Then They Came for the Palestinians: How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
We explore the strategy of the Trump administration in targeting a Palestinian activist and what is at stake in our response. For perspective, we present the experiences of anarchists whose comrade was similarly kidnapped for participating in the Occupy ICE movement in San Antonio, Texas in 2018.
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
We explore the strategy of the Trump administration in targeting a Palestinian activist and what is at stake in our response. For perspective, we present the experiences of anarchists whose comrade was similarly kidnapped for participating in the Occupy ICE movement in San Antonio, Texas in 2018.
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CrimethInc. сообщают об аресте с целью последующей депортации Махмуда Халила, аспиранта Колумбийского университета в Нью-Йорке, участника и организатора демонстраций против устроенного государством Израиль геноцида в Секторе Газа. Махмуд Халил — обладатель постоянного вида на жительство в США. Однако этот статус был отозван в рамках нового витка репрессий против палестинского движения, начатого с приходом к власти Трампа. Трамп лично прокомментировал задержание Махмуда, написал в своей социальной сети «Truth Social», что это «первый арест среди многих, которые последуют». Солидарные с Махмудом Халилом люди, в том числе анархист:ки, в эти дни организуются, чтобы выступить против репрессий.
На первый взгляд, новость об аресте участника палестинского движения в США кажется малоактуальной в нашем пост-советском контексте. Но это только на первый взгляд. События последних лет — подавление народного восстания в Беларуси, полномасштабная война в Украине, небывалый размах репрессий в России — привели к появлению на Западе довольно внушительного сообщества политизированных выходцев из этих стран. Предпринимаются попытки организовываться, заявлять о своей субъектности. И тут необходимо обратить внимание на опыт сообществ, которые уже многие годы сталкиваются на Западе с криминализацией, репрессиями, объявлениями «террорист:ками», с запретами организаций и депортациями, — например, на опыт курдского и палестинского сообществ. Потому что с подобным опытом можем столкнуться и мы.
Ситуация на Западе неблагоприятная. С одной стороны, растущая милитаризация ведёт к стремлению подавить все общественные силы, не вписывающиеся в государственнический консенсус и представления о «единой нации, вставшей на защиту своей безопасности». Особенно анархисто:к, тем более мигранто:к и бежен:ок. С другой стороны, всё чаще на Западе к власти приходят ультраправые силы, желающие «договориться» с путинским режимом, разделить с ним сферы влияния в колонизированных странах. Тот же Трамп. Это также не придаёт устойчивости нашему положению. Сегодня террорист:ками объявляют курдов и палестинцев. А завтра? Тех, кто выступает за партизанское сопротивление в России и Беларуси?
Опыт подвергающихся гонениям сообществ может стать и нашим. Поэтому важна солидарность, взаимопомощь, готовность приходить друг другу на помощь, бороться друг за друга.
На первый взгляд, новость об аресте участника палестинского движения в США кажется малоактуальной в нашем пост-советском контексте. Но это только на первый взгляд. События последних лет — подавление народного восстания в Беларуси, полномасштабная война в Украине, небывалый размах репрессий в России — привели к появлению на Западе довольно внушительного сообщества политизированных выходцев из этих стран. Предпринимаются попытки организовываться, заявлять о своей субъектности. И тут необходимо обратить внимание на опыт сообществ, которые уже многие годы сталкиваются на Западе с криминализацией, репрессиями, объявлениями «террорист:ками», с запретами организаций и депортациями, — например, на опыт курдского и палестинского сообществ. Потому что с подобным опытом можем столкнуться и мы.
Ситуация на Западе неблагоприятная. С одной стороны, растущая милитаризация ведёт к стремлению подавить все общественные силы, не вписывающиеся в государственнический консенсус и представления о «единой нации, вставшей на защиту своей безопасности». Особенно анархисто:к, тем более мигранто:к и бежен:ок. С другой стороны, всё чаще на Западе к власти приходят ультраправые силы, желающие «договориться» с путинским режимом, разделить с ним сферы влияния в колонизированных странах. Тот же Трамп. Это также не придаёт устойчивости нашему положению. Сегодня террорист:ками объявляют курдов и палестинцев. А завтра? Тех, кто выступает за партизанское сопротивление в России и Беларуси?
Опыт подвергающихся гонениям сообществ может стать и нашим. Поэтому важна солидарность, взаимопомощь, готовность приходить друг другу на помощь, бороться друг за друга.
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On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and grad student at Columbia University.
Khalil had permanent residency in the United States. Trump's fascist state department arbitrarily revoked it. They…
Khalil had permanent residency in the United States. Trump's fascist state department arbitrarily revoked it. They…
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E poi vennero a prendere i palestinesi
Come reagire al rapimento di Mahmoud Khalil
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/11/poi-arrivarono-per-i-palestinesi-come-reagire-al-rapimento-di-mahmoud-khalil
L’8 marzo, gli agenti del Dipartimento di Sicurezza Nazionale hanno rapito Mahmoud Khalil, un attivista palestinese e studente laureato alla Columbia University che aveva la residenza permanente negli Stati Uniti. Il Dipartimento di Stato di Donald Trump ha revocato arbitrariamente la sua residenza. Stanno trattenendo Khalil in Louisiana, a più di mille miglia da casa sua.
Questo fa parte del giro di vite promesso da Donald Trump sull’attivismo di solidarietà con la Palestina alla Columbia University e in altre scuole del Paese. Soprattutto, però, è un test, e il modo in cui rispondiamo determinerà ciò che accadrà in seguito al resto di noi, come ha descritto Martin Niemöller nella sua nota poesia.
#Italiano
Come reagire al rapimento di Mahmoud Khalil
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/11/poi-arrivarono-per-i-palestinesi-come-reagire-al-rapimento-di-mahmoud-khalil
L’8 marzo, gli agenti del Dipartimento di Sicurezza Nazionale hanno rapito Mahmoud Khalil, un attivista palestinese e studente laureato alla Columbia University che aveva la residenza permanente negli Stati Uniti. Il Dipartimento di Stato di Donald Trump ha revocato arbitrariamente la sua residenza. Stanno trattenendo Khalil in Louisiana, a più di mille miglia da casa sua.
Questo fa parte del giro di vite promesso da Donald Trump sull’attivismo di solidarietà con la Palestina alla Columbia University e in altre scuole del Paese. Soprattutto, però, è un test, e il modo in cui rispondiamo determinerà ciò che accadrà in seguito al resto di noi, come ha descritto Martin Niemöller nella sua nota poesia.
#Italiano
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The Antisemitic Plan to Smear Palestine Solidarity as Antisemitic
Trump's excuse for kidnapping Mahmoud Khalil is that Khalil engaged in "antisemitic" activity by protesting the genocide in Palestine.
In fact, Trump is using a playbook that was designed by the far-right Heritage Foundation to accuse Jews of "antisemitism."
This is a slide from a Heritage Foundation presentation that argues for political deportations like the targeting of Khalil. It purports to describe "Antisemitism's Ecosystem."
Look closely: “Soros” and Jewish Voice for Peace are at the tops of the columns noscriptd “Masterminds” and “Organizers.”
By depicting empathy for Palestinians as participation in “a global Hamas Support Network,” the Heritage Foundation aims to dehumanize Palestinians, terrorize all who do not support genocide, and forcibly subordinate all Jewish people to the Christian Nationalist agenda.
This is a fascist program. It will not make Jewish people any safer than Palestinians.
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
Trump's excuse for kidnapping Mahmoud Khalil is that Khalil engaged in "antisemitic" activity by protesting the genocide in Palestine.
In fact, Trump is using a playbook that was designed by the far-right Heritage Foundation to accuse Jews of "antisemitism."
This is a slide from a Heritage Foundation presentation that argues for political deportations like the targeting of Khalil. It purports to describe "Antisemitism's Ecosystem."
Look closely: “Soros” and Jewish Voice for Peace are at the tops of the columns noscriptd “Masterminds” and “Organizers.”
By depicting empathy for Palestinians as participation in “a global Hamas Support Network,” the Heritage Foundation aims to dehumanize Palestinians, terrorize all who do not support genocide, and forcibly subordinate all Jewish people to the Christian Nationalist agenda.
This is a fascist program. It will not make Jewish people any safer than Palestinians.
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
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Luchamos porque nos gusta
Mantener la moral ante obstáculos aparentemente insuperables
https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/luchamos-porque-nos-gusta-mantener-la-moral-ante-obstaculos-aparentemente-insuperables
Una reflexión sobre cómo entender el proyecto anarquista fuera de una narrativa milenarista postcristiana de redención.
« No es una cuestión de si podemos ganar, sino de cómo queremos vivir. »
#Español
Mantener la moral ante obstáculos aparentemente insuperables
https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/luchamos-porque-nos-gusta-mantener-la-moral-ante-obstaculos-aparentemente-insuperables
Una reflexión sobre cómo entender el proyecto anarquista fuera de una narrativa milenarista postcristiana de redención.
« No es una cuestión de si podemos ganar, sino de cómo queremos vivir. »
#Español
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We've prepared a poster promoting our film, Fell In Love With Fire, which documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020 and shows how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
You could use this poster to promote a screening in your community.
You can view the film here:
https://crimethinc.com/fellinlovewithfire
And you can print out the poster here:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/fell-in-love-with-fire
You could use this poster to promote a screening in your community.
You can view the film here:
https://crimethinc.com/fellinlovewithfire
And you can print out the poster here:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/fell-in-love-with-fire
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Dictatorship by used-car salesmen.
Declining profit rates have driven capitalists to focus on market speculation. Both Elon Musk and Donald Trump have made their fortunes chiefly by hype.
Now they are perpetrating this scam at the highest level of political power, using the instruments of the state to promote their products. Elon Musk is transferring $100 million to Donald Trump in return for this car commercial.
But what goes up must come down. The more wealth and power they concentrate in their hands, the clearer it is to everyone else that the system that elevated them deserves to be destroyed.
https://crimethinc.com/busdriver
Declining profit rates have driven capitalists to focus on market speculation. Both Elon Musk and Donald Trump have made their fortunes chiefly by hype.
Now they are perpetrating this scam at the highest level of political power, using the instruments of the state to promote their products. Elon Musk is transferring $100 million to Donald Trump in return for this car commercial.
But what goes up must come down. The more wealth and power they concentrate in their hands, the clearer it is to everyone else that the system that elevated them deserves to be destroyed.
https://crimethinc.com/busdriver
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We honor the courage of the protesters arrested at Trump Tower in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil.
Christian Nationalists aim to make themselves the arbiters of what counts as antisemitism in order to dehumanize Palestinians, discipline Jews who refuse to support genocide, and pave the way for fascism.
Trump made this clear enough yesterday, when he declared that a Jewish politician from the opposition had "become a Palestinian" by disagreeing with him.
Just as white nationalists justify racist violence by claiming to be "protecting women," Christian nationalists are attempting to use accusations of "antisemitism" to justify crackdowns, deportations, and genocide. Don't fall for it.
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
Christian Nationalists aim to make themselves the arbiters of what counts as antisemitism in order to dehumanize Palestinians, discipline Jews who refuse to support genocide, and pave the way for fascism.
Trump made this clear enough yesterday, when he declared that a Jewish politician from the opposition had "become a Palestinian" by disagreeing with him.
Just as white nationalists justify racist violence by claiming to be "protecting women," Christian nationalists are attempting to use accusations of "antisemitism" to justify crackdowns, deportations, and genocide. Don't fall for it.
https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil
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Cop City Is Everywhere
Learning from the Movement to Defend the Forest
https://crimethinc.com/CopCity2025
The movement to stop Cop City and defend Weelaunee Forest was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges we confront today under Donald Trump.
In the final chapter of our chronology, we trace the movement’s concluding phase, beginning in 2023 and ending with Trump’s arrival in power, and explore what we can learn from it.
Learning from the Movement to Defend the Forest
https://crimethinc.com/CopCity2025
The movement to stop Cop City and defend Weelaunee Forest was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges we confront today under Donald Trump.
In the final chapter of our chronology, we trace the movement’s concluding phase, beginning in 2023 and ending with Trump’s arrival in power, and explore what we can learn from it.
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“They Can’t Beat All of Us”
A Reportback from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering
https://crimethinc.com/FloridaAbolitionistGathering
From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of abolitionists and anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering. Across a passionate weekend of workshops, films, food, debate, ritual, and protest, the contours of a robust regional resistance movement came into focus.
A Reportback from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering
https://crimethinc.com/FloridaAbolitionistGathering
From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of abolitionists and anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering. Across a passionate weekend of workshops, films, food, debate, ritual, and protest, the contours of a robust regional resistance movement came into focus.
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The Israeli military is bombing Gaza again, unilaterally breaching the ceasefire. Hundreds of people are already reported killed in Gaza.
They are not doing this because the Israeli government was not able to use diplomacy to achieve the goals that made them agree to the ceasefire.
They are doing this because, having achieved those intermediate goals, they are now in a position to resume the genocide, which is their chief goal.
Let no one make excuses for this attack. The Israeli military has already killed hundreds of Palestinian children for every Israeli child who was killed on October 7, 2023. They have already destroyed the schools and hospitals and rendered millions homeless.
This is genocide for the sake of colonial land theft, pure and simple.
https://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024
They are not doing this because the Israeli government was not able to use diplomacy to achieve the goals that made them agree to the ceasefire.
They are doing this because, having achieved those intermediate goals, they are now in a position to resume the genocide, which is their chief goal.
Let no one make excuses for this attack. The Israeli military has already killed hundreds of Palestinian children for every Israeli child who was killed on October 7, 2023. They have already destroyed the schools and hospitals and rendered millions homeless.
This is genocide for the sake of colonial land theft, pure and simple.
https://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024
CrimethInc.
Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love
An anarchist from occupied Palestine makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.
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Antinationalistischer Nationalismus
Die antideutsche Kritik und ihre allzudeutschen Verfechter
https://crimethinc.com/2006/06/01/antinationalistischer-nationalismus-die-antideutsche-kritik-und-ihre-allzudeutschen-verfechter-1
Diejenigen, die sich mit dem Scheitern revolutionärer Perspektiven abfinden, verwandeln sich in der Defensive in genau die Monster, die sie noch vor kurzem bekämpft haben.
#Deutsch
Die antideutsche Kritik und ihre allzudeutschen Verfechter
https://crimethinc.com/2006/06/01/antinationalistischer-nationalismus-die-antideutsche-kritik-und-ihre-allzudeutschen-verfechter-1
Diejenigen, die sich mit dem Scheitern revolutionärer Perspektiven abfinden, verwandeln sich in der Defensive in genau die Monster, die sie noch vor kurzem bekämpft haben.
#Deutsch
CrimethInc.
Antinationalistischer Nationalismus
Die antideutsche Kritik und ihre allzudeutschen Verfechter.
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The Ex-Worker podcast: Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace
https://crimethinc.com/exworker111
Neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.
An audio rendering for your listening pleasure.
https://crimethinc.com/exworker111
Neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.
An audio rendering for your listening pleasure.
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On this day in 1871, French troops sided with the people that they were sent to repress against the generals and the oligarchs who sought to dominate them. This set off a revolutionary chain reaction that changed the course of history.
Such things do happen.
https://crimethinc.com/arch18
Such things do happen.
https://crimethinc.com/arch18
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La Commune 1871
https://pt.crimethinc.com/2025/03/18/peter-watkins-a-comuna-de-paris-1871-revisitando-o-filme-revolucionario-no-154o-aniversario-da-comuna-de-paris
Nos 154 anos da Comuna de Paris, revisitamos o filme de Peter Watkins que convoca o espírito da Comuna.
Convidamos você a assistir e debater o filme e os eventos da Comuna de Paris e a participar nas lutas do nosso próprio tempo.
#Português
https://pt.crimethinc.com/2025/03/18/peter-watkins-a-comuna-de-paris-1871-revisitando-o-filme-revolucionario-no-154o-aniversario-da-comuna-de-paris
Nos 154 anos da Comuna de Paris, revisitamos o filme de Peter Watkins que convoca o espírito da Comuna.
Convidamos você a assistir e debater o filme e os eventos da Comuna de Paris e a participar nas lutas do nosso próprio tempo.
#Português
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Hungary has banned Pride events, permitting the use of facial recognition technology to target participants.
Yet last month, neo-Nazis held their annual gathering in Budapest with no objections from Viktor Orbán's government.
This is why we call it gender fascism.
https://crimethinc.com/GenderSelfDetermination
Yet last month, neo-Nazis held their annual gathering in Budapest with no objections from Viktor Orbán's government.
This is why we call it gender fascism.
https://crimethinc.com/GenderSelfDetermination
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To prepare for the next election, Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent police to arrest his chief political rival and 100 other political adversaries.
This is the model Trump is importing to the United States.
For background on the roots of Turkish fascism:
https://crimethinc.com/TurkishFascism
This is the model Trump is importing to the United States.
For background on the roots of Turkish fascism:
https://crimethinc.com/TurkishFascism
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Every Tesla is a surveillance device. This is worth knowing regardless of whether you engage in protest activity.
This chart shows the locations and ranges of the cameras, presuming they have an unobstructed view.
Fashion tips for preserving your privacy around Teslas:
https://crimethinc.com/fashiontips
This chart shows the locations and ranges of the cameras, presuming they have an unobstructed view.
Fashion tips for preserving your privacy around Teslas:
https://crimethinc.com/fashiontips
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Survival
A work of speculative fiction about anarchists enduring mass raids and the technological innovations via which they survive.
https://crimethinc.com/SurvivalStory
In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched mass raids against the entire anarchist movement in the United States. Police simultaneously arrested thousands of anarchists in many different parts of the country, shutting down their newspapers, organizations, and meeting halls.
If similar raids were to take place today, they would occur in a technological landscape involving mass surveillance and targeted electronic attacks. Those who survive would also have to adopt different tools.
A work of speculative fiction about anarchists enduring mass raids and the technological innovations via which they survive.
https://crimethinc.com/SurvivalStory
In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched mass raids against the entire anarchist movement in the United States. Police simultaneously arrested thousands of anarchists in many different parts of the country, shutting down their newspapers, organizations, and meeting halls.
If similar raids were to take place today, they would occur in a technological landscape involving mass surveillance and targeted electronic attacks. Those who survive would also have to adopt different tools.
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