I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:
*** Dear Aral Balkan
In your Mastodon post at <mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803…> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.
We therefore w
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I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:
*** Dear Aral Balkan
In your Mastodon post at <mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803…> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.
We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.
Kind regards Presidium ***
So, I have a problem with this.
My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586…). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.
I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”
And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.
This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.
So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?
This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.
Well, that won’t be happening.
I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.
If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.
Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.
And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.
According to the anonymous Linux-Is-Best account, I am a scammer and Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org), which I made and help run, is a scam, and every person from Gaza we verified using video calls – all 303 of them, by last count¹ – is also a scammer.
(We’re clearly a very transparent scam operation that believes in FOSS, etc.)
So, if Linux-Is-Best is right, you are harbouring a known scammer in your organisation. Furthermore, by allowing the source code of the scam on your site, you could be held liable if you know of the scam but do nothing about it.
So, please:
1. Either remove me as an active member (and give me notice so I can cancel my direct debit and have time to migrate my account and projects elsewhere), or
2. Take down the libellous claims by this anonymous troll who is causing real harm to people facing genocide in Gaza (and who is thus, himself, complicit in genocide).
So I’m either a scammer and I should not be allowed to be part of the Codeberg organisation or the anonymous Linux-Is-Best is a libellous, genocide-complicit troll and should not be welcome at Codeberg. Because both of these cannot be true at the same time.
I’ll leave it to you to decide who you would rather want associated with Codeberg.
It shouldn’t be a very difficult decision to make.
Dear @Codeberg, As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.
He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.
As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.
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The project "[Linux-Is-Best / Personal-Fediverse-List](https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Personal-Fediverse-List)" is harboring, despite the word "personal" in its title, an account blocking list `BLOCK_gaza_verified_scam.
“Jews are execrable insects with parasite-hijacked brains.”
– Gad Saad, Zionist, at the World Symposium Against Antizionism
Zionism is antisemitic and always has been antisemitic.
To conflate antizionism with antisemitism is, itself, antisemitic.
Zionism is fascism.
Antizionism is antifascism.
(Oh, does it matter that he was only talking about “the wrong kind of Jews” – those who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people – while denying that a Holocaust survivor couldn’t possibly be a Holocaust survivor because they do so? Yes, actually. It makes it even worse.)
At a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian dispossession as a “false expulsion.”
The creed and ideological dogmas of #Zionism have become indistinguishable from those of fascism.
Zionist hate no longer targets only Muslims or obvious antisemitic targets, but also Jews themselves blamed of not being “Jewish enough” to support an uncompromisingly stance towards the genocidal Zionist entity.
The trend of labelling liberal or left-wing Jewish as “not real Jews” is an act of pure fascist ideological hate - socialists in Italy were also described as “unpatriotic Italians” during Mussolini’s regime.
Holocaust trauma is also doubted when Holocaust survivors don’t openly support violence against Palestinians. If you were looking for Holocaust denial, look no further than the Zionist camp.
Zionists and fascists also started leveraging the exact same anti-Muslim rhetoric, describing Muslims as backwards rapists who come to the West to get white women pregnant.
They also share the same disdain as fascists towards any act of humanity
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The creed and ideological dogmas of #Zionism have become indistinguishable from those of fascism.
Zionist hate no longer targets only Muslims or obvious antisemitic targets, but also Jews themselves blamed of not being “Jewish enough” to support an uncompromisingly stance towards the genocidal Zionist entity.
The trend of labelling liberal or left-wing Jewish as “not real Jews” is an act of pure fascist ideological hate - socialists in Italy were also described as “unpatriotic Italians” during Mussolini’s regime.
Holocaust trauma is also doubted when Holocaust survivors don’t openly support violence against Palestinians. If you were looking for Holocaust denial, look no further than the Zionist camp.
Zionists and fascists also started leveraging the exact same anti-Muslim rhetoric, describing Muslims as backwards rapists who come to the West to get white women pregnant.
They also share the same disdain as fascists towards any act of humanity towards anyone who doesn’t look, think and talk like them, calling it “suicidal empathy”.
Just like fascists, Zionists also started employing the same “great replacement” narrative, and started claiming that the only alternative to their abhorrent ideology is the destruction of the nation-state, the destruction of strong borders, of private property, gender boundaries and individual liberties.
Always remember that when an abhorrent ideology frames everything as a choice between them and the destruction of everything you know, you are witnessing fascism unfold in front of your eyes.
You are being forced to swallow an us-vs-them narrative that forces you to choose something awful because the alternative would be even more awful.
This is the only way fascists can manufacture something that looks like consensus - by leveraging ignorance and fear, and framing themselves as the only alternative to societal collapse.
Next time a Zionist tells you that #Israel must exist exactly in that corner of the world as a bulwark of Western democracy, remind them that the Zionist movement has turned into the exact antithesis of everything that Western liberal democratic values were supposed to mean.
Nobody ever asked for a corner of Western democracy over there, least of all to replace ethno-theocratic States with a different ethno-theocratic State.
Especially when violence, apartheid, genocide and displacement are the preferred ways of reshaping those territories.
Remind them that by supporting a genocidal State and lobbying for its support in the West, even when it comes with suppression of free speech, they’re being more loyal to a hostile nation with no legitimacy than to their own countries, and we have a duty of treating them exactly like we treat Salaphite groups who push extreme Islam in the West - and we should show zero tolerance towards both of them.
Remind them that they talk like fascists, walk like fascists and hang out with fascists, and many of us raised with the values of antifascist resistence instinctively pick up the rifles as soon as we see a fascist in front of us.
Remind them that the only good fascist is a dead one - preferably violently and publicly slaughtered, so it sets a deterrent again future imitators.
Remind them that Zionism is a political ideology that is trying to frame itself as the only natural solution to the problem of antisemitism, just like neoliberalism and fascism try to frame themselves as natural rational solutions coming from above.
Remind them that political opinions should never be shielded from the normal political discourse, and that all political ideas should be dissected, criticized and slaughtered if needed - because that’s how democracy works.
Remind them that when a political ideology tries to make legitimate political criticism against it a crime, that political ideology is functionally indistinguishable from Nazism.
Remind them that hating Israel is a civic duty because it means to hate fascism, colonialism and genocide and all the horrors that come with them.
If Israel wants to become an illiberal fascist regime in that corner of the world, we’ll keep stating loudly that it has no right to exist, and we won’t stop fighting Israel until all the people it oppresses are liberated.
At a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian dispossession as a “false expulsion.”
Leider scheint sich trotz Völkerrecht immer noch der Grundsatz zu bewahrheiten, dass im Krieg alles erlaubt ist. Wage erinnern tut das an Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Jetzt muss natürlich erst mal jahrelang ein juristisches Gutachten erstellt werden, ob man dieses Verhalten als Kriegsverbrechen einordnen darf. Die Menschen sind dann längst geflohen oder verhungert.
Einordnen müsste man dies als eigentlich geächtete Biowaffe oder Ökoterrorismus. Erschwerend kommt hinzu, dass die Region ohnehin durch den Klimawandel stark unter Wüstenbildung leidet. Land das jahrelang nicht für die Landwirtschaft genutzt werden kann ist wahrscheinlich für immer verloren.
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#Israel zerstört die Ernten in den Nachbarländern mit Pflanzengift
Leider scheint sich trotz Völkerrecht immer noch der Grundsatz zu bewahrheiten, dass im Krieg alles erlaubt ist. Wage erinnern tut das an Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Jetzt muss natürlich erst mal jahrelang ein juristisches Gutachten erstellt werden, ob man dieses Verhalten als Kriegsverbrechen einordnen darf. Die Menschen sind dann längst geflohen oder verhungert.
Einordnen müsste man dies als eigentlich geächtete Biowaffe oder Ökoterrorismus. Erschwerend kommt hinzu, dass die Region ohnehin durch den Klimawandel stark unter Wüstenbildung leidet. Land das jahrelang nicht für die Landwirtschaft genutzt werden kann ist wahrscheinlich für immer verloren.
Abdul El-Sayed overcame a record $30 million in AIPAC spending to defeat pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens in Michigan. The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the political influence of the Israel lobby.
UNRWA reported that the so called “Iron Wall” operation carried out by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank since January 21 is the longest and most destructive operation since the Second Intifada.
UNRWA reported that the operation has resulted in the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank since the 1967 war, forcing around 40,000 people to leave their homes.
It added that the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps have been nearly emptied of their residents amid the ongoing Israeli operations and large scale home demolitions.
Former ICC Prosecutor Says He and His Family Faced Threats Over Israel Investigation
Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said he and his family have faced threats and sanctions linked to the court's investigations, including its case concerning Palestine.
Speaking publicly, Khan said he had been warned that opposing Israel could result in reprisals against his family, adding that he received a letter from U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senator Mitch McConnell.
Khan said that U.S. sanctions imposed over the Palestine investigation led to the freezing of his bank accounts, the disabling of his email, travel restrictions, and visa measures affecting his children.
He also said members of his family had been targeted despite sanctions normally applying only to designated individuals.
As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.
He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.
As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.
As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.
He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.
As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan
[Update: the issue on Codeberg has been closed, requesting it should rather be reported using the lenght-limited report facility on the respective project page. This request has been followed, linking back to the context available in the (longer) text. Will report on potential results.]
Also re. "scum":
This is how they are promoting a complete list of all gaza-verified Palestinian accounts, encouraging people to block those they denounce as "scammers". Among other places, they're trying to misuse Codeberg as their file hosting site for their vile efforts.
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#Codeberg seems to have reviewed a report on a defamatory "project" repository created on their site, and to have removed it.
Thank you, @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.
“Canada has stated Netanyahu would be arrested if he lands on Canadian soil. Same for Spain, Ireland, Austria, Slovenia, the Netherlands. Germany is hemming and hawing on the issue, stating they are looking at their legal options.
Netanyahu bragged to Fox that if he were arrested in any country, there would be a special military team ready to invade and free him.
It brings to mind when Hitler sent Otto Skorzeny to free Mussolini. Floating the notion of invading a European country to free an indicted war criminal shows how far Israel has gone in its defiance of law and sovereignty.“
Never doubt that the formerly “Left-leaning” Guardian newspaper has been largely neutralised by UK security services & is now a platform trusted by the security state to amplify its information operations!
“How The Guardian Sells Imperialism To Progressives”
“The Guardian is an imperial rag masquerading as respectable opinion for progressives but feeding subtle propaganda designed to maintain western dominance and shepherd imperial violence”
This is the third time in six months that Benjamin Netanyahu has flown through Canadian airspace.
Contrary to the GAC spokesperson’s claim, he does not have the freedom to make that decision. Foreign leaders are required to seek permission before doing so.
Netanyahu is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. As a member of the ICC, Canada has a duty to arrest him if he enters the country.
Has the government been knowingly shirking its responsibility and allowing a wanted war criminal to fly through our airspace? If he is flying through without permission, why not say so?
Allowing this to pass without consequence sets a dangerous precedent. Canadians deserve a clear answer.
The campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,000 in compensation after a giant banner it displayed in Parliament Square saying “Yes It’s A Genocide” was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed.
Hitler was clearly just born at the wrong time. If he’d been around today, The West would be selling arms to Nazi Germany, denying, profiting from, and complicit in the Holocaust, and disregarding ICC warrants for his arrest. Ask me how I know.
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RT: @RyanRozbiani Netanyahu's Jet Crosses 4 ICC States and Not One Enforced the Warrant
He crossed Greek, Italian, French, and Canadian airspace en route to Washington. All four signed the Rome Statute.
We verify they are from Gaza via video calls with people on our team (all volunteers), including a team member from Gaza on each call. These are people facing genocide. What the fuck is wrong with you?
We have the winner of our Fediverse Asshole of the Year award.
This sorry excuse of a human being has made a list of all the people who are verified to be from Gaza and facing genocide. Why? So you can block them.
If you ever wonder who your jailers are going to be in the coming age of fascism, it’s going to be psychopaths like this son of a bitch right here.
@jon, are genocidal assholes like this welcome on @Vivaldi’s server. Does this go against your terms of service? Will you be taking any action against this account?
BLOCK all 300 Gaza Verified Scam Accounts. 🥳
Simply copy and paste. Save it in an CSV file. Upload and merge into your block list.
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@sireen123@mastodon.social
@Rawan_kh22@mastodon.social
@save_tocat199@mastodon.social
@maram4@mastodon.
“This is not the language of sober counterterrorism. It is the language of an imperial order that can no longer tolerate the exposure of its own violence. American exceptionalism has always required the conversion of resistance into existential threat. What is new is the explicit internationalization of that conversion under the banner of ‘far-left terrorism,’ with Palestinian solidarity placed at the center of the net—and with Israel’s foreign minister actively promoting the ‘operational alliance’ thesis that equates solidarity with terrorism”
- quoting Michael Leonardi in “ Global Crusade: Rubio, Miller, Sa’ar, and the Internationalization of the 4th Reich” in The Palestine Chronicle
Amid an alleged ceasefire, Israel continues massacring Palestinians and stealing land in Gaza. The ongoing violence is not accidental: it is a political necessity for any Israeli government in power.
“Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed.
The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre (#PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (#PCHR) in August 2025”
[..]
“The move comes after British-Palestinian human rights campaigner Lubna #Speitan, who is represented by PILC, threatened judicial review proceedings against the Met”
„The devastation (…) has left the Gaza Strip needing an estimated $71.4bn to recover, according to the UN-EU-World Bank Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment ( #RDNA ) released in April.
“Reconstruction is not only a humanitarian task; it is a political one. (…) Our consultations across Gaza carried one unmistakable message: nothing about our future without us” (…).“
L'ONU dénonce une recrudescence des frappes israéliennes ce mois-ci. Au moins 57 Palestinien•ne•s ont été tué•e•s par ces dernières entre le 13 et le 20 juillet.
Depuis le cessez-le-feu non respecté d'octobre 2025, l'armée israélienne a tué 1100 Gazaoui•e•s.
Neuf mois après l’entrée en vigueur d’un cessez-le-feu entre Israël et le Hamas dans la bande de Gaza, l’espoir de vivre en sécurité semble s’éloigner pour les civils palestiniens.
Mamdani’s call to arrest ICC-wanted Netanyahu over the Gaza genocide has exposed divisions among House Democrats, with some backing his remarks while others arguing that the mayor lacks the legal authority. Republicans called him a ‘Muslim terrorist’.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s call to arrest ICC-wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza genocide has exposed divisions among House Democrats, with some backing his remar...
Every Mayor of every city in the world should put out a statement like this. Perhaps then, senior governments would understand that people are craving accountability for so many things, but especially the horrendous genocide happening in Gaza perpetrated by Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Israeli Judge Declares ‘Apartheid’ Critics Unwelcome in the Country
An Israeli Supreme Court judge said those describing Israel as an apartheid state should be barred from entering the country.
Key Developments
Justice Alex Stein made the remarks during hearings involving international NGOs. The court backed Israel’s authority to consider “delegitimization” in permit decisions. NGOs challenged restrictions preventing them from operating in Gaza and the West Bank. The ruling contrasts with findings by international legal and human rights bodies."
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control.
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control.
Israeli politician and former Knesset member Einat Wilf described Palestinian identity and ideology as “the enemy” during an interview on the Al Hamashmaut podcast with Tamir Dortal on January 30, 2025.
Wilf said that “Palestinianism” has always been Israel’s “most bitter enemy” and argued that the identity and ideology “must die.”
This is how the belongings of patients evacuated through the Rafah crossing are confiscated; they are not allowed to take anything except the clothes they are wearing. Imagine leaving with nothing? With your soul in your hands?
British lawyer Yasmin Kausar has warned users about an upcoming privacy policy update for Google-owned navigation app Waze, which was originally developed in Israel.
She said the new policy, set to take effect on August 1, will expand location tracking and monitor users’ movements and daily habits, raising concerns over data privacy and fueling calls for a digital boycott of the app.
🚨A four year old girl was shot in the head yesterday by Israeli forces amid continued gunfire toward displaced people’s tents in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis Southern Gaza Strip.
The Belgian government announced a ban on the import of products originating from Israeli settlements established in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Belgian news agency Belga reported that the federal government discussed imports from the occupied Palestinian territories during its meeting before deciding to ban the import of settlement products.
The agency said the meeting continued into the early morning hours and concluded with the approval of the ban as part of the cabinet’s latest decisions before the start of the summer recess.
... astronomer and #Nobel Prize laureate said in a long 2025 #ORF interview:
"...the way things are currently progressing, humanity will not even make it to #Mars [let alone to an extrasolar planet, as #Longtermists crave.]
Like me, he's completely opposed to a "Planet B" approach, meaning, if we wreck Earth 🌍, we can just settle some other planet. This will not happen, with almost 100% certainty not...
