José de Benzuer ~ Penseur. Controversialist.

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[José de Benzuer ~ Penseur. Controversialist. @SeasonsOutaTime]

"Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down"

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Hezbollah does not have an underground tunnel system in Southern Lebanon. There has never been any evidence of one presented.
I investigated in Lebanon for five months, spoke with all kinds of people including Hezbollah opponents, and nobody ever claimed it.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They're Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza

Israel was founded on the premise that the country’s previous inhabitants need to be eliminated in some way.

That’s all this has ever been about.

It was never about October 7.

It was never about Hamas.

It was never about hostages.

It was never about terrorism.

It was never about self-defense.

It was never about any of the countless excuses the hasbarists and imperial spinmeisters have offered up over the last three years to justify Israel’s monstrous abuses.

It was only ever about eliminating Palestinians because of their ethnicity and replacing them with Jews.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

A large number of children were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. The very least you can do it look at their faces.

10th of July, 2025.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇮🇱: “People call us baby killers but you know what? They're not wrong and we should not be ashamed of it.”

This is Zionism

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis murdered many of their own citizens on October 7th to justify the genocide they wanted: & they used WhatsApp to help them

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

She “felt fear”. Over a T-Shirt. With the truth on it.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Israel is a Western colony. There is no way around this material fact. Its weapons, people, and the support it receives are all Western. The corporations and interests it serves are Western. Zionism itself is built on the template of European colonialism.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The judge in the Palestine Action trial is having a second go at trying to jail the respected defence barrister Rajiv Menon for contempt of court.

Here is the section of his closing speech, citing a 350-year-old legal precedent, that offended the judge: https://t.co/SFMyZGE8Ax

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions.

Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government?

Feels very Starmer 2.0

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"They couldn't stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking at."

@Lowkey0nline exposes how a network of tech billionaires tied to Israel engineered an algorithmic coup to suppress dissent, alter your feed, and push you into fascism in real-time

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yep, must be "genuinely scary" for the Jewish residents of New York's 10th, one of the most Jewish districts in America, who voted tonight to replace a pro-genocide Jewish congressman with an anti-genocide Jewish congressman.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.

The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.

The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.

If a white woman calls the police on a black man minding his own business in the park, western liberals will send her viral on social media, and she will be unwelcome in polite society until the heat dies down. If a celebrity is caught on tape uttering an ethnic slur, they’ll be unpopular for a while, and will be considered a liability by sponsors and film studios. This is the wrong kind of racism.

That’s what you’re seeing whenever the western press completely ignores a dozen Palestinians getting killed by western-made munitions on the same day the entire news media focuses on some allegation of “antisemitism” with no material consequences other than some western Jews feeling emotionally upset. The former is the right kind of racism, while the latter is the wrong kind. One is seen as acceptable and normal, while the other is a horrifying abuse.

Western racism falls into two distinct categories because our entire civilization is built upon the polite kind, whereas the impolite kind is useful to the powerful only as a wedge issue to keep western populations divided against each other. Mainstream western politics is often just a culture war between one major party which embraces both the polite and impolite kinds of racism against another major party which only embraces the polite kind of racism, thereby ensuring that no political energy goes toward ending the polite kind of racism.

The polite kind of racism is much more important to the powerful in the 21st century, because it’s an absolutely foundational component to their rule rather than merely a useful tool. Without the imperialist extraction of labor and resources from the global south at extortionate prices, you wouldn’t see sprawling megacorporations turning millionaires into billionaires and trillionaires who then use their wealth to manipulate western politics to promote their own agendas. Without nonstop military expansionism and the abuses of the western intelligence cartel, the managers of the western empire could not dominate our planet.

That’s why every few years westerners get to vote on whether or not to advance the impolite kind of racism in their society, while the polite kind of racism never appears on the ballot. You’re allowed to vote on whether or not your government will become more abusive to immigrants and other marginalized members of your society, but you’re never allowed to vote on whether or not war, militarism and imperialist extraction will continue. This expression of racism (or white supremacism, or xenophobia, or western supremacism, or whatever you want to call it) is considered too important to be left to the will of the electorate.

And you see this reflected in the consciousness of the western mind. Even relatively aware westerners who would place themselves on the far left of the political spectrum will often spend a lot more energy on domestic issues than the abuses of the western war machine.

Earlier this month the discourse on Left Twitter revolved around whether or not it was a “privileged take” to say that people shouldn’t serve in the US military, the argument being that many US military personnel come from disadvantaged backgrounds. I saw a lot of US progressives who furiously disparage ICE agents and American cops falling all over themselves to defend those who enlist in the US war machine, which is quantifiably far more murderous and oppressive than domestic American law enforcement.

The only way to see things this way would be to view those who live in the global south as less human than people who live in the United States. That’s the only way it could possibly make sense in your mind to see the abuses of your country’s domestic police forces as worse than the demonstrably more egregious abuses of the US war machine. You’d have to view a school full of Iranian children being blown up by the US Navy as less worthy of attention and opposition than an American being beaten by a police officer in the United States. You’d have to assume those Iranian lives don’t matter.

And those are some of the more awake members of western society. Most westerners are a lot less conscious and compassionate than that.

Westerners live in the most savage and murderous civilization on earth. We don’t feel like we are savage and murderous because we outsource most of our violence and slavery to overseas operations, but that’s what we are. We go about our lives consuming products made by wage slaves under an oppression machine that is defended through constant mass military slaughter, and then we wag our fingers at a viral video of some schizophrenic saying racist things in order to feel nice feelings about ourselves. That’s what western life is, right there.

We’ve got a lot of growing up to do. We are in need of drastic, revolutionary change, more extensive than probably most of us can imagine at this point in time. We’ve got a long, long way to go, and a whole, whole lot of wrongs we need to make right around the world.

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

🚨We now have further information on Burnham’s incoming team.

His chief of staff will be James Purnell, ex-chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

In 2002, Purnell was hosted by the Israeli state in Tel Aviv. Now, he will be the most senior adviser in the British government.

[José de Benzuer ~ Penseur. Controversialist. @SeasonsOutaTime]

@MichaelRosenYes My wife and I did watch it. Thank you for your genuine, sincere candidness.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: “If we did not have our defensive missiles, Israel and America would have plowed through Iran the way Gaza was plowed through, showing no mercy to the old or the young. They speak of human rights. It is a great lie.”

It’s a hard truth to hear, but it’s true.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el partido de esta noche entre Congo y Colombia en el Mundial, un hombre congoleño se quedó inmóvil durante los 90 minutos imitando el saludo del líder anticolonial congoleño, Patrice Lumumba.

Lumumba fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por EEUU y Bélgica en 1961 por conseguir la independencia del Congo ante el colonialismo y negarse a que los imperialistas siguieran saqueando los recursos de su pais.

Aunque los imperialistas disolvieron su cuerpo, no pudieron borrarlo de la historia, 65 años después, Lumumba sigue presente para millones de personas.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

🚨WATCH: An Israeli officer dumped on the floor a disabled Palestinian man from his wheelchair for trying to help a girl shot by the IDF.

They have no mercy.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

In the early 2000, this clip was shown on Palestine TV. A few weeks later, Israel completely destroyed the Palestine TV building in the West Bank, but not before I obtained the footage from them.

I'm posting it to show you a glimpse of how these jewish supremacist parasites have been targeting and terrorizing our children for decades.

[Yvonne Ridley 4 Glasgow @yvonneridley]

One of the most detestable acts of Zionists are their feeble attempts to reinvent Palestinian history. Foolish daft bat Maureen Lipman talked of how Isrss are Eli’s made the deserts bloom promoting the big fat lie of land for a people for people without land. It was bollocks but today one Ziobot told me that Jaffa Oranges are Israeli produce! The Jaffa orange—also known as the Shamouti orange—was developed in the 1850s by Palestinian farmers near the port city of Jaffa. Renowned for its thick peel, which made it ideal for long sea voyages, it quickly became a major international export and cultural symbol. Next they will be claiming hummus and olives are theirs! Harvesting the oranges was a real Palestinian event and family celebration.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

A UN enquiry has concluded in a harrowing report released today that Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza by deliberately targeting children, adding to overwhelming evidence of systematic attacks on journalists and medical staff. The findings are compelling — a British doctor, Nizam Mamode, recently returned from Gaza corroborates the conclusion, stressing the importance of medical eyewitnesses given Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists and banning of foreign press.

https://t.co/ETdhCmHDBx