Oliveira da Figueira

Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light 🪔 🇱🇧 🇵🇸

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Great work from the Nobel Prize Peace Committee, really top notch.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Not surprising, but the new TikTok censorship has nuked the @DropSiteNews account. Funny to have had better press freedom under President Xi.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I think we can fairly say that we've reached peak Orwell: the Nobel "Peace" Prize winner is literally calling for war against her own country, saying this will "save lives".

"War is peace", we're there.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

"2 million Arabs in Israel live in equality", they say

This is their equality

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya walked towards an 🇮🇱 tank in defiance at the bombing of Kamal Adwan Hospital 🇵🇸

He is now one of 95 🇵🇸 Dr’s & Healthcare workers detained illegally by 🇮🇱

His ‘crime’ was to tirelessly care for the sick & wounded when 🇮🇱 attacked his hospital

Free him now.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This should be a massive scandal.

Dutch police concluded that violent Maccabi hooligans were closely linked to the IDF - and determined to cause "serious violence".

Your government lied to you.

Your media lied to you.

And they smeared Birmingham to defend Israeli hooligans!

[volksvargas @volksvargas]

Para quê assumir as culpas quando podes culpar os imigrantes por tudo?

[ACF @Antonio66012007]

Há muito, muito tempo atrás, António Costa denunciou tudo isso, sem equívocos... É sempre bom lembrar !

[Media Lens @medialens]

Hello @BBCNews,

Are you just going to pretend that this didn't happen?

Propaganda by omission, once again.

@raffiberg, BBC online Middle East Editor
@JohntNeal, BBC News at 6 & 10 Editor
@jonathancmunro, Deputy CEO, BBC News
@paulroyall, Executive BBC News Editor

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Growing up in Germany, the Netherlands, and the American Midwest, I was extremely pro-Jewish and extremely pro-Israel. I believed every bit of the narrative we were fed. I even had a Palestinian guy in my class, and whenever he talked about his situation, I’d get angry. I called him an anti-Semite more than once. Looking back, I feel ashamed of how deeply I had internalized that mindset.

I genuinely thought Judaism was the best religion in the world. I even considered converting at one point to support these “poor, prosecuted people”. That’s how far gone I was. And all of that happened without me even knowing any Jews in real life. I had met maybe one or two in my life until a few years ago.

That started to change during my PhD. We had a research partnership with a Hebrew university. The academics we worked with were hardcore Zionists. They talked about Palestinians like animals. Justified the killings. Brushed off the land theft. That’s when the mask began to fall.

I started digging. I learned about the Balfour Declaration, how American Zionists played a role in destabilizing my own country of birth. I learned about the Nakba. How settlers destroyed water wells and entire orchards. How people who had lived there for centuries were treated like subhumans. I saw the ugly truth no one ever talks about.

Even up to October 7th, I still thought: there are good Jews and bad Jews, just like in any group. But since then, what I’ve witnessed is beyond shocking. Almost every Jewish voice I’ve come across, online, in media, in real life, has been defending genocide. Demonizing anyone who dares speak up for Palestinians. Calling people Nazis, animals, anti-Semites, just for standing on the side of humanity.

That kind of moral blackmail used to work on me. Being called an anti-Semite as a German? That was the worst thing you could say. But not anymore. Not after seeing who’s really fueling the hate. Not after hearing the things that are being said… things that sound like they came straight from hell.

What changed me was not hate, it was clarity. I realized Zionism is not about survival but dominance, and it has nothing in common with Christian values, either.

And honestly, what still puzzles me, what I genuinely don’t understand, is why they behave the way they do.

They say they want peace. They say they’ve been hated throughout history, kicked out of country after country, persecuted without reason. But then you look at how they act,right now. They smear anyone who dares to criticize Israel. They slander. They don’t try to make allies, they issue threats. They demand people be canceled. They justify war crimes. They talk about exterminating others.

If they really want to be liked, if they want to live in peace, if they want people to stop criticizing them, then why do they act like this? Why don’t they try kindness, truth, humility? Why not show some decency, some humanity, especially now that the entire world is watching?

It makes no sense, unless domination is the goal. Not peace. Not coexistence.

Because when I listen to people like Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro or that Randy Fine dude, what I hear isn’t just propaganda, but pure venom. It’s a kind of moral filth that feels like it crawled out of hell. The arrogance. The dehumanization. The glee in war and death.

You can’t act like this and expect the world like you. You can’t demand sympathy while trying to silence those who demand the truth. You can’t play eternal victim while behaving like a tyrant. Eventually, people wake up. Just like I did.

I used to believe everything they told me. Now I see it clearly. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

"...internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset."

OpenAI caught destroying evidence, oh boy.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The furore over the crazed train attack has died down remarkably quickly.

No muslim = no story. The number one priority of our political and media class is to whip up Islamophobia.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: WAREHOUSE FULL OF AID NOT BEING ALLOWED INTO GAZA BY ISRAEL EXPOSED BY THE CHANNEL 4

“It's estimated that there is enough aid for 150 trucks per day, five days per week for three months to help Palestinians.”

Israel is still starving Gaza

[Matt Lieb?? @mattlieb]

“Explain rape to me like I’m 5” is an incredible tweet

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

In Palestine there is NO ceasefire, NO peace, only destruction and the violence of ethnic cleansing.
Watching world leaders play “let’s pretend” with the light-heartedness of 4th graders playing Lego is sickening. We will all pay for their complicity & the insecurity it is sowing

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Moves to Legalize State Executions of Palestinians

Israel’s National Security Committee has approved a bill mandating the death penalty for any Palestinian convicted of killing an Israeli, clearing it for a first Knesset vote. The bill bans commutation of the sentence.

Netanyahu’s “hostage coordinator” Gal Hirsch reversed his opposition, saying “the reality has changed” after captives were freed; he had earlier warned it could endanger their lives.

It also lowers the judicial threshold for execution, allowing death sentences by simple majority, not requiring unanimity. Israeli military courts already convict some 99.7% of Palestinians they try.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers.

Lambs.

It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming.

But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society.

Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature.

Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian. They didn’t know anything about Hamas or October 7 or the Nazi Holocaust, or any of the other reasons Israelis generally cite for their abuses of human beings.

They were just sitting there, doing absolutely nothing that could possibly be construed as harmful by even the most talented hasbarist.

And those settlers went in there and inflicted completely gratuitous suffering upon them.

This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.

Israel cannot be sustained without nonstop violence. The violence cannot be sustained without hatred. The hatred cannot be sustained without systematic indoctrination.

That indoctrination teaches Jewish Israelis from birth that the victims of their genocidal state are all inhuman monsters who would rape and murder them all if Israel ceased its apartheid abuses, militarism, and incessant violence. It teaches them that killing off their empathy and compassion is essential for their survival, because only the Jews who are willing to do whatever it takes to survive are going to make it.

Just in case their childhood indoctrination isn’t enough to sway them, Israelis are also made to serve in the military where they spend two years killing off any remaining sense of human decency within themselves as they inflict acts of unfathomable cruelty upon Palestinians as part of their duty to the state.

They are trained to believe they must have cold hearts and hard hands, because that is what’s necessary to do what must be done.

Those settlers who tortured those lambs believed they were doing what needed to be done. They believe they need to terrorize the Palestinians and make life so nightmarish for them that they go somewhere else, which will allow for more Jewish settlement on Palestinian territory.

Those tortured lambs were the product of everything that Israel is as a state. Which could of course be said about every victim of Israeli sadism over the last eight decades, human and non-human alike.

This is Israel. This is Zionism. This is what it looks like when Zionists get everything they want. You’re looking at it. This is it.

Israel can’t keep going like this. Humanity can’t keep going like this. We need better systems. Better ideologies. Better motivators driving our behavior.

All our systems which drive cruelty and abusiveness around the world need to go the way of the dinosaur. Zionism. Capitalism. Imperialism. All our competition-based systems which pit us against other people, other ethnicities, other countries, and our own biosphere.

We need to move into collaboration-based systems which advance justice, equality, and well-being for all of earth’s creatures. Because what we’ve been doing clearly isn’t working.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“I was fired, arrested and jailed for four days in solitary confinement in a high security prison.
For what? For posting about civilians k!lled in Gaza. I am Meir Baruchin, a history and civics teacher in Tel Aviv..”

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

A new video shows the Israeli army using advanced missiles in eastern Gaza, with explosions resembling miniature nuclear bombs that obliterate what remains of the city.