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Social Enterprise Advocating for Australian Women aged 50+

[Kosher @koshercockney]

One of the greatest speeches from Jonathan Sachs in 2020 and it is relevant NOW more than ever.

If you’ve never heard this before then I’d recommend just giving 2 and half minutes of your time.

A must listen and share.

May his memory be a blessing.

[Alain Weber @alainpaulweber]

7 octobre : des journalistes ripoux ? Une enquête qui sème le trouble…

Le journaliste allemand indépendant Wolfgang Tietze, ancien collaborateur de Der Spiegel et de Spiegel TV, vient de publier une enquête consacrée à la présence d’otages israéliens à l’hôpital Al-Shifa, à Gaza, le 7 octobre 2023.

Selon son investigation, fondée sur l’analyse de nombreuses photos et vidéos, plusieurs journalistes palestiniens auraient été présents et auraient documenté l’arrivée d’otages israéliens à Al-Shifa, sans que ces images aient ensuite été transmises ou signalées aux rédactions internationales.

Tietze reconstitue notamment les déplacements de plusieurs véhicules ayant quitté les localités israéliennes attaquées pour rejoindre l’hôpital.

Il affirme pouvoir identifier 16 véhicules et plusieurs dizaines d’otages, dont Naama Levy et Ori Megidish.

Certaines images montrent également des terroristes armés au sein du complexe hospitalier.

Son enquête soulève donc une question particulièrement lourde : que savaient les journalistes présents sur place et qu’ont-ils réellement transmis à leurs rédactions ?

Tietze met notamment en cause la couverture du New York Times, du Washington Post et du Wall Street Journal, estimant que certains éléments pourtant visibles ce matin-là n’ont pas été rapportés.

Il annonce vouloir transmettre son dossier à la Cour pénale internationale, estimant que les journalistes ayant été témoins de ces faits auraient pu être confrontés à des obligations déontologiques, voire davantage.

Car au-delà des images du 7 octobre, elle pose une question essentielle : jusqu’où peut aller le silence d’un journaliste lorsqu’il est témoin d’un crime ?

Source : Eric Vial, Facebook !

[Michael C @Michaeach3]

Mazal Tazazo survived the Nova massacre by lying among the dead and pretending to be one of them.

For hours Hamas terrorists moved through the area while people around her were being murdered.

Any movement could have exposed that Mazal was still alive.

Survival meant staying completely still and convincing the terrorists that there was no one left to kill.

Never forget what Hamas did at Nova and never forget the survivors who lived through that horror.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Marcia Langton, a prominent scholar and advocate for Indigenous Australians, testified at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on the abuse she has faced for defending Australian Jews.

Langton is Aboriginal Australian, a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara Aboriginal groups. She’s been an activist all her life.

"Labelling me as a zio … I'm therefore made voiceless in the debate," said Langton. "The foul treatment of Jewish Australians cannot be justified by saying that Israel is doing this in Gaza."

Not only has she been subjected to verbal abuse, but the windows in her car were broken.

All for saying Australian Jews don't deserve abuse.

Free Palestine says it cares about indigenous rights. So why are they attacking an indigenous activist for her views?

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

My friend Mike Livschitz, who lost his family member Hila Keylin at the Nova festival, visited the site and documented everything in this powerful 25-part thread.

He walked the Road of Death, stood at Hila’s memorial, read the last messages between her and her nine-year-old daughter, and ended with his family, choosing to live and dance again.

We should never forget the barbaric hands that murdered, raped, and kidnapped innocent people.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

For years, the @UN said Gaza was starving, and Israel was singularly to blame.

In 2023, it warned of mass starvation.
In 2024, famine was “imminent.”
By 2025, the UN-backed IPC said famine was happening.

Now, new UN data shows acute malnutrition across Gaza at 0.2% to 0.8%, comparable to or below pre-war levels, and lower than neighboring Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan.

Those famine claims were used to accuse Israel of deliberately starving civilians, despite questionable methodology, shifting thresholds, and data that did not support the claims.

Which raises the question: if there was never a famine in Gaza, why was the UN so invested in falsifying one?

[Craig Considine @CraigCons]

One of Gaza’s bravest voices - the man who co-organized the 2019 “We Want to Live” street protests against Hamas’s death culture - just delivered an unflinching demand: Hamas’s ideology must be eradicated the same way Nazism was. Wipe it out completely.

His vision is clear:

Demilitarize Gaza first.

Then deradicalize.

And finally rebuild a people capable of critical thinking and tolerance.  

The UAE, as Moumen notes, proves it is possible.

Watch this. Share it.

The next generation of Gazans - and the entire region - depends on it.

[David Harris @DavidHarrisNY]

Turkey OCCUPIED #Gaza for 400 yrs. Never offered independence.

Turkey MASSACRED 1.5 million Armenian #Christians. To this day, never acknowledged the genocide.

Turkey was NEUTRAL & PROFITED from war against greatest evil in history—German Nazism.

Turkey has OCCUPIED 37% of EU member #Cyprus since 1974.

Turkey has SUPPRESSED aspirations of tens of millions of #Kurds.

Turkey JAILS political dissidents & journalists.

Turkey HOSTS #Hamas & other terrorists.

Turkey CONSPIRES w/ radical, anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood.

And we’re supposed to take morality lessons from @RTErdogan & company?

Give me a break!

[Oren Kessler @OrenKessler]

Hi @guardian -- historian of British Mandate Palestine here.

This sentence on the Temple Mount is journalistic and historical malpractice:

"Infringement by Jewish extremists triggered riots in the British Mandate period between the world wars"

https://t.co/S473XBLKMp

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Is Hamas already getting a political makeover? A new Western‑driven disaster is brewing for Gaza and the Palestinian Territories, one that looks less like accountability and more like an effort to rescue Hamas from collapse. Under European pressure, and with apparent U.S. approval, Hamas is now expected to participate in Palestinian elections scheduled for November. President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a decree setting legislative elections for November 28, 2026; the first vote since the disastrous 2006 elections that empowered Hamas, paralyzed Palestinian politics, enabled the group’s takeover of Gaza, and ultimately set the stage for October 7. Hamas, along with factions like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, the DFLP, and Mustapha Barghouti’s National Initiative, is trying to assemble a broad coalition to challenge Abbas and Fatah.

Most stunning is Hamas’s emerging alliance with a renegade Fatah faction led by Mohammed Dahlan, once Hamas’s sworn enemy and the PA’s former strongman. Dahlan’s camp is openly signaling willingness and eagerness to partner with Hamas to weaken Abbas, whose authoritarian rule has become so intolerable that even ideological rivals are willing to unite against him.

European donors to the PA, UNRWA, and Palestine-focused NGOs have long pushed for elections to address the PA’s deep legitimacy crisis. Meanwhile, parts of the Trump administration, through the Gaza ceasefire and the proposed Hamas disarmament plan, offered Hamas a political track and potential amnesty if it abandoned terrorism and armed “resistance.” This may have encouraged Hamas to accept disarmament, believing it could achieve through politics what it failed to achieve through violence. It also helps explain Hamas’s gradual shift toward Turkey, an Islamist‑led state with long experience reinventing itself after coups, crises, and political setbacks. Hamas appears to be studying that playbook closely.

Hamas must never again be trusted with Palestinian politics. It should face the kind of post-defeat reckoning that Nazi Germany faced after World War Two or that the Baathist regimes of Iraq and Syria faced after their collapse. Why would a defeated terror organization that inflicted immense damage on its own people, its neighbors, and the entire region be offered an exit strategy or a political off-ramp? What possible campaign promise could Hamas present that makes it worthy of consideration in Palestinian elections? More war and jihad? More governance failures? More corruption and theft of aid? Hamas is a spent force, a used and discarded object, a wrecked entity that cannot be repaired or repurposed.

Western governments, elites, and observers continue to display remarkable naivete about the Middle East, Arab political culture, and ideologically driven movements. Democracy is not simply voting at a booth. It is the creation of a democratic tradition, a free society, an open media environment, and a civic ethos that is not driven by ideology, religion, or extremism. Palestinian politics require deradicalization and a new framework that learns from past failures. They do not require the empowerment of factions whose actions produced repeated catastrophes and undermined legitimate Palestinian aspirations for freedom and prosperity.

The United States, under a Republican administration twenty years ago, made a grave mistake by insisting on elections that included Hamas. Will the Trump administration repeat the same error once again?

[Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter @susannschroeter]

Wir brauchen nicht nach Afghanistan zu schauen, wenn es um Zwangsverheiratungen von Mädchen geht. Diese gibt es genauso in Deutschland und in Österreich, ja, überall in Westeuropa. Was sagt uns das? Der freie Westen, der sich brüstet, die Menschenrechte in vorbildlicher Weise umgesetzt zu haben, versagt vollständig, wenn es um die Rechte von Mädchen und Frauen in muslimischen Communities geht. Warum? Weil man Muslime als Opfer einer "strukturell rassistischen Gesellschaft" sieht und es sich deshalb verbietet, auf Missstände aufmerksam zu machen. Verantwortlich sind Ideologien, die in westlichen Universitäten gelehrt werden, darunter auch der "intersektionale Feminismus", der die Blindheit gegenüber Gewalt in migrantischen Strukturen zu einem fast religiös anmutenden Dogma stilisiert hat. Damit muss endlich Schluss sein. #Frauenrechte, #Islam, #Zwangsehen
https://t.co/1bwXZJkSyV

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

The numbers are not in dispute.

Across 17 Western countries, journalists consistently prefer parties further left than the voters they report on. They cluster around environmentalism, feminism, social liberalism, socialism and support for the European Union. The two most reliable negative markers in the entire dataset were “conservative” and “nationalist”.

In Britain, more than half of journalists place themselves on the left and just under a quarter on the right. In the 1960s the ratio was roughly two to one. By the 2000s, as few as 7 percent of American journalists identified as conservative, against 33 percent of the American public. In Australia, 51 percent describe themselves as left of centre and 12.9 percent as right of centre.

Stop calling this a conspiracy. It is worse than a conspiracy. A conspiracy requires instructions. A monoculture does not. Everyone in the room already agrees before the meeting starts, and the agreement is invisible to them because they have never met anyone who holds the other position seriously.

So the bias almost never sits in the sentence. It sits in the question nobody thought to ask. Who is introduced as an expert and who is introduced as controversial. What must be defended and what is simply the air in the room. Christianity gets examined. Islam gets protected. The nation gets suspicion. The supranational project gets to be the premise.

Then the loop closes. The press borrows its authority from the academy. Researchers say. Experts warn. The university supplies the expert, the journalist supplies the microphone, and you are handed a closed circuit and told it is the world.

Control of the press was never necessary. Control of the classroom was enough.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Renata Faccincani della Torre, a 21-year-old Italian aristocrat, ran a secret Allied station from her Milan home.

A skilled skier, she guided airmen, soldiers and spies across the mountains into Switzerland. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1945, she was freed and returned to fight.

[psyaujourd'hui @psyaujourdhui]

Ariel Bibas et son chien, Tonto.
Tonto a été abattu par le Hamas le 7 octobre, et Ariel a été enlevé à Gaza avec son petit frère et sa mère, où ils ont tous été étranglés à mort par des terroristes gazaouis devant leur mère
Je ne laisserai jamais le monde oublier.

[Uzi Izhaky - עוזי יצחקי @UziCfo]

#טבח_נתניהו_7_באוקטובר #שואתנתניהו #ועדת_חקירה_ממלכתית לא נשכח ולא נסלח

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

On this 'International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism', I remember the 15 victims murdered by Islamic terrorists at the Bondi Beach Chanukah celebration on Dec 14th last year. May their memories always be a blessing!

🕯️ Alexander Kleytman
🕯️ Rabbi Eli Schlangen
🕯️ Boris Tetleroyd
🕯️ Boris and Sofia Gurman
🕯️ Reuven Morrison
🕯️ Edith Brutman
🕯️ Marika Pogany
🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Levitan
🕯️ Peter Meagher
🕯️ Tibor Weitzen
🕯️ Dan Elkayam
🕯️ Adam Smyth
🕯️ Tania Tretiak
🕯️ Matilda, 10

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

On the morning of October 7, Oz Moshe and Naomi Baker tried to escape the music festival by car, but the terrorists' bullets struck Oz, seriously wounding him.

Naomi contacted emergency services and begged for help. She also called her family.

At that very moment, as Oz lay dying beside her, the terrorists approached the car and asked, "Do you have any weapons?"

Naomi answered, "No."

The terrorists then shot Oz again at close range and murdered Naomi as well.

[Sharon Daniel @SharonDani64833]

"My name is Gal and i'm jewish".

-Gal Gadot.

[Conservatism And Elegance 🇺🇲 @ThayzzySmith]

JUSTIÇA FEITA

Maya Foder fugiu para salvar a vida quando terroristas atacaram o Festival de Música Nova, mas foi capturada pelo terrorista do Hamas, Muhammad Fathi Hussein, perto de Ofakim. Ele primeiro atirou em sua perna, depois a estuprou e a matou. Ele mutilou seus genitais.

Muhammad foi morto pelas Forças de Defesa de Israel em um ataque aéreo, O terrorista foi explodido

[noelle lenoir @noellelenoir]

Les soi disant « féministes » en se taisant et en soutenant ces criminels islamiques #Iran se font complices d’un VRAI génocide, l’un des plus atroces de notre siècle Honte à ces militantes sans âme! @Benedetti65 @celine_pina @RachelBinhas @StephaneRozes