Plot Uncovered to Assassinate Within Our Lifetime Founder Nerdeen Kiswani
On Thursday, March 26th Alexander Heifler, a Zionist and member of the Jewish supremacist Jewish Defense League, was arrested for plotting to assassinate Nerdeen Kiswani, a prominent New York-based Palestinian activist and founder of Within Our Lifetime. Heifler was found in possession of Molotov cocktails, and had made extensive plans with an undercover law enforcement officer to blow up Kiswani’s home. He had also made plans to flee to Israel after the attack.
Heifler currently faces charges of unlawful possession and making of destructive devices, which carries up to 20 years in prison. This is significantly less than the 60-year maximum sentences for many of the Prairieland Defendants, who are being accused of “Domestic Terrorism” for a noise demonstration outside an ICE facility, and the same as the maximum sentence faced by Jakhi McCray, who allegedly set fire to empty NYPD vehicles. Heifler is also not being referred to by any mainstream politicians or media outlets, including Mayor Mamdani, as a “terrorist”, though his lone-wolf firebombing and assassination plot fits the definition far better than any actions by the various pro-Palestine groups accused of “terrorism”.
Sources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/palestinian-activist-foiled-terror-attack-rcna265591
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g69q6r32do
US, Israel, & Argentina Vote No on UN Slavery Resolution
A UN resolution, introduced by Ghana on behalf of the 54-member African Union—the UN’s largest regional bloc—to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity,” was brought to a vote at the body’s general assembly meeting. In a bold yet ultimately unsurprising move, the US voted against the resolution. Alongside the US, Israel and Argentina voted against this historic resolution as well.
123 UN Member States voted in favor of the resolution; 52 nations, which include all European Union nations and Britain, abstained from the vote. A EU representative added context to the nations’ decision—as if there could be any justification for the decision not to vote in favor—sharing that the European bloc “would have supported a resolution highlighting the ‘scale of the atrocity’ [of the trans-Atlantic slave trade,] but raised ‘legal and factual’ concerns, including applying international law retroactively.”
The US abolished slavery in 1865 after a civil war, continued legal segregation until the 1960s, and to this day still cruelly oppresses Black people, who face high rates of police brutality and societal discrimination. Its vote against the resolution tracks, as the country consistently evades accountability for its tremendous amount of crimes against humanity.
Not long after Trump’s inauguration last year, an executive order titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” was passed which whitewashes US participation in the slave trade. The administration’s repressive intention, explicitly laid out in the order, includes cuts in funding to educational institutions that don’t comply, and to inculcate misinformation into teaching materials to further transmit its white supremacist agenda.
As the US’s genocidal appendage in the Middle East, Israel followed suit in voting against the resolution. Argentina, currently ruled by far-right president Javier Milei, is a staunch ally of Trump and the US, as well as Israel, so it really comes at no surprise that the nation completes this Fascist Trifecta of UN Member States that voted against the resolution.
Sources:
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199
US Sanctions on Venezuela Sabotage Maduro Trial
The US government’s ongoing illegal trial against President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores hit a roadblock on March 26th during a hearing regarding the right of the Venezuelan government to pay for their defense. This was their second federal hearing in NYC since Maduro pleaded not guilty to the narco-terrorism charges in January, but due to US sanctions on Venezuela, the Trump administration had blocked defense funding for the trial. Maduro’s lawyers expressed that Maduro and Flores cannot afford to pay for their defense alone and filed a motion insisting Judge Hellerstein dismiss the case. Hellerstein pressed the prosecutors on the relevance of sanctions to current foreign policy interests since Maduro’s kidnapping: “The defendant is here, Flores is here. They present no further national security threat. The right that’s implicated, paramount over other rights, is the right to constitutional counsel.” Though he suggested he would urge the Office of Foreign Assets Control to lift the sanctions due to the legal considerations of the trial, Hellerstein does not intend to drop the case and did not issue a ruling on Thursday.
This self-manufactured hurdle on the part of the imperialist US sanctions regime indefinitely sets back Maduro’s trial date, meaning the sovereign president of Venezuela may have to spend several more months, if not years, locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/nyregion/maduro-venezuela-court-manhattan.html
US Allows Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba
On Sunday, March 29th Trump announced he would allow a Russian oil tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil to reach Cuba after nearly three months without a single import, staving off the energy crisis that has resulted in rolling blackouts on the island.
Cuba used to receive most of its oil from Venezuela, but those shipments have stopped since early January when the US bombed the country and kidnapped President Maduro. Since then, Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the island.
In a statement, Trump said, “We have a tanker out there. We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload, because they need … they have to survive. […] If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem, whether it’s Russia or not. […] Cuba’s finished. They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership and whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”
Sources:
Behind Enemy Lines 