Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

One of the largest US organizers of pro-Palestinian protests, Samidoun, has just been labeled a terrorist organization. 🤦🏿

"In the US, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the sanctions, while the Canadian governmenthas listed Samidoun as a “terrorist entity” under its criminal code."

https://samidoun.net/2024/10/we-keep-resisting-us-and-canada-sanction-samidoun/

#FreePalestine #Canada #USPol #Samidoun

I honestly don't really have a whole lot to add here except that the idea Netanyahu might skate for genocide and crimes against humanity because he killed all three Hamas guys the ICC wanted to charge for balance is a level of morally relativistic repugnance even someone as grimly cynical as myself would have a hard time predicting.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/icc-arrest-warrants-israel

ICC Will Withdraw War Crimes Charges If Sinwar Confirmed Dead. Also: Netanyahu Still Alive

"In an opinion piece published earlier this week by Al Jazeera, former United Nations official Moncef Khane wrote that "the ICC's credibility is hanging by a thread."

"It took Khan no less than seven months to recommend to the court's pre-trial chamber the issuance of warrants of arrest for Netanyahu and Gallant, notwithstanding a rather formidable amount of evidence of their personal responsibility in the war crimes perpetrated in Gaza," he noted.

"Now that he has done his duty, it is for the three sitting judges of the pre-trial chamber to decide whether to issue the warrants or not," Khane added. "The glaring and extraordinary amount of evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and crime of aggression is such that were they to abscond from their responsibility, they would ring the death knell of the ICC."

In a word? Yep. Like you gotta be fucking kidding me right? I have no idea how this story ends, but if this bullshit walks the ICC is finished and might as well disband. It's not like they're materially effective anyway, but if even symbolic justice is a bridge too far because we don't want to appear to be singling out Israel, even when the nation is lead by a genocidal crook fascist ordering murders every day, then the organization serves no purpose whatsoever.

#Imperialism #Genocide #Israel #Gaza #Lebanon #ICC #Justice #Fascism

An ongoing Zionist pressure campaign against Australian universities has resulted in government recommendations for an investigation. The resulting inquiry will put academia under constant political scrutiny in defense of Zionism.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/australia-is-dismantling-academic-freedom-in-defense-of-zionism/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

The attack on Samidoun is an attack on the entire anti-imperialist movement, and marks the beginning of a wave of broader criminalization and repression of pro-resistance speech.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/we-are-all-samidoun/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

"For Palestinians, humanisation has indeed been conditional—tied to their ability to fit Western narratives, whether through language, media portrayals or appeals to shared values that the Global North deems acceptable. A striking example is Bisan Owada’s series for AJ+, where she documents her daily life under Israel’s bombardment, often having to convey her story in ways that resonate with Western audiences"

#Arabs #Palestine

Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?
https://www.juancole.com/2024/10/west-humanize-arabs.html

First issue of the @theonion arrived. I think it's the first newspaper I've held in years. 🤣 It's the August issue but hey I live in Australia so nothing gets here fast.

Folks, IANA have not said anything about .io, and until they do - don't believe anything that tries to make any bold claims.

".io is going away" - not until the actual authority who can make that decision says so, and so far they've said *nothing*.

'A concerted mobilisation campaign spanning several weeks saw thousands of people calling for the South African government to comprehensively isolate Israel through the implementation of an Apartheid Convention Bill.' https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/calls-for-israel-boycott-intensify-3db7b155-71e6-45b2-9cf3-043811c3f653 #BDS #Israel

So far in #debphoshfund our efforts were in identifying priority areas for mobile gnu/linux.

Now we are moving to the next stage, contacting maintainers of specific projects and setting up a bounty / targeted fund raising.

Our first such project is make @organicmaps adaptive / responsive on mobile screen.

Currently gnu/linux frontend is different from android and ios. It is using QT but not yet using kirigami or other options smaller screens.

https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/4408#discussioncomment-10835771

#osm #debian #mobian

Universities only do this when they're very distressed!

#Pine64 Update: #RISCV StarPro64 / Oz64 / Quartz64-Zero

https://pine64.org/2024/10/02/september_2024/

This thread by https://x.com/SolidEvidence gives an update on the Bavarian BA.5 chronic case that has apparently been evolving in an 18-month-plus chronic infection.

It was detected in wastewater samples by https://x.com/LongDesertTrain.

This thread will try to add some context on the sharing of global wastewater samples.

#COVID19 #BA_5 #cryptic #Germany #Bavaria #Wastewater
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1841557426296013029.html
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Stay tuned...

Current reporting from NYT and others (gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/17/world/israel-hamas-war-news?unlocked_article_code=1.LU4.yQNN.lrxL0ef79K2O&smid=url-share) essentially confirms the speculation: Supply chain tampering with a new batch 3000 pagers from Taiwan ordered by Hezbollah involving adding 2oz of explosive material near the battery. Reports of 2800 injured, implying that essentially all of them went off, apparently nearly simultaneously, suggesting this was not targeting particular individuals (just anyone with a pager in the batch). At least nine deaths so far.