PALESTINIAN WORSHIPPERS ASSAULTED ON RAMADAN

This video’s gone viral showing Israeli police using batons on Palestinians trying to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque for Ramadan prayers. Worshippers were forced to pray in alleys after being denied access to the holy site in East Jerusalem.

It’s feared Israeli authorities and far-right settlers may step up their targeting of Palestinians during the holy month.

Tel Aviv’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has so far killed 31,000 with no ceasefire in sight.

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PALESTINIAN SCHOOLS ZIONIST ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Check out this recent clip from British journalist Piers Morgan’s talk show. Palestinian activist and political leader Mustafa Barghouti compared 6-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab being trapped and killed inside a car amidst Israel’s military attack on the Gaza Strip with Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. This countered US lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who blamed militant group H*m*s for more than 30,000 Palestinians—including 25,000 women and children—being killed since the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Palestine-Israel conflict. Meanwhile, the International Court of Justice’s provisional ruling in January stated Israel is plausibly in violation of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention.

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UN FORCES IN DRC WATCHING AS M23 GO BY?

A video allegedly showing M23 soldiers walk in a file past a MONUSCO (UN) troop base in Rwindi, eastern DRC, has sparked anger online. MONUSCO has branded the clip ‘fake news.’

In November last year, MONUSCO and DR Congo’s military started Operation Springbok, aimed at securing the provincial capital Goma and stemming the killing of civilians.

The carnage has not stopped, and hundreds of thousands have been freshly displaced since the third quarter of 2023.

Seven-million people have been displaced - and six-million killed - in DRC since 1994, in what has been described as Africa’s World War.

MONUSCO, with a billion-dollar annual budget, a decades-long presence and tens of thousands of armed personnel, has proved incapable of halting the violence. President Félix Tshisekedi cited this when he demanded the UN mission’s exit from the country. MONUSCO began withdrawing personnel in late February.

What do you make of this video?

WOMEN DEMAND PEACE IN GAZA AND CONGO

Women are bearing the brunt of war in Gaza and Congo. And thousands marched in Africa on Women’s Day to raise awareness.

In Morocco and Tunisia protesters remembered the victims of Israel’s onslaught. In DRC, women in the city of Bukavu drew attention to increasing sexual violence in country’s east where fighting between the army and rebel groups has intensified.

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NO XENOPHOBIC VOTES

South Africa has, for a long time, been grappling with harassment of, and violence against, foreigners and immigrants, especially those from the African continent. This includes refugees and those seeking asylum in the country, both documented and undocumented, despite protection by South Africa’s constitution of all these people.

The resentment arises in part from the scapegoating of foreigners over economic hardships, lack of equitable social amenities, unemployment, crime and drug abuse.

Continued….Many blame their lack of economic opportunities on migrants ‘stealing’ their jobs by working for a lower wage (many of the migrants come from poorer counties).

With elections to be held in May, xenophobic South Africans are being wooed by political parties that endorse the deportation en masse of immigrants. In this clip, Julius Malema - the leader of the hard-left EFF party - strongly denounces this stance and makes clear why he won’t be trying to win over the ‘xenophobic vote.’

Would you vote for him?

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AKALA PT.2: UK’S KNIFE CRIME NOT A BLACK ISSUE

People in the West love to blame crime in their country on people of colour - the UK included.

In this clip, watch rapper and activist Akala neatly deconstruct British TV host Piers Morgan’s argument that knife crime is a ‘Black problem.’

Statistics don’t lie, and figures indicate regions with higher knife crime than London, predominantly committed by White people. Yet, the race angle is only brought up to vilify Blacks.

Where race does play an issue in violence among Black men, Akala points to internalised self-hate and socio-economic factors.

As The Guardian writes, “Black-on-Black violence is a myth created by a section of the law-and-order lobby to facilitate an acceptance by the Black community of intrusive policing techniques. The causes of Black-on-Black knife crime are the same as those of White-on-White knife crime - but we do not speak of White-on-White violence.”

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MALCOLM X: ‘ONLY HOPE FOR BLACK MAN IS STRONG AFRICA’

The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization that human rights defender Malcolm X founded in 1964. The OAAU was modelled on the Organization of African Unity, an intergovernmental body on the continent that was the African Union’s predecessor. The former had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April-May 1964.

The OAAU aimed to fight for the human rights of Africans in the Americas and promote cooperation between Africans on the continent and people of African descent in the Americas.

In this clip, Malcolm X explains how the struggle of all people of African descent is inextricably linked.

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Continued…..The Grayzone, as well as @mondoweiss and @electronicintifada, recently interviewed an Israeli victim’s relatives, who said they had no evidence their relative was r*ped before she was killed during the 7 October attack. Yet, a 28 December New York Times article on H*m*s allegedly weaponising sexual violence used their relative as an example. The family said the Times’ reporters pressured them to speak. Despite this new information, the Times has stood by its report and its team of journalists, one of whom has turned out to be a former Israeli military intelligence officer with no journalism experience.

Israel’s operations have killed more than 31,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The International Court of Justice stated in its 26 January provisional ruling that Israel’s actions have been ‘plausibly’ genocidal.

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5 MYTHS OF RAMADAN

Ramadan is in full swing, but so are several myths about the holy month. It’s definitively not some dystopian hunger game! Approximately 41% of all Africans are Muslim, which equates to around 498 million Muslims in Africa; with the vast majority of those fasting this month, we thought it was best to break down what Ramadan is - or rather isn’t - about.

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IBRAHIM TRAORÉ’S MESSAGE TO BURKINABÉ WOMEN

Early in the morning on International Working Women’s Day, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré took to the streets of the capital of Ouagadougou to greet women of the Green Brigade who clean the city.

His message was clear: Women are the backbone. As thousands of people are internally displaced and/or killed, and as men go off to war against militant groups in the Sahelian state’s border regions, Traoré acknowledged women must feel the impact.

Continued….International Working Women’s Day became a commemoration and struggle during the 1983-87 revolution led by Captain Thomas Sankara. On this day, Sankara famously sent men to the markets to run errands for women, return to cook and perform other household tasks. They used the day as a launching pad for the widespread social change necessary to better integrate women into the revolutionary struggle and combat the double exploitation in their daily lives.

Now, every year, public and sometimes private workplaces are closed to celebrate women.

If International Working Women’s Day is a public holiday in your country, how is it honoured? And, if it is not, how do the masses commemorate the day? Let us know in the comments.

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As if cheering the brutal onslaught of Gaza is not bad enough, a French newspaper owned by Israeli billionaire, Patrick Drahi, has sunk to new depths of depravity. The Liberation published a cartoon mocking Palestinians who don’t have food to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan. It shows a woman shouting ‘not before sunset’ at a man chasing rats in a street surrounded by destroyed buildings.

Israel has blockaded the Gaza Strip since October last year, preventing the delivery of supplies and pushing its population to the brink of starvation. In the last few days 20 Palestinian children have died from a lack of food, according to the UN.

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RABBI ON GAZA WAR: ‘DO NOT SPARE ANY SOUL!’

Kill them all. That, basically, is the message from a Jaffa rabbi to his students - referring to Palestinians and the war in Gaza.

As captured in this clip, Eliyahu Mali reminds his audience of what he takes to be the principal rule of holy war, according to the Torah: exterminate your enemy completely.

He says Palestinian women must be killed, as they will breed only terrorists - as, therefore, must all Palestinian children.

When one of the students interrupts his genocidal diatribe with a question about the elderly, Mali insists they too should die - as they can use guns.

Unfortunately, judging by the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza, such extremist views are no mere fringe phenomenon - it seems they inform Israeli policy-making. Over 31,000 Gazans have been killed, 70,000 injured and 2-million displaced. Some 70% of the dead are women and children.

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DAVID VS GOLIATH

Countries around the world are in awe of Pretoria’s bold stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And South Africa’s foreign minister says her nation should be proud of standing up for justice.

In this recent speech, Naledi Pandor sees it as a David and Goliath battle. Her country has taken Tel Aviv to the UN’s top court, the ICJ, while other more powerful nations have remained silent. She says many didn’t expect it from a ‘small economy’ that ‘really should not have the cheek to stand up to anyone.’

Her speeches are going viral. She speaks from the heart and has the courage of her convictions. Little wonder the whole world now ‘wants to know South Africans’, as she explains in this clip.

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HAITIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS

Haiti’s unelected Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, announced late Monday that he would resign pending the appointment of a transitional council and a replacement via elections.

Henry flew in late February to Kenya to try to settle on an international security mission to address Haiti’s armed paramilitary groups. However, that was marred as mass protests and so-called ‘gang’ violence escalated in the capital. His return flight last week was diverted, leaving him in the US colony of Puerto Rico.

Over the weekend, officials from Western states like the United States, Canada and France and regional organisation Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) convened to devise a plan for ‘restoring stability’ to the predominantly African state.

CARICOM did not specify a timeline for appointing the transitional council or holding elections, saying security must first be established.

What do you think of these developments? Let us know in the comments.

FRANCE MAY REVOKE KÉMI SÉBA’S CITIZENSHIP

Pan-African activist Kémi Séba could be stripped of his French citizenship. Although he was born in France, his anti-imperialist activities in Africa and the Caribbean have caught the attention of certain French officials, who deem them so unpatriotic - or so much of a threat - that the French Interior Ministry has initiated proceedings to revoke his French nationality. This is legally possible, apparently, because he has a second, Beninese citizenship.

What do you think of France’s treatment of Séba? Why’s it scared of him?

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LOWKEY: WHY GALLOWAY WIN BOOSTS GLOBAL SOUTH

Most politicians in the UK have no idea about their country’s brutal foreign policy, particularly towards Africa. That’s why the victory of George Galloway in a recent by-election is important.

Listen to rapper and activist Lowkey explain why his win could have ramifications that extend to the Global South. The newly-elected MP might be just one man, representing one region of the UK, but there’s a good reason the mainstream doesn’t like him. You can see the full interview on our YouTube channel.

A wealthy white British Conservative Party donor's name has been plastered across headlines for making racially charged remarks about a Black British MP.

Frank Hester, 58, CEO of software firm The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), reportedly said during a 2019 company meeting, 'It’s, like, trying not to be racist, but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re, like … you just want to hate all Black women because she’s there. And, I don’t hate all Black women at all, but I think she should be shot.'

Abbott, 70, is the first Black woman elected to parliament in the UK and the longest-serving black MP. She sits in the House of Commons as an independent, although she is a Labour Party member. She is also the most abused member of parliament who is subject to racist online abuse every single day. In the last general election, Diane Abbott received almost half of all the abusive tweets sent to female MPs, according to research by Amnesty International has revealed.