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#FreePalestine, Whovian, Trekkie, MSTie, Anti-Fascist, lover of Nature, Science, and Animals. Peace be upon you all. Live Long and Prosper 🖖

[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.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Oh - that’s what it was - not that he is a genocidal maniac slaughtering as many human beings as he can

[Iranian Force @MrImranPk]

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[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Right 💯

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Black Zionists are honestly the lowest of the low. Why would you align with a settler colonial apartheid state that uses Jim Crow tactics to terrorize Palestinians, especially after watching these people commit a genocide for nearly 3 years? What the fuck is wrong with him?

[KUTUB @KUTUBProduction]

Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.

No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.

Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.

Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.

They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.

Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.

Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.

Own it.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

How is it even legal to fundamentally surrender US sovereignty?

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

This Week in Palestine: Israel killed an 8-year-old schoolboy and a 15-year-old fisherman just days after murdering a 7-month-old baby. - via Zeteo

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Free the Palestine Action four being harshly sentenced with a "terrorism connection"!
Opposing genocide is a foundation of humanity, not a terrorist cause.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Today is Ernesto Che Guevara's birthday.

Happy birthday, Comandante!

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Look it's very simple. If you want to wear a small hat and sing Hava Nagila, that's awesome. If you want to support a genocidal apartheid state, you're a piece of shit.

People always try to add in extra layers of complexity, but that's really all there is to it.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

Today we visited Rep. Katherine Clark’s office to urge her to action for Sama Safi, a Palestinian American student at Birzeit University taken from her home near Ramallah by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the night.

Her family still has no answers about where she is, what charges she faces, or whether she’s receiving the daily medication she needs.

Sama’s life is at risk. Silence is not an option.

FREE SAMA NOW.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

The problem is not Islam or Judaism; the problem is Zionism and its perverse ideology.

The very existence of Zionism is a threat to everyone.

“The Jewish people lived peacefully in the Holy Land before Zionism”.

“We have no nationalistic ambitions in the Holy Land, we only desire for a peaceful coexistence”

R’ Moshe Silberstein quotes the historical letter by Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem against ascending Temple Mount, 1929.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

We must not normalize what is happening. This level of open racism and jingoism has profound effects on American and global society. And remember: the various affronts to human dignity we are seeing could not stand if prominent players and teams acted in solidarity.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

The problem is not Islam or Judaism; the problem is Zionism and its perverse ideology.

The very existence of Zionism is a threat to everyone.

“The Jewish people lived peacefully in the Holy Land before Zionism”.

“We have no nationalistic ambitions in the Holy Land, we only desire for a peaceful coexistence”

R’ Moshe Silberstein quotes the historical letter by Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem against ascending Temple Mount, 1929.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Congresswoman Fakes Code Pink "Assault", And Other Notes

Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna falsely reported that antiwar activist Medea Benjamin “smacked” her during a confrontation on Thursday, subsequently calling the police in an effort to get the Code Pink leader charged with assault.

If you watch the video of the so-called “assault”, it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in your life. The 73 year-old activist barely grazes the clothing on Luna’s arm with her hand while speaking, after which the US Air Force veteran Luna collapses into a pile of blubbering victimhood.

Benjamin reports that she was briefly detained by Capitol Police after the incident, but was released without charges after officers reviewed the video footage.

Luna had already been on a crusade against Code Pink that same day, falsely suggesting the organization is funded by the Chinese government while questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. She then took to social media to reiterate her false claim that “Code Pink is a CCP-funded op” and insisting the activist “hit my arm”.

Everyone in the US government is a manipulative warmongering psychopath. Capitol Hill is swamp full of lying mass murderers.

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Asked by the press to define the word “ceasefire” on Wednesday, President Trump came up with an answer you just know was fed to him by his handlers.

“It’s a different part of the world, you know; I’d say in that part a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner,” the president said.

That might be the Hebrew definition of the word, but everywhere besides Israel the word “ceasefire” is understood to mean that both sides cease firing. The IDF has continued hammering Lebanon and Gaza amid so-called ceasefire agreements on a daily basis, and the president has plainly been groomed to regurgitate the correct lines in defense of this policy.

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More people have been burned to death by Israeli strikes in Gaza.

People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with the full backing of the western world.

The abuses and atrocities people defend using “antisemitism” accusations are orders of magnitude more dangerous than antisemitism.

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The Smotrich parade scandal really highlighted how many mental contortions liberal Zionists are performing in order to separate Israel and its government; they spent the whole next day in narrative management mode bloviating about how Israel’s finance minister does not represent Israel and had no business being in the Israel Day parade.

They like to pretend there are fairy fantasyland versions of Israel in other dimensions ruled by magic Jewish elf queens who ride candy unicorns and treat Palestinians as equals, and it is only by some freakish and unforeseeable twist of fate that our dimension’s version of Israel wound up being governed by genocidal racists.

That’s how they maintain their view that it’s legitimate to criticize specific actions of this one specific government sometimes, but it’s antisemitic to oppose Zionism or say Israel shouldn’t exist. They pretend that the genocidal apartheid state we see before us today is some sort of fluke that is only one of the many possible iterations of what Israel could look like, and that any minute now it could agree to a two-state solution and become a virtuous beacon of truth and justice for the entire world.

This is of course ridiculous. Everything that Israel is today is the result of everything it has always been. All this war, genocide, apartheid and abuse is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is all the inevitable fruit of the decision to plant a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization whose inhabitants do not belong to the privileged group.

There is no alternate reality version of Israel. Its government is inseparable from everything it is as a state. Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu are the product of everything Israel has been from its very inception, and when they leave power they will be replaced by psychopathic fascists with different names and faces.

Genocidal apartheid states should not exist. To oppose genocide and apartheid is to oppose Zionism, because there is no material manifestation of Zionism put into practice which does not include those things. Saying “anti-Zionism is anti-semitism” is just saying you support genocide and apartheid and want those things to continue.

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It’s easy to point at Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem.

The thing about Segal and all these “antisemitism advisors” they’re setting up in western governments is that they’re just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They’re not experts, they’re just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Which wouldn’t normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly absurd Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding obscene levels of influence; left to their own devices they’d just be harmless idiots. They’re only harmful because they’re being given the power to do harm.

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

The lies that come out of this guy's mouth are breathtaking.

"We need more diplomacy," says Adam Smith, right after he proudly announced a bill for a trillion NEW dollars for war & to fuse U.S. & Israeli militaries.

I'm fighting to stop Adam Smith’s insane warmongering agenda.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with western backing.