George Abdallah: A Symbol of Resistance Against Four Decades of Injustice

Fidaa Abdel Fattah

From his French prison cell, Georges Abdallah recently spoke to L’Humanité, describing his release decision as “a minor detail compared to the global assault on people’s rights and freedoms.” The 72-year-old Lebanese revolutionary communist and Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/12591/

#Analysis #GeorgesAbdallah #lebanon #palestine #repression

🍉 Watermelon Index names and shames companies complicit in Israel's war on #gaza:

'Progressive International' has launched a tool that allows workers to challenge company support for Israel --

📰 Report by Oscar Rickett for Middle East Eye 👇

#data #analysis #geopolitics

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gaza-war-companies-complicit-watermelon-index-database-progressive-international

#recommendation If you are interested in the work of Forensic Architecture and their ongoing research on #gaza, here's the direct link to the project website "Cartography of Genocide"

#data #analysis #science #history
#warcrimes #investigation

🔖 https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #media / #publicopinion / #backfiremodel / #analysis

„Hamas’ 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli military attack on Gaza generated enormous rage and despair throughout much of the world. To understand these reactions, it is helpful to examine the tactics commonly used by powerful perpetrators of actions perceived as unjust.”

https://comments.bmartin.cc/tag/gaza/

See also:
„Backfire manual: tactics against injustice”
https://documents.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/backfire.php

#israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #middleeast #usforeignpolicy / #analysis

„Without … a concentrated effort, the current trajectory of the conflict will produce further turmoil in Lebanon, as Israel continues to respond to Hezbollah attacks with disproportional violence that leads to more mass displacement. A campaign of chaos (…) might offer some limited political benefit to Netanyahu & his far-right government. For (…) Lebanese civilians, it will be a disaster.“

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-brings-its-gaza-strategy-lebanon