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2026-07-31 02:10:21 CEST

"There are moments when institutions are judged not by what they are prepared to accept, but by what they refuse to compromise. This is one of those moments."
The above words conclude the statement issued by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) on 30 July. It came

2026-07-27 14:19:44 CEST

London: gratuitous cruelty against Palestinians since 1917:
Lawyers for the families stranded in life-threatening conditions in Gaza say the Home Office appears to be taking a harsher line with Palestinian families than with refugees from other countries hoping to reunite with loved ones in the UK. They say that in some cases the Home Office has stated that the family members, including small children, pose a security risk because they come from a “territory where terrorists operate”, even though some of the refugees in the UK were granted leave to remain on the basis of having been persecuted by Hamas in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/27/home-office-blocking-evacuation-women-children-gaza-refugee-family-reunion

2026-07-24 18:55:00 CEST

BILD is in the hands of an unrepentant Nazi
https://bird.makeup/users/derjamesjackson/statuses/2080600447593611648
#note1rpd…dtg8

2026-07-19 17:55:27 CEST

This joint statement has an unmistakably clear message: You will be confronted only with statements, and we fully expect you to ignore them. Enjoy your impunity as much as we do.

2026-07-14 03:53:22 CEST

“Israel now believes it is successfully engaging in a final offensive to shatter the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem, to fragment and atomize it and transform it into a demographic reality with no political or national significance,” said the author Mouin Rabbani, “as in any other situation, cultural institutions are central and integral to sustaining communal life and providing it with its identity. This explains their targeting.”
I was interviewed by @npub1j4v…rd66 for her @npub1uwa…h320 article on Israel's assault on Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/israel-is-trying-to-extinguish-palestinian-cultural-life-in-east-jerusalem/

2026-07-12 19:45:00 CEST

Lindsey Graham's death is a significant loss for Israel.
The reason is only partly because Graham was a fanatical supporter of Israel and its regional agenda.
More importantly, politicians like Graham used to be norm in the United States, but are slowly but surely on course to become the exception and increasingly difficult to replace.

2026-07-07 04:00:31 CEST

They cheated and changed the rules and still couldn't win.

2026-07-02 00:58:19 CEST

Palestine This Week: Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel
My weekly discussion with @npub1e98…6gfr for the @npub1xgy…umem podcast Palestine This Week, discussing the latest developments concerning the Gaza Genocide, the Question of Palestine, as well as relevant regional and international developments.
In this week’s episode, we discuss Israel's renewed embrace of the mass forcible expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip; the Board of Trump's proposal to give itself blanket immunity and impunity; threats against press freedom emanating from states and organisations posing as its custodians; new revelations about Israel's resort to the Hannibal Directive in October 2023; and an Oslo on steroids for Lebanon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzwoVSE5M-k

2026-06-24 16:55:23 CEST

"Israeli former leaders and security chiefs threaten legal action over ‘Jewish terrorism’".
Too little, and much too late.
The signatories to this letter set the stage, and over the course of decades did everything within their power to create the reality which they today

2026-06-24 01:10:25 CEST

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The EU bought this on itself, Kallas and Frau von der Lying first and foremost with their obsequious sycophancy towards the genocidal apartheid rape regime.
The EU has worked night and day to make itself an irrelevant geopolitical actor. And it has succeeded.

2026-06-19 02:36:11 CEST

People are understandably skeptical and even dismissive of the latest spat between the US and Israel.
It is after all no more than a war of words, with no serious indication it has or will result in a change of policy by Washington towards Israel. Certainly not as of today.
This notwithstanding, what we are witnessing this week is fundamentally different than yet another article by Barak Ravid that the US leadership is furious with Israel. This time, the message is coming straight from the horse’s mouth, most prominently from none other than Trump and Vance.
This is already politically significant for an important reason. It may not directly affect US policy towards Israel, but for decades Israel has very successfully traded on the image that it is all-powerful in Washington, that the road to the White House runs through Tel Aviv.
Many governments accordingly make nice with Israel and acquiesce to its every demand not out of any loyalty to or affinity with Israel, but because they have successfully been persuaded by Israel that if they disobey it, they will incur the wrath of Washington and get nothing from it.
When such governments witness not only the various statements critical of Israel by the most senior US officials, but just as importantly the hysteria of Israeli leaders that they have been abandoned by Washington and that the US has become a Saudi-Qatari colony, they will factor this into their foreign policies.
If, in the coming weeks, the US forces Israel to withdraw from Lebanon, for example, and engages seriously with Iran over persistently loud Israeli objections, it sends a very clear message. That message is that relations with the US can be pursued bilaterally, or even via other governments, and Israel can be safely ignored.
Israel’s leadership seems to have become delusional to the point of believing that it is the senior partner in the relationship with the US. If it continues to act this way, it will ultimately reveal itself to be a paper tiger, with the consequences this entails.

2026-06-15 18:02:07 CEST

Throughout the Middle East, the EU has a single-minded obsession with making itself irrelevant and inconsequential.
https://bird.makeup/users/hahellyer/statuses/2066548180464914737
#note1ld5…0u5y

2026-06-15 17:20:30 CEST

And I predict that this prediction is spot on
https://bird.makeup/users/mairavz/statuses/2066413509546536973
#note12m6…x78c

2026-06-12 04:58:00 CEST

"Even the Nazis tried to tone things down a bit. Before the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, acutely conscious of how it might be perceived by foreign visitors, the Third Reich tried to soften some of its harder, more intolerant edges. Antisemitic signs and images were removed from shops and other public places. Der Stürmer was removed from newspaper kiosks. Paragraph 175, the country’s strict anti‑homosexuality law, was temporarily suspended.
By contrast, the 2026 men’s World Cup is being co-hosted in a country utterly indifferent to what a foreign visitor might think of it. In this respect, the US of Donald Trump is tonally different to any host of a major sporting event that has preceded it: a country that actively wants you to see the darkness in its heart, the inhumanity at its core, that gets off on your revulsion."
Jonathan Liew, "Omar Artan Scandal Reveals Gianni Infantino for What He Is: One of Sport’s Greatest Cowards"
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/11/omar-artan-scandal-gianni-infantino-donald-trump-world-cup

2026-06-10 16:58:20 CEST

"Will Israel listen?"
Of course not.
This is part of a well-rehearsed pantomime.
Western governments express "profound concern" and sometimes even "alarm".
On rare occasions they go so far as to "condemn".
But words are never - ever - followed with action.
More to the point, words are intended to replace action and are a substitute for consequences.
The pantomime has been repeated thousands of times over the decades.
Everyone understands it.
Israel understands it perfectly.
"Profound concern" means "Do as you please".
Business as usual
https://bird.makeup/users/nrc_egeland/statuses/2064679767337476242
#note1sxz…n72g

2026-06-07 15:49:58 CEST

Perceptive tweet from 2022.
https://bird.makeup/users/son_of_laikipia/statuses/1604561785473974272
#note1j3c…m4pn

2026-06-06 06:02:08 CEST

Excerpt from The Protocols of The Elders of Mecca
https://bird.makeup/users/danburmawy/statuses/2062760766034350433
#note1x48…ajks

2026-06-03 05:21:36 CEST

This is the best review yet of Suicidal Empathy, the new book by Elon Musk's pet demagogue.
In this review @npub1xst…jh48 clearly demonstrates how utterly vacuous Gad Saad and his books are.
What remains missing in this and other reviews, although hinted at by @npub1xst…jh48 , is a

2026-06-01 22:29:16 CEST

I can provide firm assurances that the Grand Wizard was not - repeat, not - invited to the Klan rally and that his presence took the KKK leadership entirely by surprise.
https://bird.makeup/users/elikowaz/statuses/2061461283036082517
#note13mu…c8qn

2026-05-31 04:54:00 CEST

Something tells me this flunkie openly argues Palestine shouldn't exist.
https://bird.makeup/users/clearreason/statuses/2059788293634453739
#note1e6m…euqs

2026-05-29 00:10:29 CEST

If it is indeed true that these EU sanctions were announced in response to illegal settlement activities as such and not specifically in response to the additional crime of settler violence, that would be an excellent development.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJcFXbbXgAUnnS2.jpg

2026-05-28 16:13:48 CEST

For @npub19m4…8ck3, @npub156v…mqx6 has produced a major and extremely significant examination of the written record of the Bibi Si! Commissar for the Middle East, Raffi Berg.
"Raffi Berg: In His Own Words", Martin Asser's detailed excursion through the @npub1lhd…epte written archive, complements the thorough investigation previously produced by @npub15m9…xnj4 for @npub15w6…4qeg and in my view entirely validates it.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47423/Raffi-Berg-In-His-Own-Words

2026-05-27 16:58:20 CEST

Revealed: Mandelson vetting warned of ties to senior figures in China, Russia and Israel
Bombshell. But for Mandelson, just another day at the office
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/27/mandelson-vetting-warned-ties-senior-figures-china-russia-israel

2026-05-27 06:24:00 CEST

This week I was invited by the Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians (APAC) to deliver the keynote address to its tenth annual Palestine Day on The Hill. The text of my remarks below:
On 21 September 2025, Canada formally recognized the State of Palestine.
The Palestinian diplomat Afif Safieh often remarked that Western states appeared undecided if the crisis in the Middle East is the result of one state too few, or of one people too many.
Israel of course insists there is one people too many. Over the decades it has sought to resolve this issue by way of dispossession, occupation and annexation, and now also genocide.
In recognizing Palestine, Canada has decisively rejected Israel’s approach and made clear its position that there is one state too few, and that the inalienable right to self-determination of the Palestinian people must be realised in practice.
Canada’s recognition of Palestine has been dismissed, and at times derided, as a purely symbolic measure that changes nothing.
Formal recognition of a foreign state is of course never symbolic. Whether or not it changes anything beyond Canada’s official position is a different question.
This will depend, first and foremost, upon the extent to which Canada upholds and discharges its international obligations. These are obligations, it should be noted, that Canada formally accepts.
These obligations are neither general nor theoretical. They are clearly, and very precisely, spelled out in a series of International Court of Justice rulings, United Nations Security Council Resolutions, International Criminal Court decisions, and more broadly the principles of international law and its relevant instruments, such as the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions, and the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
These rulings and resolutions go back many decades. Among the most significant are those issued in the past 2-3 years.
In July of 2024, most pertinently, the ICJ determined that “Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful” and that “all states are under an obligation … not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence” of Israel in these territories.
These are now settled matters of international law, pun intended. Any other statement about the status of Israel’s presence in these territories and how states should respond to this presence is not only just an opinion, but from a legal and political standpoint an entirely irrelevant one.
At a minimum, therefore, Canada must refrain from any dealings with Israel, of any nature, whether by its government, private sector, or citizens, that enable Israel to maintain its rule over the territories it illegally occupies. Canada must seek, and Israel must provide, verifiable guarantees that any such dealings will not contribute to the maintenance of its illegal occupation.
A failure to seek or to obtain such guarantees places Canada in clear violation of its obligations.
In practice, this affects a very wide range of activities: arms sales and weapons deliveries; trade and investment; the participation of Canadian citizens in Israel’s armed forces and its illegal settlement enterprise; the involvement of Canadian organisations, including tax-exempt charities, in Israel’s illegal regime of occupation; and partnerships with Israeli firms, organisations, and institutions whose operations contribute to Israel’s illegal presence in the State of Palestine.
These are but some of the specific obligations Canada is required to implement by virtue of its participation in the international system and recognition of its institutions. They represent the bare minimum of Canada’s obligations to not only respect international law, but also to ensure respect for it by other members of the international community.
More broadly, Palestine today is not only the litmus test of humanity and the fundamental moral question of our time, but also the canary in the coalmine of the norms and values that underpin the international system, and of the institutions these norms and values have produced.
A case in point is the International Criminal Court, which has come under sustained attack on account of fulfilling its own mandate and obligations. A number of its senior staff, including Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, have been sanctioned by the United States for fulfilling their professional duties. Others have been subject to Israeli threats and attempts at blackmail and bribery, and sanctioned imposed by Washington on Israel’s behalf.
Against this background, permitting indicted war criminal and fugitive from international justice Benjamin Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace to visit the government that sanctioned Judge Prost sends a wrong signal.
Ultimately, this is about making strategic choices: will Canada fulfil or neglect its international obligations when it comes to Israel and Palestine?
Will Ottawa continue to embrace the double standards so evident in its differing approaches to Ukraine and Palestine, or will it hold Israel to the same standard it applies to others?
Does genocide still have consequences in the twenty-first century, or is the crime of crimes to be normalised because it is perpetrated by Israel?
Ultimately, this is first and foremost about impunity, and the urgent priority of transforming this impunity into accountability. Absent this transformation, Canada’s recognition of Palestine will remain ink on paper.
The time remaining for Canada to get on the right side of history, in not only word but also in deed, is rapidly diminishing.
Canada has what it takes to do the right thing. Each of us also has a role to play and a contribution to make in ensuring that it does. And History never forgets.

2026-05-23 17:58:41 CEST

h/t [@einat_temkin](https://bird.makeup/users/einat_temkin )
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJBAkZcWoAEN4O9.jpg

2026-05-22 05:42:32 CEST

Adversaries are not simply to be deterred, defeated, or bargained with; they are to be degraded so deeply, and their environments so reshaped, that reconstitution becomes difficult or impossible.
Such conclusions are not efforts to guess Israeli intent, they reflect what is

2026-05-20 21:06:16 CEST

It's always the same pantomine: solemn statements of condemnation, ambassadors summoned, no consequences. Rinse and repeat.

2026-05-20 16:43:16 CEST

The thing to understand about Ben-Gvir's abduction victory video is that it is part of his election campaign.
It is equally important to understand that it will work. Because Israel.

2026-05-19 07:25:36 CEST

Regarding Inea Bushnaq:
During the Ottoman Empire’s final century, the Sublime Porte lost vast territories in the Balkans, the Caucasus, and North Africa as a result of wars with the Russian Empire, various local rebellions and wars of independence, and the imperial expansion of European powers.
In some instances the new rulers ethnically cleansed their territories of Muslim subjects. This was most prominently the case in the North Caucasus. In arguably the largest genocide of the nineteenth century, more than ninety per cent of Circassians were killed or forcibly expelled by the victorious Russians. 21 May, the Circassian Day of Mourning, continues to be observed in remembrance of the genocide and exile.
Hundreds of thousands of surviving Circassians found refuge in Ottoman territory at a time when Istanbul was engaged in a campaign to centralize and consolidate its rule in its remaining possessions. In addition to Anatolia, Circassian communities were settled in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Palestine, where they remain to this day.
The Jordanian capital Amman, known as Philadelphia in Roman times, re-emerged as a city during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries largely on the strength of Circassian settlement. This was in turn related to Ottoman efforts to secure key transportation routes from Damascus to the Hijaz and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
In other cases, the Muslim population was not actively expelled or persecuted by the new rulers, and either remained, fled, or pursued a combination of the two.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 1878 Congress of Berlin ended several centuries of Ottoman rule and replaced it with that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Whether out of fear of oppression by their new Christian rulers, opposition to conscription by the Habsburg army, or a preference to remain under Ottoman rule, a minority of Bosnian Muslims emigrated from their homeland.
Among those who left were the grandparents of Inea Bushnaq, the Palestinian-American translator and oral historian who has among other works compiled a highly-regarded volume of Arabic folk tales.
The Bushnaq family settled in the Palestinian town of Tulkarm and then Jerusalem, where Inea was born in 1938. Like every other Palestinian family in what became West Jerusalem, bar none, the Bushnaqs were expelled during the Nakba in 1948, when Inea was nine years old. She would later complete her education in Britain and after the 1967 June War settled in New York, where she remains to this day.
A sprightly woman in her mid-eighties, Inea Bushnaq is currently the object of the latest meltdown by Israel flunkies. With the hysterical frenzy produced by @npub1m6c…ftzy 's @npub1an9…krup report on Israel’s rape regime yet to subside, a new and equally dire threat to Israeli national security has erupted.
This time it comes in the form of @npub14u4…9697 Zohran Mamdani’s 15 May commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba, which his official social media account highlighted with a four-minute profile of New Yorker Inea Bushnaq, described as a “Nakba survivor”. “For Palestinians," it concludes, "their displacement and the Nakba continues to this day."
The responses were fast and furious, essentially a replay of the Hasbara Symphony Orchestra’s Greatest Hits: There was no Nakba, so Bushnaq couldn’t have survived anything; there was no Nakba but they deserved it; neither the Bushnaqs nor any other Palestinians were forcibly displaced; the Nakba was an attempted genocide of the Jews; Palestinians didn’t and don’t exist; what about the Holocaust, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and the millipede in Vanuatu with a broken leg; Islam, Muslims, Islam, Muslims; FAFO; etc. etc. etc.
The talking point that most amused me is that Inea Bushnaq (and by extension Mamdani) is an imposter because Bushnaq is actually a “Bosnian” and “European settler” with “zero connection to the land” and therefore cannot be Palestinian. Her surname apparently definitively settles the matter.
I have no idea whether and, if so, to what extent the Bushnaqs inter-married with the local Arab population. Let’s assume for the sake of argument they never did and kept strictly to themselves. What we do know is that they became part of the local society and made it their own. Theirs is the story of virtually every immigrant known to history, and it is how the societies that exist today were formed.
But to Israel flunkies, one cannot be a Palestinian of Bosnian descent, because such individuals are really Europeans, Bosnians. If there is even the slightest connection to any foreign territory, no matter how distant in time, it means one is from there, and has no connection to and certainly no rights in Palestine.
This principle of course applies only to Palestinians. On the other side of the ledger we have “Your home has been mine for 3,000 years and it’s blood libel if you ask me to prove I was ever here”. This particular gander is allergic to what is good for the goose.
Are all these Israel flunkies, and the Americans first and foremost among them, really making the argument that a family that arrived in a particular country during the late nineteenth century cannot legitimately claim to belong to that country? Really?
Would this not also have to mean that Inea Bushnaq, who arrived in the US as an adult in the late 1960s, similarly cannot legitimately claim to be American? And would it not also mean that any of her US critics whose ancestors can identifiably be traced to Europe, or Asia, or Africa, or indeed anywhere abroad also cannot claim to belong to or in North America?
Most importantly, if Bushnaq is an imposter who has no place in Palestine because, although born there, her family emigrated from Europe to the Middle East during the nineteenth century, what are we to make of the hundreds of thousands who arrived from Europe during the twentieth century, most of whom were born abroad?
Is it really that difficult to confirm that people have equal rights irrespective of their identity or background?
Zionism is identity politics on steroids.

2026-05-17 23:10:00 CEST

This anonymous imbecile is now arguing that Israel and its flunkies have never made the claim that Palestinians were ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland in a series of Arab radio broadcasts in 1948.
As anyone even tangentially familiar with the issue would know, the claim regarding Arab radio broadcasts has been a mainstay of Israeli propaganda since the late 1940s, and continues to be repeated to this very day.
It is precisely why Erskine Childers, and more recently Benny Morris, among others, examined the relevant documentary record.
They found nothing. Well, not nothing. As Childers wrote in 1961, there were relevant Arab radio broadcasts: "There is repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders, to the civilians of Palestine to stay put ... Even Jewish broadcasts (in Hebrew) mentioned such Arab appeals to stay put. Zionist news-papers in Palestine reported the same : none so much as hinted at any Arab evacuation orders."
Hasbara fallback option: when caught fabricating, simply respond that the false claim was never made, and it is a fabrication to state otherwise.
"Never happened, doesn't exist" is all hasbara has left in 2026.
https://bird.makeup/users/noteamsindy/statuses/2056093969746899327

2026-05-17 05:04:08 CEST

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day.
The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961.
Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing.
I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth.
Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders.
Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops."
This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units.
I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist.
While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth.
In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime.
Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not.
As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion.
Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective.
Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary.
Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence.
Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.
https://bird.makeup/users/3lfares/statuses/2055760189161095185
#note130z…up2u

2026-05-11 02:46:28 CEST

It seems increasingly likely that the US and Israel will renew their full-scale war on Iran. There is little indication they have the resources to achieve more than they already have, or even to undo the strategic damage they have inflicted on themselves since 28 February.
It seems likely that the biggest casualties of a renewed war will be neither Iran nor Israel, but rather the Arab states on the Persian Gulf.
Israel is likely to view such destruction as a net benefit. But if the Arab states lose their value to Washington, and if the US is additionally forced into strategic retreat, that also means Israel's value as a US proxy is sharply diminished.
https://bird.makeup/users/hamidrezaaz/statuses/2053629015605281235

2026-04-30 06:48:00 CEST

"Calling for Rhodesia to be dissolved was a call for genocide".
States have been regularly dissolved throughout human history, sometimes peacefully but often violently.
The German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana, and Islamic State are just a few examples, all since 1990.
Only an imbecile equates the dissolution of a state with the extermination of its residents.
https://bird.makeup/users/strxwmxn/statuses/2049607528627966222
#note1jtq…yyjy

2026-04-25 19:42:48 CEST

This year has seen a new pattern in Israel's hasbara.
Rather than denying that Israel has committed a particular crime, Israel flunkies are resorting to claims that the crime itself does not exist because it is impossible to perpetrate.
It is apparently easier to convince people a crime cannot be committed than to persuade them Israel has not committed it.
We are seeing this, for example, with respect to Israel's use of dogs to rape Palestinian political prisoners.
A concerted hasbara campaign has been launched to claim that these reports cannot be true because dogs cannot be trained to sexually penetrate human beings. Those promoting this perspective are not above claiming specialised expertise in canine anatomy and behaviour.
In other words, you are free to believe Israel is capable of such crimes, but unless you also believes pigs can fly, Israel is innocent.
As for the mantra that "dogs can't be trained to rape", it has been extensively reported that Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo officer known as the Butcher of Lyon, resorted to this practice during the German occupation of France. See, for example, Beverly Chalmers, "Jewish Women's Sexual Behaviour and Sexualized Abuse During the Nazi Era", in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 24:2 (July 2015).
More recently, Bestia, a Chilean stop-motion film directed by Hugo Covarrubias, was in 2022 nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Bestia tells the story of Ingrid Olderöck, who served in Augusto Pinochet's notorious National Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA). Olderöck was better known as "The Dog Lady" for using her German Shepherd, Volodia, to rape political prisoners.
Bestia is based upon a book, La Mujer de los Perros (The Dog Lady), by the Chilean journalist Nancy Guzman, who as part of her research interviewed Olderöck before the latter's death.
If dogs can't be trained to rape and reports that Israel somehow managed to do so with its Dutch-supplied canines are an anti-Semitic blood libel etc. etc. etc., then what are we to make of reports that the Nazis and Pinochet's torture regime did engage in this practice? Also irrational bigotry?

2026-04-23 23:07:40 CEST

Reports are emerging that Israeli soldiers are once again engaging in systematic looting and vandalism, this time in southern Lebanon.
Given their record over the course of nearly a century, it would be news if Israelis did not engage in systematic looting in vandalism.
Reporting about the Palestine War of the late 1940s and the Nakba understandably focuses on the role of the nascent Israeli state in robbing an entire country and dispossessing its entire population.
Yet individual Israelis, soldiers and civilians alike, also engaged in massive, prolonged looting at their own initiative. They committed these acts in broad daylight, their thieving is well-documented in both print and photography, and the Israeli state did nothing - absolutely nothing - to stop them. The new state effectively gave its entire population a license to steal whatever it wanted from the population it had dispossessed and displaced.
Similarly, in 1967 there was once again massive looting by Israelis, particularly by civilians and especially in East Jerusalem. Similarly well-documented.
Looting and robbery by Israelis typically reaches a crescendo during times of crisis. Thus it was a constant feature during the 1987-1993 uprising, and has of course been systematic during the Gaza Genocide.
Only the ignorant or uninitiated will be surprised to learn that Israelis are engaging in systematic looting in southern Lebanon.
It is nothing new. Israelis have not only stolen an entire country (and parts of several others), they have been robbing homes and individuals in the Middle East with total impunity since the 1940s.

2026-04-20 04:12:00 CEST

In the real world a statement cannot be libellous if it is true and factually correct.
Factual accuracy is precisely why a particular statement, even if it is intended to bring its target into disrepute, would not be considered libellous.
Yet in the alternate universe of Ziobabble, a statement is libellous not only if it is true and factually correct, but precisely because it is properly substantiated.
The factual accuracy of a statement Israel flunkies don't like makes it all the more libellous.
Welcome to Alice in Zioland.
https://bird.makeup/users/history__speaks/statuses/2046025306377736283
#note15k3…lgu2

2026-04-20 02:26:09 CEST

The Ziobabble libel: “It’s libel even if it is true”.
https://bird.makeup/users/adam_louis52328/statuses/2045935806909493500
#note1gtd…ywds

2026-04-20 02:26:09 CEST

The Ziobabble libel: “It’s libel even if it is true”.
https://bird.makeup/users/adam_louis52328/statuses/2045935806909493500

2026-04-17 20:07:26 CEST

"A new analysis published by UN Women shows that more than 38,000 women and girls—including over 22,000 women and 16,000 girls—were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, representing an average of at least 47 women and girls killed per day."
https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2026/04/more-than-38000-women-and-girls-were-killed-in-gaza-between-october-2023-and-december-2025-un-women

2026-04-16 00:31:57 CEST

Harvard University President Alan Garber said that “a great deal” of what had initially been labeled antisemitism was ultimately anti-Israeli bias, which he called “insidious and maybe more corrosive of University life.”
Translation: Harvard does not have an anti-Semitism problem, but its president considers opposition to Israel more serious than Jew hatred.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/15/garber-talk-israel-palestine/

2026-04-15 22:42:52 CEST

There are credible reports that Washington has instructed Israel to suspend military operations in Lebanon to enable a new round of US-Iran negotiations in the coming days.
If this development indeed comes to pass, a major new Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip is highly likely.
Perpetual war has become Israel's state of existence.

2026-04-15 19:16:29 CEST

After weeks of consultations, intensive study of the relevant issues, and numerous drafts I have finally formulated a diplomatic initiative that I am confident will produce a durable resolution to the Iran crisis:
1. Iran pledges to renounce the internationally-recognized

2026-04-11 21:25:13 CEST

Whatever one thinks of Zionism during its formative years, it is today indisputably a totalitarian movement.
Anyone, of any background, who steps out of line, anywhere on the planet, is immediately defamed, delegitimized, and demonized.
In unison, an army of flunkies will go after you, your work, your family, even your citizenship. Campaigns are launched to get you silenced, fired, imprisoned, and deported.
Whether you are an individual, an institution, or even a country, everyone is expected to boycott and sanction you if you express even the slightest criticism or dissent.
But if you call for Israel to be boycotted and held accountable for its actions, these suddenly become the most illegitimate tactics ever conceived.

2026-04-08 04:24:00 CEST

And the global repercussions begin...
https://bird.makeup/users/sariarhohavren/statuses/2041486614552043821
#note1w4f…mv04

2026-04-05 03:43:48 CEST

If Turkey were to invade Greece tomorrow, expel all its citizens to Bulgaria and annex the country, the West – however one cares to define it, and Western civilization – however one cares to define it, would survive. Sad but true.
The same would hold if Morocco were to take over Spain and Portugal, or (nuclear Armageddon notwithstanding) Russia were to seize Poland and Finland, and even if the US invades and annexes Canada and Greenland.
Since 1900 alone, “the West” has survived the two most devastating wars in history, several genocides, the Cold War, the disintegration of multiple European states, and much else. It has even survived two episodes each of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.
Yet Israel flunkies want us to believe that if Israel fails in its perpetual wars of domination, or is defeated in the attempt, the West and its civilization will instantaneously collapse into the dustbin of history.
Is that really the best they can come up with? Is that all they have left in defense of the indefensible?

2025-11-04 03:52:28 CET

Of the thousands of bombs that have fallen – and fall still – on Gaza, there is one to which Navi Pillay returns: a lone shell, fired by the Israel Defense Forces at the Al-Basma fertility clinic in December 2023. A single strike that wiped out 4,000 embryos in a moment.
The strike was “intended to prevent births” among Palestinians in Gaza, says Pillay, the former chair of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territory of Palestine and Israel.
“That clinic stands alone in the grounds, separate from the rest of the hospital buildings. They didn’t fire on the hospital – if the excuse is that Hamas is hiding in the hospitals, they didn’t touch the hospital. They came straight to this building and targeted and hit the nitrogen tanks that kept the embryos alive.”
Pillay cites the attack not as a totality, but signal example, one among “a great number” of incidents, that led to Pillay’s commission finding Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
“Children who were meant to be born from these … reproductive specimens will never exist,” an expert medical witness told the commission’s investigation. “Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/04/world-must-fight-israel-genocide-gaza-like-aparthied-navi-pillay

2025-11-02 22:04:35 CET

The Balfour Declaration was issued on 2 November 1917. In the memorable words of Arthur Koestler, Balfour’s declaration was “one the most improbable political documents of all time,” in which “one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third.”
As is well known, the Balfour Declaration was categorically rejected by the Palestinians. That they would not look kindly upon their intended dispossession by the Zionist movement was considered so self-evident that General Edmund Allenby, who that same day had finally seized Gaza from the Ottomans on the third attempt, and was preparing to make his way to Jerusalem, issued a decree prohibiting its publication in Palestine.
Less well known is that the Balfour Declaration hardly met with widespread euphoria among its intended beneficiaries, the Jews of Europe.
Below is an excerpt from a memo presented to the British cabinet by Edwin Samuel Montagu in August 1917, as the Balfour Declaration was being drafted.
Montagu’s memorandum, entitled “On the Anti-Semitism of the Present [British] Government”, is significant because Montagu was at the time the only Jewish member of the British cabinet, and in that capacity also the Balfour Declaration’s fiercest opponent. In his words:
Zionism has always seemed to me to be a mischievous political creed, untenable by any patriotic citizen of the United Kingdom. If a Jewish Englishman sets his eyes on The Mount of Olives and longs for the day when he will shake British soil from his shoes and go back to agricultural pursuits in Palestine, he has always seemed to me to have acknowledged aims inconsistent with British citizenship and to have admitted that he is unfit for a share in public life in Great Britain, or to be treated as an Englishman. I have always understood that those who indulged in this creed were largely animated by the restrictions upon and refusal of liberty to Jews in Russia. But at the very time when these Jews have been acknowledged as Jewish Russians and given all liberties, it seems to be inconceivable that Zionism should be officially recognised by the British Government, and that Mr. Balfour should be authorized to say that Palestine was to be reconstituted as the “national home of the Jewish people”. I do not know what this involves, but I assume that it means that Mahommedans and Christians are to make way for the Jews and that the Jews should be put in all positions of preference and should be peculiarly associated with Palestine in the same way that England is with the English or France with the French, that Turks and other Mahommedans in Palestine will be regarded as foreigners, just in the same way as Jews will hereafter be treated as foreigners in every country but Palestine. Perhaps also citizenship must be granted only as a result of a religious test.
I lay down with emphasis four principles:
1. I assert that there is not a Jewish nation. The members of my family, for instance, who have been in this country for generations, have no sort or kind of community of view or of desire with any Jewish family in any other country beyond the fact that they profess to a greater or less degree the same religion. It is no more true to say that a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Moor are of the same nation than it is to say that a Christian Englishman and a Christian Frenchman are of the same nation: of the same race, perhaps, traced back through the centuries - through centuries of the history of a peculiarly adaptable race. The Prime Minister and M. Briand are, I suppose, related through the ages, one as a Welshman and the other as a Breton, but they certainly do not belong to the same nation.
2. When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens, and you will find a population in Palestine driving out its present inhabitants, taking all the best in the country, drawn from all quarters of the globe, speaking every language on the face of the earth, and incapable of communicating with one another except by means of an interpreter. I have always understood that this was the consequence of the building of the Tower of Babel, if ever it was built, and I certainly do not dissent from the view, commonly held, as I have always understood, by the Jews before Zionism was invented, that to bring the Jews back to form a nation in the country from which they were dispersed would require Divine leadership. I have never heard it suggested, even by their most fervent admirers, that either Mr. Balfour or Lord Rothschild would prove to be the Messiah.
I claim that the lives that British Jews have led, that the aims that they have had before them, that the part that they have played in our public life and our public institutions, have entitled them to be regarded, not as British Jews, but as Jewish Britons. I would willingly disfranchise every Zionist. I would be almost tempted to proscribe the Zionist organisation as illegal and against the national interest. But I would ask of a British Government sufficient tolerance to refuse a conclusion which makes aliens and foreigners by implication, if not at once by law, of all their Jewish fellow-citizens.
3. I deny that Palestine is today associated with the Jews or properly to be regarded as a fit place for them to live in. The Ten Commandments were delivered to the Jews on Sinai. It is quite true that Palestine plays a large part in Jewish history, but so it does in modern Mahommendan history, and, after the time of the Jews, surely it plays a larger part than any other country in Christian history. The Temple may have been in Palestine, but so was the Sermon on the Mount and the Crucifixion. I would not deny to Jews in Palestine equal rights to colonisation with those who profess other religions, but a religious test of citizenship seems to me to be the only admitted by those who take a bigoted and narrow view of one particular epoch of the history of Palestine, and claim for the Jews a position to which they are not entitled.
If my memory serves me right, there are three times as many Jews in the world as could possible get into Palestine if you drove out all the population that remains there now. So that only one-third will get back at the most, and what will happen to the remainder?
4. I can easily understand the editors of the Morning Post and of the New Witness being Zionists, and I am not in the least surprised that the non-Jews of England may welcome this policy. I have always recognised the unpopularity, much greater than some people think, of my community. We have obtained a far greater share of this country’s goods and opportunities than we are numerically entitled to. We reach on the whole maturity earlier, and therefore with people of our own age we compete unfairly. Many of us have been exclusive in our friendships and intolerant in our attitude, and I can easily understand that many a non-Jew in England wants to get rid of us. But just as there is no community of thought and mode of life among Christian Englishmen, so there is not among Jewish Englishmen. More and more we are educated in public schools and at the Universities, and take our part in the politics, in the Army, in the Civil Service, of our country. And I am glad to think that the prejudices against inter-marriage are breaking down. But when the Jew has a national home, surely it follows that the impetus to deprive us of the rights of British citizenship must be enormously increased. Palestine will become the world’s Ghetto. Why should the Russian give the Jew equal rights? His national home is Palestine. Why does Lord Rothschild attach so much importance to the difference between British and foreign Jews? All Jews will be foreign Jews, inhabitants of the great country of Palestine.
I do not know how the fortunate third will be chosen, but the Jew will have the choice, whatever country he belongs to, whatever country he loves, whatever country he regards himself as an integral part of, between going to live with people who are foreigners to him, but to whom his Christian fellow-countrymen have told him he shall belong, and of remaining as an unwelcome guest in the country that he thought he belonged to
...
I would say to Lord Rothschild that the Government will be prepared to do everything in their power to obtain for Jews in Palestine complete liberty of settlement and life on an equality with the inhabitants of that country who profess other religious beliefs. I would ask that the Government should go no further.
E.S.M.
23 August 1917

2025-10-30 19:13:06 CET

"Lawlessness Without Limits: Israel’s Parallel World Order"
The latest episode of Middle East Monitor's Palestine This Week with @npub19fe…j4nv and @npub1e98…6gfr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBSci5mHkU

2025-10-28 00:42:39 CET

If you would never attack a Jewish candidate in the manner employed against Zohran Mamdani, you are an Islamophobe.
If you would, you are both an Islamophobe and an anti-Semite.

2025-10-26 23:22:01 CET

One of the central tenets of Christian Zionism is that Palestinian Christians, the heirs and descendants of the first Christians, have no rights in or to their homes and homeland.
In the Christian Zionist worldview, the dispossession of Palestine's Christians is, at worst, necessary collateral damage in what they insist is the divinely-ordained project of transforming Palestine into an exclusivist Jewish state.
In practice this means that Zionism, and Israel’s agenda and policies with respect to Palestinian Christians, is to be supported, encouraged, and praised as the work of God irrespective of the costs or consequences to its victims.
The forcible expulsion of most Palestinian Christians from Palestine and the systematic theft of their properties during the 1948 Nakba? Praise the Lord!
The systematic destruction of Palestinian Christian villages in Israel after the end of the Palestine War? Hallelujah!
The decline of the Christian population of Jerusalem, illegally annexed by Israel in 1948 (west) and 1967 (east), from approximately twenty per cent of the city's population in 1947 to barely one per cent in 2025? Glory to the Almighty!
Israeli terrorist attack blows a leg off the Palestinian Christian mayor of Ramallah and he is subsequently deposed from office by Israel’s military government? Why didn’t Israel do God’s work and kill him!
Military-supervised settler pogroms against Palestinian Christian villages in the West Bank? It’s Judea and Samaria! It is the Christian villages that are illegal, and their residents are squatters who should be evicted!
Israel bombs the Church of St Porphyrios in Gaza City, the third oldest church in the world, killing over a dozen? Burn that abomination to the ground and leave no one inside alive!
Israel repeatedly bombs Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City during the Gaza Genocide? Better late than never!
Israel seizes Armenian property in Jerusalem for exclusive Jewish settlement? Jews from Brooklyn and Moscow are from Judea, Armenians belong in Armenia!
Christian clergy are routinely spat upon in the streets of Jerusalem? They’re the lucky ones! Settler sputum is sweeter than rosewater!
And on it goes.
Christian Zionists claim to stand for Christian values and the survival of embattled Christian communities. You’ll hear them scream “genocide” whenever and wherever a Christian is murdered or killed. Particularly so if the offense takes place in Muslim-majority societies, and especially Arab ones.
But in Palestine? Not even embarrassed silence but full-throated support for systematic attacks on the world’s first and oldest Christian community. Because they are Zionists before they are Christians.
Their Holy Trinity is Zionism, the state of Israel, and Binyamin Netanyahu.
Their communion consists of the bread used by GHF to bait desperate Palestinians and the blood of those murdered by its death squads.
And their Bible is Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations.
To cover their tracks, they like to pretend Palestinian Christians simply don’t exist, that Arab Christians are like them all devoted Zionists, and that all Palestinians are Muslims.
In the alternative reality constructed by Christian Zionism, there is no such thing as a Palestinian struggle for national self-determination, let alone one in which Christians have always played a prominent part, decades before Hamas existed and years before its parent organization the Muslim Brotherhood was established.
Because in their view that struggle was never about retrieving Palestinian rights violently usurped by Israel, but rather part of a global Jewish – sorry, Islamic – conspiracy to seize control of the world.
Anyone who opposes Israel or its genocidal apartheid regime and policies is conveniently dismissed as Hamas, a jihadist, a passenger, as per Dan Burmawi clown show below, in the “Trojan horse that carries the virus of Islamification”.
This also helps explain the central role Christian Zionists have played in whipping up not just fear and hostility to Islam, but hatred of Muslims and what can only be described as hysteria – with few parallels since the 1930s – about the New York City mayoral candidacy of Zohran Mamdani.
Needless to say, Christian Zionists despise not only Palestinian Christians for getting in their way, but also have rather nefarious plans for the Jews, who most view as the “Trojan horse” that will hasten the Second Coming, and then the rapture that many believe will see millions of Jews literally immolated.
With all the fanaticism that is often the hallmark of converts to a new religion, Burmawi postures as the authentic voice of all Christianity, cavalierly ignoring the beliefs and aspirations of those in the region who have been Christian for very much longer than himself, and of Palestinian Christians in particular.
Since he was previously a fanatic Muslim, he also considers it his mission to persuade us that any Muslim who does not spend every waking moment plotting the next 9/11 is an apostate, betraying the very essence of the faith.
Christian Zionism has all the moral force of “Christians for ISIS”, but unfortunately its vast political power is only beginning to be challenged and confronted.
https://bird.makeup/users/danburmawy/statuses/1982464904620638218
#note1q6r…kfre

2025-10-23 02:16:54 CEST

When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January 2024 ruled that South Africa's claims that Israel is violating the 1948 Genocide Convention were sufficiently plausible to justify a full hearing of the case, Israel and its apologists responded as they always do when criticism is levelled at the genocidal apartheid state: condemn the accuser, scream blood libel, work themselves into a frenzy about anti-Semitism, and play the aggrieved victim.
Once the initial hysteria passed, anyone concluding that Israel is perpetrating genocide in the Gaza Strip was roundly denounced on the grounds that no such determination can be made unless and until the ICJ rules that Israel is indeed guilty of genocide.
This was, of course, nothing but a disingenuous delaying tactic. If anyone seriously believes Israel and its flunkies will accept a ruling by the ICJ that does not absolve it of the genocide charge, the response was provided today.
In a devastating ruling for Israel, the ICJ today issued an Advisory Opinion on Israel’s obligations as an occupying in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, international organisations, and foreign states in the territories it occupies.
Since my purpose is not to analyse the ICJ verdict itself, for those interested a link to the full document is provided below, followed by a summary produced by the Court and a newspaper article on the matter.
Suffice it to say that the Court rejected every single claim by Israel, and specifically refuted Israel’s unsubstantiated claims about UNRWA. It also made short shrift of Israel’s GHF project.
It was also for all intents and purposes a unanimous ruling. The sole dissenter, Julia Sebutinde, will never let international law get between her and support for Israel.
And how have those who claim we must wait for an ICJ ruling on the genocide case before drawing any conclusions responded?
Entirely predictably: The ICJ got it all wrong, the judges don’t understand international law and have no clue what they’re talking about, the Court ignored the evidence that really matters, and so on.
Israel, of course “categorically rejects” the ruling and announced it won’t implement a single one of its obligations as specified by the Court. True to form, Washington chimed in with similar language, denouncing not only the ruling but also the Court itself.
For good measure Israel’s parliament the same day pushed forward legislation to formally annex the illegally-occupied West Bank.
If the ICJ in several years defies expectations and finds that Israel is not guilty of genocide, Israel will trumpet the ruling as the definitive, unassailable conclusion of the matter.
But if, as widely anticipated, the ICJ finds either that Israel’s entire campaign, or specific policies and atrocities conducted during this campaign constitute genocide, expect Israel and its flunkies to condemn the accuser, scream blood libel, work themselves into a frenzy about anti-Semitism, and play the aggrieved victim. Because Israel is always right, and it is always the victim, particularly when engaging in genocide.
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/196/196-20251022-adv-01-00-en.pdf
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/196/196-20251022-sum-01-00-en.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/icj-orders-israel-to-allow-aid-into-gaza-and-says-blockade-had-been-a-breach

2025-10-23 00:39:35 CEST

"The Ceasefire Illusion: Deaths, Denials and Diplomatic Spin".
The latest episode of @npub1xgy…umem Palestine This Week with @npub19fe…j4nv and @npub1e98…6gfr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_q3uG_quQ

2025-10-19 22:15:17 CEST

Credit to the Trump White House. This would have never happened under Biden.
https://bird.makeup/users/ryangrim/statuses/1979973964719124613
#note19tj…7t94

2025-10-18 06:13:42 CEST

During the 2008 US presidential election campaign, and for the eight years of the Obama administration, President Barack Obama was constantly criticized for his attitude towards Israel.
Obama did at least as much for Israel as any of his predecessors, and handed the genocidal apartheid regime USD 38 billion of taxpayer-funded weaponry in one of his final acts in office.
As many Israeli analysts noted at the time, the amount would have been substantially higher if Binyamin Netanyahu had not gone behind Obama’s back and addressed the US Congress in a transparently direct attempt to undermine him.
Because of Netanyahu’s insubordination, Israel walked away with a mere USD 38 billion courtesy of the US taxpayer.
The criticism of Obama wasn’t really about what he did or did not do for Israel. The constant refrain was that “he doesn’t love Israel”. US politicians, in other words, were expected to have an emotional if not erotic attachment to a foreign state. I know of no other instance in which a national leader is considered unsuitable for office because he lacks a passionate devotion to a country other than his or her own.
That was then, this is now.
There are multiple reasons Kamala Harris lost the 2024 US presidential election to Donald Trump. But it is also increasingly clear that her campaign’s decision to engage in public and visible displays of contempt towards the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities, specifically on the issue of Palestine and Israel, cost her dearly in key states.
More importantly, her exorbitantly-paid campaign managers and consultants convinced themselves this would play well with the rest of the electorate because other constituencies were either indifferent to Palestinian rights or supported Israel.
It is today clear she could not have won without singing a very different tune on the Gaza Genocide, and that her refusal to do so probably cost her the election. In other words, what was presumed to be an “ethnic” issue turned out to be a national one, cutting across multiple constituencies and particularly the youth vote.
More recently, in the Democratic Party primary for the New York mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo’s campaign did everything within their power to transform it into the Likud Party primary.
They succeeded, and in significant part because of this Zohran Mamdani wiped the floor with Cuomo and forced him to run as an independent.
I anticipated that Cuomo and his billionaire backers would draw the appropriate conclusions and change their line of attack against Mamdani, claiming that he is a communist determined to impose Khmer Rouge rule in New York City.
I was only partially correct. While indeed denouncing Mamdani as a commie pinko and all the rest of it, Thursday’s debate confirmed they are still doing everything within their power to portray the 4 November election as a contest for the mayor of Tel Aviv. All indications suggest their herculean efforts will produce the same result.
Never underestimate the self-confident hubris of nepo-babies or billionaires.
We live in a different world.
The public repudiation of AIPAC by a growing number of candidates for office, a development inconceivable even a year ago, demonstrates that Israel is no longer the electoral asset or requirement for success it has been for so long. The “love for Israel” demanded of Obama is today increasingly the preserve of freaks.
By contrast, support for Palestinian rights, previously a political death sentence if not one-way journey to obscurity, is rapidly being normalized.

2025-10-16 08:17:37 CEST

According to this 2017 article in The Independent, allied governments were already receiving information about the unprecedented scope of the Holocaust in late 1941.
By late 1942 they were fully aware that several million Jews had already been killed, that millions more were at risk, and that Germany, in the words of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that December, was waging a war of extermination against Europe's Jews.
There has been ongoing debate about why nothing was done in direct response to this information.
Explanations range from anti-Semitism, to an allied assessment that bombing the railroad tracks leading to the extermination camps (or the camps themselves) would have an only temporary and limited impact, to the conviction among relevant governments that they should focus their resources on defeating Germany's Nazi government, because their priority was military victory and this would also be the most effective way to end the atrocities.
What is not debatable is that these governments could have spared large numbers of Jewish lives by offering them refuge but made a deliberate choice not to. It was the previous incarnation of "there's a reason nobody wants them", so popular among Israel flunkies these days when discussing Palestinians.
In contrast to today's Middle East, during the 1940s there were no fears expressed that refugees would be prevented from returning to their homes after war's end.
The article also reveals that allied governments, acting on the information at their disposal about Germany's slaughter of the Jews, which was far from complete, began drafting war crimes indictments against German leaders in 1942. This was several years before Soviet soldiers entered Majdanek, the first camp to be liberated in mid-1944.
There was opposition to such legal prosecutions, but then as now this was for political rather than legal reasons.
In those days, no one in their right mind claimed we should ignore the overwhelming evidence at our disposal, and first obtain a legal ruling definitively establishing that crimes were committed, before indicting those responsible.
By contrast, in 2025 any talk of the Gaza Genocide is denounced as "blood libel" because the International Court of Justice has not issued a final ruling on the matter. And if, as widely expected, it finds that Israel has indeed committed genocide in Gaza, that too will be denounced as a "blood libel", only more loudly.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/holocaust-allied-forces-knew-before-concentration-camp-discovery-us-uk-soviets-secret-documents-a7688036.html

2025-10-15 22:36:36 CEST

For immediate release:
A Statement from Professors at McGill who Support the Boycott and Proposed a Resolution to their Faculty Association, MAUT
On Friday, October 10, 2025, McGill professors and librarians voted in favour of a historic resolution to endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel at a Special General Meeting of the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT).
An overwhelming majority of the professors and librarians who are members of MAUT expressed that they fully endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. As a quorum was met, this resolution is now binding.
In joining the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, MAUT joins at least twenty other academic associations in Canadathat have passed similar resolutions, as well as countless others around the world.
We are now participating in the long history of boycott and divestment at McGill, which among other examples, was the first university in Canada to fully divest from apartheid South Africa–a fact stated proudly on our university website.
With this vote, the professors and librarians of McGill have taken a strong stand against the genocide in Gaza.
By pledging our support for the boycott of Israeli institutions, MAUT members stand in solidarity with Palestinian colleagues who have called for this boycott for more than twenty years. In doing so, we also honour those colleagues and others murdered during this genocide.
The adoption of the resolution to boycott Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people shows that McGill professors and librarians will not stand by idly as Israel murders and abducts our colleagues in healthcare, libraries, and universities.
MAUT members condemn the destruction of the health system, the total obliteration of academic institutions, the theft and destruction of cultural heritage, and the systematic scholasticide, one element of the genocide that the State of Israel is waging against the Palestinian people.
Our resolution states that we: “call upon McGill’s administration to take all necessary steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli academics.”
The support of this resolution by professors and librarians at McGill represents the will of a large and growing number of people who are standing up for an end to the genocide in Palestine, an end to the occupation, along with an end to McGill University’s complicity.
McGill professors and librarians vow to keep working within all of our professional associations and unions to hold our complicit academic and cultural institutions accountable.

2025-10-15 17:28:20 CEST

Israel insists one of the corpses it received from the Gaza Strip yesterday is not one of its own. Its DNA matches neither a soldier brutally kidnapped from a tank nor any other captive known to Israel.
Hamas insists the body was seized, in military uniform, in Jabaliya in May 2024.
Some have speculated it could be the body of a foreign mercenary or collaborator.
My guess is that it is the corpse of a Palestinian.
Not of a collaborator but one of the numerous human shields forcibly conscripted by the Israeli military.

2025-10-15 08:07:01 CEST

Excellent article by Patrick Cockburn:
For two years, Gaza became a theatre of cruelty in which the horrified audience was the rest of the world. As Israeli airstrikes pounded the homes, hospitals and schools of Gaza into rubble, they also pounded sympathy and support for Israel. Today, polls show that more Americans support the Palestinian people than they do the Israeli government. This week some 38 percent of Britons told YouGov they feel more sympathy for the Palestinians, whereas 12 per cent have more for Israel.
Yet Israeli failure goes far beyond international obloquy and isolation. As in past wars with the Palestinians, Israel showed great tactical military expertise combined with self-defeating political blindness, deluding itself that long term success can be won by force alone: Israelis must have 100 per cent security, even if this means 100 percent insecurity for Palestinians.
The only possible relationship it would consider between the seven million Palestinians and seven million Israeli Jews living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is what Human Rights Watch calls apartheid, or expulsion. The very great superiority of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) became a liability because it tempted Israelis into convincing themselves that all problems with others can be solved by military means – though this approach has a track record of bloody failure stretching back three quarters of a century.
Israel put great resources into propaganda at home and abroad, but then made the huge mistake of believing too much of it itself. All opponents are demonised as deadly enemies to be physically eliminated. Once this demon was the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) while today it is Hamas, yet if the latter vanished tomorrow it would inevitably be replaced by some other Palestinian movement.
In conscious or unconscious recognition of this fact, Israel’s attack on Gaza was from the beginning a merciless assault on all its 2.4 million Palestinians inhabitants. In the six months since Netanyahu broke the ceasefire on 18 March, a detailed report by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) reveals that nearly 15 out of every 16 Palestinians killed in Gaza was a civilian.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-only-winner-israel-gaza-war-3972645

2025-10-15 07:33:53 CEST

After slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, including approximately 20,000 children, and celebrating every one of those deaths as if they won the lottery, Israel groupies continue to insist that what separates the genocidal apartheid regime from those it slaughtered with such glee is that "we value life".

2025-10-11 03:55:06 CEST

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have formally rejected Project Blair.
Other Palestinian factions can be presumed to share this position.
The Palestinian Authority, which has formally accepted the Trump proposal without reservations, doesn't support Blair's installation as colonial viceroy, seeking his role for itself. Additionally, those of its leaders who have dealt with Blair previously thoroughly detest him on a personal level.
This means Project Blair can only be imposed by armed force.
The only military with the resources in place to do so is Israel.
Yet Israel is not particularly committed to its great British champion's pet project, and is unlikely to seek or obtain US permission for a full-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip to enable it.
Or succeed if it does.
It looks like the Blair Witch Project is dead in the water.

2025-10-11 03:35:03 CEST

It has been suggested that Hamas almost immediately offered to release all the captives it seized on 7 October 2023, and that if Israel had accepted this initiative the Gaza Genocide could have been prevented.
This is incorrect in several respects.
1. Hamas on 8 October offered to release all the civilian hostages then being held in the Gaza Strip, in exchange for an Israeli commitment not to invade the territory. It did not offer to also release the military and security captives it held, because like every other armed force throughout history it intended to release these in exchange for the release of its own captives held by Israel.
The constant references to “hostages” has created the mistaken impression that all Israelis being held in the Gaza Strip were civilians. In fact, all remaining civilian hostages, as well as the remaining female military and security personnel taken captive on 7 October, were released early this year as part of the January 2025 ceasefire agreement. The remaining captives, scheduled for release in the coming days as part of a final exchange with Israel, are all military or security personnel.
Israel of course rejected the offer, and also did not make any counteroffer, such as the inclusion of military captives in exchange for a commitment to not invade the Gaza Strip.
2. Even if Israel had accepted the offer, it would not have prevented the Gaza Genocide. Israel initiated the most intensive aerial and artillery bombardment of the twenty-first century on 7 October. This would not have been covered by any commitment to not invade the Gaza Strip, and would therefore have continued and probably intensified.
The Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip did not commence until 27 October. Yet, October was one of the very bloodiest months of the Gaza Genocide. The toll, overwhelmingly consisting of civilian casualties, had very little to do with the ground invasion during the last several days of that month.
This also explains Israel’s motivations for rejecting any proposal that would have prevented the ground invasion. Because it was never about the hostages and captives being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israel was determined not only to perpetrate the Gaza Genocide, but also to raze the Gaza Strip to the ground so as to make it functionally uninhabitable. This required a ground invasion.

2025-10-11 02:00:54 CEST

I very much enjoyed participating in this discussion hosted by @npub1q4g…n8f3 of @npub1rsk…hh0w together with [@academic_la](https://bird.makeup/users/academic_la ) , @npub1d0l…6hys and [@ori_goldberg](https://bird.makeup/users/ori_goldberg ) .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxj6mF0sgUI

2025-10-10 23:32:22 CEST

Much of the information in this article has been circulating for years, particularly how Washington a decade ago bullied the United Nations into removing Israel from its blacklist of baby killers.
It is nevertheless useful to have this all confirmed with documentation and collected in one article.
The article below demonstrates how Israel has not one but at least two delegations at the United Nations, one of which is a permanent member of the Security Council.
Yet Israel constantly whines about being singled out at the world body, even though - in contrast to numerous other states, including several in the Middle East - the UN has imposed precisely zero consequences upon Israel, even as it commits genocide.
The article below also conclusively demonstrates, once again, that Samantha Power is what can only be described as a problem from hell. An opportunist of the worst sort, who poses as a champion of the victims of unrestrained power, yet weaponizes her reputation and the power placed at her disposal to promote the very worst and most depraved human rights violations, helped set the stage for the Gaza Genocide, and whose greatest achievement in life is ensuring total impunity for the most vile crimes perpetrated on her watch.
She remains exceptionally proud of her record, and doubtlessly sleeps better at night than those whose lives have been permanently destroyed on account of her activism on behalf of unrestrained violence and power.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/10/09/sam-power-colluded-israel-committees/

2025-10-10 18:15:05 CEST

My article in [@the_newarab](https://bird.makeup/users/the_newarab ) examining the Israeli-Palestinian agreement recently concluded in Egypt.
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/good-news-or-bad-gaza-peace-those-least-fit-keep-it

2025-10-06 22:26:00 CEST

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In other words, rather than Israel forming a bulwark against terrorism as it likes to claim, the Zionist project has in fact been a pioneer of this method of warfare. Without this resort to terrorism, over many decades, Israel would not have come into being and could not have sustained itself.

2025-10-06 22:25:29 CEST

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Hoffman’s concluding paragraph is particularly telling: “When U.S. military forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 they found a copy of Begin’s seminal work, The Revolt, along with other books about the Jewish struggle and the Irgun’s transformation from terrorist group pariah to a respectable political party, in the well-stocked library that al-Qaeda maintained at one of its training facilities in that country.”

2025-10-06 22:25:18 CEST

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Additionally, “the Brazilian revolutionary theorist Carlos Marighela’s famous Handbook of Urban Guerrilla War, which was essential reading for the variety of left-wing terrorist organizations that arose both in Latin American and Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s, embodies Begin’s strategy of provoking the security forces in hopes of alienating the population from the authorities.”

2025-10-06 22:25:05 CEST

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6. Hoffman concludes: “The internationalization of Palestinian Arab terrorism that occurred in the 1960s and 1970s would also appear to owe something to the quest for international attention and recognition that the Irgun’s own terrorist campaign pioneered a quarter of a century earlier.”

2025-10-06 22:24:52 CEST

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5. In contrast to the 2020s, during the 1940s Zionist groupies didn’t ceaselessly whine about the lack of attention for other conflicts, like the civil war in Greece raging at the time. In fact, Begin was openly bragging that actions such as the terror bombing of the King David Hotel had made Palestine the “centre of world interest”. Again, how times have changed.

2025-10-06 22:24:15 CEST

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Given the Irgun’s contemporary heirs’ vociferous and insufferably sanctimonious denunciations of precisely such a strategy in recent weeks, one would almost conclude their greatest fear is that the Palestinians have taken a page out of their book and will achieve similar success.

2025-10-06 22:24:06 CEST

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“An integral and innovative part of the Irgun’s strategy was Begin’s use of daring and dramatic acts of violence - such as the King David Hotel bombing - to attract international attention to Palestine and thereby publicize simultaneously the Zionists’ grievances against Britain and their claims for statehood … [T]he Irgun deliberately attempted to appeal to a worldwide audience far beyond the immediate confines of the local struggle, beyond even the ruling regime’s own homeland. In particular, the Irgun … sought to generate sympathy and marshal support among powerful allies … as well as among the delegates to the fledgling United Nations Organization, to bring pressure to bear on Britain to grant Jewish statehood.”

2025-10-06 22:23:56 CEST

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4. Hoffman notes that the purpose of the terrorist attack was not only to undermine British rule in Palestine, but also to “draw worldwide attention to the group’s struggle”. He continues:

2025-10-06 22:23:45 CEST

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3. In the aftermath of the terror attack, only one year after the conclusion of the Second World War, it was considered perfectly appropriate to compare the Irgun to the recently-defeated Nazis, including in the House of Commons. How times have changed.

2025-10-06 22:23:21 CEST

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This turned out to be Irgun disinformation to divert British intelligence resources away from Palestine, and in the process may well have deprived the British in Palestine of the ability to judge the severity of the terrorist threats to the King David Hotel as the bombing became imminent.

2025-10-06 22:23:09 CEST

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Hoffman also reveals that the two most senior British intelligence officials in Palestine were shortly before the terror attack dispatched to Beirut because Kim Philby, still active for MI6 and yet to be unmasked as a Soviet agent, had received word of a Zionist terror plot against British facilities in Lebanon.

2025-10-06 22:22:54 CEST

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According to Hoffman this was in fact a blessing in disguise. Given the explosive force of the terrorist bombs, an evacuation of the building, resulting in people milling around the street, would likely have resulted in even higher casualties.

2025-10-06 22:22:42 CEST

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As such, the “senior British official” had no inkling of the telephone warning, could not have made the statement Begin attributes to him, and most certainly did not prevent anyone from leaving the building.

2025-10-06 22:22:32 CEST

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Additionally, Zionist terrorists had been regularly calling in bomb threats for some time. As a result the hotel’s assistant manager didn’t communicate the warning in question to the British authorities, hoping to avoid the significant disruption and embarrassment which ensued when he had previously taken such threats seriously and nothing happened.

2025-10-06 22:22:22 CEST

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Hoffman concludes that telephone warnings were indeed provided, but contrary to Begin’s claims these were communicated only ten minutes prior to the terror bombs’ detonation. This was hardly sufficient to evacuate the building.

2025-10-06 22:22:13 CEST

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Begin, for those unfamiliar with him, was an extraordinary charlatan and demagogue. Think Eyal Yakoby, and similarly steeped in self-righteous victimhood.

2025-10-06 22:21:58 CEST

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2. The Irgun, and specifically its leader Menahem Begin, have always insisted that they provided several warnings of the impending terror attack, and did so sufficiently in advance to avoid casualties. According to Begin these warnings were ignored by the British, with a senior British official responding, “I’m not here to take orders from Jews, but to give them”. Begin also insisted the British actively prevented people from evacuating the hotel.

2025-10-06 22:21:48 CEST

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Hoffman does not address an important, related issue in his paper, which is that in view of the above it is inconceivable this terrorist attack could have been carried out without the personal authorization of Jewish Agency Chairman – and Israel’s first prime minister – David

2025-10-06 22:21:37 CEST

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Hoffman recounts its motives thus: “The previous month, in a major British military operation against the Jewish leadership in Palestine, the authorities had seized highly sensitive documents directly implicating the Haganah and its political masters in the Jewish Agency with the resistance movement. The Haganah believed that these papers were stored in the British intelligence offices located in the King David [Hotel] and hence hoped that the Irgun’s bombs would destroy the incriminating material.”

2025-10-06 22:21:27 CEST

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1. Although the terrorist bombing was carried out by the Irgun, it was conducted on the orders of the Haganah, the largest Zionist militia in Palestine which served as the armed wing of the Jewish Agency and worked in partnership with the British.

2025-10-06 22:21:16 CEST

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Hoffman, who is clearly sympathetic to Israel and arguably indulgent of the Irgun as well, adds a number of details about this unprecedented act of Zionist terror I was previously unaware of:

2025-10-06 22:21:03 CEST

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More accurately, the King David Hotel bombing qualifies as the most lethal terrorist attack on record until the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie which killed 259. If the data set is limited to buildings on the ground this would be the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bomb

2025-10-06 22:20:52 CEST

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This latter part of the statement isn’t quite accurate. A marine barracks is by definition a military objective, and whatever one may think of that attack it cannot qualify as terrorism.

2025-10-06 22:20:40 CEST

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The terror attack killed 42 Arabs, 28 Brits, 17 Jews, 2 Armenians, and a Greek. According to Hoffman, the bombing “for decades to come would hold the infamous distinction as the most lethal terrorist attack in history: surpassed only in 1983 with the suicide bomb attack on the US Marine barracks in Beirut.”

2025-10-06 22:20:29 CEST

THREAD: In an article brought to my attention by Frances Coppola [@frances_coppola](https://bird.makeup/users/frances_coppola ) , Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University examines the Irgun’s 22 July 1946 terrorist bombing of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, which at the time served as the headquarters of the British administration in Palestine.

2025-10-05 23:46:21 CEST

I grew up in The Netherlands. During my youth it was easily the most pro-Israeli country in Europe. So pro-Israeli that visiting Palestinians would say it was easier to reason with Israelis than the Dutch about the Middle East.
Although the Dutch are like others a fundamentally decent people, even a decade ago a demonstration one-tenth this size would have been inconceivable in The Netherlands. It would also have been largely populated by Arab and Muslim immigrants.
Yet on Sunday, as confirmed by the police, a quarter of a million Dutch citizens, of all backgrounds, of all stripes and colours, turned out to draw a “Red Line” against the Gaza Genocide.
I never anticipated I would witness such scenes during my lifetime, and am genuinely humbled.
Israel has irreversibly lost the Dutch public, and future Dutch governments will find it increasingly difficult to hold the line on behalf of the genocidal apartheid regime.
We are living in a different world, and it will become a better one.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2hyTEVXcAAiKK3.jpg

2025-10-02 06:28:15 CEST

Israel's military has fought so valiantly in the Gaza Strip that two years on it had to beg its sponsor in Washington to demand that Hamas surrender.
https://bird.makeup/users/asadabukhalil/statuses/1973588060379222124
#note1g45…fk6g

2025-10-02 04:02:46 CEST

In fact Gandhi understood the point @npub1n3g…0syt makes below.
This is what Gandhi wrote in 1938, during the Arab Revolt in Palestine:
"There are hundreds of ways of reasoning with the Arabs, if they [Zionists] will only discard the help of the British bayonet. As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them.
I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an unwarrantable encroachment on their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds".
When even Mahatma Gandhi accepts your right to take up arms, it says something about the justice of the cause.
https://bird.makeup/users/macaesbruno/statuses/1973550606091690210
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2025-10-02 03:31:55 CEST

Israel's piracy on the high seas against the Sumud Flotilla is predictably being met with ecstatic celebration and euphoric mockery by Israel flunkies.
It may not be another dozen Palestinian infants shredded to bits by a 2,000 pound bomb, but has sufficient entertainment value nonetheless.
To cover their tracks Israel groupies once again trot out one of their favourite tropes: Gaza Genocide aficionados act exclusively out of high-minded principle, while those willing to risk their lives to challenge the genocidal apartheid regime are spoiled, narcissistic opportunists.

2025-10-01 06:47:57 CEST

Deradicalization is the word of the day. Not of Israel, its genocidal apartheid regime, and the fanatic society that sustains it and drives it to ever greater extremes. But of the Palestinians it has dispossessed, of those who have lived under its jackboot for almost eight decades, and particularly of Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip that has experienced two years of genocide.
It is the main item of the first article of the Trump-Netanyahu twenty-point initiative. Needless to say it has been enthusiastically embraced by the editors of the New York Times. One can similarly imagine the NYT reporting from Poland in 1943 and publishing an editorial that sanctimoniously proclaims that the main impediment to peace in Europe is the Bolshevik virus that has infected the continent’s Jews.
The concept of deradicalization has a long pedigree. At heart, it is based on the premise that colonial subjects have no grievances towards their foreign rulers. They are empty vessels, with not a thought in their heads, happily farming fruit and vegetables in their sunny fields, grateful for the many improvements their overlords have generously bestowed upon them.
More to the point, they are so backwards and ignorant they are completely unaware that they can or should have grievances. Until, that is, nefarious outsiders appear on the scene and plant diabolical ideas about freedom, equality, and liberation in their simple minds, and terrorize them into participating in revolts and rebellions.
The natives, duly infected with ideas like independence, social justice, and the redistribution of wealth, need to be deradicalized so that the natural order of things can be restored. The outside agitators need to be cleansed from the body politic, and the natives re-educated to once again thoughtlessly till the fields, concerned only about the harvest and making sure the chickens have enough to eat.
The Palestinian case is no different. They hate Zionism and Israel only because they have been taught and terrorized into doing so by Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasir Arafat and the PLO, Hamas, and of course UNRWA. If we can only reform the Palestinian school curriculum yet again, Palestinians will learn to peacefully co-exist with dispossession, apartheid, and genocide.
Imagine, for a moment, that Palestinian schoolchildren were to start the day singing Hatikva, are taught that the Holy Trinity in fact consists of Yitzhak Shamir, David Ben-Gurion, and Theodor Herzl, spend an hour a week studying Binyamin Netanyahu’s addresses to Congress, dutifully rising from their seats every time the seals that swim in the Capitol give him yet another standing ovation, and are made to chant “Death to the Arabs” a dozen times before going to sleep under a Maccabi Tel Aviv poster.
Does anyone in their right mind genuinely believe Palestinians can be taught to peacefully co-exist with dispossession and oppression?
If Palestinians are indeed radicalized, the agents of their radicalization are Israel and its policies, not least its compulsive murder of their children. The only available formula for deradicalization is Palestinian rights, first and foremost their inalienable right to self-determination.
The beauty of Trump’s initiative is that “deradicalization” is not defined, and with ever-shifting goalposts moved at Israel's discretion can therefore never be achieved. And until it is, Israel will be free to continue radicalizing Palestinians with its bombs, bullets, and bulldozers with total impunity.

2025-09-30 03:57:12 CEST

Fact-free far-right bigot once again claims unparalleled expertise in Islamic jurisprudence because he lived in Lebanon until age 10.
In this case, he repeats the demonstrable falsehood that "dogs are haram in Islam".
Dogs are mentioned several times in the Quran.
One passage relates a parable in which a dog serves as the faithful guardian of a group of believers who hid in a cave to escape persecution.
The other specifies that it is permissible to eat animals that have been hunted by dogs and falcons (and thus retrieved in their mouths).
There is no Quranic passage that describes dogs as "haram" or forbids keeping them.
Islamic clerics have issued multiple views on dogs.
Based on the above Quranic references, they are agreed that it is permissible to keep dogs that serve a purpose – such as hunting, herding, and guarding.
There is also consensus that dog saliva is impure (“najis”), requiring the special cleaning of utensils that come into contact with it.
The clerics are however divided on whether it is also permissible to keep dogs within the confines of the home. Three of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence consider dogs impure (najis), a concept that is quite different than haram, which entails categorical prohibition. None consider dogs haram.
Najis primarily means that if one comes into contact with a dog, ritual purification is required prior to the performance of religious duties such as prayer. Ablutions, for example, are considered invalidated by physical contact with a dog. But the physical contact itself is not forbidden.
Basing themselves on different sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, as well as other forms of reasoning, Islamic clerics have generally forbidden keeping dogs as companions, and offered various reasons for doing so. Others only discourage it, and others still permit it. In other words, there is no doctrinal position on the issue across the faith, as there is for example with respect to the consumption of pork or carrion.
To claim that "dogs are haram in Islam", or that "Islam hates dogs", is at best a profession of ignorance, and in this case also clearly an exercise in fact-free bigotry for the sole purpose of promoting bigotry.
In the example below, fact-free far-right bigot Gad Saad believes he has definitively demonstrated that "dogs are haram in Islam" by reposting a fellow fact-free far-right bigot's account of a single incident.
Rather than presenting a legal opinion by a Muslim cleric or conclusions of a study by scholar of Islamic jurisprudence, the incident concerns a statement by a grocery shopper in France.
As with so much posted by this pair, it is unclear if the incident is genuine or distorted to amplify the bigotry. If it is real, it changes nothing about Islamic jurisprudence with respect to dogs, no more than it would if a Muslim kept a dozen dogs as indoor pets after receiving a fatwa expressly prohibiting it.
Saad’s post is however not without value. It provides - yet again - a valuable insight into his fact-free approach to substantiating his bigotry, as well as into his standards of – for lack of a better term – scholarship.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2DxghPXYAAAi4N.jpg

2025-09-29 23:35:00 CEST

Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip has been so overwhelmingly successful over the course of two entire years that it requires 20,000 Indonesian troops to disarm Hamas.
As I've been saying for years: The Israeli military is a highly effective and efficient killing machine, especially against unarmed civilians, but it is also a mediocre fighting force, and particularly so in urban combat.

2025-09-28 19:38:52 CEST

They didn't walk out when Ukraine's Zelensky, a Jewish president, spoke.
They wouldn't have walked out if Claudia Sheinbaum, the Jewish president of Mexico, had spoken instead of sending her foreign minister.
They wouldn't have walked out if Keir Stammer, who recently claimed Jewish ancestry, had spoken instead of sending his deputy.
Etc.
But nice try making this about anti-Jewish prejudice, as if global aversion to Israel's genocide, apartheid, and impunity for war crimes have nothing to do with the walkout.
https://bird.makeup/users/hananyanaftali/statuses/1971983245685178842
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2025-09-24 19:42:03 CEST

"The Meaning of Western Recognition of Palestine".
I was asked by @npub1p87…kec6 to contribute my thoughts on the recent spate of recognitions of Palestinian statehood.
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/recognition-palestine-israel-genocide-zionism

2025-09-23 04:41:37 CEST

Israel and its flunkies have settled on the great replacement theory aka The Protocols of the Elders of Mecca, as their favoured explanation for the recent spate of recognitions of Palestinian statehood. Key tenets:
1. All Muslims support Palestine
2. Only Muslims support

2025-09-17 19:26:48 CEST

Today marks the annual commemoration of the 16-18 September 1982 Sabra-Shatila Massacre in Beirut. It formed the culmination of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon that year.
The Sabra-Shatila Massacre was an Israeli operation from start to finish. The Phalangist and South Lebanon Army terrorists, the Israeli proxies who conducted most of the killing, were instruments of Israel's design pure and simple.
Ever the victim of those it massacres, Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, a wanted terrorist during the British Mandate for the murder of hundreds of Arab, Jewish, and British civilian non-combatants, predictably whined, ''Goyim kill goyim, and they come to hang the Jews''.
Even acts of genocide are spun as blood libel. The repulsive sanctimony of the genocidal apartheid regime knows neither shame nor limits.
Below two links: The first, "Sabra and Shatila: New Revelations", is an article by the Middle East scholar Seth Anziska (@SethAnziska ), published in the 17 September 2018 issue of the New York Review of Books. It sheds further light on the extent of Israeli responsibility and US complicity in the massacre.
The second, "Four Hours in Shatila" by the late author and activist Jean Genet, speaks for itself.