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[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@chrisklomp @GidiMarkuszower Het is de manosphere!🤡

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

Frans Timmermans (@F__Timmermans) is one of Europe's leading progressive politicians. He was the architect of the EU Green Deal, First Vice-President of the European Commission, and Dutch Foreign Minister. But what he says here is utterly revolting. It is the crudest form of Holocaust inversion—a trope that the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism identifies as antisemitic.

This is an educated man who speaks seven languages, has traveled the world (including Israel), and has had ample time to read books and reports about the Gaza war since losing the Dutch election and stepping down as party leader. Yet for him to confidently spout this historically illiterate nonsense, equating Israel with the Nazi regime and claiming that what "the Jews" are doing in Gaza is "exactly the same" (!) as the Holocaust, is absolutely grotesque.

This is why, as a progressive, I could never bring myself to vote for someone like Frans Timmermans. I'm very glad he was not elected Prime Minister of the Netherlands, quite apart from my disagreements with him on climate policy.

"In the Middle East, an entire people is currently being exterminated. We watch and remain silent, while the Palestinians are literally being driven into the sea – and worse. The reasoning of the right and the far right in Israel is: we Jews can only survive if the Palestinians are gone. That is exactly the same reasoning as that of the Nazis back then: we – the German people, the Aryan race – can only survive if the Jews are gone. I find that utterly baffling. Something terrible happened to their grandparents and great-grandparents during the Nazi era: the Holocaust, in which they were destroyed, and now they are doing exactly the same thing to another people."

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@ChrisAalberts Het is de manosphere natuurlijk!

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

Having seen the infamous 47-minute compilation of the 7 Oct atrocities with my own eyes (not publicly available), I can attest that the Silenced No More report, which is freely available online, is even worse. It's just words on a page, but it leaves enough to the imagination to be even more horrific than the video. At least for me.

In the 47-minute compilation, there is some evidence of sexual sadism, but not much. Probably for two reasons: proud though Hamas was of massacring Jews, they were less keen on broadcasting scenes of sexual depravity. And the Israeli government likely declined to include the most horrific footage out of respect for the victims.

The report is exhaustively documented, horror story after horror story. I've read it only once, and I won't do so again. Especially the sections about the Nova festival are extremely disturbing. So I asked Claude to summarize the documented patterns in the report:

- Rape and gang rape, with victims passed between attackers in sequence, witnesses describing laughter throughout
- Targeted gunshots to groin, abdomen, buttocks and face; genital mutilation of both women and men
- Rape followed by execution—victims shot or stabbed immediately afterward, some shot in the head during the assault
- Rape continuing after victims were dead
- Sexual mutilation—breasts severed, genitals cut off or shot
- Burning, including deliberate burning of the groin; bodies set alight with accelerants
- - Hands bound behind backs; bodies tied to trees and poles along the road
- Sharp objects inserted into victims' genitals
- Women raped in view of their desperate partners, who were then killed
- Male victims gang-raped, beaten, and threatened with castration
- Dismemberment and decapitation

These findings of systematic sexual violence and torture are corroborated by the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict (2024) and the UN Commission of Inquiry (2024).

Just one quote from a survivor:

"I heard one rape where they were passing her around. She was probably injured, judging by her screams—screams you have never heard anywhere. It's between silence and screams, between pain and wanting to die. These are screams... it's something I have never heard in my life, and I have no way to explain to you what it sounds like. But it's screams. It's screams. It was simply horrific. And after one finished, he told another to go up 'Ta'al' [in Arabic], like to the next one. And apparently there was a round... And after they finished, they shot her." She continued: "You hear the screams, and then you hear silence. You hear a bang—and silence. And then there's a kind of calm. And then you say: okay, it's over at least. She's done with it. And like that with each person they abused—you heard. The moment they were killed, I said, 'Oh my God, finally, it's over.'"

You privileged Westerners have no idea how you would react if this happened to you and your loved ones—if a group committed these atrocities, vowed to repeat them again and again, and openly declared that it would not stop until your country no longer existed. You have no idea.

https://t.co/wzWytLLkUz

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@HofhuisSteije Ik ben benieuwd hoe lang deze schrijver daar nog een baan heeft.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@Denv70 @ChrisAalberts Er is geen enkel serieus beleidsvoorstel. De middenpartijen nemen migratie totaal onserieus, al jaren.
Tweaken van reeds bestaande niet-functionerende wetgeving meer is het niet.
De debielenclub van Terrie staat op winst, dat is de schuld van de middenpartijen.

[Chris Aalberts @ChrisAalberts]

Wat is Jesse Frederik toch een baas. De democratie werkt prima, alleen progressieven vinden dat maar niks. https://t.co/g5eEaIp3lw

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@realipsum @RKahlmann Haha, alsof je een berichtje stuurt en dan kan 'meedoen'
Hij wil te graag.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@Mirjam152 Zonde van de politie inzet.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@ChrisAalberts Dan kan hij het dus niet garanderen?

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@DevliegerErik @jpaternotte Waarom zou Oekraïne dergelijke beelden publiceren? Wat hebben zij met publicatie te winnen?

[Ronny Naftaniel @RonnyNaftaniel]

Op 22 september gaat het verbod in op de (ver)koop van producten uit de Israëlische #nederzettingen. Die verkoop bedraagt ca €3 miljoen per jaar. Materieel betekent de sanctie weinig voor Israël. De controle op de naleving in NL kost misschien meer. Je bent immers al ‘in overtreding’ als je een olijfhouten kruis koopt, dat in de oude stad van Jeruzalem is gemaakt. Psychologisch kan de maatregel de nationalistische partijen in Israël, zo vlak voor de verkiezingen, een flinke opsteker geven. Het versterkt hun visie dat de hele wereld toch tegen Israël is.
Bizar is dat de Nederlandse import uit Iran (zo’n €37 miljoen in 2025, en onze export van maar liefst ca €600 miljoen in 2025) wel ‘gewoon’ doorgaan ondanks de massaslachting van minimaal 40.000 Iraniërs op 8 en 9 januari. Veel Iraanse bedrijven zijn in handen van de #RevolutionaireGarde. Die staat op de Europese terreurlijst. Enige praktische invulling daarvan ontbreekt.
De maatregelen tegen de Israëlische nederzettingen ogen moreel, maar als het Nederland echt geld kost, zoals bij Iran, kijken we laf weg.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@michiellieuwma Iemand anders moet het offer brengen! Altijd iemand anders.

Liefst een domkop zonder diploma die op PVV stemt.

[Remco Yizhak Cooremans @RemcoYizhakCoor]

Fascisten zitten anno nu gewoon in de Rotterdamse raad
https://t.co/w3L5OeBBkf

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@Ruud_Koop_mans Of meer van geld dan voetbal? Voor het juiste bedrag is iedereen te koop.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@reza_athar Rotterdam is het toonbeeld van demografische vervanging.
De dader en slachtoffer waren vast Henk en Piet?
Meta ironie dit.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@BobHGL Grappig, die zitten echt helemaal vast in de bubbel van hun eigen gelijk.
Ongelooflijk dat die rechter de zelfverzonnen toespraak niet wilde aanhoren.😂

[Roel @Jhon42964332]

Linkse deugkneus uit Loosdrecht vind verslaggever agressief vind dat we naar het nos het Nederlandse Omroep Stichting moeten kijken en dat die agressie niet bij het kleurtje van de verslaggever past..

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@ALSpeyerbach Het maakt ze niet uit.
Ze verzinnen een historisch 'feit' om het Westen/Joden de schuld te kunnen geven.

[Sebastiaan @Sebvai]

@HilleMieke @POL_Groningen Omdat het niet de waarheid is.
De werkelijkheid wordt stelselmatig verdraaid door overheid en media.

Welkom in de USSR.