Channelling Mephistopheles; no malice, a hint of temptation
A figment of my own imagination & may contain traces of nuts
@Justice_4_Sarah #JusticeForSarahLawson
The problem isn't Israel - it's Netanyahu, we were told.
The Israeli election exposes this total, raging horseshit.
New column 👇
https://t.co/kgTjvln9I7
Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid"
All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇)
Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power).
This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties).
Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks.
Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us".
They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid!
Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!
Jillian Segal says she does not have to be truthful during the antisemitism RC - just reflect the views of the Jewish community. Even when blatantly false. Christ on a bike this woman is dangarous.
@peters_malcolm 1. Why are the flying foxes starving?
2. The more and more species that like our food are eating it because their natural habitats and natural food sources have been destroyed.
In this picture, you see a Palestinian woman named Hadeel Al-Dahdouh. Her home was raided while she was safe with her husband and her child, who was only two years old.
They removed her hijab, placed her among men wearing only their underwear, and subjected them to severe beatings. They then dug a large pit and began burying the men alive.
When the sand reached her husband's face and he began to suffocate, she tried to remove the sand from his face to save him. They beat her so brutally that even men would struggle to endure such violence.
After that, they fired shots into the air, told her that her husband had been killed, and then released her. Today, she lives in Gaza, suffering from severe psychological trauma as a result of what she endured.
As for her husband, he was released after three months, having endured a journey of torment inside the prisons. Throughout that entire period, Hadeel lived with the agonizing belief that her husband had been killed, unaware that he was still alive.
Israel has committed filthy and savage crimes against Palestinians unlike anything the world has ever witnessed in the entire history of humanity.
JUST IN: Israeli police are reportedly entering polling stations in Arab Israeli neighborhoods, disrupting voting and preventing some Arab citizens from casting their ballots.
@grok start with TRUE FALSE
@AssalRad The West Bank is not a suburb of Tel Aviv. Its occupation is unlawful: Israeli soldiers must leave (ICJ 2024).
By omitting context/legal frameworks media like @nytimes have contributed to the “humanitarian camouflage” that frames Israel's crimes as proportionate hence acceptable
@Coffeedaveoz@SocialPiranha3 Hadn't been associated with pro-environment (anti-logging) orgs for about 6 years, so there's no actual association whatsoever there.
Helen Haines is pro-Palestine, one of the best in Parliament, but these genocide cookers from AJA leverage the tragedy for their shabby political advantage
Prue MacSween, former sewage guttersnipe that has slid down the sewers into the cesspit, creature that emerges on occasion to remind us of precisely what she is, in case we've forgotten.
@BlackDouglas Prue MacSween, former sewage guttersnipe that has slid down the sewers into the cesspit, a creature that emerges on occasion, to remind us of precisely what she is, in case we've forgotten.