The Exploding Head

You might have seen both pieces of news of very unequal importance this week: Israeli soldiers doing yoga (a video released on Yoga Day), and the findings of the UN inquiry, concluding that the genocide in Gaza continues as the Israeli army is deliberately targeting children. Here are my comments on how to make sense of it.

This is not your regular trial. This is not your usual court. Because this is not a normal country. In my video, I invite you to zoom out and remember what we're actually seeing when Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, is being represented by his lawyer: we're seeing Palestinian sumud. We're seeing an attempt to go against a fascist court of an apar...

You might have noticed how the words of condemnation by our leaders towards Israeli treatment, not even necessarily kidnapping, of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants carry zero weight. These are the words that mean absolutely nothing, as they are backed by no action (with the exception of governments we can count on our fingers). What these words with no meaning represent is exactly what is le...

The kidnapping from international waters of Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek from the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israeli forces, as well as their illegal detention in Israel, is yet another example of the horrors that the world has allowed. And this is only one example of what the world of Israel looks like. To exist in this world - to physically be and function in such a world - can be hard on our...

Choosing to interview someone like Germany's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, who history - and, hopefully, the International Court of Justice - will remember as a war criminal and a genocide enabler is very much not cool. And, ironically, there's also the missed opportunity to point to the satire of it all: how someone both represents a certain organisation (the UN) and has...

The fall of my government into a moral abyss, together with Israel, is, indeed, endless. I've been documenting it for two and a half years now, with no lack of shameful instances to comment on. My video is an example of how that fall looks and why the rage it generates might seem familiar to you, too. It's also a reminder to use it wisely ✊🏽 -- Also, if you have been thinking of taking y...

The new scale of Israel's destruction of Lebanon should have shocked and shaken everyone. And in a world where morals play a role in politics, we would have seen outrage, condemnation, and the cutting of ties - years too late, I know - with Israel. Now, what we're seeing is not just ("just") Israel's disregard for human lives, but even for the U.S.-Iranian ceasefire. I think...

My video is a reflection on what and who have been presented to us as 'rational' and 'irrational' for decades. I invite you to see through this constructed narrative, as we know now that it is being used by those who have no issues to actively support an ongoing genocide. #Iran #Israel #IranIsraelWar #antiwar

We shouldn't be surprised: Those who can't condemn the mass murder of brown children now can't do it when it comes to the pain of an unseen magnitude unleashed onto black people in the past (an injustice that's nowhere near being undone). We shouldn't be surprised -- but we should be enraged. We should be able to see who the ones in power are, and how much our anticolonial and antiwar work is need...

If you can't recognize the war propaganda now, you might never be able to. See how blatant it is, how uniform, how predictable (and then, how destructive - just look at Iran and Lebanon now). In this short episode, I invite you to amplify the voices that deconstruct it, and see how important it is to BE that voice yourself.

We're being led by psychopaths, and they're not leading us to anywhere great. What we need are more countries like Spain and Italy (former allies), saying they won't be part of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran. What we need more of are strong antiwar voices. What we need more are all hands on deck - before those psychopaths lead us to global destruction. #Iran   #Israel   #IranIsraelWar   #trump...

No one is here to defend the Iranian regime and how it treats youth or children. But to stay silent when international law is being violated, and children are being targeted, again, by Israel, would be enabling its impunity in its mass murder of children around the whole region even further. Because one doesn't liberate children by choosing - consciously, knowing exactly what will happen to th...

What we're seeing in Cuba is an intensification of imperial violence by those who have been unleashing it on Palestine, too. The parallels here are many, including how the mentality of a coloniser cannot be more on display here. But the helpers are here, too. This is both who we can focus on and who we can be ourselves. Find the Cuba convoy information here: www.nuestraamericaconvoy.org Suppor...

If you watched the U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi contemptuously deflect questions about the Epstein files in a recent hearing, you might have had a strong reaction to it in your nervous system. I had it -- for two scary reasons, one of which can be explained by political science. That's what I talk about in my video. -- Join me in our antifascist community on Substack: https://substack.com/@theexplo...

n addition to the more obvious parallels between Israel's destruction of Gaza, the violence described in the Epstein files, and Epstein's direct connection to Israel, there's yet another parallel I want to draw your attention to here: the one of collective amnesia. Or - it depends on us - the one of our continuous, active, and unwavering demands for justice. -- Join me in our antifascist community...

I think it can't be clearer that polite self-silencing, smallness, and not being unapologetically anti-fascist aren't serving us. Because even if you choose to engage with reality less, it remains the same: International law is left irrelevant because of our governments' bowing down to empires; fascism is on the rise globally (and very much present in the U.S); Israel is allowed to annihilate Gaza...

As the year is ending, I wanted to comment on a video with you that I think is the perfect summary of what Israel has done - or what our spineless governments have allowed Israel to do - to international law in the most recent years. I also invite you to use that rage in 2026, too. ---Find all my work on Palestine on my website: www.justinaposkeviciute.com Find all my videos on TikTok: https://www...

My episode is my quick holiday message for you: for all those whose worlds have crumbled and hearts have broken in recent years, and for those who have refused to choose apathy over solidarity and compassion ❤️💔 --- I invite you to give a gift of solidarity this holiday season. Please contribute and share my and Mahmoud's fundraiser here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/together-we-can-bring-hope-...

In short, Israel will be allowed to compete at Eurovision this year. What it shows is nothing shocking: that there is nothing - morals, legal consequences, human rights of European citizens themselves - that is above Europe's desire to maintain its relationship with Israel. Interestingly, what this decision created is an opportunity for Eurovision fans to show if THEY have any spine. And if th...

I think we've all had enough with a 'fragile ceasefire': a state in which Israel's crimes continue with impunity. In short, Israel's fascist regime can continue doing literally anything it wants -- and still control the narrative about what and who breaks a ceasefire.

Two football games took place almost simultaneously recently. And my goodness, how clearly did they show that they were not just from different teams but from different worlds. In one, in Bilbao, tens of thousands of football fans showed solidarity with the people being oppressed and undergoing a genocide. In the second one, in Lithuania, a match was played with a team of an occupier, a genocidal...

The destruction of the environment inevitably IS the destruction of human life, too. And to describe what Israel has reduced Gaza to, we have yet another word: ecocide. It doesn't diminish the horrors of the mass atrocities committed. It actually expands the description of the formats, objects, and the very level itself of Israel's annihilation of Gaza.

Israel is bombing Gaza again -- that is in addition to now hundreds of its ceasefire violations. What does it show? Nothing new, although each new horror should be perceived as such. It only confirms that if one thinks peace can be made with a coloniser who hasn't given up its colonial ambitions; that the occupier wants to create wellbeing for the people it's occupying; and that a fascist...

If someone thinks that Trump's Gaza Peace Plan is a roadmap to actual lasting peace - meaning, absence of oppression, and presence of justice, equality, and accountability - they are very very mistaken. And they might be mistaken about what "peacetime" has looked like in Palestine before October 7. What is unfolding in Palestine - both Gaza and the West Bank - right now, in the past...

Have you ever seen the world governments await an act of international terrorism to happen to their citizens and do absolutely nothing? This is what we're witnessing as the Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by Israeli forces. Please continue amplifying their efforts by taking any action you can.