# Palestine/zionism Thread
**URL:** https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323
**Category:** Current Events
**Created:** [October 11, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323 "2025-10-11T17:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/522 "2026-03-30T14:12:51Z")
> **['Inhumane and degrading': Israel set to approve death penalty for Palestinians](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-set-final-vote-palestinian-prisoner-death-penalty-bill)**
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> Lawmakers to vote on bill condemned by European states and rights groups as discriminatory and unlawful
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/523 "2026-03-30T15:33:47Z")
> **[Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/29/exhausted-palestinians-struggle-ceasefire-gaza-iran-israel-us-war-humanitarian-crisis)**
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> Five months after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza, airstrikes are still killing civilians and the humanitarian situation remains dire
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/524 "2026-03-31T12:22:56Z")
> **[Israeli Knesset passes law to execute Palestinians for 'acts of terrorism'](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-knesset-passes-law-execute-palestinians-acts-of-terrorism)**
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> Law makes death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians for killings that come under 'acts of terrorism'
[https://thecradle.co/articles/gallows-do-not-scare-us-resistance-groups-rebuke-israeli-bill-to-execute-palestinian-detainees](https://thecradle.co/articles/gallows-do-not-scare-us-resistance-groups-rebuke-israeli-bill-to-execute-palestinian-detainees)
“Israel’s conviction rate of Palestinians (in military courts) is 99.74%
Israel’s conviction rate of reported settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%
Israel’s death sentence will only apply against Palestinians not Israeli Jews
It’s not complicated. It’s Apartheid!”
[https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/2038719092123631919](https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/2038719092123631919)
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/525 "2026-03-31T12:39:22Z")
There’s a link inside article to the video of her arrest
> **[Palestine Action hunger striker arrested in dawn raid by masked police](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-hunger-striker-arrested-dawn-raid-masked-police)**
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> Campaigners report that 21-year-old Qesser Zuhrah's arrest came after she posted an Instagram story calling for 'direct action'
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/526 "2026-03-31T15:06:13Z")
> **[Land Day: What happened in Palestine on March 30, 1976?](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/land-day-what-happened-in-palestine-on-march-30-1976)**
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> Fifty years ago, six unarmed Palestinians were killed and over 100 were injured protesting Israel’s land confiscations.
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/527 "2026-03-31T15:16:40Z")
> **[Al-Aqsa and the Holy Sepulchre: How has Israel undermined the Status Quo?](https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/al-aqsa-holy-sepulchre-how-has-israel-undermined-status-quo)**
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> The precarious balance of power that governs religious sites in the Old City is again threatened by Israeli forces against Palestinian worshippers
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/528 "2026-03-31T17:18:47Z")
Palestine Chronicle live feed from Oct 7 2023
[https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-resistance-launch-major-attack-on-israel-what-happened-developing-story/](https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-resistance-launch-major-attack-on-israel-what-happened-developing-story/)
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### Author:  [@AFreeman](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/AFreeman)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/529 "2026-04-01T10:22:54Z")
> **[An Israeli Leaked 1000 Hours Of Interrogation Video To Alex Gibney, Who...](https://www.europereloaded.com/an-israeli-leaked-1000-hours-of-interrogation-video-to-alex-gibney-who-turned-it-into-the-bibi-files/)**
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> Alex Gibney has leaked footage of all the domestic scandals Netanyahu has faced, and hidden from the rest of the world.
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### Author:  [@AFreeman](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/AFreeman)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/530 "2026-04-01T10:54:02Z")
Probably posted, but a worthwhile watch for those who may be visiting this thread for the first time:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY)
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/531 "2026-04-01T15:10:56Z")
> [@AFreeman](#):
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> Probably posted, but a worthwhile watch for those who may be visiting this thread for the first time:
I’ll post this as a sort of an abridged version,
“𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘
𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗟”
“Before they launch missiles, they launch propaganda campaigns. Before they roll out tanks, they roll out narratives.”
- Caitlin Johnstone
6 mins
[https://x.com/propandco/status/1718092723750899809](https://x.com/propandco/status/1718092723750899809)
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/532 "2026-04-01T15:12:53Z")
> **[World’s Leading Football Bodies Under Fire Over Israel Policies](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/football-israel-gaza-west-bank-fifa-uefa-infantino-icc)**
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> Israel’s football violations against Palestinians have been “normalized” by FIFA and UEFA, sparking legal cases and an ICC complaint.
> **[Prominent UK pro-Palestine activists guilty of breaching protest conditions](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/01/prominent-uk-pro-palestine-activists-guilty-of-breaching-protest-conditions)**
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> Campaigners call verdict on Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham ‘grotesque’ and part of attempt to ‘undermine civil liberties’
> **[‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/31/israel-death-penalty-law-international-criticism)**
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> Volker Türk says bill, which applies to Palestinians convicted of terror charges but not Jewish extremists, must be repealed
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/533 "2026-04-01T15:57:41Z")
> **[Israeli court closes case into Palestinian teen’s death despite evidence of...](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-court-closes-case-palestinian-teen-death-despite-evidence-starvation)**
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> Human rights experts slam court ruling and ongoing impunity as prisoner deaths mount
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/534 "2026-04-02T11:24:03Z")
> “I’m waiting for my son Mahmoud. I haven’t seen him in two and a half years except once, before he was transferred to Egypt. I’ve been waiting for two and a half years,” Al-Harsh, 31, told Drop Site News.
> **[Premature Babies Evacuated After Israeli Attack on Al-Shifa Returned to Gaza...](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/premature-babies-evacuated-shifa-hospital-gaza-egypt-israeli-attack)**
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> “I am meeting my daughter for the first time. It’s as if today is the day of her birth. I can’t describe my feelings.”
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/535 "2026-04-02T14:49:40Z")
## **Financing the far right and the occupation**
A key pillar of this strategy is the allocation of 400 million shekels ($129.5m) to the Ministry of Settlement and National Missions, which is the body that ultimately authorises illegal Jewish-only settlements and outposts on Palestinian land – usually after they have gone up.
> **[How Israel’s record budget will finance expanding illegal settlements](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/2/how-israels-record-budget-will-finance-expanding-illegal-settlements)**
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> Budget of $271bn comes against a backdrop of surging violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the West Bank.
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/536 "2026-04-02T14:51:32Z")
- Since the onset of the recent regional escalation, more than 100 Palestinians have been injured during settler attacks, including about 90 by settlers and the remainder by Israeli forces, averaging approximately seven injuries per day in this context ([UN](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-humanitarian-situation-report-19-march-2026/)).
- More than 260 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers during settler attack in 2026 ([UN](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-humanitarian-situation-report-19-march-2026/)).
- This is a threefold increase in the monthly average of Palestinians injured by settlers during settler attacks since 2023 – 105 vs. 30 ([UN](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-humanitarian-situation-report-19-march-2026/)).
- Since 1 January 2026, more than 1,500 Palestinians from 29 communities have been displaced due to demolitions and settler attacks ([UN](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-humanitarian-situation-report-19-march-2026/)).
- [MAP escalates emergency medical response as settler killings of Palestinians reach unprecedented levels | Medical Aid for Palestinians](https://www.map.org.uk/latest/news/map-escalates-emergency-medical-response-as-settler-killings-of-palestinians-reach-unprecedented-levels/)
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### Author:  [@Karlysymon](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Karlysymon)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/537 "2026-04-03T12:49:40Z")
> [@Scout](#):
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> [Israeli Knesset passes law to execute Palestinians for 'acts of terrorism' | Middle East Eye](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-knesset-passes-law-execute-palestinians-acts-of-terrorism) [https://thecradle.co/articles/gallows-do-not-scare-us-resistance-groups-rebuke-israeli-bill-to-execute-palestinian-detainees](https://thecradle.co/articles/gallows-do-not-scare-us-resistance-groups-rebuke-israeli-bill-to-execute-palestinian-detainees)
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> “Israel’s conviction rate of Palestinians (in military courts) is 99.74%
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> Israel’s conviction rate of reported settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%
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> Israel’s death sentence will only apply against Palestinians not Israeli Jews
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> It’s not complicated. It’s Apartheid!”
Iam ignorant about the details of the bill but this thought popped up in my head as i was going about my day.
I wondered whether the bill’s intent was to spread a chilling effect on all Palestinian resistance. Israel’s ambitions on the Iran front have failed or will take a long time to materialize, so focusing on violently seizing Palestinian territories one needs a bill like this to prevent Palestinians from fighting back to keep their property…knowing that they will face the gallows if they even try.
[Link](https://x.com/PushDemsLeft/status/2039402414785106429)
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/538 "2026-04-05T07:22:41Z")
> [@Karlysymon](#):
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> I wondered whether the bill’s intent was to spread a chilling effect on all Palestinian resistance. Israel’s ambitions on the Iran front have failed or will take a long time to materialize, so focusing on violently seizing Palestinian territories one needs a bill like this to prevent Palestinians from fighting back to keep their property…knowing that they will face the gallows if they even try.
I think the zios know it wont work like that. The more they hang people the more others will join the resistance.
The brits done the same thing in Ireland over the centuries for various “misdemeanours” such as wearing a shamrock or anything green as immortalised in the song ‘the wearing of the green’. Then in 1920 they again brought back hanging and the first of those hanged was 18 year old Volunteer Kevin Barry,
> William Murphy rightly notes, the situation ‘demonstrated once more the authorities’ key dilemma: the revolution could not be halted without severe repression, but repressive acts fed the revolution.’ Barry was hanged on the morning of 1 November 1920, and his death – an end bestowed on a criminal, in a criminal prison – inflamed public opinion.
> **[Remembering Kevin Barry](https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/11/remembering-kevin-barry)**
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> 101 years ago today, Irish revolutionary Kevin Barry was hanged at just eighteen years of age. Immortalised in song, his execution became an international cause – and fanned the flames of rebellion.
Then they hanged another six (part of a group named the ‘forgotten ten’) a few months later,
And as this [article](https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28030) points out,
> If the British regime thought the execution of the six Volunteers in Mountjoy would intimidate the Irish people they were greatly mistaken as shown by the wave of grief and solidarity that ensued, as well as the stepping up of armed resistance to British rule by the IRA.
My thought is that this new “law” is being brought in to try and encourage suicide bombing. If you base it on zionist thinking such as the samson option it makes perfect sense. Well it does to me.
> [@Karlysymon](#):
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> I am ignorant about the details of the bill
Here’s an unofficial translation from Adalah for the second and third readings PDF
> **[Death\_Penalty\_Bill\_unofficial\_translation.pdf](https://www.adalah.org/uploads/uploads/Death_Penalty_Bill_unofficial_translation.pdf)**
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/539 "2026-04-05T07:40:49Z")
> **[Pro-Palestine protests sweep Syria over Gaza genocide and Al-Aqsa Mosque closure](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-palestine-rallies-sweep-syria-amid-gaza-genocide-and-israeli-occupation)**
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> Protesters chant for Palestine as anger grows over Israeli occupation in southern Syria
> **[How bankers, bureaucrats and bystanders sustain Israel's genocide in Gaza](https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-bankers-bureaucrats-and-bystanders-sustain-israel-genocide-gaza)**
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> From drone warfare and tech to finance and political silence, modern genocide operates through systems that must take responsibility alongside those who pull the trigger
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### Author:  [@AFreeman](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/AFreeman)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/540 "2026-04-05T10:35:23Z")
Excerpt below from:
> **[Iran war live: Oil surges above $100 after Trump orders Strait of Hormuz...](https://www.middleeasteye.net/live/iran-war-live-israel-says-it-will-control-bridges-and-area-south-lebanons-litani-river)**
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> Trump considers restarting military strikes on Iran after ceasefire talks collapse
Here are the latest updates as major developments continue to unfold rapidly:
- **US rescue operation:** The second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued, with President Donald Trump saying the officer is injured but “will be fine”.
- **Toll rises from strikes on Iran:** At least nine people were killed and eight wounded in US strikes in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
- **Major Israeli strikes:** Israel said it hit more than 120 Iranian air defence and missile systems in the past 24 hours.
- **Petrochemical hub hit:** A strike on a key petrochemical site in southwestern Iran killed five people and wounded around 170, according to Iranian media.
- **US aircraft destroyed:** Reports say US forces destroyed two malfunctioning transport aircraft during the Iran rescue mission to prevent capture.
- **Gulf infrastructure targeted:** Drone attacks damaged power and water plants in Kuwait, while Bahrain said a fire at a Bapco facility has been extinguished after an Iranian strike.
- **UAE ‘attack’:** Fires broke out at Abu Dhabi’s Borouge petrochemical plant after debris from an interception fell on the site, forcing a suspension of operations.
- **Civilian toll in Israel:** Israel’s Health Ministry said 108 people were hospitalised with war-related injuries in the past 24 hours.
- **Iran warning:** An Iranian official warned of a “big surprise” for the US and Israel as tensions escalate.
- **Global alarm:** Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei warned the region could become a “ball of fire” and urged international action to stop further escalation
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### Author:  [@Scout](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/Scout)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/palestine-zionism-thread/323/541 "2026-04-06T08:18:46Z")
A pretty decent talk by Chris Hedges. Runs 34 mins.
# **‘Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING’ (Chris Hedges at Princeton)**
Consortium news gives this summary,
Hedges begins with a blunt thesis: **“The genocide in Gaza is the beginning**.” The mass displacement of millions, the saturation bombing of civilian populations and the open defiance of international law signal the death of the post-World War II framework that once claimed to restrain state violence.
Institutions like the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, he says, have been “neutered, transformed into useless appendages of another age.”
What replaces them is a world where \*\*“\*\*there are no rules for the strong, only for the weak.”
**A World Unraveling**
Hedges describes a geopolitical landscape in freefall:
- Over 6 million people displaced across Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.
- A U.S. political class pushed into war with Iran by ideological zealots and lobby pressure.
- A global legal system openly ignored by the very nations that once claimed to uphold it.
The result is a moral vacuum where, as Hedges puts it, “the most psychopathic rulers of human history… have returned with a vengeance.”
**The Weaponization of Memory**
One of the most provocative sections of the speech examines how Holocaust memory has been distorted to shield state power rather than confront the universal dangers of genocide.
Hedges argues that many institutions dedicated to Holocaust remembrance have failed to speak out against the mass killing of Palestinians, revealing a deeper crisis of moral authority.
This silence, he warns, has “imploded the moral authority of Holocaust scholars and Holocaust memorials.”
**Genocide as a Western Tradition**
Hedges traces a lineage from colonial extermination campaigns to Hiroshima and beyond, arguing that genocide is not an aberration but a recurring instrument of Western empire.
Citing Langston Hughes, he reminds the audience that marginalized communities have long understood fascism not as theory but as lived experience.
“Genocide is not an anomaly. It is coded within our DNA.”
**The Authoritarian Turn at Home**
The repression of student protesters, the blacklisting of dissenting academics, and proposals to revoke broadcasting licenses for critics of U.S. foreign policy are, Hedges argues, the domestic echo of the violence abroad.
A “deadening silence” is descending — the silence that precedes authoritarian consolidation.
“We know where this ends.”
**The Real Enemies**
In one of the speech’s most striking lines, Hedges rejects the idea that America’s enemies are foreign populations:
“They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here among us.”
These enemies, he says, are the political, corporate, and media elites who envision “a world of slaves and masters.”
**A Final Warning**
Hedges closes with a stark choice: obstruct or surrender. There are no internal mechanisms left for reform. The machinery of empire, perfected abroad, is turning inward.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV9dkU2E8j0&t=2056s)
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