Inside David Adler's Abduction and Detainment on the Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla Exposed Western Hypocrisy

Judith Scheytt joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. In her first interview since her release, she told Jacobin about how the mission succeeded in shaming Western governments for their complicity in genocide. Vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla, seized in Israeli military operations, being brought to the port of Ashdod, Israel, on October 2, 2025. (Saeed Qaq / Anadolu via Getty Images) At eighteen years of age, Ju…

Inside David Adler's Abduction and Detainment on the Global Sumud Flotilla

All photos courtesy of David Adler. David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, had just returned to the United States when I got a chance to catch up with him. Before that, he’d spent five days in a desert prison, where he was zip-tied, stripped, and blindfolded by the Israeli government. And before that, he’d spent several weeks as one of 500 activists on 40 vessels sailing toward Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flot…