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May 8, 2025
Palestine Open Thread 2025-100

News & views related to the war in Palestine …

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Now the seizing of Gaza begins by the Zio-monsters.
“Drunk on impunity, Israel has grandiosely labeled its latest genocidal move “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” wherein, moving from siege to seizure, it plans the bloody conquest, ethnic cleansing and permanent recolonization of Gaza.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/gideons-chariots-aim-to-finalize-the-genocide/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | May 8 2025 14:39 utc | 1

see the 5-second video at the first link
see the 2:55 video at the second link
https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1920432682024018264
Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi
Yet they still wonder why people chant ‘Death to America.’
#GazaHolocaust
https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1920467380523643278
Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine
Columbia University admin once again called on the NYPD to help suppress the student movement on their campus. Columbia students earlier yesterday established the Basel Al-Araj Popular University formerly known as Butler library as a liberated zone, continuing their demands for the institution to disclose and divest along with their denunciation of the US-Israeli genocide on Gaza.
Police quickly arrived, many in riot gear and kettled the student activists, many instances of police brutally assaulting the students followed. Over 75 students were arrested or detained and led to the awaiting police vans. The confrontations and violence of the NYPD continued with protesters outside the campus who came to support the students.
https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1920238694688055590
Tiberius @ecomarxi
The ICC is a farce
The ICJ is a farce
The UN is a farce
The EU is a farce
They’re all just tools to prop up the existing world order in which the West reigns supreme and everyone else has to accept their subservience or be punished, or killed

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 14:39 utc | 2

Columbia U. Is putting its entire $15 billion endowment at risk by supporting a (plausible) genocide.

Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 15:27 utc | 3

How do you all interpret the gift that Netanyahu recently gave Trump, of a golden pager?
It’s easy to make mistakes reading behind the lines. I’ve seen some people say it was to celebrate a great military operation. I’ve seen other people say that it was a threat.

Posted by: Afro | May 8 2025 15:36 utc | 4

There is something very sick and wrong with our morality in the west . Yes, USUKIS are the active agents and armies carrying out this particular genocide; but the main issue is the willing acceptance of the concept of “civilian collateral damage” as an expected and acceptable cost of conflict.
Something happened to our society in the 20th century where previous concepts of right and wrong in war, that to the extent possible conflict would be between actual soldiers and civilians would be kept out, that it was unmanly to kill or hurt the old, women and children, all that was lost in the fire bombings of Europe and Asia.
And now we’re down to starving thousands of children to death as a tool of war and to save our precious soldiers’ lives. A society this sick cannot endure long.

Posted by: Caliman | May 8 2025 15:46 utc | 5

SCF
regarding the incident of the cafe owner who refused service to Zionists
Crackdowns are coming and it isn’t pretty
In Italy, in fact, a national program on anti-Semitism was issued in March, introducing new measures of total surveillance against Italians.
The definition of anti-Semitism adopted is the same as that of 2020, i.e., the one produced by the IHRA and reported on pp. 10 of the document, where it is expressed in 11 points. In short, any form of criticism of Jews or Israel constitutes a form of anti-Semitism, even simply acknowledging their over-representation in centers of power, in the pharmaceutical industry, in finance, and in centers of information control.
The first line of attack is massive data collection (pp. 21) provided by various entities listed on pp. 22-23. The new plan introduces a centralized analysis system (p. 23) that will use AI (p. 25) to collect and analyze data such as attacks against Jews, acts of vandalism, anti-Jewish graffiti, but also comments on the internet: social media, public platforms, and even the onion network will be scanned for data on anti-Semitism and automatically reported to the postal police. The entire last section (pp. 44-50) of the document is dedicated to the fight against online anti-Semitism, where counter-information groups are defined as sects. The measures include censorship of any anti-Semitic content through DSA, attempts to prosecute the authors, and the use of AI and journalists to attack “conspiracy theorists” (pp. 48).
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/08/what-do-a-tavern-lunch-and-the-battle-for-palestine-have-in-common/

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 15:54 utc | 6

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 15:54 utc | 5
Onion data? As in the “dark web” accessible thru the Tor network? LOL these people are beyond out of control.
P.S. Fuck Israel.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2025 16:15 utc | 7

Zionist in Canada arrested for incitement of violence
to police
“I’m a Jew and I’m your boss”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M2vKdIvQ4Ic?t=12&feature=share

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 16:35 utc | 8

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 14:39 utc | 2
first x.com link in your post is dead.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2025 16:38 utc | 9

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2025 16:38 utc | 9
it must have been a good one. A lot of Michael links are dead by the time we get to them.

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 16:41 utc | 10

Witoff announced a new ‘plan’ of aid distribution by US companies outside of “Israeli” supervision:
“A paper within the US proposal for a new aid entry plan into the Gaza Strip
– according to the plan, each family will receive a package containing 50 personal meals (perhaps enough for a week) at an estimated cost of $65 per package
– operating companies will receive more than 50% of this amount (as operating costs), which means that American companies will benefit from more than half of the amounts that will be collected from various countries in order to enter the aid”
https://t.me/youseffares19/75383
Looks like starving people to make money….the new service economy ?
The insult, the humilition expected of accepting hand outs from those that have just killed family and friends, etc. ….it appears very sick of these people, that they only want to degrade everything of value of the other, while acting as if saviours.
Maybe they are trying to revolt people on purpose, it is hard to imagine they actually believe themselves.

Posted by: Ornot | May 8 2025 16:59 utc | 11

In Gaza ground level combat has increased, much shelling, Hannibal said to be being used in reply to ambushes and trapped occupation forces…

Posted by: Ornot | May 8 2025 17:05 utc | 13

EI Podcast: Who’s Behind Israel’s Atrocity Propaganda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSB59ZYwf4
“Breaking news and analysis on day 580 of the Gaza genocide.” Don’t miss Jon Elmer’s Resistance report on Gaza and Yemen.
Free Palestine. Free Speech. Silence is complicity. Resist don’t collaborate. Down with USrael.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 18:18 utc | 14

DH: Israel’s Final Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK85VUc6_T0
Superb analysis. Marandi, Abunimah and Lowkey:
‘For those outside of Palestine – organized despair is an excuse for inaction.’ – Lowkey @1:24:00

Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 15

@ JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 15
“This video isn’t available anymore”
Must have been good?
Alternate link?

Posted by: Norwegian | May 8 2025 18:42 utc | 16

@ JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 15
Looks like this link works
https://www.youtube.com/live/cK8SVUc6_T0

Posted by: Norwegian | May 8 2025 18:45 utc | 17

Waiting for Arch to publish a tally and analysis

Posted by: Exile | May 8 2025 19:16 utc | 18

Some zionists are now using bodyguards/babysitters/minders when moving in the public in Europe.
Makes them stand out like lighthouses, even more than the nazi “Ukrainians”.
(I’m the source thus no link or anything like that).

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 8 2025 19:27 utc | 19

see the 27-second video at the last link
https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1920295394052878493
Aaron Maté @aaronjmate
When the history of this grim period is written, some people will be remembered not only for supporting the mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians in a besieged death camp, but for simultaneously claiming to be victims of “antisemitism” in their enclaves of privilege:
https://x.com/TheFP/status/1917993100137443668
The Free Press @TheFP
Here’s what we found inside Harvard’s long-awaited antisemitism report.
——-
https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1920551629402878048
Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine
Today, Berlin raises the voice of truth — a stand of solidarity with Gaza and a tribute to the spirit of the martyr Hassan Alaa, the singer of the timeless anthem “Bear Witness, O World,” whose voice has become a pulsating icon of freedom and dignity.

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 19:33 utc | 20

Michaelj72 no. 2
1st video came up:
This does not exist. Happens quite a lot.

Posted by: KingCobra | May 8 2025 19:49 utc | 21

I don’t quite grasp why Haifa still operates, and so on.
Is “the deal” simply to sacrifice Gaza and Palestinians in order to destroy Israel indirectly? I hope not. The name for that would be “accomplice”.
There is a lot I don’t understand (but I’m sure trying to hide behind God when not stopping murder and genocide is not going to work).

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 8 2025 19:52 utc | 22

I’ve been following the Palestine/Israel matter for over 40 years. The desperation of the Zionists is palpable – less people are swallowing their lies. If the Samson option can be averted, the Zionist project will collapse – I hope to see that before I leave this life. So much misery for paltry reasons.

Posted by: Chris N | May 8 2025 20:07 utc | 23

https://www.youtube.com/live/cK8SVUc6_T0
‘For those outside of Palestine – organized despair is an excuse for inaction.’ – Lowkey @1:24:00
RE Norwegian and Posted by: JohnGilberts | May 8 2025 18:34 utc | 15
this is a most excellent video, and worth the time.
highly recommended
I follow all these people on X/twitter

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 20:09 utc | 24

I forgot the quotes around “Israel” in my last comment. I apologize since the non-country “Israel” has nothing at all to do with Israel.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | May 8 2025 20:11 utc | 25

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 8 2025 14:39 utc | 2
first x.com link in your post is dead.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2025 16:38 utc | 9
Could they be blocked in some locations? The are working for me and usually do.

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 20:51 utc | 26

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Hamas’s Desired End State & Two-State Solution
Hamas officials told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that the group’s preferred long-term vision is a single democratic state across all of historic Palestine—a vision they describe as a rejection of ethno-supremacy, not a call for expulsion or exclusion.
It stands in stark contrast to Israel’s “explicitly genocidal end state,” which Jeremy described as a plan where “Palestinians must either bend the knee and live as indentured servants under a religious supremacist regime, or be forced off their land, or be dead.”
As Jeremy put it, summarizing how Hamas officials framed their vision:
“We’re not telling Jewish people that they need to leave. We’re not trying to create a religious supremacist ethnostate. We want democracy. We want democracy from the river to the sea. That’s the position.”
In his meetings with senior Hamas officials—including Osama Hamdan—Jeremy also raised the question of a two-state solution. He said he expected Hamas to reject it outright, given decades of displacement, land theft, and Israel’s long record of undermining Palestinian statehood. But Hamdan told him Hamas would not oppose a two-state deal based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, if it reflected the will of the Palestinian people and came with international guarantees of full sovereignty and equal rights.
Jeremy noted that while many Palestinians now view Israel as having created a single apartheid regime, Hamas’s position is that “if Palestinians support a two-state framework, we will not stand in the way.”
The discussion took place on Drop Site’s livestream with journalists Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Murtaza Hussain. The full livestream is available at the link below.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1919973084225798642

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 20:52 utc | 27

Hannibal said to be being used in reply to ambushes and trapped occupation forces…
Posted by: Ornot | May 8 2025 17:05 utc | 13
*********
Well that should help their recruitment. Maybe soon they’ll sink to Zrecruitment style.

Posted by: Mary | May 8 2025 20:53 utc | 28

Hannibal said to be being used in reply to ambushes and trapped occupation forces…
Posted by: Ornot | May 8 2025 17:05 utc | 13
*********
Well that should help their recruitment. Maybe soon they’ll sink to Zrecruitment style.

Posted by: Mary | May 8 2025 20:54 utc | 29

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
Additional comments from State Department on the new foundation it plans to announce to administer aid in Gaza, bypassing established UN and NGO channels.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1920562510953873592
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🚨NEW | The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — For Aid and Occupation
A newly formed and U.S.-backed private foundation forms the backbone of Israel’s new plan to control all humanitarian aid entering Gaza—68 days into a total siege that has driven the territory into catastrophic hunger.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is being marketed as a secure and efficient alternative to traditional UN and NGO pipelines which Israel has systematically attacked and sought to dismantle. Staffed by U.S. military veterans, former officials, and corporate financiers, GHF promises to deliver aid to 1.2 million Palestinians through privately secured distribution hubs, with plans to expand to more than 2 million.
A closer look at the Foundation’s presentation documents obtained by Axios indicates it is likely to serve as a foreign-controlled proxy to militarize aid, sideline Palestinian institutions, and entrench a system of occupation under the guise of neutrality.
Here’s what to know. See link:
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1920534293991845926

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 20:56 utc | 30

Court greenlights trial of pianist’s discrimination claim after Melbourne orchestra cancelled concert
Jayson Gillham had sued MSO claiming it cancelled concert over his pro-Gaza views but orchestra argued he was not an employee
The federal court has given the green light for concert pianist Jayson Gillham to sue the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with chief justice Debra Mortimer ordering the case to proceed to trial.
In March, the MSO sought to have Gillham’s case thrown out, arguing that the pianist was not an employee but a freelance contractor, so neither the Fair Work Act, or Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act, applied.
The pianist’s legal team, led by senior counsel Sheryn Omeri, argued that the MSO’s alleged discrimination on the grounds of political belief or activity was unlawful under Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act.
On Thursday, the federal court ruled against the MSO and ordered the trial to proceed. Mortimer said she was “not persuaded the applicant’s case is without any reasonable prospects of success” and agreed that the relationship between the pianist and the orchestra was protected by workplace laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/08/court-greenlights-trial-of-pianists-discrimination-claim-after-melbourne-orchestra-cancelled-concert-ntwnfb

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 20:58 utc | 31

Trita Parsi
@tparsi
·
45m
WOW! Cabinet minister Smotrich describes Israel’s policy to be the dismantlement of Syria.
An Israeli official declares that his country is pursuing the dismantlement of another country, and there isn’t even a headline…
https://x.com/tparsi/status/1920572705796915543

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 20:59 utc | 32

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده
@RamAbdu
The U.S.-Israeli plan to assign the distribution of limited aid in Gaza to international companies is not a humanitarian initiative — it is a calculated maneuver to repackage the siege, regulate starvation, and weaponize food as a tool of subjugation and forced displacement.
The plan is run by former U.S. military personnel and aid organizations under tight surveillance. It is executed through fixed-time distribution centers, with no involvement of Palestinians themselves — a blatant violation of the obligation to ensure the immediate, effective, and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance as enshrined in international law.
This is not about relief, but about control — buying Israel more time, expanding its military grip on the ground, and pushing civilians into displacement through exhaustion and hunger, reducing them to broken spirits and empty stomachs waiting for a weekly ration.
This is not a relief plan — it is a new form of siege, mass starvation, and forced displacement, masked in the language of “humanitarian work.”
What is urgently needed is the immediate and unrestricted entry of life-saving aid and essentials that ensure a dignified existence, allowing people to rebuild their future on their own land — as they have always proven their ability to excel and contribute to humanity.
The Palestinian people are not objects of pity. They do not want humiliating handouts — they demand their full right to life, freedom, dignity, and to remain on their land.
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1920504475392803140

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 21:03 utc | 33

Middle East Eye
@MiddleEastEye
Kan 11’s investigative programme Zman Emet aired a report on Monday that included surveillance footage from the Sde Teiman Israeli detention facility, detailing an abuse incident that took place in July 2024.
The investigation revealed that several soldiers from Force 100 — the unit responsible for guarding Palestinian detainees — were arrested by military police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner.
See Video 2:50:
https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1920276847398363340

Posted by: Menz | May 8 2025 21:07 utc | 34

Regarding Palestine and Yemen, reports are all over the place, major confusion on direction of occupation, and much talk.
Parallels in Indi/Pak conflict are being drawn, from level of media propaganda in India and a detached hyping of society, through to “Israeli” weapons being used, through to similar world divide in terms of support.
What is actually happening is all I have to go by at the moment, I am not positive on overall regional direction, very broadly:
Gaza unchanging atrocity and starvation, but with more occupation ground conflict and “Israeli” losses.
Yemen seems quiet for now, no more bombing at present.
Syria chaotic, political and other tensions abound.
Lebanon, apart from confused political manouvering and attempts to basically outlaw Hezballah, assassinations and “Israeli” ocvupation continue.
Iran, allegations of hidden nuclear facility that meant previous accords were not being kept to from start.
Indi/Pak a lot of disinfo and propaganda, very confused presentation. Pakistani govt loyalties are being questioned by some, India appears to be in full disinfo mode. Artillery and drone attacks continue across LOC with tense often false reporting of wider actions occuring. Short is that Pakistani civilians were killed by India in revenge for previous “terror attack”, an air standoff resulted in the loss of several Indian aircraft, the rest is confused apart from continued firing across LOC. Tensions are increasing even as political stances appear to be towards wind down.
…but check the first couple of links (in the set I posted) two or three times a day and most of the wider changing and not changing local realities of Gaza will be presented there in short format. Am swamped by the amount going on.

Posted by: Ornot | May 8 2025 21:09 utc | 35

Weaponizing food has always been a colonial tactic. Africa is slowly managing to feed itself for the first time in a long time.
New announcements, initiatives, and deployments are the death rattles of a collapsing agenda.
The more the West does, the more weakened it becomes.
From personal experience, people can go a long time without solid food.
It’s a lack of water that does so many people in.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 8 2025 21:23 utc | 36

Posted by: ld | May 8 2025 15:54 utc | 6
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 8 2025 16:15 utc | 7
You know, every day that goes by seems to fulfil yet another page in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
If it was ever a forgery then someone at the very peak of “World Zionism” seems to have adopted it as a playbook.

PROTOCOL No. 12
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3. We shall deal with the press in the following way:
… what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties.
It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press
really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the
printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for
pamphlets and books?

The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall lay on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part of the press. For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy.
Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge
income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these
we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our
government infallibility.
The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the
public mind without occasion or justification.


I beg you to note that among those making attacks upon us will also be organs established by us, but they will attack exclusively points that we have pre-determined to alter.

WE CONTROL THE PRESS
4. Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.

I encourage you all to read the rest of Protocol No. 12, as it reads like a summary of the current state of global Jew-controlled media. With that, just one more example of the endless stream of information black-holed by the vampire squid of global Jew-controlled media:

The BBC has removed a documentary about Gaza from its iPlayer streaming service while it carries out “further due diligence” after discovering its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydv5yngq4o

One last point on this before the usual deluge of accusations of forgery and anti-semitism:

Ex-GOP Senator and Republican Jewish Coalition chair Norm Coleman proclaimed with a straight face that Jews control the world during a Jerusalem conference featuring a speech by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former US Senator Norm Coleman has raised eyebrows by declaring that “the masters of the universe are Jews” at a major Zionist lobby event in Jerusalem. In an address to a summit hosted by the Adelson-funded Jewish News Syndicate on April 27, Coleman pointed to various major technology firms founded by Jews, suggesting the shared religion of the companies’ creators should translate into a greater zeal for censoring criticism of Israel.
“And when you think about it, the Masters of the Universe are Jews! We’ve got Altman at OpenAI, we’ve got [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg, we’ve got [Google founder] Sergey Brin, we’ve got a group across the board. Jan Koum, y’know, founded WhatsApp. It’s us.”

… Could have been lifted almost verbatim from TPotLEoZ. Just sayin’ …
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Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 8 2025 22:13 utc | 37

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: TRUMP HAS CUT ALL CONTACT WITH NETANYAHU!
Confirmed by Galei Tzahal, IDF official outlet.
just asking…….?
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- “Close associates of Trump told Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, that the President feels disrespected and manipulated by Netanyahu, and that there’s nothing he hates more than appearing as easily manipulated in public,” – Galei Tzahal, IDF official outlet.

Posted by: Jo | May 8 2025 22:15 utc | 38

Menz 34
You are absolutely right. Privatised US aid = privatised US military forcing the Paledtinians to accept their conditions.
Trump is an evil old bastard if he thinks he can force the Palestinians to leave in this way.
But we knew that anyway. Trump is going to Saudi Arabia to try to force the Saudis to take the blame for the genocide by not accepting the conditions Trump is imposing on them.
Trump is a bully and a liar, but the Saudis are not UAE, completely devoid of testicle. Trump.is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land if he thinks he can get Saudi Arabia to mornylies with Piglard Netanyahu.

Posted by: Giyane | May 8 2025 22:17 utc | 39

💢 Netanyahu increasingly isolated and bellicose – NYT appears to lament that Trump is ‘distracted with other matters’ as Israel plans major escalation
These developments see Trump return full circle to his original position – that Hamas and the IDF will have to ‘fight it out’.
https://archive.ph/2DyYh
Subscribe @NewResistance

Posted by: Jo | May 8 2025 22:22 utc | 40