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

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)

Continued...
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

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)

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

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/

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)

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

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.

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/

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)

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

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

Continued... As content creator and activist, @_themerc puts it in this clip, the US will gag anyone who disseminates a narrative that goes against their policies and will label those who speak against imperialism extremists. America has always had something to hide, and anyone who attempts to reveal what will be punished.

TALES FROM THE SLAVE MASTER

In this clip from the BBC's Empire series, we are read excerpts from British slave owner Thomas Thistlewood's (1721-1786) diary, in which he recounts with pride the obscene and degrading tortures he inflicted on enslaved Africans.

Thistlewood, the second son of a tenant farmer from Tupholme, Lincolnshire, had "failed to establish himself as a farmer in his home district” and “had resolved to seek his fortune in the wider world." In February, 1750, he set out for Jamaica. He kept a very detailed diary of his life as a plantation owner and the cruelty he meted out.

Video credit: @BBC

Continued... Trevor Burnard’s book 'Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World' extensively examines Thistlewood's diary. He writes: "Thistlewood’s slaves were trapped in a dehumanising life of exhausting labour, debilitating disease, and demeaning social relationships; they were constantly tired, frequently frightened and subject to continual flux in their living and work arrangements."

In Britain today, Jamaicans, just like all Africans, are still looked down upon by some. Those known as the 'Windrush Generation,' who came to Britain as labourers to help rebuild the nation post-WW2, are still denied equal citizenship and have been wrongfully jailed or deported. Many Brits seem to be miseducated or uneducated about the savagery and brutality of slavery and why Africans, regardless of where they come from - on the continent or elsewhere - are owed restitution by Britain. The irony is that slave owners were compensated for the abolition of slavery, while those who were enslaved were not.

Thistlewood was just one among tens of thousand of British slave owners. Grim accounts such as his put so much in context.

Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vast-scale-of-british-slave-ownership-revealed-10383768.html#

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807855256/mastery-tyranny-and-desire/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43782241

https://jcwi.org.uk/reportsbriefings/windrush-scandal-explained/

'U.S. EMPIRE IN DECLINE, CHOOSE AFRICA'

We hear very often that only two options are on the table for Black voters in the United States: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. But could other choices be available?

In this exclusive interview with African Stream, Onyesonwu Chatoyer, a member of @aaprpinternational (@aaprp on X) and @hoodcommunist, raises the possibility of organising for collective worldwide African liberation as a viable option beyond voting for Democratic or Republican candidates that ultimately work against the interests of the entire African diaspora, with drone strikes, police violence and Congolese child slavery being a few examples.

What Chatoyer lays out is in the tradition of many revolutionary Pan-Africanists, such as Malcolm X (1925-65) and Kwame Ture (1941-98), who worked tirelessly to organise African communities in the United States. Pan-Africanists advocate for a strong, unified African continent to protect Africans worldwide.