Maritime navigation data reviewed by MarineTraffic indicates that no vessel traffic has transited the Strait of Hormuz since Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced the waterway's closure, contradicting US military claims that the strait remains open.
Tasnim News reported that no vessels have been permitted to enter or exit the strategic waterway since the closure was announced.
HFI Research also reported that, so far, only vessels bound for Iranian ports have continued to pass through the area.
Five Muslim men were chased through Edinburgh with a machete on Friday night.
Two of them were 22 years old.
They were walking through their own city. Sighthill. Then the west. Then Leith Walk.
By the end of the night, five were injured and three were in hospital.
Tonight they are lying in those beds wondering if they will be well enough for work on Monday.
The man who did it was pinned to the ground by police, still screaming.
"I'm protecting the country from these Muslim bastards raping our young daughters."
Ask where a man learns to say that out loud.
He didn't invent it.
Three days earlier, Rupert Lowe published a crowdfunded report claiming 250,000 white girls had been raped by Muslim gangs.
The number was everywhere. GB News. X. The front pages.
Then a man took it into the street on the end of a blade.
He needed one breath to name who he hated.
Watch how long it took everyone else.
The BBC first wrote "Islamophobic attacks." Then changed it to "anti-Muslim." The right word, quietly swapped.
Sky News: "appearing to target Muslims."
LBC kept the word. The only outlet that did. The same station that dropped Sangita Myska in 2024 after she refused to soften.
Then the politicians.
Manchester synagogue, October. John Swinney, same day: "Antisemitism is an evil we must confront." He named the faith. He named the community. That was right.
Edinburgh, his own capital. Swinney: "deeply concerned" by "these incidents." Not Muslim. Not Islamophobia.
The Prime Minister, almost a day late: "appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred."
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, a Muslim woman, the minister whose department decides what this country calls terrorism. Golders Green: "a vile act of terrorism." Edinburgh: "appears."
Even her.
Still no COBRA. The threat level has not moved. And not one of them will name the attacker's faith.
When the man with the blade is one of us, his religion leads the headline before the ambulance arrives.
When he comes for us, he is a bare-chested man with a weapon.
We have watched this before.
Maysum Abdullah took a knife to the neck shielding his pupils. A hero in every paper. A Muslim in none of them.
Mohammed Algasim, a Saudi student, stabbed to death in the neck in Cambridge. His name barely printed.
And it is not slowing down. In a single week, three mosques were attacked and an imam's home was firebombed. Batley. Blackburn. Bolton. Barely a ripple.
A man knew exactly who he hated and said it in one sentence.
The press could not print it without editing it. The politicians could not say it without softening it. The state would not lift a finger to escalate it.
The whole country saw what it was. Almost no one in power would say the word.
Hands held over their mouths.
Tonight, five Muslim men are in an Edinburgh hospital.
They were victims.
They were Muslim.
They prayed, they fasted, they practised the religion of Islam.
And every word of that was stripped from the page.
If they won’t say it. We will.
ISLAMOPHOBIA.
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Report from Harouf, where an entire family was massacred in an Israeli airstrike this morning. The Lebanese ministry of health has updated the death toll since I recorded; so far 21 people have been killed in violent strikes across south Lebanon.
🧵The recent intensive Israeli airstrikes in southern #Lebanon and Western Beqaa, which resulted in the killing of at least 83 people and the injury of 141 others, including children and women, highlight a repeated pattern of targeting civilians and civilian objects ⤵️
The same week that @RupertLowe10 put out his bullshit ‘rape gang report’ falsely claiming Muslims raped 250,000 white girls & same week @elonmusk amplified it on here, this happens. Is anyone surprised?
They’re inciting violence against Muslims and emboldening extremists.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador Danny Danon lost it on camera at the UN after Israel was added to a blacklist of parties suspected of conflict-related sexual violence.
At a meeting Friday, Danon erupted at UN officials, demanded the resignation of Pramila Patten, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, and tried to shout down Vanessa Frazier after she objected that the findings were based on verified evidence.
“You will be quiet now,” Danon snapped.
I interviewed Danny Danon 15 years ago on HuffPost Live. When I held him to account, he walked out of the interview. Sadly, the footage has been lost.
But the pattern was not lost.
This is what Israeli officials so often do when confronted with evidence they cannot bomb, bury, spin, or intimidate into silence: they attack the messenger. They accuse the institution. They demand resignations. They perform outrage as a substitute for accountability.
The issue is not whether Danny Danon is offended.
The issue is whether victims of alleged sexual violence, Palestinian detainees, and children in Israeli custody will be heard over the shouting of a state that has grown accustomed to impunity.
Israel was recently added to a UN blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence. Danon revealed the strategy: when the evidence speaks, tell the room to be quiet.
The man who accused me of ''witchcraft'' - after every other attack had failed - continues to champion institutional narcissism.
Yet the message for him is clear: Enough with the bullying. Not every UN senior official accepts to be intimidated into silence.
"Human rights organisation Medico International and the German network “Coordination gegen Bayer-Gefahren“ (Coordination against Bayer Dangers, CBG) have reported that the glyphosate and white phosphorus used by the Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon were produced in Germany.
At the beginning of February this year, reports emerged in the international media alleging that the Israeli army had deployed the environmental toxin glyphosate in southern Lebanon and in occupied Syria.
According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Agriculture, glyphosate concentrations in some samples taken in the region exceeded “normal levels by around 20 to 30 times”. Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun described the situation as “environmental and health crimes”.
The incident is of particular relevance to Germany, as the US-based glyphosate manufacturer Monsanto was acquired in 2018 by the German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer, one of the world’s largest chemical corporations. As a result, not only did Germany’s mainstream media take up the issue – despite their otherwise consistent reluctance to report on Israeli war crimes – but the matter also reached the agenda of the German Bundestag.
However, there has been little in the way of public outrage. After a few critical remarks, the issue quickly faded from public debate, and it is unlikely that a wider German audience is aware that Israel is not only carrying out a genocide in Gaza using German-supplied weapons, attacking Iran and Lebanon with German arms, enforcing the blockade of Gaza with German naval vessels, and raiding Gaza Solidarity flotillas with the same equipment, but is also reportedly using chemical agents produced with German industrial involvement."
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On June 5th Israel attacked the home of world famous Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. Mona was hospitalized with burns and injuries to over 70% of her body.
Yesterday, June 19th, Mona died from her injuries.
This wasn’t an accident. They didn’t make a mistake. Mona’s home was also where she ran her sea turtle conservatory- which she aptly named the Orange House Project- because, after all, her house was painted top to bottom in a deep, bright orange, the color of a late summer sunset.
The Orange House Project has been in operation for almost 30 years. You can find it on Facebook and Google Maps, along with dozens of reviews from visitors over the years.
So no, it wasn’t an accident or a mistake. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it bombed the Orange House Project on June 5th.
It’s exactly what they’ve been doing since the war with Iran started: ethnically cleansing all of Southern Lebanon so they can steal the land and occupy it for themselves.
Hi Jonah,
I'm an anti-Israel Jew because I'm anti-apartheid & anti-genocide and Israel is an apartheid state carrying out a genocide.
I would happily debate you on any topic related to "what Jews are" & "what Israel means to Jews."
Also -- you can determine all the questions for the debate. You can prepare infinitely for them, and i'll have to answer the questions on the spot.
If I win the debate, I guess your theory is false? From a fellow jew who loves judaism just not genocide.
much love,
-Zach
That's why everyone must hate Israel.
Lebanese displaced persons are unable to return to southern Lebanon due to Israel’s documented use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon.
BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed journalist and cameraman Ahmad Samir Washah in an airstrike on Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian media reports.
Washah worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher. His brother, journalist Mohammed Samir Washah, was killed by an Israeli drone strike on his car on April 8.
The two brothers were killed 73 days apart.
Emerging market central banks are driving historic gold purchases:
Over the last 3 years, Asian and Eastern European countries have purchased +12 tonnes of gold per month on average.
African nations have acquired +2 tonnes per month during the same period.
Over the last 12 months, Asian central banks have purchased +8 tonnes of gold on average per month.
This was followed by +7 tonnes acquired by Eastern European countries.
Emerging markets are rapidly diversifying their currency reserves into gold.
BREAKING: Iran's IRGC officially confirms that the Strait of Hormuz is now closed to all vessels.
The IRGC warns that Vessels who approach the Strait of Hormuz will face a "security risk."
BREAKING: Iran's top joint military command announces that the Strait of Hormuz is now closed due to US and Israeli "violations" of the Memorandum of Understanding.
Iran says this is the "first step" and warns that further measures will be imposed if the "aggression continues."