It’s breast cancer awareness month this October. It haunts me that Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital was destroyed by Israel, leaving 17,000 people with cancer and no chemotherapy.
“women who just had bad sex are claiming to have been raped so that they’ll receive better treatment” yes. all that great treatment you give rape victims. you treat them so kindly and with such privilege.
What I find striking is the asymmetry on parts of the left. Christianity and Islam are routinely subjected to theological, historical, and civilizational scrutiny: we talk about Christian nationalism, Christianity and colonialism, political Islam, Islamic jurisprudence, and the political consequences of particular religious interpretations. Yet Judaism can suddenly be treated as analytically untouchable, even when discussing Israeli political movements or institutions
My book on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, published in 2022, ended with the point that intelligence assets engaged in blackmail, like Epstein, are no longer needed (and thus became expendable) because the surveillance state can retrieve blackmail directly from your devices or plant incriminating material on them.
Four years later, they are just saying it out in the open.