While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received 50 standing ovations from Congress, his address was a “total failure” in the eyes of the rest of the world. “Not just in terms of the substance but also what it did for the political establishment,” says Miriam Osman from the Palestinian Youth Movement. As Netanyahu defended the genocide and asked for more military support to expand a regional war, antiwar protesters outside the Capitol were chemically attacked by swarms of police who were enforcing what many have called ‘Fort Netanyahu.’ “The violence of the political class was barefaced,” explains Osman to host Eugene Puryear.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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