Video (see previous post) has emerged of a gang rape of a #Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert, southern #Israel. Ten soldiers were ultimately arrested for the rape on July 29, in a case that has rocked Israeli society. The soldiers belong to a unit known as Force 100, which is tasked with guarding the Sde Teiman facility, according to Haaretz Military prosecutors released three of the arrested soldiers on August 4, adding to the two previously released by investigators following a military court hearing in Kfar Yona on July 30, at which protesters gathered in support of the soldiers under arrest. Bezalel Smotrich demanded “an immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the trending video that was intended to harm the reservists and that caused tremendous damage to Israel in the world and to exhaust the full severity of the law against them”. Following the arrest of the reservists on July 29, far-right mobs, some of which included government ministers, stormed the facility at Sde Teiman. Israeli pressure group Guarding the Soldiers – a new organisation formed in defence of the soldiers accused of rape... #IsraelTerroristState#warcrimes#zioNaZis https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/everything-is-legitimate-israeli-leaders-defend-soldiers-accused-of-rape
"One paramedic said that at the Sde Teiman detention facility he was suspended from a chain attached to handcuffs, electroshocked, denied medical care for broken ribs caused by beatings, & administered what he believed was a psychoactive drug before interrogations.
#Israeli officials have obstructed a UN investigation into alleged sexual crimes committed by Hamas fighters during the 7 October 2023 Al-Aqsa Flood operation, fearing this would open the door to a probe into the rampant allegations of sexual violence against Palestinians inside Israeli torture camps.
According to a report by Israeli daily Haaretz, Tel Aviv rejected a request from Pramila Patten, the #UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on #SexualViolence in Conflict, to investigate the allegations against #Hamas after she established that a necessary condition would be access to Israeli detention centers to probe claims against Israeli soldiers.
Nevertheless, since the start of the Israeli genocide in #Gaza, #humanrights organizations have documented dozens of accounts of the rampant sexual violence inflicted on #Palestinians inside Israeli detention centers.
Undercover as a farm worker in #Germany: ‘My hands are numb. No one knows when the shift will end’ | Saša Uhlová | Modern day slavery in the heart of Europe. Another form of #ClassWar... #eupol#europe#eu#labor#agriculture
The new Jews for the German state are the arabs. Especially those who struggle for "never again". Totalitarian state at its best in the video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGHfIP7XcnM
So yesterday Nancy Faeser, the German interior minister (previously known for multiple anti-Arab propaganda campaigns), announced a ban on Samidoun. The ban on #Samidoun by #German officials is active participation in the ongoing genocide on #Gaza. The purpose of such a ban is to repress dissent with the full force of the state. ... All of this is full-on complicity and particiption in #genocide. ... If it is possible to ban Samidoun, then it is possible to ban every political organization and group in #Germany that challenges the #politics of the German state and its imperialist role. This action comes hand in hand with the United States' ongoing resupply of bombs to target the #Palestinian people in Gaza. It is meant to bolster the Israeli war effort by depriving the Palestinian people of popular support on the streets. https://t.me/samidounnetwork/1396 https://t.me/samidounnetwork/1397
#Germany is becoming a #police state when it comes to #Palestine#activism. "At 6 a.m. on March 22, pro-#Palestinian activists Said and Yasemin, who were asleep in their respective Berlin homes, were awakened by armed and masked police officers who broke down their doors at the same time." "This is not the first time Berlin police raided people’s homes over social media posts. Earlier this month, police knocked down the door of a middle-aged woman who wrote “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” on her social media and arrested her. She was charged with “using the symbols of unconstitutional organizations,” Berlin police said in a statement." "In #Berlin most recently, the state and the media have tried their best to shut down the Palestine Congress, a gathering of international scholars, activists, and journalists. " "A Palestinian friend of mine, Mahmoud, is currently being targeted by the state of Karlsruhe for saying the following during a protest: “Palestine is for all people, from the river to the sea, regardless of their denomination or religion.” That was enough for the state to say he had committed a hate crime by questioning Israel’s right to exist. He is being forced to pay 7,500 euros in fines. " This is extremely DANGEROUS. #AntiFascism https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/germany-is-becoming-a-police-state-when-it-comes-to-palestine-activism/
#Germany 's federal intelligence agency classified the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (#BDS) movement as a suspected extremist organization this week.
This new designation will allow German authorities to monitor BDS activists and recruit informants within the organization.
#Israel has also poured tens of millions of shekels into combating BDS. Germany has now become the latest country to join what is commonly known as "the anti-BDS movement."
(And for the last they left the most racist, anti-muslim, fascist, aspect of the decision)
"Qantara portal, which publishes content in English, German and Arabic, operated successfully for more than 20 years, seemingly with no editorial guidance from the German government. This changed, however, when it began publishing content critical of German debates on anti-Semitism in the context of the #Gaza#genocide. Earlier this year, it was announced that Qantara would be restructured, and its management would be transferred from Deutsche Welle to the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen – IFA), which is affiliated to and funded by the Federal Foreign Office. ...German Foreign Minister Annalena #Baerbock suggesting in an interview that concerns about content published by Qantara, particularly content on anti-Semitism, were a factor in the decision. ...With this one article, published under the editorial control of a Foreign Office-affiliated institute, the #German government burned its “bridge” to the Islamic world." #germany#germancomplicity#racism#antimuslimischerrassismus#StateRacism#antisemitismus#warmongers#warcrimes https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/29/how-germany-burned-its-bridge-to-the-islamic-world
Unidentified #hackers reportedly accessed the Berlin International #Film#Festival’s (#Berlinale) Instagram account and posted infographics calling for a #ceasefire in #Gaza. Though the organization immediately deleted the posts and published a notice disavowing the statement, screenshots had already gone viral on social media, adding fuel to the festival’s controversy as several #German officials have publicly denounced several category winners for calling for a ceasefire in their closing ceremony speeches. A number of Berlinale’s own workers issued a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza earlier this month, followed by over 100 participating filmmakers across various categories signing off on a list of demands for the festival to acknowledge the artists who withdrew their entries and to “confront censorship and the silencing of critical perspectives in the cultural sector in Germany,” among other points. https://web.archive.org/web/20240227013740/https://hyperallergic.com/873838/berlinale-film-festival-hacked-with-pro-palestine-posts/
Is Germany’s stance on Gaza leading artists to avoid one of Europe’s top film festivals?
According to the Berlin Film Festival’s new director, that may be the case.
Tricia Tuttle, who previously ran the BFI London Film Festival and succeeds Carlo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek after having been appointed by Germany’s Culture Minister Claudia Roth, is about to helm her first edition this coming February. She has said that the impression #Germany is giving with regards to controlling free speech on the #MiddleEast conflict is directly affecting her first edition in charge, and that there are fears that criticism of Israel would be condemned as antisemitism in Germany.
Last month, the German parliament passed a resolution on the protection of Jewish life, a controversial move that has led opponents to say that it equates criticism of Israel with #antisemitism.
A video released by B'Tselem shows several masked Israeli settlers threatening the community of Khirbet Wadi a-Rakhim in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied #WestBank on 24 August.
The #Israeli_Settlers had arrived with about 20 cows to graze in a barley field belonging to a Palestinian family.
Carrying clubs, the masked settlers approached one of the Palestinian family's homes, swore at family members and claimed that the land, house, and nearby well was theirs.
One of the settlers, identified as Shem Tov Luski can be seen threatening one of the family members with rape, referencing the rape of #Palestinian detainees at the hands of Israeli soldiers inside #SdeTeiman#prison.
Neither Proletarians - Nor Bosses Toots on the ongoing #ClassWarHistorically, national-socialism is against working class. Keep it, you never know.Gegen nazis and their modern face, neoliberals, including zionists.