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[Variety @Variety]

Javier Bardem wears a keffiyeh on the #Emmys red carpet

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People saying how gruesome they find the Charlie Kirk video are inadvertently confessing that they haven't been watching the footage coming out of Gaza for the last two years. I've seen worse shit TODAY and I haven't finished my morning coffee.

[خالد الرويشان @k_alrowaishan]

إلى مراهقي السياسة العرب
الذي تجرأ على ضرب الدوحة اليوم سيتجرأ غداً على ضرب الرياض وأبوظبي والمنامة!
ومَن تجرأ على ضرب دمشق اليوم دون جريرةٍ أو سبب، سيضرب القاهرة غداً بجريرةٍ وبلا سبب!
أضعتم غزة بأوهامكم وأحقادكم وتُرّهاتكم!
كانت غزة سكّيناً مُشرَعاً في خاصرة إسرائيل
كانت لسانَ نارٍ في قلب العدو!
فأصبح العدو لسانَ نارٍ في حدائق بيوتكم!

[Marcia Cross @ReallyMarcia]

TIME TO JUST CURSE THESE ACTIONS
AS NOTHING IS DONE.
NO ONE STEPS UP
THE WORLD IS A MONSTROSITY
THE WORST HUMANS ARE IN CHARGE
FUCK YOU ISRAEL AND ALL YOUR SUPPORTERS
USA GERMANY FRANCE
YOU ARE THE BILE OF THE UNIVERSE
THE ROT AT THE CORE OF ANYTHING DECENT
ANY HUMAN WHO THINKS THEY ARE BETTER THAN ANY OTHER IS A LOST SOUL

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The New York Times has just published an op-ed by an Israeli genocide scholar who agrees with all the other genocide scholars and human rights organizations who say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Hamas is not the enemy of the Jews.

Palestinians and Jews lived together in Palestine in peace and security.

Until the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel.

When the state of Israel was established, the region ceased to be a safe haven for Jews.

#FreePalestine

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Israel does not want peace, they want Gaza.

Free Palestine

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Gaza is being annihilated.
Thousands upon thousands of children are dead. Entire bloodlines erased. And the United States is the supplier, sponsor, and shield of the killing.

Netanyahu is not a defender.
He’s a butcher.
A fascist running from jail who’s building his legacy on mass graves.

Trump is insane .
Biden enabled it all .
Harris went with him.

This isn’t “complicated.”
It’s calculated.
You don’t “accidentally” flatten hospitals, starve cities, bomb refugees in tents or bomb convoys labeled UN. You do that when you know you’ll get away with it. And the U.S. ensures these crimes continue.
Every liberal who says “I don’t support Netanyahu but…” Every progressive who “wishes for peace” but won’t say the word occupation— You’re complicit. You are lubricating the machine of murder with your cowardice.

And don’t dare hide behind antisemitism to justify silence.
Antisemitism is real.
But using it to silence truth while bombs fall on children is a grotesque betrayal of every moral code.

Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate.
It’s obligation.

And if your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash:

No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.
No more bipartisan War Inc gorging on profits wrapping themselves in flags .

You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.

Now pick a side.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

KNEECAP STATEMENT:

They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide.

Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria.

Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history.

We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action.

This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation.

All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel.

At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head.

Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine.

This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards.

To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt.

Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs.

No smear campaign will change that.

Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain.

The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power.

Shame on them.

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

Forgive me. I was born with this thing called not being able to carry on as usual with my day after seeing most of a child’s head blown off.

[legislation @legislationpage]

FLASHBACK: Liberals call for violence..

Do you think the DEM rhetoric led to Trump’s assassination attempt?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Why I Don’t Condemn Hamas For October 7

In 1999, a woman named Cindy Hendy was stabbed in the neck with an ice pick by a woman named Cynthia Vigil inside a trailer home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Vigil then fled the scene to a nearby residence, whose owner promptly called the police.

She was never charged with any crime.

The reason Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime despite having stabbed Cindy Hendy in the neck with an ice pick was because Hendy was an accomplice of the serial killer David Parker Ray, also known as the Toy Box Killer. Vigil’s escape from the trailer where Ray and Hendy had been imprisoning and torturing her led to the pair’s subsequent arrest. Ray died in prison three years later, the full extent of his murder spree still unknown. Hendy served 19 years and was released in 2019.

Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime because anyone could see that violent force was an entirely understandable and legitimate response to having been kidnapped and subjected to horrific treatment. It never at any time occurred to anyone to say that she should have acted differently, and it most certainly never occurred to anyone to make her single act of desperate violence the major story instead of the fact that there was a serial killer who’d been abducting women and torturing them in his murder dungeon.

And, I mean, imagine how absurd it would have been if they’d done that. Imagine if, after the Toy Box Killer story broke, all the major headlines were about a woman stabbing another woman with an ice pick. Imagine if the ice pick stabbing was all the press ever wanted to talk about, for month after month after month, instead of the fact that people had been imprisoned and subjected to savage abuse by a cruel serial murderer.

Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if, any time someone was interviewed about this case in the news, they were asked if they condemned Cynthia Vigil for her brutal, evil, sadistic ice pick stabbing of Cindy Hendy.

Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if the press kept framing the incident as though Hendy was just standing around, innocently minding her own business, and was then victimized by a barbaric and unprovoked attack by Vigil.

Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if everyone kept the story focused on the ice pick stabbing, and any time anyone tried to point out that the stabbing only occurred because Cynthia Vigil was being imprisoned by a deranged serial killer and his female accomplice they were hysterically denounced as Vigil apologists and supporters of neck-stabbing, and told that nothing — absolutely nothing — could ever excuse or justify the violence that Vigil inflicted upon Hendy on that terrible day.

Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if, rather than coming to Vigil’s rescue and arresting those who’d victimized her, the police had returned Vigil to her captors and helped David Parker Ray resume his murderous lifestyle.

Imagine if, while helping David Parker Ray re-establish his status quo lifestyle of kidnapping, torture and murder, arguments were made by law enforcement and the media that Ray’s murder dungeon has a right to exist, and that Ray and his accomplices have a right to defend their home and their way of life.

Imagine if Ray had greatly escalated his murderousness and sadism in full view of the entire world following Cynthia Vigil’s attempted escape, and people defended this by solemnly invoking the horrible, awful day when Vigil launched an unprovoked ice pick attack on Cindy Hendy’s neck.

Imagine if, in order to help justify their support for Ray’s murderous rampage, the police and the media had sown lies and disinformation about what Vigil did during her escape attempt, claiming she sexually assaulted Hendy and beheaded her baby and put its body in an oven.

It’s hard to imagine anything being more ridiculous, is it not? It’s hard to imagine a more obscene reversal of victim and victimizer, and a more absurd response to someone’s desperate efforts to escape from her abusive captors.

It’s about as backwards and insane as anyone could possibly be about anything, and anyone who tried to get you to believe such an absurdity would obviously be a psychologically abusive gaslighter who should never be believed about anything ever again. Clearly they have a demented perspective, every part of which should be rejected in every way possible.

Anyway, yeah. That’s why I’ve never condemned Hamas for October 7.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

We're on the brink of a Middle East war, which could quickly escalate into a world war, with nuclear weapons.

Still so certain it was a good idea to let Israel brutalise the Palestinians, steal their land, herd them into tiny reservations, and now slaughter them – all while we supplied the weapons and provided the diplomatic cover?

If not, maybe time to stop believing western governments when they tell you anyone who is against this is an 'antisemite'.

[Miko Peled @mikopeled]

Anyone still think there is not a genocide taking place in Palestine? This is straight from the 1948 Convention on Genocide.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Today @WCKitchen lost several of our sisters and brothers in an IDF air strike in Gaza. I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now.

[Omar D. Foda @EgyptsBeer]

It's truly depressing that Palestinians have to shout "see they killed white people too" to try to get people to care

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

Let us be clear: The atrocities committed by the Israeli military in al-Shifa hospital are the direct result of the US government’s continued support. 🧵

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Correct.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

US Airman Aaron Bushnell did not kill himself to protest some other country's war

The US Department of Defense has compelled the participation of Air Force members like Bushnell in Israel's Gaza genocide

Their orders to deploy to Israel read "mandatory"