James Green

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[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

FIRE won a huge First Amendment victory today.

And before anyone mischaracterizes it: This ruling does NOT say the government must admit anyone, issue anyone a visa, or grant anyone citizenship.

It says that once a person is lawfully here, the government cannot deport them because they engaged in protected speech.

The government cannot tell a legal immigrant: An American is free to say this, but if you say it, you’re out.

That’s the principle we sued to defend. And today we won.

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

A secret Dept of Defense employee has built a database to track American citizens by their political affiliations. The Pentagon still refuses to say what her job description is.

https://t.co/BmKZeQDytD

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

If you want to know what X's shadow-banning looks like, here's a bar chart showing how the reach of my articles on the platform plummeted over six months.

Nowadays, I wonder why I even bother publishing articles on X.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

This McCarthyite database tracking Americans based on party affiliation brought to you by Jennica Pounds, who idiotically outed herself as a secret Pentagon employee last week

That’s right, the US “Department of War” is targeting Americans who oppose its war crimes

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Norm Finkelstein: “International law died…when the UN gave the deed of Gaza to Donald Trump…At this point Iran has no obligations whatsoever to abide by international law. It can target who it wants and what it wants for the sake of its survival. You don’t like that? Then look in the mirror. YOU created that situation.”

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

This is the greatest and bravest woman you will ever see in your life Dr. Amira from Gaza.

Under the siege of the hospital, in front of the snipers’ bullets, she ran forward without hesitation, pulled out the stranded patient, and saved his life.

This video will be remembered by generations to come…forever.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Based.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Never stop talking about Palestine

[Kondiaronk Stan @TeeVeeInspector]

smart ass Finkelstein is so awesome

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

It was a pleasure to sit down with Norman Finkelstein to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza, media bias and much more!

Watch the full video below.
https://t.co/5Vn6ukgqRy

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Norman Finkelstein: "Why isn't Angela Davis asking herself: 'why am I getting all these hysterical warm receptions from all of these filthy rich crooks'?"

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Confronted again on Epstein -- by Alex Jones' son!

https://t.co/Poinzo7eYk

[James Green @JamesGreen27]

@mtracey Please share the transcript.

[Mujamma Haraket @MujammaHaraket]

In his most recent appearance on the “India and Global Left” program, Norman Finkelstein avers that Yahya Sinwar and the Hamas leaders in Gaza who undertook Tufan al-Aqsa were undertaking an impulsive “gamble” rather than a strategic operation. When the interviewer (correctly) observes that there are reasons to believe that the short-term goal was to free prisoners and the long-term objective was to halt regional normalization while galvanizing the Palestine issue globally, Finkelstein vehemently disagrees. Were Finkelstein to familiarize himself with the “Our Narrative” documents produced by Hamas or consider the various testimonies where figures ranging from Mahmoud Mardawi to Jasser al-Barghouti elaborated on Sinwar et al.’s modus operandi, perhaps he would not be so dismissive.
Yet Finkelstein then insists that “like Nat Turner, who had only read the Bible” (a claim that is itself contravened by Christopher Tomlins’s recent scholarship on Turner), Sinwar was unlearned—and had, following the 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange which precipitated his return to the besieged Gaza Strip, but “gone from one prison to another”. According to Finkelstein, Sinwar was thus constitutionally incapable of political prudence, acting from rash and extruding compulsions alone. It is rather mystifying that someone who prides themselves on their granular research (and, it should be noted, has undoubtedly assiduously assayed the 2010 Mavi Marmara case and various human rights reports) is unaware of Sinwar’s well-established and arrayed literary record—as a writer, reader, and translator.
Furthermore, Finkelstein argues that it is folly to focus on the resistance, as this merely bolsters the occupation’s misbegotten narrative that Tufan al-Aqsa was a war rather than a genocide. Finkelstein beseeches the interviewer: “Can you name me a single battle? You can’t as there were none.” However—and putting aside the issue that the categories of “wars” and “genocides” do not definitionally exclude one another (e.g., the 1994 Tutsi genocide occurred amidst a war)—a cursory review of the Palestinian resistance’s witness accounts is punctuated by references to the “Battle of Khan Younis” (Dec. 2023 - April 2024), what Abu Obeida called the “Battle of Rafah” (May-August 2024), and the “Battle of Shujaʿiyya” (Dec. 2023), to name but a few. These were, of course, conducted as guerrilla rather than conventional military battles. But to take the resistance’s operational and political history seriously neither entreats minimization of the occupation’s “dolus specialis” (genocidal intent) nor bestows parity upon the two parties.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Please follow him

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Finkelstein: Israel Had No Right to Attack Gaza After October 7

Norman Finkelstein tells Glenn Loury that Israel, having imprisoned Gaza’s population in a “concentration camp” for decades, forfeited any justification for attacking Gaza after October 7.

Israel had no more right to punish Gaza’s leadership than Virginia had to execute Nat Turner for rebelling against slavery, he added.

@normfinkelstein | @GlennLoury

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Government™ made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

(Tag @AlboMP and tell him you want a data centre moratorium until strong legislation is in place)

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is insane, what are we doing? https://t.co/p0JpuNAfUd

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

What @imbrettcooper says here about why she largely stopped talking about politics is so completely correct, and her @DanCrenshawTX example perfectly illustrates the pathology that exists in and, one could say, dominates every faction and debate. 👇