The Comment

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

Antisemitism is hatred, prejudice, discrimination, or hostility directed at Jews because they are Jewish. A widely used definition says it is a perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred, with acts directed at Jewish people.

Protesting against Israel as a government or state means opposing the actions, policies, laws, military conduct, or political ideology of Israel as a state actor, in the same way people protest any government. Criticism of governments is part of democratic political expression.

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

It is a mark of shame that Kemi Badenoch is silent on Gaza and Lebanon. As a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel it is upon the British people to ask if she has compromised her values to stand with Israel through lobbying and association.

The wider question is how can we trust our politicians to represent the interests of the British people if they are unduly influenced by a foreign state.

Taking money from a foreign government, lobbying for another country’s interests, spreading propaganda, or being influenced by a foreign state would more commonly fall under offences such as:

• Bribery
• Corruption
• Misconduct in public office
• Espionage
• Foreign interference offences under the National Security Act 2023

https://t.co/QkgUFzasay

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️BREAKING: American soldiers deployed to defend Israel had their phones bugged and wiretapped by Mossad – New York Times

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Elements in Britain’s pro-Israel lobby are so worried about our campaign to investigate UK nationals who have served in the IDF that they’re resorting to ludicrous anti-semitism smears.

It’s not going to work. Please add your name to our petition:

👉 https://t.co/2qio0qofyD

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

@timespolitics Good challenge to lazy assumptions, but very weak on acknowledging that incompetence, bias, culture, incentives, and leadership failures can exist at the same time. The real question is not “racism or incompetence?” but “what combination of failures produced this outcome?”

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

You may disagree with Goldsmith’s politics, but notice what happened in your sentence. You did not say “the politician Goldsmith” or “the Conservative Goldsmith”. You chose “the sly Jewish Goldsmith”.

That is exactly the kind of language people would recognise immediately if it were applied to another ethnic or religious group. The criticism stopped being political and became about his Jewish identity.

As for Jews and Israel, that is another broad brush claim. Millions of Jews hold different views on Netanyahu, the war, settlements, and the IDF. Some support the government, some oppose it fiercely, and many are somewhere in between.

Criticise Netanyahu. Criticise the IDF. Criticise Goldsmith. But once Jewishness is used as a political qualifier or character judgement, you have crossed from political criticism into ethnic stereotyping and antisemitism.

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

That does not follow.

The standard should be country neutral. Syria, Russia, Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Ukraine. Same law. Same scrutiny.

A register of British citizens who served in a foreign military does not assume guilt any more than a register of foreign fighters in Ukraine, Syria, or elsewhere assumes guilt. It is simply a record of who served.

The legal question is separate. Were any crimes committed by British nationals? If yes, investigate. If no, close the case.

You do not need to believe Israel is committing genocide to think the government should know how many British citizens fought in a war zone, what roles they played, and whether any allegations have been made against them.

In fact, if you are confident they did nothing wrong, a proper investigation should clear them. Oversight is not the same as guilt.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The Albania rabbit hole goes way deeper than we realize.

The company that is destroying the Albanian wetlands is registered in the Netherlands…

By: girlinalbania

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.

Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Incredible Albanian people.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

It’s hard to comprehend some of these numbers until you actually break it down.

$434,000 PER HOUR😳

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

“Palestine was not a sovereign state before 1948. But saying it ‘never existed’ is false. There was Mandatory Palestine, Palestinian citizenship and Palestine passports. Even Jewish residents held them. The real argument is over sovereignty, partition and national rights, not whether Palestine appeared on official documents.”

And if the standard is that a place only counts once it becomes a sovereign modern state, then the same point applies to Israel. Before 1948 there was no sovereign State of Israel either. History is more complicated than slogans.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.

[GBX @GBX_Press]

Netanyahu: "Did the Nazis politely ask Jews to leave? Did they say 'Please go'? 'Step out so we can move in'? Of course not."
By saying this, he confessed with his own mouth — he is the Nazi now. 🔥🇮🇱🎙️💀
Perfect projection. 😈🎭

[The Comment @thebigcomment]

The UN clearly has a credibility problem. When authoritarian states influence human rights bodies, and when experts take external funding, reform is overdue.

But calling the whole UN a weapon against the West is lazy.

The point is simpler: keep the UN where it protects civilians and exposes abuse, but strip power and credibility from any process that lets dictators launder propaganda as human rights. That is reform, not theatre.

The world still needs institutions that sit above individual states. Without them, disputes are settled increasingly by military power, economic coercion, regional blocs and great power bargaining.

No country, however powerful, can manage pandemics, nuclear proliferation, refugee crises, maritime rules, aviation standards or climate risks alone. The alternative is not a better system waiting in the wings. It is fragmentation.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW! Erin Brockovich completely destroys the AI data center narrative. She confirms these massive facilities emit a non-stop, 24/7 deafening noise that is literally driving local residents crazy!

She exposes the total lack of environmental oversight. Pure corruption!

[Alex Jones @RealAlexJones]

🚨🚨Just in case you missed it. Here is Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words, thanking Congress for implementing “his plan” to take over the US military and intelligence services..🚨🚨

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

A surveillance camera caught a brutal assault by an Israeli soldier and settlers on two young Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Video shows the victims being thrown to the ground and repeatedly beaten, including with a wooden plank, leaving them motionless.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right again about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the United States military with the IDF.

Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the United States to compromise its own security for Benjamin Netanyahu's demands.

"The difference between a conspiracy theory in Washington has been reduced from six months to six days."

[Omni™ @smokelessworld]

"I think people are waking up to the scale of the challenges."

Jack Rankin MP joins Kingsley on The Smokeless Word this week for an honest conversation about the problems facing the UK - and why the first step to solving them is being willing to name them.

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

Watch until the end to see the scale of the problem. It's not an isolated incident. Settlers are burning Palestinian crops across the West Bank🇵🇸, causing devastating economic damage.