Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst jailed for 30 years for spying for Israel, has said he will stand for election to the Knesset this year on a platform of ethnic cleansing.

Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, pictured in New York City in 2017. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

 

Ex-US spy for Israel calls for Gaza ethnic cleansing as he seeks Knesset seat

Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years for selling US military secrets, advocates ‘forcible removal’ of Palestinians

Julian Borger in Jerusalem

Tue 5 May 2026 14.21 EDT

Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst jailed for 30 years for spying for Israel, has said he will stand for election to the Knesset this year on a platform of ethnic cleansing.

Speaking to Channel 13 television, Pollard said: “I personally prefer the forcible removal of all current residents of Gaza, and the annexation of Gaza and its repopulation by us.”

Pollard said he decided to enter politics because of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities that killed nearly 1,200 people and triggered the Gaza war. He blamed the Israeli government for failure to prevent the attack or intervene quickly after it began.

“Until then, I thought that the abandonment and betrayal I experienced from the government was an exception and not the rule, but after October 7 I realized that I was not an exception,” he said.

Pollard was released on parole at the age of 61 from US prison in 2015 after serving 30 years for selling military secrets to Israel for money. He and his wife, Anne Henderson, were arrested in 1985 after Pollard passed a huge volume of classified documents to Israeli intelligence – enough to fill a 10ftx6ftx6ft room, by Pollard’s own calculation. In return he received cash and jewels... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/jonathan-pollard-israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing

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Dear America- Along the way we learned that slavery is wrong. We learned that domestic violence is wrong. We learned that racist hate is wrong. SO WHY are we funding Israel and why are we bombing Iran for Israel!!!

 

letter I just sent my elected leaders

Dear America,

Modern warfare coupled with colonialism is not the stuff of days gone by when all things were handmade and it took months to cross an ocean.

Modern colonialism is technologically advanced, with tyrants free to empower "AI " in massive data centers quickly calculating which individual, or family, or community, or country would be best to silence and destroy so that greed, corruption, and cruelty can thrive for an empowered few, while the rest of us are wage slaves for expanding inequity and injustice.

Intentionally impoverishing people, fragmenting families, pulverizing homes and schools, torturing and pushing civilians into starvation and forced exile is and always has been wrong. Civilization depends on US refusing to be stupid & cruel. 

1948 was a turning point for all of human history as all the world saw the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.  We live in a post WWII world where international law has been firmly established based on full respect for basic UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS- and sovereign borders. 

Thinkers and workers slowly built the world we have today and all its many benefits. Thinkers and workers figured out how to cook good food and build safe and prosperous communities.  Thinkers and workers created public libraries and museums and fair and just laws to help ensure that "others" would be included in our prosperity: Along the way we learned that slavery is wrong.  We learned that domestic violence is wrong. We learned that racist hate is wrong.

SO WHY are we funding Israel and why are we bombing Iran for Israel!!!

The epitome of modern warfare, colonialism, bigotry, and injustice today is power hungry, war mongering modern Israel generously armed with an immense arsenal of sophisticated lethal weaponry aimed to wage endlessly escalating war on all neighbors.

Modern man-made Israel steals land, rights, resources and peace from indigenous people. 

Modern man-made Israel also kills journalists and aid workers and has been intentionally impoverishing, oppressing and/or killing and/or displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine for decades- including countless Christians.  FYI Israel does not care if America is also destroyed.

STOP THE WAR!!! 

AND stop funding and/or excusing Israeli crimes against humanity.  

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes

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"Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case." Statement from Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in response to LeMoyne College's President's email

"My suffering, though severe, was never compounded by denial. The world around me was structured to keep me alive. That distinction matters. Because elsewhere, at this very moment, there are people whose hunger is not the byproduct of illness—but the result of policy. Of decision. Of design. In Gaza, and within the walls of Israeli prisons, hunger is not incidental. It is imposed..." Hunger, By Design By Mike Odetalla

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"God is not a real estate agent. The Holy Land is not a prize to be won, but a sanctuary for all God’s children to live in equality." Kairos II provides a definitive Christian perspective on the current reality in the Holy Land. It offers a framework for understanding this as a moral and spiritual crisis that demands a response from every person of faith.

"The olive tree is not just the modern symbol of the Palestinians and their deep roots in the soil of their land, it was always central to their history and economy..." William Dalrymple

"Don't Say Palestine- How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide" NEW BOOK by the brilliant headline fixing writer Assal Rad ... "In Don’t Say Palestine, Rad reveals a pattern of dehumanizing language—in outlets from CNN and the AP to the BBC and The New York Times—so consistently employed throughout the Palestinian genocide that it amounts to a policy. Mainstream Western media consistently downplays Israeli responsibility, “others” Palestinians, and casts doubt on inviolable tenets of international law like the sanctity of hospitals and journalists in war zones."

Meanwhile, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of Palestinian residents. In two and a half years, 59 Palestinian communities have been expelled, and more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes throughout the West Bank.

"Gaza represents a new pinnacle for this type of wholesale destruction as a military strategy, of using overwhelming and disproportionate force against civilians and infrastructure." Is this what war looks like now? Mohamad Bazzi

Over 270 journalists killed by Israel with impunity. When surveillance, harassment, and military force converge, the result is not just intimidation but the systematic erasure of those documenting the truth.

Welcome to Byblos, Lebanon- Every time you walk into a library or open a book, you are unknowingly referencing a Phoenician port that has been standing for over 7,000 years...

Dear America- The devastation and cruelty of the Nazi Holocaust proved beyond the shadow of a doubt how modern weaponry and racist hate were a truly evil combination. We now have The United Nations, international law, and Universal Human Rights to steer more sane and compassionate choices for all human beings. Empower that please!

Funding and arming terrorism and violence is evil and wrong: America should not be funding, arming, defending, or trusting today's Israel in any way, shape or form.

Violence is a problem- not the answer.

In 1945, 50 nations came together in San Francisco to create a new organization for peace, prosperity & human rights- the United Nations

"The United Nations is the only place on Earth where all the world's nations come together to discuss common problems and find shared solutions that benefit all of humanity. This intergovernmental organization born out of the ashes of the Second World War remains indispensable to the pursuit of world peace, justice, equality and sustainable development" https://www.un.org/en/

The right of refugees to return to homes and lands they were expelled from is an individual right and cannot be unilaterally abrogated by third parties.  https://imeu.org/resources/resources/fact-sheet-palestinian-refugees-the-right-of-return-under-international-law/441

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

DEAR AMERICA

A girl in Az Za’ayyem Bedouin community (Jerusalem governorate) stands on what remains of her home following its demolition by Israeli authorities due to the lack of building permits, which are rarely granted to Palestinians, April 2026. - Humanitarian Situation Report | 1 May 2026

A girl in Az Za’ayyem Bedouin community (Jerusalem governorate) stands on what remains of her home following its demolition by Israeli authorities due to the lack of building permits, which are rarely granted to Palestinians, April 2026. Photo by OCHA

OCHA OPT (Palestine)

@ochaopt

 

In #Gaza, NGO workers have been killed, services suspended & key supplies restricted. 

 

In the #WestBank, demolitions have driven record displacement amid violence. 

 

All the while, just over 10% of humanitarian funding for 2026 has been secured. Read more: http://ochaopt.org/content/humani

 https://x.com/ochaopt/status/2051332140743237849

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026 

In the West Bank, 2026 has so far recorded the highest monthly average of people displaced due to lack-of-permit demolitions in over 17 years for which UN records are available.

 

Israeli forces and settlers killed four Palestinians, including two children, between 21 and 27 April, and a Palestinian woman died of injuries sustained during an Israeli operation in 2023.

 

Settler attacks on education are increasing pressure on rural families to leave their homes and communities.... READ MORE  

• Highlights
• Overview
• Gaza Strip
  • Lack of Engine oil and Spare Parts
  • Incoming Supplies
  • Fuel
• West Bank
  • Casualties and Settler Attacks
  • Access to Education
  • Displacement
  • Humanitarian Impacts of Raids and Other Operations
• Funding
• Annexes
  • Annex 1: Humanitarian Operations in the Gaza Strip by Cluster    
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‘Go inside, he will kill you’: Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks. Education is being targeted across Palestine, with the murder of 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan only the latest in a spree of violence

Footage from inside the Mughayyir school shows terrified children and teachers crouched in stairwells.

Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha and Quique Kierszenbaum in Mughayyir

Sat 2 May 2026

The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.

Aws collapsed instantly, bleeding heavily. More shots rang out as his friends ran to his side, picked up his now-limp body and rushed him out of the line of fire, their path along the school wall marked by a trail of their classmate’s blood.

Footage from inside the building showed terrified children and teachers crouched in stairwells, shouting at others to get down. Another video captured the shooter, a reservist in partial military uniform, taking aim at the school from the hillside above.

A few minutes later the same man killed the younger brother of an English teacher Waheed Abu Naim, whose family live beside the school. Jihad Abu Naim was 36; his wife is heavily pregnant with the couple’s first child, a girl due this month.

Aws and Abu Naim were shot dead on 21 April amid a wave of settler violence in the occupied West Bank, much of which has targeted schools and students in the territory.

Mughayyir, a village of about 3,000 people nestled in the rolling hills north-east of Ramallah, has been targeted for many years. Aws’s father, Hamdi al-Naasan, was killed in January 2019, shot in the back by a settler as he tried to rescue an injured neighbour.

Aws was only in third grade at the time, and his teachers devoted extra attention to the young boy in the years that followed. “We tried to make Aws feel safe, and ensure he had some rules in his life, to protect him from the impact of losing his father,” said Waheed Abu Naim. “Then we lost him.”

After the killings, classes in Mughayyir were suspended for a week as parents and teachers weighed up hopes for their children’s futures against immediate fears for their lives. “We want to go back to school, but our families are worried,” said Ahmed Abu Ali, a friend and classmate of the murdered teenager.

Education is under attack across occupied Palestine. The situation is most severe in Gaza, where more than 600,000 school-age children are approaching the end of a third year without formal in-person education. Israeli attacks there have killed at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students, according to the UN, and damaged or destroyed nine out of 10 school buildings.

But students and schools are also targets of spiralling Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank, where there is a climate of near total impunity for attacks on Palestinians.... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/israeli-militants-attack-west-bank-schools-settler-violence

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"Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case." Statement from Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in response to LeMoyne College's President's email

"As scholars of genocide, we must state plainly that “genocide” is a legal, historical, and analytical concept. Its application may be debated, but the term is not in itself hateful speech. It is especially troubling to suggest so in the present case, where questions concerning genocidal acts are the subject of ongoing international legal proceedings and the destruction of Gaza continues." 

Letter from the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network to Le Moyne College in support of Mosab Abu Toha ... READ MORE 

https://substack.com/@mosababutoha/note/c-252340025 

 

Mosab Abu Toha 

@mosababutoha

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza.

 

More crimes funded by the US on the way

Mosab Abu Toha

Apr 30, 2026

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Today, the “Israeli Defense Ministry” confirmed that 6,500 tons of U.S. military equipment just arrived at the ports of Ashdod and Haifa.

To put that in perspective, while thousands of tons of ammunition move freely, Gaza’s hospitals are running on empty. If the U.S. administration had both interest and power to save human lives in Gaza, here is what they could address:

🚨The Basics of Survival: Nearly half of all insulin, blood pressure, and asthma medications are gone. People are gasping for air or falling into diabetic shock without help.

🚨The Impossible Choice: 70% of cancer drugs have vanished. Doctors are being forced to stop treatment and tell patients there’s nothing more they can do.

🚨Surgery Without Relief: There is a desperate shortage of anesthesia and painkillers. Surgeries are being performed without the bare essentials—no sutures, no sterile gauze, no relief.... READ MORE  https://substack.com/home/post/p-196011095

 

Mosab Abu Toha   I am so heartbroken.

Israel has just shot my 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in Jabalia Camp. She is in critical condition; the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen.

At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears.

I just spoke with my uncle, who told me that Israel has been using subsonic bullets lately. He said his sister is the second mother in the camp to be shot in the chest today.

Please pray for her and our family. Her husband was abducted by Israel in November 2024, and we still have no word on his condition.

https://substack.com/@mosababutoha/note/c-251683200

 

Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****

This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.

How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?

On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.

This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.

Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.

It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.

Who are these students you are talking about... READ MORE 

https://substack.com/@mosababutoha/note/c-250588146 

 

Mosab Abu Toha 

@mosababutoha

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza.

 https://substack.com/@mosababutoha

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"My suffering, though severe, was never compounded by denial. The world around me was structured to keep me alive. That distinction matters. Because elsewhere, at this very moment, there are people whose hunger is not the byproduct of illness—but the result of policy. Of decision. Of design. In Gaza, and within the walls of Israeli prisons, hunger is not incidental. It is imposed..." Hunger, By Design By Mike Odetalla

Mike Hanini Odetalla

Hunger, By Design
By Mike Odetalla

At the height of my cancer treatment, I lost 60 pounds in less than two months.
Not by choice. Not by neglect. But because I simply could not eat.

Every swallow felt like fire. Every attempt at nourishment became a negotiation with pain. My body, once familiar, began to disappear before my own eyes—reduced not by lack of food, but by my inability to take it in. I didn't recognize the person looking back at me in the mirror.

And yet, even in that darkest stretch, one truth remained constant:

Food was there.

It sat within reach. Prepared. Available. Waiting for me, even when I could not accept it. Doctors urged me. Nurses monitored me. My suffering, though severe, was never compounded by denial. The world around me was structured to keep me alive.

That distinction matters.

Because elsewhere, at this very moment, there are people whose hunger is not the byproduct of illness—but the result of policy. Of decision. Of design.

In Gaza, and within the walls of Israeli prisons, hunger is not incidental. It is imposed.

There, food is not something a patient struggles to swallow—it is something withheld. Rations are restricted. Access is controlled. Malnutrition spreads not because bodies fail, but because systems ensure they do.

I know what it feels like to weaken. To feel your strength slip quietly away. To measure your days not in hours, but in ounces lost and energy drained.

But I also know this: My suffering existed within a system trying—however imperfectly—to save me.

Theirs exists within a system that does not. 

That is the difference between illness and injustice.

Between misfortune and intention.

Between hunger… and hunger used as a weapon.

And once you understand that distinction, you cannot unsee it.

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How do armed conflicts affect us? What is the #CostOfConflicts? .... A Plea for Peace & the United Nations

 

UN Special Procedures

@UN_SPExperts

 

How do armed conflicts affect us? What is the #CostOfConflicts? 

 

 @UNSRdevelopment calls on States to invest in human rights based sustainable approaches to peace.

 

 #Right2Development #Unite4Peace

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