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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Why are you repeating their nonsense justifications for SHOOTING A BABY?

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.

And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Keir Starmer knew throughout the genocide that Israel was committing every possible war crime.

If he is ever tried for complicity, he will have to answer:

“Why did you ignore evidence of Israeli war crimes when your own Health Secretary submitted it?”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world, with courses aimed at training hundreds of operatives per year in strategies for “actively disrupting or manipulating the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of target audiences.”

Citing a leaked Defense Ministry tender, +972 reports that lecturers in the program are required to hold “doctorates and/or professorships in the fields of influence, consciousness, security and terrorism, mass communication, [or] digital and network communication,” as well as “at least four years of professional experience in the fields of influence [or] influence intelligence in various security organizations.”

“Some of the courses — including those on influence operations, influence intelligence, and online activism — will be in English for ‘foreign partners,’ whose identities are not specified,” +972 reports. “For these participants, the Defense Ministry built a dedicated syllabus that includes study of ‘the American approach,’ meaning U.S. perspectives and cultural norms, and conducting influence campaigns in the international arena.”

This revelation comes as Israel quintuples its annual propaganda budget to three-quarters of a billion dollars. So going forward you can expect to be blasted in the face with a whole lot more pro-Israel perception management while you’re minding your own fucking business trying to live your life.

It’s such a trip how Zionists just take it as a given that the only way to improve public perception of Israel is to ramp up efforts to manipulate the thoughts people think about it. They never give serious attention to the possibility that Israel would have a lot more public approval if it stopped fucking murdering innocent civilians all the time and fucking torturing people and raping captives with trained rape dogs. Israel can’t possibly be wrong; only our thoughts about Israel can be wrong.

At an American Jewish Committee event on Tuesday, Santa Clara University’s Maya Ackerman argued that generative AI presents an exciting new opportunity for imposing pro-Israel narratives on public consciousness, because AI companies can be lobbied directly to push pro-Israel narratives since their leaders can control what information people see.

Here’s a transcript of what she said:

“The really cool thing about AI is that while it can become a great ally for our enemies if we act early, it could be exactly the opportunity that we need after missing the boat with social media. AI is now becoming the dominant source of information — the main source of information. People trust AI more than anything else. They trust AI more than social media. They turn to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini instead of using Google. And young people use these bots instead of Google in very, very very large numbers. So this is becoming the main source of information.

“And so when I say this, I still find Jewish people being discouraged, they say ‘Oh, but Wikipedia is already so antisemitic and social media is so antisemitic — why bother? The AI just learns from all of this data.’ So, you know, whatever, not much we can do.

“But that’s not true, because over the past two years the AI companies have been moving towards alignment. So instead of algorithms sort of honestly representing what’s in the data, we’re finding that these chatbots and the text to image models are increasingly showing us exactly what the companies want us to see.

“Okay, so it’s becoming intentional. Which means that instead of trying to control the whole world and trying to somehow manage what’s happening in this big blob called Wikipedia and social media, we can go directly to the companies with clear technical and advocacy solutions. For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world.”

So to be clear, Ackerman is arguing that AI chatbots are useful because instead of “honestly representing what’s in the data” they are saying whatever their owners tell them to say, which means the owners of AI companies can simply be pressured to make the chatbots say pro-Israel things. She is saying this gives “Jewish people” (her words, not mine) an opportunity for “correcting the digital world” (her words, not mine) in a way that is more efficient than “trying to control the whole world” (her words, not mine).

It’s just surreal how people like me are always going to great lengths to draw clear distinctions and avoid coming across as antisemitic in our criticisms of Israel, and then Jewish Zionists go to these events all “Yes we Jews need to be actively manipulating western institutions in order to deceive everyone and control society.”

The other day at a Jerusalem Post conference, World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder argued that Jewish billionaires should be using their wealth “to attack our enemies”, and advocated for Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet to track and “counterattack” Israel’s critics online in the “fight” against anti-Israel sentiment.

Speaking at a book launch event in Jerusalem last month, British columnist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips argued that “the Jewish community” should use “psychological warfare” and “psyops” to promote the interests of Israel.

“There are plenty of people in this country who … are experts in what’s called psyops. They should be used. They could be drawn upon. These are reservoirs of talent and skill that could be used and harnessed, to really make a difference,” Phillips said.

If I wanted people to stop hating my favorite country for committing war crimes and genocide, I personally would simply encourage that country to stop committing war crimes and genocide.

I would not try to solve the problem by waging psyops and information warfare.

I would not try to solve the problem by lobbying governments to ban criticism of my favorite country.

I would not try to solve the problem by claiming that anyone who criticizes my favorite country is a Nazi.

I would not try to solve the problem with a dramatic increase to my favorite country’s propaganda budget.

I would not try to solve the problem by swarming the internet with paid trolls who argue in support of my favorite country.

I would not try to solve the problem by buying up news outlets and social media platforms in order to force them to amplify information that is supportive of my favorite country.

I feel like doing these things would only make people hate my favorite country more. I think people would get sick of my favorite country’s supporters constantly trying to manipulate their minds and assaulting their right to free expression.

I would only do these things if I wanted people to hate my favorite country. Like if my favorite country was premised on the idea that everyone already hates its inhabitants, so the only way to stay safe is to remain in a constant state of military combat and mass-scale manipulation. Then I suppose it would make sense to do the things I just described.

But come to think of it, if my favorite country was founded on the premise of nonstop warfare and manipulation and the assumption that it must necessarily always be despised throughout the world, at some point I suspect I’d find myself wondering why my favorite country is my favorite country at all. And I’d begin wondering if perhaps it was a mistake to establish such a country in the first place.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Imagine spending months claiming you’re going to make government more efficient…

…only to get outperformed by a democratic socialist mayor.

@ZohranKMamdani

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The “uninvolved civilian” they shot at was a SEVEN MONTH OLD BABY.

His name was Sam Fahd Abou Haikal.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The war is taking its toll, and the Russian military effort is in trouble.” @Jack_Watling argues that a cease-fire is now a real possibility in Ukraine:
https://t.co/k5hzwxrTtu

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Update: Ukraine launches large-scale drone attacks on Russia, naval plant near St. Petersburg reportedly hit ahead of Economic Forum finale.

https://t.co/tUZSHJAn79

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're going to have to repeat a lot that many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.

Criticism of the Israeli Government and their war crimes has nothing to do with who is or isn't Jewish.

To conflate them like this is both harmful and antisemitic.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Y’all need to check this out, the Albania situation is getting more intense by the day. Apparently, Saudis entered the chat!!

This is top-tier reporting.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

All 3 of Netanyahu’s main opponents in the next election condemned him for surrendering to the US & agreeing to a “ceasefire” in Lebanon. They say he sold out & became a “vassal state” of the US. So if you’re thinking getting rid of Netanyahu makes Israel better - think again

[Dreadfully Drawn 🖍 @DreadfullyDrawn]

Some might say that he'll have the power of Anfield in the palm of his hands

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🔴İspanyol Dışişleri Bakanı:

▪️İtalya ve Almanya, Avrupa Birliği ile İsrail arasındaki Ortaklık Anlaşması'nın askıya alınmasını engelliyor.

▪️Ukrayna söz konusu olduğunda Almanya ahlaki bir bekçi gibi davranıyor, ancak Filistin söz konusu olduğunda üç maymunu oynuyor. Almanya ikiyüzlü ve acınası bir devlettir.

[Persian Culer 🇮🇷 @Persian_Culer]

11 days before Iran’s World Cup opener:

• No visas yet approved for players or staff
• Forced to move their camp from USA to Mexico
• A friendly cancelled due to the relocation

This is how the world’s 21st-ranked team is being treated before football’s biggest tournament.

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Highest-rated centre-back in each season since Virgil van Dijk made his Premier League debut:

🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2015/16 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2016/17 ⭐️
🇩🇪 Shkodran Mustafi - 2017/18
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2018/19 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2019/20 ⭐️
🇫🇷 Kurt Zouma - 2020/21
🇨🇲 Joel Matip - 2021/22
🇯🇲 Ethan Pinnock - 2022/23
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2023/24 ⭐️
🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk - 2024/25 ⭐️
🇧🇷 Gabriel Magalhães - 2025/26

Virgil van Dijk has finished as the highest-rated centre-back in six of the 11 seasons since his Premier League debut. 🤯💪

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

Children Were Kept In Outdoor Cages During Snowstorms

This is a clip from Stone Cold Justice, John Lyons’ investigation for Four Corners (ABC, 2014). It exposed Israel’s industrialised cruelty way before Oct 7th 2023.

At Ofer Military Prison, Palestinian children are dragged through hearings that last seconds. Shackled, silenced and convicted without being looked at.

Israel’s military courts brag about a 99.74% conviction rate. That’s not law, that’s a rigged machine. A conveyor belt designed to crush children until guilt becomes inevitable.

UNICEF called it systematic, institutionalised abuse: threats of death, beatings, isolation, sexual violence.

This is Israel’s legacy in full view: a state so afraid of Palestinian children it has to break them, then call it justice.

And the world still calls this a democracy.

[CounterPressers @CounterPressers]

I have a feeling that Liverpool are actually going to sign Yan Diomande.

This one of the most exciting prospects on the planet. If you can secure Diomande you don’t need to worry about signing a RW for the next 10 years.

Anyone want a thread on him…