Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
@FranceskAlbs
Palestine is a revealer.
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On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, a delegation of US taxpayers and international human rights attorneys will arrive at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. They will hand-deliver evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor and call for arrest warrants against President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other senior US officials for aiding and abetting Israel in the commission of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The action is historic and unprecedented. US citizens, acting as taxpayers whose money has financed the weapons and the political cover, are placing the highest officials of their own government before the Court that was created to prosecute the gravest crimes when national systems refuse to act.
The submission rests on nearly a year of work by individuals and organizations now organized as the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG). It includes sworn affidavits from doctors who worked in Gaza, firsthand eyewitness accounts, whistleblower testimony, videos, and extensive documentation of US political, military, diplomatic, and financial support. The delivery follows a federal court victory that protected TAAG’s First Amendment right to share that evidence with the Court, after the Trump administration had moved to block cooperation with the ICC through sanctions and executive order.
Read the latest article by Michael Leonardi.
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In 2010, I learned about the Khan Younis massacre through #JoeSacco’s# Footnotes in Gaza. I carried the book on a trip to Gaza. At Erez, a UN official asked me to cover it-lest we upset the Israeli guards.
How long have we normalised Palestinian massacres by keeping them unspoken?
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Today marked the 70th anniversary of the Khan Yunis Massacre.
On November 3, 1956, during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt, Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians in Khan Yunis. According to figures documented by UNRWA, 275 Palestinians were killed, including 140 refugees and 135 local residents. Just nine days later, another 111 people were reported killed in Rafah, bringing the combined reported death toll to 386.
Palestinian survivors described horrifying acts of brutality: Israeli soldiers raiding homes, dragging men into the streets, separating fathers and sons from their families, lining up unarmed civilians against walls, and opening fire with machine guns. Witnesses also described bodies lying in the streets and grieving families unable to bury their loved ones because of military curfews.
Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta recounts how Israeli soldiers rounded up men from Khan Yunis, including teachers, shopkeepers, farmers, and other ordinary civilians, and marched them toward the historic Barquq Castle. According to his account, soldiers lined the men against a wall near a school, ordered them to jump across a ditch, and opened fire with machine guns, turning the ditch into a grave.
Palestinian historian Ihsan Khalil al-Agha documented a higher death toll, estimating approximately 520 victims of executions and other killings during the broader assault and occupation. Survivor testimonies also describe women being left to collect the bodies of their husbands, sons, and brothers and bury them in mass graves.
The attached image shows some of the victims.
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At the height of racist violence against the Palestinians, the EU Commission calls Apartheid Israel - where the bloc led by a PM wanted by the ICC won 53 out of 120 seats- “a vibrant democracy”.
Beyond the pale.
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🚨A pro-Palestinian Jewish group has intervened in the Palestine Action appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Jewish Bloc argues anti-Zionism should not be equated with anti-Semitism and Jewish critics of Israel have not been properly considered by the courts.
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More aggression on journalists.
Stop Apartheid Israel now!
+972 Magazine stands in solidarity with our friend, colleague, and contributor Abed Abou Shhadeh, who was arrested last night in Jaffa by Israeli police and the Shin Bet. No reason was provided for his arrest, and a gag order has been imposed that bars media from reporting on it.
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🇹🇭🇮🇱 Thai residents take to the streets to protest outside the Israeli embassy over the behavior of Israeli tourists in Thailand.
"Thailand is not and cannot be a safe haven for Israel soldiers, who have committed despicable crimes."
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Congratulations to Dr @AbdulElSayed and to all US candidates who have defeated pro-aparheid lobby’s effort to elect politicians that support Israel’s ethnic cleansing and atrocity crimes in Palestine.
May this be the beginning of the end of the rule of lawlessness brought upon us
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El-Sayed: To AIPAC who spent $42 million against us. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice.
.@TaNehisiCoats: "This long war on the Muslim and Arab world has reached its apogee in the concentration camp of Gaza, where every single bomb was dropped from a plane of American extraction...."
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As Special Rapporteur I am pleased to assist the UK Supreme Court this week to reconsider the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, particularly whether it disproportionately affected freedoms of association, assembly and expression
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Hundreds of Jews, including many descendants of Holocaust survivors, together with 12 Jewish organisations, are calling for the de-proscription of Palestine Action
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In the pro-Netanyahu demonstration today, one of his supporters threatens left-wing Jews: "We’ll beat you. You’re the first enemies we’ll send far, far away, to Birkenau, to Auschwitz, and we’ll rebuild Sobibor for you!" Israel 2026. The Jewish state.
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Human rights experts have long warned that the repression of anti-apartheid/anti-genocide protests REVEALED a system in which Israel's apartheid inspires western democracy: rights for some; punishing criticism\dissent; securitizing/militarizing life; tolerance of racist ideology.
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My country, France, is sinking further each day into a system of governance that is authoritarian and destructive to liberty.
Placing activists who oppose their government’s policies under house arrest is an attempt to intimidate and frighten any form of dissent.
Equating their activism with terrorism is revolting, scandalous, and reminiscent of the worst authoritarian regimes around the world.
Resistance is more necessary than ever to defend the values of liberty and solidarity in our country.
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Mr Burnham, Silencing dissent did not use to be a British value. And certainly not a Labour value!
I know something about being banned. In 2024, the German state banned me from political activity on its soil, even by video link. My crime was helping organise a congress in Berlin congress, along with German Jews, about the genocide in Gaza. So I write as someone who has seen at first hand how quickly a liberal democracy sheds its liberalism once the subject turns to Palestine.
Now the UK government has banned Andreas Malm, a respected Swedish academic and author, from entering Britain to speak at the launch of Tribune. For generations, Tribune has given a voice to democrats, socialists and anyone who refuses to accept injustice as the natural order. Keeping one of Europe's important thinkers away from its platform is an act of political censorship, plain and simple.
Andy Burnham's admirers like to think of him as the cuddly antidote to Keir Starmer's stone cold managerialism. This decision shows otherwise. When it comes to silencing those who stand up against the genocide of Palestinians, the new Prime Minister is just as authoritarian and just as callous as the man he replaced. Only the smile is different.
Lift the ban. Let Andreas Malm speak. And let Tribune hold its launch without the state deciding who may address it.
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For the children of Palestine.
The day the police will no longer raise their batons against people standing for human rights and against war-mongering and genocide, will be a beautiful day. The day the police will walk WITH the anti-apartheid and anti-war movement, it will be the beginning of a new era.
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Thousands have protested across Italy against rising living costs and increased military spending, demanding greater investment in healthcare and education. Demonstrations spread to 50 cities, with clashes reported between protesters and police.
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In Indonesia.
Remember when I warned that by removing Gaza #rubble# Israel would destroy human remains deserving burial, together with evidence of crimes?
ProApartheid squads rushed to call me LIAR - after calling me:
Impostor
Antisemite
Hamas spokesperson
Witch.
But we keep receipts.
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*Uprooting trees to uproot the people*
Weeks before the olive harvest, Israel orders uprooting Palestinian olive trees across the occupied West Bank. Thousands have already been destroyed since October 2023.
Environment destruction is part of the accelerated ethnic cleansing.
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Why do western governments:
- partner with Israel against Intl Law/despite widespread public opposition?
- restrict criticism of Israel despite its crimes?
- repress citizens protesting those crimes?
They seem able to afford ignoring their people.
Quite illiberal for democracies.
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FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI
Free Dr. Abu Safyeh
Free all Palestinian hostages from the brutality of the Apartheid.
