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ACTIVIST: ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ATTACKS BLACK PEOPLE
In this clip, Nick Cruse (@socialistMMA), an activist with Revolutionary Blackout Network (@revblacknetwork on X), breaks down how the pro-Israel US-based group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and other Zi*nist organisations target Black people in the United States through smear campaigns. Judith Varnai-Shorer, the former diplomat to Israel’s consulate in Atlanta, said young Black people are a problem for Israel.
Pro-Israel supporters have raised the alarm about the growing support for the Palestinian liberation movement, particularly among Black people in the US, who increasingly understand the connection between African and Palestinian oppression, with Israeli military forces training US police in deadly tactics.
In this clip, Nick Cruse (@socialistMMA), an activist with Revolutionary Blackout Network (@revblacknetwork on X), breaks down how the pro-Israel US-based group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and other Zi*nist organisations target Black people in the United States through smear campaigns. Judith Varnai-Shorer, the former diplomat to Israel’s consulate in Atlanta, said young Black people are a problem for Israel.
Pro-Israel supporters have raised the alarm about the growing support for the Palestinian liberation movement, particularly among Black people in the US, who increasingly understand the connection between African and Palestinian oppression, with Israeli military forces training US police in deadly tactics.
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Continued….. Former ADL staffers told the press in January that the CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, has ‘redirected the ADL’s day-to-day work to target pro-Palestine activism rather than focusing on antisemitism in American life.’
Aside from the ADL, another group, the pro-Israel lobbying group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), announced it would spend $100 million to oust anti-Zi*nist US politicians in this year’s elections. At least two Black congresspeople, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, lost Democratic primaries to AIPAC-backed candidates.
Haaretz reported that Israel secretly targeted primarily Black US lawmakers through fake social media accounts and websites.
Recently, Mondoweiss reported on how US universities are collaborating with Zi*nists, the FBI and local police forces to clamp down on pro-Palestine student activism on campuses this autumn semester.
Video credit: @hotspothotspot (X)
Aside from the ADL, another group, the pro-Israel lobbying group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), announced it would spend $100 million to oust anti-Zi*nist US politicians in this year’s elections. At least two Black congresspeople, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, lost Democratic primaries to AIPAC-backed candidates.
Haaretz reported that Israel secretly targeted primarily Black US lawmakers through fake social media accounts and websites.
Recently, Mondoweiss reported on how US universities are collaborating with Zi*nists, the FBI and local police forces to clamp down on pro-Palestine student activism on campuses this autumn semester.
Video credit: @hotspothotspot (X)
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UGANDAN ATHLETE DIES AFTER GASOLINE ATTACK
There’s great sorrow and anger over the tragic death of Ugandan athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei, who was doused in petrol and set on fire.
Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, is accused of attacking the 33-year-old in her Kenyan home on Sunday. She died of organ failure a few days later at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
Rebecca recently competed in the Paris Olympics marathon and was described as ‘a source of inspiration, pride and joy’ by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
There’s great sorrow and anger over the tragic death of Ugandan athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei, who was doused in petrol and set on fire.
Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, is accused of attacking the 33-year-old in her Kenyan home on Sunday. She died of organ failure a few days later at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County.
Rebecca recently competed in the Paris Olympics marathon and was described as ‘a source of inspiration, pride and joy’ by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
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Continued….. However, her shocking death has again raised concerns over femicide in Kenya. Between 2016 and 2023 there have been over 500 cases, according to Africa Data Hub. It estimates 75 per cent of the killings are committed by a person who knew the murdered woman.
Kenyan Sports Minister, Kipchumba Murkomen, said Rebecca’s death, ‘is a stark reminder that we must do more to combat gender-based violence in our society, which in recent years has reared its ugly head in elite sporting circles.’
Rebecca is the third sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.
May she rest in eternal peace.
Kenyan Sports Minister, Kipchumba Murkomen, said Rebecca’s death, ‘is a stark reminder that we must do more to combat gender-based violence in our society, which in recent years has reared its ugly head in elite sporting circles.’
Rebecca is the third sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.
May she rest in eternal peace.
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TOP NIGERIAN JOURNO WANTED BY COPS
Investigative journalist David Hundeyin - who lifted the lid on Abuja’s plans to invade post-coup Niger last year - is now a wanted man in Nigeria.
The National Cybercrime Centre of the Nigeria Police Force has listed Hundeyin, along with crypto-trader Michael Temidayo Alade, as accomplices of Isaac Bristol, who is accused of being the prominent anonymous online whistleblower ‘PIDOM.’
Nigerians online are asking how authorities were able to track and apprehend PIDOM, who is now in custody, but cannot arrest bandits and kidnappers wreaking havoc in the country. Instead, they are going for journalists doing their job.
Hundeyin has been a marked man since July 2022, when he published an exposé of then-presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu's role in a Chicago drug ring in the 1980s and early 90s.
Hundeyin is now facing charges of money laundering, cybercrime and unlawfully obtaining, retaining and disseminating classified official secret documents.
Investigative journalist David Hundeyin - who lifted the lid on Abuja’s plans to invade post-coup Niger last year - is now a wanted man in Nigeria.
The National Cybercrime Centre of the Nigeria Police Force has listed Hundeyin, along with crypto-trader Michael Temidayo Alade, as accomplices of Isaac Bristol, who is accused of being the prominent anonymous online whistleblower ‘PIDOM.’
Nigerians online are asking how authorities were able to track and apprehend PIDOM, who is now in custody, but cannot arrest bandits and kidnappers wreaking havoc in the country. Instead, they are going for journalists doing their job.
Hundeyin has been a marked man since July 2022, when he published an exposé of then-presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu's role in a Chicago drug ring in the 1980s and early 90s.
Hundeyin is now facing charges of money laundering, cybercrime and unlawfully obtaining, retaining and disseminating classified official secret documents.
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RACISM IN ITALY: SISTER SHARES ORDEAL
Being Black in Italy can get you a lot of unwanted attention. In a series of TikTok posts, influencer @thehighlowfashionista recorded how uncomfortable she felt from the moment she arrived - with constant stares and rude gestures. In this particular selfie video filmed in a restaurant, she gets the middle finger from a man sitting in the corner behind her - and says he’d relocated himself there just to give her more abuse.
Of course, one shouldn’t generalise from one person’s bad experience. But her trip appears to have taken place late last year - the same time an Ipsos survey of Italian attitudes towards Africans was published (“Africa and Health: The Opinion of Italians”). This found that most Italians themselves believe that people of African origin frequently suffer from racism in their country.
Being Black in Italy can get you a lot of unwanted attention. In a series of TikTok posts, influencer @thehighlowfashionista recorded how uncomfortable she felt from the moment she arrived - with constant stares and rude gestures. In this particular selfie video filmed in a restaurant, she gets the middle finger from a man sitting in the corner behind her - and says he’d relocated himself there just to give her more abuse.
Of course, one shouldn’t generalise from one person’s bad experience. But her trip appears to have taken place late last year - the same time an Ipsos survey of Italian attitudes towards Africans was published (“Africa and Health: The Opinion of Italians”). This found that most Italians themselves believe that people of African origin frequently suffer from racism in their country.
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Continued…….. That’s certainly been on display in Italian football - where fans have treated African-origin players like Mario Balotelli, Victor Osimhen and Romelu Lukaku appallingly.
If you are black and have been to Italy, what’s been your experience like?
African Stream founder Ahmed Kaballo says people shouted racist abuse from cars when he visited the Italian city of Pompei in 2018. Let us know your experiences in the comments. Good and bad.
Video credit: @thehighlowfashionista
If you are black and have been to Italy, what’s been your experience like?
African Stream founder Ahmed Kaballo says people shouted racist abuse from cars when he visited the Italian city of Pompei in 2018. Let us know your experiences in the comments. Good and bad.
Video credit: @thehighlowfashionista
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HOW WESTERN MEDIA PICK THEIR STORIES
A humorous yet accurate short video shared by @nile.nights (Instagram) on how the mainstream Western media selectively chooses to report news.
While Russia’s war on Ukraine (rightly) receives extensive coverage, other places in the world suffering from devastating violence and catastrophic humanitarian crises - such as the Congo and Sudan - barely make the news.
This attitude of the mainstream media is also reflected in the policies of Western governments. On the one hand, great support was offered to Ukrainian victims at the onset of the war. They were received with open arms by European nations, while immigration policies towards Black and Brown refugees differ starkly. The British state offered between · £350- £500 per month to house a Ukrainian refugee.
A humorous yet accurate short video shared by @nile.nights (Instagram) on how the mainstream Western media selectively chooses to report news.
While Russia’s war on Ukraine (rightly) receives extensive coverage, other places in the world suffering from devastating violence and catastrophic humanitarian crises - such as the Congo and Sudan - barely make the news.
This attitude of the mainstream media is also reflected in the policies of Western governments. On the one hand, great support was offered to Ukrainian victims at the onset of the war. They were received with open arms by European nations, while immigration policies towards Black and Brown refugees differ starkly. The British state offered between · £350- £500 per month to house a Ukrainian refugee.
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Continued……However, no such policy was offered to Sudanese refugees despite Sudan being a former British colony and many of the problems the country is grappling with today can be traced back to British divide and rule polices in the country. Certain comments by certain reporters suggest why that might be. In 2022, CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata, while speaking on Ukraine, said that it “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.
This is a relatively civilised, relatively European - I have to choose those words carefully, too - city, one where you wouldn’t expect that.”
That same year the BBC interviewed a former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, who told the network: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.” Rather than challenge the outrageously racist comment, the BBC host replied, “I understand and respect the emotion.”
Conservative UK poiltician Daniel Hannan echoed those sentiments, writing in The Telegraph that Ukrainians “seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.”
This is a relatively civilised, relatively European - I have to choose those words carefully, too - city, one where you wouldn’t expect that.”
That same year the BBC interviewed a former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, who told the network: “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.” Rather than challenge the outrageously racist comment, the BBC host replied, “I understand and respect the emotion.”
Conservative UK poiltician Daniel Hannan echoed those sentiments, writing in The Telegraph that Ukrainians “seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.”
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U.S. SPOKESPERSON DODGES QUESTION ON ISRAEL’S MAP
During a press briefing on 3 September, US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller dodged a reporter’s question about the erasure of the Occupied West Bank on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s map during his televised presentation on 2 September, when he showed a plan for the future of Gaza. Miller instead said the US supports a two-state solution to the 76-year Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Palestinians and their allies view Netanyahu’s presentation as Israel’s declaration that it has annexed the West Bank. The fact the US is mute on this point is being taken as a form of tacit approval.
Israel is the United States’ biggest foreign-aid recipient. US support for Tel Aviv’s destruction of Gaza isn’t a secret, either, as the US has deployed arms, military intelligence and troops in Gaza.
During a press briefing on 3 September, US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller dodged a reporter’s question about the erasure of the Occupied West Bank on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s map during his televised presentation on 2 September, when he showed a plan for the future of Gaza. Miller instead said the US supports a two-state solution to the 76-year Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Palestinians and their allies view Netanyahu’s presentation as Israel’s declaration that it has annexed the West Bank. The fact the US is mute on this point is being taken as a form of tacit approval.
Israel is the United States’ biggest foreign-aid recipient. US support for Tel Aviv’s destruction of Gaza isn’t a secret, either, as the US has deployed arms, military intelligence and troops in Gaza.
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Continued……So, it’s no surprise Miller dodged questions that, if answered, could implicate Israel as well as the US in the destruction of Gaza and casualties ranging from more than 40,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, to as much as 186,000 as of early July, according to a Lancet medical-journal report.
In July, the International Court of Justice ruled the Israeli occupation unlawful, ordered the evacuation of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, called for reparations to Palestinians, and said states are not obligated to not recognise the occupation.
Video: @statedept
In July, the International Court of Justice ruled the Israeli occupation unlawful, ordered the evacuation of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, called for reparations to Palestinians, and said states are not obligated to not recognise the occupation.
Video: @statedept
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The 32nd U.S President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, famously said: ‘Judge me by the enemies I have made.’
We are not fans of Roosevelt, or any U.S president for that matter, but it is a good quote and one we couldn’t agree with more.
We are not fans of Roosevelt, or any U.S president for that matter, but it is a good quote and one we couldn’t agree with more.
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Continued….. So, when U.S-state funded Voice of America (VOA) wrote a smear piece attacking African Stream noscriptd: “African Stream distorts U.S. military’s mission in Somalia” we took it as a great compliment that our work is touching the right buttons and getting the attention of media outlets who receive funding from the world’s greatest super power. Voice of America might as well be called Voice of the U.S government as it is funded by Global Media (USAGM), which gets its funding directly from the US Congress. It was also founded directly by former US President, Gerald Ford.
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