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“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper. Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
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“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah. Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah. Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah. "The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him. Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
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Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to a visibly upset Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan, telling him that U.S. military interventions, sanctions, and regime-change wars often advance corporate interests and harm civilians, rather than promote democracy and freedom.
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“I was wrong,” the preeminent Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi told the Bad Hasbara podcast. “I probably misjudged things early on,” he said, revisiting his 2024 assessment that the strategic potential of Iran and the “Axis of Resistance,” and their ability to confront Israel, had been overstated. Matt Lieb?? | Daniel Maté 🍉
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“If those Palestinians hadn’t come and started throwing rocks, I probably would not have survived,” veteran Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jasper Nathaniel after she was brutally beaten by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to Nathaniel. Speaking to Ben Rhodes on Pod Save the World, Nathaniel recounted the details of the October 16 attack on Palestinian olive harvesters, how Palestinian villagers risked their lives to rescue Levine, and how Israeli soldiers subsequently shot a Palestinian man and blocked paramedics. “Do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves through armed struggle, if that’s what it takes?” Nathaniel asked. “And if not, do you suggest they lay down and die and let their village get overrun and let Heidi Levine get killed and accept the fate that the settlers have in mind for them, which they will openly tell you is to wipe them off the map?” 🔗 Full interview linked in reply. jasper nathaniel | Ben Rhodes
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Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that humanity faces three major crises: environmental collapse, artificial intelligence, and the threat of global war. He says existing political and economic systems lack the mechanisms to confront them. Invoking Antonio Gramsci, Žižek describes a “morbid” interregnum in which the old liberal world order is dying but the new cannot be born, leading to a "universalized morbidity" that is darker than traditional capitalism, bordering on a form of digital feudalism, as described by Yanis Varoufakis. He says Donald Trump is a symptom of the American state’s failures and criticizes the Left for prioritizing political correctness and opposition to Trump over developing a concrete vision rooted in social solidarity and morality. Žižek raises the possibility that confronting these crises may require a form of “leftist authoritarianism” or emergency state intervention to implement the necessary and bitter measures to survive upcoming catastrophes. 🎥 BBC Newsnight
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![🎥 “We want to go the Farage route, not the Lib Dem route.” Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine spoke to Novara Media about strategy behind the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, which took a year to organize and was designed to expose Labour’s politics. He said PM Andy Burnham’s response revealed him as little different from Keir Starmer. Inspired by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its “strategy of conflict,” the idea is to set the terms of debate, provoke a backlash, and heighten contradictions to force opponents to reveal positions. Rather than chase more MPs by moderating its politics, Kumar says the Greens should use confrontation to shift the debate leftward and become an anti-establishment force. “We want to drag [the paradigm] to the left kicking and screaming.” Ashok Kumar | Novara Media](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2112719528647901527/amplify_video_thumb/2112719281322434560/img/Y6PBfOvBHol59GaV.jpg)
🎥 “We want to go the Farage route, not the Lib Dem route.” Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine spoke to Novara Media about strategy behind the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, which took a year to organize and was designed to expose Labour’s politics. He said PM Andy Burnham’s response revealed him as little different from Keir Starmer. Inspired by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its “strategy of conflict,” the idea is to set the terms of debate, provoke a backlash, and heighten contradictions to force opponents to reveal positions. Rather than chase more MPs by moderating its politics, Kumar says the Greens should use confrontation to shift the debate leftward and become an anti-establishment force. “We want to drag [the paradigm] to the left kicking and screaming.” Ashok Kumar | Novara Media
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⚡️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to demolish an entire Hebron neighborhood, expel its residents and build "more and more settlements" after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting near the illegally occupied West Bank city on Friday. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a junction outside Hebron, killing a staff sergeant and a sergeant, before Israeli forces killed them. Palestinian media identified them as Hamouda Jaaba and Firas Jaaba, both 27, from Hebron. Netanyahu blamed Hamas but offered no evidence beyond ammunition the army said it found in their car. "Our first step will be to demolish this site and completely transform it," Netanyahu said, adding Israel is "building and arranging over 100 new settlements." Israeli forces sealed off Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, and arrested dozens as Netanyahu ordered preparations for a full closure of the entire West Bank – applying to Palestinians only, with Israeli roads staying open to settlers. The news comes just five days before Israel's elections, with Netanyahu trailing in the polls.
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Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that the only two forces competing in American politics are MAGA populists and democratic socialists. The latter, he says, should “penetrate the Democratic Party” rather than establish a separate party, and focus on grassroots organizing across various states.
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🇮🇱 Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party is poised to win eight or more seats running on its own in Tuesday's election, up from the six it won in 2022 on a joint far-right list. Among Israelis aged 18 to 22, it would take nearly 9% of the vote, according to a poll reported by Ynet, the equivalent of about 15 seats. Up to a third of its supporters will be voting for the first time, a survey at Hebrew University found. Ben-Gvir has pushed through a law making hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks on Israelis, starved and tortured Palestinian prisoners, and vowed to "conquer Gaza, because it's all ours." "I used to think he was a bit crazy, but then I actually looked at what he was saying, and it all made sense," Gavriel Marmon, an 18-year-old first-time voter from Beit Shemesh, told Reuters. 🎥 The Guardian spoke to some other young Israelis outside a Ben-Gvir rally. Full video in reply.
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🇾🇪 "The Houthis are here to stay. They're not going to be defeated, and they're going to remain in control of a large part of Yemen for the foreseeable future," former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said Monday at the Global Security Forum in Doha. Sawers, who led Britain's foreign intelligence service from 2009 to 2014, said Ansarallah has "exposed the limited options that Saudi Arabia has in terms of dealing with" the group. "The Houthis have got their own national Yemen agenda," he said on a panel on the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, adding that Saudi efforts "to sustain an alternative government have not been successful over the last 10 years."
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After telling Semafor he has “no plans” to campaign with leading anti-genocide voice Hasan Piker, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed explains to MS NOW why he is set to campaign Tuesday with President Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris. El-Sayed claims Harris “understood the challenges with the Biden-era policy toward Gaza going into 2024.”
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🇫🇷 “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres,” roughly translating to “In the name of God, its darkness,” has become a viral slogan at France’s student protests. The phrase originated in a bizarre Snapchat message allegedly sent by an undercover police officer posing as a student to infiltrate groups organizing school blockades. The message, awkwardly mixing Arabic expressions, French youth slang, and Algerian flag emojis was asking about protest plans. Students seized on the apparent attempt to imitate them, and have turned the phrase into a meme to mock suspected police infiltration and racial stereotyping. It now appears on protest signs and is chanted at demonstrations. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg also joined in, repeating the slogan during a visit to striking students at a high school outside Paris on October 13. The identity of the sender and police involvement remain unverified.
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💢 Saudi airstrikes killed 21 people and wounded 30 across five Yemeni areas in 24 hours, according to figures from Yemen's Ansarallah-led government reported Saturday. Vast majority of the dead were women and children, all reported casualties were civilians. The dead include: 🔸 Sanaa: Omaima al-Shaabi, a girl, 10 years old; her brother Louay, 16; and their uncle Ali, 26, in their home. 🔸 Hamdan, Sanaa province: eight people in housing for cement factory workers' families: Alin Awad, 3; Ghaida al-Maqra'i, 6; Aisha al-Maqra'i, 30; Hanan al-Wasabi, 18; Zainab Murshid; Hanadi Awad; Nawal al-Ezzi; and Thabit al-Hakimi. Seven children aged 1 to 6 were wounded. 🔸 Taiz province: Nabiha Naji, 35, and three girls, Bayna, 10, Hafsa, 15, and Ola, 5, in their home in al-Misrakh. 🔸 Hodeidah: Abdulwahed al-Wasabi, his two wives and two of his children in al-Tuhayta. 🔸 Saada: a 25-year-old Ethiopian migrant at a shelter for African migrants. 🎥 Khaled Abdu Saeed Hassan, Hiba village, al-Misrakh, Taiz province, lost his wife and three daughters, Bayna, 10, Hafsa, 15, and Ola, 5, all school age. He holds their school books.
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🟢 Hamas official Taher al-Nunu was repeatedly asked to condemn Iran's strikes on Gulf states in an interview with Saudi-government-controlled Al Arabiya. He repeatedly refused, maintaining that disputes "within the Arab and Islamic nation" must be resolved through "dialogue, and dialogue alone." The anchor pressed Nunu, media adviser to the head of Hamas' political bureau, again and again, citing a recent Ansarallah attack on a civilian airport and accusing Hamas of being one of Iran's proxies. Nunu drew a line between what he called "Iran's defense of itself against the Israeli occupation," which Hamas supports, and Iran's conflicts with its Gulf neighbors, which he said should be settled through talks. "We are not a proxy for any party," he said, adding that Hamas welcomes support from anyone backing the fight against Israel. When she accused him of equating "the aggressor and the victim," Nunu replied: "Condemnation here and condemnation there will not benefit any party." He said Israel's vision of a "Greater Israel" threatens "most Arab countries," and that the region must face it with "a united front." 🎥 Al Arabiya
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🇫🇷 France Unbowed presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon ripped BFMTV, France's most-watched 24-hour news channel, for its racist coverage live on air during Saturday's march in Paris. Asked what Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu should offer high school protesters, Mélenchon shot back: "I am not the government; go ask them. And you at BFM, start calming down with the racist remarks of all kinds, because it's starting to be enough." As a reporter kept pressing, he added: "Go make your provocations somewhere else... go do your racism on TV and leave us the hell alone." BFMTV, owned by French shipping billionaire Rodolphe Saadé, was rebuked by France's broadcast regulator last November after far-right politician Éric Zemmour cast Algerians and Arab Muslims as a threat on one of its shows without much pushback from its hosts.
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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
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🇵🇷 “For 128 years of U.S. rule, Puerto Rico has been a colony” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 13th District, marked the 128th anniversary of the July 25, 1898 U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico by calling for an end to American colonial rule and declaring her support for the island’s independence. U.S. troops landed at Guánica during the Spanish-American War, and Spain ceded the island under the Treaty of Paris without any input from Puerto Ricans. In 1900 the Foraker Act established that Puerto Rico “belongs to the United States, but is not the United States, nor a part of the United States,” a formula that has defined its status ever since. Congress imposed U.S. citizenship in 1917, months before Puerto Ricans were drafted into World War I, yet residents still cannot vote for president and have no voting representation in Congress. Avila Chevalier pointed to widespread poverty, recurring blackouts, the federal response to Hurricane Maria and the unelected fiscal oversight board known as La Junta, which was imposed by Congress in 2016 to restructure the island’s debt and holds power over its budget above the elected government. “I also support independence for the Puerto Rican people,” she said. “Because after 128 years, it’s the least the people on the island deserve.” 🎥 Darializa for Congress (via Instagram)
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🚨 “He was blown to pieces right before my eyes. His schoolbag was still on his shoulder.” Israeli forces killed 14-year-old Palestinian student Mohammed Abu Hammad in a drone strike on Al-Baraka Street, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza shortly after he returned from school. Mohammed had stopped at his father's shop to look after it while his father ran an errand. “He hadn't even been sitting in the chair for five minutes,” Ahmed Muhareb told Drop Site's Mohamed Ahmed. “They fired a missile at the boy, while his schoolbag was still on his back.” At the hospital, people held up Mohammed's bloodstained schoolbag and notebooks, pointing to the shrapnel that had pierced them. His father wept over his son's body. “I swear, I was just talking to him,” he cried. “Mohammed was the one I depended on.” “This is a child. What did he do wrong?” Mohammed's sister, Malak Abu Hammad, said. Questioning the ceasefire, she asked, “Do they even know God, to be talking about a ceasefire?” “Is it not enough that you've forced us to live in tents? You've forced us to live in hunger and poverty. Why are you killing us?” Muhareb asked. Several other students were wounded in the attack, which also killed another Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said. At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Saturday morning. 🎥 Mohamed Ahmed
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Mahmoud Khalil urged pro-Palestinian protesters in New York to keep holding Mayor Zohran Mamdani accountable, but criticized those calling him a “genocide enabler,” warning that such accusations diminish the meaning of genocide. “That takes away so much from the word genocide,” Khalil said, comparing the accusation directed at the New York mayor to the way Israel’s supporters indiscriminately invoke antisemitism. Khalil acknowledged protesters’ frustrations, but urged activists to move away from “purity politics” and internal infighting, and instead focus on grassroots organizing, political education, and extending one another “some grace.” Palestinians being killed cannot wait for endless theorizing about liberation and revolution, he argued. The priority must be stopping U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. Ryan Grim | Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل
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