UNAC and BAP statements on the resistance to ICE in LA and across the US [+ more]

 Sent out the morning of June 9th and originally posted at:  nepajac.org/laprotests.htm

End the ICE Raids

Support the Protests

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UNAC supports the spontaneous protests by the Los Angeles communities against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on workplaces and shopping sites. These raids have caused fear and anger in the Chicano and Mexicano communities but on June 6 the community responded in a massive way.  They fought back. Slogans of “ICE out of LA!” and “When Chicanos are under attack we will stand up and fight back!” were heard.

ICE and FBI agents tried to disperse the crowd by escalating attacks against the people and firing tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bang grenades into the crowds. Trump has called in thousands of members of the National Guard to occupy the communities to try and stop any future protests.  But when there is repression, we know there will be a response. 

Just as the US conducts wars on the people of other countries around the world, the ICE raids and the repression against the LA protests are manifestation of the wars at home.  UNAC encourages support for the LA protests and opposition to the ICE raids in LA and around the country.

End all ICE raids!

Stop the Deportations of migrants and political activists!

Support the Protests against the raids!

Sent out this afternoon (June 10th) and originally posted at:  blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/oppression-breeds-resistance-organization-sustains-it

Oppression Breeds Resistance, Organization Sustains It

Defeating the War on Black/African People Requires Solidarity with Immigrants and Resistance Against Our Common Enemy

As community defenders, organizers, and residents resisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles this past weekend, the state has responded by calling in the FBI and Border Patrol SWAT units, utilizing Blackhawk helicopters to deliver munitions and military-grade equipment, and mobilizing the National Guard and Marines to quell the justified uprising. As our comrades in SoCal BAP have clearly stated, this is domestic warfare.

The connection could not be clearer between the specific kidnappings orchestrated by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Los Angeles on one hand, and the broad militarization of our cities and neighborhoods on the other. Those resisting on the ground in LA have drawn clear parallels with the struggle of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, the uprisings of 2020-21, the broader Black Liberation Movement, and the anti-colonial resistance against U.S. imperialism throughout the Americas. Meanwhile, some observers have encouraged Black/African people to ‘sit this one out’ because it supposedly does not involve “us”.

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally rejects this narrative that the oppression of immigrants and migrant communities, and the fascist operations of ICE/DHS, are irrelevant for Black/African people. Black/African people are already resisting and standing in solidarity in LA, just as people and communities of all backgrounds mobilized during the uprisings of 2020. Beyond this, we know that Black immigrants throughout the U.S. are disproportionately targeted for criminalization, detention, and deportation. Further, mass deportation not only dehumanizes immigrants, but it deepens the carceral and punitive hold of these state over all oppressed residents. This also extends beyond the borders of the U.S., as we continue to see Haitian immigrants and descendants in the Dominican Republic being summarily rounded up, brutalized, deported, and in some cases, killed, in what effectively amounts to an apartheid regime under President Luis Abinader.

Our resistance efforts must be directed at the imperialist structure and forces that cause this situation. What is urgently required is not only solidarity in mobilization, but coordination and organization that can sustain resistance against the physical, structural, and psychological violence of the oppressive forces of imperialism, colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. For this reason, BAP’s central campaign, ‘No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Against Africans / Black People in the U.S. and abroad’ aims to provide a common collective direction toward true peace (i.e. liberation), interconnected anti-imperialist organizing and resistance, and the realization of dignity and self-determination through the framework of People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

A core aspect of this revamped campaign focuses on shutting down ICE and CB the root causes of forced/coerced migration, including ending the criminalization of migration and the dehumanization of migrating people, as well as defending against the violations of national sovereignty that created the conditions for forced displacement and migration in the first place. As Abraham Paulous of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration made clear in BAP’s April webinar “Migration, State Violence, and Global Displacement,” the criminalization of immigration has for decades been utilized as a justification for state violence against and control over Black, Latinx, immigrant, and marginalized communities – advancing the war against our people. This has been particularly aggressive since the passing of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act under U.S. President Bill Clinton.

These violations are the result of imperialist domination and capitalist exploitation, which similarly forced millions of Black/African people to leave the U.S. South throughout the twentieth century. While this is called ‘the Great Migration’, we know that the displacement from land, relationships, community, and livelihoods was primarily caused by white supremacist terror and economic attacks on our people. Instead of falling into nativist arguments about who Black/African people should and should not care about, we must direct our energy, our organizing, our resistance at the imperialists and the capitalists who oppress us all, and who thrive off of our disunity and confusion.

We take inspiration from the actions of resistance from those in Los Angeles County and the organizing that has emerged from the Community Self-Defense Coalition, which BAP SoCal is a part of. From Los Angeles to Santo Domingo to Khartoum to Gaza, defeating the war on Black/African people requires unity in resistance and struggle against the many forms of imperialist violence.

No Compromise, No Retreat!

La Opresión Genera Resistencia, la Organización la Mantiene

La derrota de la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas exige solidaridad con lxs inmigrantes y resistencia contra nuestro enemigo común.

Como defensores de la comunidad, organizadores y residentes resistieron al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en Los Ángeles este fin de semana pasado, el estado ha respondido llamando al FBI y a las unidades SWAT de la Patrulla Fronteriza, utilizando helicópteros Blackhawk para entregar municiones y equipo de grado militar, y movilizando a la Guardia Nacional y a los Marines para sofocar el levantamiento justificado. Como nuestros compañeros de SoCal BAP han dicho claramente, esto es una guerra doméstica.

La conexión no podría ser más clara entre los secuestros específicos orquestados por el ICE y el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) en Los Ángeles, por un lado, y la amplia militarización de nuestras ciudades y barrios, por el otro. Los que resisten sobre el terreno en Los Ángeles han trazado claros paralelismos con la lucha de la Resistencia Palestina en Gaza, las insurrecciones de 2020-21 contra el terror racista policial, el más amplio Movimiento de Liberación Negra y la resistencia anticolonial contra el imperialismo estadounidense en todo el continente americano. Mientras tanto, algunos observadores han animado a las personas negras/africanas a “no participar” porque supuestamente no se trata de “nosotros”.

La Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) rechaza inequívocamente esta narrativa de que la opresión de lxs inmigrantes y las comunidades migrantes, y las operaciones fascistas de ICE / DHS, son irrelevantes para las personas negras/africanas. Las personas negras/africanas ya están resistiendo y solidarizándose en Los Ángeles, al igual que las personas y comunidades de todos los orígenes se movilizaron durante los levantamientos de 2020. Más allá de esto, sabemos que lxs inmigrantes negrxs en los EE.UU. son desproporcionadamente objeto de criminalización, detención y deportación. Además, la deportación masiva no sólo deshumaniza a los inmigrantes, sino que profundiza el control carcelario y punitivo de estos estados sobre todos los residentes oprimidos. Esto también se extiende más allá de las fronteras de los EE.UU., ya que seguimos viendo cómo lxs inmigrantes haitianxs y sus descendientes en la República Dominicana son sumariamente detenidos, maltratados, deportados y, en algunos casos, asesinados, en lo que efectivamente equivale a un régimen de apartheid bajo el presidente Luis Abinader.

Nuestros esfuerzos de resistencia deben dirigirse contra la estructura y las fuerzas imperialistas que provocan esta situación. Lo que se necesita urgentemente no es sólo solidaridad en la movilización, sino coordinación y organización que puedan sostener la resistencia contra la violencia física, estructural y psicológica de las fuerzas opresoras del imperialismo, el colonialismo, la supremacía blanca y el patriarcado. Por esta razón, la campaña central de BAP, “No Compromise No Retreat (Sin compromiso, Sin retirada): Derrota a la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas en EE.UU. y en el extranjero” tiene como objetivo proporcionar una dirección colectiva común hacia la paz verdadera (es decir, la liberación), la organización y la resistencia antiimperialistas interconectadas y la realización de la dignidad y la autodeterminación a través del marco de los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

Un aspecto central de esta campaña renovada se centra en el cierre del ICE y en la lucha contra las causas profundas de la migración forzada, lo que incluye poner fin a la criminalización de la migración y la deshumanización de las personas que migran, así como la defensa contra las violaciones de la soberanía nacional que crearon las condiciones para el desplazamiento forzado y la migración en primer lugar. Como Abraham Paulous, de la Alianza Negra por una Inmigración Justa (BAJI), dejó claro en el seminario web de BAP de abril “Migración, violencia de Estado y desplazamiento global”, la criminalización de la inmigración se ha utilizado durante décadas como justificación de la violencia de Estado contra las comunidades negras, indígenas, latinas, inmigrantes y marginadas y para controlarlas, avanzando en la guerra contra nuestro pueblo. Esto ha sido especialmente agresivo desde la aprobación de la Ley de Reforma de la Inmigración Ilegal y Responsabilidad de los Inmigrantes de 1996, bajo la presidencia de Bill Clinton.

Estas violaciones son el resultado de la dominación imperialista y la explotación capitalista, que de forma similar obligaron a millones de negrxs/africanxs a abandonar el sur de Estados Unidos a lo largo del siglo XX. Aunque a esto se le llama “la Gran Migración”, sabemos que el desplazamiento de la tierra, las relaciones, la comunidad y los medios de subsistencia fue causado principalmente por el terror supremacista blanco y los ataques económicos contra nuestro pueblo. En lugar de caer en discusiones nativistas sobre quiénes son las personas negras/africanas que deben o no deben preocuparse por nosotros, debemos dirigir nuestra energía, nuestra organización y nuestra resistencia a los imperialistas y capitalistas que nos oprimen a todos y que se aprovechan de nuestra desunión y confusión.

Nos inspiramos en las acciones de resistencia del condado de Los Ángeles y en la organización que ha surgido de la Coalición de Autodefensa Comunitaria, de la que SoCal BAP forma parte. De Los Ángeles a Santo Domingo, de Jartum a Gaza, derrotar la guerra contra las personas negras/africanas requiere unidad en la resistencia y la lucha contra las muchas formas de violencia imperialista.

¡Sin compromiso, Sin retirada!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2025 Contact: chair[at orangedems com]  OCDP Statement on Military Deployment to Los Angeles  Hillsborough, NC — I am speaking today not only as the chair of the Orange County Democratic Party, but also as an American deeply concerned about what is unfolding in California. Sending in the National Guard and U.S. Marines to confront peaceful protesters over the objections of California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is an outrageous abuse of power. It is an assault on state sovereignty, on local leadership, and most of all on the basic rights of the people. Let’s be clear: These protesters are standing up for justice. They are speaking out against deportations without due process. They are exercising their constitutional right to peaceful assembly. They are not criminals. They are not a threat to national security. They are citizens demanding to be heard. ICE is breaking foundational constitutional protections, federal due process statutes, and international treaties prohibiting torture and indefinite detention. These are serious legal violations that should not be tolerated by any American, regardless of anyone’s political affiliation. To meet them with military force is not only morally wrong, but also dangerous. It sends a chilling message to all Americans: that dissent will be met with boots, rifles, and fear. We stand in solidarity with Gov. Newsom and with the people of California. We stand with every community that believes in democracy, in the rule of law, and in the right to protest. Additionally, we say this today to all those empowered as elected officials including municipalities, counties, states and federal offices: Reaffirm your oath to support, uphold, and respect our Constitution. Respect the voices of the people. Do not be silent. Do not back down. Stand up for our rights. Thank you. Lynn McGee Chair, Orange County Democratic Party

This is the 927th post on DS overall, the 54th post in 2025, and the first this June.

Some attempted assassinations, killings, other deaths, attacks on embassies, burnings, etc.

Two diplomatic staff (German-Israeli Yaron Lischinsky and Kansan Sarah Milgrim) from Israel's US embassy were assassinated and two injured outside an American Jewish Committee event for young diplomatic staff at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC around 9:08pm on the 21st.  The alleged shooter is Elias Rodriguez, 30 or 31, of Chicago, in police custody after the shooting.  Allegedly, according to Wikipedia, the event was about both "fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage" and ways "multi-faith organizations can work together to bring humanitarian aid to war-torn regions like Gaza." – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_killing_of_Israeli_embassy_workers_in_Washington,_D.C.  Apparently Lischinsky and Milgrim had backgrounds including Christianity, Messianic Judaism, and Reform Judaism, but attended the Episcopalian Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes in DC.  They had intended to get married soon. Lischinsky served in the Israeli military at some point.  An alleged manifesto from X/Twitter is online at:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto 

Commentaries on the shooting of four diplomatic staff from the Israel's embassy in DC, two fatally:

A Maoist news organization:  theworker.news/2025/05/22/a-just-act-just-not-a-correct-act/  (I wondered that evening if this event could be used to advance the repressive agenda of Trump-Vance and the supportive Democrats, similar to Bush-Cheney and 9/11, on a smaller scale, or Nazi Germany and the 1933 Reichstag Fire (Monday, February 27th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire ), and according to the article, the PSL is being blamed, though the alleged shooter was only a member briefly, in 2017, and not connected to the party since then, according to Wikipedia.  Federal hate crime and terrorism charges might be applied, in addition to murder.  [Also:  theworker.news/2025/05/22/israeli-zionist-diplomatic-staff-annihilated-in-dc/ ]

An alleged manifesto from X/Twitter is online above and at:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto  

More on Rodriguez' alleged social media trail:  the307.substack.com/p/breaking-x-is-blocking-searches-on (I noticed this) and www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-rodriguezs-leaked-chats 

Ken Klippenstein ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Klippenstein ; born February 1, 1988) quickly became part of the story:  www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits-me-over-manifesto

On individual violent direct action or propaganda of the deed in general, posted before May 21st:  redphoenixnews.com/2025/05/12/urban-guerilla-theory-the-role-of-violence-in-capitalist-crises/

"Killing of 2 Israeli embassy staffers in D.C. seized on to slander opponents of Gaza genocide as antisemites and terrorists" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/27/xtdn-m27.html

[ masarbadil.org/2025/05/5806/ and masarbadil.org/2025/05/5857/ (Khaled Barakat)]

 caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/23/thoughts-on-the-israeli-embassy-staff-killings/ 

www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/05/22/stinking-to-the-high-heavens-of-a-false-flag – The shooting did cover up the news that Israeli forces shot at diplomats from several "Western" and other countries near Jenin in the West Bank of Palestine ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Israeli_military_operation_in_the_West_Bank#21_May ) and Israel was being threatened with consequences for starving Gaza.  Netanyahu talked about "rapists" and "babykillers," etc. the evening of the 22nd and there was something from him or someone about "incitement" and "bloodlibels," by the EU (?) for daring to criticize Israel's war crimes and atrocities.  In the morning on the 22nd NPR had a headline, something about someone condemning Netanyahu's promise to 'end' the war in Gaza if the prisoners are released, Hamas surrenders (and then ...?), and if Trump's "brilliant," revolutionary" (?) plan to depopulate Gaza is followed, "tantamount to ethnic cleansing" someone said – why add "tantamount?"  The liberal Town of Chapel Hill might stand with the US, EU, UK, Canadian, Israeli, and other war criminals from the recent wars in the Middle East to a greater extent than the City of Durham, though Durham isn't much better.

[ www.indiemediatoday.com/p/time-for-a-narrative-change-was-elias-rodriguez-a-false-flag-operation-hdwmt-161 ]

From Sam Husseini:  husseini.substack.com/p/false-flag

[ husseini.substack.com/p/guns-and-bombs-will-not-end-this ]

Chris Hedges on the bipartisan "anti-semitism" smear:  chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-useful-idiots

From Arun Gupta:  www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/25/dead-diplomats/

From John Wight:  consortiumnews.com/2025/05/23/elias-rodriguezs-murderous-gift-to-israel/

A satirical Substack:  www.normalisland.co.uk/p/47-of-israelis-want-to-kill-all-palestinians/ 

[ fair.org/home/nyt-assumed-antisemitism-in-dc-embassy-attack ]/

[From Yasha Levine:  www.nefariousrussians.com/p/a-letter-to-my-fellow-jewish-americans  Earlier:   www.nefariousrussians.com/p/cycles-of-violence ]

[From ADC (released May 22nd):  adc.org/adc-statement-on-the-killings-of-yaron-lischinsky-and-sarah-milgrim/ ]

www.moonofalabama.org/ ?  www.nakedcapitalism.com ? 

On the right:

envisioningtheamericandream.com/2025/05/22/murder-in-the-name-of-palestine/  (A supporter of the Democratic Party?)

www.counterextremism.com/press/counter-extremism-project-condemns-murders-israeli-embassy-workers-capital-jewish-museum 

[The Free Press:  www.thefp.com/p/dsa-torn-over-condemning-murder ]

[Pro-Trump Jason Jones in The American Conservative condemned Congressman Randy Fine (R-Florida) for advocating using nuclear bombs on Gaza following the assassinations in DC; Jones contrasts Fine's comments with those of Palestinian Christian Khalil Sayegh [ x.com/KhalilJeries/status/1925591787193741573 ]:   www.theamericanconservative.com/randy-fine-should-resign/ ]  [Fine, from Tucson and apparently Jewish, has a history of making extreme statements or hate speech about Palestine, Islam, and criticism of Israel; he represents an area south of Saint Augustine, in northeastern Florida:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Fine ]

[From Ben Cohen:  thebanter.substack.com/p/the-language-of-radicalism-a4b ]

[The Tablet on the "Leninist and Maoist" PSL, which they claim to have linked to the "sphere of influence " of "tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham," who they claim is connected to the CPC:  thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/may-23-do-phone-calls-link-museum ]  [Also:  thedailyscroll.substack.com/p/may-28-is-elias-rodriguez-an-antisemite ]  [I guess I have to explicitly point out that the PSL originated in Trotskyism, not Marxism-Leninism or Maoism.]  

[ www.wsj.com/us-news/who-elias-rodriguez-dc-shooting-suspect-israeli-embassy-adcf9b65 ] 

Background:  

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_killing_of_Israeli_embassy_workers_in_Washington,_D.C.  

[A Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee (FEROC) sent out their statement and his prison information in early evening/late afternoon on May 30th; I haven't confirmed yet that TariqelTahrir.org is real; I don't remember that address.]  [I checked it out afterward and it might be safe and 'legit.'  Time will tell.]

On Aaron Bushnell (his "extreme act of protest" was done February 25, 2024 outside Israel's embassy in DC) and others:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/03/responses-to-self-immolation-for.html

January 2, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Saleh_al-Arouri

The Trump-Pence administration assassinated Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force (appointed a lieutenant general posthumously); Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, [leader of Iraqi Kata'ib Hezbollah (كتائب حزب الله , "Battalions of the Party of God") and] deputy chair of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); PMF chief of protocol and PR Muhammed Reza al-Jaberi; Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Pourjafari, Iranian Colonel Shahroud Mozafarinia; Iranian Major Hadi Taremi; Iranian Captain Vahid Zamanian; Mohammad al-Shibani from the PMF; Hassan Abdul Hadi (PMF); and Heydar Ali (PMF) early on January 3, 2020, outside Baghdad International Airport: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleimani , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani , [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata%27ib_Hezbollah ,] and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mahdi_al-Muhandis 

A memorial procession to Soleimani's grave was bombed January 3, 2024, allegedly by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kerman_bombings

[Vehicles were shot at January 6, 2025 in al-Funduq, at the northeast of the West Bank, Palestine; three people were killed and 8 injured; the three alleged attackers were killed, two on January 22nd and one April 16th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_al-Funduq_shooting

[Israeli operatives using false passports from Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK assassinated Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh (محمود عبد الرؤوف المبحوح ; born February 14, 1961 in Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp) of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades January 19, 2010 in Dubai, UAE:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-M1abhouh and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mabhouh ]

[Following Israel's January 26, 2023 attack on Jenin in the West Bank, Khairi Alqam, 21, allegedly attacked the Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov in East Jerusalem January 27th, killing 7 people and injuring 3; Alqam was killed in or near Arab Beit Hanina:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2023_Jenin_incursion and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Neve_Yaakov_shooting ]

[January 28-29, 2023 an ammunition plant in Isfahan and maybe oil facilities in Tabriz and Azarshahr and the city of Karaj in Iran were hit by unidentified drones:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Iran_drone_attacks ]

[The League of Blood Incident (血盟団事件, Ketsumeidan Jiken); or the Blood-Pledge Corps Incident) in spring 1932 in Japan began with assassinations on February 9th and March 5th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident  Nisshō Inoue (井上 日召, Inoue Nisshō; April 12, 1887 – March 4, 1967) was arrested as leader:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissh%C5%8D_Inoue ]

February 10, 2015:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Chapel_Hill_shooting

[A lone wolf ramming attack with a car carried out February 10, 2023, allegedly by an Arab citizen of Israel [Hussein Qaraqa, 31, of Isawiya, in East Jerusalem], in the Jewish settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ramot_Junction_attack ]

Free Joseon attacked DPR Korea's embassy in Madrid, Spain February 22, 2019 and turned stolen materials over to the FBI; Trump was negotiating with Kim Jong Un during this period; the attackers are allegedly citizens of Mexico, the ROK, and the USA:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Joseon  Adrian Hong Chang of Mexico has connections to Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), which has or had a presence at UNC, and he allegedly did aid work in Libya in 2011:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Hong

[The February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Ni Ni-Roku Jiken) or the 2–26 Incident was an attempted coup February 26-28, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26_incident  People keep comparing the US today to inter-war Germany, but what about the example of inter-war Japan?]  [Among those arrested was Ikki Kita (北 一輝, Kita Ikki; he was born Kita Terujirō (北 輝次郎) April 3, 1883 – executed August 19, 1937): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikki_Kita ]    

An early (?) vehicle ramming attack, carried out by Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar (born May 3, 1983 in Tehran) around 12:01pm March 3, 2006 near the central Pit at UNC:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Chapel_Hill_vehicle_ramming_attack

[March 6, 2008 at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in West Jerusalem:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Jerusalem_yeshiva_attack ]

March 17, 1992 in Argentina:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Buenos_Aires_Israeli_embassy_bombing

March 22, 2004:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ahmed_Yassin

Ronald Reagan was shot March 30, 1981.

April 1, 2024 in Syria:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_airstrike_on_the_Iranian_consulate_in_Damascus

Cody Allen Balmer, 38 (born March 23, 1987), of Penbrook, Pennsylvania, allegedly set the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence in Harrisburg on fire around 2am Sunday, April 13, 2025 and intended to attack Governor Josh Shapiro, who was asleep inside, with a small sledgehammer  Balmer was allegedly angry over the war in the Middle East, but he also apparently has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and had stopped medication:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_Residence_arson and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Governor%27s_Residence

[Around 12:30pm on April 15, 2023, in Saikazaki, Wakayama, in Wakayama Prefecture, Ryūji Kimura ( 木村 隆二 ), 24, threw a 30 centimeter pipebomb at then Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida.  Kimura was tried February 4-19, 2025 and given a sentence of 10 years imprisonment:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Fumio_Kishida

April 17, 2004:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantisi

Matt Greenman, cloaked with an Israeli flag, was attacked and beaten by Saadah Masoud at a pro-Palestinian protest organized by Within Our Lifetime ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Lifetime ) in New York City April 20, 2022 (note the year);  apparently Masoud had attacked people thought to be Jewish previously:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Matt_Greenman

Iranian Arabs seeking the independence for Iran's Khuzestan Province (near Kuwait) seized the Iranian embassy on Prince's Gate in South Kensington, London, UK April 30-May 5, 1980; two hostages and five of the six attackers from the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan were killed; two hostages and one SAS soldier were injured:  a recent article in the LRB and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

May 10, 2005 – an attempt to assassinate George W Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili of the Republic of Georgia with an RGD-5 grenade in Liberty Square in Tbilisi:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian

May 12, 1982 in Fátima, Portugal, an attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a 16-inch Mauser rifle bayonet:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mar%C3%ADa_Fern%C3%A1ndez_y_Krohn

Then-vice president Richard Nixon was mobbed in Caracas, Venezuela May 13, 1958 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade

May 13, 1981 in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City, by Mehmet Ali Ağca: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Pope_John_Paul_II

[The May 15 Incident (五・一五事件, Goichigo jiken) was an attempted coup in Japan May 15, 1932:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident ]

Guy Edward Bartkus, 25 (September 1999 – May 17, 2025),  allegedly carried out a car bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, for "pro-mortalist" reasons, late in the morning on May 17, 2025:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Palm_Springs_fertility_clinic_bombing and "California fertility clinic struck by car bomb, leaving 1 dead and 4 injured" –  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/23/voxo-m23.html

Joseph "Joey" Borgen, 29, of New York City was attacked and beaten on his way to a pro-Israel protest at Times Square by five men who had just left a pro-Palestinian protest organized by Within Our Lifetime on May 20, 2021 (note the year); apparently Borgen emigrated to Israel earlier this year:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Joseph_Borgen

May 21, 2014:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Taipei_Metro_attack

May 21, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taichung_Metro_attack

[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei (حسن صیاد خدایی; 1972 in Bashmaq, in the Kolah Boz-e Gharbi Rural District of the Central District of Mianeh County, in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran – shot five times and killed by men on motorcycles around 4pm on May 22, 2022 when he came to his home in Tehran); Naftali Bennett, prime minister of Israel at the time of the assassination, claimed in December 2023 that Mossad had carried out the killing):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Sayyad_Khodaei See also:  ] [ durhamspark.blogspot.com/2022/05/toufan-condemns-may-22nd-assassination.html ]

May 28th Israel claims to have killed Mohammed Sinwar (born September 16, 1975 in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza), said to be the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades; his older brother Yahya Sinwar (October 29, 1962, also in the Khan Yunis camp – October 16, 2024):  the morning BBC radio news program , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Sinwar , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar  [From a rightist organization:  www.counterextremism.com/blog/counterpoint-brief-death-hamas-leader-muhammad-sinwar ]  [Does Israel claim that he was in or under one of the Gazan medical facilities they attack and/or wreck so often?  This news quickly dropped from the headlines and might be doubtful.]

May 29th and June 6th in 2020 in Oakland and Ben Lomond (in Santa Cruz County), California:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_murders

 

[According to the BBC and NPR on June 2nd, an "Egyptian national," not wearing a shirt, allegedly attacked a regular (weekly?)  Run for Their Lives event held to remember the Israelis detained in Gaza the afternoon of Sunday, June 1, 2025 (around 1:30 or 1;26pm, in front of a town hall or government building?) in Boulder, Colorado, using either a homemade "flamethrower" or Molotov cocktails (both?); 8 [12?] relatively elderly people were burned/injured, two more seriously, and one critically.  The attacker swore at the group (?) and said something like 'Free Palestine?'  It is being called a 'terrorist attack' and the FBI has gotten involved.  NPR didn't immediately refer to the group being Jewish in the headline [more later (including unrelated events?); no mention of the events in Gaza].  Bigger news on the BBC than on NPR the morning of June 2nd?  The suspect is allegedly a Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Boulder_fire_attack  Early in the War I think (Israeli?) tourists were shot at by a security guard in Egypt (Alexandria?).]  [Soliman's entire family was arrested; his wife and children (age?); no media comment.]  

[The attacks in Russia around June 1st and 3rd in 2025.] [And in West Africa?]

[An unrelated attempt to assassinate Israel's ambassador to the UK, Shlomo Argov, June 3, 1982 was used to justify Israel's invasion of Lebanon on June 6th:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Argov ] 

[June 6, 1982:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War ]

[June 8, 1967:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident ]

[Daimyo Oda Nobunaga was assassinated June 21, 1582 (the second day of the sixth month, Tenshō 10) at the Honnō-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan, known as the Honnō-ji Incident (本能寺の変, Honnō-ji no Hen):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honn%C5%8D-ji_Incident ]

[June 25th, June 30th, July 2nd, July 4th, July 7th, July 9th, July 11-13th, July 18-19th in 2020:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iran_explosions ]  [The Stuxnet computer worm in 2010:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet ]  [In April 2011:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_virus ]  [The April 11, 2021 blackout at Natanz://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Natanz_incident ]

Targeting Israeli airline El Al at Los Angeles International Airport July 4, 2002:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting

Around 4:20am on July 10, 2016 in DC's Bloomingdale area, in the northwest quadrant:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich

July 13, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Pennsylvania and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks

[Shinzo Abe ( 安倍 晋三 ) (September 21, 1954 – he was shot around 11:30am JST at Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara on July 8, 2022 and passed away by about 17:03):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe ]  [And:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe ]

July 26, 1994 in the UK:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_London_Israeli_embassy_bombing

July 31, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniyeh

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019, both in New York City):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

[Israel assassinated 12 Ansar Allah Yemeni government ministers, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and Foreign Minister Jamal Ahmed Amer, August 28, 2025 in Bayt Baws, Sanaa:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_August_2025_Israeli_attacks_on_Yemen ]

[Two members (?) of Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, from al-Qubeiba and Qatanna in West Bank, Palestine, attacked a bus stopped in the Ramot Junction area of East Jerusalem, on Yigal Street (?), [in the morning on September 8, 2025,] killing six (including a Spaniard?) and injuring 21; the Israeli government said that the two gunmen were "neutralized" – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ramot_Junction_shooting and NPR.]

[There was allegedly an incendiary attack, carried out by drone. on the Portuguese-flagged Familia Madeira, moored in Tunis, Tunisia (?) the night of September 8-9, 2025; there was a similar attack on the British-flagged Alma in Sidi Bou Saide, in Carthage, Tunis Governate, about a day later; mainstream media BBC, CNN , El País, France24, Bellingcat , etc. analyzed security camera videos as consistent with the activist claims of attacks by drone, but the Tunisian government denies that any drones were in the area when the Familia Madeira was attacked – are they covering something up, or was it internal sabotage?  The ships are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF; أسطول الصمود العالمي , Usṭūl aṣ-Ṣumūd al-ʿĀlamī)/Global Freedom Flotilla (أسطول الحرية العالمي , Usṭūl al-Ḥurriyya al-ʿĀlamī; "Sumud "is "steadfastness" or "resilience" in Arabic), an effort to break Israel's blockade of Gaza,  involving thousands of people, representing 44 countries or more, and a fleet of more than 50 ships; apparently ships occasionally got through the blockade prior to 2010.  Israel threatened to designate the crewmembers as "terrorists" and accused the Flotilla of being connected to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Sumud_Flotilla ]

[The afternoon of September 9, 2025 Israel attempted to assassinate senior leaders of Hamas, meeting in Doha, Qatar (in the Leqtaifiya or West Bay Lagoon district) to discuss a ceasefire proposal from the US.  [The attempt failed, but six people were killed, including a Qatari and low-level members of Hamas, and two or more people were injured; others in Doha witnessed the attack and might have been terrorized.]  This is thought to be Israel's first attack on Qatar, though Israel had long been demonizing Qatar, and expands the "Western" war in the Middle East to another country.  The US, which has a major military base in Qatar (home of CENTCOM), designates the country is a major non-NATO ally (if I'm not mistaken), and just received a Boeing 747-8 jetliner from ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One#Boeing_747-8_from_the_royal_family_of_Qatar ), condemned the attack and voted for the unanimous condemnation by the UNSC, but it has been suggested online that this is yet another example of the Trump-Vance administration using false peace negotiations to set up an assassination attempt to be carried out by Israel.  In which case, how can any country negotiate with the US under Trump, though the US (and other colonial powers) did that sort of thing during the Indian Wars as well  [Whatever happened, the US didn't protect its ally.]:   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_airstrike_on_Hamas_leadership_in_Qatar ]

[Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was assassinated September 10, 2025 around 12:20pm MDT while speaking at Utah Valley University (in Orem, Utah), at the beginning of his American Comeback Tour; according to Wikipedia, his last comments  at the outdoor event were: 

Audience member: 'Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?'

Kirk: Too many.

Audience member: Okay, well—[crowd cheers]—it's five, okay [DS:  I only remember two.]. Now, five is a lot, right? I'll give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?  

Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Audience member: Great— 

There was only one bullet, thought to have come from a building relatively far away, which Kirk received in the neck, apparently causing him to bleed to death. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk ]

An alleged assassination attempt against Trump September 15, 2024 at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in Florida:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump_in_Florida and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Wesley_Routh

[September 17-18, 2024:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_pager_explosions ]

[Around 6am on October 8, 1895 in the Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul, Joseon:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Empress_Myeongseong ]  [An Jung-geun ( 안중근 ; September 2, 1879 – March 26, 1910) assassinated Itō Hirobumi in October 1909, blaming Itō for the killing of the Empress (the Eulmi Incident) and other crimes:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Jung-geun ]

Allegations were revealed by the FBI October 8, 2020:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot

[October 12, 1960:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma ]

Landlord Joseph Czuba, 71, killed Palestinian-American child Wadea al-Fayoume, 6, with a "military knife" October 14, 2023 in Plainfield, Illinois:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Wadea_al-Fayoume

[There was a coup attempt, the October Incident (十月事件, Jūgatsu Jiken) or the Imperial Colors Incident (錦旗革命事件, Kinki Kakumei Jiken), October 21, 1931 in Japan; it was organized by the Sakurakai:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_incident ]  [It was a second attempt by the Sakurakai following the failed March Incident (三月事件, Sangatsu Jiken) earlier that spring:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_incident ]

October 28, 2022 in Pacific Heights, San Francisco:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi

Paul Kessler, 69, said to be "an ardent Democrat who was passionate about progressive causes and Israel" died November 6, 2023, and the government arrested someone, 50, who had attended a protest against the war in Gaza on November 5th in Thousand Oaks, California.  Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles and nearly Biden's running mate in 2020 or a cabinet secretary (derailed in part over a tweet about Castro?), said ..."As details emerge and are confirmed, we stand resolute in condemnation of violence and antisemitism," – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Paul_Kessler

Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Silkwood

Three ethnic Palestinian college students, all 20 years old, were shot, causing non-fatal but very serious injuries, while walking along a street near the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont early in the evening on November 25, 2023, allegedly by Jason Eaton, 48; the students attended schools in nearby states:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_shooting_of_Palestinian_students_in_Burlington,_Vermont

Iranian nuclear physicist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) brigadier general Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi (محسن فخری‌زاده مهابادی  Fa-Kh-Ree-Zadeh; 1961 or 1958 in Qom – assassinated on a rural road in Absard, a popular vacation area close to Tehran, November 27, 2020).  Reportedly a robotic/"AI"/remote-controlled gun was used.  Israel is thought to be the main culprit, but would that automatically implicate the US and maybe the EU and NATO, given how far they have been going for Israel in recent years?  The USS Georgia, an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, was seen in the Persian Gulf on November 27th, first in eight years, so did the US have foreknowledge?  An Israeli submarine was also reported to be in the Gulf.  The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) has also been accused.  Reportedly Fakhrizadeh was working on coronavirus testing and vaccination:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Fakhrizadeh ]

[See also:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists – Ardeshir Hosseinpour – January 15, 2007, Masoud Ali-Mohammadi – January 12, 2010, Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani (still alive) – November 29, 2010, Darioush Rezaeinejad – July 23, 2011, and Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan – January 11, 2012.]

Luigi Nicholas Mangione of Honolulu, Hawaii (born May 6, 1998 in Towson, Maryland; his family hadn't heard from him since July 2024) allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Robert Thompson (born July 10, 1974) early in the morning on December 4, 2024 as he went to the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City.  Mangione was captured at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania on the 9th.  The ostentatious New York perp walk was on the 19th.  April 1st the Federal government announced that it was seeking the death penalty.  I've seen Mangione called something like 'Saint Luigi of the Court of Claims (?) Adjustment.'   Mangione is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn prior to being tried:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mangione and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

December 17, 1917:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Sacramento_Governor%27s_Mansion_bombing

In Germany:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsb%C3%BCrger_movement

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_grid_security_in_the_United_States , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack December 3, 2022 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack April 16, 2013

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

An assassination attempt against Kim Jong Il using a bomb around 2001-2002? – CAQ magazine, now CAM. 

 A criminal fad –  "wrench attacks" to steal cryptocurrency through torture in France, etc.?

UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Lee Harriss Roberts ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Roberts_(university_administrator) ), known for the April 30, 2024 events against pro-Palestinian protests on the campus, got an easy interview on WUNC's Due South May 28th (broadcast at 12 and 8pm):  www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2025-05-28/chapel-hill-lee-roberts-unc-federal-funding-harvard-research-dei-belichick-big-beautiful-bill

samidoun.net/2025/05/77-years-of-ongoing-nakba-the-crumbling-zionist-project-and-the-revolutionary-road-to-liberation-and-return/ 

Anti-Palestinianism – I first saw this term on Wikipedia around 1-3 days ago; the media, etc. don't use it (related to the 'Palestinian exception to free speech?') and Islamophobia is rarely mentioned by the media, while "anti-semitism" is made into a very grave, powerful magic word.  Anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism aren't so unfamiliar/:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Palestinianism  

[NPR's Morning Edition will interview an expert on " counterterrorism" regarding "anti-semitism" June 4th in 2025 –  wonder how far right they went in finding a guest?  NPR has interviewed John Yoo, Condoleezza Rice, Steve Bannon, John Bolton, probably Liz Cheney, etc. in recent years, when they no longer held government office.  They weren't pushed very hard on what they did in office.  They might have something interesting to contribute, but NPR rarely interviews even people who are just on the left flank of the Democratic Party, let alone further left.  NPR took the "democracy, if you can keep it" line leading up the election, and 1A still has a program along that line every Monday morning, but NPR won't do much in a new "Red Scare," if the Federal government or paramilitaries start arresting, deporting, killing, or firing and blacklisting alleged subversives, though a Trump might go after NPR as well.  NPR apparently considers leftists irrelevant and deplorable, except when foreign leftists are useful in pushing for the Ukraine War, etc.  A guest on the TED Radio Hour or whatever Sunday, June 1st in the morning painted a dire picture of much information tech companies have to share with the government, and there are the dire post-Snowden articles online.  Paper and ground organization is needed, instead of the Internet, but then there are the cameras, and softness on the Democratic Party.]  [They interviewed a Seamus Hughes from the University of Nebraska Omaha June 4th?]

 

The Coal Glen mine disaster in what is now Farmville (?), near the Deep River, in the southeast corner (?) of Chatham County, North Carolina was May 27, 1925:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Glen_mine_disaster and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmville,_Chatham_County,_North_Carolina

The Eclipse of Thales is supposed to have been May 28, 585 BCE, interrupting the Battle of Halys or the Battle of the Eclipse, during a war between Lydia and the Medes in Anatolia, which was ended by the eclipse:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_of_Thales

May 28, 1901 British-Australian William Knox D'Arcy received an exclusive right to prospect for oil in what was then Persia:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Knox_D%27Arcy

May 31, 1950 about 120 Palestinians held by the Israeli/military in Qatra (now Gedera ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedera ; the Haganah removed the Arab population May 17, 1948) were forced into the Wadi Araba (Arabah; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabah ) desert, part of the Negev Desert.  Survivors began to reach Jordan four later, but at least 30 are thought to have been killed or died out in the desert.  The survivors had wounds from torture, as might be the case in 2025:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/26/tkyf-m26.html

The Assyrian or Bur-Sagale eclipse was June 15, 763 BCE:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_eclipse

This is the 925th post on DS overall and the 52nd post in 2025.