Jaded Dreamer

Seattleite socialist on a quest to better understand the world around me. ☭☭

Free Palestine!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

No no it’s not ethnic cleansing, they’re just forcibly taking land from Arabs and telling their civilian population they need to leave or they’ll be killed.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Failure to vote for Israel at Eurovision is a sign of grave alarm and apparently warrants a Senate investigation in Australia.

Beyond parody at this point. They already eroded their free speech laws to protect Israel. Next: mandatory voting for Israel in song competitions.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.

Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.

Full interview is linked below.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

British police are investigating the guy who called non-Jew Helen Mirren a ‘Zionist bitch’ — under hate speech laws for antisemitism.

Now, it’s antisemitic to criticise non-Jews for supporting Israel.

It was never about antisemitism, and always about protecting Israel.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms the Washington-backed Zionist regime is illegally occupying a staggering 20 percent of Lebanon, systematically destroying dozens of villages.

Over a million civilians are displaced as relentless airstrikes devastate major cities.

[Noot Noot🐧 @PunishedPingu]

Fox News says Hasan Piker used a antisemitic trope by saying Israel advocacy groups pushed for his ban. And then in the following sentence details how said groups pushed for his ban.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The UK is getting crazier and crazier in its defense of Israel. Now they’re canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t even Jewish.

American progressive commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker have both been denied visas by the British government, saying they were blocked from entering the country because of their criticism of Israel.

“I’ve been banned from the UK,” Uygur said in a tweet. “I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!”

“the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel,” said Piker in a repost of his uncle’s statement. “the west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.”

This is a significant escalation from London, because neither Uygur nor Piker could reasonably be described as politically extremist in any way. They’re essentially just Bernie Sanders progressives who sit well within the mainstream US political Overton window; I personally don’t follow either of them because they are both far too aligned with the Democratic Party for my liking.

This move is yet another win for the UK’s extremely powerful Israel lobby. Two weeks ago the Jewish Chronicle ran a story titled “Social media influencer Hasan Piker must be banned from Britain, say Jewish leaders,” subtitled “Online agitator who said Zionists were like ‘Nazis’ and refused to condemn Hamas poses a threat to British Jews.”

So the pressure campaign appears to have paid off.

This comes as the Metropolitan Police launch an investigation into an incident in which actress Helen Mirren was called an “evil Zionist bitch” by a man on the street last year, saying in a statement that “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill.”

To be clear, Helen Mirren is not Jewish, so she can’t have been a victim of “antisemitic verbal abuse”. She is however an avowed supporter of the state of Israel, which makes her a Zionist.

In a 2023 interview with Israeli media, Mirren stirred up controversy with her remarks on her 1967 visit to the Zionist ethnostate, saying, “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.”

This just says so much about the true nature of the artificially manufactured panic around “antisemitism” in the west. That a woman who is not Jewish can be framed by law enforcement as the victim of an antisemitic hate crime because someone criticized her support for Israel is an admission that this has always been about protecting the interests of the Zionist state, rather than protecting Jews.

Jewishness or Judaism never entered into the equation here; a person who isn’t Jewish was criticized for supporting a genocidal apartheid state, and nothing more. Yet the person who uttered that criticism is now under investigation for antisemitic abuse, because in the eyes of British law enforcement, “antisemitic abuse” just means criticizing the state of Israel.

Western governments will tell you that it is antisemitic to equate all Jews with the state of Israel, and then in their very next breath they will tell you that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. These two statements are completely contradictory; they cannot both be true. If it’s wrong to equate all Jews with the state of Israel, then it’s wrong to equate criticism of the pro-Israel political ideology with a hateful attack against all Jews.

But that’s how insane the west’s support for Israel is making everything. They’ve got everyone performing impossible mental gymnastics and feats of Orwellian doublethink in order to reconcile the official narrative with reality.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

“Four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles.”

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who has worked repeatedly in Gaza since 2010, describes a pattern of shootings at food distribution points where children were shot in specific body parts on different days.

“The pattern of injuries that we all witnessed was so striking, that it was it was clearly beyond coincidental, and it seemed to us that there was a game of target practice.”

He also details quadcopters hovering over tents and spraying bullets indiscriminately, and recounts the death of six neonates left in incubators at Al-Nasr pediatric hospital after Israeli forces evacuated the hospital and left them to rot.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Netanyahu: We are now in 60% of the Gaza Strip, more or less. We were at 50%; now we’ve moved to 60%. My directive is to move to—

Audience: 100! 100!

Netanyahu: Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Israel makes no secret of the fact that its ultimate goal is the complete annihilation of Palestine.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A few months ago I was sitting on a bench in Tel Aviv with a colleague, and an older Israeli man came up to us and asked if he can sit with us. We said yes, so he asked what we were working on. We said we're making a film about the West Bank.

"What do you think about the Arabs?", he asked. Instead of answering, I asked what he thought.

"A good Arab is a dead Arab", he answered.

This was said 5 minutes into the conversation, to a complete stranger. This is a normal thing to say in Israeli society, even in the hyper-liberal Tel Aviv.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

"A good Arab is a dead Arab".
A regional super-power wanna-be in one sentence (monumental evidence to be found in Palestine and Lebanon).

Shame on the EU for making 450millions of EU citizens prime trading partners of Israel.

The EU-Israel Association Agreement must be stopped.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

We need hear nothing more from this man. He is dead to me. He should be dead to all of us.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

'Their genitals were repeatedly attacked. Specifically. They were electrocuted through their genitals.'

— British surgeon Professor @maynard_nick, describing to Tucker Carlson the systemic kidnapping, torture, and rape of Palestinian medics by 'israel'.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Thanks to the efforts of people all over this country, nearly half of all data centers planned for 2026 have either been delayed or canceled.

Keep fighting! It’s working!

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

The world is NOT silent.

The world is outraged.

It's world "leaders" who are silent.

And their silence is complicity.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Yesterday the Israeli army massacred a family of six who were fleeing the south after forced displacement orders. 2 small children were among those killed.

Report on this massacre and another massacre in Saida just hours after.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

A cruel reminder that Zionist Bernie Sanders wants to preserve the Greater Israel ethnostate at literally any cost.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

It just dawned on me what they are actually proposing.

They aren’t going to release the sanctioned Iranian funds, they are going to get the US and GCC to put money into an “international reconstruction investment fund” so they can dole contracts out to Kushner and his cronies.

LOL holy crap this administration is so corrupt it’s actually stunning at times.

[Daniel Haqiqatjou @Haqiqatjou]

It's over.