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Introverted Ex-EM/MD. #M4A #Atheist #DogsRule #VanagonSyncroLove #AnarchyFirst

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Welcome back to one of the most consequential and courageous human beings of this century: easily one of a small handful of pioneers for the causes of a free internet and independent journalism.

The US and UK did everything to break and destroy Julian Assange, but he prevailed:

[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! 🙏🏼

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@Mr_Jacksonandon @Resist_05 Nor can I but there was this posted above. Almost but not quite...
https://t.co/yoYO1F55FN

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

The moment she realized that her hero doesn’t like black people.

[Chłoddy @OfSymbols]

It’s amazing how clearly he lays it out and how literally no one has picked it up.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

YES!!! facts!!

Drop the mic. 🎤

#VoteDemToRestoreRoe

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Top Oxford Surgeon, Nick Maynard, recounts the harrowing reality for Palestinians in Gaza..

Listen to horror he witnessed.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

"We didn't raise our children to kill other mothers' sons, but in Gaza now our bombs and drones are killing every one!"
Grandmothers from around the country are joining us in D.C. this week ahead of Mother's Day to call for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This is POETRY 🔥

Gen Z is a game changer

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just imagine we had the recording of a 6 year old Israeli girl, desperately ringing the emergency services after Hamas militants slaughtered her relatives in a car, including 3 other kids.

Imagine we also had a prior recording of her 15 year old cousin, desperately pleading for help, before you hear her being violently murdered by Hamas gunfire.

Imagine then an Israeli ambulance sent to rescue this little girl was then blown up by Hamas militants, killing both paramedics.

What would be the response?

You know what the response would be.

It would be offered up as evidence of the supreme evil and barbarism of Hamas.

We would be told it showed they’re worse than the Nazis.

It would also be offered up as justification for the need to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.

Every politician in the West would issue statements dripping with grief and righteous fury.

None of that has happened here.

Instead, the West continue to arm and back Israel’s mass slaughter, with occasional handwringing which its politicians know has zero impact on the behaviour of Israel.

Even as Israel commits some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century - live streamed for the world to see - these Western powers refuse to describe a single act of Israel as a war crime.

Two things.

Firstly, none of this is to downgrade the value of Israeli civilian life. The value attacked to Israel innocent civilians’ lives is correct.

It is just transparently not applied to Palestinian life.

Indeed, secondly, it is nauseating that I even have to indulge in these
“imagine if!” scenarios.

It becomes necessary because Palestinian life has been stripped of nearly all value.

In South Africa’s submission to the ICJ, this horror was described as the world’s first live streamed genocide.

I think even more than that, it’s the live streaming of the suicide of the West.

Much of the world already regarded the West’s claims of moral superiority with contempt.

Well, contempt doesn’t even begin to describe those sentiments now.

I don’t think it’s remotely appreciated how much fury at Western power - which has shrunk with every major conflict involving Muslim nations in the 21st century - is being whipped up.

Finally, this nauseating episode has answered a question I’ve always been haunted by when studying the atrocities of the past.

How did so many people who regarded themselves as humane, moderate, “normal” become so willingly complicit in self evident evil, either by not speaking out or actively cheering it on?

Well, think of the badly decomposing remains of Hind and her family, and the incinerated remains of the paramedics sent to save her, and there’s your answer.

There’s your answer!

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Wow! was Nancy Pelosi going to hit me for accusing her of being an Israel apologist???

@codepink

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I try to be cautious about treating every instance of Biden's mis-speaking as cognitive decline. People misspeak, get tired, etc.

But this clip is unquestionably dementia. He has no idea what he's babbling about. Can't remember leaders' names. Thinks he's talking to Mitterand.

[AHRC-USA NGO in Consultative Status with ECOSOC-UN @AHRCUSA]

https://t.co/EAaLAlJceD
#Dearborn #Detroit #Michigan @DrCornelWest24 @kwbogen #Gaza #Genocide #WhiteHouse #UnitedNations #CeaseFire

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

"Elect more Democrats" hasn't solved widespread economic misery, bigotry, violence, and militarism.

"Elect more Republicans" hasn't solved widespread economic misery, bigotry, violence, and militarism.

It's time for something better.

https://t.co/vfHnr1RKd1

#CornelWest2024

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

COVID gets a lot of blame for this dip, but other wealthy countries that also saw a decline during the pandemic have more or less recovered, while the US continues to see a decline.

[Erin Remblance @remblance_erin]

Yesterday I was asked: “what are the 5 things you think everyone needs to know?”

So, I thought I’d share them here too:

1. This chart from the IPCC 6th Assessment Synthesis report, released this week, shows just how far away we are from limiting warming to below 2C: (1/11)

[BlahBlahBlah @NoNameForNow989]

@DogLovers03 Smiley

[Pinche Gringo ☭ @djnotown]

How can people see this and think we don’t live in a failed state?