Ken Ehrlich

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[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Eitan Newman, a 17-year-old Israeli, grills one of Apartheid Israel's most genocidal politicians, on an Israeli TV program called "First Vote" in an August 2, 2026 interview.

It's a rare moment in Hebrew media when a genocidal Israeli politician is forced to defend genocide on live TV. Here's a condensced transcript:

Newman: Call it what you want, ethnic cleansing, transfer, voluntary emigration, fine. So, I want to ask you, what will happen to the Gazan who doesn't want to emigrate? Will IDF soldiers pile him onto a truck and expel him? Where will they take him? What will you do to him?

Feiglin: First of all, the vast majority of them want to leave, okay?

Newman: I asked about those who don't want to leave.

Feiglin: We need to encourage them to leave, because whoever doesn't leave will murder you.

Newman: That's not what I asked. I asked, what will you do to someone you wanted to leave and doesn't leave.

Feiglin: You'll make him leave.

Newman: What does "make" mean?

Feiglin: Every way possible. We'll shut off his water pipes, for example. Just an example.

Newman: And whoever doesn't leave can die, as far as you're concerned?

Feiglin: Then he'll be thirsty. He'll have to leave to drink a cup of water. Just an example.

Newman: So, for example, kind of kill off everyone?

Silence

Newman: Yes? Like everyone should die? Either they go or they die? Are they not human?

Feiglin: It's pretty stunning, excuse me, that after October 7, you treat us like murderers and that Islamo-Nazi terror entity like it's under attack. Forgive me.

Newman: I'm asking about your policy. I'm trying to understand what will happen if you're elected to the Knesset.

Feiglin: You know, I have a grandson your age, okay? His brother lies right now beneath a grave marker because of such questions.

Newman: So, I'm like responsible for his killing? Is that what you're saying?

Feiglin: No, I'm saying that your twisted worldview, which pursues the human rights of that murderous entity, led in the end to that disaster.

Newman: So, everyone should die. Two million people will die. However many you say are there, they should die.

Feiglin: I'm suggesting to you that you also listen to the person you're asking, not only to yourself.

Source: https://t.co/cfE6kSHiA2

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

Messing it up

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

“what the fuck are we doing”—Fred Moten. Florida State University Department of English.

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

We live in a sick society. I’ll never get used to watching my neighbors get kidnapped by masked agents of the state while our military goes on nightly bombing sprees.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Publicly planning war crimes like it’s a sporting event

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

Everything is fine!

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

This is the guy who just wrote that wordy, 8 paragraph statement assuring us he's ok after a fall left him unconscious.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

True story

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

70% of faculty at the University of Southern California voted to form a union for better wages and benefits.

Instead of recognizing the union, USC is working overtime to deny their right to a union. That is beyond unacceptable. USC must drop its appeal & bargain in good faith.

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

The uncomfortable reality

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

Soft power

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

38 million deaths since 1971. “When you consider the scale of the violence and damages, it becomes clear that this system is not something we can continue to accept.”

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

Everybody knows the dice were loaded

[The Intercept @theintercept]

These are the statistical findings that prove the U.S. media’s bias against Palestinians. https://t.co/yjUMhuvP0S

[Ken Ehrlich @kenehrlich]

The scale of destruction

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel just blew up a school in southern Lebanon.

A year ago, it would have fabricated lies that the school was a secret hideout of Hamas or that there were tunnels below it filled with weapons.

Since the West protected Israel as it destroyed Gaza, Israel doesn't even feel the need to make up lies or excuses any longer. It just kills and destroys without limitation.

And according to Israeli politicians, yesterday it was Gaza, today it's Lebanon and Iran, and tomorrow it will be Turkey.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

"I have never been as scared as I was today."

BT’s @raniakhalek reports live from Lebanon, as Israel carpet bombs the country, launching 100 strikes in 10 minutes.

Watch The Freedom Side Live on BT’s Youtube.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

THREAD: Is the war against Iran over?

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Anyone trying to understand Israel in Lebabon over decades, read Maya Mikdashi

"In Lebanon, Israel’s war of impunity is being waged against three fronts: the battlefield, the country’s social fabric and its political society"

https://t.co/UQN0ord1Lv

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

The ceasefire must include Lebanon. The 1.2 million displaced Lebanese people must return to their homes.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The damage being done to the global economy just tonight is going to be felt for years. Petrochemical plants in Saudi and Iran on fire, oil fields in the UAE burning.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel is destroying southern Lebanon.

This is not war, it’s deliberate annihilation. Where is the outrage or media coverage?

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇳 Chinese civilians with technical backgrounds are increasingly posting detailed military analysis online aimed at helping Iran counter U.S. forces, in a growing grassroots trend across Chinese social media, according to the South China Morning Post.

The effort appears informal and unpaid, with engineers and STEM-trained users sharing tactics, simulations, and breakdowns of U.S. systems — including mapping U.S. military sites, outlining missile strategies targeting aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, and modeling defenses against a potential U.S. landing on Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal. Some content has gone viral, including tutorials on targeting advanced platforms like the F-35.

On March 14, a video by an account called “Laohu Talks World,” subtitled in Persian, outlined how Iran could use low-cost systems to target an F-35, drawing tens of millions of views. Five days later, Iran claimed it had struck a U.S. F-35.

The creator studied at Northwestern Polytechnical University, a major Chinese defense research institution. “He is not short of money. He makes videos just for fun,” a source told the Post.

🛩️ Iranian media on Friday published photos of what appears to be a downed F-15.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

I've long said that the Trump project was to sell America for parts. An easy rule of thumb: it is always the opposite of what he says. Drain the swamp=Massive Fraud. No new wars=Multiple new wars. Save Medicare=Gut Medicare. Revalue US Citizenship for the few=Devalue it for all.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

When it was recently announced that US leader Donald Trump would be giving a national address, I predicted that he would announce a ground invasion of Iranian territory and, more recently, a US withdrawal from NATO.

I was wrong on both counts.

Trump didn’t really say anything of substance, unless one considers the destruction of the Iranian air force a monumental development. The rest of his address was typical Trump: boastful, incoherent, threatening, and out of touch with reality.

The significance of Trump’s address lies primarily in what he did not say. He neither announced an end to his and Israel’s war, nor laid out clear objectives for it. In other words, he laid the basis for the indefinite continuation of a campaign that was intended to conclude with decisive victory within 72-96 hours.

Trump’s threats to destroy Iran’s oil industry and electrical grid and bomb the country “into the stone age” demonstrate that, in the absence of Iranian capitulation or collapse, he intends to take aim, directly and very powerfully, at the Iranian state and Iranian society. It is likely to be accompanied by commando raids or ground incursions into Iran.

This is of course music to Israel’s ears. If they are not stopped, the US and Israel will also set the rest of the region on fire.