Ian Gilbert

Interested in finance, technology, science and energy

[Shady Donny @shadydonny]

@the_andrey_x https://t.co/HIbOeqqhkg

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

To all the people saying this story is made up – if you were familiar with Israeli society, it wouldn't even be surprising to you.

And my point is not that "every single Israeli wants to kill all Arabs". My point is that Israeli society in general is in a state where "a good Arab is a dead Arab" is a socially acceptable thing to say to a stranger. And this is just a fact.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A few months ago I was sitting on a bench in Tel Aviv with a colleague, and an older Israeli man came up to us and asked if he can sit with us. We said yes, so he asked what we were working on. We said we're making a film about the West Bank.

"What do you think about the Arabs?", he asked. Instead of answering, I asked what he thought.

"A good Arab is a dead Arab", he answered.

This was said 5 minutes into the conversation, to a complete stranger. This is a normal thing to say in Israeli society, even in the hyper-liberal Tel Aviv.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Israeli forces have detained a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team, along with a former national player, sparking renewed anger at Fifa for its failure to ban the apartheid state’s football association.

Rand Halawani, 20, was taken on Tuesday night in Jerusalem and a court extended her detention until Friday, amid reports that her family did not know where she was being held.

Ex-national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, was also detained in the illegally occupied West Bank alongside three other young Palestinian women, AFP reported. Israel’s military claimed, without offering evidence, that the women were suspected of “terrorist-related” activity.

Palestinians detained by Israel are at serious risk of abuse. Israeli rights group B’Tselem has found that Israel runs a “network of torture camps” where Palestinians are subjected to beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and sexual violence.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said the players’ detention was part of a “pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”.

Palestinian footballers are “denied freedom of movement, safety and the basic right to participate in sport under equal conditions, rights that Fifa explicitly guarantees,” it added.

Fifa has not commented on the players’ detention, even though the PFA is a member.

“The continued silence and inaction of the international football community… enables these illegal practices to continue with impunity,” the PFA said.

As the federation gears up to host the World Cup in North America next week, it is under renewed scrutiny for continuing to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to be a member despite Israel’s long history of suppressing Palestinian sports.

In 2014, Israeli soldiers repeatedly shot two Palestinian footballers in the feet as they returned from a training session in the West Bank, ending their careers.

In March, Fifa’s disciplinary committee said Israel had brought “football into disrepute” and was practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from the sport and failing to take action against rampant anti-Arab racism in many clubs.

But it stopped short of banning or suspending the country’s football association, as it did with Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

According to the Gospels of both Matthew and Mark, Jesus himself visited Tyre. The Christian community there is certainly 2000 years old.

Israel has been killing Tyre Christians for a month.

There is a shrine and church in the hills where locals believe his mother Mary waited for him while he was in Tyre and Sidon.

I visited with Laith Marouf and we interviewed the priest who strongly supported resistance to Israeli occupation.

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@jewishvoicelive https://t.co/cBIvyTDivj

[THE WARWICK REPORT @KeithWarwick123]

Excellent post!
Wisdom, and a profound understanding of the symbiotic ethos of Human Rights and peaceful existential living, where respect, dignity, and fairness, reign, under the canopy of just laws.
We pray for peace, liberty, and the indictment of dangerous criminals, in order to prevent more warcrimes.

[Bille @Quaterelle]

@jewishvoicelive Rabbi Yaacov Shapiro (NYC)

[john molnar @westkillkids]

@jewishvoicelive

[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.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.

The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"¿Cómo puede un judío venir de Ucrania a Palestina y decir que este país es mío, y que los palestinos no tienen cabida en él? Para justificar esto desarrollan una narrativa, porque quién hace esto es un criminal que le roba la tierra a otro”.

Jeff Halper, un antropólogo judío antisionista, denuncia las narrativas inventadas por los sionistas para justificar su colonialismo y su limpieza étnica.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Soy de las Naciones Unidas y vine del Líbano hace 2 semanas, como nadie hizo nada en Gaza, Israel está haciendo lo mismo en Líbano, no han dejado ni un pueblo en pie. 3 compañeros mios fueron asesinados y a nuestro gobierno le importa una mierda".

Un trabajador de la ONU en Canadá, denuncia el genocidio de "Israel" en Líbano y Gaza mientras enfrenta a la policía canadiense que reprime a los manifestantes que protestan contra los sionistas en las calles.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Qlayaa is the same southern village where Israel murdered the town priest weeks ago. These are not “mistakes”. They are systematic attempts to fully ethnically cleanse the south after Christians refused to evacuate

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Peter Mandelson was friends with Jeffery Epstein. Instead of asking him about this, the media asked him about Jeremy Corbyn's supposed 'Antisemitism'.

Emily Maitlis, Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Trevor Phillips, Robert Peston, Andrew Marr & Sophy Ridge hang your heads in shame

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

My white dad died of prostate cancer.

1 in 4 Black men will get prostate cancer.

That’s twice the rate of white people.

This policy will save lives - and mean more NHS resources for others.

This opportunistic race baiting is disgusting.