Security Kangaroo

Trends in international security with a focus on Eurasia, jihadism and China. Pro-rule of law, anti-populism. Retweets often endorsements, but not always.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

At some point it may filter through to the wider public consciousness that there is quite a large group of extremely nasty people who have used the Palestinian cause as a permission structure to engage in hideous hate.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"When something of that scale occurs and it is occurring in real time... it is important to be present and to investigate"

After October 7th, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, funded her own trip to Israel to witness and document the horrors of Hamas's massacre.

For some reason, her instincts weren't shared by other UN officials.

"I understand I’m the only Special Rapporteur who has ever requested to go to the Israeli mission to see the video and the documented evidence," she said at a recent event.

From what she witnessed, she crafted a letter about Hamas's crimes on October 7th. But: "There was a campaign to prevent that letter from going out. There were weeks of being bullied and deterred from writing it and telling me that everything in it was false."

Edwards was forced to edit the letter, even though it was based on her own research. "The letter shrank considerably."

In the end, she said, "it was only signed by the Special Rapporteur on summary extrajudicial killings and me," she said.

She said the "Rapporteur" position at the UN is being abused: "In the past we were this agile group forty years ago or thirty years ago of people that were supposed to be able to react actively and quickly to various issues that are going on in the world. Now we are being pushed to coordinate amongst one another."

"Authoritarian and totalitarian governments don’t like the special rapporteurs, so they have created their own special rapporteurs and they fund them," she said.

"We all want the UN to be a robust but also honest and objective body and if it can’t do the job, then maybe we do need to start thinking about what replaces it. That is a very worrying scenario."

Reporting Credit: @JewishChron

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

If this is it, I can see why Trump wants Vance to attend a signing ceremony instead of Trump.

[Clifford D. May @CliffordDMay]

A witness statement says the Qatari government promised to “look after” Karim Khan if he moved against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/YnWCXcYQZ4 via @WSJopinion

This builds on the Guardian newspaper’s November report on a Qatar-linked private intelligence operation by at least two firms, Highgate and Elicius Intelligence, hoping to discredit Mr. Khan’s alleged assault victim.

[Security Kangaroo @Security_Roo]

@Craig_Foster Any comment @Craig_Foster ?

https://t.co/vfyVynUP70

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

"Being the wrong colour". Here he is saying "Jews target Muslims and Arabs and suck their blood." @campbellclaret you clown.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

"Being the wrong colour". Here he is saying "Jews target Muslims and Arabs and suck their blood." @campbellclaret you clown.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Absolutely vile and heartless.

[Evan Ross @MrEvanRoss]

If you’re voting for Graham Platner, you don’t really have an issue with Donald Trump’s moral deficiencies; you have a problem with the fact that he’s not on your side.

[Christian JB @christianjbdev]

The cultural boycott is antisemitic. Jews are never going to fully pass these purity tests, because it demands of them that they sever all ties with their homeland.

Case in point. Boycotting a film-maker because he took non-state Israeli money for a project.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Edward Snowden? Promoting an FSB statement?

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

The term Antisemitismus was coined in Germany in the 1870s specifically to describe hate of Jews. It has been used in that sense by historians, governments, scholars, and dictionaries ever since. Francesca should be fired for this statement alone.

[Karoline Preisler @PreislerKa]

Imagine you have a daughter. Your only child #CarolinBohl. Your little girl is attacked and murdered by terrorists #october7thmassacre
Destroyed. Your life is destroyed. Your little girl is dead. Francesca Albanese then writes to you, woman to woman: „Change medication“. #Albanese was never concerned with #humanrights.

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

The Israeli director who won a Cannes prize for a film built around Ahed Tamimi just got forced off a French festival jury for being Israeli.

Nadav Lapid has spent his whole career attacking the occupation. Wasn’t enough to save him from the antizionists.

[Dr. Köllmann (Praxis geöffnet) @CKoellmannZH]

The mother of a German victim of the Hamas massacre of October, 7th, speaks out and this is what this disgusting person has to say. Why do the @UN employ such a person? Fire her already!

[Alex Hearn @hearnimator]

This anti-Jewish disinformation shared by the chair of the @southbankcentre is totally unacceptable.

What an absolute embarrassment he is, openly sharing fantasies about “Jewish billionaires”

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

I can’t actually get over that the Chair of the @southbankcentre shared this nasty antisemitic conspiracy. Kushner and Trump are building an eco-resort and there’s zero plan for anything military. The main investors are from Saudi, UAE and Qatar. How can he continue to lead?

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

I don't see a connection between Hinton believing AI is conscious & AI being actually conscious or not.

No amount of award winning can override the need for real scientific scrutiny to unearth the real truth.

I am going to need solid evidence for the claim that AI is conscious.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

It's a no-brainer: Russian bases in Syria are leftovers from the Assad regime that enabled Moscow's crimes from the sub-Sahara to Syria to Ukraine.

The US should be working with the Syrian government to shut them down, ASAP.

[Parnell Palme McGuinness @parnellpalme]

So Grace Tame gets a gig on the ABC after calling to globalise the intifada and spreading conspiracy denying the sexual assaults on October 7 and Jewish presenter has to apologise for saying he finds that problematic. That is so warped.

[Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky]

@LauraLoomer There is a whole cast of clowns who take money from Russia (Tenet Media) and/or go there on junkets (Candice Owens, Tucker) who think Russia agrees with them & that makes it ok. They aren’t aware Russia also employed Grayzone podcasters etc to attack the US from the left