt to repress Palestine solidarity actions, collective solidarity, and the individual Palestinian activist they singled out, and we know that together we are stronger than the state’s best efforts to repress us. Our hearts are bursting with love and rage for those behind the closed doors of the jury deliberation room who remained steadfast in their determination not to participate in the state’s repression of Palestine solidarity! The following is a statement from the A15 Eugene for a Free Palestine Instagram.

Palestine Action: In the past few days, Palestine Action has taken direct action in six countries. We are globalising the resistance against the Israeli weapons industry. Trainings will be launched soon for the global community to set up Palestine Action in your region. Watch this space. @Pal_Act

🚨The youth and masses in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo are besieging and burning the US, French, Belgian, and Ugandan embassies, in protest of the imperialist war on the DRC and the collaboration of local compradors (Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya) in the plunder of the DRC's resources. "...All the beacons of imperialism are coming down tumbling. Wherever there is oppression, resistance is inevitable." - Booker Ngesa Omole Heed the call: BESIEGE THE EMBASSIES!

The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners (statement) The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975 during a terror raid of the Pine Ridge Reservation by agents of the U.S. government. Biden’s clemency order for Peltier was a vulgar, narcissistic attempt to fabricate a benevolent legacy for himself. Falling far short of an exoneration, the Biden administration insinuated the act was one of compassion for a decidedly “guilty” FBI agent killer. The ailing elder Peltier won’t be released until February 18th, and will still have to remain confined to house arrest for the rest of his life under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that can rescind his release if they decide he has violated his parole. At least he will be surrounded and cared for by loved ones. While the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) welcomes the long overdue release of Leonard Peltier, we hold that he should never have been imprisoned and that his imprisonment reflects the ongoing institutional expression of settler-colonialism that defines the U.S. Even though all evidence in the case of Peltier points to his innocence, BAP’s commitment to an authentic process of decolonization in every sense of that term supports the right of American Indian, First Nation people to defend themselves and resist their colonialist domination by any means necessary. Neither Biden nor the U.S. government deserves credit or gratitude for commuting Peltier's sentence. All credit belongs to the activists, international human rights leaders, and legal advocates led by the Indigenous people who fought for decades for Leonard Peltier’s release. Peltier’s case is but one in a long and decadent history of U.S. political imprisonment and repression, with a present record that includes the contemporary cases of the Uhuru 3, the nearly five dozen “Stop Cop City” activists indicted on RICO charges, and activists targeted in the Free Palestine movement. BAP holds the U.S. setter state in contempt for continuing to hold political prisoners and we remain “committed to working against all forms of state and domestic repression, including the issues of political prisoners and prisoners of war in the United States.” No Compromise! No Retreat! The Free Leonard Peltier Ad Hoc Committee is raising funds for expenses related to retaining independent medical experts, accommodations, travel, materials, and other expenditures related to Leonard's medical care. Please contribute what you can. You can also donate via Cash App to: $PeltierOfficialComm

🚨 Free Imam Jamil call to action

Fuck Citibank: cupertino citibank vandalized for participation in genocide On the night of January 13th, a citibank in Cupertino, CA was vandalized. The bank was spray-painted with pro-Palestine messages, windows were broken, and jars of paint and oil were thrown inside. This action was taken following dozens of actions across the country targeting citibank for its role in funding and profiting from genocide in Gaza and ongoing colonial exploitation of Haiti. Citibank first built its riches through the exploitation of Haiti, funneling wealth from the newly independent nation and facilitating the 1915 american military invasion and occupation. Today, citibank continues to profit from war and colonial expansion. The firm is the largest american bank operating in "israel" and its investments fuel both the continued settler invasion of occupied Palestine and the zionist entity's genocidal assault of Gaza. We welcome the news of the ceasefire in Gaza as a victory of the Palestinian resistance and a respite for the people of Gaza who have been abandoned and betrayed by the world. But, the zionist project of ethnically cleansing all of Palestine continues, as does citibank's complicity. Until there is a free Palestine, we call for an ongoing escalation of targeted attacks against citibank and all other institutions within the imperial core which enable and profit from the zionist project. Long live the martyrs, glory to the resistance.

🟡 UPDATE: Protesters in Kinshasa, DR Congo, set the French embassy on fire. They denounced France’s support for Rwanda, which backs the M23 militia currently taking over the eastern part of the country. 🟡 Join @theredstream 🟡 Support red. 🟡 X

Ali Abunimah: I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me: From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️