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[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.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Our Armed Forces are conducting self-defense strikes on sites the U.S. is permitted to use to attack civilian shipping and violate the ceasefire.

Any hostile act will be met with an immediate, decisive response. What sanctions and war failed to achieve won't be won with more war

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

No NATO country has ever attacked Russia or the USSR, and never will.

Ukraine in NATO is a credible security guarantee for Russia.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Our national media is so deeply racist against Palestinians that they keep calling Israel a democracy when they've been running a brutal dictatorship in the occupied territories for the last 58 years. That invalidates the humanity of Palestinians, as if they don't count as human.

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

Wars end when one side realizes its strategy has failed.

Putin’s Russia is nearing that moment. It has lost the initiative, is losing the narrative, and is watching its last remaining hope fade: the illusion that it can gain at the negotiating table what it has failed to win on the battlefield.

This is no time to throw the aggressor a lifeline. Our task is simple: keep calm, stay the course, and maintain the pressure.

Only when Moscow understands that time is decisively against it will a path to a just peace emerge.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed Theodosia today in Qlayaa, South Lebanon.

She was on her way to take her exams.

Israel dropped a bomb on her car, killing her and her parents.

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

For us Michiganders, Canada isn’t just an ally — they’re our cousins. It’s in our economic and national security interest to treat our neighbors — with whom we share bonds, family, experiences and especially... hockey — with respect.

Not this.

[longonelon @longonelon]

Glenn, as an academic you need to get out of your head and into your heart. Ukrainians do not want to be part of Russia nor should they be forced to be. Your so-called honesty is very insensitive to the Ukrainian people who were attacked. You seem to regard them as pawns rather than people.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.

What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.

An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Ahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahhahahahahhaahahhahahahhahahahahhahahaha

Says the man who’s only skills is divide and conquer politics (and he’s so bad it he lost PM job and his own riding)

[Ebrahim Zolfaghari ☫ @Ebrahim_Zolfgri]

We will respond to each of your attacks 10 times heavier and stronger.

We are free to fire and do not need anyone's permission to punish you.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

It's a myth Germans didn't know the Holocaust was happening. They may have not known the details, but they knew Jews were being sent to their death

Likewise, decades from now you'll hear people say that Israelis "didn't know" about the genocide in Gaza. That is also a lie

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Cenk Uygur: "I can criticize the king. I can criticize the UK government. I can criticize the prime minister."

"But I cannot criticize Israel. Just like in the old days when you couldn't criticize the king."

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Video of the Kuwait International Airport after Iran attacked it.

But don’t worry…. Trump says the war is over and we won.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Nazis are searching for Muslims.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range sanctions carried out by the warriors of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have yielded good results. Important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night.

Among them was the Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine’s state border to this facility of Russia’s oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 kilometers. Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit.

Another target was an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons. The distance from the frontline is almost 600 kilometers.

I thank our warriors for their precision. Ukraine’s plan for long-range sanctions is being implemented exactly as needed to bring peace closer. Glory to Ukraine!

[longonelon @longonelon]

These attacks reek of desperation. They are the opposite of the strategy a winning combatant would feel the need to use. Glenn, get better information on what’s actually happening.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Heavy attacks on Kyiv throughout the night, which demonstrates a new direction of the war. As I have discussed in many interviews over the past weeks, a decision has been made in Moscow to go up the escalation ladder to restore deterrence. Attacks originating from NATO territory, along with European leaders announcing their intentions to mass produce weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory, have fundamentally changed the nature of the war. NATO territory is also no longer off limits. Make peace now!

[longonelon @longonelon]

He should not be purporting to represent Canada while standing in front of an Israeli flag. He is supporting the narrative that being against the genocide of the Palestinians is anti-Semitic. There are a lot of Jewish people who resent that implication.

[Alex Tyrrell @AlexTyrrellPVQ]

In the middle of a live streamed genocide the Canadian Prime Minister is making speeches in front of an Israeli flag, telling us that the real victims are those who’s feelings are hurt by criticism of the offending state.

This picture was taken yesterday.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I can criticise
The King
UK govt
US govt
Any MP
Capitalism
Religions
UK army
Security Services

I can criticise
ANY foreign country EXCEPT if I criticise Israel ALONE, I risk serious personal consequences EVEN though Israel is carrying out terrible crimes including GENOCIDE

[Independent Jewish Voices @IndJewishVoices]

While there is much to contest in yesterday’s address on antisemitism, credit to @MarkJCarney for leaving Israel mainly out of it and for not entertaining the absurd claim, promoted by some community leaders and clergy, that Canada’s mild criticism of Israel is somehow responsible for domestic antisemitism…

Let’s be real: Antisemitism is not being driven by Canada’s mild condemnations or inadequate attempts at holding Israel accountable to international law.

Antisemitism is driven by far-right actors, and by Israel’s actions themselves: its devastating genocide in Gaza, apartheid policies, land theft in the West Bank, flattening of entire villages in southern Lebanon.

Legacy Jewish institutions that continue to proudly identify with Israel and defend it from criticism have lost the plot on fighting antisemitism. Defending a genocidal apartheid state from criticism does nothing to keep Jewish Canadians safe. #cdnpoli

https://t.co/4lwhQ1ZQCJ

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Israel bombed a Lebanese hospital for the THIRD time. The ICU is completely destroyed.

A mother desperately rushed to find her premature baby alive amidst the rubble. Washington is fully complicit in these war crimes!