Last night, the Israeli government seized the Freedom Flotilla’s vessel Madleen in international waters and illegally detained the crew. The boat and its humanitarian cargo are most likely lost; we can only hope that the public visibility of Rima Hassan (MEP) and Greta Thunberg will protect all crew members and ensure their safe return.
The Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, derided and belittled the crew and labeled them as extremists. He’s following the same right-wing playbook that Donald Trump is currently following in Los Angeles. Or that Putin follows in Ukraine, or Dobrindt at our border.
Fascism is resurfacing in our time under the guise of “Law & Order”.
Instead of concentrating our efforts on mitigating the climate emergency, we need to deal with old white men clinging to their power and murdering many thousands, just because they can.
(Hope, Cologne, 5/30/25)