Unity of Fields

✍️ Digging Tunnels with Pens: Anonymous Publishing as Intellectual Resistance by Aziz Yafi, published in the blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies "By embracing clandestine publishing, we reject the commodification of knowledge and the constraints of Western individualism. We center the collective over the individual, the struggle over the author. This strategy, borrowed from revolutionary movements across history, allows us to bypass the structures that seek to censor and punish us, creating spaces for radical ideas to thrive and circulate beyond the confines of institutional power. Resisting the commodification of knowledge also requires resisting novelty. Clandestine writing does not necessarily have to be new. It can also involve the revisiting of revolutionary ideas from the past and archival sources that have been suppressed by the passage of time and institutional power hierarchies — returning revolutionary knowledge to our collective struggle. Ultimately, we must recognize that our energies are better spent outside the academy, and in strategically extracting its resources to fuel our anti-colonial work elsewhere. It is time to return to the archives of insurgent knowledge, revive the revolutionary spirit of past movements, and produce knowledge that resists (self) censorship and affirms the struggle for Palestinian liberation by all means necessary. In times of intensified repression, clandestine publishing becomes a necessity and a vital form of intellectual and political survival. As censorship tightens, we must draw from history, learn from past movements, and rely on one another to keep the flame of resistance burning. This is not a call to abandon the academic space entirely, but to master the art of navigating both worlds –— maintaining our presence within institutional frameworks while never losing sight of the collective struggle. To go underground as academics means to learn from the endurance of Palestinian resistance, the steadfastness of Gaza, and the struggle of Palestinian prisoners. It is a call to learn rather than teach, to apply knowledge rather than extract it. The tunnels dug by Palestinian prisoners with spoons, and those created by Gaza's resistance, symbolize a reorientation of our approach — teaching us to think not just laterally but vertically, subverting spatial barriers and borders. These tunnels remind us to delve into our collective history of knowledge production, to republish what has been buried or scattered in lost archives, and to make accessible what's been withheld by institutional gatekeepers. Doing so teaches us to reject the Western capitalist drive for constant novelty, which seeks to erase the wisdom of militant generations before us. The words of those who were often assassinated for their ideas remain alive. To learn from Palestinian resistance is to carve and dig escape tunnels from academia's mental production lines, with pens as our tools. We go underground not to bury our heads and remain hidden but to traverse and dismantle the borders that confine us. We go underground to emerge stronger, to speak loudly and radically in spaces where our voices are suppressed, and to break through the boundaries that seek to silence us." Republished at unityoffields.org/digging-tunnels-with-pens

✍️ In recent months, the anti-imperialist movement in the core seems to have reached a tactical impasse, all while facing escalating repression and counterinsurgency, both internal and external. In the midst of this, we publish a timely intervention titled “NO PEACE: Reflections on Columbia, The Student Intifada and the Culture of Counterinsurgency.” Written and anonymously submitted by a partisan of Hind’s Hall—the building occupation that shook Columbia University—this essay offers useful reflections on what it will take for our movement to effectively escalate and bring the war home: “If the radical flank of the Student Intifada is to advance to the level of struggle that is necessary to win, there will need to be a profound shift in our cultural values and how those values relate to our strategy and tactics. In other words, a cultural revolution is in order, and the changes that are required of us will throw a wrench in the gears of our own subjectivity. If our demand is that the universities divest from the US empire, then we must also divest from the lies that they sell us.... The reality of the matter is that we are engaged in class struggle against the most powerful empire in human history... The demand of divestment was not the sole motivating force of the action — our vision and strategy were more expansive than this. Hind’s Hall was an attempt to move outside the bounds of listing demands and into a terrain of direct confrontation with the state committing a holocaust — one of many in Amerika’s sordid history. The radical faction wanted to raise the ceiling of militancy in the movement as a whole and reveal to the world that the question of Palestinian national liberation had brought the reality of anti-imperialist class war to the heart of the metropole." Read the full piece at: unityoffields.org/no-peace

Google Drive restricted and removed the free PDF of martyr Yahya Sinwar's novel, The Thorn and the Carnation. 📚 You can now access the free 400-page PDF at this Proton Drive link. "This is not my personal story, nor is it the story of any particular individual, although all its events are real. Each event, or each set of events, pertains to this or that Palestinian. The only fiction in this work is its transformation into a novel revolving around specific characters, to fulfill the form and requirements of a novelistic work. Everything else is real; I have lived it, and much of it I have heard from the mouths of those who themselves, their families, and their neighbors have experienced it over decades on the beloved land of Palestine. I dedicate this to those whose hearts cling to the land of Isra and Mi'raj, from the ocean to the Gulf, indeed, from ocean to ocean." - Yahya Ibrahim Al-Sinwar Beersheba Prison, 2004

In this August 2020 speech, martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah discusses the United States' history of slavery and settlement, using it to explain its relationship to the zionist entity, stressing an understanding of history to better understand the conditions and choices of the present.

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"It is a war of annihilation, and it is a disgrace that we fight it divided. either we rise together, or they will kill us individually." Martyr Dr. Fathi Shaqaqi, founder of PIJ.

Iranians earlier tonight searching for the "israeli" response that zionist and zionist Arab media talked about.

🚨State repression can and will be defeated! Stop Cop Nation! Atlanta Solidarity Fund: Today all charges are dismissed (or about to be dropped pending pretrial intervention) for 7 activists facing felony charges related to a Cop City protest in 2022. The state knows there was never a legitimate case to begin with. These charges were simply used to terrorize the public out of opposing the police's political agenda. The protesters faced years in jail for allegedly marching through a construction site on Georgia State University campus to protest Brasfield and Gorrie, the Cop City construction contractor. Less than a week before trial was set to begin, the prosecutor dropped all charges. This is not the first dismissal of bogus charges against Cop City protesters, and it won't be the last. With each new development the picture becomes more clear: There has been a coordinated campaign over the past two years by police and prosecutors to suppress protest in Atlanta. We exist to ensure that all protesters, including these eight, have the support they need to defend themselves against political prosecution. If you are a protester facing repression, get in touch! If you aren't, support our work and spread the word! We protect us. ** Newly revealed bodycam footage also shows Atlanta Police higher-ups conspiring to fabricate felony charges against protesters because they were part of a group which opposed Cop City. In the video, GSU police say there's no basis for felony charges for 8 people who protested at a construction site. An APD Major pressures officers to come up with anything at all to charge them with, to help APD crack down on "this group" - meaning the Stop Cop City movement. The protesters were subsequently charged with felony burglary, jailed for almost a week, and fought the case for 2 years. The prosecutor dropped all charges days before trial. It could not be more clear: APD is manipulating the criminal legal system to silence its critics. ** Stay tuned to Stop Cop City updates: - twitter.com/defendatlforest - instagram.com/stopcopcity - instagram.com/stopcopnation - twitter.com/free_jack_now - twitter.com/ATLSolFund

Anonymous submission: "Over the past few weeks, we’ve been taking action in what is colonially known as Portland, OR to target banks and other corporations that are directly funding and enabling israel’s genocide in Palestine. We targeted 3 Bank of America branches, 3 Chase Bank branches, and a Wells Fargo. We used gorilla glue to disable ATM machines and plug up door locks, tagged walls and doors, and super-glued “WARNING: THIS BANK FUNDS GENOCIDE” messages to ATMs. We also tagged a Nike billboard and a McDonalds. We want to encourage people to stay active in the fight against the US empire, the zionist entity, and all the pillars that uphold their tyranny – from funders to the media to weapons manufacturers to politicians. Disrupting and dismantling the empire from within is our responsibility, and our liberation is bound up with the liberation of Palestine. We must take inspiration and direction from Palestinian resistance, and from the resistance of all those taking up arms against genocide, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy. Free Palestine. Long live the Intifada. Glory to our martyrs. love, Humble members of the resistance axis"

Statement from Stop Cop Nation coalition: SOLIDARITY KEEPS US SAFE "The movement to Stop Cop Nation stands in solidarity with Samidoun. On the week of the 29th National Day of Action Against Police Brutality, we declare that the struggle to Stop Cop Nation and the struggle to Free Palestine are one and the same. The movement to Stop Cop Nation sees the recent sanctioning of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a "terrorist entity" by the U.S. and Canada as an attack on our entire movement. We express our unwavering solidarity with Samidoun in the face of this state repression. The United States has historically used accusations of terrorism and conspiracy to repress movements, from the Red Scare to COINTELPRO to the persecution of the Panther 21 and the Black Liberation Army. Over the decades, countless freedom fighters have been exiled, murdered, or made political prisoners by our government. We need not look further than Assata Shakur's presence on the FBI's most wanted list, the criminalization of the Holy Land Foundation, the RICO charges in Atlanta, and the conspiracy charges against the Uhuru 3 to see that this method of repression has been both continuous and escalating. Just as Cop Cities are inspired by the "Little Gaza" training facility in Israel, so too is Cop Nation - the militarization and expansion of the Amerikkkan police state - being constructed from the blueprint of the zionist entity. Just as Samidoun is being targeted for their unflinching support of the Palestinian resistance - the beating heart of the international anti-imperialist struggle - and their insistence that all Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners, Atlantans are being baselessly targeted because of the state's complete failure to break the resolve of the militant insurgency driving the anti-police movement in the imperial core. It is specifically in these moments of harsh repression that silent abandonment and retreat weakens our movement and makes the terrain more dangerous for everyone. If we do not form a united front in the face of this repression, we will be defeated one by one. The “terror” sanctions against Samidoun are absurd and we condemn them in the strongest terms. But they are also an opportunity for us; an opportunity for us to declare our unwavering support for our comrades, an opportunity for us to test the strength of our convictions, and an opportunity for us to prove again and again each time such repression occurs that the movements to Free Palestine and Stop Cop Nation are totally and absolutely inseparable. We call on all organizations to publicly announce their solidarity with Samidoun and with all others currently facing the brunt of state repression." Via instagram.com/stopcopnation / View on Twitter

🚨 Al-Aqsa TV: — The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is catastrophic! O free people of the world, we implore you, with all the destruction, devastation, killing, displacement, and siege that we endure, to stand with us, even just once! O free people of the world, what is happening in the north of Gaza is a catastrophic crime and a complete act of ethnic cleansing. The occupation has completely disabled the health system and arrested five civil defense personnel, directly warning the remaining ones to leave for the southern Gaza Strip, threatening that those who remain—whether from the civil defense or the health system—will face either death or arrest. O free people of the world, our only hope now lies in you besieging the occupation's embassies wherever they are, to convey the tragedy we are living through to the world. We've pleaded with everyone, yet no one has responded to our demands. Our last hope rests in your massive popular uprising and your pressure on the embassies of the enemy and the embassies of the U.S., which is fully complicit in everything happening! O free people of our nation, the catastrophe is not limited to the north of Gaza; the specter of famine has reached the south as well, due to the ongoing closure of crossings and the prevention of goods from entering. 🚨 What is happening before your eyes threatens the entire population of Gaza with death, and if you do not act now, you will witness the largest mass grave in Gaza! The occupation has committed every imaginable crime in Gaza. What are you waiting for?! All should participate in the Friday of Rage for your brothers, for your Arab identity, and for humanity. Join in, and let no one shy away from participating—this is a humanitarian duty upon every free and honorable person. Your people in Gaza are relying on your presence, your gatherings, and your protests. Do not abandon them... do not abandon them!

Samidoun in particular has done crucial work for years lifting up the cause of Palestinian prisoners held by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, often when few others have been doing so...The sanctioning and designation of Samidoun is nothing more than an attempt to silence an outspoken, pro-Palestine voice in the midst of a genocide being facilitated by the U.S. and the West. One may not like all that they say, but that is not the point. That they have come for Samidoun and seek to come for Unity of Fields, means that they can come for any pro-Palestine organization. As such, these moves must be vociferously denounced and as the National Lawyers Guild argues, such actions must be understood historically as part and parcel of anti-Palestinian racism and an attempt to stifle the Palestine solidarity movement.

It's Going Down Article: Attacks on Palestine Solidarity Activists Aim to Silence Anti-War Movement: On October 15th, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was labeled a “terrorist entity” by Canada and subjected to sanctions by the United States. These designations follow a previous ban in Germany and the labeling of Samidoun as a “terrorist organization” by Israel. The U.S. claims Samidoun is a “sham fundraiser whose efforts have supported terrorism” by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist Palestinian political party also labeled as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” by the U.S. For its part, Samidoun states it “does not have any material or organizational ties to entities listed on the terrorist lists of the United States, Canada or the European Union.” Two days later, Republican Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General requesting he “immediately open a domestic terrorism investigation” into the popular pro-Palestine website and social media account, Unity of Fields, known for posting anonymous reports of direct actions. In a statement, the group said it is “an anti-imperialist propaganda front…we don’t do actions, we only report on them and receive anonymous submissions.” As the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) recently noted, Rubio also pushed the Attorney General to charge four activists in Florida who were arrested for writing pro-choice graffiti following the fall of Roe v Wade for “terrorism.” One activist was sentenced to a year in prison by the Middle District of Florida, the same court that recently awarded only 8 months to a man convicted of literally firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic. Likewise, while Rubio is trying to claim that an Instagram account is terrorism, he has of course stayed quiet while his own party works overtime to spread rampant misinformation in the wake of two devastating hurricanes hitting his state and about the upcoming election – to say nothing of members of his own party regularly attending neo-Nazi gatherings and increasing aligning with white nationalists. One may disagree with Samidoun and Unity of Fields on their specific political positions, but the entire movement against the ongoing war and genocide in Gaza should be concerned with the state’s move to target them. In no way can Samidoun be understood as a “sham charity” or “terrorist entity,” nor a media project like Unity of Fields as responsible for “domestic terrorism.” Even if one were to accept the legitimacy of power to deploy a subjective term such as “terrorism,” in reality, the extent of Samidoun’s work is posting statements, organizing public educational and political events, and pushing online action campaigns, while Unity of Fields maintains a counter-info website and social media accounts. As a member of Samidoun stated in a recent interview, “They are attacking us on the basis that we were fundraising for other political groups and political parties and they know very well that this is not true. If there was any serious allegation there, many of us would be in prison right now. So there is not any legal grounds or element for any of this. It’s just a bullshit campaign to attack Samidoun and the work that we are doing.”

🔻Article: How the Cambridge Community Evicted Elbit: An Interview with BDS Boston Can you describe the trajectory of the campaign to get Elbit out of Cambridge? When did it start, how did the tactics change over time, and what is the state of the campaign now? BDSB: Our struggle to remove Elbit Systems from 130 Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge began in spring 2023. We started out with a lot of canvassing. We approached canvassing with openness and curiosity, asking local community members how they felt about Elbit’s presence in the city and if/how they felt our fight to remove Elbit fit into their needs and priorities. One of our favorite questions to ask community members was: “When we remove Elbit from the 2nd floor of 130 Bishop Allen Drive, what do you think that space should be used for instead?” Pretty much everyone had something to say in response to this question. Younger folks in particular lit up when we asked it. Then, following Hamas’s military operation on October 7th, 2023, and the escalated Israeli military campaign in Gaza that followed, Elbit’s Cambridge facility became the site of frequent escalated direct actions by anonymous community members. For over a month, outside surfaces of the building remained covered in red paint that the landlord apparently found difficult to fully remove. These direct actions quickly led to increased police presence around the building. On one occasion in late November 2023, Cambridge Police positioned a sniper on the roof of a building across the street from 130 Bishop Allen Drive. If the goal of this increased policing was to secure Elbit’s position in the community, it backfired. Community members were outraged by CPD’s deployment of a sniper on a building above a street heavily foot-trafficked by residents, all to protect a weapons company. Elbit’s co-tenants in the building felt as though they had become a buffer between Elbit, the police, and an increasingly angry and vocal public — certainly not what they signed up for when they decided to rent space in the building. In the winter and spring of 2024, BDS Boston turned up the pressure, initiating what became weekly demonstrations outside Elbit’s Cambridge facility, complemented by weekend actions targeting the collaborators responsible for sustaining Elbit’s local and global operations. The disruptive character of weekday protests often forced Elbit and their co-tenants to work from home. Weekend protests routinely forced branches of Elbit investor Chase Bank to close down for the day. One weekend protest brought 100 community members to the North Cambridge home of Peter Palandjian, CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, Elbit’s landlord in Cambridge. In the summer of 2024, inspired by the militancy of recent student encampments, BDS Boston turned the pressure up another notch through a “Week of Action.” Our Week of Action featured daily disruptions of Elbit and its local collaborators, including one 18 hour long picket and vigil in front of Elbit’s Cambridge facility. By this point, Elbit’s continued tenancy at 130 Bishop Allen Drive had simply become untenable. Elbit’s landlord was telling the leadership of Elbit’s three co-tenants that he wanted to remove Elbit from the building “ASAP,” but that the process was moving more slowly than he would like (Elbit’s co-tenants came out of the building and sent us emails telling us as much). Then, after a local newspaper, the Cambridge Day, did background on rumors that Elbit employees no longer came into the building at all, Elbit and their landlord stated that Elbit’s lease at 130 Bishop Allen Drive had been terminated. In spite of the significance of Elbit Systems’ departure from 130 Bishop Allen Drive, BDS Boston’s fight against Elbit is not over. We are committed to preventing Elbit from moving to another nearby location. We are also committed to severing Elbit’s ties with MIT and the Boston area healthcare sector. Wherever Elbit is, wherever Elbit goes, we will meet them there and we will shut them down.

🟡🟢 Today, Hezbollah announced a record of 39 operations, and a record of six tanks destroyed in one day (two in "Misgav Am" and four in southern Lebanon). Today also, 16 rocket barrages rained down on military gatherings, 6 barrages rained on settlements, and 5 barrages on strategic military facilities inside occupied Palestine. For comparison, last week, 9 tanks and 4 bulldozers were destroyed. In addition, Hezbollah has downed 4 Elbit Systems Hermes drones in the five days. "Your resistance, as well as the command and control system, are in excellent condition and functioning at their best."

🚨 Once again, images of children whose heads were blown off by US-funded IOF warplanes emerge from Gaza. Tonight, the official spokesperson for the General Directorate of Civil Defense in Gaza did not send the usual summary of brutal IOF strikes and rising martyrs. Instead, he summarized the situation in one sentence: "Northern Gaza Governorate is being subjected to genocide." The two children were martyred in an IOF airstrike targeting of the top-floor apartment belonging to Nidal Hamza Halawa in the building of the late Hamza Halawa in Jabalia, in northern #Gaza. The exact number of martyrs is still unknown. Meanwhile, over 10 IOF raids targeted the Al-Tawam area, northwest of Gaza City. The IOF has bombed several homes near Kamal Adwan Hospital, leading to road closures and hindering the work of ambulance teams trying to retrieve the bodies and transport the injured. For the third time today, the hospital and its vicinity have been bombed by the IOF. Journalist Anas Al-Sharif wrote: "When they say Jabalia and the North have been subjected to genocide, it means literally subjected to genocide! This is not a joke, not sarcasm, and it is definitely not the time for this! You're ignoring it to escape your role—yes, your role, your mission, and your religious and national duty. Of course, to the best of your ability, and you all are capable of something. And God knows your limits, and you will be held accountable!"

🚨On Friday, October 18th at 6am, 12 Penn Police officers and one PPD officer raided the home of pro-Palestine student organizers in full tactical gear and pointed rifles and handguns at the students. They refused to provide a warrant or share their names/badge numbers. The escalation of student repression nationwide continues. The pigs are trying to scare people into obedience to the genocidal US war machine. Do not let them. We must become more bold, more audacious tacticians, more unified amongst revolutionaries...more uncompromising. We cannot bow our heads and accept this or throw out radicals in an attempt to save our own skins. The hammer of the state can and will come down on any of us. We only get out of this together, as revolutionaries...not fractured, separate, weak, and reformist. Even if it's unlikely right now, it's good practice for *all* of us to prepare for the possibility of raids, detainments, increased surveillance, subpoenas, etc - find educational resources at unityoffields.org Source: Penn Freedom School for Palestine

📍UPenn: “Sinwar lives”