Per partecipare alla fiera della piccola e media editoria “Più libri più liberi”, che si svolgerà a Roma, le case editrici dovranno ottenere quest’anno il “patentino antifascista”, sottoscrivendo un’apposita dichiarazione. È così che la sinistra concepisce la libertà di pensiero: sei libero, ma solo se dici quello che loro ti permettono di dire, se pensi quello che loro pensano, se leggi quello che loro considerano consono. La cancellazione delle idee non di sinistra, camuffata da lotta antifascista, è un vecchio vizio della sinistra, ma è una storiella alla quale ormai non crede più nessuno. Si chiama, banalmente, censura. E la censura è incompatibile con qualsiasi società democratica.

Since I started my work in the field of human rights in 2014, I have submitted my resignation multiple times after each Israeli offensive on Gaza. After having done my duties as a human rights advocate and -before anything else- as a human being, I fell into depression resulting from desperation over international inaction towards war crimes, and for weeks, sometimes even months, I felt we were screaming into the void. I was known for submitting resignations after each attack until it turned into a joke at the organisation and among my colleagues. As we move to close the physical space of our Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) Gaza office, fearing for the safety of our staff following an escalating Israeli campaign in retaliation for our documentation of Israeli abuses, and most recently the release of our report on sexual violence in Israel’s places of detention, I came across this message sent by my manager on the morning of 7 October 2023. Jokingly, he said: “I’m telling you from now, your resignation will be rejected,” and then followed it with another message: “If you stay alive, of course" I sent him the screenshot this morning, reminding him that I “happened to” stay alive, but that, bizarrely, I haven’t submitted my resignation, not during the genocide, not following the ceasefire agreement, and not even now, as an Israeli incitement campaign is escalating. While the world was looking away as a genocide was being livestreamed on their screens, I questioned the point of our work countless times. As I quietly recited the Shahada (the statement of faith before death) each time I entered a school to document testimonies, I questioned whether the world actually deserved more evidence to finally acknowledge that the target was everything called Palestinian, not just a certain political or armed group. I had so many existential questions, but, to my astonishment (and that of my colleagues), not even once did I submit my resignation. With each human rights defender, activist, or journalist targeted, I came to realise more and more that something about them was annoying the perpetrators. And for the first time in my life, I found a purpose in what I want to be; that if I couldn’t stop war criminals, I want to live the rest of my life annoying them. As we close the door to our beloved Gaza office, we have finally, more than ever, found a purpose in continuing what we do by all means, under all circumstances.

“Nevo e il vizio di diluire le persone nelle ideologie” L’intervento di Paolo Giordano, sul @corriere (Ma forse, in questo caso, non si tratta di una disputa tra ideologie, ma di prendere posizione su un genocidio, o meglio, se avere un atteggiamento neutrale o negazionista di fronte a un genocidio in atto e documentatissimo)

German FM Wadephul yesterday on Israel's illegal settlements: "our voice is being heard in Israel and no further measures are warranted at this moment” A few hours later: Israeli cabinet expected to approve a plan to fund de facto establishment of 61 new West Bank settlements

Shocking that the Commission hasn’t tabled a proposal yet to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements. And that one member state ( 🇩🇪 ) is bending over backwards to prevent this from happening. Shame

Israeli authorities have deliberately accelerated formal annexation of the occupied West Bank through a state-driven ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer. Our new report is out now. It shows that: ➡️Palestinians Bedouins and herding communities have been erased from their ancestral land, cut off from their pastures, and terrorized into fleeing their homes amid this ➡️What is happening is not an historical or political aberration ➡️The ethnic cleansing campaign is NOT new. It is rooted in Israel’s longstanding system of apartheid, a crime against humanity perpetrated by Israel against all Palestinians under its control for years. Decades. ➡️The campaign is NOT driven by some rogue settlers. The international community is guilty of mischaracterizing the annexation as “settlers’ violence” driven by some bad apples or “extremist” ministers. ➡️Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is state-sanctioned, state-implemented and state-enforced. ➡️What the the 37th Israel government – a coalition between the Likud, the Jewish Power and Religious Zionism parties - has done is to accelerate a campaign of ethnic cleansing and longstanding oppressive practices, making them more aggressive, and more destructive. ➡️Israel’s turbo-charged campaign of ethnic cleansing must be met with an equal surge of measures by states around the world. ➡️We are calling on states to ban all trade, investment relations and activities that contribute to, or are directly linked to Israel’s unlawful occupation, system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. ➡️This must include banning the provision of funds or any other assistance to organizations that are integral to the settlement enterprise and apartheid system. ➡️The EU in particular must leverage its influence by expediting the long overdue suspension of its association agreement with Israel and suspending visa-free access to all Israeli settlers living in the OPT. ➡️We are also calling on states to impose unilateral, targeted sanctions, against senior Israeli officials directly implicated in Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel Katz, Bezalel Smotrich, and Orit Strock. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

Contro il parere dei giudici, gli Stati sospendono il procuratore Khan Nonostante il collegio interno non avesse ravvisato cattiva condotta, il bureau dell'Assemblea mette all'angolo il capo della procura Tra i voti a favore ci sarebbe quello dell'Italia Ora le indagini sulla Palestina rischiano davvero di saltare @ChiaraCruciati ilmanifesto.it/contro-il-par…

Caso Flotilla, il ministro israeliano Ben Gvir indagato a Roma: è accusato di tortura, sequestro di persona, tentato omicidio trib.al/WGCnvHR

Genocid nad Palestinci ni ustavljen in ljudje v Gazi in na Zahodnem bregu ne živijo v miru in dostojanstvu. Danes izobešena zastava Palestine na pročelju Predsedniške palače, ki bo tu ostala en teden, potem pa bo, kot opomin vsem, ki obiščejo moj urad, stala v notranjih prostorih, pa pomeni še mnogo več. Je simbol grobih kršitev mednarodnega humanitarnega prava in človekovih pravic ne samo v Palestini, pač pa tudi drugod po svetu. Je preprost klic k spoštovanju temeljnega civilizacijskega načela: človekovega dostojanstva - za vse.

Father of Palestinian baby shot dead by IDF: I stopped, then they opened fire haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-0…