Economics professor, quietly writing obscure economic texts for years, until thrust onto the public scene by Europe's inane handling of an inevitable crisis
A video-text summary of my argument that we now live in the age of TECHNOFEUDALISM (in 16', 2000 words):
Wherever we turn, we witness the triumph of capital. Capital has prevailed everywhere: in warehouses, factories, offices, universities, public hospitals, the media – in…
The path to ending the tragic loss of innocent lives – both Palestinian and Israeli – begins with one crucial first step: the end of the Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Future generations will censure us for letting this happen. The death count has surpassed 10 thousand, mostly children and women. There is not even enough water to wash the wounds of survivors, let alone food, drugs etc. How can anyone sleep at night?
Every minute of this epic
@UN
address from
@Palestine_UN
is worth watching. She dismantles Israel's lies and disinformation, sets out what Palestine stands for, and why it will succeed. Watch and Share!
#Gaza_War
#Gaza_Genocide
Compare & contrast! Attacking "civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes. Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror". UNLESS the attacker is Israel. Then it's NOT terror!?@?!!!
Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes.
Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.
And we have to call it as such.
The French government has joined the German government in stating that international law on genocide does not apply to Israel - that, because Jews have been subjected to genocide, Israel has moral & legal immunity for any war crime, even a genocide, it chooses to commit.
Unbelievable. Stéphane Séjourné, France's new minister of foreign affairs, essentially said that France wouldn't support the ICJ's decision if it rule against Israel because accusing them of genocide is "crossing a moral threshold" and is "exploiting the notion of genocide for…
No electricity, no food, no fuel for 1 million children. Straight from the horse's mouth. That can't be the civilised world's answer, whatever differences we may have on who did what to whom first or last.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly."
"I begged him to leave, move to the south. But he replied he could not leave his disabled daughter and old mother.” Rami Abdu, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, speaking about his friend Dia Kahlout, kidnapped by the Israeli army in Gaza along with many other civilians
Good & bad news for those who want to cancel me for my opposition to Israel's Apartheid/Occupation: The good news is that I was cancelled in Vienna where, on Monday, I was to deliver the 2023 Otto Wagner 2023 Lecture, organised by IKA Institute for Art and Architecture (even…
Message I just received from an Israeli friend in Israel: "We need your urgent help. If there is no international intervention, we're gone. The entire Palestinian people are under a genocidal attack, and democratic Jews in Israel are under violent fascist persecution that…
"Barcelona suspends all relations with the Government of Israel. Human rights are defended by taking sides, not by turning a blind eye."
Ada Colau's speech at Barcelona City Council.
Want to talk about terrorism? Fine. Here is the latest incident/example: Israeli undercover soldiers/agents entered Jenin Hospital this morning and shot dead 3 injured Palestinians in their hospital beds while being treated. Rule-of-Law Western style!
Israel killed all 1500 Hamas fighters that killed Israelis. More Palestinian civilians have already died than Israelis. Is this not the time to stop the bombings? No, says the 'civilised' West, it is time for thousands more coffins until Final Victory. Which means what exactly?
WHY DON'T PALESTINIANS PURSUE THEIR OBJECTIVES BY PEACEFUL MEANS?
They did. The PLO recognised Israel and renounced armed struggle. And what did they get for it? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing. That is what nurtured Hamas and elevated it in the eyes of many…
I see. You can kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying, brand him/her terrorist, and then vilify as antisemites the ancestors of everyone who questions your right to kill anyone you like on a land that you are illegally occupying.
Israel eliminated three terrorists trying to hide in a hospital.
I bet when this man’s ancestors accused Jews of the original medieval blood libels, they also felt similarly smug and morally superior, but at least their excuse was that they were illiterate.
First, they boasted that they took out a Hamas cell by bombing the hospital in which they hid. Then, when they realised the soul-crushing human toll, they deleted the tweet and desperately tried to blame it on Hamas-Islamic Jihad. The people of Israel deserve better leaders.
The bombs are raining down on Gazan Palestinians, the water remains off, the hospitals not yet bombed have no meds left, the bodybags ran out, hunger is in the air, the air stinks of phosphorous. And Western leaders, like Biden and Sunak, rush to Tel Aviv to support Israel...
This is an open admission of a war crime. Not a matter of interpretation anymore. Israel is openly boasting of its war crimes. Time for the international community to respond. If the International Criminal Court does not act immediately, it will have cancelled itself.
Dr Hamam Allouh, a specialist in Nephrology, was killed along with his family by an Israeli airstrike on their home. When last asked why he doesn’t evacuate he replied: "Who will treat the patients? I didn't study medicine for years to think about my life and leave the patients."
We opposed the Iraq war & were portrayed as Saddam’s minions. We opposed the Afghanistan invasion & were portrayed as Taliban supporters. We opposed Israel’s Apartheid & were portrayed as Hamas backers. It is ever so tiresome…
There’s no Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There’s only a brutal Israeli occupation.” -The editor in chief of Israel’s largest English language newspaper.
“There’s no Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There’s only a brutal Israeli occupation.”
-The editor in chief of Israel’s largest English language newspaper.
Palestinians: We can’t continue to live under Apartheid
US: Equal civil rights is an antisemite’s agenda
Israel: We have a God-given right to all the land, on which Palestinians will have no rights, from the River to the Sea
German government: Israel has the right to commit…
I was challenged, by a defender of Israel's army, to present a list of Israeli war crimes, since the 7th of October, quoting 'chapter and verse'. Well, here it is:
55 yrs ago, today, a CIA-engineered coup brought the tanks out onto the streets of Athens, dissolved Parliament and plunged Greece into a 7yr-long ruthless fascist dictatorship. Just for the purpose of preventing a pro-Western centrist party from winning office! Lest we forget...
Just for one second dare to imagine the West's reaction if Putin's soldiers had invaded a packed Ukrainian hospital, to "denazify" it, prevented staff from treating thousands of injured people - mostly kids -, blown up its water pipers and brought in zero medical supplies.
I am obsessed with the 7100 children that Israel has killed over the last few weeks and the ones that it is killing as I am typing these words. How dare you not be obsessed by this too? Where is your humanity? How is your heart not broken?
Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her talent agency UTA after being vocal about the ongoing genocide happening in Palestine at a pro-Palestinian rally.
(Source: Deadline)
The speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style). Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words:
Friends,
Congratulations, and heartfelt…
When Palestinian fighters commit war crimes, the West/Press loses no time to speak of “acts of pure evil”. When the Israeli military commit war crimes, the West/Press describes them as “inevitable”, as Acts of God - like a Volcano erupting as is its wont, as its nature dictates.
I condemn every killing with equal passion. What I refuse to do is to join the ritualistic condemnation of one side whose very purpose is to take the side of a state cynically, intertemporally and brutally imposing Apartheid over many decades. This is no different to 1981 when as…
@yanisvaroufakis
If you can’t condemn the killing of babies just because they are Jews - please don’t speak about antisemitism. As a Jew, as an Israeli, as a Socialist and as a peace seeker - I am heartbroken because of your statements in the last days.
Germany's Interior Ministry has issued a “Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not just a ban on visiting Germany but also from participation via Zoom. Here is the speech whose publication caused this ban. Judge for yourselves!
Kudos South Africa - for your substantive, tightly argued 80-page charge of genocidal intent against Israel, replete with references to senior UN officials & reports. Who is next? Anyone in authority in Europe interested in promoting human rights?
Hear the screams in the background but, above all, LISTEN to Dr Mads Gilbert, Norwegian surgeon, sending a heart-wrenching message, from Al Shifa Hospital, to Biden, Blinken and Europe's non-existent leaders.
President Zelenski just abused the Greek Parliament's invitation by sharing its platform with members of the neoNazi Azov Battalion, thus undermining the Ukrainian people's heroic resistance to Putin's criminal invasion. We stand with Ukraine, not with the Azov neoNazi Battalion
I have no right to comment on Catalan independence. It is for the Catalans to decide. BUT, the rest of us must rise up against politicians being sentenced to long prison stretches in the heart of Europe for pursuing political agendas mandated by voters
‘All ICU patients’ dead in al-Shifa amid Israel raid, according to the Hospital's director. No further comment needed. Just a question to Europe's leaders: Are you sleeping OK at night?
The only issue today should be to stop the war and to secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. The only way that could happen is a Washington-Moscow agreement that Russia withdraws in exchange for a commitment of Ukrainian neutrality. Anything else is war mongering.
To the staff writers at The Guardian: The US airforce serviceman who burned himself alive in front of the Israeli Embassy did not, as you wrote, die "shouting about Palestine". No, he died heroically shouting Free Palestine. OK?
How exactly are any surviving Gaza civilians supposed to return to these homes? 😭 According to international law, Israel owes them full restitution, because it is not acceptable to harm civilians and their livelihood even during war. Let’s fight for a huge reparations bill! ✊
“The Irish Government must take the lead and refer Israel to the International Criminal Court and send the Israeli Ambassador home.”
- Mary Lou McDonald TD
Suspend Apartheid Israel from International Sports. Like we once suspended Apartheid South Africa. Apartheid must end. Once and for all. Sign DiEM25's petition now!
#diem25
#BanIsraelFromSport
A 25-yr old sets himself on fire in protest of the massacres in Gaza and to support Palestinians at a time of genocide and the Press presents it as a mere suicide, forgetting to mention Gaza, Palestinians, Israel. Goebbels would be proud of the Western Press and Orwell horrified
Why did he do it?
Four major news outlets have almost the exact same headline for the self-immolation of 25-year old Aaron Bushnell. Not one of them mentions the words “Gaza” or “genocide,” the reason for Aaron’s protest, or the word “Palestine,” his last words spoken.
The West believes in democracy, but not when governments it doesn't like are elected. It respects sovereignty unless it decides to invade, as in Iraq. It supports Taiwan's self-determination, not Kashmir's or the Kurds'. It supports human rights, but not in oil-rich countries. It…
The question was always this: How far must Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians proceed before our utterly justified collective guilt over the Holocaust (as Europeans) no longer prevents us from confronting Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?
Equally respectfully, Hamas is what you get when you push a whole people into desperation, you ethnically cleanse them and you humiliate those leaders of theirs who laid down their arms, recognised Israel and ended up with nothing to show for it but annexation & settlers
@yanisvaroufakis
Mr. Varoufakis, respectfully, I direct you to the martyr poster published by Hamas to commemorate these combatants. I hope you’re able to retract.
It is now official. After starving Palestinians intentionally, Israel lied about the only agency able to feed some of them to prevent it from doing so. And the West fell for it, deepening its complicity in this war crime.
Mr Biden, by vetoing 13 out of 15 UN Security Council members' call for an immediate ceasefire (along with the UK's cowardly abstention), you have joined the Pantheon of recent War Criminals, along with George W. Bush and V. Putin. Congratulations!
IS ISRAEL NOT ENGAGED IN A WAR FOR ITS VERY EXISTENCE?
No, it is not. Israel is a nuclear-armed state with perhaps the most technologically advanced army in the world and the panoply of the US military machine (including aircraft carriers at the ready) having its back. There is…
83 years ago Greece said NO to fascism. To honour that magnificent defiance today, we have a duty to say another NO to turning a blind eye to, or to the shedding of crocodile tears over, the genocide in Gaza. No people can be free if indifferent to the massacre of another.
Did Israeli Minister Dichter just confess to the 1948 Nakba, that Israel ALWAYS denied, so as to advocate a Nakba 2.0? Does the West & the International Criminal Court need more evidence that Israeli officials PROUDLY announce the INTENTION to commit the ultimate WAR CRIME?
This is why we need immediate intl intervention:
"Gaza Nakba 2023. That's how it will end." This is what minister Dichter (former Minister of Internal Security and Shin Bet director) said to channel 12 tonight about the mass evacuation of residents from the northern Gaza Strip.
Disagreeing with a UN resolution or with a speech by its SecGen is perfectly OK. Threatening to teach the UN a lesson is definitely not OK - such threats were not even uttered by reps of the roguest of rogue states.
1982: Sharon invades Lebanon to destroy the PLO. Thus Hizbollah was born. 2002: Arafat is crushed to end hopes of Palestinian state. Thus Hamas rose up. Now Israel is pulverising Gaza to destroy Hamas. [All such moves had full US support.] Any guesses of likely outcomes?
We call on Keir Starmer to resign, or better still for Labour to dump him,
after his spectacular failure to condemn all war crimes and to support a ceasefire.
Keir Starmer, resign now! Sign the petition
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#StarmerResign
Gaza is, now, where mass death is the policy but the true face of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is shown in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel-proper where the police is covering up the settlers' pogroms (without even the excuse of Hamas)
On Friday, after midnight, settlers vandalized a Palestinian coffee shop off Route 60, near the village of a-Sawiya. Police summoned by the owner arrested him and confiscated footage from his security camera.
As the bombs fall on Gaza and Palestinian flesh is torn apart... As Israelis grieve lost ones and fear for their future... let the rest of us press our governments to announce the World's Demands: Ceasefire. Release of hostages. End of Apartheid. Equal Civil Liberties for All!
Just imagine the headlines if Putin had bombed a hospital in Kharkiv killing 500 people, many of them kids, and then blamed it on the Ukrainians... Nothing makes Vlad happier than watching the West's touching attempts to overtake his callous cynicism...
Milei is no anarcho-capitalist. Robert Nozick (author of ANARCHY, STATE & UTOPIA) was that. No, Milei is a new Videla in libertarian clothing determined to end the mere possibility of Argentinian democratic sovereignty. As for dollarisation vs inflation, it is like nuking a…
BREAKING 🇦🇷 President-elect Javier Milei confirms that he will close Argentina's Central Bank, privatize state-owned energy company YPF, sell off all public broadcast networks, and travel to the US and Israel before inauguration on 10 December.
About to visit prisoner A9397AY who has been rotting in solitary for 3.5 years 23 out of every 24 hours. Why? For the crime of proper journalism of the kind that exposes to us what our gvts do behind our backs in our name. Free Julian. No one can be free while he rots in prison
Netanyahu just announced his plan forcibly to transfer - and possibly deport - 1.3 million
#Palestinians
from Rafah. The West's continued silence during this never-ending atrocity will be remembered by future generations as a singular moral failure.
BREAKING:
#Israel
's Netanyahu confirms operational plans to forcibly transfer - and possibly deport - 1.3 million
#Palestinians
coerced to
#Rafah
at
#Gaza
's most southern end. An operational plan conceived, as I had argued, four months ago.
With every hour that passes, with every Palestinian massacred, starved and left to die without medical care, Europe sinks deeper into a moral black hole from which we shall never truly resurface.
I have been made aware of a detailed record of Israel's violations of International Humanitarian Law since Oct. 7th. It takes the form of a detailed and well-researched list that includes sources and is kept up to date.
Haim Katz, Israeli cabinet minister from Netanyahu’s Likud party, exposed Israel's endgame: “Today, we have the opportunity to rebuild and expand the land of Israel. This is our final opportunity.” There can be no more accurate definition of a call to genocide than this.
He laughs in Biden's face by rejecting the 2-state solution that Biden claims is the answer but Biden continues to send him massive bombs to drop on the Palestinians. Nothing more to say...
Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than that in all world conflicts in 20th century, Haaretz newspaper says. I would put it more directly, less politely: The US-EU are complicit in megadeath.
You don't care that it is the 1st of May? You don't like trades unions? You abhor strikes & industrial action? OK. But then give back weekends, overtime pay, child labour laws, safety regulations, accident & health insurance, the 40-hr working week. And, yes, your pension!
Glad that the guns will be silenced for even one hour. Glad to see even one hostage (Israeli or Palestinian) released. But, then what? Back to bombing 2 million people until either they are dead or they agree to go into permanent exile while settlers rampage across the W. Bank…
In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵
Some sanity in the midst of warmongering and NATO fetishism: "Sweden’s centre-left prime minister has ruled out applying for membership of Nato, saying it would “destabilise” the security of northern Europe." As reported in the Financial Times
A victory for the politics of division and a spectacular own goal for the extreme centre who chose to conduct a war of attrition against J. Corbyn's sensible Brexit, while treating Leavers & democracy with contempt. Little Englandism triumphed vs a genuinely United Kingdom.
"There are no innocents in Gaza" said Avigdor Lieberman, Knesset Member and formerly Finance and Foreign Minister. Babies and all! Do you need more evidence that Israel's ruling coalition is proclaiming its genocidal intent?
Lula's election was a crucial victory for common sense and decency. From 1st January, the struggle begins to convert it into a victory for the many, not the few.
How about stopping deliveries of bombs to Israel Ms Harris? How about imposing sanctions on Netanyahu & Co. until they do what you asked? Of course not. You are elevating hypocrisy to a new level by arming the hand that you then accuse of killing.
The left's Hamas cheerleading has reached a new low. Yanis Varoufakis has compared the racist slaughter of hundreds of Jews to black people's courageous struggle against South African Apartheid. This is a grotesque distortion, says Norman Lewis
Lest we forget: Israel's army is wiping out any chance of Peace by utilising the temporary lull in Gaza to raid Jenin in the West Bank. That's what Western gvts are supporting behind the lie of a 2-state solution: The complete annexation of the West Bank once Gaza is 'cleansed'.
We read that "150 Palestinian women and children might be freed from Israeli jails". Does the West realise it has been supporting a state imprisoning the children of an occupied people? Does it? Do our US-EU leaders have no shame?
As an economist my assessment of Labour's 2019 Manifesto is simple: the measured, bold, well targeted, moderate response to the UK's need and capacities. My assessment as a citizen: A rare breath of fresh air!
Labour just launched their manifesto for real change, and it's the most groundbreaking manifesto this country has ever seen.
We know these ideas are popular, but this often isn't reported in the media. Show you back Labour's manifesto now! 👇
#RealChange
@eucopresident
Probably very similar to the place reserved for those who designed a monetary union without a proper banking union and, once the banking crisis hit, transferred cynically the bankers' gigantic losses onto the shoulders of the weakest taxpayers.
The truth usually comes out, in the end. Propagandists of the aggressors simply try to delay its revelation until it is too late for public opinion to care.
Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket.
@nytimes
Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.
I just heard that Kier Starmer expelled Ken Loach from the Labour Party. I hope this is fake news. If not, all he managed is to expel Labour's soul, leaving behind an arid, soulless Labour Party - one that is even poorer than under Blair and his fellow war criminals.
When a former Mossad Director concurs that Israel is imposing Apartheid on the Palestinians, is there more to say other than "End Apartheid to Give Peace a Chance"?
Enough war! What should be done now?
· Immediate ceasefire
· Free all detainees, Israeli & Palestinian
· Arms embargo & sanctions on Israel
· Recognition of a Palestinian State
· UN Peace Process to end Apartheid & grant Equal Political Rights to All, Jews & Palestinians
It is now obvious that Netanyahu's objective is his own political survival by means of extending the Gaza massacre ad infinitum. Any gvt that refuses to see this, and thus demand a UN Peace Keeping & Humanitarian Relief Operation in Gaza, is complicit.
"I don't want fans, I want comrades. This is a struggle. This is not lifestyle, this is not showbusiness. This is a major struggle for the spirit of humanity, and Germany is a battleground. Because once again, a proud nation- a proud people, the German people- are being dragged…
Israeli politicians are OPENLY calling for war crimes (e.g., the subjugation of a population to thirst and hunger) as a means to their end - the end being none other than to blackmail the hungry and thirsty into becoming informants. When will the West sanction Israel?
"בלי רעב וצמא אצל האוכלוסייה העזתית לא נצליח לגייס משת"פ, לא נצליח לגייס מודיעין, לא נצליח לשחד אנשים, באוכל, בשתייה, בתרופות, כדי להשיג מודיעין ואנחנו יודעים שמציאת החטופים היא מטרה עליונה וסופר חשובה לצד מטרות הלחימה." - כך אמרה ח"כ טלי גוטליב במליאת הכנסת
@TallyGotliv
A key sanction that helped demoralise the racists in charge of Apartheid South Africa, and brought down their Apartheid regime, was the exclusion of South African teams and athletes from all international sporting facilities for as long as the blacks had no rights and faced a…
Remembering the Wikileaks cables on Palestine - part of our campaign to release Julian Assange.
One cable reveals that the Palestinian Authority had requested assistance from Israel in defeating Hamas. In another cable, we learn that Israel determined that Hamas’ rise in Gaza…
Some call this a sordid deal. I don't. For a simple reason: No politician should EVER be imprisoned for political campaigns that ought to be legal in any democracy. Catalan separatists should never have been charged in the first place.
Echoes of the abduction of Assange from Ecuador's London embassy: Ecuadorian police just stormed Mexico's embassy in Quito to abduct Correa’s ex VP. What the hell is happening to the so-called International Order? Genocide in Palestine. Israel's bombing of Iran's embassy in…
No one who wants to see fails to recognise what Israel is up to: Wholesale ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank and E. Jerusalem - with the FULL complicity of the US, the UK, Germany, France and the rest of the sad EU minions keeping quiet out of fear.