The Exploding Head

In my episode, I share a quote I saw many years ago on the apartheid wall in Bethlehem.

It's a quote that has stuck with me ever since.

It's also what I have been thinking a lot about in the past years and especially in the past days, as the third anniversary of the Gaza genocide approaches.

It might resonate. Ideally, it will also be a reminder you might need today.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #FreePalestine

Luca Steinmann is an independent journalist, war reporter, political analyst, and author. He was also one of the few Western journalists reporting from the Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine.

I met with Luca to ask for his perspective on how wars are reported, what is being missed, the role of diplomacy, what it means to consume media critically, and the importance of calling out hypocrisy in politics.

Please enjoy our long-format interview.

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#independentmedia #independentjournalism #warreporting #Palestine #ukrainewar #antiwar

We already know what Aaron Bushnell said — “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” — and how it looks.

We can see with our own eyes what our own governments have normalised.

As I open the seventh season of my project, I invite you to keep your rage and to actively point out how a genocide and the support for a genocidal ethnostate are not normal.

Israeli settler violence has always been state violence: because you don't send your army to protect just anyone.
In addition to this violence being on the rise for at least three years now, see how this violence has exploded (even more) in the past few days.
#Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #WestBank #Nablus #settlerviolence

We live in strange times - because we live in the world with an Israel in it.

Here, in 2026, notice how an open declaration to be against the mass murder of children makes some people uncomfortable. And, at the same time, see what kind of admission that discomfort shows.

You might have seen both pieces of news of very unequal importance this week: Israeli soldiers doing yoga (a video released on Yoga Day), and the findings of the UN inquiry, concluding that the genocide in Gaza continues as the Israeli army is deliberately targeting children.

Here are my comments on how to make sense of it.

This is not your regular trial. This is not your usual court. Because this is not a normal country.

In my video, I invite you to zoom out and remember what we're actually seeing when Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, is being represented by his lawyer: we're seeing Palestinian sumud. We're seeing an attempt to go against a fascist court of an apartheid state; we're seeing an attempt to appeal for justice in the court of the occupier.

Why? Because our governments have done nothing to prevent this. And some of our governments - like mine - have even supported Israel's ability to continue torturing medics in its prisons with complete impunity.

Please sign the following petitions:

https://www.codepink.org/freeabusafiya

https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya/

#gaza #GazaGenocide #HussamAbuSafiya #FreeDoctorHussamAbuSafiya

You might have noticed how the words of condemnation by our leaders towards Israeli treatment, not even necessarily kidnapping, of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants carry zero weight. These are the words that mean absolutely nothing, as they are backed by no action (with the exception of governments we can count on our fingers).

What these words with no meaning represent is exactly what is left for Israel and its supporters to use as their last hasbara tool: to simply repeat the words that have no equivalent in reality. Here, like in some political dystopia, the words become both the representation and the represented.

I write about it in my article that was also published in Common Dreams: https://wp.me/pc6sQr-1vw

The kidnapping from international waters of Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek from the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israeli forces, as well as their illegal detention in Israel, is yet another example of the horrors that the world has allowed.

And this is only one example of what the world of Israel looks like.

To exist in this world - to physically be and function in such a world - can be hard on our nervous systems. My video is a reminder of both what that world has been, why it is absolutely OK for our hearts and minds to be heavy, and what we have to work towards in our lifetime.

#Israel #globalsumudflotilla #ThiagoAvila #Gaza #GazaGenocide

Choosing to interview someone like Germany's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, who history - and, hopefully, the International Court of Justice - will remember as a war criminal and a genocide enabler is very much not cool.

And, ironically, there's also the missed opportunity to point to the satire of it all: how someone both represents a certain organisation (the UN) and has shown support to a regime (Israel) that has been destroying the very premises (and the people, and buildings) of that organisation.

#JonStewart #TheUN #Israel #ICJ #FreePalestine