CJ Hurst 💛

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[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

AI can’t do blood and bone
AI can’t do awe and mystery

Fellow writers, keep writing stories that dig deep roots and reach the liminal spaces

Fellow readers, keep reading stories that burn fierce and aim high

Let’s remember: we’re human

#amwriting #wearenotrobots

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@JoosyJew With you all the way. X

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Not a single European leader has said a word about the massacre that took place in Nigeria by Islamists against Christians on Palm Sunday.

Macron? Silent.

Starmer? Silent.

Meloni? Silent.

Sanchez? Silent.

Why?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Christians are massacred on Palm Sunday in Syria and Nigeria — silence.

Israel pauses public prayer due to Iranian missile threats, apologizes, and fixes it — outrage.

The double standard is impossible to ignore.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza.

Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants.

There was never a genocide.

You have been lied to and manipulated.

[Omer Ghazi @OmerGhazi2]

A video is going viral claiming that the IDF “abused a toddler.” It is being amplified by Al Jazeera and echoed by the likes of Iltija Mufti in India.

Sounds horrific. That is exactly the point.

Now here is what actually happened, a story most people will not hear.

Last Thursday, IDF troops spotted a suspicious individual walking toward them in a high-risk combat zone, the so-called Yellow Line area. He was carrying something in his arms. That something turned out to be a 3-year-old child.

The troops did what any trained force does. They issued repeated warnings to stop.

He did not.

He kept advancing. Closing distance. In a live combat zone, toward armed soldiers who had no way of knowing intent.

At that point, the IDF fired warning shots, not at him, but at the roadside, to create distance. The goal was not to harm. It was to stop a potentially lethal situation.

Some splinters may have caused minor injuries.

Then comes the part that completely changes the narrative.

The man was apprehended.

During questioning, he admitted to being a Hamas operative. He also admitted something chilling. He brought his own toddler with him deliberately as a human shield, believing IDF troops would hesitate to act.

Let that sink in.

A child was not abused.

A child was weaponized.

And what did the IDF do?

They took the toddler in. Gave him medical attention. Fed him. Kept him under constant supervision of a physician and officers. Wrapped him in a thermal blanket.

Then they contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross and ensured he was safely handed over after locating his family.

That is the full story.

But it does not trend.

Because it does not fit the narrative.

This is how modern information warfare works. A fragment of truth, stripped of context, amplified by powerful platforms, and consumed by millions as fact.

And in the process, the real victim, the child used as a shield, disappears from the story.

Not everything viral is truth.

Sometimes, it is propaganda dressed as outrage.

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@ShankaMonad @TheBritishIntel @CMY1952 Well put

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@ikeijeh ❤️ art craves emotion not ethnicity - love this! Chatsworth was a big deal for me as a teen too. The grounds too made a lasting impression on me, the cascades in particular

[Albie @albieamankona]

Wait, so Britain ended the greatest crime against humanity?

Led the slavery abolition movement.
Paid to end it.
Enforced it globally.

Not bad. God Save The King. 🇬🇧

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@VividProwess 👋 still here. 🇬🇧 🇮🇱

[leekern @leekern13]

Iran is exclusively attacking civilians in Israel

Not a word from all the wankers on the internet who think they’re the custodians of morality

[MummyisTired @MummyisT]

Do you know why @HeidiBachram gets abuse from people like Owen Jones?
Do you know what she did?

Her husbands family were attacked, their 18 year old daughter Ma’ayan was killed and the family held and streamed live. They were crying, shocked, bloodied.
Tsachi the father was taken hostage and murdered in Gaza.

Every week Heidi and Adam hold memorial ceremonies for the murdered and terrorised people of Israel. They prayed for the kidnapped and celebrated their return.
They’ve documented Jew hate in the constant marches. They’ve been threatened. Their memorial desecrated.

That’s why she’s attacked
Because she cares
Because she won’t shut up
Because she won’t blame the Jews for their own murder and pain

That is the by Owen hates her
That’s why we love her and Adam
Because they’re proud, strong and kind.

That’s all
I just like to remind the world why Heidi is targeted

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@VividProwess Oct 7 opened my eyes and the response on Oct 8 opened them even more. Thank you too, for standing firm despite the dangers. Am Yisrael Chai. And God bless you all.

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

The IRGC is a threat to the United Kingdom.

Our allies have designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, why haven’t we? Conservatives will work with the government to proscribe the IRGC.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

Open Letter to Those in Hollywood Who Said "Free Palestine" But Never Said #FreeIran

We have watched you. We have listened to every word.
At podiums bathed in a billion lights, you declared "Free Palestine." The crowd roared. You felt righteous. You felt brave.

But you said nothing about Iran.

Nothing about Mahsa Amini, beaten to death by morality police for a strand of hair escaping her hijab. Nothing about the teenage girls shot in the streets for dancing. Nothing about the poets hanged at dawn, the dissidents tortured in Evin Prison, the 40,000 souls reportedly massacred when a regime decided its own people were the enemy. Nothing about the mothers arrested for weeping too loudly at their children's funerals.

You vowed not to work with anyone who "justifies genocide." So let me ask you directly:

Will you refuse to work with anyone who funds Hamas?
Because the Islamic Republic of Iran does exactly that. It arms Hamas. It funded the October 7 massacre — the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust — when 1,200 men, women, and children were slaughtered and taken hostage. Iran's regime did not weep for those children. It celebrated.

And you said nothing.

You called Israel's self-defense a "genocide" — Israel, a democracy where 20% of citizens are Arab, where Arab men and women sit in the Knesset, a country the size of New Jersey that has extended more peace offers than history has recorded acceptances.

Meanwhile, in Iran, a regime hangs gay men from cranes. It executes Christians for apostasy. It poisons schoolgirls with gas to deny them education. It has murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens — not collateral damage, targeted killing — with a bureaucratic efficiency that should make every self-proclaimed human rights advocate on earth scream.

Where is your open letter for them?

Where is your award-show moment for the 90 million Iranians suffocating under a boot the world has agreed, by its silence, to ignore?

I'll tell you what is happening, and I say it not with contempt but with grief: it is easy to condemn Israel. It comes with applause. It earns you the standing ovation, the social media adulation, the warm embrace of circles that have decided the Jewish state is the world's one acceptable villain. It costs you nothing.

Saying #FreeIran costs you something. It means confronting a regime your silence has helped legitimize. It means standing with people whose suffering has no fashionable hashtag, no viral aesthetic, no coalition of celebrities amplifying their pain.

The FBI documented a 400% rise in antisemitic incidents since October 7 — synagogues vandalized, Jewish children harassed in schools, people beaten on city streets for wearing a Star of David. Words like genocide, genocide, genocide do not exist in a vacuum. They land in a world already primed to hate, and they hand that hatred a moral permission slip.

So I am asking you — as someone who refuses to let selective outrage masquerade as conscience — to do better.

Say #FreeIran.

Say it without waiting for applause. Say it for Mahsa. Say it for the teenagers in Evin. Say it for the 90 million people who wake up every morning in a cage their government built while the world's moral celebrities looked the other way.

You told us you believe in peace. Then believe in it for everyone.

Because a conscience activated only for approved victims is not a conscience at all.

It is a performance.

And unlike your films, this performance has a body count.

With unflinching honesty- Dr. Afshine Emrani Humanist. The son of Iran. A voice that will not be quiet.

[Elizabeth Barcohana @E_Barcohana]

Why isn’t everyone’s feed full of this story?

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

There used to be a time when I would sit down and explain to Joy Reid why comparing the situation of women in America to women in Iran, and even implying women have it better in Iran, is an insult to Iranian women and a bald-faced lie.

But after the latest verified report of two nurses who were tortured and raped by regime security forces for the “crime” of treating wounded protesters, raped so brutally with foreign objects that one had to have her uterus removed and both now live with colostomy bags, I’m done explaining.

For Joy Reid and every idiot pushing that lie, I have only two words and I would like to ask you to deliver it to her:

FUCK YOU.

[Stop The Hate UK @StopTheHate_UK]

Across the river from the Al Quds day of hate - we are holding a counter protest of love for the Iranian people and those who support their freedom.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia after her family went missing.

UN Women has not said a word.

[CJ Hurst 💛 @CJHurst7]

@VividProwess Breaks my heart, every day. Those wonderful boys and their mother too. May God rest their souls 🧡🧡🧡