20 posts of the category: News
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**Combat Drones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza: An Austrian Company and the War**
11. November 2025
When even mainstream media began reporting critically in 2013 on the thousands of people killed by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, it came to light that the engines powering these combat drones originated in Upper Austria. Yet to this day, every Austrian government has remained silent about this scandal.
Under both U.S. President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, “suspected” individuals in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen were remotely assassinated without trial—usually by “Hellfire” air-to-surface missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the Guardian, a mainstream British n ...
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Recognizing Palestina & ending the genocide: the case of the Low Countries
16. September 2025
Nick Krekelbergh
In recent months, more European countries have moved toward recognizing Palestine and increasing pressure on Israel to halt the genocide in Gaza. The Low Countries reflect this trend. Belgium decided to recognize Palestine as a state, though under certain conditions. In the Netherlands, the right-wing government collapsed after a more moderate coalition partner pushed for a tougher stance toward Israel. Yet even if Europe’s gradual shift can be read as a modest victory for Palestinian national liberation and peace, the reality is far less straightforward.
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Boycott these companies: No Profit for Apartheid or Genocide
10. August 2025
Take action now against these companiesthat profit from the genocide of the Palestinian peopleCall by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
Below you will find a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycott,divestment, and pressure campaigns.
Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society leading the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS – http://www.bdsmovement.net/), welcomes activists, organizations, and institutions around the world who have expressed their soli ...
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Boycott ZARA: Dressing up Apartheid and Genocide
31. July 2025
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, officially endorses the grassroots, organic campaign to boycott ZARA. We call on people of conscience around the world to boycott ZARA, the flagship brand of the Spanish multinational Inditex, for its deep and growing complicity in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide.
At the start of 2025, amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza, ZARA opened its largest-ever store in Israel - a 4,500 m² flagship i ...
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Swift Terror—How the Intelligence and Political establishment exploited an Islamic Terror Hoax
30. November 2024
[Igor Böhm via 9lab.org]
“Intelligence [agencies] are very flawed institutions: they’re highly ideological, they’re fanatic, they’re racist, and as a result the information that comes through them is usually grossly distorted.” — Noam Chomsky 1
In the early morning hours, a day prior to the Taylor Swift opening concert in Vienna, guarded by an array of road blocks, over 40 law enforcement officers, including the tier one tactical unit COBRA 2, a bomb squad, 3 and a robot dog 4, carried out a raid, transmuting the small rural industrial town of Ternitz, Austria, into a state of emergen ...
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Victory for Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah: ELSC and ICJP Overturn Schengen-wide Travel Ban
18. May 2024
Berlin, May 15, 2024
Administrative court Potsdam slams German Federal Police
Schengen-Information-System entry for Prof. Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah has no legal basis and is to be revoked immediately after an emergency appeal by ELSC lawyer Alexander Gorski with support from lawyers from the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP). This effectively ends the Schengen-area travel ban imposed on Prof. Dr. Abu Sittah by German authorities. He was previously prevented from entering Germany, France and most recently the Netherlands.
The court’s ruling follows ELSC l ...
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Welcome Muslims! Recognize the rights of Palestinians!
14. November 2020
Declaration of Palestine-Solidarity Austria
We demand a fundamental change of course from our federal government
Palestine-Solidarity condemns the attack in Vienna of November 2, 2020 and mourns the victims.
The question of causes and consequences must not be ignored however. The perpetrator came from Austria, is a citizen, grew up and went to school here, etc. This highlights the growing socio-cultural segregation of our country. The government likes to use the term "parallel societies" both as a reproach and an accusation. But such social structures are fir ...
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Why the Labour Party ousted Corbyn
1. November 2020
by Peter Unterweger, former Head of Automotive Department of the International Metalworks Union (IMB)
Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time left-wing rear bencher, was elected to head the Labour Party in 2015 as a result of the wide-ranging disappointments of neoliberal Blair policies, strong growth of Labour membership due to left-wing organizing campaigns and earlier party reforms, which had empowered regular party members to elect the leader. The new leadership and political orientation made tensions with the centrist supporters of Tony Blair, who were still numerous and very influential in parliam ...
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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition to Sail to Gaza Again
12. August 2014
PRESS RELEASE: 2014-08-12 11:02
Responding to the Israeli aggression and the complicity of world governments
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) met in Istanbul in the shadow of the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza. We have watched atrocities being committed against an already besieged population. In the two day meeting (August 10th and 11th), the FFC concluded that it is the responsibility of civil society worldwide to sail to Gaza and challenge the Israeli blockade, the source of most problems facing the Palestinian population of Gaza.
We plan to sail to Gaza ...
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Gaza: an urgent call to protect civilian life and health
6. August 2014
Source: The Lancet
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 4 August 2014
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61297-6Cite or Link Using DOI
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http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961297-6/fulltext
The Lancet is a general medical journal that publishes research, news, and opinion about all aspects of human health and wellbeing. In situations of war and conflict—such as in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere—our perspective has always been to put the interests of civilian lives ahead of the politics of m ...
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Gaza's health and humanitarian crisis
6. August 2014
by Kristin Solberg source: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961125-9/fulltext
The Lancet, Volume 384, Issue 9941, Pages 389 - 390, 2 August 2014, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61125-9, Published Online: 31 July 2014
The conflict in Gaza has claimed hundreds of civilian lives and damaged or destroyed numerous health facilities. Kristin Solberg, who was in Gaza at the start of the war, reports.
A broken metal wheelchair stood in the ruins, crushed by the massive force of an explosion, its owner dead or in hospital. Nearby, footprints in blood ma ...
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Candy for Israeli soldiers, cancer for Gaza’s civilians
6. August 2014
Source: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/candy-israeli-soldiers-cancer-gazas-civilians
In an especially grotesque piece of propaganda, an Israeli weapons manufacturer has boasted of distributing candy to soldiers attacking Gaza.
Israel Aerospace Industries, the company in question, is a leading supplier of drones to the Israeli military.
Such drones are, of course, not bringing candy to Palestinians. They are being used to drop weapons which cause horrific injuries.
A new briefing from Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, details how Hellfire rockets connected ...
