Una finanziaria di galleggiamento
https://jacobinitalia.it/una-finanziaria-di-galleggiamento/

All is good in the birthplace of liberalism

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

De Schutter said: “It’s simply not acceptable that we have more than a fifth of the population in a rich country such as the UK at risk of poverty today,” referring to government data showing that 14.4 million people lived in relative poverty in 2021-22 – a million more than the previous year. “The policies in place are not working or not protecting people in poverty, and much more needs to be done for these people to be protected.”

De Schutter said the UK had signed an international covenant that created a duty to provide a level of social protection which ensured an adequate standard of living but that it was being broken, with welfare payments falling behind costs for the poorest people.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/05/uk-poverty-levels-simply-not-acceptable-says-un-envoy-olivier-de-schutter

"Israeli president Isaac Herzog insisted that “an entire nation” was to blame for Hamas’s actions, and that the idea of “civilians not being aware, not involved” was “absolutely not true”. While Rageh Omar reported on this for ITV News, it did not make the BBC or the New York Times or Sky News. Nor did it make most anglophone outlets. Ariel Kallner, in a now-deleted tweet, called for another Nakba on the Palestinians, repeating the crime of 1948 in which 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed. “Right now, one goal: Nakba!” He exhorted. “A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48.” This was picked up by Associated Press but missed by most anglophone broadcasters and press. When Tally Gotliv, a Knesset member for Likud, called for a nuclear strike on Gaza – “Jericho Missile! … Doomsday weapon!” ­– and for “crushing and flattening Gaza … Without mercy! Without mercy!”, this also went curiously unnoticed.

Again, when an anonymous Israeli defence official briefed Israeli broadcasters that Gaza would become “a city of tents” where “there will be no buildings”, it was largely ignored. When Sara Netanyahu’s advisor, Tzipi Navon, said that it would not be enough to “flatten Gaza”, and that Palestinians suspected of involvement in the Hamas attack should have their nails pulled out, their genitals removed and their tongues and eyes saved for last “so we can enjoy his screams”, “so he can see us smiling”, that too was curiously overlooked."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/the-equanimity-of-lunatics

- Unlike the impunity the police have extended to far-right mobs, left-wing activists are facing detention and arrests for much less.
- Ben-Gvir boasted about Haifawi’s arrest on social media and upon his release, accusing the presiding judge, who happens to be Arab, of being “an enemy from within.”
- Repression of activists is not confined by the Green Line. On the day of Hamas’s attack, Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro was taken from his home in Hebron by settlers and soldiers, who arrested him for over ten hours. He was cuffed, degraded, and attacked. Two weeks later, soldiers forced him out of his home for having guests — Breaking the Silence founder Yehuda Shaul and a foreign journalist — which he was forbidden from doing earlier that week.
- In Area C of the West Bank, as many Palestinians suffer displacement by violent settlers supported by the Israel Defense Forces, anti-occupation Israeli activists who seek to aid those Palestinians are facing attacks. In the now-abandoned community of Wadi a-Seeq, as settlers held Palestinian residents at gunpoint and tortured them for hours, soldiers joined the settlers in beating, robbing, and arresting Jewish activists on the scene. After the violence ended, authorities wiped activists’ phones to erase any trace of what had happened. In the village of At-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta, activists were shot at by a settler as they were filming his partners bulldozing an agricultural garden.
- As early as October 16, over a hundred citizens had been arrested or taken in for investigation over social media posts, among them actors, singers, and public figures.
- The Israeli government is now considering laws and regulations that would go still further. Potential changes include making “excessive consumption of terrorist media” punishable by prison sentence, banning foreign press and ignoring freedom of information requests for the duration of the war, attempting to revoke the citizenship of those charged with supporting terrorism, and a for-now-shelved proposal legalizing the use of live fire on protesters blocking roads during wartime. The police also attempted to ban all political protests, but ended up backing down.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/israel-far-right-government-suffocating-domestic-dissent-palestine-solidarity/

This community mental health approach, which I have contributed to designing with the Collaborative for Community Wellness, consists of three interdependent parts. First, to relieve police of their responsibility to function as mental health workers, it calls for the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) to build out a nonpolice mobile crisis response system for the entire city. Second, it entails reopening the network of nineteen public mental health centers that CDPH operated until the 1990s to now function as crisis reception and stabilization centers, as well as community hubs for everyday preventative outreach and supportive services.

Third, TNT revolves around hiring a large-scale community care worker corps comprised of lay residents from Chicago’s most dispossessed neighborhoods who are then trained and employed by CDPH in dignified, career positions (i.e. with compensation, benefits, and protections parallel to those currently given to police officers). These workers will collaborate and share tasks with supporting mental health professionals in communities with greatest unmet social, medical, and economic needs. It’s this last part — a bottom-up human infrastructure for community care that seeks “mental health for all by involving all” — that’s the most essential, transformational, and currently widely overlooked element of the TNT agenda.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/chicago-public-mental-health-policing-treatment-not-trauma/

The repression isn’t just coming from the top — the government is encouraging and empowering mass snitching campaigns and mob violence against Palestinians. Israel’s student union issued a call for students to report any “incitement to terrorism or support of terrorism” they see to an anonymous Google Form.

Throughout Israel, Jewish Israelis are taking up this call, reporting coworkers, classmates, and friends for their social media posts in support of Palestine. The examples of this “support of terrorism” included a photo of Gazan children captioned “Israel’s bank of targets” and a post reading, “Please delete me if you delight in the death of innocents.”

Alongside police violence and snitching, fascist mobs have taken to the streets to intimidate and attack Palestinians and their allies. Two weeks ago, a lynch mob of Jewish supremacists surrounded a dorm where Palestinian students resided and attempted to break through the gates while chanting “Death to Arabs.” The students were then evacuated, a stated goal of the mob’s far-right leader.

Fascist mobs have also come after journalists like Israel Frey, who had to go into hiding after a mob came to his house threatening to lynch him and his children. And in the West Bank, armed settlers have shot at Jewish Israelis for documenting their attacks on Palestinians.

he Israeli state was increasing repression from the river to the sea. In 2021, in response to mass Palestinian protests, the Israeli police declared “Operation Law and Order,” where thousands were arrested across Israel (only 10 percent of whom were Jewish). During this time, Zionists who openly lynched a Palestinian in Lod were released by police on the grounds of “self-defense,” the state refused to investigate hundreds of cases of intimidation and assault against Palestinians, and digital surveillance increased. What an anonymous activist described to us as “fascization of the police” from above and increased settler violence from below prepared the ground for the even more intense crackdown of the past few weeks.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/israel-cracking-down-internal-dissent-gaza-idf-benjamin-netanyahu/