The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.
A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.
That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.
If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.
🇱🇧 An Israeli Soldier Just Cooked a Meal in Someone Else's Home in Lebanon
An Israeli soldier posted photos of herself picking vegetables from a Lebanese family's garden and cooking in their kitchen, while the family is BANNED from returning.
The house still had food in the kitchen. The garden was still alive. Everything was exactly as the family left it, except the family.
Fifty-five villages in southern Lebanon remain closed to their residents. The people who planted those gardens and built those kitchens are not allowed back.
Someone else is eating their food.
This’s not a military uniform, this’s the paramedic uniform who was killed yesterday.
Israel has killed 88 paramedics and first responders after deliberately targeting ambulances and medical centers.
This’s a war crime, but international law clearly doesn’t apply to Israel.
This Holocaust Remembrance Day I choose to remember Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish count and diplomat who, as vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross, managed to save more than 30k prisoners from concentration camps during World War II.
In 1948 he was appointed by the UN to be the mediator in Palestine. His WWII past didn't help him when the Stern Gang (Lehi), a Zionist miltia, made him the target of a defamation campaign and released a caricature (attached) of him being kicked out of Palestine while giving the Nazi salute, with the text: "A suggestion to the agent Bernadotte: get out of our country".
After Bernadotte didn't comply with the "suggestion" he was assassinated in Jerusalem by the Lehi on September 19th, 1948, along with the head of the UN's French military observers in Palestine.
One of the commanders of the Lehi at the time, who was responsible for ordering the hit, was Yitzhak Shamir, later the Prime Minister of Israel.
Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim.
Spoiler: not even close.
Here’s what the study found.
The Israeli ambassador to Italy just called a magazine cover "antisemitic."
The cover is a real photograph. A real armed settler. A real Palestinian woman. A real weapon. A real grin.
The magazine's headline: "L'ABUSO." The Abuse.
This is how the word "antisemitism" dies.
Not by being ignored. Not by being argued with. But by being applied to a photograph.
When you call a real image of real violence "antisemitism," you have not defended yourself. You have defined yourself.
I saw this at the Financial Times. British establishment journalists have been indoctrinated—starting young at elite private schools—with the views needed to oversee the propaganda system
Many have literally never had an independent thought. What they do is spout received wisdom
So when someone probes one of their ideas it falls apart because they’ve learnt it by rote - there has been no conscious processing of information. They believe something, but don’t know why. They’ve just heard some authority say it
The top echelons of British journalism industry are, consequently, some of the most unimpressive people on the planet. Anyone capable of independent thought - and critical analysis outside the confines of establishment shibboleths - is filtered out very early
Amir walked 12 kilometres, barefoot, to get food.
He kissed the hand of an American soldier, thanking him for a bag of rice and lentils.
Then Israel K*LLED Amir, right in front of the soldier.
A child, grateful for lentils. Executed in broad daylight.
Amir was 5 years old.
Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity.
Holy Week and Easter services will be prohibited. Sunday masses and liturgies cancelled. A church that should be packed with hundreds of thousands these coming weeks is being forcibly shut and silenced.
Israel cites it is for ‘security concerns’ while Jewish Israelis are allowed to celebrate in mass gatherings. Alongside the forced closure of Al-Aqsa mosque, reports cite priests aggressively being turned away to perform daily services.
Throughout history, wars, tensions, or even the pandemic limited access to the sanctuary, but they had never prevented liturgical celebrations in this central place of Christian faith indefinitely. Christians must not remain silent.
Huckabee: “I know that if it weren’t for Iran, there wouldn’t be Hamas, there wouldn’t be the Houthis, there wouldn’t be Hezbollah, we wouldn’t have the problem on the border with Lebanon…”
Tucker: “What problem on the border with Lebanon? I’m an American, I’m not having any problems on the border with Lebanon right now. I live in Maine.”
Trump when asked about the US-Israeli terrorist bombing of an Iranian water desalination plant:
“They cut babies’ heads off. They chop women in half… So I don’t know anything about any desalinization plant.”
After Spain, now Belgium also revolted against US-Israel
“Not one of our soldiers, not one of our weapons, should go for Trump’s war in Iran. We must say NO to Trump, like Spain did”
Steve Witkoff says he demanded Iran end its missile program, end all regional alliances, and disband its navy so it can’t close what he wrongly calls the “Gulf of Hormuz”
This is an insane demand for total surrender
Witkoff was enforcing Israeli terms
Woman asks Pahlavist fanatics in London how they feel about the US-Israeli military bombing an Iranian school and killing 160 children
“We hate Islam and we hate the terrorists. And you are terrorist!” replies one man.
Police then remove her from the celebratory pro-war rally
Defend peace against those who threaten it?
There has been no greater undermining of peace and no greater threat to the Jewish people than the creation of the State of Israel and the ideology of Zionism.
Israel, By claiming to speak in the name of Jews everywhere while waging wars and fueling conflict, they place Jewish communities around the world at risk.
Do not confuse the Jewish people with a political state or its ideology.
Netanyahu is the extremist who killed 75,000 in Gaza.
The extremist who said invading Iraq would create "enormous positive reverberations."
The extremist who has pushed U.S. presidents to go to war with Iran for decades.
Finally, he found a President who said yes.
Tragic.