Ale🆓🇵🇸✊🏽

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Being a Trump supporter in 2026 is like staying best friends with a man who took your wife. He's deceived and betrayed you at every turn and you're still swinging from his nuts? That's cucky, humiliating behavior.

He promised to end the wars, and instead he started a new war.

He promised the Iran war would be over in a few weeks, and months later it shows no sign of stopping.

He promised to put America first, and instead he's putting Israel first.

He promised to cut government waste, and he's pouring unfathomable amounts of treasure into the military-industrial complex.

He promised to drain the swamp, and he became the single most corrupt president in US history.

He promised to fight the deep state, and went on to promote the longstanding agendas of the most evil people in Washington and Langley which even his terrible predecessors had resisted.

These are all objective, indisputable facts. If you disagree with any of them, it's because you're performing ridiculous mental contortions to justify your groveling support for a man who has betrayed you.

It's so self-debasing. Get up off the floor, pull your tongue back into your head, and have some fucking dignity.

[alberto negri @negrialbe]

L'odore di Gaza lo racconta Pizzaballa
L'odore di Gaza non ve lo posso restituire, dice il cardinale Pizzaballa: città completamente rase al suolo come Rafah, niente strade, niente case, solo tende e topi che morsicano i bambini. Cosa è l'odore di Gaza e di posti simili ve lo posso raccontare: sono montagne di rifiuti umani, i corpi che si liquefano nell'afa, l'odore sono i morti che marciscono nel caldo sotto le macerie. Basta seguire le mosche e li troverai.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nah because there’s nothing you can hate about Netanyahu that isn’t also innately true of the apartheid state of Israel.

Hate Netanyahu because he’s racist? Israel has always been racist.

Hate Netanyahu because he’s a war criminal? Israel has always committed war crimes.

Hate Netanyahu because he abuses and oppresses Palestinians? Israel has always abused and oppressed Palestinians.

Hate Netanyahu because he starts wars with Israel’s neighbors? Israel has always started wars with its neighbors.

Liberal Zionists act like Netanyahu has all these bad qualities that the genocidal apartheid state of Israel does not also have, but that’s just plain false. Israel was built on the premise of nonstop violence and abuse, and nonstop violence and abuse is all it has ever delivered, from its very inception.

Israel was built on a political ideology that is inherently racist and violent, and it is that racism and violence that elevated Benjamin Netanyahu to power.

Netanyahu didn’t create Israel’s violence and racism. Israel’s violence and racism created Netanyahu.

[Alessandro Orsini @orsiniufficiale]

Meloni e Tajani convocano l'ambasciatore israeliano a Roma per confermargli che il governo italiano di falliti continuerà a battersi contro le sanzioni a Israele per il genocidio a Gaza. Meloni e Tajani: i pagliacci della Repubblica italiana.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They're Not Mad At Ben-Gvir For Being Evil, They're Mad At Him For Being Honest

Western and Israeli officials are currently wagging their fingers in faux outrage at Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir for publicly boasting about the mistreatment of flotilla activists attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Ben-Gvir’s Twitter account shared a video of the minister taunting activists who were abducted by Israeli forces in international waters earlier this week, captioning it “This is how we accept the supporters of terrorism” in Hebrew and “Welcome to Israel” in English.

The video shows flotilla activists from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand being shoved, held in stress positions on the ground, and mocked by Ben-Gvir while restrained. This all of course pales in comparison to the abuses endured by Palestinian captives on a daily basis, but it’s the subject of international outcry today because the victims are from the west.

Western officials from the United States, the UK, Canada, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand have issued huffy, indignant statements denouncing Ben-Gvir and demanding the return of the activists, while Israeli officials put on a display attempting to distance themselves from the actions of their own national security minister.

“The way that Minister Ben Gvir dealt with the flotilla activists is not in line with Israel’s values and norms,” tweeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in response to the controversy.

“You knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display — and not for the first time,” Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar admonished Ben-Gvir on Twitter, adding, “No, you are not the face of Israel.”

“Itamar Ben Gvir’s reckless grandstanding is not representative of government policy,” tweeted Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, adding, “Ben Gvir’s antics take a sledgehammer to our diplomatic efforts while Israel’s enemies gleefully jump on every unfortunate nonsense to discredit and demonize.”

All this posturing about how Ben-Gvir’s actions do not represent Israel or its values would probably have carried more weight if they were not taking place in the immediate aftermath of an international scandal over a New York Times report on Israel’s fondness for using sexual torture on its captives — including the use of trained rape dogs.

Analysts have noted that Israel’s national security minister appears to be sharing these materials in order to drum up support from his far-right base in an election year, which tells you everything you need to know about the political environment in that country today.

Also noteworthy is the fact that Ben-Gvir has posted videos of this sort before — the only difference being that his victims in those videos were Palestinian. We are only seeing outcry from the western world today because the west perceives western lives as infinitely more valuable than the lives of Arabs.

So it is a bit rich for the western political/media class to be making a fuss over this video in particular after enthusiastically supporting Israel’s nonstop violence and abuse this entire time, and it is rather silly for Israeli officials to be claiming their national security minister’s actions do not represent the values of their country.

Ben-Gvir is the perfect embodiment of the racist murderousness of both Israel and the western empire. He represents everything this twisted civilization has become.

They’re not mad at Ben-Gvir for being evil. They’re just mad at him for being honest.

[l_aforista @aforista_l]

Mentre conduce una preghiera al Pentagono (cosa di per sé già sufficiente a far rabbrividire) Hegseth cita un passo biblico spurio tratto da "Pulp Fiction", convinto che sia autentico. Il vangelo secondo Quentin Tarantino.

[Adriano Biondi @adrianobiondi]

Non sono state le parole sul papa ad aver portato Meloni a cambiare registro su Trump. Sono stati i sondaggi.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

In a matter of minutes, Israel killed more than 350 people across Lebanon on Wednesday, April 8. Here are some of their stories.

[Ottobre Rosso @ComunistaRosso]

Robert Del Naja dei Massive Attack arrestato durante la protesta pro-Palestine Action a Londra. Un tempo gli artisti potevano raccontare la propria visione del mondo...un tempo.

[Gimmoriso' 🇵🇸 @fawollo13]

Ai sionisti non piace questa copertina de "L'espresso", a margine di un'inchiesta nella quale viene denunciato il genocidio a Gaza, l'occupazione illegale e l'apertheid in Cisgiordania, l'invasione e la pulizia etnica in Libano e la guerra criminale in Iran. Sapete cosa fare.

[alberto negri @negrialbe]

Negoziato con l'Iran: per Netanyahu è una farsa, Trump non sa che fare

Per Netanyahu l'Iran (e il Libano) si distrugge non si negozia, Trump non sa che cosa fare perché è un imbecille che, spinto dall'israeliano, ha fatto una guerra senza valutare le conseguenze. Quindi o va fino in fondo, affrontando rischi incalcolabili, o si ritira decretando la sua fine e quella degli Usa come superpotenza.

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

E poi c'è Gaza.
Mentre il mondo esplode, gli studenti palestinesi sostengono gli esami sulla spiaggia.

Non smetterò per un solo istante della mia vita di amare questo popolo coltissimo e fiero, aggrappato alla sua terra come nessuno al mondo.
Non smetterò per un solo istante della mia vita di ringraziare questo popolo meraviglioso che mi ha dato tanto.
Ho avuto la straordinaria fortuna di incontrarlo per la prima volta a diciannove anni. Ha cambiato il mio modo di stare al mondo, quel mondo visto da un ragazzo occidentale e benestante imbottito di falsa propaganda.

Nessuno mi ha convinto, ho visto.
E poi rivisto, e poi ancora.

Ho visto il terrore puro negli occhi di un padre professore universitario perché il figlio era rientrato a casa qualche minuto di ritardo dall'Università.

A ventuno anni ho visto bambini di sette, otto anni passare davanti ai militari dell'esercito di occupazione armati fino ai denti che mostravano meccanicamente le loro piccole mani nude.
Chiesi al mio amico fraterno palestinese cosa significasse quel gesto: "I genitori insegnano al bambino come comportarsi alla vista di un soldato, gli insegnano a mostrare le mani per far capire di non avere nulla, di non essere una minaccia, perché a quelli basta poco per aprire il fuoco".

Nonostante tutto, nonostante le bombe, gli stermini, l'apartheid, gli sfollamenti, le vite infernali, nonostante le scuole distrutte, guardano al futuro scrivendo su un foglio di carta tra le gambe, seduti su una spiaggia devastata di Gaza mentre il mondo esplode.

La Palestina mi ha reso un amico migliore, un padre migliore, una persona migliore.

[Ale🆓🇵🇸✊🏽 @kosmicale]

Che popolo!

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

❤️🇮🇷 BREAKING: IRANIANS are forming human-chains nationwide on bridges & around critical infrastructure to safeguard their country against U.S & Israeli strikes

[alberto negri @negrialbe]

Netanyahu e Trump ci hanno dichiarato guerra
I due sapevano bene che la guerra all'Iran avrebbe messo l'Europa con le spalle al muro. Ma a loro non importa nulla perché in questa élite al comando messianica e sionista fatta di evangelici, pentacostali, battisti, noi non dobbiamo avere nessun ruolo. Il barile andrà a 200 dollari ma a loro non importa nulla. Più siamo poveri e meglio ci controlleranno.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Whenever Israel is killing tons of civilians the western media always start churning out articles about “antisemitism” and Jewish feelings.

“Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe?” blares a recent headline from The Wall Street Journal, subtitled “‘It feels like the 1930s again.’ Hostility against Jews surges in Western countries where they felt safe in recent decades.”

An article for The Atlantic titled “Canada’s Polite Pogrom” bizarrely tries to argue that “tolerance for zealotry” is somehow “purging Jews from public life.”

A Washington Examiner headline proclaims that “Jewish voters feel ‘politically homeless’ as antisemitism rises on both sides.”

A headline for The Telegraph asserts that “Many Jews are sensing frightening echoes of 1930s Germany in 2020s Britain.”

War Criminal Tony Blair writes an article for The Free Press titled “Why the West Fails to Stop Antisemitism”.

Meanwhile, in real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier it gets, the more aggressive the concern-trolling about “antisemitism” becomes.

The Jewish Chronicle has published an article by Maureen Lipman titled “Does the world have any idea of how tired the people of Israel are?”, subtitled “A dear friend told me that his grandchildren have needed to enter their safe room more than 200 times since the current battle began.”

“The BBC and reporters worldwide do not go into the shelters where children are trained to lie on the floor when the sirens go off,” writes Lipman. “Neither do they report on the closure of schools. Most Israeli kids have missed some school every day since Covid. Are the media even aware of the fear of the elderly in Israel?”

Absolutely incredible. She writes as though Israelis are the only people on earth whose country is being bombed. Only Zionists could drop bombs on neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIRSTRIKES!”

Western news reporters face so much pressure to pad Israel’s image and advance Israeli information interests that the Associated Press just ran an editorial titled “AP is calling Israel’s attack on Lebanon an invasion. What does that mean and why does it matter?” justifying its decision to call what is self-evidently and indisputably an invasion the thing that it is.

You never saw them do this with Ukraine. You never saw the media holding long internal deliberations about what to label it and then publishing editorials going “We’re going to call this a Russian invasion, we’re pretty sure that’s what this is called, please don’t be mad at us!” That’s how cowed they are by Israel’s supporters, and how much pressure they feel to toe the imperial line no matter what.

At the same time in the Israeli press we’re seeing op-eds like The Jerusalem Post’s “Long-term deradicalization in Gaza faces major hurdles,” which argues explicitly for the total ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory.

The article’s author Martin Sherman dismisses claims that the people of Gaza can be “deradicalized” — as though the radicalization of Palestinians is the problem, and not the radical political ideology of the people who’ve been waging an extermination campaign upon them. Instead, Sherman argues, everyone must accept the “harsh reality” that only annexation and ethnic cleansing can lead to a lasting peace in the Gaza Strip.

“The only way Israel can ensure how the Gaza Strip will be governed, and who will govern it, is to govern it itself,” writes Sherman. “Moreover, the only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of ‘another people’ is to remove ‘the other people’ from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself.”

“This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science,” Sherman writes.

If it isn’t right-wing radicalism to advocate the mass purge of a colonized indigenous population from their homeland for being the wrong ethnicity, then right-wing radicalism does not exist. That’s pretty much as right-wing extremist as it gets.

And this is an entirely mainstream Israeli publication.

If anyone on earth needs to be deradicalized, it’s the Israelis and their supporters.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

Why is Israel our most important ally?

"They help us counter Iranian influence in the middle east."

Why do we need to counter Iranian influence in the middle east?

"Well, they're a major threat to Israel."

So we should just stop supporting Israel.

"We've got to support Israel because it's our most important ally!"

[luka @Lukadiarde]

Ciao Iran, in verde le basi americane.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I don't want to be one of those people who wastes their time criticizing "hypocrisy" in foreign policy, but holy fucking shit, dude. Jesus Christ. My God.

I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran.

I don't enjoy holding this position. It goes against every natural human impulse inside me. But Israel, by its nature, has made it the only responsible position to hold.

History has clearly established that the world was wrong to give Israel sympathy for October 7. The correct and moral thing to have done would have been for everyone to say "That's what you get for being a murderous apartheid state," and then sanction Israel into the Stone Age until they dismantled their abusive ethnonationalist regime. That would have been the right position for the world to take.

And that's how we need to be with Israel going forward. No sympathy. No support. We've got to treat them the same way you'd treat a malignant narcissist who solicits sympathy and then weaponizes it at every opportunity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible. It's just not safe.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The legend Bob Vylan at today's Al Quds rally in London. Ending his speech with..

"Death Death to the IDF, Death Death to the IDF"

[Abolizione del suffragio universale @AUniversale]

Fratelli d'Italia ha pubblicato sui social una card tragicomica in cui divide il mondo in due.

A sinistra i cittadini comuni, il medico, l'ingegnere, l'insegnante, l'avvocato, il giornalista, con sotto scritto: "Se sbagliano, loro pagano". A destra i magistrati in toga, con sotto scritto: "Loro no".

Il messaggio è chiaro: in Italia pagano tutti tranne i giudici.

Bellissimo, commovente.

Manca solo un piccolo dettaglio: nella card non ci sono i politici. E soprattutto non ci sono i politici di Fratelli d'Italia.

Tipo Augusta Montaruli. Condannata in via definitiva dalla Cassazione per peculato.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì. Deputata e vicepresidente della Commissione Vigilanza RAI.

Tipo Giangiacomo Calovini, deputato di FdI, che ha patteggiato un anno e quattro mesi per corruzione.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì.

Tipo Andrea Delmastro, Sottosegretario alla Giustizia, sempre FdI, condannato in primo grado a otto mesi per rivelazione di segreto d'ufficio.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì.

Tipo Novo Umberto Maerna, deputato di FdI, condannato a un anno e due mesi per truffa e falso ideologico per aver pilotato dei contributi pubblici a un amico di partito.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì.

Tipo Giulio Tremonti, deputato FdI e presidente della Commissione Esteri, che ha patteggiato per corruzione.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì.

Tipo Daniela Santanchè, Ministra del Turismo in quota FdI, rinviata a giudizio per falso in bilancio, a processo per truffa, indagata per tre (sì, tre) per bancarotte.

Ha pagato? No. È ancora lì. E anzi, fanno di tutto per salvarla dai processi.

Insomma, se Fratelli d'Italia avesse avuto l'onestà di inserire una terza colonna nella card, "Se sbagliano i nostri", sotto non ci sarebbe scritto "pagano". Ci sarebbe scritto "fanno carriera".

Perché lì funziona così: la condanna non è un problema. È un passaggio di grado, uno step del curriculum. Più grave il reato, più alta la carica.

E la cosa più bella è che questa card l'hanno fatta loro, di spontanea volontà. L'hanno pensata, impaginata, approvata e pubblicata. Convinti che nessuno avrebbe notato l'unica categoria assente dall'elenco: la loro.

Come quel ladro che va in questura a denunciare che gli hanno rubato la refurtiva.