"Dear Tereza,

I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.

Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.

I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.

Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."

Original, untranslated text and video is available here https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/cidades-df/2025/06/7171140-direto-da-prisao-em-israel-thiago-avila-envia-carta-a-filha.html

An army scared of 12 unarmed civilians on a boat carrying toys, medicine and baby formula for starving children showing off their trophies they capture after kidnapping the volunteers!

They sure are brave and fearless, not to forget they are the most moral army in the world!
PS. Image from 2024 in Gaza posted on X

#FreedomFlotilla #IDF #Gaza #Starvation #Israel #inhumanity #moralbankruptcy #WTAF #Activism #EUpol #USpol

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Convoy #Soumoud tracking link:

https://al-soumoud-convoy.com/

h/t https://mastodon.social/@la/_voix/114669021127596865

#BreakTheSiege #Sumud
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The single explosion destroyed more than 4,000 embryos and over 1,000 vials of sperm and unfertilized eggs. Dr Bahaeldeen Ghalayini, the obstetrician who established the clinic, summed up the implications of the attack in an interview with Reuters: “5,000 lives in one shell.”

The strike was an act of reprocide: the systematic targeting of a community’s reproductive health with the intention of eliminating their future. In the context of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, reprocide serves as a tactic. Indeed, genocide includes its definition, “imposing measures intended to prevent births” within a particular national, ethnic or religious group.

The bombing of the IVF clinic was one spectacular example, but as a Palestinian women’s rights activist from Gaza, I have lived and witnessed how Israel uses reprocide within a settler colonial framework that seeks not only territorial domination but demographic erasure—a process that began long before October 7, 2023.

When I was 15 years old, following the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2008–2009, Israeli soldiers began wearing and distributing t-shirts that depicted a pregnant woman in crosshairs above the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills.” I recall the fear felt by the pregnant women I knew. The t-shirts prompted people around me to recount stories of pregnant women being killed or wounded during other moments of extreme violence in Palestinian history, from the start of the Nakba in 1948 to the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982. Underscoring the eliminationist nature of this violence, Israel remains among the world’s leaders in assisted reproduction technology, actively encouraging birth rates among Jewish citizens.

In an effort to trace the effects of reprocide amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, between October 2023 and October 2024, I collected ethnographic evidence—voice notes, text messages, emails and phone calls—from those enduring or witnessing reproductive violence. Analyzing their accounts alongside official reports from Gaza reveals the many ways Israel has weaponized reproduction, some more obvious than others: from the direct assaults on reproductive health and infrastructure to the conditions it forces women and men to reproduce under to sexual violence and its role in reproductive erasure.

Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.

[This is a must-read article on the recent killings in DC and the attack on the protest in Boulder, Colorado.]

from Jewish Currents
Daniel May
June 11, 2025

Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
via https://x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933107350455640426

>>
Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.

>>
The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
Şuayb Ordu (Turkey),
Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
Reva Viard (France), and
Rima Hassan (France).
So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31472497

Greta Thunberg speaking with France 24 after her deportation from Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1WEhO07Bw

Murtaza Hussain, Waqas Ahmed, and Ryan Grim Jun 09, 2025

"A review of leaked data from Meta, provided to us by company whistleblowers, shows that Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions.

We also just posted the translated audio of an extraordinary interview just given by former Israeli PM Yair Lapid, who is often discussed as a more humane, centrist alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu. Give it a listen and see if you agree with that label."

Zur Einstufung der Jüdischen Stimme und BDS als “gesichert extremistisch” durch den Verfassungsschutz (2025-06-12)

https://juedische-stimme.de/zur-einstufung-der-j%C3%BCdischen-stimme-und-bds-als-%E2%80%9Cgesichert-extremistisch%E2%80%9D-durch-den-verfassungsschutz

#Germany
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31421240

By YESICA FISCH and TIA GOLDENBERG Updated 11:14 AM EDT, June 9, 2025

"The activists had set out to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II, and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid, both of which have put the territory of around 2 million Palestinians at risk of famine."

Journalist MosabAbuToha shares a witness account of an attack near a Rafah GHF site this morning:

• Around 3AM, gunmen speaking fluent Palestinian dialect gathered crowds, pretending to manage aid lines.

• At 7AM, they opened fire — shooting some people in the head — before fleeing toward Rafah, where Israeli forces are stationed.

Link to Mohsen's full interview

Jonah Valdez
June 5 2025, 6:00 a.m.

"In late May, UCSF terminated Rupa Marya following a nine-month suspension from the elite medical school based on social media posts in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza and questioned how Zionist ideology affects health care outcomes. As a part of her dismissal, UCSF officials will place a letter of censure in Marya’s file for 10 years, which she said will likely damage her ability to seek future employment and continue practicing medicine. "

Stop administrative arrests! a solidarity and protest vigil. We stand as unified voice against the political harassment and arbitrary arrests. we stand in solidarity with our administrative detainees who are arrested without trial, in contradiction to human and legal values.
In front of #Haifa courthouse, 12.6, 15:30
We demand the release of Raja Agbarya and all prisoners of political expression.
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