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#ZohranMamdani Shows #Democrats How Not to Take the Bait

By refusing to capitulate on "globalize the intifada," Mamdani rejected a long tradition of demonizing Arabic language.

from #TheIntercept
Yousef Munayyer
July 10 2025, 6:30 a.m

[excellent article, with very interesting background on the word "initifada"]

In the days before the primary, #Mamdani was asked repeatedly about the slogan “globalize the #intifada” on the assumption that because he has spoken out against #Israel’s ongoing genocide in #Gaza, he should have to answer for the protest cry. He said that he had not used it himself, but he didn’t cede rhetorical territory to the political establishment by condemning the phrase. Rather than take the bait, Mamdani made clear that many take “globalize the intifada” as a call to demand #Palestinian equal rights, and that he doesn’t see it as his role to police speech.

theintercept.com/2025/07/10/ma

#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump #Palestine
#news #press #politics @palestine

The Intercept · Zohran Mamdani Shows Democrats How Not to Take the BaitBy Yousef Munayyer

Antisemitismus: Intifada-Sprechchöre und Widerstandsaufrufe münden in Gewalt

Belltower.News

Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 nimmt die Gewaltverherrlichung und die Verklärung von Terror als Widerstand immer bedrohlichere Ausmaße an. Die Zahl der Angriffe nimmt zu. In Washington D.C. ermordete ein Attentäter zuletzt zwei Menschen und rief „Free Palestine“. Wie ist die Lage in Deutschland? Antisemitismus führt zu Gewalt. Das lässt sich nicht leugnen und hat viel mit der Struktur dieser Ideologie…

Quelle

#ICE #Uprising #civilwar
#Intifada Update June 12 2:40 EDT:

The Intifada against Trump and ICE is spreading, we have serious fighting in multiple cities and National Guard deployments to multiple cities.

Both civil wars and revolutions often start like this. The Syrian civil war certainly did.

As of now we have:

National Guard deployed in LA, Marines about to deploy
Fighting continues in LA anyway

Fighting in San Francisco too

Fighting in Seattle

Cop cars set on fire in a police parking lot in NYC

Cop cars smashed in a battle in Atlanta

Fighting in Austin, Texas
Texas Governor Abbot mobilizing the TX National Guard himself against protesters

National Guard being deployed by Trump to 5 more "deep blue" cities some of which don't even have fighting yet.

So far the pattern looks like this:

In cities not experiencing ICE raids and where police do not attack protesters, the protests stay peaceful.

In cities with a critical mass of community defenders, ICE raids are resisted by force. Fighting then continues after the initial raid is defeated or limited by defenders.

In cities where police assault peaceful protesters, force is sometimes (not always) met with force. Fighting may then continue for the duration

Video: cop cars burn in an NYC police parking lot. Published by Unity of Fields so unlikely to be old recycled 2020 footage.

We've absolutely been cast out of the left for no reason other than being too Jewey.

"#Protests against #Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations that have engulfed #SanFrancisco’s streets this week took an #antisemitic turn on Monday night when a local #Jewish-owned civic engagement hub and community space had its windows smashed and walls defaced with slurs including “Die Zio,” “The Only Good #Settler is a Dead One,” “Death 2 #Israel is a Promise” and “#Intifada.”

“There is no justification for attacking me other than the fact that I am Jewish,” Manny Yekutiel, owner of the #MissionDistrict event space Manny’s, which is in disrepair following the #vandalism and break-in, told Jewish Insider. “My business is not a pro-Israel business. I am not #Israeli. This is not a space that represents Israel in any way.”

jewishinsider.com/2025/06/anti

Jewish Insider · Anti-ICE protesters vandalize Jewish-owned community center with antisemitic graffitiOwner Manny Yekutiel: ‘There is no justification for attacking me other than the fact that I am Jewish’

Why is it that all across the world these protests are in diaspora neighborhoods instead of at Israeli embassies?

Dragging a big ass cross through your Iocal Jewish neighborhood on Shabbos during Passover yelling about killing babies and shit is not protesting Israel it's protesting your local Jews. And with some very very old anti-Jewish symbolism.

"#Essex Police are facing fierce criticism over alleged “two-tier policing” after anti-#Israel #protesters marched through a #Jewish area of Westcliff-on-Sea on #Shabbat during #Passover.

Chanting “Stop killing children” and “#Intifada,” dozens of #demonstrators paraded through the residential streets as Jewish families were returning home from #synagogue.

Footage shared online shows the marchers – some at the front dressed in #religious garments associated with #Christianity and carrying a large #cross – making their way through Westcliff, a suburb of Southend. Some held bloodied fabric representing dead children."

thejc.com/news/uk/two-tier-pol

The Jewish Chronicle · ‘Two-tier’ policing row after Gaza protest in Jewish area on PassoverBy Jane Prinsley

Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer during the 2nd Intifada. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Corie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She had travelled to Rafah as part of her college's (Evergreen State, in Olympia, WA) senior-year independent-study project to connect Olympia and Rafah with each other as sister cities. Under Trump, her college would likely be stripped of federal funding for allowing such a project, and Corie, herself, might have been deemed a terrorist.

According to a January 2025 report, by the United Nations Office of Coordinated Human Affairs, 92% of all housing units in Gaza are now either destroyed, or severely damaged. 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents are internally displaced. And 345,000 face catastrophic food insecurity.

ochaopt.org/content/reported-i

Today in Labor History March 5, 1965: A Leftist uprising against British colonialism erupted in Bahrain, known as the March Intifada. The uprising began after the Bahrain Petroleum Company laid off hundreds of workers at on March 5, 1965. Students at Manama High School, the only high school in Bahrain, went out into the streets to protest the lay-offs. Several people died in the clashes between protesters and police. The authorities quickly suppressed the uprising. However, as news of the crackdown spread, protests erupted throughout the country, creating a nationwide uprising which lasted for a month.

#Antisemitismus in #London: Die Rote Linie

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Die Zusammensetzungen von Protesttruppen wie der in der Finchley Road zeigt: "Zionist" ist auch deswegen zur neuen Diffamierungsformel geworden, weil sie ein Feindbild beschreibt, auf das sich radikale #Muslime und die radikale #Linke einigen können. Diese Umarmung wird auf Londons Straßen immer inniger. Seit dem 7. Oktober ziehen samstags Demonstranten in gewaltiger Zahl durch das Zentrum der britischen Hauptstadt, die gegen den angeblichen "Genozid" in Gaza protestieren.

Im November 2023 waren es laut Polizeiangaben allein an einem Wochenende über 300.000 Menschen. In der Menge laufen #Hamas-Unterstützer, die eine "globale #Intifada" fordern, Seite an Seite mit Gewerkschaftern, linken Gruppen oder queeren Christen. Intifada ist das arabische Wort für Erhebung. Bei der letzten palästinensischen Intifada in den Jahren 2000 bis 2005 wurden mehr als 1.000 Israelis getötet, unter anderem durch Selbstmordattentate und Bombenangriffe auf Busse.

Laut einer Umfrage unter 1.000 repräsentativ ausgewählten britischen Muslimen vom April 2024, die die konservativ-liberale Londoner Henry Jackson Society in Auftrag gegeben hatte, glaubt nur ein Viertel von ihnen, dass die Hamas am 7. Oktober 2023 Morde und Vergewaltigungen verübt hat. Nach derselben Erhebung haben auch nur 24 Prozent der britischen Muslime eine negative Einstellung gegenüber der Hamas.

Ein älterer britischer Muslim hatte kürzlich keine Hemmungen, den Satz "Zionisten sind dreckige Tiere" in ein Reportermikrofon zu sprechen. Und eine Sprecherin auf einer Demo verkündete in Hörweite von Polizisten: "Diese Leute sind unheilbar geistesgestört, und die Krankheit heißt #Zionismus. Vielleicht muss man sie einfach einschläfern." #Juden werden mit #Zionisten gleichgesetzt und Zionisten mit "Genozid-Unterstützern" oder gleich "Nazis". Es ist nicht nur ein beeindruckender intellektueller Flickflack, sondern auch eine herausragende Bosheit, jene Minderheit, die im #Holocaust fast vernichtet worden wäre, mit den Verbrechern auf eine Stufe zu stellen, die sie auslöschen wollten. 」

(Geschenkartikel, keine Paywall)

zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2025/08/a

ZEITmagazinAntisemitismus in London: Die Rote LinieWeil Juden beschimpft wurden, gibt es in London nun eine direkte Busverbindung zwischen zwei jüdisch geprägten Vierteln. Kapituliert die Stadt vor dem Antisemitismus?

Demo/sit-in for Palestine

Station Delft, vrijdag 21 februari om 18:00 CET

Delft Student Intifada (source)

The Delft Student Intifada has planned a sit-in to protest TU Delft's continued complicity in the Genocide of Palestinians! We also want to draw attention to the numerous ceasefire violations and the endless oppression, slaughter and dehumanization Palestinians are facing at the hands of the Zionist Entity.

Join us!

Art Credit: ⒹⒾⓃⒺⓁⓁⒾ

acties.todon.nl/event/demosit-

🧯 #XR Justice Now! has drenched Booking.com’s HQ in fake blood, calling out the company for funding and legitimizing illegal settlements in Palestinian territories.

🔨 This follows past protests, including last year’s building blockade and the bold October 2024 action when another group smashed their windows and splattered them with red paint.

🥳 On the exact day Booking.com finished replacing their windows, we thought it would be a nice moment to celebrate the re-opening of their main entrance and to show Booking.com that we will continue our campaign until they comply with our demands.

Figure historique du mouvement français de solidarité avec la #Palestine, Marcel Francis Kahn, l'un des fondateurs de l'Association médicale franco-palestinienne (AMFP) puis de l'association France Palestine Solidarité (qui est le fruit de la fusion au tout début des années 2000 de l'AMFP et de l'association France Palestine), est mort.
Il a toujours eu une position parfaitement claire sur la question de #Palestine, notamment au début de la deuxième #Intifada. Un (véritable) intellectuel engagé comme il en manque un peu aujourd'hui... Lire cet hommage de @EdwyPlenel blogs.mediapart.fr/edwy-plenel

MediapartMarcel-Francis Kahn (1929-2024) : l’humanisme est un internationalismeBy Edwy Plenel

Today in Labor History December 9, 1987: The First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It was series of protests, civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and within the state of Israel against Israeli repression including beatings, shootings, killings, house demolitions, uprooting of trees, deportations, extended imprisonments, and detentions without trial. It lasted over 5 years, until September 1993, ultimately being suppressed by Israeli military force. Up to 200 Israelis and nearly 2,000 Palestinians died. Both the Oslo and Madrid conferences and Peace Accords stemmed from the First Intifada, as well as the PLO’s recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Another result of these accords was the creation of the collaborationist Palestinian Authority (PA), which currently controls the West Bank, and which had controlled the Gaza Strip, until being ousted by Hamas in the 2006 elections. The PA, which is heavily funded by the U.S. and the E.U.

Today in Labor History September 28, 2000: An uprising, known as the Second Intifada, began after the Camp David summit failed and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Lebanon, visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers during this Intifada. Just over 1,000 Israelis died. A tribunal held Sharon personally responsible for the 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre, in Beirut, during the Lebanon War, in which 3,500 Palestinian civilian refugees were slaughtered by Phalangist forces, as Israeli soldiers looked on.