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New video report of the kidnapping episode by Israeli forces in international waters.
Also, I managed to record discreetly some moments of the initial interception.
They immediately destroyed the ship’s camera when they boarded. I asked if we were being detained. They forced us to sail the ship to the military frigate (“take the ships to the fucking lights”). At the end, I’m asked to stand up.
Here’s that footage
Zeteo@zeteo_news
Kidnapped at sea by Israel while sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla, Zeteo's @enoughformethx reports on Israel’s piracy during an effort to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza and break the siege on the enclave.
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Everyone should be asking themselves: which side are you on?
Lowkey@Lowkey0nline
Israeli Quadcopter drones were used in Gaza to emit the sound of a baby crying. When people rushed to help what they thought was a baby suffering, they were shot. This is what the Filton 24 did to one of those Quadcopter drones.
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Si nous avions dirigé la France, nous aurions arrêté le carnage à Gaza.
Nous aurions fait un front du refus du génocide. Nous serions allés chercher les Espagnols, d'autres pays européens, asiatiques, ou latino-américains.
Ensemble, nous aurions affirmé notre refus de la guerre, notre défense du droit international et la nécessité de punir les criminels de guerre.
Nous aurions instauré un embargo sur la vente d'armes à Israël, nous aurions suspendu l'accord commercial entre Israël et l'Union européenne jusqu'à cessation des hostilités. L'économie d'Israël ne peut pas vivre sans l'Europe. Ils auraient été obligés d'arrêter le carnage.
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American activist Hannah Claire Smith, who was aboard a Global Sumud Flotilla vessel when Israeli forces illegally intercepted the convoy in international waters near Crete on Wednesday night, is calling on Americans and international audiences to demand the release of two of her colleagues abducted and transferred to Israeli custody.
The two are Thiago de Avila, a Brazilian national, and Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish-Swedish national with Palestinian ID. Both were separated from other passengers and, according to their legal representatives, beaten, blindfolded, and held in isolation for days at sea before being transferred to an Israeli prison, where they remain in detention. More than 200 other participants were eventually released.
Legal advocates say the seizure, which took place roughly 80 nautical miles west of Crete, far from Israeli waters, had no basis in international law.
🎥 via hannah.claire.smith (IG)
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
🔸New: Israeli Court Extends Detention of Abducted Flotilla Activists by Two Days An Israeli court in Ashkelon extended the detention of Global Sumud Flotilla activists Thiago de Avila and Saif Abukeshek until May 5, following their abduction by the Israeli navy in international waters on April 30, according to Adalah, the Palestinian legal rights organization representing them. The state sought a four-day extension, citing suspicions including assisting the enemy during wartime and membership in a “terrorist” organization. No formal charges have been filed. Adalah attorneys argued the entire proceeding is illegal, saying Israel has no jurisdiction over foreign nationals seized in international waters. Both men, who have testified to beatings, isolation, and blindfolding amounting to torture, are continuing their hunger strike. Source: Adalah 📸 By Yoav Etiel, Walla
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So @brhodes who has posed as a critic of the genocide is helping launder the reputation of one of its key defenders and architects rather than join efforts to remove those who backed genocide from positions of influence and power. It’s all just water on the bridge, no big deal!
Alex Thompson@AlexThomp
Scoop: Nat Sec Action—the foreign policy hub for the left co-founded by Jake Sullivan and Ben Rhodes—is rebooting ahead of the 2028 Dem primary with a new director, and more. Nat Sec Action became a key source for staffing the Biden admin. axios.com/2026/05/03/dem…
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The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it.
May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.
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Nayef Samarou had just brought his wife to a Nablus hospital to give birth to their first child. While stepping out to visit a nearby supermarket, he was shot and killed by Israeli terrorist forces.
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What China just did with the blocking statutes against U.S. extraterritorial sanctions sets quite a major precedent, probably the financial equivalent of what happened with rare earths last year (in the sense that this is China taking a major step to push back against a U.S. hostile measure as opposed to taking it on the chin).
It's a little complex but, to start with, what many people ignore (and will probably be surprised by) is that - by and large - Chinese companies and financial institutions have largely complied with extraterritorial U.S. sanctions.
Anecdotal story on this: I know for a fact, because I personally know the person, that a very famous guy (whose name I won't reveal but that everyone of you would know) sanctioned by the U.S. was in China recently and tried to exchange money at the counter of a random Chinese bank. Just simply exchange dollars for a Chinese yuan, in mainland China. And he was refused, because he is sanctioned by the U.S. - despite the fact that China as a country has absolutely no problem with the person.
This goes to illustrate just how much goodwill China extended to the U.S. on this - a Chinese bank, in China, refusing to serve someone China has no problem with, just to comply with U.S. extraterritorial sanctions.
It also goes to illustrate why this blocking order marks such a sharp departure.
What triggered it is not new sanctions by the U.S. but recent efforts under the so-called "Operation Economic Fury" to dramatically ramp up enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran.
The U.S. notably issued at the end of April alerts to financial institutions worldwide - including in China - on "the sanctions risks associated with independent 'teapot' oil refineries in China, primarily in Shandong Province, given their continued role in importing and refining Iranian crude oil" (home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…)
Even more importantly, they also specifically went after Hengli Petrochemical Dalian (home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…), one of China's largest private refineries, with 400,000 barrels per day capacity and a parent company (the Hengli Group) that's a Fortune Global 500 company.
In effect, what the U.S. extraterritorial sanctions mean is that Hengli - and all other Chinese 'teapot' oil refineries being targeted - is cut off from the dollar system, and any bank, insurer, or trading partner anywhere in the world - including in China - that deals with them risks being cut off too. Which is obviously a major hostile move by the U.S. against China (and, of course, Iran).
Except that China, this time around, is not having it.
Since 2021 they've had regulations ("Measures to prevent the improper extraterritorial application of foreign laws and measures", mofcom.gov.cn/zcfb/zhzc/art/…) that gives the Chinese government power to formally prohibit compliance with foreign sanctions, and that, since this April (morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/04/c…) are also extraterritorial in nature.
In effect what these regulations - and their April addendum - say is that if you comply with U.S. extraterritorial sanctions by cutting off a Chinese company, you are violating Chinese law. Any entity - Chinese or foreign - that refuses to deal with a sanctioned Chinese company because Washington told them to can be sued in Chinese courts, fined by MOFCOM, and since April, placed on a 'Malicious Entity List' with asset freezes and trade restrictions.
In a nutshell on one side you have the U.S. saying "cut them off or we cut you off" and now China says "well, if you do cut us off we're going to be real nasty with you, in China and potentially beyond."
These regulations were - until yesterday - purely theoretical: they've never actually been applied. But, yesterday, China's MOFCOM made it crystal clear this time is different: they used a statement with a triple negative, saying the U.S. sanctions "shall not be recognized, shall not be enforced, shall not be complied with" ("不得承认、不得执行、不得遵守", mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/art/…).
In effect you now have companies that are in the middle of this - for instance financial institutions serving Hengli - caught in quite a bind: face U.S. or Chinese hostility. It's a no-win, they need to choose a camp on this.
Concretely speaking, given that the overwhelming majority of companies affected are operating inside China, they'll obviously choose the China side.
The real question therefore is: Is the U.S. ready to act on its threat and cut off Chinese banks or other institutions that keep servicing these refineries?
Because that probably means sanctioning major Chinese financial institutions, which is a whole different level of escalation. The moment the U.S. designates a major Chinese bank for dealing with Hengli, this stops being about Iranian oil and becomes a direct financial confrontation between the two largest economies on earth, which is a much bigger deal with probable consequences for the entire global financial system.
Or will the U.S. back off, meaning China would have effectively caught their bluff, showing that extraterritorial sanctions are a lot of bark but not a lot of bite?
We'll know in the next couple of weeks I guess.
One thing is sure though: whatever happens with these refineries, the broader damage is done. China used to extend remarkable goodwill on sanctions compliance - voluntarily cooperating with extraterritorial sanctions inside its own borders even though it had no legal obligation to respect them. That goodwill has been spent.
And, from a U.S. standpoint, a China with less goodwill vis a vis U.S. financial hegemony is undoubtedly a far bigger issue than a few teapot refineries buying Iranian oil.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
🇨🇳 China Invokes Blocking Statute for First Time China’s Ministry of Commerce has for the first time activated its 2021 Blocking Rules, ordering all Chinese firms and individuals not to comply with U.S. sanctions targeting five independent Chinese oil refineries accused of purchasing Iranian crude. Beijing called the U.S. measures, imposed under two executive orders, an “unjustified” and “improper” use of extraterritorial law. The move puts multinational companies operating in both markets in direct legal conflict: compliance with U.S. sanctions now risks violating Chinese law, and vice versa. Global banks and firms with dollar exposure face secondary sanctions risk if they continue dealing with the affected refineries. Analysts describe the order as a significant step toward competing legal frameworks for global trade, accelerating the path to potential economic “decoupling” between the two powers.
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The media will call you antisemitic for protesting against this
Tuğberk@tugberk37
Gazzeli 15 yaşındaki çocuk şehit düştü. Nice gülen yüzleri soldurdular, Allah belalarını versin
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BRASILEIRO TORTURADO SOB CUSTÓDIA DE ISRAEL: RELATOS CONFIRMADOS PELA EMBAIXADA APONTAM ESPANCAMENTO ATÉ A INCONSCIÊNCIA, RISCO DE CEGUEIRA PERMANENTE E MORTE
As informações já foram confirmadas pela própria Embaixada do Brasil.
O cidadão brasileiro Thiago Ávila está sendo submetido a graves violações de direitos humanos por forças israelenses. Não se trata de relato, de boato ou de versão disputada. Trata-se de informação oficial.
Thiago foi espancado de forma brutal, com inúmeros golpes direcionados ao rosto, a ponto de não conseguir sequer abrir os olhos. O olho esquerdo apresenta risco concreto de PERDA DE VISÃO PERMANENTE, evidenciando a intensidade da violência empregada.
Há indícios de múltiplas costelas quebradas, compatíveis com agressões reiteradas e de alta intensidade física.
Durante a condução forçada, foi ameaçado de ser jogado ao mar pelos soldados, o que por si só já configura tratamento cruel, desumano e degradante, além de indicar risco real à sua vida.
Como se não bastasse, houve também ameaças dirigidas à sua família no Brasil, ampliando o quadro de intimidação e violência psicológica.
O nível de violência foi tão extremo que ele DESMAIOU DUAS VEZES em decorrência das agressões, o que demonstra não apenas a brutalidade dos atos, mas também o risco concreto à sua integridade física e à sua vida.
E mais: soldados israelenses disseram a ele que destruiriam seu corpo a ponto de impedir qualquer participação futura em novas missões humanitárias, o que reforça o caráter deliberado e punitivo das agressões.
Isso tem nome.
À luz do Direito Internacional, especialmente das normas que vedam a TORTURA e protegem a integridade física de pessoas sob custódia estatal, estamos diante de condutas que podem se enquadrar como tortura e tratamento desumano, práticas absolutamente proibidas em qualquer circunstância.
Nenhuma justificativa política, militar ou de segurança autoriza esse tipo de conduta contra um civil, ainda mais um cidadão estrangeiro sob custódia.
A situação é gravíssima.
Estamos falando de um brasileiro que teve sua integridade física violada, sua vida colocada em risco e sua dignidade atacada enquanto estava sob controle de agentes estatais.
Isso exige resposta.
Não apenas diplomática, mas também jurídica, internacional e imediata.
O que está acontecendo não pode ser normalizado. Não pode ser relativizado. E, sobretudo, não pode ficar impune.
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It is an abomination that Apartheid Israel, while continuing its genocide undisturbed, is allowed to patrol European waters, seize boats, kidnap people.
Hostage taking is a crime. Palestinian and @gsflotilla hostages must be released now.
European countries:
BREAK
THE
SIEGE
Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng@drtlaleng
Geneva: Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Shek were not released with the other participants after interception and are currently taken by Israel. They have been abducted by Israel and are being kept under unlawful detention. Being in international waters to deliver aid to Gaza is not a crime. Israel continues to be allowed to act with imputing and face no consequences for illegal actions and violations of international law. UN member states must act now The reported torture of a civilian activists, combined with the unlawful transfer of detainees from European waters, marks a dangerous escalation with far-reaching legal and moral consequences. Failure to act now risks not only the safety and lives of Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila, but further erodes the credibility of international law in the face of ongoing atrocities in Gaza. All the UN member states must take immediate action to ensure the safety of all flotilla participants and the release of Thiago and Saif. Release them now!!!!!! Issued by Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to health
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No estoy de acuerdo con una agresión militar a Cuba porque eso es una agresión militar a Latinoamérica.
Dijimos que el Caribe es una zona de paz y eso debe respetarse.
Son los cubanos y cubanas los únicos dueños de su país.
El continente americano vivirá en paz si nadie propone imponerse sobre los demás.
Este continente es el continente de la Libertad y no de las invasiones.
Honor a José Martí y a las repúblicas libres y soberanas de Latinoamérica y el Caribe.
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🇨🇳 China Invokes Blocking Statute for First Time
China’s Ministry of Commerce has for the first time activated its 2021 Blocking Rules, ordering all Chinese firms and individuals not to comply with U.S. sanctions targeting five independent Chinese oil refineries accused of purchasing Iranian crude.
Beijing called the U.S. measures, imposed under two executive orders, an “unjustified” and “improper” use of extraterritorial law.
The move puts multinational companies operating in both markets in direct legal conflict: compliance with U.S. sanctions now risks violating Chinese law, and vice versa. Global banks and firms with dollar exposure face secondary sanctions risk if they continue dealing with the affected refineries.
Analysts describe the order as a significant step toward competing legal frameworks for global trade, accelerating the path to potential economic “decoupling” between the two powers.
Henry Gao@henrysgao
MOFCOM just invoked the blocking statute for the first time, ordering all firms not to recognise, enforce, or comply with US sanctions imposed under EO 13902 & 13846 targeting 5 Chinese teapot refineries for their involvement in Iranian oil transactions. The decoupling is coming
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Israeli crimes in Greek search-and-rescue waters are a new low for the occupying forces and their allies. This is no longer complicity, it is active participation.
After intercepting our boats on the high seas, the occupier forcibly transferred participants to Crete, brutalising and beating them along the way. All were released except two: Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila, who were taken on an Israeli military vessel to occupied Palestine, where they remain in custody.
Given Israel’s record of torture, we fear for their safety. Both Saif and Thiago are on hunger strike in protest of their illegal abduction and torture.
Their court hearing will take place on Sunday morning.
Free Saif and Thiago.
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Donald Trump has given Marco Rubio the green light to annihilate a peaceful nation and its people — and the ‘resistance’ is silent. What does “No Kings” mean when one man can snap his fingers and kill innocent Cubans on a whim?
Peter Harrell@petereharrell
Quick takes on the new Cuba sanctions EO out today: 1. The new Cuba sanctions are potentially very broad. Basically any non-U.S. person or company doing any business in/with Cuba could be sanctioned. Initial focuses are businesses involved in the energy, defense, mining, finance, and security sectors, but these can be expanded. 2. In many respects, the new EO resembles EO 14024 from 2021, which created a broad authority to sanction Russia. (As a partial drafter of that EO, it is interesting to see some of the provisions carried over here). 3. Most designations will be status-based, e.g., "operated in X sector," or "is a Cuban official," rather than requiring the government to prove specific conduct, though there are also conduct-related designations, for, eg, corruption. 4. The EO puts the State Department in the lead for making sanctions designations. Trump expanded State's role in sanctions designations during his first term, and this is consistent with that, as well as with Rubio's interest in Cuba. (State has long had a role in specific sanctions designations, and a critical policy and diplomatic role on all sanctions, but Trump expanded the designations authorities given to State). 5. The EO gives the Trump Administration a fair amount of easy-to-deploy firepower to drive remaining international businesses out of Cuba. The questions will be in implementation. For example, will Trump sanction a Chinese firm installing renewable energy in Cuba? (Cuban renewables have been growing given the oil crisis).
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The Haymarket memorial is a smallish statue on the side of a busy street that didn't go up until 2004 but the plaques on it from all over the world kinda fucked me up. The rest of the world genuinely cares about it more than anyone around here.
R.Сам 🦋🐏@Logo_Daedalus
May Day has been a curiosity to me since I was a teenage anarchist wondering why the whole world memorialized a riot that happened in Chicago, & Americans don’t even know about it. Communism is this specter of a secret subaltern american history returning home.
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