Vanessa Beeley

😂😂😂😂 Netanyahu: We are approaching the end of the phase of eliminating Hamas’ military capabilities, and we will continue to destroy its armed remnants

Violence against Syrians erupted in Kayseri, Turkey, following the news of a Syrian man harassing a minor. Turkish nationalists took to the streets and burnt down vehicles and shops that belonged to Syrians. #Turkey #Refugees #Syria #Kayseri

BREAKING: Director of Shifa Complex, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salamiya: ⭕ The occupation deprives all prisoners of their rights and medications. ⭕ Israeli medical teams assault detainees, violating humanitarian standards. ⭕ Prisoners have lost up to 30 kilograms due to food deprivation. ⭕ I was detained from a humanitarian convoy transporting wounded from Shifa Complex via Erez Crossing. ⭕ The destruction of Shifa Complex halts Gaza's healthcare system as desired by the occupation. ⭕ I was subjected to near-daily torture in Israeli prisons. ⭕ The occupation assaults and tortures Palestinian prisoners. ⭕ Our release was unconditional; the Israeli court confirmed no charges against us. ⭕ No international organization visited us in prison; we were barred from meeting any lawyers. QNN

The pervasive sadism cannot be explained away as the behavior of soldiers at war.

A parallel, seemingly contradictory trend among Israelis is the widespread dismissal of these atrocities—the dead bodies, the grieving siblings, the starving children—as fake, part of what Zionists call “Pallywood,” Palestinians’ conspiratorial manipulation of the worldwide media to demonize Israel. A grandfather mourning his five-month-old grandson, killed by Israel in Gaza, was accused in the Jerusalem Post of crying over a doll. The Post later retracted the story (titled, “Al Jazeera posts blurred doll, claims it to be a dead Palestinian baby”), but only after it had gone viral. The pervasive sadism cannot be explained away as the behavior of soldiers at war, adapted to the needs of a new generation whose social media-addiction compels them to document their cruelty. The tendencies to revel and deny coexist, not just within the population but within the same person. Near the border with Egypt, a settler, there to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, tells a journalist that (a) the Palestinians are not starving, and (b) they will continue to receive no food (i.e. starve) until the hostages are released. These justifications are not for him; he throws them at a wall, and the listener is free to see what sticks. People ask what’s wrong with the Israelis because, I suspect, they find the depravity difficult to believe, let alone comprehend. Attempts to ascribe motive are met with visceral revulsion, an affront to something fundamental and big, like morality. I wonder how a person gets here. And I know our responsibility is not to find a way to psychologically accommodate it, but rather to work to stop it. Still, with every snuff video I find myself back at that same question. In strictly political terms I can appreciate the clarity it allows. Watching these soldiers, I do not feel concern, or anything at all, for them. Instead, the feeling is that of looking at a person, and where you expect recognition you find its inverse—a stunned alienation. https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah

Unbelievable!

Free Hadeel Shatara! Palestinian educator seized by occupation forces On Monday, 1 July, Hadeel Shatara, Palestinian educator and an administrator of the graduate program at Birzeit University, was seized by occupation forces as she returned to Palestine from Jordan at the Karameh crossing. She is currently being held incommunicado under interrogation, and her family and lawyer have not been informed of her location. We raise our voices to say: Free Hadeel Shatara and all Palestinian prisoners now! The abduction of Hadeel Shatara is part and parcel of the systematic attack on Palestinian education by the Zionist occupation regime. She joins six Birzeit University women students – Yara Abu Hashish, Layan Kayed, Shahd Owaida, Mona Abu Hussein, and Wafa Nimr – and hundreds of Palestinian male students – seized by the occupation. Students, particularly throughout the West Bank of occupied Palestine, have been subjected to mass arrest, while Palestinian student blocs are labeled “illegal organizations.” In Gaza, every single university has been systematically destroyed by the occupation forces as part of their genocidal assault on every aspect of Palestinian life and society. University administrators have been targeted for assassination and kidnapped with fellow civilians, especially health care workers, and subjected to extreme forms of torture and abuse in the concentration camps for Palestinians from Gaza operated by the occupation forces. This attack on Hadeel Shatara and Palestinian education is happening as university students are rising up around the world in a global student intifada to confront the genocide and resist Zionism and imperialism. Around the world, and particularly in the United States – the heart of the imperial core and the co-sponsor of the genocide, supplier of billions of dollars in bombs and weaponry to the Zionist regime – students have been beaten and arrested by police in an attempt to suppress this growing international movement with the liberation of Palestine at the core. We urge all to demand freedom for Hadeel Shatara and all Palestinian students and educators – and all of the over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Zionist jails – and to include the liberation of the prisoners in all campaigns for Palestinian liberation and an end to the genocide. We further emphasize the urgency of a complete academic boycott of all Zionist institutions, which are fully complicit in the all-out assault on Palestinian education and 76 years of genocide targeting the Palestinian people as a whole. Free Hadeel Shatara and all Palestinian prisoners! Defend Palestinians’ right to education! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

🇸🇾🇹🇷 🇰🇿 The presidents of Syria and Turkey have recently made statements indicating their willingness to resume friendly relations between the countries. Political analysts suggest that the next meeting between the leaders of the two countries could take place soon on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, which is scheduled for 3-4 July this year in Astana, Kazakhstan. Telegram X/Twitter

Israel fears formation of new front as Ansarullah’s clout grows in North Africa Israeli intelligence agencies are increasingly apprehensive about a potential new front emerging against the regime, as the Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement is expanding its influence in the North Africa region. #YemeniResistance @PressTV

Big story about the BBC has dropped in the last hour ⬇️ "When I said to Sarah Smith on my infamous Newsnight interview that Nazis* and trans activists had in common that they both enjoyed experimenting on kids, Smith treated me like I had lost my mind. But the #WPATHFiles revealed the shocking truth of that even before the Cass Review. This was an ideological, radicalised group of men conducting hormonal and surgical experiments on children, adolescents and vulnerable adults" "The documents revealed that WPATH members have been administering irreversible treatments to patients, including minors and those with severe mental health issues, without fully informed consent. The significance of the disclosures within the files is immense, especially after the Cass Report slammed the weak evidence base for ‘gender affirming’ treatments and called for more caution" "On March 11, 2024, a concerned member of the public—formerly a senior media professional—sent the WPATH Files to Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s Medical Editor. The files contained damning information, including admissions from WPATH members about the harm caused by their treatments and the influence of non-medical trans activists" "Despite the gravity and the urgency of the situation, Walsh did not respond. Six days later, the same individual tried to send an email summarizing key points from an interview with Mia Hughes, the author of the WPATH report, only to discover that their address had been blocked" "But there’s more. It turns out that Walsh is married to Dr. Véronique Walsh, the vice president of Gilead Sciences UK and Ireland. Gilead Sciences is a pharmaceutical company that set up a $4.5 million fund to “to improve the safety, health, and wellness of the transgender community, particularly in light of the disproportionate impact of HIV on transgender individuals”. "*You know, I thought again of Sarah Smith shouting NAZI at me when I read in the files that WPATH doctors discussed giving a homeless man vaginoplasty, a procedure first carried out by Dr. Erwin Gohrbandt, who went on to join the Luftwaffe, and conducted hypothermia experiments on prisoners at Dachau" https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/gilead-and-the-bbc-a-marriage-made?r=7rqwr&triedRedirect=true