The latest article from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, detailing the rape and sexual assault of Palestinian detainees at the hands of prison guards, soldiers, settlers, and interrogators, has really upset the pro-Israel camp. One of the Israeli lawyers quoted in the piece joins Mehdi to talk about what goes on in Israeli prisons. Marmarelli spent years defending Palestinians under Israel’s two-tier judicial system, and he describes to Mehdi just how bad life is for Palestinian prisoners: “I had a client that was being raped every time I came to see him. So that means that it’s not even committed by the same guard or guards." Marmarelli is a lawyer to several Palestinian detainees, including the most prominent Palestinian behind bars today, Marwan Barghouti. As the last person on the outside to meet the popular Palestinian leader, Marmarelli tells Mehdi that Barghouti was “severely beaten 10 times since the 7th of October. His ribs were broken. His hearing was damaged in his right ear.” Marmarelli and Mehdi discuss how thousands of Palestinian detainees who are actually hostages are being held by Israel with no charges, why he considers liberal Zionists as “the worst”, how Zionists are okay with the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and whether Marwan Barghouti can still lead the Palestinian people. This interview was published on zeteo.com.
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Rape of Palestine Prisoners by Dogs and the use of Iron Bars
Israel's far-right security minister has caused global outrage after he released video of himself mistreating detained activists from the Gaza flotilla.
The footage appears to show Itamar Ben-Gvir intimidating and shouting at the handcuffed activists.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incident was “not in line with Israel’s values”, while the Foreign Ministry accused Ben-Gvir of damaging the country’s image.
The activists were detained after Israeli forces intercepted aid boats heading to Gaza, two days ago. The video has drawn international condemnation.
Several countries including the Netherlands, France and Canada have summoned Israeli ambassadors over the treatment of the activists. Michael Lynk is a Human Rights lawyer and the former UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Palestine. He says the international community has remained largely silent towards previous Israeli interceptions of flotillas.
Several countries have condemned Israel’s treatment of activists detained while attempting to break the Gaza blockade. Spain called it ‘monstrous,’ while Australia, the UK and Canada described it as degrading and abusive. UN analyst Alanna O’Malley explains.
Tucker Carlson: "Netanyahu is leading to destruction, Israel dragged us into war" The former Fox News star, who draws tens of millions of viewers and listeners, withdrew his support from Trump "over the war with Iran" and has become one of the fiercest critics of the Israeli government, while spreading theories that echo antisemitic tropes. Now, in an exclusive interview with Channel 13 News, he says: "The US must stop all aid to Israel. Nothing justifies genocide." How much of this interview has been suppressed ? How can a Country that employs Apartheid consider itself a Democracy?
Claudio Francavilla of Human Rights Watch outlines the European Union’s political and legal obligations in response to atrocities in Gaza and the wider Occupied Palestinian Territory. He argues that EU member states, all parties to the UN Genocide Convention, have a duty to act once they are aware of a serious risk of genocide, stressing that a final legal determination is not required. As he puts it, states must “employ all means reasonably available” to prevent genocide, yet he concludes that the EU “chose not to act” despite repeated warnings and available tools.
The remarks examine concrete measures the EU could take, including halting arms transfers, imposing targeted sanctions, suspending parts of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, banning trade with settlements, and upholding obligations to the International Criminal Court. Francavilla argues that Europe’s inaction has helped enable impunity, saying that when it comes to Israeli crimes, “the EU has chosen not to act.” He closes by calling for stronger public pressure so that EU measures do not remain merely “on the table” but are actually adopted.
These remarks were delivered on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at the 2026 UN Palestine Committee engagement with European Civil Society Organizations. More details: https://www.un.org/unispal/committee-...
Avi Schlaim on Nakba Day and the Gaza War
Historian Avi Schlaim discusses the legacy of the Nakba, international reactions to the war in Gaza, and the future of peace and accountability in the region.
Never-ending Nakba for Palestinians
“There is no doubt that on the anniversary of the Nakba, [it] is still ongoing” In 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly turned into refugees by violent Zionist militants. In recent years, almost eight decades on, Israel has been trying to remove their refugee status — which guarantees their right to return to their homeland — through military occupation and illegal settler attacks, attempting to erase all Palestinian memory and remove all Palestinians from historic Palestine.
Tommy Robinson & Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think
Source The Guardian Newspaper
Four Palestine Action activists convicted after a retrial over a violent protest at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s UK site face being sentenced as terrorists despite the jury not being told this.
In an unprecedented move in a criminal damage case, the judge, Mr Justice Johnson, ruled before the first trial that there appeared to be a “terrorist connection” to the offences – even though the protest took place before Palestine Action was proscribed – but this could not be told to the jury. The finding and the restriction on telling the jury continued for the retrial.
Jurors subsequently convicted Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, and Fatema Rajwani, 21, of criminal damage over the 2024 break-in at the Elbit Systems UK site near Bristol.
The terrorism connection ruling can now be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted on Tuesday. At sentencing, a separate determination will be made based on the criminal standard of proof of whether there was a terrorism connection.
If the court finds there was, it would mean the four would have to serve their whole sentence in prison, unless a parole board approved their release after completing two-thirds of their sentence. Non-terrorist prisoners usually serve 40% of their sentence.
The parole board would also have to be satisfied that the defendants were reformed and had rescinded their beliefs.
Upon release, the defendants could be recorded as terrorists for life, meaning any new device, bank account, email address or relationship would have to be registered with the police for the rest of their life and they could be sent back to prison if they do not comply or make a mistake.
The jury at Woolwich crown court was not told that this was a possibility when convicting the defendants last week of criminal damage – which is not ordinarily a terrorist offence – for smashing up drones and other equipment at the Elbit factory.
Ruling on the appearance of a terrorist connection in March 2025, Johnson said: “On s1(1)(b) of the TA [Terrorism Act] 2000, [the defence barrister] Rajiv Menon KC and others strongly argued that influencing government was not the purpose of the action – the purpose of the action was to damage weapons and save lives – I accept that this was one motivating factor – but that does not mean that another purpose was not to damage property to be made available to the Israeli government and thereby influence the Israeli government.”
Johnson did not allow the defence of lawful excuse on the charge of criminal damage. In a ruling on 21 April, he said the defendants could not give evidence of motivation, including “their reasons for joining Palestine Action, their beliefs about Elbit’s supply of weapons to Israel for use in the war in Gaza, their views about the actions of Israel in Gaza or its legality or their purpose in causing damage to property at the factory beyond an intention to destroy it or any other evidence which is irrelevant to the issues which the jury are required to determine”.
A Defend Our Juries spokesperson said: “The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”
They said it could set a dangerous precedent for future protest cases.
NY Times exposes Israel's r*pe dungeons, Netanyahu threatens to sue
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal joins former US representative and One America News host Matt Gaetz to discuss the New York Times article reporting what was already well known to close observers of Israel-Palestine: Israel has adopted sexual abuse on a systematic level to torture Palestinians kidnapped from Gaza since Oct 7, and much of its society has mobilized in defense of the torturers. Max explains why Netanyahu's extreme legal threats against the NY Times will never lead to concrete action, and how they could blow back on Israel if they went to trial.