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Wanted War Criminal and ‘Genocide Architect’ Netanyahu Joins Trump Board of Peace

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Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

A demonstrator holds up a “Wanted” poster featuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they take part in a “Solidarity with Palestine” demo in Berlin on August 9, 2025. (Photo by Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images)

“For Palestinians, the appointment of Benjamin Netanyahu to the ‘Board of Peace’ is not just shocking but deeply offensive—he is seen by many as the mastermind of the genocide.”

With Palestinians in Gaza still under assault, searching the rubble for loved ones, and burying those newly killed by Israel’s military, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Wednesday to join US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” a move critics said further discredits a project that has widely been seen as farcical and potentially dangerous from the start.

The office of the Israeli prime minister, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, said in a statement that Netanyahu “accepts the invitation of US President Donald Trump and will become a member of the Board of Peace, which is to be comprised of world leaders.”

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Trump first announced plans for the Board of Peace last year, and the United Nations Security Council officially welcomed the body’s creation in a resolution passed in November—even as critics warned the board could undermine the UN.

The Security Council resolution endorsed the board as a “transitional administration with international legal personality that will set the framework, and coordinate funding for, the redevelopment of Gaza,” but its actual scope and ambition—as laid out by the Trump administration—appears much broader.

“Trump would serve as the board’s chair and US representative, overseeing a group of countries that he nominates for three-year terms,” the International Crisis Group explained. “At least 60 countries, including the Security Council’s other permanent members, have received an invitation to join. Any member could buy a permanent seat in exchange for a $1 billion investment.”

Egypt, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, the United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Morocco, and Hungary are among the other nations that have accepted Trump’s invitation to join the board.

But several US allies—including France, Norway, and Sweden—have rejected the US president’s invite. French officials reportedly expressed concern that the board’s charter extends beyond pursuing a resolution in the Gaza Strip and “raises major questions, particularly regarding respect for the principles and structure of the United Nations, which under no circumstances can be called into question.”

“How can someone accused of these crimes be branded a peacemaker? The population is still burying its dead—this is impunity dressed up as diplomacy.”

Observers were quick to denounce the addition of Netanyahu to a body whose purported aim is peace.

“The genocide architect and International Criminal Court fugitive who has been planning and promising the depopulation of Gaza is now officially part of the ‘Board of Peace,’” wrote political scientist Nicola Perugini.

Adil Haque, a law professor at Rutgers University, called Netanyahu’s membership “the worst-case scenario when the UN Security Council authorized this travesty.”

“Sickening,” Haque added.

News of Netanyahu’s decision to join Trump’s Board of Peace came as Israel launched deadly new attacks on Gaza. Reuters reported that “Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians, including two boys and three journalists, in Gaza on Wednesday, local medics said.”

Al Jazeera‘s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza City, wrote Wednesday that “for Palestinians, the appointment of Benjamin Netanyahu to the ‘Board of Peace’ is not just shocking but deeply offensive—he is seen by many as the mastermind of the genocide.”

“He is viewed as responsible for mass killings, displacement, and the destruction of civilian life,” Abu Azzoum added. “From that perspective, how can someone accused of these crimes be branded a peacemaker? The population is still burying its dead—this is impunity dressed up as diplomacy.”

Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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Morning Star Editorial: Boycott Trump’s Board of War

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/boycott-trumps-board-war

US President Donald Trump holds up a signed ‘Board of Peace’ charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026

DONALD TRUMP’S new “Board of Peace,” launched today, appropriately enough at the billionaires’ confab in Davos, is a danger to international law, security and peace itself.

It is entirely right to dub it in reality a board for war, as the anti-war movement did.

The clear purpose of the board is to sideline the United Nations and replace the world body with a committee entirely subordinated not just to the United States but to President Trump personally.

Its initial make-up is dominated by despots and extreme rightwingers, like Hungary’s Viktor Orban or Argentina’s Javier Milei. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is of course on board, ever-eager to oblige the protector of his atrocities.

Trump himself is to serve as its chair, handing himself sweeping powers, including the right to veto any decision of which he disapproves.

It will doubtless function as a sort of far-right “international” to advance Trump’s imperialist and authoritarian agenda around the world.

The board’s creation was authorised by the UN — mistakenly in our view — specifically in relation to assisting to stabilise the notional ceasefire in Gaza. Its new remit, however, allows it to intervene much more widely.

If it is serious about peace will it stop acts of piracy like Trump’s seizure of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife?

Will it block moves by Trump to bomb Iran in violation of international law? Will it oppose his aggressive moves to annex Greenland?

Will it challenge his threats to Cuba and Colombia? Or his demand that he be handed control of the Panama Canal, and that Canada become the 51st state of the US?

We know the answer. Its only function will be to legitimise the campaign of aggression and plunder embarked on by the Trump administration, and to provide diplomatic cover for intervention in the affairs of nations across the world.

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Continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/boycott-trumps-board-war

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Post published:23 January 2026
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Fury Over ICE Brutality and Lawlessness Fuels Push for Minnesota ‘General Strike’

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Original post by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

A protester was pinned to the ground by federal agents and a chemical irritant was sprayed directly into his face, Wednesday, January 21, 2026, in south Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Organizers hope to have “tens of thousands of workers in the street in the Twin Cities” for the day of action.

Momentum for a planned general strike-like event in Minnesota is building amid increasing outrage over the actions of federal immigration officials in the state.

Schools and businesses across Minnesota are planning to stay closed on Friday as part of the “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” day of protest.

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The event was first announced last week by a broad coalition of local labor unions and faith leaders with the goal of forcing federal immigration agents to leave their cities and towns.

Bashir Garad, chairman of the Karmel Mall Business Association and the owner of a Minneapolis-based travel company, told the Minnesota Star-Tribune that the planned shutdown is gaining “momentum and support from a wide variety of communities.”

“Already, thousands of businesses have declared that they will shut down this Friday,” Garad added, “and tens of thousands of workers and students have pledged to march in the streets, rather than go to work or school.”

Hundreds of Minnesota businesses have announced plans to shut their doors so far, according to running list posted by Bring Me the News, which also lists dozens of other businesses that are remaining open while vowing to donate at least a portion of sales on Friday to nonprofit groups such as the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

Keiran Knutson, president of Communications Workers of America Local 7520, told Payday Report that organizers are hoping to “have tens of thousands of workers in the street in the Twin Cities” protesting against the actions of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In addition to the events taking place in Minnesota, Payday Report has published a map showing solidarity strikes occurring in 120 different cities across the US.

The planned Friday strike is the culmination of weeks of resistance against federal agents carried out by Minnesota residents.

In a Wednesday thread posted on Bluesky, author Margaret Killjoy explained how people throughout Minneapolis have banded together to track the movements of ICE and CBP agents and to provide help to their immigrant neighbors.

“First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ICE vehicle down the street, honking at it,” she wrote. “Later, we didn’t drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility… Half the street corners around here have people—from every walk of life, including Republicans—standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.”

Taken as a whole, Killjoy said that she had “never seen anything approaching this scale” of what activists have pulled off in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis-based attorney Will Stancil, who has become one of the most high-profile legal observers following and documenting actions by ICE and CBP agents, argued on Thursday that the Trump administration is committing deliberately cruel acts with the hope of inciting violence.

In particular, Stancil pointed to federal agents’ decision to abduct a 5-year-old child and use him as bait to lure out and detain his immigrant father as a deliberately provocative action.

“They clearly believed that Minneapolis would riot after they killed one of us,” Stancil wrote, in reference to Renee Good, a Minneapolis resident who was gunned down by an ICE agent earlier this month. “We didn’t, we organized. We followed them, we monitored them. We alerted our neighbors. We fought them in the courts. And now they’re desperate, so they’re brutalizing us, without a hint of legitimate government purpose.”

Original post by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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Donald Trump explains why he established his Bored of Peace

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Post published:22 January 2026
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‘Absolutely Vile’: ICE Snatches Young Kids From Minnesota Schools, Sends Them to Texas

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Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

A federal agent is seen detaining 5-year-old Liam Ramos on January 20, 2026. (Photo: Columbia Heights Public Schools)

“Targeting children—our babies—is beyond the pale. ICE is completely out of control and beyond fixing,” said Minnesota’s lieutenant governor.

Federal immigration agents have detained at least four children from Minnesota public schools over the past two weeks, including a 5-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who were both sent to Texas detention centers that have come under fire for grotesque conditions.

Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of Columbia Heights Public Schools, held a press conference on Wednesday to provide details of the targeting of children and decry the menacing presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, who have been terrorizing and abusing communities in Minneapolis and other major US cities at the behest of President Donald Trump.

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“ICE agents have been roaming our neighborhoods, circling our schools, following our buses, coming into our parking lots, and taking our children,” Stenvik said. “The sense of safety in our community and around our schools is shaken, and our hearts are shattered.”

The superintendent said that ICE agents used 5-year-old Liam Ramos as “bait” to also arrest his father. The two were taken while in their driveway, “just having arrived home” from preschool. Both are currently at a Texas detention center.

“The middle school brother came home to a missing dad, a missing little brother, and a terrified mother,” said Stenvik. “This family is following US legal parameters and has an active asylum case with no order of deportation. I have viewed the legal paperwork with my own eyes. Why detain a 5-year-old? You cannot tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal.”

“Don’t tell us this is about ‘the worst of the worst. That’s a lie.”

Stenvik also described the arrest of a 10-year-old fourth grader who was detained by ICE agents along with her mother.

“During the arrest, the child called her father to tell him the ICE agents were bringing her to school,” said Stenvik. “The father immediately came to the school to find that both his daughter and wife had been taken. By the end of the school day, they were already in a detention center in Texas, and they are still there.”

A 17-year-old high school student, according to Stenvik, was detained by “armed and masked agents, alone.”

“The student was removed from their car and taken away,” said Stenvik.

Minnesota officials and lawmakers reacted with horror to the superintendent’s account of the arrests.

“ICE has detained children as young as five,” Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wrote on social media. “No 5-year-old makes us unsafe. Targeting children—our babies—is beyond the pale. ICE is completely out of control and beyond fixing.”

US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called the arrests of children “absolutely vile.”

“Don’t tell us this is about ‘the worst of the worst,’” said Omar. “That’s a lie.”

Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn't bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough. — Donald Fuhrump says that Amerikkka doesn’t bother with crimes or charges anymore, not being 100% Amerikkkan and opposing his real estate intentions is enough.

Experiencing issues with this image not appearing. I suspect because it's so critical of Zionist Keir Starmer's support of and complicity in Israel's genocides. — Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA

Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. — Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.

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Post published:22 January 2026
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