Just like the young people can see through Zionism for what it really is, a racist supremacist ideology masquerading as salvation for the Jews, the same is the case with hindutva, a supremacist ideology claiming to be the salvation of Hindus. #NoRSS
BREAKING: @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani condemns event featuring RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and denounces the organization’s exclusionary ideology, which has contributed to India’s continued democratic decline and growing authoritarianism.
#NoHateAtMSG#RSSOutOfNYC
Juries now have refused to send Palestine Action astivists to jail as well as Tony Greenstein. His speech to the Jury that refused to send him to jail for ‘terrorism’ worth reading in whole, but here is an excerpt:
‘In the second world war, the Nazis walled the Jews of Warsaw, half a million of them into a ghetto — a sealed district, starved and diseased, from which the trains left for the Treblinka death camp. And in 1943 the young Jews who remained did something nobody expected. With a handful of smuggled pistols, against tanks and the SS, they rose. They knew they could not win. They rose because it was better to die resisting than to be led away quietly. It is one of the proudest moments in Jewish history.
The last surviving commander of that uprising was a man named Marek Edelman. And in his old age, Edelman wrote to the Palestinian resistance and addressed them as fellow fighters — much to Israel’s annoyance. When he died, Poland gave him a state funeral, a fifteen-gun salute, the President gave the oration. Israel did not send the lowliest clerk at the Israeli Embassy. Edelman wasn’t a Zionist.
Edelman, who led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis, described Gaza as a ghetto. I have used his comparison for years before October 2023. Two million people, most of them refugees or the children of refugees, sealed into a strip of land under blockade for 16 years, where the majority are children who have never once been allowed out. When I wrote “ghetto,” I meant a ghetto. My blog supported the Uprising just as I would have supported the slave uprisings of the 19th century. That is a political opinion. It was a political opinion on 7 October 2023, and it is a political opinion now.
And here is the crazy thing. Read section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and ask what it would have made of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. If this Act had existed in 1944, they could have been classified as terrorists. So could the French Resistance.’
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.@ChrisVanHollen@RepJayapal — you led 75 members of Congress in demanding Biden raise India's religious freedom record with Modi.
Mohan Bhagwat leads the RSS, the Hindu supremacist paramilitary that shaped that record. He speaks at @TheGarden on August 29.
USCIRF says don't host him. Will you say the same?
#NoHateAtMSG
The RSS and it's members have been implicated in several cases of violence against minorities in India. It's leader shouldn't be welcome in the United States. @SecRubio listen to the @USCIRF and other civil rights organizations and let the RSS know that it's leader is not welcome
Chair @DrMahmood40: “India’s PM Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an Indian umbrella organization whose sub-groups have perpetrated attacks on religious minorities, incl. Christians & Muslims. Now the RSS leader, Mohan Bhagwat, plans to visit the U.S."
@canammissing@RealWayneRoot Not one person remembers the trillions we've spent on wars of choice and continue to do so ? Not one ? Easy to blame the government, but remember, we get the government we deserve.
@ilangoldenberg And you left out the elephant in the room, the fact that AIPAC spends tens of millions of dollars defending this relationship and defeating anyone who speaks out against it. It isn't just about a paltry $3 billion dollars in aid, it is about the hijacking of our entire polity.
@VanJones68 So, leahy law doesn't apply to Israel ? International law doesn't apply to Israel ? Stop lying and putting words in his mouth. He has consistently called for applying international law and US law equally across the board and more importantly to stop funding foreign countries.Liar
@AdageorgeA If only you would've read the Qur'an. Claiming to know with certainly that one is guaranteed salvation, is the very antithesis of being a slave of God and instead is the most extreme form of hubris that goes against the very fundamental concept of submission to God.
A sick society from top to bottom and inside out.
Waiting...... to hear all the denunciation and expression of horror from all those who were howling over new York City dogs. https://t.co/85RJ6WYDFx
Orange County Court says Kars4Kids can no longer run its jingle ads in California, after a lawsuit alleging that donations do not go to underprivileged CA kids but instead to funding trips to Israel for Orthodox Jewish 17/18yos in New York and New Jersey.
What, even the nyt has now become anti-semitic ? It hasn't, it has finally mustered up enough courage to show you israels true colors.
https://t.co/l8z6TCoUw0
And the Zionists Christians are deluded into thinking this is the country God has blessed ?
Keep going Imam Abdullah, we've had enough of these divisive politicians, whose only recourse to staying in power is to keep sowing hatred. Soon they will reap what they sow.
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Keep going Imam Abdullah, we've had enough of these divisive politicians, whose only recourse to staying in power is to keep sowing hatred. Soon they will reap what they sow.
https://t.co/MW8wcGRrcS
IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE
There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"
Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?
Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!
And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.
Francesca Albanese is that someone.
She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."
Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.
And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.
Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.
There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.
There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."
There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”
Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.
She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".
Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.
What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.
These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.
Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.
We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."
Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.
So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.
A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.
Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.
Let us stand with her.
Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.
[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]
In America it is a crime to mock a foreign army, but it is okay for the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee to openly criticize the US army and day that their human rights violations were much more and more heinous than those of the IDF. Go figure.
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