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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israeli officials have spent recent days circulating antisemitic conspiracy theories, with Benjamin Netanyahu boasting that he manipulated the United States into war with Iran, and Itamar Ben-Gvir sharing an AI video of Palestinians being sent to Nazi-style concentration camps.

In an appearance on Israel’s Channel 12 on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in Hebrew that he’d “been against Iran for almost 40 years” and had worked hard influencing the United States to join Israel in a war of aggression to topple Tehran.

“It took a long time to bring the United States in,” the prime minister said. “I was able to do this because I had close to a thousand hours on American television, influence in the United States, and intimate knowledge of all its leaders — both those who support us and those who do not.”

As we all know, it is a horrifying evil disgusting monstrous Nazi antisemitic trope to suggest that Washington is manipulated by Israel or that Israelis have anything to do with American wars. The Anti-Defamation League tells us that such assertions “play into tropes about ‘Jewish control’ of government and are unacceptable.” Earlier this year the ADL Center on Extremism warned that the war in Iran is leading to “a rapid convergence of extremists, alleged anti-war activists and anti-Israel groups around a shared set of narratives, including that the strikes were launched for Israel’s benefit at the cost of American lives, that Jewish or Zionist actors exercise illegitimate control or power over U.S. foreign policy.”

So I am sure we can expect antisemitism watchdog groups to take a short break from yelling about Hasan Piker and instead spend some of that energy denouncing Benjamin Netanyahu’s crazed and hateful conspiracy theories about himself and his own personal actions.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has also contributed to the rising tide of antisemitism by posting an AI video promoting the hateful blood libel that Israel treats Palestinians in the same way Nazi Germany treated the Jews.

In the video, which Ben-Gvir subsequently deleted in response to public outcry, a group of obese AI-animated Arabs are seen having their dreams of a happy future crushed as the national security minister loads them onto a conveyor belt feeding them into a concentration camp with barbed wire walls where they are seen weeping and growing emaciated like Holocaust victims.

According to the IHRA definition of antisemitism which western governments are firmly encouraging us all to comply with, “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” is an example of hateful discrimination against the Jewish people. By publicly boasting of Israeli policies that he himself is responsible for instituting which are clearly intended to evoke the memory of Nazi death camps, Ben-Gvir clearly now stands guilty of an antisemitic hate crime.

Since our society has decided that antisemitism is the single most urgent threat on our planet and must be placed front and center of our attention at all times throughout all of our politics and media, I trust that we will soon see these Israeli antisemitic blood libels treated with the widespread condemnation they so deserve.

[Ɗifa @A_Deefah]

@alon_mizrahi ... thinking of Jordan in the background. 🥱

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israeli strikes killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza City on Monday, including three people in a vehicle in Tel al-Hawa and two near a crowded public park sheltering displaced families. Israeli warships also opened fire on fishermen off the coast, wounding five more. The attacks come as Benjamin Netanyahu campaigns for re-election ahead of Israel’s Oct. 27 vote, with war, military force, and “security” central to his appeal to an Israeli electorate increasingly supportive of the destruction of life in Gaza.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

The modern-day 'Killing Fields' 💔

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Matricide infanticide it’s all the same to murderers

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you or I say the Israeli prime minister ‘influences’ American politicians to get them to think his way and fight his wars, it’s antisemitic. But if the Israeli prime minister says it…

[Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai]

benjamin netanyahu, an ICC fugitive for war crimes, is telling an Israeli audience that getting the United States to confront Iran directly was hard, took a long time, and that he was the one who could do it — because of nearly 1,000 hours on American TV plus personal knowledge of U.S. leaders.

Israel taking credit for taking @realDonaldTrump and America to war on Iran.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Early August, Israel bombed the only medical supplies warehouse.

End of August, it bombed another medicine warehouse.

Both targeted in safe zones full with tents of displaced people

Is it self-defense when you destroy medicines as medical supplies run out for 2 million people?

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has called on Muslim countries to stand up to the United States.

"Identify your true enemy and, by exposing its plan, resist it," the Iranian state television and radio company quoted Khamenei's message.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Israeli newspaper Haaretz: The Israeli military and Shin Bet are operating five armed militias in Gaza as an operational arm for the forced displacement of civilians. An Air Force officer acknowledged that he was tasked with protecting these groups while they carried out war crimes and extrajudicial killings, in direct coordination with Israeli military forces.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Today in dystopia, ICE is planning to add police robots to the arsenal with which it will be patrolling US streets.

Fortune reports:

“The Trump administration is exploring adding robot dogs to the expanding arsenal being used by federal immigration authorities as they seek to boost arrests and deportations across the country.

“US Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a market-research notice Friday saying the agency was looking into the purchase of ‘quadruped unmanned ground vehicles,’ known as robotic dogs, along with a draft of the robot specifications.”

I guess it makes sense that the empire’s mad rush to normalize police robots would be spearheaded by the department responsible for persecuting immigrants; there’d be more domestic pushback if these dystopian machines were patrolling the streets targeting less marginalized populations.

I still can’t stand how the western political/media class keeps calling these things “dogs” to make them seem cute and familiar so that people won’t recognize them for the autonomous dissent suppression weapons they are intended to become.

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Today in dystopia, a Pentagon employee has published a McCarthyite list of suspected leftists and socialists who can now be tracked with the help of an interactive map.

In an article titled “Pentagon Employee Launches ‘DSA Explorer’ Site to Track Left-Wing Groups”, Newsweek reports the following:

“A Defense Department employee known online as the conservative influencer ‘DataRepublican’ has launched a website mapping the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and a broader network of left-wing activist organizations, raising new questions about political targeting, government ethics, and the Trump administration’s increasingly confrontational stance toward some activist groups.

“The website, called DSA Explorer, was launched Friday and describes itself as an interactive map showing organizations and individuals connected to the DSA and what it calls a wider ‘anti-imperialist solidarity network.’ The site says it draws from publicly available information and includes a disclaimer warning that some relationships shown are based on analytical inferences rather than established affiliations.

“Its debut comes just days after reports identified the woman behind DataRepublican, Jennica Pounds, as a special government employee at the Pentagon. A Pentagon official confirmed to Newsweek that Pounds works for the department as ‘a Special Government Employee,’ and said the department had nothing further to add.”

Pounds told Newsweek that the website “is not a government funded or government sanctioned project,” but I dunno man. If Iran revealed that I was a “special employee” of the IRGC but I claimed that my work is not government funded or government sanctioned, I highly doubt people like Jennica Pounds would accept that claim as credible.

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Today in dystopia, US lawmakers are urging the State Department and the Department of Justice to investigate journalist Max Blumenthal for sympathizing with Iran.

According to The Daily Wire:

“A trio of House Republicans is calling on the Trump administration to investigate Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal after he traveled to Iran for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral.

“Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) sent the request Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Todd Blanche, co-signed by Reps. Keith Self (R-TX) and Randy Weber (R-TX), according to a letter obtained by Laura Loomer. The letter builds on an earlier request Fine and colleagues filed in July seeking scrutiny of activists Calla Walsh, Jackson Hinkle and Christopher Helali for attending the same funeral, which the lawmakers describe as an event organized and orchestrated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

The letter alleges a “nexus between hostile foreign states and subversive leftist activism on the American homeland,” suggesting that Blumenthal is part of this conspiracy and “has been cultivated as an agent of influence by an FTO and current military adversary of the United States.”

Blumenthal called the accusations “textbook defamation” and said the letter is “a desperate bid to silence me and The Grayzone — not for breaking any laws, but for journalism which exposes wanton corruption and war crimes.”

Indeed, this is just one more escalation in the empire’s ongoing efforts to stomp out dissent, ban criticism of Israel, and turn critical journalism into a relic of the past.

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Today in dystopia, the BBC is churning out blatantly false propaganda accusing China of administering propaganda about the recent catastrophic flash floods and mudslides between Nepal and Tibet.

In a report titled “Footage of Tibet floods isn’t being shown in China — and we know little about victims there,” the BBC falsely asserts that “China’s heavily censored internet” and “state-run flagship news bulletin” have been repressing footage of people fleeing for their lives as the disaster unfolded.

We know these claims are false because people have been posting news reports and sharing footage about the floods from Chinese news outlets and on Chinese social media. With accompanying screen shots, Arnaud Bertrand writes on Twitter that the BBC’s claim “takes literally 2 seconds to debunk: go on Xiaohongshu (or any other Chinese social networks), type a keyword related to the mudslide (I typed '泥石流', 'mudslide') and you’ll see thousands of posts with footage about it — including from state media.”

Our society is brainwashed by propagandists who point at another society and caution us how brainwashed by propaganda they are. Nobody is more propagandized than the citizens of our western dystopia, but our social engineers want you to believe the Chinese are the ones who aren’t allowed to think for themselves.

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Today in dystopia, The Atlantic has run a piece by a trans woman lamenting the fact that Trump’s discriminatory policies mean she can no longer work for the Central Intelligence Agency. It includes an amazing paragraph which just might be the most liberal thing that has ever happened:

“In 2017, I closed my Atlantic essay with the words ‘And trans kids should know, CIA is always recruiting.’ That promise has been broken. I cannot in good conscience advise LGBTQ Americans to join the CIA — and that sentence is the hardest thing I have ever written.”

Yep. Liberalism is lengthy Atlantic essays weeping about how trans people are being excluded from operating the foreign baby incineration machine.

It is true that the US intelligence cartel has become less inclusive than it was a few years ago. It is also true that nobody should work for the US intelligence cartel, whether they be trans, cis, gay, straight, or otherwise. The CIA is one of the most psychopathic institutions that has ever existed, and nobody of any sexual iteration should ever join it.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

You're watching millions of people, including more than 40,000 children are in labor camps and cobalt mines in DR Congo.

Congo is bleeding, It has not ended over 5 million people are dead. Women are being force-fed human flesh. And the worst Ebola outbreak on record.

The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Israeli occupation forces killed three-year-old Taym Saed Hamdan this morning in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza.

His uncle, journalist Ahmed Ghanem, mourned him in tears, asking how long the bloodshed will continue and where the world, Arabs, and Muslims are as Palestinian civilians continue to be killed.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Israel is a Terrorist State with no respect for International Law, just like its patron the US...

[Yvonne Ridley 4 Glasgow @yvonneridley]

Imagine shooting a mother and toddler but that's hat @IDF did and, not content with that, they shot at anyone trying to rescue them. You can see the child moving slightly and twitching in pain. The Israelis who do this are savage beasts and should not be made welcome at any holiday destination. Remember this video and be glad you are not part of this beastly genocidal state. When Israel collapses, and it is imploding right now, we are going to have to wonder who will take in the Israelis. The Palestinians welcomed them in their boats after WWII - but it would be a naive nation that would roll out the red carpet for some of these beasts.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Never forget this. It was before October 7. 30 + years before October 7.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

What kind of people…

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Pure EVIL 😡

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Today marks the 600th day of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya being behind bars in Israeli detention.