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RAPAPORT MOCKS LEBANESE VICTIMS OF ISRAELI TERRORISM
Many have denounced once-relevant, pro-Israel US actor and comedian Michael Rapaport for mocking an unprecedented attack involving exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
The explosions over 17-18 September in Lebanon k*lled 37 people (including two children) and injured 3,250 (with 200 critically injured).
While Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for the attacks, unnamed Israeli officials told the Washington Post that the explosions 'marked the culmination of a multi-year investment in penetrating Hezbollah's communications, logistics and procurement structures.'
Western security sources allegedly told Reuters that Israel's secretive military intelligence Unit 8200 was involved.
Video credit: @MichaelRapaport (X)
Many have denounced once-relevant, pro-Israel US actor and comedian Michael Rapaport for mocking an unprecedented attack involving exploding pagers and walkie-talkies.
The explosions over 17-18 September in Lebanon k*lled 37 people (including two children) and injured 3,250 (with 200 critically injured).
While Israel has not officially claimed responsibility for the attacks, unnamed Israeli officials told the Washington Post that the explosions 'marked the culmination of a multi-year investment in penetrating Hezbollah's communications, logistics and procurement structures.'
Western security sources allegedly told Reuters that Israel's secretive military intelligence Unit 8200 was involved.
Video credit: @MichaelRapaport (X)
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Continued... During an 18 September visit to the Ramat David Air Force base in northern Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seemed to hint at Israel's involvement, saying, 'We are at the beginning of a new era in this war, and we need to adapt ourselves.'
According to the BBC, an unnamed British Army munitions expert said the pagers and walkie-talkies could have contained fake electronic components holding between 10 grams and 20 grams of military-grade high explosives.
UN human rights experts have condemned the attack in Lebanon, describing it as a 'terrifying violation of international law.'
Legal scholar Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, pointed out that the use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be known is 'unlawfully indiscriminate' and a 'booby trap.'
Israel is a signatory to Article 7(2) of the Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, added to an international law on the use of conventional weapons in 1996.
The pager attack has sparked fears of a wider regional war in West Asia. Israel's bombed southern Lebanon on 20 September, k*lling at least seven women and three children, as well as two senior Hezbollah officials. In response, Hezbollah retaliated the next day by launching missiles into northern Israel.
Sources
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Right to r*pe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape
Blockade of aid trucks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-right-wing-settler-attacks-gaza-aid-whos-behind-them-whos-suffering/
Bombing aid trucks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-al-rashid-israel-idf-hamas-rcna141497
Israeli involvement in pager attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html
Frustration with situation in north
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israelis-in-north-worried-but-used-to-hezbollah-threat
Hezbollah raison d'etre
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/26/five-questions-answered-why-were-israel-hezbollah-attacking-each-other
According to the BBC, an unnamed British Army munitions expert said the pagers and walkie-talkies could have contained fake electronic components holding between 10 grams and 20 grams of military-grade high explosives.
UN human rights experts have condemned the attack in Lebanon, describing it as a 'terrifying violation of international law.'
Legal scholar Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, pointed out that the use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be known is 'unlawfully indiscriminate' and a 'booby trap.'
Israel is a signatory to Article 7(2) of the Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, added to an international law on the use of conventional weapons in 1996.
The pager attack has sparked fears of a wider regional war in West Asia. Israel's bombed southern Lebanon on 20 September, k*lling at least seven women and three children, as well as two senior Hezbollah officials. In response, Hezbollah retaliated the next day by launching missiles into northern Israel.
Sources
Sources
Right to r*pe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape
Blockade of aid trucks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-right-wing-settler-attacks-gaza-aid-whos-behind-them-whos-suffering/
Bombing aid trucks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-al-rashid-israel-idf-hamas-rcna141497
Israeli involvement in pager attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html
Frustration with situation in north
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israelis-in-north-worried-but-used-to-hezbollah-threat
Hezbollah raison d'etre
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/26/five-questions-answered-why-were-israel-hezbollah-attacking-each-other
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THE REAL REASON WE GOT BANNED
More reactions are coming in over the US government's assault against African Stream and the subsequent bans of our channel on several social-media platforms, including YouTube and Instagram.
In this clip, content creator @pokepreet1 explains how the attack on African Stream was motivated by the US government's desire to control the media narrative by branding any outlet that doesn’t toe Washington's line 'Russian propaganda.'
He also touches on how the mainstream US media fails to report issues and events from an African perspective. Perhaps this is the reason why most Black people in the US do not trust the country's media. A June 2024 survey by the Pew Research Center found that less than ten per cent of Black people in the US believe that news outlets provide the 'full story' when covering the African community.
Video credit: @pokepreet1
Sources:
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/09/26/black-americans-experiences-with-news/
More reactions are coming in over the US government's assault against African Stream and the subsequent bans of our channel on several social-media platforms, including YouTube and Instagram.
In this clip, content creator @pokepreet1 explains how the attack on African Stream was motivated by the US government's desire to control the media narrative by branding any outlet that doesn’t toe Washington's line 'Russian propaganda.'
He also touches on how the mainstream US media fails to report issues and events from an African perspective. Perhaps this is the reason why most Black people in the US do not trust the country's media. A June 2024 survey by the Pew Research Center found that less than ten per cent of Black people in the US believe that news outlets provide the 'full story' when covering the African community.
Video credit: @pokepreet1
Sources:
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2023/09/26/black-americans-experiences-with-news/
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Shocking videos have gone viral showing Israeli soldiers throwing three Palestinians they appear to have k*lled off a building in the occupied West Bank.
However, according to the New York Times, the bodies are 'seemingly lifeless.' We've went ahead and did them a favour by correcting the headline.
A 10-hour Israeli operation in Qabatiya, a town south of Jenin, k*lled a total of seven Palestinians and injured 11. In the videos, viewers can see soldiers dragging a body across a rooftop before throwing it over the edge. The soldiers then swing another body by its limbs over the side before throwing it off. Then, a soldier kicks a third body toward the edge of the roof, causing it to fall out of view.
Under International Humanitarian Law, Rule 113, each party to the conflict must take all possible measures to prevent the dead from being despoiled (or pillaged). Mutilation or other maltreatment of corpses is also prohibited.
However, according to the New York Times, the bodies are 'seemingly lifeless.' We've went ahead and did them a favour by correcting the headline.
A 10-hour Israeli operation in Qabatiya, a town south of Jenin, k*lled a total of seven Palestinians and injured 11. In the videos, viewers can see soldiers dragging a body across a rooftop before throwing it over the edge. The soldiers then swing another body by its limbs over the side before throwing it off. Then, a soldier kicks a third body toward the edge of the roof, causing it to fall out of view.
Under International Humanitarian Law, Rule 113, each party to the conflict must take all possible measures to prevent the dead from being despoiled (or pillaged). Mutilation or other maltreatment of corpses is also prohibited.
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Continued... The US White House described the Qabatiya incident as 'deeply disturbing.' Meanwhile, US National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said that if the video can be corroborated, 'it clearly would depict abhorrent and egregious behaviour by professional soldiers.'
Since 7 October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have k*lled more than 700 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. NGO Save the Children reports that Israel has k*lled or injured five Palestinian children on average every day in the West Bank since October.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel's military onslaught has k*lled more than 41,000 Palestinians. A report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated the death toll could be as high as 186,000 as of early July.
Sources
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240920-israeli-soldiers-throw-palestinian-bodies-off-rooftop/
https://news.sky.com/story/idf-confirms-review-after-israeli-soldiers-filmed-pushing-lifeless-bodies-from-roofs-in-west-bank-raid-13218146
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/white-house-says-footage-of-israeli-troops-throwing-bodies-off-roof-deeply-disturbing/3336099
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jg0x5xg8o
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/middleeast/idf-investigating-soldiers-throwing-bodies-off-west-bank-roof-intl/index.html
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule113#Fn_28E57177_00004
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/israeli-soldiers-filmed-pushing-bodies-off-rooftop-in-deadly-west-bank-raid
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-soldiers-qabatiya-west-bank-ae65d70f7da5db4603ba1b7c77f2ccd3
https://www.newarab.com/news/shock-video-shows-palestinians-thrown-roof-israeli-army
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1230604077/israel-hamas-war-hostages-prisoners-dead
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/five-palestinian-children-killed-or-injured-average-every-day-west-bank-october
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/12/gaza-death-toll-indirect-casualties
Since 7 October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have k*lled more than 700 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. NGO Save the Children reports that Israel has k*lled or injured five Palestinian children on average every day in the West Bank since October.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel's military onslaught has k*lled more than 41,000 Palestinians. A report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated the death toll could be as high as 186,000 as of early July.
Sources
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240920-israeli-soldiers-throw-palestinian-bodies-off-rooftop/
https://news.sky.com/story/idf-confirms-review-after-israeli-soldiers-filmed-pushing-lifeless-bodies-from-roofs-in-west-bank-raid-13218146
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/white-house-says-footage-of-israeli-troops-throwing-bodies-off-roof-deeply-disturbing/3336099
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jg0x5xg8o
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/middleeast/idf-investigating-soldiers-throwing-bodies-off-west-bank-roof-intl/index.html
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule113#Fn_28E57177_00004
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/20/israeli-soldiers-filmed-pushing-bodies-off-rooftop-in-deadly-west-bank-raid
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-soldiers-qabatiya-west-bank-ae65d70f7da5db4603ba1b7c77f2ccd3
https://www.newarab.com/news/shock-video-shows-palestinians-thrown-roof-israeli-army
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1230604077/israel-hamas-war-hostages-prisoners-dead
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/five-palestinian-children-killed-or-injured-average-every-day-west-bank-october
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/12/gaza-death-toll-indirect-casualties
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AFRICANS ARE NOT PUPPETS
Why are Africans deemed incapable of forming their own political opinions without external influence? That’s the question our sister Adiaha Young asks in this video clip, in response to the US assault against our channel with the false claim of being 'Kremlin propagandists.' Following the baseless allegation by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 13th September, African Stream has been banned from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Video credit: @AdiahaYoung (Instagram)
Why are Africans deemed incapable of forming their own political opinions without external influence? That’s the question our sister Adiaha Young asks in this video clip, in response to the US assault against our channel with the false claim of being 'Kremlin propagandists.' Following the baseless allegation by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 13th September, African Stream has been banned from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Video credit: @AdiahaYoung (Instagram)
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Young highlights that, for a long time, the West has portrayed Africans as lacking the intellectual capacity to form and own independent political opinions. Whenever they’ve stood up against imperialism, the West claimed that there was a ‘foreign master' pulling the strings behind the curtain. When citizens of countries such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique rose up to fight against racist settler-colonial regimes, they were quickly labelled agents of 'Soviet Communism' and not citizens who were genuinely fighting for their freedom.
Decades later, the West is still using the same tactics.
Sources
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00472A000600050005-6.pdf
Young highlights that, for a long time, the West has portrayed Africans as lacking the intellectual capacity to form and own independent political opinions. Whenever they’ve stood up against imperialism, the West claimed that there was a ‘foreign master' pulling the strings behind the curtain. When citizens of countries such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique rose up to fight against racist settler-colonial regimes, they were quickly labelled agents of 'Soviet Communism' and not citizens who were genuinely fighting for their freedom.
Decades later, the West is still using the same tactics.
Sources
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00472A000600050005-6.pdf
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PROJECT 2025 REP: LONGER SLAVERY BETTER FOR HAITI
Project 2025 has become a buzzword on the Internet, conjuring up nightmare scenarios because it proposes to deport undocumented migrants, increase fossil fuel production, 'deweaponise' the CIA and FBI, and cut government spending, among other items.
In this 19 September hearing, US Congressmember Gregorio Casar interrogated Project 2025 advisory board member Mark Krikorian about comments he made about Haiti a few years ago.
Krikorian, executive director of the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies, among about 100 groups supporting Project 2025, told Casar that Haiti would have benefited from an extended colonial period, even if that meant prolonging slavery.
The exchange took place during a US House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing noscriptd, 'A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.' Krikorian was one of several witnesses testifying on a range of issues.
Video credit: @RepCasar (X)
Project 2025 has become a buzzword on the Internet, conjuring up nightmare scenarios because it proposes to deport undocumented migrants, increase fossil fuel production, 'deweaponise' the CIA and FBI, and cut government spending, among other items.
In this 19 September hearing, US Congressmember Gregorio Casar interrogated Project 2025 advisory board member Mark Krikorian about comments he made about Haiti a few years ago.
Krikorian, executive director of the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies, among about 100 groups supporting Project 2025, told Casar that Haiti would have benefited from an extended colonial period, even if that meant prolonging slavery.
The exchange took place during a US House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing noscriptd, 'A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.' Krikorian was one of several witnesses testifying on a range of issues.
Video credit: @RepCasar (X)
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Continued... Throughout his career, Krikorian has referenced white nationalists such as Kevin MacDonald, John Friend, and Jared Taylor. To give you an idea of who these people are, MacDonald once stated, 'Jews are just going to destroy white power completely, and destroy America as a white country.' Taylor said, 'Blacks and whites are different. When Blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears.' Krikorian told Casar this his organisation once ran an email service that provided links to the writings of these individuals.
Voting alone will not stop the US government from codifying right-wing agendas like Project 2025. That's because Republicans and Democrats agree on the vast majority of policies, despite the culture wars they engage in over women's rights and LGBTQ rights. However, by joining an organisation to fight for Black liberation and Pan-Africanism, we can build mass power to obstruct the path the US long ago embarked on.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvjLoRztQ0
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/14/center-immigration-studies-distributes-essay-holocaust-denier
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/kevin-macdonald-american-anti-semitism
https://www.project2025.org
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/project-2025-jasmine-crockett-19779691.php
Voting alone will not stop the US government from codifying right-wing agendas like Project 2025. That's because Republicans and Democrats agree on the vast majority of policies, despite the culture wars they engage in over women's rights and LGBTQ rights. However, by joining an organisation to fight for Black liberation and Pan-Africanism, we can build mass power to obstruct the path the US long ago embarked on.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKvjLoRztQ0
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/14/center-immigration-studies-distributes-essay-holocaust-denier
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/kevin-macdonald-american-anti-semitism
https://www.project2025.org
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/project-2025-jasmine-crockett-19779691.php
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AFRICAN LEADERS ON PRESS FREEDOM
With the US empire's onslaught against independent voices exposing its nefarious plans, let's look back at what African leaders have said about press freedom.
We highlight just a few, including Malcolm X's warning on the dangers the mainstream media poses in shaping perspectives and manufacturing consent for violence against marginalised people. For example, it's not hard to draw the connections between poorly sourced hit pieces by NBC and US-funded Voice of America to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 13 September calling outlets, such as African Stream, Russian-funded operations that showcase 'Kremlin propagandists.' A few days later, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube banned our accounts.
Have a read, and please share your thoughts.
With the US empire's onslaught against independent voices exposing its nefarious plans, let's look back at what African leaders have said about press freedom.
We highlight just a few, including Malcolm X's warning on the dangers the mainstream media poses in shaping perspectives and manufacturing consent for violence against marginalised people. For example, it's not hard to draw the connections between poorly sourced hit pieces by NBC and US-funded Voice of America to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 13 September calling outlets, such as African Stream, Russian-funded operations that showcase 'Kremlin propagandists.' A few days later, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube banned our accounts.
Have a read, and please share your thoughts.
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AFRICAN LEADERS ON PRESS FREEDOM With the US empire's onslaught against independent voices exposing its nefarious plans, let's look back at what African leaders have said about press freedom. We highlight just a few, including Malcolm X's warning on the…
Sources:
Steve Biko
http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1994/940214_press.htm
Kofi Annan
https://press.un.org/en/2001/sgsm7787.doc.htm
Cyril Ramaphosa
https://publicsectormag.net/2023/05/09/media-freedom-a-pillar-in-democratic-south-africa/
Malcolm X
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/280633-if-you-re-not-careful-the-newspapers-will-have-you-hating
Onslaught
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-press-29/
Nefarious plans
https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_080103_africom_3a_the_recolon.htm
CNN effect. Manufacturing Consent
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/1365
NBC vs African Stream
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-americans-disinformation-election-social-media-rcna157096
VOA vs African Stream
https://www.voanews.com/a/african-stream-distorts-u-s-military-s-mission-in-somalia/7762717.html
Blinken Presser
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-press-29/
Steve Biko
http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/1994/940214_press.htm
Kofi Annan
https://press.un.org/en/2001/sgsm7787.doc.htm
Cyril Ramaphosa
https://publicsectormag.net/2023/05/09/media-freedom-a-pillar-in-democratic-south-africa/
Malcolm X
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/280633-if-you-re-not-careful-the-newspapers-will-have-you-hating
Onslaught
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-press-29/
Nefarious plans
https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_080103_africom_3a_the_recolon.htm
CNN effect. Manufacturing Consent
https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/1365
NBC vs African Stream
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-americans-disinformation-election-social-media-rcna157096
VOA vs African Stream
https://www.voanews.com/a/african-stream-distorts-u-s-military-s-mission-in-somalia/7762717.html
Blinken Presser
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-press-29/
press.un.org
FREE PRESS CAN ACT AS VOICE OF PEOPLE AGAINST TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM…
01/05/2001Press ReleaseSG/SM/7787 OBV/208 FREE PRESS CAN ACT AS VOICE OF PEOPLE AGAINST TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION, SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS IN MESSAGE ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on World Press Freedom Day…
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ZI*NIST INFLUENCER MOCKS ISRAELI TERROR VICTIMS
The world has seen the worst of Israel’s moral depravity for close to a year now. You might have seen the protests in support of the ‘right to rape Palestinian prisoners’, the blockade of aid trucks to Gaza and the bombing of civilians as they received aid. This video adds to that long list, showing Israeli social media influencer Einav Avizemer mocking the Lebanese victims of the latest terrorist attack that news reports and officials have pegged on Israel, even though it hasn’t officially claimed responsibility.
Video credit: @EinavAvizemer (X)
The world has seen the worst of Israel’s moral depravity for close to a year now. You might have seen the protests in support of the ‘right to rape Palestinian prisoners’, the blockade of aid trucks to Gaza and the bombing of civilians as they received aid. This video adds to that long list, showing Israeli social media influencer Einav Avizemer mocking the Lebanese victims of the latest terrorist attack that news reports and officials have pegged on Israel, even though it hasn’t officially claimed responsibility.
Video credit: @EinavAvizemer (X)
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Continued... The pager and walkie-talkie explosions injured about 3,250 people and k*lled 37, including two children, on 17-18 September in Lebanon and Syria. A few unnamed sources have told news outlets that Israel could have remotely triggered explosives planted inside the devices. This follows settlers’ displacement after Hezbollah attacks destroyed parts of northern Israel during a campaign to pressure Israel to stop its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel’s military onslaught has k*lled than 41,000 Palestinians, with a report from the medical journal The Lancet putting the figure as high as 186,000 as of early July. Much of the carnage has only been possible with the West politically, militarily and economically backing Israel.
Sources
Right to r*pe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape
Blockade of aid trucks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-right-wing-settler-attacks-gaza-aid-whos-behind-them-whos-suffering/
Bombing aid trucks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-al-rashid-israel-idf-hamas-rcna141497
Israeli involvement in pager attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html
Frustration with situation in north
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israelis-in-north-worried-but-used-to-hezbollah-threat
Hezbollah raison d'etre
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/26/five-questions-answered-why-were-israel-hezbollah-attacking-each-other
Israel’s military onslaught has k*lled than 41,000 Palestinians, with a report from the medical journal The Lancet putting the figure as high as 186,000 as of early July. Much of the carnage has only been possible with the West politically, militarily and economically backing Israel.
Sources
Right to r*pe
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape
Blockade of aid trucks
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-right-wing-settler-attacks-gaza-aid-whos-behind-them-whos-suffering/
Bombing aid trucks
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-aid-convoy-deaths-al-rashid-israel-idf-hamas-rcna141497
Israeli involvement in pager attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-pagers-explosions-intl/index.html
Frustration with situation in north
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israelis-in-north-worried-but-used-to-hezbollah-threat
Hezbollah raison d'etre
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/26/five-questions-answered-why-were-israel-hezbollah-attacking-each-other
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WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE MISTRUST U.S. INSTITUTIONS?
Black people in America are often accused of being particularly prone to conspiracy theories. The Pew Research Center decided to look into what it originally called ‘racial conspiracy theories’ - dropping the term after a backlash. It found there was little confidence among Black communities in US institutions. The study failed to offer any real reasons for the phenomenon. So we’ve decided to do that part of the work for them. Have a watch, and let us know what you think the reasons are in the comments.
Black people in America are often accused of being particularly prone to conspiracy theories. The Pew Research Center decided to look into what it originally called ‘racial conspiracy theories’ - dropping the term after a backlash. It found there was little confidence among Black communities in US institutions. The study failed to offer any real reasons for the phenomenon. So we’ve decided to do that part of the work for them. Have a watch, and let us know what you think the reasons are in the comments.
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Sources:
https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/06/15/most-black-americans-believe-u-s-institutions-were-designed-to-hold-black-people-back/
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/06/15/most-black-americans-believe-u-s-institutions-were-designed-to-hold-black-people-back/re_2024-06-15_black-americans-and-institutions_0-02/
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4729745-pew-research-black-americans-institutions/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/29/us-prisoners-are-part-of-hidden-workforce-linked-t/
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans
https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/museum-apologizes-for-unethical-skull-collection-vows-reburial/
https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/06/15/most-black-americans-believe-u-s-institutions-were-designed-to-hold-black-people-back/
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/06/15/most-black-americans-believe-u-s-institutions-were-designed-to-hold-black-people-back/re_2024-06-15_black-americans-and-institutions_0-02/
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4729745-pew-research-black-americans-institutions/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/29/us-prisoners-are-part-of-hidden-workforce-linked-t/
https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/967011614/in-tuskegee-painful-history-shadows-efforts-to-vaccinate-african-americans
https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/museum-apologizes-for-unethical-skull-collection-vows-reburial/
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GERMAN POLICE ARREST 10-YEAR-OLD PALESTINE SUPPORTER
This viral video shows German police chasing and arresting a 10-year-old pro-Palestine protester on 21 September in Berlin. Despite Germany's legal protections for free speech and assembly, the country's support for Israel appears to take priority over protests or gatherings supporting Palestine. News reports say German police have arrested many people at pro-Palestine demonstrations, but the child's arrest shocked many.
Some have accused Germany of washing its hands of Holocaust guilt at the expense of Palestinians occupied by Israel and the Africans that Germany colonised during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author and researcher Denijal Jegić has written that German support for Israel is used as a cover to ramp up racist anti-immigration policies and downplay homegrown anti-Semitism.
Video credit: Resistance New Network on Telegram (@PalestineResist)
This viral video shows German police chasing and arresting a 10-year-old pro-Palestine protester on 21 September in Berlin. Despite Germany's legal protections for free speech and assembly, the country's support for Israel appears to take priority over protests or gatherings supporting Palestine. News reports say German police have arrested many people at pro-Palestine demonstrations, but the child's arrest shocked many.
Some have accused Germany of washing its hands of Holocaust guilt at the expense of Palestinians occupied by Israel and the Africans that Germany colonised during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author and researcher Denijal Jegić has written that German support for Israel is used as a cover to ramp up racist anti-immigration policies and downplay homegrown anti-Semitism.
Video credit: Resistance New Network on Telegram (@PalestineResist)
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Continued... The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), one of Germany's leading parties, has argued the words' free Palestine' have no place in Germany, denouncing the phrase as a 'war cry of an internationally active terror gang.' Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has stated Israel's security and existence is tied to modern Germany's foundation, given the atrocities that Germany committed against Jews in the Holocaust during World War II.
The German government has not only provided political and diplomatic support for Israel but has also fast-tracked arms exports to facilitate the Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, which has k*lled more than 41,000 Palestinian civilians or as many as 186,000 as of early July, according to a Lancet medical-journal report.
Sources:
Germany laundering its conscience using Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/27/german-guiltwashing-in-times-of-genocide
Germany crackdown on pro-Palestine protests
https://apnews.com/article/germany-scholz-israel-aid-hamas-b38a3cf34895fbfc0c966bb27413886f
CDU no free Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/7/why-is-germany-so-viciously-anti-palestinian
Merkel's statement tying Germany to Israel
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/22/1207912722/germanys-strict-support-for-israel-informed-by-history
Researcher explains German support
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/7/why-is-germany-so-viciously-anti-palestinian
Germany support for Israel
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/europe/german-citizens-israel-right-to-exist-intl/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/1/19/the-take-why-is-germany-supporting-israel-at-the-icj
Arrests
https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/19/mass-arrests-following-pro-palestinian-rally-in-berlin
Free speech and assembly
https://www.dw.com/en/freedom-of-assembly-in-germany-protected-but-regulated/a-39630488
The German government has not only provided political and diplomatic support for Israel but has also fast-tracked arms exports to facilitate the Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, which has k*lled more than 41,000 Palestinian civilians or as many as 186,000 as of early July, according to a Lancet medical-journal report.
Sources:
Germany laundering its conscience using Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/27/german-guiltwashing-in-times-of-genocide
Germany crackdown on pro-Palestine protests
https://apnews.com/article/germany-scholz-israel-aid-hamas-b38a3cf34895fbfc0c966bb27413886f
CDU no free Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/7/why-is-germany-so-viciously-anti-palestinian
Merkel's statement tying Germany to Israel
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/22/1207912722/germanys-strict-support-for-israel-informed-by-history
Researcher explains German support
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/7/why-is-germany-so-viciously-anti-palestinian
Germany support for Israel
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/europe/german-citizens-israel-right-to-exist-intl/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/1/19/the-take-why-is-germany-supporting-israel-at-the-icj
Arrests
https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/19/mass-arrests-following-pro-palestinian-rally-in-berlin
Free speech and assembly
https://www.dw.com/en/freedom-of-assembly-in-germany-protected-but-regulated/a-39630488
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WHY IS U.S. AFRAID OF AFRICAN VOICES?
"If you bury the truth in the deepest depths of the ocean, one day it will swim its way out" - so goes an African proverb, and it applies to our platform, which has been suppressed by the US for speaking uncomfortable truths. African Stream has been exposing imperialism on the African continent while giving a voice to the rising revolutions in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
On 13th September, African Stream was accused by the United States government of being a Russian influence op. Since then, it’s been banned on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. A country that claims to be a beacon of democracy is clamping down on freedom of speech because it doesn't align with its narrative. America's history of silencing anyone who doesn't toe the line is well known, from the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba to the coup that overthrew the great Kwame Nkrumah.
Video credits: @_themerc
"If you bury the truth in the deepest depths of the ocean, one day it will swim its way out" - so goes an African proverb, and it applies to our platform, which has been suppressed by the US for speaking uncomfortable truths. African Stream has been exposing imperialism on the African continent while giving a voice to the rising revolutions in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
On 13th September, African Stream was accused by the United States government of being a Russian influence op. Since then, it’s been banned on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. A country that claims to be a beacon of democracy is clamping down on freedom of speech because it doesn't align with its narrative. America's history of silencing anyone who doesn't toe the line is well known, from the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba to the coup that overthrew the great Kwame Nkrumah.
Video credits: @_themerc
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