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☭ • student of history • visual Artist • jaywalker • #FreePalestine

[مجد @techn0serf]

Tasakko’(تســكُّع); The Politics of Street Art in Amman.

[مجد @techn0serf]

@ArminNavabi Thanks for proving that Tehran is crawling with mossad.

[Heinrich 🏴 @Heinrich_sch5]

@MOSSADil Still going with this in big 2026 ?

[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.

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

WATCH: Anti-ICE protesters Barrcaide road outside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark NJ late Thursday night.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Graffiti sprayed by Israeli soldiers inside a house in Hula, Lebanon:
"Ethnic cleansing. Death. ✡️"

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

An Al Jazeera investigation has found evidence Israel is building more military posts in Gaza.

Satellite images along the so-called “Yellow Line” suggest Israel is fortifying positions and expanding its presence in the Strip.

Al Jazeera’s Perry Wilton explains.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"We are going to settle in Lebanon, Gaza... The Arabs, with god's help, either they will work for us if they act like well-behaved children or we will throw them one by one to their own countries"

A religious Jew confronts ant-genocide protesters in "Israel"

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Baytin in the West Bank, setting tens of olive trees on fire.

The Israeli army is blocking fire trucks from reaching the site.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Shouqba right now — setting fields and vehicles on fire, storming a soccer field, and beating children.

Residents are pleading for help from neighboring villages.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The House voted today on a new measure to fuse elements of the Israeli and US militaries, particularly on the cyberweapons front. Section 224, as its known, is included in the National Defense Authorization Act. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced an amendment to strip it from the bill. Watch as a stream of Republicans and Democrats stand up in support of the enhanced cooperation. Only Rep. Sarah Jacobs (D-Calif.) joined Khanna, and the measure failed in a voice vote. Watch:

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is unambiguously genocidal against Shias. And it is unambiguously an attempt to reoccupy and even annex a huge part of the country. It’s infuriating that we’re pretending that there’s a ceasefire. And even more infuriating that Western media continues to turn a blind eye to Israel’s endless colonial expansion and insatiable hunger for Arab land.

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

I have no evidence that Israel actually targets civilians

[Khalil Sayegh @KhalilJeries]

Free our hostages

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 “The term ceasefire has been used as a surrender cudgel against the Palestinians in Gaza,” Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill explained on Sky News.

Jeremy noted that Israel signed a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, then violated it repeatedly by killing more than a thousand Palestinians and advancing deeper into Gaza, while the international conversation shifted to demands that Hamas disarm, despite it never agreeing to do so in the signed agreement.

Israel “signed a ceasefire with Hamas, not with the children in tents that they continue to burn alive,” Jeremy said.

His remarks came as an entire family of five was burned alive in new Israeli strikes on residential apartments in Gaza City tonight. (See linked post below.)

@jeremyscahill | @SkyYaldaHakim

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

8 billion people in the world, yet no one hears their screams.

No one even speaks of our genocide in Gaza.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

🚨: It's after midnight in Gaza as Israel is blowing up civilian homes on an unprecedented scale in Gaza City.

Reports on the ground and eyewitnesses talk of charred bodies and massive destruction, coupled with a vast number of casualties.

[مجد @techn0serf]

@eemaanishere You’re not the audience, and that’s ok. She’s giving Jews a different way to be Jewish, since Zionism has possessed it for decades now. It’s for jews to know that there was a time when Jewishness did not mean Zionism. That’s all. Relax and continue to focus on Zionists.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

Now you know. 😌