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[Vinayak Nair @iamvinayaknair]

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[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Carrying out mass-scale genocide in Gaza.

Kidnapping the Venezuelan President.

Starving and suffocating Cuba.

Planning to invade Greenland.

Bombing Iran.

What a rogue terrorist state can do and get away with.

[mubarak kv @mubarakkv1]

Palestine is the story,Not Glastonbury!

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

"Palestine is the story. Not Glastonbury!"

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.

They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.

It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.

Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.

My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.

When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲?

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Some TV anchors have condemned Ramesh Bidhuri for using abusive language against a Muslim MP.

They are probably upset that he was abusive in the parliament instead of their studios.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Worth applauding: @ISRO chief Dr Somanath is a product of the TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala and many of his colleagues graduated from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET). At least seven more engineers from CET were involved in the #Chandrayaan3Success: From Left:
-Mohana Kumar (mission director / mechanical)
-Athula (electronics)
-Satheesh (mechanical)
-Narayanan (associate mission director / mechanical)
-Mohan (mechanical)
-Shora (electronics)
[Apologies for any spelling errors].

Indians are rightly obsessed with the IITs, but let's salute the alumni of unsung engineering colleges who serve the public sector with dedication & who are the backbone of national enterprises like @ISRO. IITians went to Silicon Valley; CETians took us to the moon!

[Kalaippuli S Thanu @theVcreations]

🫰😃

[Vishen @Vishen]

Traditions are peer pressure from dead people. You don’t have to follow the rules of the past.

[mubarak kv @mubarakkv1]

@Gokulcd18 Ayinu

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

One has to be either extraordinarily tone-deaf or shamelessly dishonest to think that opposing the repressive Hijab mandate in Iran is a contradictory position to opposing Hijab ban in Karnataka when both the positions are essentially affirming individual choice and freedom.

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

2 Muslim men murdered, many others tortured and their homes bulldozed as Hindutva bigots celebrate by sharing graphic videos of this state violence. And yet we have Hindu liberals preaching about how to protest and crying about effigies being burnt.

A morally bankrupt society.

[mubarak kv @mubarakkv1]

@HasilMp Ok daaa

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

Nobody will go hungry during the lockdown. Next week onwards free food kits will be distributed for all families and guest workers. Food will be delivered to the needy from People's Restaurants and Community Kitchens through Local Self Government Institutions.