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Stephanie Benn's avatar

What’s terrifying is the idea that this kind of depravity is being hard-wired into Israeli society and is normalized through the manufacturing of consent for dehumanization and torture in Israel and in the popular imagination of various complicit states. I’m not sure how anyone survives this without a certain level of madness.

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Karen Ashikeh LaMantia's avatar

As difficult as this was to read, the USA is a coconspiritor in punishment systems, for transferring migrants detained to both foreign jails, ICE holding areas or for profit USA-based detention facilities. The conditions and treatment described in all these situations is similar though " film" and reporting of these acts and conditions of USA actions is sporatic and almost nonexistant in USA mainstream media. Some reports of conditions in places like Morocco Migrant centers sometimes are seen, because they take place in Africa and they report about people trying to get to EU nations. What happens at home to incarcerrated people and those held without immigration trial and sometimes charged with crimnal offense, like "resisting arrest" in ICE prisons, are along the same continum of brutality and human rights violations, whether on USA soil or sent elsewhere to hide it. Close these facilities and do not detain and do not require bail for release of all those holding valid USA immigration documents or those with appointments for hearings for immigration matters or who may be charged with misdemeanor crimes and are awaiting trial or hearings, in nonimmigration issues. Close ICE facilities and let local jails and courts determine the ability to be released related to community safety.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Mahmoud Khalil is still behind bars. He told the court: “I spent a good time of my life fleeing from harm, advocating for the marginalized to have rights. That's what put me in danger. Israel is committing genocide. America is funding that genocide. Columbia is investing in it. That is what I was protesting. This is what I will continue to protest. This is what everyone should protest. This is where our efforts should go.”

Petition for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention

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Bebe Schroer's avatar

God's Chosen People doing the work of the Lord God Almighty . . . Amen. Can I get a witness? If Jesus shows his face anytime soon, God's Chosen will throw him into Tora Bora.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

They are already doing it to him every day; "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Matthew 25:40

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Microsoft workers oppose ties with Israel. Microsoft claims that after conducting its internal investigation, with “external fact-finding,” they’ve found “no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.”

We do not accept that claim, and neither do the workers who issued a statement in response to the company’s PR.3


Take action with us — and support the Microsoft workers organizing to cut the company’s ties with Israel’s military

https://act.mpowerchange.org/go/71588?t=3&akid=10199%2E809623%2EH7UcG5

Microsoft and other tech partners, like Google and Amazon, are helping redefine the ugly underbelly of U.S. technology’s use in war.

We’ve set up a digital action where you can send emails to Microsoft leadership, including AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, with just a few clicks.

And let’s tell Google to stop weaponizing AI, and to cut ties with Israel.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-google-stop-using-your-ai-for-genocide-apartheid-and-border-violence?source=mc_GoogleNext_2025_04_10

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust wars.”

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Bushrod Lake's avatar

No one with a conscious can be part of this, or support countries that support this. "Crazy" is the word I'm hearing about leaders and governments perpetuating this genocide and proposing others, for christ's sake..

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

You are right, no one with a conscience could do this. There are large numbers with a verified genetic disease in which there is no conscience and no capacity for empathy. Nada. Horrible.

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catfish rushdie's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. I'm not going to rant just now, but the jig is up for the people who are doing this and for their supporters across the west. The mask is off for good now, and all the king's horses and all the king's will never be able to rebuild any credibility they enjoyed anywhere in the world.

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catfish rushdie's avatar

Such as it is, that credibility has only existed in western nations, and particularly within the Anglosphere. It is melting like a snowball in hell. Only when one spends some quality time outside the west does one begin to comprehend the fishbowl of propaganda that we have been stewed in throughout our lives. We don't even see it, because we breathe it.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Hunger Strike!

New hunger strike action from CUNY. Eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system started an indefinite hunger strike on Tuesday, May 27th. They have one demand: that CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and the CUNY Board of Trustees immediately divest from Israel and from all weapons and technology manufacturers equipping the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Palestine. 

They are using the hunger strike to raise funds “to send urgent funds to people in Gaza for food and other needed materials.”

https://chuffed.org/project/131840-cuny-hunger-strike-fundraiser-for-gaza

Also, continuing is the hunger strike by students and faculty at Stanford University to protest attacks on academic freedom and complicity in the Gaza genocide.

If ever there was a moment that demands civil disobedience, it is the hour of genocide.

You can read more about this moral stance here:

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/hunger-is-our-weapon-against-injustice/?ml_recipient=154375676232730169&ml_link=154375611833386238&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-05-14&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation

An urgent ask from Stanford SJP is to sign and circulate the Drop the Charges petition https://actionnetwork.org/forms/supportstanford12?source=direct_link& which demands that the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office drop the felony charges brought against twelve Stanford University students and alumni following their participation in a protest advocating for Stanford’s divestment from corporations implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Stewart Hines's avatar

Israel will stop only when 6 million Palestinians are dead.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

We call on the newly elected, US, Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. Is there anything more important in today's world than this?

https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq

Please sign the petition and share widely.

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Amy Williams's avatar

I can barely cope with reading about and seeing videos of what's happening now. Dear lord and I am not even religious, imagine living this...I just cant without starting to cry and I am not even living this! There is no hope for humanity at large if we don't harass our western Govts into actual action. I feel rage and shame at our western Govt bullshit and lies.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

In 2024, DAWN urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.

https://dawnmena.org/latest/

Let’s give them our support. Surely, they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide, starting with the UK.

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Virginia D Clarkson's avatar

This is a horrifying report about completely unacceptable conditions for the complicit USA government to tolerate. I feel disgusted and plan to spread the word.

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Thomas Reyer's avatar

Israel is doomed!

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