Notices by Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.eu)

• “Of course it’s a #genocide. We would shoot at anyone, children and women too”.

• “Even if they didn’t pose any danger?”

• “Of course, none of them had any weapons! I think I saw an armed Palestinian only once, but we used to kill hundreds of them every day”

• “We were fine. We were happy. It was fun. It was like a videogame”

• “What do you mean? Killing was fun? Including children? Even if they weren’t armed? Whole families?”

• “There was a psychologist. We could talk to him if we needed. But we didn’t need it because we were fine”

• “Mine is an elite unity. We would identify the buildings to blow up while families were still in. We destroyed whole neighbourhoods. We destroyed the whole north of the Gaza strip because there should have been no houses to get back to. We set on fire memories, pictures, books, everything. We would fill up houses with gas and set them on fire, or we would gather all the pillows in the middle of the living room and set them on fire. Wool burns very well. In a minute the whole apartment was on fire. Mine was a unit made of left-wing youngsters. From Tel Aviv’s higher classes. We don’t hate the Arabs. We did it because it had to be done”.

• “The settlers, the crazy ones, those who believe in a crooked God and do strange things like not bathing or reproduce like rabbits: those perhaps hate the Arabs. But we progressive left-wing youngsters aren’t like that: we only did what we were told to do and then we’d smoke a cigarette or come back to have an aperitif together”

• “I asked my supervisor: ‘What do you think of what we’re doing here?’ He told me: ‘It’s right. You must just trust the system’”

• “We only do what the Israeli society tells us to do. If they tell us that Gaza must be wiped out, then we must wipe it out”

• “I went to Poland to visit concentration camps. I keep believing that Nazis were Nazis. But I don’t know what I am”

Interviews to Israeli soldiers published in the NAZA documentary

@aral if you need a Peertube instance you just need to ask 🙂

It’s no longer a fun party when you keep inviting murderers to it.

The #Netherlands will boycott #Eurovision for the second year in a row.

Earlier this month, organisers announced they were excluding any country involved in an armed conflict from hosting the competition.

With the exception, of course, of #Israel.

Since repeatedly inviting baby murderers from a terrorist political entity is the perfect party killer, the Netherlands will no longer join the party.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/24/netherland-withdraws-from-2027-eurovision-song-contest-says-competition-no-longer-neutral

The #Gaza genocide will be remembered as a genocide solely motivated by Western capitalist greed.

No ideals. Just the sociopath belief that a small circle of white colonialists were entitled to get disgustingly rich by destroying the Palestinian State and funneling as much money as possible towards their own pockets.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117093148880869161

📢 #GazaVerified archive changes

The number of campaigns in the initiative has grown over time, and donors have in some cases been stretched thin across multiple campaigns.

This means that, unfortunately, there are many campaigns that are currently receiving $0/week.

The situation has prompted me to add a last_donation_time field both to the API and to the UI in order to better prioritize aid.

What changes:

• The campaigns page now sorts by <amount:asc, last_donation_time:asc> by default (previously, it was only by amount:asc). So, if many campaigns have failed to collect anything in the past week, they’ll be sorted by when they received the latest donation. A campaign that received the last donation 2 months ago should probably be prioritized more than one that received it 8 days ago.
• The campaign page now also reports a Last Donation field for each campaign (on top of the existing Last Activity), so anyone who scrolls the list can immediately spot accounts that haven’t received any help in a long time.

Thanks to @davidculley for reporting the issue.

As a reminder, the source code both of the archive and the gaza-verified website are open, and anyone can contribute to them.

#Gaza #Palestine #MutualAid

@aral @gazaverified

The creed and ideological dogmas of #Zionism have become indistinguishable from those of fascism.

Zionist hate no longer targets only Muslims or obvious antisemitic targets, but also Jews themselves blamed of not being “Jewish enough” to support an uncompromisingly stance towards the genocidal Zionist entity.

The trend of labelling liberal or left-wing Jewish as “not real Jews” is an act of pure fascist ideological hate - socialists in Italy were also described as “unpatriotic Italians” during Mussolini’s regime.

Holocaust trauma is also doubted when Holocaust survivors don’t openly support violence against Palestinians. If you were looking for Holocaust denial, look no further than the Zionist camp.

Zionists and fascists also started leveraging the exact same anti-Muslim rhetoric, describing Muslims as backwards rapists who come to the West to get white women pregnant.

They also share the same disdain as fascists towards any act of humanity towards anyone who doesn’t look, think and talk like them, calling it “suicidal empathy”.

Just like fascists, Zionists also started employing the same “great replacement” narrative, and started claiming that the only alternative to their abhorrent ideology is the destruction of the nation-state, the destruction of strong borders, of private property, gender boundaries and individual liberties.

Always remember that when an abhorrent ideology frames everything as a choice between them and the destruction of everything you know, you are witnessing fascism unfold in front of your eyes.

You are being forced to swallow an us-vs-them narrative that forces you to choose something awful because the alternative would be even more awful.

This is the only way fascists can manufacture something that looks like consensus - by leveraging ignorance and fear, and framing themselves as the only alternative to societal collapse.

Next time a Zionist tells you that #Israel must exist exactly in that corner of the world as a bulwark of Western democracy, remind them that the Zionist movement has turned into the exact antithesis of everything that Western liberal democratic values were supposed to mean.

Nobody ever asked for a corner of Western democracy over there, least of all to replace ethno-theocratic States with a different ethno-theocratic State.

Especially when violence, apartheid, genocide and displacement are the preferred ways of reshaping those territories.

Remind them that by supporting a genocidal State and lobbying for its support in the West, even when it comes with suppression of free speech, they’re being more loyal to a hostile nation with no legitimacy than to their own countries, and we have a duty of treating them exactly like we treat Salaphite groups who push extreme Islam in the West - and we should show zero tolerance towards both of them.

Remind them that they talk like fascists, walk like fascists and hang out with fascists, and many of us raised with the values of antifascist resistence instinctively pick up the rifles as soon as we see a fascist in front of us.

Remind them that the only good fascist is a dead one - preferably violently and publicly slaughtered, so it sets a deterrent again future imitators.

Remind them that Zionism is a political ideology that is trying to frame itself as the only natural solution to the problem of antisemitism, just like neoliberalism and fascism try to frame themselves as natural rational solutions coming from above.

Remind them that political opinions should never be shielded from the normal political discourse, and that all political ideas should be dissected, criticized and slaughtered if needed - because that’s how democracy works.

Remind them that when a political ideology tries to make legitimate political criticism against it a crime, that political ideology is functionally indistinguishable from Nazism.

Remind them that hating Israel is a civic duty because it means to hate fascism, colonialism and genocide and all the horrors that come with them.

If Israel wants to become an illiberal fascist regime in that corner of the world, we’ll keep stating loudly that it has no right to exist, and we won’t stop fighting Israel until all the people it oppresses are liberated.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/inside-the-world-symposium-against-anti-zionism-where-contempt-for-muslims-and-leftist-jews-took-center-stage/

You know what’s the dumbest thing about Adam Howard a.k.a. LinuxIsBest or any of the dozens of accounts he created?

His insistence that he’s actually providing added value to the community.

He complained about all the requests to take down his list of GazaVerified accounts because “it’s censorship!”

His “people must know!” anti-censorship approach went as far as mirroring his infamous “Gaza Verified scam acccounts” list also to torrents and Limewire, as if it was the unredacted Epstein files.

Except that…you know how to retrieve the full liste of #GazaVerified accounts, always up-to-date?

🤯

We have talked over video calls with trusted mediators with people in Gaza.

With some of them we’ve had several calls with different people from the team.

We have checked that their IP addresses (used to register to gaza-verified, on their instance, or to access the archive or other websites we manage) belong indeed to residential or mobile subnets in Gaza.

Some of the verification video calls have also been published on Vimeo, and at least in one case the team also managed to evacuate a girl in Gaza, who is now in Milan.

In some cases we’ve seen their IDs (when it was a functional requirement) and talked to other family members too.

But sure, go trust an anonymous guy instead.

A loser who initially had doubts about us, and when presented with more evidence, instead of acknowledging his mistakes and apologizing like others did, he just decided to double down on his dumb accusations.

Someone who has so much spare time at hand that apparently they create a new account on a new instance every day just to say that we’re a scam.

Someone who, by their own admissions, works or worked at Meta (although I’m not aware of any Adam Howard who has ever worked there), but who feels like a simple list of accounts that can be retrieved with a simple call to an open API endpoint is such valuable infomration that it should be replicated on Codeberg, torrents and Limewire.

I’ve met many losers and idiots in my life, but very few ever managed to condense within the same person so much imbecility, stubborness, incompetence, lack of empathy, first-world privilege, and an uncomfortable will to fight for a lost cause for so long and through so many means that highlights a genuine lack of any other purpose in life.

People have decided to disappear from the Internet for public humiliations order of magnitude smaller than those that LinuxIsBest has (rightfully) endured.

I don’t know why such an idiot is still on the Internet.

The answer, perhaps, is because he’s a true unprecedented idiot.

p.s. I won’t join the choir of those who demand his Codeberg repo to be taken down. After all, the CSV file he uploaded there is just an (incomplete) version of what anyone can pull from the Gaza archive API. There’s nothing compromising in there, the list of our friends in Gaza is already public. And everyone with a functioning brain who has read at least a couple of his phrases can easily conclude that he’s an idiot. But I definitely join the choir of those who call for this pathetic human being to just disappear from the Internet for a while, after collecting so much well-desereved hate and being publicly named and shamed.

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117036096486689894

📢 #GazaVerified archive updates

I’ve dedicated a bit of time to fix a couple of issues on the gaza-verified archive as well as implement some long-standing feature requests.

• Filter out inactive accounts. As the initiative progressed, some accounts were suspended, deleted, moved or their instances were gone, but the list was never cleaned up. The archive API and the UI now expose a Hide Inactive filter that allows to easily filter out accounts that are permanently inactive. Note that inactive accounts are not deleted from the archive - they can just be filtered out. An account is marked as inactive when:
  • It’s suspended
  • It’s no longer available (deleted or moved)
  • Its instance has not been reachable for at least 3 days
• Filter out inactive campaigns. Fundraisers expire, or are deleted either by the campaign managers or the platforms. When it happens, it’s important to skip inactive campaigns from the list so donors won’t be overwhelmed by a long list of accounts on $0. Note: ?hide_inactive=true is now the new default for the archive API, which means that also the gaza-verified campaigns page will now hide inactive campaigns. @gaza_verified_campaigns will also no longer report inactive campaigns, which should make the list clearer.
• Support for whydonate campaigns - thanks @raphaellakay for pointing this out and thanks @davidculley for calling out some volunteers to help on this. The campaign of @sharifgaza is now indexed on the archive. The only caveat is that the whydonate API doesn’t expose donation dates. The “scraping timestamp” is a good approximation, but this means that for the first scraping the amount collected this week will surely be higher than it actually is - basically all the donations made so far have been accounted as made today. This will be fixed when the counters reset next week.
• **Fixed “stuck” Chuffed campaigns - thanks again @raphaellakay for pointing this out. Only one campaign was affected AFAIK (@naeemafamily), and that should now be fixed. The issue was tricky to find and fix - it basically boils down to a corner case where the last saved page cursor points to a donation ID that has been removed in the meantime (Chuffed has a few of these glitches), corrupting the current state of that campaign on the archive. When it happens, now the whole campaign is simply re-synchronizing again from the first donation.

As usual, the code for the gaza-verified archive is open, so feel free to contribute.

@aral @gazaverified @fedipourgaza

#Italy has a long-standing issue with private ownership of beaches.

In some locations, up to 80-90% of the beaches are privately owned.

If you want to go to the seaside, you pay a fee to the owner of the facility (“lido”) and then you can access the beach.

When the phenomenon started, the Italian State used to assign licenses to develop seaside facilities to private owners, who were in turn allowed to charge people for the access to the sea in order to fund further development.

Slowly, the lack of regulation and the lobbying from a newly born wealthy class caused the situation to escalate.

Licenses turned into de facto lifetime concessions.

They could be sold by the owner to someone else, like a regular real estate asset, as if the owner had actually originally paid someone to own a public beach.

Predicably, “lido” owners soon started creating their own cartels and synchronized price hikes.

Lobbying slowly caused a large share of the Italian beaches to become private, with unaccountable owners who could extract as much revenue as they liked from anyone who just wanted to enjoy the sea on a warm day.

The issue is well-known and the national government has been trying to address it for years, failing every time because the interests of a tiny lobby (with some of them who also became MPs or government members in the meantime) apparently can win over the interests of millions.

Josi Della Ragione, the young mayor of #Bacoli, a seaside village near Naples where access to nearly 90% of the beaches is behind a fee, has taken the battle on a personal level, and soon most beach owners in the locality may see their licenses revoked and most of the beach become public again.

The clash between the mayor and the private owners has also highlighted the selfishness and detachment from the world of any class of “new riches”.

Infamously, the owner of one of the largest “lido” remarked that the mayor “loves penniless people”. Something that you could have imagined Marie Antoinette say before her head was chopped off.

As if the right for locals to access a public beach was to be awarded only to wealthy individuals happy to part with their money whenever they want to take their children to the sea, and everyone else could either go to overcrowded tiny beaches with free access, or stay at home.

Beaches, parks, water, railways, the IT infrastructure itself, are all crucial components of a healthy State, funded by taxpayers, and fair access to them should hence be granted to all of its citizens without barriers.

Private leasing can be temporarily granted through time-bound licenses, with clear expectations about how the beneficiary can enhance the public resource for the public good in a way that taxpayers alone can’t do.

But those must be leasing licenses - not ownership licenses.

Their time and scope must be limited - at no point those licenses should result in most of the resources being privately owned and in new permanent access barriers being created for the majority of the citizens, who should not be asked to pay twice for the same thing.

And those licenses cannot be extended nor sold, for the same reason why sub-leasing publicly awarded licenses is usually illegal.

Without these constraints, capitalism always predictably degenerates towards the establishment of new unaccountable oligarchies.

Without these constraints, new unaccountable wealthy classes increasingly detached from reality will keep popping up.

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2026/07/il-sindaco-risponde-al-gestore-del-lido-che-lo-accusa-di-amare-i-pezzenti-si-spiaggia-libera-f1a14c73-5849-4871-b3d8-ed902536c054.html

The biggest issue with the current trend towards tech mass surveillance is that it doesn’t necessarily have to be codified into law for it to be effective.

Even if the UK doesn’t manage to pass a law that bans VPNs, even if Chat Control doesn’t pass, even if the EU puts stringent regulation around user data collection, mass surveillance can still de facto be implemented above the law.

Sure, VPNs may not be illegal. But what if my website has a daily updated database of known VPN servers offered by the major providers (it’s just a few thousands of servers, after all), and I prevent you from accessing it unless you turn off your VPN or Tor?

And what if many websites start sharing that approach?

And what if connections from IPs on those lists started being classified in Cloudflare’s highest risk category, so you have to solve 5 CAPTCHAs, find cars and bikes or drag jigsaw pieces before you can access the content?

Sure, the law may not require you to have a genuine Android or iOS device in order to verify your identity. But what if, when you access a website, Cloudflare puts under your nose a CAPTCHA with a QR code to be scanned from your mobile device, creating a link between you as a person and your visit to that website?

Sure, the EU may impose heavy fines over Google for its abuse of dominant position and unrestricted access to people’s information. But what’s the point when most of the apps start anyway using the new Google Integrity API to verify user access, and when the EU itself considers using that API for identity verification on its side?

Sure, Chat Control may not pass. But what if Facebook simply silently removes E2EE from its chat services, ending up with people’s conversations stored overnight in clear text, ready to be handed out to the best buyer?

The tech industry has reached such a level of power concentration that laws don’t matter anymore.

All it takes is Cloudflare to add a new challenge to their CAPTCHA, or Google to add a new control to their Integrity APIs, and thousands if not millions of websites and apps become suddenly inaccessible to those who want privacy.

Those tech companies and the decisions they take have become the law. The legislative process is being replaced by strategy meetings, sprint plannings and rollouts in production.

The #UK government is run by bad parents who think that curfews and dumb rules can make up for their absolute inability to understand and follow their children.

And those bad parents feel entitled to turn their awful parenting habits into law and impose them on millions of children who have better parents and are actually doing just fine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c982857nlrlo

📢 #GazaVerified campaigns communication

@sabrinaweb71 has not been reachable for more than a month.

Unfortunately, she used to manage many fundraisers for #Gaza, which have all been unable to withdraw their donations for more than a month.

Among those who have reached out to me in the past 2 weeks:

• @Hanan1991
• @daliarezk
• @saeeeed
• @heyamgaza
• @haya200
• @Layan2002

If I’m missing anyone, please let me know. The purpose of this thread is to collect all the orphans from Sabrina and find new campaign managers for them.

This is also an open call to new campaign managers.

If you have always wondered how to concretely help people in Gaza, you may consider being a campaign manager.

If you are interested and you would like to support, feel free to reach out to me.

cc @gazaverified @fedipourgaza @kathimmel @raphaellakay @duchesse @delsaulnier @DailyGaza @casey @aral

As a non-Christian, my deepest respect goes to the intellectual honesty of Pope Leo XIV.

The Catholic Church had an important role in enabling the transatlantic trade of slaves.

It interpreted an atrocious process of colonization and human exploitation as an act of Christian duty towards infidels that were supposed to embrace Jesus.

Pope Nicholas V in 1452 allowed Christians to invade, conquer, fight, subjugate and seize all possessions of all enemies of Christ, as well as granting them the permission to reduce them into a state of perpetual slavery.

The following Popes (Callixtus III in 1456, Sixtus IV in 1481 and Leo X in 1514) also granted similar rights to Spanish and Portuguese kings.

The acknowledgement of the Church’s role in enabling slavery and colonialism is long overdue but still welcome.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155

@davidculley @aral I run 3 fundraisers on GoFundMe, I know how their verification process works and personally I’ve never had issues.

They also know me and some of their employees thanked me for my work for Gaza, so I don’t think that any of this is deliberately targeting our friends.

I would advise whoever has issues with GFM to check their mailbox or the administration page of their campaign. They should have received a communication from GFM asking for more details to validate the campaign (usually in the form of full names of the beneficiaries and evidence of how the funds are used, such as grocery bills or medical bills, and pictures taken directly from Gaza to prove their genuinity).

If they didn’t receive such communication, they can write to support@gofundme.com (preferably with me in cc so they know that these campaigns went through our verification process) and ask for details.

It also helps if our friends from Gaza are also added in cc because they may ask them questions directly through their Arabic-speaking team to verify their claims.

The process may take a couple of days at most, but I’ve gone through it 3 times and none of my fundraisers was closed.

If anyone needs any support with GFM, please feel free to reach out to me.

@voicefromgaza is a talented journalistic blogger from #Gaza who prefers their identity to be concealed for security reasons.

Their blog sheds unique perspectives over the ongoing genocide.

The stories in this blog are snapshots from an ongoing carnage narrated both through the lenses of historical accuracy and emotional depth.

Names may be altered out of respect towards the privacy of the victims, but the events are all, unfortunately, real.

Like many who are currently trapped in Gaza, the author of this blog also relies on the support of foreign donors to make a living and cover the basic necessities.

This is the link to their campaign, which I will be managing directly to keep the identity of the author safe.

#Palestine #MutualAid

@aral @casey @gazaverified

📢 #GazaVerified archive

The #Chuffed campaigns scrapers are now working again.

A breaking change on their frontend changed the format of the campaign IDs (int->UUID) and it caused new donations not to be registed for a few days.

All the amounts from the Chuffed campaigns should now be up-to-date on the archive APIs and on all the frontends that use it - let me know if you notice any discrepancies.

Sorry for the delay.

Thanks @iamdorkside for the report.

cc @gazaverified @aral @casey @fedipourgaza

@aral @AnnaLion @raniareziq @Rania @rania40 @casey I think I communicated the situation to you at least twice, and Casey was also aware of it.

I also investigated the issue already, together with the admins: it was something I couldn’t wrap my head around. No suspensions, no limitations, perhaps broken federation on her (tiny) instance.

I promised to help her migrate followers to the new account, but of course it makes sense only after her new account is verified.

I’ll do my best to assist her with account migration.

A quick heads up related to the #GazaVerified campaigns dashboard and API: the scrapers for Chuffed are currently broken and they have not sent updates in the past two days (thanks @iamdorkside for the heads up).

The reason is that Chuffed has recently pushed a large update where it both changed the campaigns page layout (hence the previous regexes to scrape the campaign ID no longer work), and it has replaced the previous ID format (integer-based) with a new one (UUID-based).

Unfortunately this is not a very trivial change, as it requires me to both change the scraper and reindex all the Chuffed campaigns on the database with the new IDs.

I should however be able to push a fix by tonight or tomorrow the latest.

Until then, Chuffed campaigns unfortunately will not report updates.

cc @gazaverified @aral @casey

If they call themselves again the bulwarks of liberal Western values in the Middle East, opposing hordes of Muslims who blow up statues of Buddha in Afghanistan or smash the Roman ruins of Palmyra, just show them this video.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldier-filmed-smashing-jesus-statue-lebanon

Thanks to the brave journalists from L’Espresso for publishing this picture.

What you see pictured is an Israeli settler armed with an automatic rifle mocking an unarmed Palestinian woman, as he settles her land and eradicates her family’s olive trees.

This picture is so powerful that the Israeli ambassador immediately accused L’Espresso for publishing an AI fake.

When it turned out that it was authentic, he switched his line of attack to the much more predictable (and easy to neutralize) “it’s antisemitic”.

Pictures like these are worth a thousand words.

They are the embodiment of the banality of evil that permeates every single cell of the illegal Zionist entity.

We should all stop calling it “war”. The word “war” involves a clash between armies. The one between Ukraine and Russia is a war.

This is not a war.

This is just barbaric eviction and genocide against unarmed civilians.

Show this picture to your digital Zionist neighbour next time he says that you’re the one full of hate.