Notices by Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)

More than 20 arrested for holding “i support palestjne action” placards; meanwhile lovely Rod Liddle writing in the lovely Spectator:

“ A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying.”

But this is fine, this is normal; no consequences. #Gaza #PalestineAction #UKPolitics #RightWingShits

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/and-now-lets-bomb-glastonbury/

Am reading Naomi Klein’s excellent #Doppelgänger at the moment. This section is about the investigation into residential schools in Canada a few years ago, which revealed up to 25,000 indigenous children died and were buried here. It was declared a #Genocide by the UN.

The parallels with what is happening in #Gaza are striking: settler colonialism involving not just the systematic erasure of indigenous culture but also systematic killing of children.

This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7.

This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview.

Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little.

https://www.ijvcanada.org/in-the-week-before-october-7-2023-ijv-factsheet/

@aral @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Sorry and thank you!

#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.

I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-crucial-film-stuff-of-nightmares?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Pope Leo XIV is great

“As civilians languish in misery, political elites grow fat with impunity.”

Just do want to say briefly that Bob Vylan saying “Death to the IDF” was an important, strategic and, yes, brave thing to do. Of course it pushed the limit of what is acceptable, was shocking to hear at Glastonbury (i was shocked!), but that was the point.

He single-handedly shifted the Overton Window on what is said. And he was right: The IDF is a violent war organisation that kills unarmed civilians on a daily basis and should indeed come to an end. We all know this, actually. #Gaza

We have all lived through another week of hundreds of hungry, starving people shot at and killed seeking food for their families in a horrible real life enactment of #SquidGame

There is also a violence in what is being done to us, as observers. Seeing heartbreaking pictures like that of a killed 14y old with a flour bags still secured to his wrist. But even worse: becoming numb, complicrly numb.

Never, ever, accept this as normal. Call it out, every day. #Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/the-guardian-view-on-annihilation-in-gaza-the-deaths-mount-but-the-pressure-has-ebbed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“If the group is proscribed next week, as is expected, being a member of or inviting support for Palestine Action will carry a maximum penalty of 14 years. Wearing clothing or publishing a logo that arouses reasonable suspicion that someone supports Palestine Action will carry a sentence of up to six months.”

#PalestineAction #Gaza #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/jun/28/palestine-action-proscription-free-speech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵59/n

Meanwhile our lovely king..

Meanwhile also, as I am listening to the radio as I am typing this: yet another horrific attack in northern #Gaza. Another 50 killed, after yesterday’s 80. This is our world.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/16/king-charles-wealth-swells-to-match-rishi-sunak-and-akshata-murty-on-uk-rich-list?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵60/n

“The wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires has surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade, according to Oxfam, equivalent to 14.6% of global output”

Capitalism is shit.It is by the rich for the rich and destroys everything else in the process. Let’s keep saying it!

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-oxfam-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵61/n

Just adding this here. A little poll I did a while back!

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/113610652987592955

#FollowTheMoney 🧵62/n

A key dimension to capitalism’s destructivism is, of course, its complete intertwining with warfare. Here more than anywhere it’s crucial to #FollowTheMoney, as Craig Murray does beautifully in this piece.

Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund

#PalestineAction

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/dystopia-uk-genocidal-raf-squadron-targeted-by-palestine-action-is-owned-by-a-hedge-fund-and-leased-by-the-raf/

Are we … are we the baddies?

This interview with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran was recorded yesterday, so before the US strikes on #Iran, but it’s one of the most lucid and best analyses. Showing so clearly how deluded and stupid the attack is. #Israel #US

https://youtu.be/2JrzbT_s3KA?si=w5MHZE7erx55qZUA

“International pressure over starvation and civilian killings in Gaza had apparently dissipated in little more than the time it took for the smoke of the first missile strikes to clear over Tehran.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/14/israel-attack-on-iran-slows-diplomatic-momentum-to-halt-gaza-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla has been interceoted by Israel. Of course. And:

Israel's defence minister says Madleen passengers will be shown video of 7 October attacks

Katz said he wanted them to “see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself.” 🤬

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/09/live-israel-gaza-aid-ship-madleen-freedom-flotilla-coalition-greta-thunberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla

Just to make completely clear: Israel has no legal right whatsoever to be doing this. As Francesca Albanese says:

While #Madleen must be released immediately, every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity, and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together—united, they will be unstoppable.

#BreakingTheSiege is a legal duty for states, and a moral imperative for all of us.

#ClimateDiary

More than 17,000 people in Canada’s western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to the wildfire season in years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/canada-wildfires-manitoba-province-fire-evacuation

#ClimateDiary UAE breaks May heat record with scorching 51.6C

“The desert nation, a top global oil exporter, lies in one of the planet's hottest regions and one which is particularly vulnerable to climate change.”

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250524-uae-breaks-may-heat-record-with-scorching-51-6c