"Within days of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry was circulating a plan for the entire population of Gaza to be moved to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, and an Israeli think tank had drawn up a strategy for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”

Indeed, Israel has been on record scheming to find a way to relocate the population of Gaza for many decades.

That’s what this is all about. That’s all this has ever been about. It’s not about hostages. It’s not about Hamas. It’s not about Israel defending itself. It’s about stealing a Palestinian territory, and anyone who says otherwise is lying."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-starving-civilians-to-steal

"The urban terrain, the resilience of Hamas and the people of Gaza, the balance of forces in the region and new warfare technologies posed distinct challenges for the Israeli Defence Forces, who were now fighting on multiple fronts with more ambitious goals than just recovering the hostages: destroying Hamas and then Hezbollah, controlling Southern Lebanon—in addition to making life unbearable for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It was the continuation of the Nakba—an uncivil war of land expropriation.

In those early days, watching with mounting anxiety the indiscriminate bombing of a defenceless population, I wondered why such an eruption of violence had not occurred in apartheid South Africa. Many had anticipated a similar Armageddon. The States of Emergency between 1984 and 1994 saw the militarization of townships, death squads, chemical warfare, assassinations, torture and detention without trial. During this period, an estimated 20,000 were killed in South Africa, the vast majority black; another 1.5 million died in South Africa’s ‘destabilization’ of neighbouring countries. How, after ten years of civil war, did this culminate in a negotiated settlement, the dismantling of the major planks of the apartheid order, and the first elections based on majority rule? Why does such an outcome—with all its problems—seem so remote when we turn to the plight of the Palestinians and the spiralling violence, internal and external, of the Israeli state? How was it that the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995 intensified confrontations rather than making progress towards a two-state solution? Why did Israel abandon the Abraham Accords, which outlined collaboration with Arab states, preferring the disproportionate massacre of Palestinians after Hamas’s incursion?"

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/michael-burawoy-palestine-through-a-south-african-lens

"This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide. The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the genocide and dismantle the global system that has allowed it."

https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur

"We performed accuracy assessments on a generated tree crop fields damage map using 1,200 randomly sampled 3 × 3-m areas, and we generated error-adjusted area estimates with a 95% confidence interval. To validate the generated greenhouse damage map, we used a random sampling-based analysis. We found that 64–70% of tree crop fields and 58% of greenhouses had been damaged by 27 September 2024, after almost one year of war in the Gaza Strip. Agricultural land in Gaza City and North Gaza were the most heavily damaged with 90% and 73% of tree crop fields damaged in each governorate, respectively. By the end of 2023, all greenhouses in North Gaza and Gaza City had been damaged. Our damage estimate overall agrees with that from UNOSAT but provides more detailed and accurate information, such as the timing of the damage as well as fine-scale changes. Our results attest to the severe impacts of the Israel-Hamas War on Gaza's agricultural sector with direct relevance for food security and economic recovery needs."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666017225000057

"Each of the 22 illegal settlements approved by Israel last week is another nail in the coffin of the peace process, hammered in by the complicity of western governments and corporations. Israeli settlements are not benign civilian neighbourhoods – they are primary instruments of dispossession, control and apartheid. Settlements are closed militarised zones on Palestinians’ stolen land, cutting off our access to our resources, our farms, our schools, our jobs and each other. Palestinian lands rapidly shrink, our livelihoods are devastated, our rights are systematically violated and our identity is undermined.

Western lawmakers look on, expressing commitment to peace through a two-state solution but choosing to do nothing to achieve this goal. Instead, their policies and inaction enable yet further settlement activity.

In the West Bank we live in an obvious two-tier system, yet most lawmakers continue to shun the word “apartheid” despite Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations concurring on its accuracy and the international court of justice (ICJ) reaffirming it last July. The Settlers, the BBC documentary by Louis Theroux, helped expose this reality, showing me being prevented from even walking on the same streets as Israelis in the neighbourhood of Hebron, where I was born.

In response to the documentary, Israeli settlers and soldiers broke into my yard, vandalised it and assaulted me."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/israeli-settlements-west-bank-international-law-illegal

"Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.”"

https://www.mintpressnews.com/greta-thunberg-canceled-capitalism-israel/289936/

"European countries have responded to the latest violence by finally upping the pressure on Netanyahu. EU foreign ministers have triggered a review of Israel’s association agreement with the bloc. The UK has halted talks on a new trade deal and imposed sanctions on settlers and settler entities.

But they should be doing more. For years, Israel’s European allies have turned a blind eye to the illegal settler expansion. They still, inexplicably, import goods from settlements.

It is time to back rhetoric with action. Hamas’s abhorrent behaviour and the threat of Palestinian militancy should not absolve Israel of its own conduct. With US President Donald Trump paying little heed to the humanitarian catastrophe, European states must show Israel that its actions bear consequences. They should ban trade with settlements and sanction extremist settler entities. They should halve offensive weapons sales to Israel and sanction ultranationalists in the government who are fuelling the Gaza and West Bank violence.

Finally, they should lead the way in formally recognising a Palestinian state, before there is nothing left to recognise. It would be a symbolic move. But it would underline Europe’s commitment to a two-state solution as the only sustainable future. It would send a message to Israel, too, that the concepts of international law and justice still have meaning."

https://www.ft.com/content/88561b40-b214-4f40-b8f3-32a881c832c4

Ah, Capitalist Western Democracy at its finest: Norway recognises the state of Palestine while continue to be the biggest investor in Israeli land theft:

https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/114629859212432050

@palestine @israel #PalestineSolidarity #HumanRights #InternatinalLaw #capitalism #WesternValues #LandTheft

Tell me something new. This has been happening since 1948 - 77 years ago... It has been the whole agenda behind the foundation of Israel - based on bullshit historical myths. Nothing less, nothing more.

"The warnings to flee come suddenly: leaflets fluttering from the sky, text messages pinging thousands of phones, confusing maps on social media pointing out paths to more rubble and despair.

The Israeli military calls them evacuation orders, saying they are designed to keep civilians out of harm’s way. For Gaza’s 2.1mn people, they are the harbinger of suffering: displacement many times over, a desperate rush to gather children and the elderly, and then a slow, humiliating trudge to the next ruined corner of the besieged enclave.

The Financial Times analysed hundreds of these evacuation orders, including about 30 issued since Israel shattered a ceasefire with Hamas in March. Taken together they illustrate how Israel — which has authorised its military to occupy the entire enclave — has changed the shape of Gaza, leaving less and less land for Palestinians.

The FT found that more than four-fifths of Gaza — which was among the world’s most densely populated territories even before the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack — is now covered by Israeli military zones and evacuation orders."

https://www.ft.com/content/ba6e18db-716f-4bb8-8480-e0b7bb584b75

More LAND THEFT -->

"Israel has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.

Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have tried to permanently cement Israeli control over the land, in part by declaring swathes as “state lands”, which prevents private Palestinian ownership.

The motion was said to have been put forward by the far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, which is considered illegal under international law.

Katz said the settlement decision “strengthens our hold on Judea and Samaria”, using the biblical term for the West Bank, “anchors our historical right in the Land of Israel, and constitutes a crushing response to Palestinian terrorism”.

He added it was also “a strategic move that prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel”.

A spokesperson for the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said: “Israel continues to promote Jewish supremacy through the theft of Palestinian land and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. The Israeli government is openly and blatantly working to destroy the Palestinian people, and any chances for a normal future for the people living between the Jordan River and the sea.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/israel-new-settlements-occupied-west-bank-palestinian-state

"Dismantling the apartheid state of Israel would mean granting everyone citizenship and equal rights, allowing right of return, denazifying apartheid culture, paying extensive reparations, and righting the wrongs of the past. You could still call what remains “Israel” if you wanted to, but it would be nothing like the state that presently exists under that name.

Would this upset the feelings of some Jewish people? Yes. Would it inconvenience the lives of some Jewish people? Certainly. But that would be infinitely preferable to the daily massacres, genocidal atrocities and reckless regional warmongering we are witnessing from the state of Israel. Advocating the end of this genocidal state doesn’t make someone a monster, advocating its continuation does. The only way to believe otherwise is to take it as a given that Palestinian lives are worth less than Jewish feelings.

Israel is currently presenting nonstop arguments for its own cessation. Every video that comes out showing Israelis acting in monstrous ways and innocent Palestinians being murdered, tortured and abused in the most horrific ways imaginable is an argument for which there is no verbal counter-argument. Every day that goes by, the genocidal apartheid state of Israel is proving to the world that it should not exist."

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1927906987125465179

John the Duncan with a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #eurovision  #eurovision2025  #Europe #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing  #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #eurovision #eurovision2025 #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel

Land grabbing / land theft indeed:

"It’s been so transparently obvious this entire time that Israel’s entire objective is to remove Palestinians from a Palestinian territory so their land can be used for Israel’s own purposes — but you’d never have known it from looking at the western press.

For the last year and a half the western media have been brazenly lying to the public by framing this as a “war with Hamas” instead of the naked ethnic cleansing operation it clearly is. They’ve been manufacturing consent for this murderous land grab by babbling about hostages, terrorism and October 7 when Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza has never, ever been about any of those things. It has only ever been about taking Palestinian land away from Palestinians — an agenda Israel has been pursuing for decades.

If the western press had been doing actual journalism, Israel would never have been able to bring Gaza to this point. Because the western press have instead been administering propaganda this entire time, Gaza is now an uninhabitable pile of rubble full of desperate, starving people, allowing Israel and the Trump administration to argue that the humanitarian thing to do is to evacuate them all immediately.

The western media’s refusal to acknowledge this — combined with a year and a half of wildly biased headlines, indisputably slanted coverage, and extensively documented top-down pressure in mass media institutions to cover Israel’s onslaught in a positive light — stifled much of the public opposition to this genocidal land grab that we would likely have seen otherwise. This journalistic malpractice allowed Israel’s western backers to support this mass atrocity with impunity, which in turn allowed Israel to act with impunity."

https://x.com/caitoz/status/1925374319045361870

Today in Labor History May 16, 1862: President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. As a result, 84 million acres of public (i.e., Indigenous) lands were opened to settlers. Any citizen who had never taken up arms against the U.S. (i.e., northerners), including women and freed slaves, could file for a federal land grant. Consequently, great swaths of Native American land and natural resources were usurped by settlers. Additionally, much of the land was acquired by businesses, not individual citizens. For example, most of the rainforest west of Portland, Oregon was acquired by the Oregon Lumber Company through illegal claims under the act.

"In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.

Between 1490 and 1890, European colonization, including acts of genocide, was responsible for killing as many as 100 million indigenous people, according to the historian David E. Stannard.

Since 1950 there have been nearly two dozen genocides, including those in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Rwanda.
The genocide in Gaza is part of a pattern. It is the harbinger of genocides to come, especially as the climate breaks down and hundreds of millions are forced to flee to escape droughts, wildfires, flooding, declining crop yields, failed states and mass death. It is a blood-soaked message from us to the rest of the world: We have everything and if you try and take it away from us, we will kill you.

Gaza puts to rest the lie of human progress, the myth that we are evolving morally. Only the tools change. Where once we clubbed victims to death, or chopped them to pieces with broadswords, today we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee camps, spray families with bullets from militarized drones or pulverize them with tank shells, heavy artillery and missiles.

The 19th century socialist Louis-Auguste Blanqui, unlike nearly all of his contemporaries, dismissed the belief central to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, that human history is a linear progression toward equality and greater morality. He warned that this absurd positivism is perpetrated by oppressors to disempower the oppressed."

https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1924187708660015241

John the Duncan on his personal experience at Pride and a thorough analysis of the relationship Europe-Israel, neoliberalism, Eurovision, and pinkwashing. From February 2023.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcCIuSlph4

#racism #PalestineSolidarity #WhiteSupremacy #eurovision #eurovision2025 #Eurocentrism #modernity #AntiMuslimRacism #neoliberalism #pinkwashing #ShireenAbuAkleh #IsraeliOccupation #apartheid #LandTheft @palestine @israel