Vaccine-Injured Speak Out / + the ‘Calls to Stop the Shots Intensify’  + ’17 Covid Pandemic Lies’

Testimonies from Victims and Medical Personnel

from thefreonline on 26th Nov 2023 by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender / by Rhoda Wilson at The Expose / by  Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null at Global Research …….. Comments )

A video titled ‘mRNA ‘Vaccine’ Genocide 2021-2022’ tells the stories of people around the world who have been injured by Covid injections.

Their struggle, their pain, and their deaths deserve to be acknowledged for what they are — the result of medical malfeasance, regulatory corruption and societal “mass formation” insanity driven by media fearmongering and outright lies.

A common thread in these stories is the consistent dismissal by the medical community. Even in cases where the doctors do suspect a Covid injection injury, they still have no idea how the symptoms are caused or how to treat them, so they just send the victims home. Successful treatments appear to be extremely rare, which adds insult to injury.

The Covid injection is the most dangerous drug in the history of modern medicine, and these dangers were foreseen and predicted by many respected and well-educated doctors and scientists, whose voices were censored.

All-cause mortality by time is the most reliable measure from which we can detect true catastrophic events, and all-cause mortality started spiking AFTER the Covid injections were rolled out. These increases also correlate to a nation’s Covid injection rate.

MRNA ‘VACCINE’ GENOCIDE 2021-2022: TESTIMONIES FROM THE VICTIMS AND MEDICAL STAFF

note: the above video has been republished from copies after being banned by the ‘authorities’… quality now not great.

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Calls to ‘Stop the Shots’ Intensify

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | November 15, 2023

Activist groups, medical organizations and doctors around the globe are launching initiatives seeking to halt the administration of the COVID-19 vaccines or to have them pulled from the market altogether.

These efforts, including educational campaigns, legal challenges and petitions, cite the high number of adverse events and revelations regarding vaccine contamination as factors that may lead to the vaccines being recalled.

Several individuals involved with these initiatives told The Defender their efforts are beginning to make a noticeable difference — but that more work is needed.

1.4K views 8 days ago.. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a hearing on injuries caused by the COVID-19 vaccines with special witnesses Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Kimberly Biss, and Thomas Renz.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a hearing on injuries caused by the COVID-19 vaccines with special witnesses Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Kimberly Biss, and Thomas Renz.

“People are waking up to the fact that they were misled, and they are starting to demand answers from their elected officials and the safety and regulatory agencies that they trusted with the health of their children, but who lied to them,” said Janci Lindsay, Ph.D., director of toxicology and molecular biology for Toxicology Support Services and co-founder of the We The People 50 — Recall The Shots campaign.

Bradford Geyer, an attorney with the FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, which launched the We The People 50 initiative, told The Defender the response to the initiative has been supportive.

“Our movement is clearly growing, as Americans and citizens of other nations realize what governments and Big Pharma have done to them.”

COVID vaccines ‘must be stopped for the sake of humanity’

In the U.S., the We The People 50 initiative is calling for “the recall of the COVID-19 genetic ‘vaccines’ due to the large numbers of deaths, disabilities, and unreasonable harm they pose.”

The initiative is made up of doctors, scientists, attorneys, advocates, authors, researchers, victims and concerned citizens, according to Lindsay, who said the group’s mission is to save lives and protect the most vulnerable groups from these dangerous genetic vaccines.

“We are potentially contaminating the entire human gene pool with these reckless technologies, with almost zero oversight as to their consequences to humans, animals and the environment,” Lindsay said. “It must be stopped for the sake of humanity.”

The campaign was inspired by Dr. John Witcher, a Mississippi doctor who advocated for the recall of the COVID-19 vaccines in his state. Witcher, a former gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi, told The Defender his efforts began in September 2021, when he launched Mississippi Against Mandates.

Initially, the movement organized protests and rallies and a public awareness campaign, opposing vaccine mandates. “Our primary focus was to stop the mandates and be cautious of the shots,” Witcher said.

According to Witcher, a turning point came in late October 2021, when Dr. Peter McCullough spoke at a roundtable organized by the Mississippi group, during which he said the COVID-19 vaccines were unsafe for humans.

After that, Witcher said, the group “turned not just against the mandates but against the shots.”

In February, what was previously a statewide effort became a national initiative, following a meeting at the Mississippi Capitol where McCullough and other doctors, and several vaccine-injured individuals and their family members, spoke.

The We The People 50 campaign was spun off of the February event, Witcher said.

Lindsay said that based on Witcher’s efforts, she connected with Carolyn Blakeman, media director and task force coordinator of the FormerFedsGroup, to launch the campaign nationwide, seeking to “take this strategy of bringing a small group of testifying experts from all health disciplines, as well as vaccine-injured, to all 50 states.”

‘Probably the Most Important Topic of Our Time’: DNA Contaminants in COVID Shots Can Trigger Cancer, Alter Human Genome A World Council for Health panel of international scientists revealed that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are contaminated

Recent research revealed that a significant percentage of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are contaminated with DNA and bacterial contaminants that can alter the human genome and trigger cancer and other serious conditions. Last month, Health Canada acknowledged the presence of such contamination in COVID-19 vaccines.

Genome integrity, informed consent, medical autonomy among key issues

“We have met with state legislators and with state attorneys and have spoken at multiple county commissioner meetings,” Lindsay said. “[We] helped draft laws around genetic vaccine safety, informed consent, medical autonomy, the right to maintain genome integrity, the right to be free from non-consensual transfection (shedding) and the right to deny coerced or forced medical treatments.”

According to Lindsay, the group “plans to leverage” consumer product protection statutes in several states “to get the shots pulled outright, or at the very least, to force the states to provide true informed consent.”

The initiative also calls into question the legal immunity of vaccine manufacturers under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, on the basis of state consumer protection laws and willful misconduct laws.

Geyer said, “The basis for such action is that these vaccines are contaminated and adulterated and proven to be dangerous and deadly.”

class-action lawsuit filed in California in September on behalf of two remdesivir victims and supported by the FormerFedsGroup is based on similar arguments — namely that Gilead, remdesivir’s distributor, may have violated California laws against using deceptive practices, including the Consumer Legal Remedies Act.

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Anti Zionist FAQs: About The Gaza Raid on Oct. 7th, 2023 / About the ongoing Nakba

from thefreeonline 0n 24th Nov 2023 by Palestine Remembered MiddleEastMonitor. العربية

Remind us please: Who shall push who into the sea? Jaffa May 1948, Palestinians were being pushed into the sea by Zionist forces

Each of the below facts has been linked to its sources, be free to click the links for details:

  • When Palestinian resistance entered Israel on Oct. 7th, 2023, they actually entered their stolen lands and looted homes; which were usurped by Zionist Jews during the war of Nakba. To this date, we have seen only a few land deeds for the Jewish citizens of PalestineJews, 2/3 of them were persecuted European Jewish refugees.
  • On the other hand, Palestinians have tens of thousands of their land deeds that prove their land ownership, here is our growing list. In a nutshell, Israeli Jews are mostly nothing but a bunch of colonizers living on Palestinian lands.
  • Insert: How many Hamas fighters were killed in the raid? At least 1000? Are any exact figures available? First not all were Hamas, the rest were separate militias and uncontrolled groups who joined in.
  • The attack was considered practically suicidal due to advanced Israeli fortifications. All ‘civilians’ in Israel do 3 years military service plus updates, and most living near Gaza would be armed. All nearby houses have ‘safe’ bunkers, paid for by the State, there are various military bases with Apache strike helicopters just minutes away, etc….

On the afternoon of October 9, the Israeli army’s emergency services transported the bodies of 110 individuals from Be’eri.

  • We do have possible numbers of Palestinian deaths reported by Tasnim News (Irani) on the battle in Kibbutz Be’eri, (one of the original 11 points in the Negev, in 1946 to further the Israeli takeover plans ) : “Israeli sources reveal that in the Be’eri Kibbutz clash, 103 resistance force members lost their lives, while 85 Israelis were killed by the resistance forces. On the afternoon of October 9, the Israeli army’s emergency services transported the bodies of 110 individuals..30 captives were taken to Gaza..The deaths of 25 Be’eri Kibbutz residents at the hands of Israeli military forces can be attributed to two primary factors….”. It seems that attackers and victims may have suffered similar numbers of casualties, at least in Be’eri, so was it a mutual massacre?.

Photos of the immense destruction in Be’eri kibbutz, hardly done by guerillas on motorbikes?

  • Weaponizing Antisemitism in defense of Israel By Donna Level – Israeli men and women MUST serve in the Israeli Occupation Army for three years, and 50 days per year in reserve. That is how Israel was able to convert 360,000 of its civilians into soldiers overnight; that is exactly how Israel has been implementing its apartheid system (Jim Crow Laws like system) for over seven decades.
  • Actually, it was Bibi Netanyahu who emphasized such a fact to the Discovery Channel in the mid-1990s, he boastfully stated: “Israel is made up of a nation of soldiers with little civilians”. On the other hand, there is no such thing in Palestinian society; there was never any military service whatsoever, and the armed resistance is made up of a few thousand who are mostly volunteers (most of whom are part-time).
  • In a nutshell, the Western media has been abusing the word civilians and that is a complete farce in the case of the so-called “Jewish state“. Just in case you think you are being gaslighted, here is a recent video of an Israeli civilian couple (in their 40s) called up for mandatory military service.
  • Well, if the Israeli gaslight has a market, then based on the same logic the Qassam Brigade is made up of mostly civilians who are called up for service during wartime!
  • UN map (updated Aug. 1950) showing Palestinians still own 94% of the lands. Palestinians resist those who replaced and dispossessed them. It should be noted that it wasn’t Palestinians who took turns persecuting Europe’s Jews; it was Europeans. Zionism is a colonial Western ideology that was created as a response to the rise of European nationalism and antisemitism, and it is unfair to make Palestinians pay the price for what happened to Europe’s Jews during WWII.

(note.. Gaza only 4% Jewish)

Looting Palestinian properties – Palestine Remembered..Hundreds of pictures showing Zionists Jews looting Palestinian looting homes, farms, banks, factories, schools,

  • When Israel kidnaps Palestinians by the tens of thousands; the “liberal” Western press often portrays that as prisoners. On the other hand, when Palestinians do the same thing; they are called kidnapping. Sadly, that has been the only way for Palestinians to release their kidnapped loved ones in Israeli jails.
  • Zionists of all shades concocted ridiculous big lies: Palestinian resistance beheaded Israeli babies, carried chemical weapons and copies of Mein Kampf with them, used hospitals as command and control centers, and rapped elderly Israeli women (lies amplified by NPR as late as Oct. 17th & the NYTimes on Nov. 16th); those are complete lies; full stop.
  • Sadly, even President Biden, his White House’s press Secretary (hear her at the NYTimes), and his Secretary of State Mr. Blinken all swallowed, regurgitated, and amplified Zionists’ big lies as Bibi Netanyahu once did when he used deep fake videos and pictures to fool former President Trump. 
  • In this regard, we are forced to ask:

    – Do you believe President Biden is any smarter than his predecessors? Do you think he or Mr. Blinken will put America First and heed hundreds of U.S. government employees who openly and privately have advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza?
    – Wasn’t it Mr. Biden who assured us that bombing Gaza Ahli hospitals wasn’t done by Israel but by the Islamic Jihad? Wasn’t it Pres. Biden who assured Americans that Hamas built its command and control centers underneath Shifa hospital when all know this has been a normal Israeli practice?
  • Mr. Biden continues to lie although it is well documented that Israel asked 22 Gaza hospitals to evacuate, and most importantly the same hospital came under Israeli artillery bombardment three times just before the massacre. If you are interested in the boring details, here is an Aljazeera article that refutes the American and Israeli web of lies.

  • – Wasn’t massacring Palestinians the exact tool used to force them into leaving their homes and land during the War of Nakba? Don’t take our word for it; watch Israelis confirming the massacre‘s details at Tantura.


– Did Zionist leaders ever admit any of the massacres they’ve perpetrated against Palestinians? See for yourself how Albert Einstein responded (a day after the Deir Yassin massacre) by predicting that those Zionists (many of whom

became Israel’s top generals & PMs) would bring a Nakba upon Jews!
Newly arrived persecuted European Jewish refugees strolling in Jaffa, 1949

When US media amplified the Biden administration’s doesn’t that resemble G.W. Bush’s infamous staged press conference in selling us a war on Iraq in 2003? Start watching from 1:00 to 2:00, this video is considered a taboo that you will never find on YouTube or any US media outlet.


– Why it is being discounted that a large number of the “Israeli civilians” who were killed, they actually died when Israeli soldiers were battling Palestinian fighters inside “Israel proper”? That fact is being widely debated in Israel as we speak.

On the other hand, that is a taboo to discuss in the Western media! Here is also a more recent article from The Guardian about an Israel tank commander who was killed in Gaza; and this Ha’aretz about the mass killings of the partygoers! If we discover later that the Hannibal Doctrine was implemented would you be surprised?

We Were Ethnically Cleansed Out Of Our Village On June 7th 1967. Picture Taken By Joseph Onan, An Israeli Soldier Living Nearby ‘Imwas. #1 – ‘Imwas – al-Ramla – عمواس (עמואס) – Palestine Remembered

June 17, 1967. Note the Israeli officer to the left directing Palestinians out of their village ‘Imwas – As we speak, Israeli leaders are ordering 1.1 million Palestinians in North Gaza to leave their homes else they will be targeted as if they are enemy combatants (as they did during Nakba to a lesser number although Nakba is still being denied), but now they do it in the open to a much larger number because Israeli leaders care about saving Palestinian lives as they did 76 years ago.

Do you believe this gaslight? Maybe we are wrong, didn’t Zionists sign the Haavara Agreement with Hitler for 9 years straight to “save” Jews’ lives too? Look how that turned out to be; what a great success!
– Please watch how the big Zionist Wolf Blitzer was lost for words while interviewing the Israeli Army’s spokesman about the flattening of over thirty residential apartment buildings in the Jabalya refugee camp (which ended up murdering hundreds).

All this was done to get a single Hamas commander whom they weren’t even sure was killed, even after targeting the same area twice (which murdered many during the rescue operation).

Why it is being discounted that such massacres were purposely to induce Palestinians to flee their homes as it was done during Nakba? God forbid, the most ethical army wouldn’t do such a thing, and those murdered civilians are collateral damage! God forbid, Israeli democracy wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen!

See for yourself how Israelis are concerned about Palestinian civilians in this latest poll! 


Which hate speech is more antisemitic: Hitler’s hate speech at the Reichstag on Jan 30th, 1939, or Ben-Gurion’s hate speech a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom in December 1938? You be the judge! – How does spreading big lies in defense of Israel not foment “antisemitism”?
– Is that being done based on design? or based on ignorance?

– Can you honestly name one European antisemite whom Zionist Jews (from all shades of color) didn’t work with hand over fist? Here’s the shortlist: Russian Tsars and their antisemitic ministers, Symon Petliura, Arthur Balfour, Winston Churchill, Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann, South Africa’s apartheid regime, Argentina’s military junta, ..etc?

Let us hope Zionists won’t continue to drag the US to fight their wars again & again.

Ten Stages of Genocide

Often the “liberal” Western press repeats Zionists’ racist tropes by portraying Israeli rampages & pogroms in Palestinian towns and refugee camps as “cutting the grace or mowing the lawn” (the last of which was at the NY Times–starting from 7:20, and at the Jewish “liberal” Ezra Klein show) and Israel has the right to defend its citizens.

Israeli soldiers enjoying torturing a Palestinian; compare the look on the victim’s face with the one on the soldiers’ faces! Did Nazis enjoy it like this during WWII!

And when Palestinian civilians die in the tens of thousands and their homes and public facilities are destroyed; well that is collateral damage since the “grass” was tall, and the “terrorists” were using civilians as human shields.

And when there is too much grass how do we get rid of them? There is one solution left: chemicals of course (i.e. Zioclon B).

Fine then, if the “liberal” West is comfortable peddling Israeli racist tropes freely on its media and inciting violence against the indigenous people, then they should expect Palestinians to use the same terms: Palestinians went to cut the grass (i.e. the colonizers) on the land they’ve owned for tens of generations and they have all the rights to defend themselves too.

Palestinians are very sorry for the loss of civilian lives; well that is “collateral” damage; they lived close to Israeli military bases in military zones; and as you know the “grass” was thick and tall. Of course, assuming you believe Palestinians are humans and they actually do exist.

To put things into perspective, let us go back just a few years after Nakba, and read what Israel’s most decorated general Moshe Dayan stated in an oration at the funeral of an Israeli farmer killed by a Palestinian Arab in

April 1956 almost in the same location where the current raid took place: “. . . Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.We should demand his blood not from the [Palestinian] Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. ...

Faluja-Gaza, 1949, Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians on their way to Hebron

. . Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house. . . . Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.” (Iron Wall, p. 101 and at NYTimes by Roger Cohen)

Isn’t tragic how Palestinians received empathy from Zionist leaders far better than they’ve received in the so-called “liberal” press? As if propagating lies doesn’t foment “antisemitism” which they claim to care about? Is that their goal?

Fake Valor: Why Did Zionist Jews Hoist Nazis Flag on Their Ships in the 1930s?

In a nutshell, it is unfair and immoral to ask the persecuted, the enslaved, the replaced, the colonized, and the dispossessed to be human, logical, civil, and fair.

Those things should be demanded from the powerful. The way we see it this raid was a slave revolt. Therefore, if Israeli Jews wish not to be killed or kidnapped; then maybe should start treating Palestinians as humans; Palestinians surely will reciprocate.

But until then, Palestinians have every right to resist those who dispossessed and replaced them. Palestinians will not wait for the West to permit them to resist those who oppressed them for decades.

It was Western-born antisemitism (not Arabs’ antisemitism) that created this apartheid state; we suggest implementing Haavara Agreement V3 (similar to the one signed between Hitler and Ben-Gurion) but in reverse to end this injustice once and for all.

Zionist Jews gave it a “good” try of building a Spartan Fortress and it is buckling under its weight although the “liberal” West showered it with cash and weapons; the recent raid from Gaza proved how fragile Israel is.

Persecuted European Jewish refugees occupied the ethnically cleansed village of Yazur, in 1949

Ask yourself: If Israelis couldn’t secure 35 to 40 miles of borders with Gaza and now they seek external help just to survive; how the hell are they going to continue to occupy the West Bank where there are over 150 isolated exclusive Jewish colonies eyeing them millions of Palestinians?

This is a logistical and security nightmare for the best-organized army. To put it simply, Zionist Jews in mass decided to eat the cake and look at the same time; of course, the “liberal” West went along. On the other hand, Zionists’ big lies eventually caught up with them, and a rude awakening (coming from mediocre groups) slapped them in the face and shocked them to the core.

What if future raids would target the West Bank’s exclusive Jewish colonies, or Israel’s major healthcare hubs (i.e. Hadassah, Abu Kabir, or Rambam) as they currently do to Gaza’s health facilities,  or God forbid Israel’s Nuclear Weapons facilities? That is it; checkmate and the game is over! In a nutshell: what Israelis thought were their “swords” easily could be weaponized against them when asymmetrical warfare would be adopted!

General view of al-Maliha taken after Nakba, and in the foreground, Israelis looting Palestinian properties

Here’s the unvarnished truth: This latest raid exposed how fragile the whole Zionist enterprise is; it has so many single points of failure that could end it overnight, and we haven’t spoken about how many Israeli Jews can’t wait to leave even during peacetime; what about during wartime?

For decades to come, Israel just lost its deterrence power, and who knows if it will recover it, but what is certain is that this Spartan militant and fascistic way of life can’t persist forever.

From the get-go, Zionist Jews A) opted to deny reality aided with massive doses of delusional big lies hoping that could isolate them from reality; and B) decided to live by the sword as a modern-day Sparta; therefore it is safe to assume they shall die with their swords too.

Zionist FAQ: Isn’t it true that Palestine was empty and inhabited by nomadic people?

What is new?

We’re breathing TOXIC AIR: more than 500,000 people KILLED in EU in 2021, data shows

from thefreeonline on 25th Nov 2023 by Ajit Niranjan at The Guardian

European Environment Agency says half of deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to recommended limits

Dirty air killed more than half a million people in the EU in 2021, estimates show, and about half of the deaths could have been avoided by cutting pollution to the limits recommended by doctors.

“The figures released today by the EEA remind us that air pollution is still the number one environmental health problem in the EU,” said Virginijus Sinkevičius, the EU’s environment commissioner.

What Is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD?

Doctors say air pollution is one of the biggest killers in the world but death tolls will drop quickly if countries clean up their economies. Between 2005 and 2021, the number of deaths from PM2.5 in the EU fell 41%, and the EU aims to reach 55% by the end of the decade.

The WHO, which tightened its air quality guidelines in 2021, warns that no level of air pollution can be considered safe but has set upper limits for certain pollutants. The European parliament voted in September to align the EU’s air quality rules with the WHO’s but decided to delay doing so until 2035.

“The good news is that clean air policy works, and our air quality is improving,” said Sinkevičius. “But we need to do better still, and bring pollution levels down further.”

For the first time, the EEA estimated the full burden of disease from air pollution. As well as looking at the raw death tolls, the researchers worked out how many more years the population was living with diseases brought on by bad air.

For some health problems, such as lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease, the extra step changed little. But for others, such as asthma, it revealed high levels of suffering that had been overlooked in mortality statistics.

“When people get lung cancer, normally they die very quickly,” said Alberto González Ortiz, an EEA air pollution researcher. “For other diseases – especially asthma but also diabetes or also chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – there is also an important contribution of this state of living with disability.”

For chronic obstructive pulmonary disease brought on by PM2.5 pollution in 2021, the EEA estimated about 150,000 years of life have been lost across the EU and about the same number of years of disability.

“People can live for a long period in a bad condition,” said González Ortiz. “Considering only mortality, we were underestimating the impact of air pollution.”

Burning fossil fuels, driving cars and farming livestock release large volumes of toxic gas and harmful particles that people then breathe. The smallest of these particles, known as PM2.5, can pass into the bloodstream, where they spread through the body and damage organs from the brains down to reproductive organs.

An investigation by the Guardian this year found 98% of people in Europe were breathing air clogged with so many pollutants it breached WHO guidelines. The burden of disease, as shown in the EEA results, also falls mostly in eastern and south-eastern Europe.

Leena Ylä-Mononen, the executive director of the EEA, said: “The positive news is that authorities at European, national and local levels are taking action to reduce emissions through measures like promoting public transport or cycling in city centres, and through updated legislation.”

Gaza: Censored Essay exposes ongoing Western Colonial Genocide Mentality – Read it HERE

from thefreeonline on 26th Nov 2023 by Rabea Eghbariah The Nation

Here’s the genocide piece Harvard Law Review refused to publish

On Saturday, the board of the Harvard Law Review voted not to publish “The Ongoing Nakba: Towards a Legal Framework for Palestine,” a piece by Rabea Eghbariah, a human rights attorney completing his doctoral studies at Harvard Law School. Today, The Nation is sharing the essay they refused to run.

“Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling.

Clearly, it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.

Some may claim that the invocation of genocide, especially in Gaza, is fraught. But does one have to wait for a genocide to be successfully completed to name it? This logic contributes to the politics of denial.

When it comes to Gaza, there is a sense of moral hypocrisy that undergirds Western epistemological approaches, one which mutes the ability to name the violence inflicted upon Palestinians. But naming injustice is crucial to claiming justice. If the international community takes its crimes seriously, then the discussion about the unfolding genocide in Gaza is not a matter of mere semantics.

The UN Genocide Convention defines the crime of genocide as certain acts “committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” These acts include “killing members of a protected group” or “causing serious bodily or mental harm” or “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

Numerous statements made by top Israeli politicians affirm their intentions. There is a forming consensus among leading scholars in the field of genocide studies that “these statements could easily be construed as indicating a genocidal intent,” as Omer Bartov, an authority in the field, writes.

“We are in a religious war here. I’m with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place,” Lindsey Graham told Fox News.

More importantly, genocide is the material reality of Palestinians in Gaza: an entrapped, displaced, starved, water-deprived population of 2.3 million facing massive bombardments and a carnage in one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Over 14,000 people have already been killed. That is one person out of every 200 people in Gaza. Tens of thousands are injured, and over 45% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed.

The United Nations Secretary General said that Gaza is becoming a “graveyard for children,” but a cessation of the carnage—a ceasefire—remains elusive.

Israel continues to blatantly violate international law: dropping white phosphorus from the sky, dispersing death in all directions, shedding blood, shelling neighborhoods, striking schools, hospitals, and universities, bombing churches and mosques, wiping out families, and ethnically cleansing an entire region in both callous and systemic manner. What do you call this?

The Center for Constitutional Rights issued a thorough, 44-page, factual and legal analysis, asserting that “there is a plausible and credible case that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.” Raz Segal, a historian of the Holocaust and genocide studies, calls the situation in Gaza “a textbook case of Genocide unfolding in front of our eyes.”

The Intercept revealed on 21 November that Facebook has allowed incendiary advertisements that promote violence against Palestinians to appear on its platform; more specifically, several ads calling for a “Holocaust for the Palestinians.”

The inaugural chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, notes that “Just the blockade of Gaza—just that—could be genocide under Article 2(c) of the Genocide Convention, meaning they are creating conditions to destroy a group.”

A group of over 800 academics and practitioners, including leading scholars in the fields of international law and genocide studies, warn of “a serious risk of genocide being committed in the Gaza Strip.” A group of seven UN Special Rapporteurs has alerted to the “risk of genocide against the Palestinian people” and reiterated that they “remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.”

Thirty-six UN experts now call the situation in Gaza “a genocide in the making.” How many other authorities should I cite? How many hyperlinks are enough?

And yet, leading law schools and legal scholars in the United States still fashion their silence as impartiality and their denial as nuance. Is genocide really the crime of all crimes if it is committed by Western allies against non-Western people?

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Lockheed Factory UNDER SIEGE

from thefreeonline on 24th Nov 2023 by Freedom News

Palestine Action has this morning taken down the Bedford premises of the world’s largest weapons company, Lockheed Martin, with a double blockade which has seen both factory entrances locked off, with activists secured to vehicles to prevent removal.

The two groups of activists have since been joined by a demonstration, with Bedford residents mobilising to maintain the Lockheed blockade. The action, as with all by Palestine Action, has been taken in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have experienced almost seven straight weeks of unrelenting bombing – bombing reliant on Lockheed Martin fighter bombers.

As such, the action today has rendered the high-security premises in Ampthill inoperable, preventing its ability to manufacture weaponry for Israel. The site has been covered in red paint to symbolise the Palestinian bloodshed for which Lockheed’s operations are directly responsible.

This campaign of genocide against Palestinians has now claimed the lives of 15,000 people in Gaza, along with over 200 in the West Bank. Airstrikes have murdered the vast majority of Palestinians slaughtered in Gaza – airstrikes primarily committed by Lockheed Martin’s F-16 class of fighter jets, the ‘workhorse‘ of the current onslaught.

The cruelty of the Israeli occupation cannot be divorced from the weapons companies which enable its violence – Lockheed Martin not least of all.

Lockheed Martin provides the deadly ‘Hellfire‘ used in levelling Gaza, including the new Hellfire R9X, seeing their first battle deployments. The R9X’s effective targeting of the Al-Shifa hospital promises to be a lucrative advertisement for Lockheed.

Lockheed further boasts that Israel’s F-35 jets have the “fingerprints of British ingenuity” on “dozens of the aircraft’s key components”. 

By taking action to interrupt the flow of these aircraft and weapons to Israel, these activists’ intervention specifically aimed to preserve life and protect property in Gaza. Israel is not the only entity which is guilty of genocide – the arms companies which make this violence possible all have blood on their hands. Palestine Action will react when the government has failed to prevent such abhorrent activities from taking place in Britain.

Protesters demonstrate outside Lockheed Martin offices on Lockley Road in Esquimalt, Monday, demanding the U.S.-based defence contractor end military aid and weapon sales to Israel. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST

If we want no part in Israel’s murders, then we ought to shut Elbit, Lockheed, Rafael and all other complicit companies down for good. 

~ Palestine Action

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3 of up to 20 US captives may be released in Gaza today- Bombing finally STOPS?-

from thefreeonline on 24th Nov 2023 By Ben Bartee at Global Research Report updated today

‘Three of the over 20 Americans could be part of the first group of hostages released: two adults and a 3-year-old girl named Abigail, a senior Biden administration official said’.

Families of the 3 US hostages who may be released

However Israeli officials tried to exclude release of captives from other nationalities “Israel will not exchange Palestinian prisoners in exchange for non-Israeli hostages, a senior Israeli official who gave NBC News details on an agreement with Hamas..” NBC News: 2 of the US captives, Judith and Natalie Raanan, have already been released.

“Over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners are now being held in Israeli prisons. Most of them are imprisoned without or awaiting trial, or in “administrative detention”. In effect they too are ‘hostages’.

US media have been censoring the identities and even the exact number of the US citizens imprisoned. Israeli society is more open with a huge protest movement demanding freedom for the hostages and an end to Israeli carpet and bunker busting bombing of Gaza, which Hamas officials say has killed at least 50 of the captives, along with up to 14,000 Gazans + thousands still under the rubble”.

Relief’ in war-torn Gaza as truce takes effect in Israel-Hamas war

Aid begins to trickle in to Gaza as the first pause begins after seven weeks of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.… By Al Jazeera Staff….

Displaced Palestinians walk on a road as they return to their home, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip
Displaced Palestinians walk along a road in Khan Younis as they return to their homes [Ibraheem 24 Nov 2023.. Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

A Qatar-mediated four-day truce has taken effect in Israel’s war on Gaza. The first pause after seven weeks of bombardment has been met with relief by Palestinians.

“The landmark deal that will also involve a four-day pause in fighting, the delivery of hundreds of aid trucks, and the release of 150 Palestinian women and children* held in Israeli jails.”

*Note that when Israeli civilians are held in Gaza, they were “kidnapped” and are termed “hostages,” but when Israeli jails Palestinian women and children with no charges or judicial process of any kind, they do not receive the benefit of the same designation in Western corporate state media. That’s how subtle propaganda can get, and it’s easy to miss it if you’re not attuned to the pettiness with which these organizations play semantical games.

It appears Israel is not making any effort to get non-Israeli hostages released — only Israeli and some US citizens

Biden Will Not Escape History’s Judgement for Failure to Stop Gaza Assault. Ralph Nader

Israel’s strategic play here is obvious to anyone not blinded by its powerful propaganda network that extends, unfortunately, deep into American corporate state media.

In the immediate term, the continued captivity of all nationalities by Hamas serves Israel’s interests more than their release would. 

It serves as a valuable propaganda tool to gin up anger and provides an ongoing pretext to do whatever Israel likes in Gaza with impunity under the guise of pursuing the release of hostages. 

One of 1000’s of children killed by US backed Israeli revenge bombing

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Western brands hit hard by boycott campaign against Israeli goods

from thefreeonline 24th Nov 2023 by Aletho News

Workers at an empty Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant, November 20, 2023. (Photo by Reuters) Press TV – November 23, 2023

A boycott campaign against Israeli products over the occupying regime’s war on the Gaza Strip has severely affected Western fast-food giants in several Arab countries, with the move having the potential to spread to other countries across the globe.

Freedom and justice For Gaza: Boycott action against 7 complicit …

Weeks after Israel waged a brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, a boycott campaign against Israeli goods started to gain momentum in Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, significantly hitting Western fast-food giants like McDonald’s, Starbucks, and KFC.

The impacted companies are either perceived to have taken pro-Israeli stances in the war or are alleged to have financial ties to Israel or investments there.

According to the Gaza-based health ministry, at least 14,532 Palestinians, including 6,000 children and 3,920 women, have been killed and more than 35,000 others injured by Israeli strikes since October 7, when the Israeli regime launched a full-scale war on the densely-populated enclave.

“I feel that even if I know this will not have a massive impact on the war, then this is the least we can do as citizens of different nations so we don’t feel like our hands are covered in blood,” said 31-year-old Cairo resident Reham Hamed, who is boycotting US fast food chains and some cleaning products.

As the global pressure is mounting on Tel Aviv over its atrocities in the Palestinian sliver, there are signs that the boycott campaign is also spreading in some other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Morocco.

BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) – Israel Team

The boycott calls of the protest campaign have already circulated on social media and expanded to include dozens of companies and products, urging shoppers to shift to local alternatives.

In Jordan, citizens who support the protest campaign sometimes enter McDonald’s and Starbucks branches in the country to encourage a few customers to take their business elsewhere.

“No one is buying these products,” said Ahmad Al-Zaro, a cashier at a large supermarket in the capital Amman where customers were choosing local brands instead.

The current boycott campaign could be considered the latest part of the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime.

The BDS movement, which is modeled after the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, was initiated in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian organizations that were pushing for “various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law.”

Thousands of volunteers worldwide have since joined the BDS movement, which calls for people and groups across the world to cut economic, cultural, and academic ties to Tel Aviv to help promote the Palestinian cause.

In Gaza BDS gives us hope | BDS Movement

The movement has been so successful in causing economic damage to the Tel Aviv regime that pro-Israel groups have labeled it “an existential threat.”