Judith Meyer

Hyperpolyglot, RoR developer, tweets about language-learning and politics, active with @DiEM_25 / @mera25_de

[Judith Meyer @GermanPolyglot]

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[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Banned from holding this discussion live in London (presumably for demonstrating Insufficient Support of Genocide!), Hasan Piker & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation on free speech, antisemitism, zionism and the sorry state of liberal democracy. https://t.co/f0QWp6xY0y

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.

[Jakob Reimann @Jakob_Reimann]

Das #israel|ische Regime hat zwei Spielerinnen der palästinensischen Fußballnationalmannschaft aus ihren Wohnheimen im #Westjordanland entführt.

Es ist eine Schande, dass 🇮🇱 Sportteams an internationalen Wettkämpfen teilnehmen können. Es braucht einen Boykott!

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Only 23% of Germans have a favourable view of Israel, lower percentage than the UK or France

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Banned for Insufficient Support of the... Genocide (!).

Hasan Piker was recently banned from entering the UK. Two years ago I was banned from entering Germany (even via... Zoom). Our crime? Yes, you guessed it: We refused to support the genocide - a heinous crime in today's deranged Europe.

This evening, at 2100CET (2000BST) Hasan and I will discuss our experiences on DiEM-tv LIVE, ably moderated by Mehran Khalili. Join us to ask questions and send us your missives. These are interesting times people!

@hasanthehun @mkhalili

https://t.co/Z5h6glSrJi

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

We have filed a criminal complaint against German Government officials, among them former FM Annalena Baerbock, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz, current FM Johann Wadeph for aiding and abetting acts of genocide.

READ MORE:
https://t.co/AkuaMAWIyk

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

🚨 LIVE THIS FRIDAY: Banned for Insufficient Support of Genocide?

First Germany banned @yanisvaroufakis. Now the UK has barred @hasanthehun from entering the country.

This Friday they compare notes on Gaza, censorship & why "free speech" seems to come with exceptions.

📅 June 5
⏰ 21:00 CEST

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

In a rare moment of justice at the UN General Assembly today, Germany lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat. Germany’s scandalous support for genocide in Palestine and aggression against Iran, and its repression of human rights defenders inside Germany, were all on display as the body handed Germany this unprecedented loss. Even former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who presided over the election as current UNGA President, could not save Germany from this well-deserved humiliation. Germany’s money can no longer erase its responsibility for genocides in Namibia, Europe, and Palestine.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Who keeps bombing and killing people @AP?

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

Fox News has targeted DiEM25, @ProgIntl, @davidrkadler, @hasanthehun and those standing in solidarity with Cuba. But the real story isn't the smear campaign, it is the growing crackdown on those who resist the fledgling Trump regime.

Our Political Director, @edmantweet, writes.

https://t.co/UjF5rat8l1

[DiEM25 @DiEM_25]

"I say to young people: courage is not bravery; it is habit. Start small. Tell it how you see it over dinner. Disagree with your own side. When you fail—and you will—forgive yourself and try again. The new authoritarianism crumbles when ordinary people risk ridicule more than prison. Ridicule is cheap; democracy is not." — @yanisvaroufakis

https://t.co/uGxSNzqsbo

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Genocide is not just the destruction of human life. It is also the eradication of heritage. If you swim down in that water near the Christian quarter and you see mosaics.

Tyre was one of the most important cities in the ancient world. Israel is, in essence, bombing Rome.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Exactly. The writing has been on the wall for a while... https://t.co/IvklPv9yL7

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Last year, my friend Hasan Piker addressed the Oxford Union. He spoke cogently (https://t.co/UQCKLCjKpH) on the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

This coming Friday, The Econoclasts (that is, Wolfgang Munchau and I) were to host him at a live event at the Kings Cross Town Hall.

Alas, the Starmer government decided to ban Hasan from entering the UK. Why? Without even saying so explicitly, they hinted at Hasan's... antisemitism!

Join the club Hasan - your ban brings back memories of two years ago when I was banned from entering Germany for the hideous crime of organising, alongside German Jews, a conference on the ultra-subversive topic of the 'A Just Peace in the Middle East'.

These days, it seems, you are banned as an antisemite if you oppose the Palestinian genocide and the ideology that drives it.

And, as Freddie tweeted just now, your being silenced leaves those who purport to value free speech above all else utterly unperturbed.

Such are the 'interesting' times we are enduring...

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Let's decode what actually happened here.

Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."

The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.

This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.

Now watch the response.

Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.

But here is the part that matters.

Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?

Because it serves both.

Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.

Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.

And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.

Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."

The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.

And the war continues exactly as planned.

This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.

Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.

Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.

The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.

Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.

Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, @adamparsons.

Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.

Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."

The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."

Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:

"Now that [Gaza] has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase: making the entire population permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed."

It's the prelude, says Levy, to mass expulsion.

"No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks. And without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth."

Source: https://t.co/NYY16nu06c