Stories of Ukrainians who survived under #Russian occupation need to be heard. Here's one of them, a testimony of Victoria Shcherbak, a teacher from #Balakliya, #Kharkiv region, who was held in Russian #captivity during the #occupation in 2022, along with her minor daughter and husband.
https://www.facebook.com/tetyana.dotsyak/posts/pfbid0bwimLvKjNd6ZYAzSaMrC39r9krpJuYFpUfv9qgNSwSoU5Fv58nVSzLSbYt1W1pAUl
#RussianWarCrimes #Ukraine #genocide

Israel doesn't just occupy Palestinian land, but also Palestinian airspace, denying Palestinians their right to their own an airport. Not only does this force Palestinians into grueling travel through land borders, but it's part of the larger collective punishment that restricts Palestinians' movement, and works to isolate the population from each other and the world.

#Israel #Palestine #occupation #apartheid #colonization #PalestinianAmerican #Travel #TravelVlog

Inside Russia’s sham ‘election’ in the occupied Ukrainian territories

This year, Russia’s elections include shameless ‘votes’ in Donetsk and Luhansk. Here’s how they're being manipulated.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-sham-election-ukraine-occupied-territories-donestsk-luhansk-kremlin/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=sham_elections

#democracy #Ukraine #Russia #Elections #Donetsk #Luhansk #Kremlin #War #Occupation

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The capitalist state continues to pursue fossil neo-colonial mobility policies instead of working toward a socially and climate-just mobility transition.

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#LeinemaschBleibt #TümpeltownBleibt #KapitalismusIstKlimaterrorismus
#CapitalismIsClimateTerrorism
#Südschnellweg #Hannover #Waldbesetzung #Klimagerechtigkeit #ClimateJustice #Occupation #Systemchange

Ooooo! The #IsraelLobby is really gonna be pissed off with this ⤵️ being published!

“#UN committee releases exhaustive study on the legality of #Israel’s occupation: ‘The study is the most comprehensive and persuasive analysis of why the Israel #occupation has now become illegal,’ says former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk. ‘It will be the intellectual and political touchstone on #Palestine and international law for some time.’”

by Jeff Wright in @mondoweiss

“Last week, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) issued a study two years in the making: ‘The Legality of the #Israeli #Occupation of the #OccupiedTerritories, Including East #Jerusalem.’”

“Following a finding of #illegality, the study concludes that, according to international law:

the consequences should be the immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of Israel’s military forces; the withdrawal of colonial settlers; and the dismantling of the military administrative regime, with clear instructions that withdrawal of breach of an internationally wrongful act is not subject to negotiation. Full and commensurate reparations should be accorded to the affected Palestinian individuals, corporations and entities for the generational harm caused by Israel’s land and property appropriations, house demolitions, pillage of natural resources, denial of return, and other war crimes against humanity orchestrated for the colonialist, annexationists aims of an illegal occupant.”

#ApartheidIsrael #SettlerColonialism #IllegalOccupation #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #Racism #Fascism #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ChildTorture #ChildMurder #SexualAbuse #FalseImprisonment #GazaConcentrationCamp #CollectivePunishment #FreePalestine

https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/te/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjU5NzMwLFwibFwiOjk4NDc3MjU3ODI3Mjg4MjQzLFwiclwiOjk4NDc3NTI3MDI3MTU2NDg2fSIsInMiOiJkNTVhMDA2YjRiZjM1OTJjIn0

#HRW: "The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability."

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children #impunity #israelPalestine #Palestine #israelApartheid #zionism #stateViolence #WestBank #policeViolence #coloniality #militaryJustice #colonialism #occupation #children

Today in Labor History September 3, 1920: Workers took over and occupied nearly all the factories in Spezia, Italy, in opposition to both the bosses and the union leadership. 600,000 workers participated in the occupations. They continued operations, but under their leadership and control, rather than the bosses’. Their goal was to build the movement into a revolutionary General Strike and to create a workers’ socialist republic in which the workers controlled all industry. Union leadership, in collaboration with the government and plant owners, eventually convinced most workers to accept a sell-out deal. And by February, 1921, the owners went on the offensive against the workers, aided by Fascist thugs.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #italy #fascism #GeneralStrike #union #occupation #Revolution #socialism

« C’est dangereux d’aller à la contestation. On risque de perdre à chaque fois, et de devoir payer des sommes folles ». « Cellule anti-ZAD » : le nouvel arsenal de l’Intérieur pour « faire obstacle » aux squats militants #occupation #campements #écologie https://seenthis.net/messages/1015365

In another ridiculous week in America's favorite apartheid state, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Jewish settlers should have more rights to move around the West Bank than Arabs. Shocking, isn't it? It's not like he's a known Jewish supremacist or anything.

#Israel #Palestine #occupation #apartheid #colonization #settlements #WestBank #Gaza #IDF #IsraelDefenseForce #MiddleEast #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #arrests #violence #illegal #FreePalestine #ItamarBenGvir

The debate is turning on #Israel's #apartheid system of,#occupation and suppression. The growing mountain of evidence is undeniable to those with a conscience and grasp on reality.

‘Accusing Israel of apartheid is not anti-Semitic’: Holocaust historian https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/27/accusing-israel-of-apartheid-is-not-anti-semitic-holocaust-historian

#Lithuania's #Vilnius #University has fired Russian professor Andrey Desnitsky, who earlier denied the #Soviet #occupation of the #Baltic States. His work was funded by an international philanthropic family foundation.

https://viabaltica.fi/lithuania-vilnius-university-fires-russian-professor-who-denied-soviet-occupation/

Despite their personal experience of 23 years of Russian #occupation, there are many people in #Slovakia who still do not understand that Russia is an evil empire.

The level of atrocities is incomparable between the two, but the message is clear: nothing has changed in the Russian Bear’s den.
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#August1968 #1968 #55YearsAgo #OTD #RuSSia #CzechoSlovakia #NeverForget #EvilEmpire #OperationDanube

The Estonian nation has never been extinguished despite having once lost #independence through #occupation, #Estonia's President Alar Karis noted in his speech on the country's 32nd Independence Restoration Day. At the same time, he stressed that the Estonian people needed "more clarity" and "less noise."

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-estonian-nation-needs-more-clarity-less-noise-pres-karis/

Hey all,
In my previous post, I asked if people would be interested in a weekly news round-up of what's going on in Israel/Palestine with a focus on the occupation. I got a moderate response - not overwhelming, but enough that I want to try it. So here is a much shortened version of what such a thing would look like, for the last week (August 13-20, 2023):

In a case of unbelievable police brutality, Palestinian Arwah Sheikh Ali, accused of dealing drugs in East Jerusalem, was terribly beaten and allegedly branded with the Star Of David (CW: Picture of branding in article). ALL 16 arresting officers "forgot" to turn their body cameras on. Sheikh Ali has since been released.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-to-be-probed-for-allegedly-branding-palestinian-with-star-of-david/

Protests against the government's judicial reform laws continued into its 33rd week. (The anti-occupation bloc continues to join them as...perhaps frenemies is the best way to describe it?)
Relatedly, American Jewish and Israeli scholars have circulated a statement calling for the link between the Judicial Reform and the government's desire to expand the occupation to be made more explicit than it has been by the mainstream protest movement.
Statement here: https://sites.google.com/view/israel-elephant-in-the-room/home
For an analysis of the connections between the occupation and the reform, see here: https://www.972mag.com/judicial-coup-reasonableness-yariv-levin/

Two Israelis were shot in a terrorist attack in the Palestinian town of Huwara https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-19/ty-article/.premium/two-men-wounded-in-suspected-shooting-attack-near-hawara/0000018a-0dc0-d18f-a3fb-1dd7794f0000
Huwara is the Palestinian town which the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich called to be wiped out earlier this year, as well as the town subjected to two pogroms of Jewish Settlers this year while IDF soldiers looked on, resulting in many injuries and one Palestinian death. (see here - https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-should-wipe-out-palestinian-town-of-huwara-says-senior-minister-smotrich/ and here - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/15/middleeast/huwara-west-bank-settler-attack-cmd-intl/index.html )
I would not be surprised to see another pogrom very soon, unfortunately.

The aforementioned Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, himself a settler, has requested $180 million to expand settlements. (See: https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-smotrich-to-ask-cabinet-to-approve-180m-plan-to-expand-settlements/ )
This is part of Smotrich's long term "decisive plan" to increase the amount of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank from 500,000 to 1 million. (See (paywalled) - https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article/.premium/far-right-israeli-minister-lays-groundwork-for-doubling-west-bank-settler-population/00000188-2de6-d6e4-ab9d-ede74a3e0000
Doubling the settler population will be an immense task, but the funding that he wants for it will likely be approved, given the current make up of the coalition government.

Finally, here is an interview with Rafah Ghaith-Sub Laban, the son of a woman who was recently evicted from her East Jerusalem home. https://www.972mag.com/ghaith-sub-laban-jerusalem-settlers/

Do let me know if I've missed something important!

#israel #palestine #occupation #IDF #WestBank

Liberal Zionist groups in the US are begging President Joe Biden to save Israel from itself. Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss and Michael Arria break down the impact of Israel's judicial reforms on the increasingly fragile relationship between Israel and the US public.

#IsraelLobby #AIPAC #ZOA #ConferenceOfPresidents #Judaism #USPolitics #hasbara #zionism #zionist #Israel #Palestine #diaspora #freespeech #rightwing #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #occupation #IDF #IsraelDefenseForces

"The use of the term 'apartheid' for #Palestine is complicated. It's been used by 'liberal #zionists' and 'left-wing zionists' to try and make the issue of the #occupation of Palestine as solely a #racism one and not a #genocidal settler #colony #occupying land that is ours. However, the system in place within that occupation is factually one of #apartheid. South #Africans lived through the same thing and preferred the term apartheid. It's not like the white #people weren't occupying land that wasn't theirs either. Either way, considering countless South African #activisits including Nelson Mandela's grandson decided to go ahead and call the occupation of Palestine a system of apartheid, while calling it an occupation and declaring that ALL of Palestine should be free, it becomes silly to even try to argue with that, you just don't have a foothold."

https://www.tumblr.com/guerillas-of-history/726105060232265728?source=share

Une étude révèle que 31 % des travailleurs en France passent plus de temps à paraître occupés qu'à effectuer un travail réel et productif, en raison de la façon dont la productivité est mesurée https://emploi.developpez.com/actu/347412/Une-etude-revele-que-31-pourcent-des-travailleurs-en-France-passent-plus-de-temps-a-paraitre-occupes-qu-a-effectuer-un-travail-reel-et-productif-en-raison-de-la-facon-dont-la-productivite-est-mesuree #étude #france #travail #occupation #productivité #société #1st

Would people around these parts be interested in a weekly-ish link round-up of what is going on in Israel/Palestine, especially with respect to the Occupation? I'm living in Jerusalem,following things anyway, and somewhat active with resistance (though more just in touch with people who are very active) so I could easily do something like this.
On the other hand, I don't want to clog up people's timelines! Throw me a 'Favorite' if you would actually find something like this useful.

#israel #palestine #occupation #apartheid

Will the US ever condition aid to Israel? Israel's ongoing judicial reforms have sparked significant controversy, not only within Israel itself but also among US lawmakers. Mondoweiss' Phil Weiss says the Israel lobby is in '"complete disarray."

#IsraelJudicialReforms #IsraelLobby #AIPAC #ZOA #ConferenceOfPresidents #Judaism #USPolitics #hasbara #zionism #zionist #Israel #Palestine #diaspora #freespeech #rightwing #CanaryMission #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #occupation #IDF

@I_Like_Books I’m hoping Finland joining NATO and its recent election of a right-wing government isn’t the beginning of the end of its world-class success. I think the war combined with high inflation spooked voters into an overreaction, but hopefully they can turn it around before too much damage is done. #Finland #USA #USPol #USMilitary #NATO #Occupation