Thomas Vakili

Avdankad sosse och civilingenjör. Doktorand i AI och språkteknologi.

[Daniel Suhonen @DSuhonen]

Flytta inte över makten till bankirerna i Frankfurt!
@MaxJerneck på @KatalysInst
Uträkningen bör tas med en nypa salt
@ABDebatt @Aftonbladet @LOSverige @timbro @NilssonPM @LarsCalmfors #svpol
https://t.co/8wY3a0mLPc

[Max Jerneck @MaxJerneck]

Mitt svar på den nya euro-utredningen.

Ger man upp sin valuta ger man upp förmågan att alltid betala sina räkningar.

Det är något oerhört värdefullt som vi inte bör kasta bort.

Staten ska alltid kunna betala sin lån, utan hjälp från Frankfurt, tycker jag.

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

An illegally abducted Jew is languishing in a desert prison. While only one of several abductees held illegally, this man is especially targeted by his captors for being a Jew. Though a US citizen, no US Senator, Congresswoman or man, has lifted their little finger, or even said a word, to secure his safe release.

His name is David Adler, a colleague, dear friend, a member of our extended family. The notorious prison he is languishing in is called Ketziot and is in the Negev desert. His captors are the state of Israel whose operatives abducted David in international waters, along with hundreds of others – an act of (legally indisputable) piracy against the crews of the Global Sumud Flotilla who had set course for a land – the so-called Gaza Strip – that the International Court of Justice, on 19thJune 2024, had declared an illegally occupied territory that Israel had to vacate forthwith. Instead, during the past year, Israel reinforced its siege of Gaza and continued its calculated genocide of its people.

Israeli propaganda (always an essential tool for those seeking to whitewash their war crimes) put forward three gigantic lies by which to justify its piracy on the high seas: First, that David Adler and his comrades were recklessly entering a war zone and violating a security zone. Second, that if they were truly interested in delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, they should have given it to Israel’s authorities who would then deliver it to the people of Gaza. Third, that the crews of the flotilla were funded and directed by Hamas.

That these are gigantic lies is ever so easy to demonstrate.

First, David Adler and his comrades were not entering a war zone but a genocide zone. It was Israel that violated international law by declaring a security zone around Gaza to safeguard their genocide inside Gaza, not the crews of the flotilla whose only weapons were baby formula and some grain.

Second, the people of Gaza are starving to death (when not being bombed to smithereens) because Israel, as several of its ministers have proclaimed, has meticulously connived to prevent food, water and medicine to enter Gaza. In this sense, the notion that the flotilla crews should have handed their aid over to Israel (to add to the existing huge stocks they are actively preventing from reaching Gaza) is laughable.

Third, calling David Adler and his colleagues Hamas-enablers or, even worse, instruments of Hamas smacks of the Israeli government’s desperation in seeking to plaster the Hamas logo on the forehead of anyone whom they want to kill, abduct or vilify.
You may ask: Why am I focusing on David Adler in this post? The reason becomes obvious in a post David uploaded before his much anticipated abduction:

“I almost never write ‘as a Jew’. I share the exhaustion of being forced to put Jewish feelings first… But today I felt compelled to write in that register — as one of the only Jews on this mission… If there’s any part of the Torah that I still remember, it is this obligation it bestows upon us: "Justice, justice you shall pursue."… How could we stand by while the State of Israel perverts this holy obligation, overseeing a holocaust of the Palestinian people? I joined this flotilla just like any other delegate �� to defend humanity, before it is too late. But on Yom Kippur, I am reminded that I am also here because my Jewish heritage demands it.

As a mere adolescent, my grandfather Jacques Adler (pictured) joined the Parisian resistance against the Nazis, putting his life on the line to sabotage their operations even as his friends and family were sent to their deaths in concentration camps. That is the tradition to which I am called, and the definition of “justice” that feels true to my Jewish identity — as the same genocidal rage that targeted my ancestors is now taken up by its principal victims… If Israeli forces intercept us on Yom Kippur, then let them see what true atonement looks like. Not fasting in comfort while starving their neighbors. Not praying in safety while dropping bombs over their heads. Atonement means action. So as the sun sets tonight, and the fasting begins, I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement — together with silent prayer, and toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide. G'mar chatima tova.”

So, THIS is why I am focusing my post on my friend David Adler, without of course neglecting or discounting the sacrifices of our other comrades in Israeli captivity: Because David is the only Jew in the clasps of Israeli war criminals who believe they are perpetrating a genocide on behalf of the Jewish people.

Genocidal maniacs, like Israeli Security Minister Itavar Ben-Gvir, hate an upstanding Jewish man like David Adler more than they hate even Hamas. For it is David Adler’s brave stance that exposes the lie that the Global Sumud Flotilla was an antisemitic fleet of deluded Westerners. For he is a living, breathing reminder (just as his Nazi-resisting grandfather was decades ago) of the error, the criminality, of the ways of those who place a whole people on death row – a splendid example of the Jewish people’s longstanding opposition to orchestrated misanthropy, to pogroms, to genocide.

And this is my reason for fearing for David Adler’s life and limb more than for any of his abducted comrades: because his genocidal abductors feel ever so tiny, ever so small, in the presence of this Jewish man.

[Jenny Maria Nilsson @jennymaria]

Fanimig otroligt. Någon behöver berätta för SvD ledare om detta med att googla innan man utalar sig tvärsäkert i angelägna frågor.

[Daniel Swedin @danielswedin]

Ta tillbaka den demokratiska kontrollen över Riksbanken. https://t.co/9UJmTuQxq1

[Pavlos Cavelier Bizas @pavloscavelier]

Ebba Buschs felcitering av Elina Pahnke visar varför det kanske inte är så klokt att förlita sig på AI-verktyg om man är en högt uppsatt politiker

[Communist Party of Genovia @MissPavIichenko]

A magnificent example of the European culture we’re told doesn’t exist.

Touches my heart every single time.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

[ThePoliticalChef @PoliticalChef]

Högerspinnet och myten om ”självförsörjning” måste sluta att näras i debatten.
Inte ens miljardärer kan försörja sig själva. De lever på andras arbete, privilegierieskapande högerpolitik och kapitalbildning där av.

[Max Jerneck @MaxJerneck]

I’m glad we’re open about this. Independent central banks mean that not only monetary policy but fiscal policy as well is decided by non-elected bureaucrats.

[Linn Svansbo @svansbo]

Mmmm ännu en ung liberal som engagerade sig politiskt för att stoppa rasismens och SD’s framfart

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

I don’t want to hear any 🇪🇺 statement that the 🇺🇸 has the right to defend itself. This is a clearcut violation of international law.

[Johannes Klenell @JohannesKlenell]

Glad misommar! Vi har en regering vars enda överordnade, rätt patetiska, mål är att krossa sin opposition. Sossehat som ideologi hör inte hemma i en fungerande demokrati och håller, rätt bryskt, på att slå sönder Sverige. Skrev om det. Läs gärna!

https://t.co/cOZVBVKluf

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli tank fire kills 51 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food https://t.co/b0Pyf76Ahe https://t.co/b0Pyf76Ahe

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.

[Tony Johansson @TonyJohansson78]

Tidölaget fick inte svaret man önskat från Konjunkturinstitutet. Det kan inte ha varit muntert när de såg det här i KIs rapport 👇. Spinnet blev att undergruppen ”flyktingar” bland utrikesfödda har ett minustecken - en kostnad påstod regeringen felaktigt. Media svalde spinnet.

[Louis Theroux @louistheroux]

Latest from Issa Amro who appeared in my documentary The Settlers. Taunted and harassed by a mob of children outside his house.

[Aturdida @Isa_Resandwich]

Spanish Broadcast of #Eurovision STARTING LIKE THIS. 🇪🇸🇵🇸 #EurovisionSongContest