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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Links - 20th March 2025 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

Meme - Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai: "A Jewish professor at UCLA received this message from Maher Zamel, a graduate of UPenn (and former chairman of their graduate student association) and previous Deputy School Principal.   This is not how political differences look.  This is pure, unmitigated hate."
"Israel trip in 2013 with your wife? Pictures with IDF? Welcome to our database you Zionist scum bag. Every single one of you filthy Zionists taking part in birthright 'activities while inside the colony will be shamed and prosecuted. We have your info. Good luck you filth. Free Palestine. River to the Sea"

David Collier on X - "Every state in the Middle East is a failed or despotic state. Except one. Israel. Every state has a Muslim majority. Except one. Israel. Islamists want that tiny, democractic, Jewish majority state wiped off the earth. This is what "free Palestine" really means."
The left hate success and strength and love failure and weakness, after all

Jonathan Kay on X - "UPDATE: @BUFABrock, the Brock University Faculty Union, has scheduled a new meeting to debate Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz’s motion to target Israel with BDS (helpfully seconded by his own masters-degree supervisor, Nancy Cook). They picked Jan 27—Intl Holocaust Remembrance Day"
Good luck if you choose Ramadan to talk about Islamist Terrorism, even if by random luck that is 30 times more likely

Ryan Rozbiani on X - "When Israel says it is Not an Apartheid, SHOW THEM THIS!"
Corey Walker on X - "Interesting. Do you want to explain *why* the checkpoints are there? They exist because of the Second Intifada and terrorism inflicted upon Israel. It's no different than airport security in the US post-9/11. It's not apartheid, but precautions to protect from terrorism."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Dearborn, Michigan Imam preaches that trying to kill Jews is a "win-win situation." "It is impossible to lose to a Zionist on the battlefield; either you kill him and he goes to hell, or he kills you and you go to paradise. It's a win-win situation.""

‘Monstrous:’ Sydney home, synagogue targeted in latest attack : r/australian - "Don’t worry folks, they’re just expressing opposition to Zionism .  Ironically showing us why Zionism exists in the first place"
"It’s so interesting that they keep on saying “Jewishness has nothing to do with Israel”, but then Australian synagogues get attacked and they can’t stop talking about Zionists and Israel. Odd."

The cultural appropriation of the keffiyeh | The Spectator - "  Jews have never been popular at universities; the phrase ‘too clever for their own good’ might have been invented for them, with a world population of 0.2 per cent taking a whopping 22 per cent of Nobel prizes. The mediocre spawn of the ruling class once had their flimsy self-respect protected by the university admissions quota system, but there’s no longer this handy way to rule the roost. Is it a coincidence that the thickest and most privileged members of the British student body have fallen into the arms of those who have declared war on the world’s only Jewish nation? (The arms of those who would, coincidentally, kill them for their feminism, their atheism and their LGBTQism given half a chance; but, like I said, they’re not too bright.)... Of course, they follow all the strict rules of virtue-signalling, except for one discrepancy. In an age when putting on a sombrero for 60 seconds during a drunken night out at an all-you-can-eat taco bar can be taken as proof of conquistador-level evil (because ‘cultural appropriation’ is far worse than, say, actually stealing from an intimidated shopkeeper) why do these same students swan around wearing the keffiyeh, the black and white chequered Arabic scarf which has become a symbol of the Palestinian ‘struggle’? Why isn’t this as bad as, say, Kim Kardashian wearing braids?   Palestinians on the internet are split. Some think it’s a cheek; others welcome the advertising for their cause. The most amusing response I found was ‘if you choose to wear this emblem, we see it not as an act of cultural appropriation, but as an open-hearted gesture of unity and support for our culture and cause. You know, wearing a keffiyeh is sort of like sporting a superhero’s cape – there’s a bit of responsibility that comes with it’. Does the ‘responsibility’ of supporting the butchering of infidel babies come with it?  If Western students wearing the keffiyeh is ludicrous, Western women wearing the hijab is grotesque – and has a long and ignoble history. The Hamas government long utilised legions of plain clothes police officers who patrolled public places, including beaches, restaurants and even hair salons to make sure that women were dressed ‘modestly’. One wonders how the soppy students so opposed to ‘slut-shaming’ squared this with their support for the governors of Gaza... In 2009, the journalist Asma al-Ghul had her passport and laptop confiscated by the Hamas Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice security force after she laughed in public. It was somewhat surreal then to see a bunch of alleged feminists gleefully hijabing-up on the various ineffectual marches they held to protest against the democratic election of Donald Trump... the narcissism of the superannuated manic pixie dream girl Laurie Penny – who ceaselessly squeals about Western sexism while giving Islamism a hall-pass – reached fever pitch when she dressed up as a Muslim woman for an afternoon in 2010: ‘I wore an abaya with full headscarf…for the first time since puberty, I felt that people might be seeing the real me, rather than looking at my body.’ What a comfort to the brave young women murdered in Iran for not donning the required shroud this must have been.   Then there were those unspeakably stupid Swedish female MPs – Sweden’s self-declared ‘first feminist government in the world’ – who chose to wear the hijab when they visited Iran in 2017. This must have had the woman-hating imams of mosques worldwide wetting themselves with glee that certain sections of free-born Western women were doing their dirty work for them by willingly taking on the mantle of oppression.  It’s not in any way ‘brave’ to cover up. In a world where the brave women of the online movement My Stealthy Freedom are risking their lives in order to feel the sun on their faces, it’s actually a particularly tone-deaf take on Marie Antoinette playing at milkmaids.  Still, we live in strange days, when a woman wearing hoop earrings can be ‘called out’ for cultural appropriation, while a man appropriating womanhood itself can be hailed as a hero(ine). So it shouldn’t be shocking when free, wealthy Western women use the symbol of the oppression of millions of non-Western women as a style accessory.   The celebrities who grandstand at this form of virtue-signalling are, as usual, the most objectionable, as their privilege is so extreme – even greater than that of posh students...   It’s amusing when the sucking up gets rejected: in Abu Dhabi in 2013, Rihanna posed by the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque wearing a black hijab. But the mosque asked her to leave, stating ‘in the event of behaviour that violates the moral codes of access to the mosque, or other visit regulations – such as taking inappropriate pictures, posing in ways that are improper in the context of sacred place, talking loudly, or eating – the violators are directed in a polite manner that reflects the civilisational and tolerant attributes of Islam’. So much for finding love in a hopeless place!  But the serial offender is Bella Hadid. Daughter of a reality TV star and a multi-millionaire Palestinian businessman, she grew up in Beverly Hills and has appeared 29 times on the cover of Vogue yet is forever jostling for a medal in the victimhood Olympics. More than anything, poor Bella would ‘have loved to grow up and be studying and really being able to practice, just in general being able to live in a Muslim culture.’ Instead Hadid, who is, at least – unlike Khloe Kardashian – a Muslim, posed in Doha wearing an Alaia dress – and a hair-covering. At a lavish dinner at the Museum of Islamic Art she wore a Schiaparelli dress – and a head-covering. At Naomi Campbell’s fashion show, there she was in another Schiaparelli dress – and a hood. Looking at her empty eyes peeking out from under her outfit, one can only hope that those who fetishise the veil will one day realise what it is like to have no choice about wearing the outfit and at last comprehend how precious and fragile freedom – especially female freedom – is. But back to the cruelty of the campuses. At a time when Jewish students feel the need to hide the emblems of their actual culture, there’s something particularly sickening and hypocritical about the adoption of the keffiyeh by rich brats. Until, perhaps, one considers that a lot of the alleged ‘culture’ of Palestine itself looks a bit shaky; everything from the flag they nicked from Jordan in 1964 to the ‘Palestinian cuisine’ drooled over on social media as part of the timeless traditions of this proud people. In the light of which, a boy from Bedales called Barnaby prancing around in a keffiyeh is really quite appropriate."

These anti-Israel student protests lay bare the brazen hypocrisy of the woke Left - "Directly beneath the “peaceful and proud” headline was a photo of a student protester whose face was completely obscured by a big black mask.  Now, I’ve no doubt that this student – who for some reason asked not to be named – is a delightful human being who wouldn’t hurt a fly, not even a wicked Zionist one. I would just say, however, that if I were staging some form of protest, and I wished to show the public that my goals were entirely peaceful, I would probably decide against wearing a big black mask. Otherwise, the public might think that a) I looked a tiny bit intimidating, and b) I was carefully concealing my identity because I intended to commit some kind of crime, possibly a violent one... when Left-wing activists decide to make abrupt changes to the rules they’ve sought to impose upon society, I wish they’d let the rest of us know. Say, by sending out a helpful memo or press release. “ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS. Cultural appropriation is no longer considered a heinous offence against marginalised and oppressed minorities. Instead, it is now considered a noble expression of solidarity with them. Please update your records accordingly.”  Something along those lines. Just as a courtesy. Otherwise, it’s not easy for the rest of us to follow the rules, if we’re no longer sure what they are."

Spanish party leader Ione Belarra says Israel commits genocide in Syria - "Spanish Podemos party leader Ione Belarra claimed on Tuesday that the State of Israel was committing genocide in Syria. “Israel is taking advantage of the instability in Syria to advance its colonial and genocidal plan, bombing several areas, including Damascus,” Belarra wrote on social media. “Virtually no Western media outlets are reporting on it. International inaction in the face of genocide endangers humanity as a whole,” she continued... “Belarra cried because the chemical weapons factory with which her colleague Assad gassed the Syrians has been disabled by Israel, which has also carried out surgical attacks on the Syrian air and naval fleet to prevent it from falling into the hands of jihadists”"
To the left, any war fought by the "West" is "genocide" - genocide just means war

BBC staff urged by union to wear Palestinian flag colours and a keffiyeh - "Jewish members of BBC staff have raised concerns after their colleagues were urged to dress in the colour of the Palestinian flag and wear a keffiyeh as part of a “workplace day of action” for Palestine. The event, which is scheduled for Thursday, has been organised by the umbrella union organisation the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to call for a permanent ceasefire, the cessation of violence in Gaza and the release of all hostages. As part of its recommendations, the TUC has suggested participants could “wear something red, green, black or a Palestinian keffiyeh to visibly show solidarity” to their workplace. The call to action was shared by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) with its members last week as it condemned the Israeli government’s attacks, which it said have led to the deaths of at least 135 Palestinian journalists since 7 October 2023. “The NUJ is urging branches and chapels to show support on the day and amplify the union’s calls,” it said. But the request has alarmed some Jewish staff at the BBC, who raised concerns that journalists who donned Palestinian-themed clothing risked compromising the broadcaster’s strict impartiality guidelines and upsetting some of their colleagues. One journalist said that they were reconsidering their NUJ membership after the “hypocritical and antisemitic” action. “BBC journalists, who pride themselves on impartiality and who fought to keep their NUJ free of politics, are being encouraged to break the BBC’s editorial guidelines by supporting a political cause,” they added. “It is also a shocking attack on Jews. Where is the day of action to support the journalists being killed by their own governments across the Middle East, including by Hamas? Where is the NUJ support for Russian journalists that are being held behind bars on trumped up charges by Putin’s regime, those dying or working in perilous conditions in Ukraine?”"
If you think the BBC has a left wing/anti-Israel bias, you're just ignorant because reality has a left wing bias/they're really biased against the Palestinians
If you think unions are suspect because the left has hijacked them, you're a far right extremist

Meme - Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 @Partisangirl: "I will never regret any sacrifice I made for my country.   My only regret is I didn’t sacrifice more."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Syrian Girl lives in Australia."

Meme>/a? - "How Palestine would look like if Israel lost in 1948 *Taken over by Jordan and Egypt*"

Canada foils Iranian plot to murder Irwin Cotler - "“After Oct. 7, my wife and I attended the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. When we flew back to Montreal, security asked us not to leave the airport. Security personnel spoke to me and informed me of what has been characterized as imminent and lethal threats, without going into further details,” Cotler said in an interview with JNS earlier this year. The international legal scholar noted at the time that “the community of democracies including Canada does not understand the threat of Iran.”"
Damn Zionists!

Toronto teacher fired after sharing pro-Palestinian views. Now she’s filing a wrongful termination suit : r/canada - "Don’t worry.  I’m sure they feel that the Jews chased out of their homes in Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Iran through pogroms, discrimination, and imperialism (of the caliphate variety) since 1948 have an indefinite “right of return.”  What’s that? Crickets"

Canada would arrest Israeli PM if he came to Canada: Trudeau : r/canada - "I ish Trudeau gave a shit about arresting the Iranians who shot down a passenger plane full of Canadians."
"Iran also plotted to kill Irwin Cotler former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada"

This unholy axis of Iranian thugs and Marxist psychopaths is an enemy of Muslims too - "Four Arab countries signed the Abraham Accords, a Trump-era initiative that should have garnered that ex-president, for all his manifold faults, a Nobel Peace Prize (at least in a world where the likes of Barack Obama were deemed worthy of such an honor). Behind the current signatories – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan – stood the Saudis, without whose tacit agreement no such steps would have been taken, and everyone knew it. Joe Biden and the Democrats had, therefore, an historic and unparalleled opportunity to bring the occasionally-troublesome Saudis formally into the fold soon after they took office, building on the Trump administration’s work. Instead, with miraculous short-sightedness, they alienated them almost immediately, choosing – instead of peace – to deny to the previous President of the United States any honor for his revolutionary breakthrough, one deemed utterly impossible by the blinkered fools who ruled the State Department for decades.  Despite being snubbed so insultingly, and their consequent and justified anger (remember their unwillingness to provide the US with additional oil, when Biden asked, and their recent flirtation with China?) the Saudis had been strongly considering the continuation and extension of the Abrahamic peace process. In consequence, the totalitarian mullahs of Iran – working with Hamas – were driven to desperation, knowing full well that such an agreement would undermine and isolate them fatally. This is the same Iran, by the way, that the Democrats, under Biden, have utterly failed to resist and control, continuing a pattern well-established by the aforementioned Nobel Laureate Obama. All this means, therefore, that the Saudis could have been on side two years ago had Biden seized the opportunity, thereby negating Hamas’s (and Iran’s) primary aim in attacking Israel. Instead, he and his fellow Democrats downplayed the significance of the Trump administration’s cardinal achievement just to score the cheapest (and yet most expensive) of political points.  So here we are again, with Israeli and Palestinian blood once again being unnecessarily spilled. One of the most shocking elements of this entire tragedy is how many in the West, particularly on the radical Left, have been championing a cause devoted to naught but violence. As a psychologist, I view this as a phenomenon facilitated by the power, accessibility and irresponsibility of social media, which allows for toxic traits exhibited by a small minority to propagate and proliferate, with none of the usual real-world consequences.  A particular form of psychopathology has been well-detailed in recent decades:  a combination of Machiavellianism (instrumental manipulativeness and deceit), narcissism (inflated false self-esteem and desire for unearned attention and status), and psychopathy (a malignant mixture of criminal propensity, callousness and parasitism). These are collectively known as the Dark Triad. More recent investigators of the structure of the darkest of temperamental propensities found it necessary to add an extra dimension to the matrix: sadism – positive delight in the suffering of others. So today we have the Dark Tetrad.   Dark Tetrad types fit well into what is known as Cluster B of personality disorders. Those who manifest Cluster B symptomatology have, in addition to their other psychologically and socially dangerous tendencies, the proclivity to claim positive virtue or outright victim status while pursuing their utterly self-serving, grandiose and destructive ends. They lie, cheat, steal, gossip, reputation-savage, brag, claim credit when none is due, and distribute blame to everyone but themselves – all the while pursuing nothing but their own immediate, immature, hedonistic self-gratification, trumpeting their moral virtue and/or brandishing their identity as oppressed innocents.   It is this narrow, and historically ostracised, behaviour that has been encouraged and facilitated in its distribution by contemporary social media. When such individuals organise – and this happens, from time to time – they threaten the integrity of the entire society within which they operate, hoping to light everything aflame and dance, orgiastically, in the ruins. This happened after the French Revolution. It happened in Soviet Russia. It happened in Nazi Germany. It’s happening now, in the West, with the rise of the most demented woke causes.  This warped psychological perspective has an appeal to groups larger than just the core individuals, and in various surreal guises. How else are you to explain the staggeringly incomprehensible spectacle of, for example, ‘Queers for Palestine’ – perhaps the most egregious example of the union of the desire by ‘progressives’ to tear down everything in the West that is worthy, even at the cost of formulating an alliance that would in an instant be suicidal if it ever made itself manifest... There are many Muslims willing to believe conspiratorial narratives – also spread on social media – about Jewish people. Many of these narratives, if one looks at their source, are deliberately spread by the brutal Iranian regime... I would also ask the same Muslims to consider those in the West who have allied themselves with the cause of the Palestinians in the days since the Hamas invasion. Many of those university students and radical professors you see as your allies are Marxists. Remember – the essential and absolute enemy of the communist utopia is the very religious practice you share with your Abrahamic brothers.   Then there’s the increasingly delusional alphabet brigade of the LGBT ‘community’, foolish and blind enough to assume that commonality of hypothetical oppression is enough to unite it, somehow, with the mullahs of Tehran and the gangsters of Hamas. This is useful idiocy on a scale undreamed of by the most extreme of Leninists and Maoists alike."

Toronto teacher fired after sharing pro-Palestinian views. Now she's filing a wrongful termination suit - "The claim says Della Mora was fired without cause after playing a short video on the conflict in her Grade 8 math class and reposting a portion of an Instagram post expressing a pro-Palestinian stance to her personal account."
Brainwashing your students is all part of the job in education, so being fired for that is outrageous
"Accountability culture" only applies to those who oppose the left wing agenda

Meme - "Pali Identity - Created by an Egyptian
Pali Flag - Created by British. Stolen from Jordan
Keffiyah - Stolen from Iraq and Jordan
Land - Borders created by League of Nations. Stolen from Judeans
History - Stolen from Judeans and Philstines
The Name - Taken from the Romans and British"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Turkey has bombed the Kurds 1031 times in 4 days. You don’t hear any condemnations for Turkey or see our streets rally for the Kurds."
Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people - "“Turkey’s attacks on energy infrastructure have had a devastating impact on civilians,” said Aarif Abraham, a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, adding: “This could constitute a severe violation of international law.”  Patrick Kroker, an international criminal lawyer at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, said that “the indications that international law was violated here are so strong that they should be investigated by a prosecutorial authority”.  The Turkish government said it “fully respects international law”, adding that the UN’s February 2024 report provided “no substantiating evidence” for its “unfounded allegations”.  It blamed water shortages in the region on climate change and “long-neglected water infrastructure” maintenance there."
Plus, Turkey is a western ally, a democracy and a recipient of Western foreign aid - the usual excuses for bashing Israel

‌Hemdad Mehristani on X - "Kurdish civilians displaced by Turkey and Turkish-backed jihadists. 200,000 Kurds ethnically cleansed in less than four days. Zero condemnations from UN."

Meme - "Know your Anti-Zionist
The Far-Left
Hates Israel simply for being allied with the US
Corroboratesthe idea that Israel is a "white ethnostate"
Unironically thinks North Korea is a totally reasonable country
Western LGBT community
So damn confused
Copes by thinking that Palestine is more liberal than it really is
Doesn't want to talk about why LGBT Palestinians seek asylum in Israel
The Irish
- "we were once occupied too, that's why we support palestine"
- Has no other real arguments
The TikTok kid
- Didn't know what "a Palestine" is before the war didn't go viral
- Supports Palestine only because it's the cool new trend
- Doesn't know which river and which sea, but tells everyone else to "educate themselves"
The Islamic Fundamentalist
- Asserts that Jews have nothing to do with the Land of Israel
- Often openly antisemitic and proud of it
- Supports Palestinians in spirit only, won't actually open borders to save their lives
The Neo-Nazi
- Hates Israel only because it is run by Jews
- Hates Jews, but hates Arabs equally as much
- Joins Pro-Palestinian rallies because they can finally spew hatred without being silenced
The Free Palestine NPC - Will spam "FREE PALESTINE" literally everywhere
- Their entire identity is centered around a country they're not from
- Engages in bot-like behavior, and likely is one
The "As a Jew" Jew
- Thinks they have moral superiority to talk on the subject
- Just wants to be accepted by their non-Jewish peers
- Still bitter that they didn't get on birthright trip"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "DISGUSTING: A British man wrote on social media that he doesn’t want to see Palestinian flags all over the UK. The police then showed up to his house at 4am to arrest him. You can take over the streets of the UK, chant in support of terrorism, but be arrested if you oppose it."

Meme - Nioh Berg @NiohBerg: "Brown native 'Palestinian' surrounded by White Polish settlers from Europe. Make it make sense. *white Palestinian woman surrounded by brown and black Jews*"
This is Ahed Tamimi in a military court in Betunia, in the West Bank

Palestinian teen who hit Israeli soldier to serve eight months in prison - The Globe and Mail - "A teenage Palestinian girl who was filmed kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank accepted a plea deal on Wednesday under which she will be sentenced to eight months in prison, her lawyer said.  Ahed Tamimi, 17, became a hero to Palestinians after the Dec. 15 incident outside her home in the village of Nabi Saleh was streamed live on Facebook by her mother and went viral... Tamimi’s case drew global attention. Amnesty International called her the “Rosa Parks of Palestine,” and the small courtroom was often packed with journalists, diplomats and international observers during hearings.  A group of American cultural figures, including actors Danny Glover and Rosario Dawson and novelist Alice Walker, signed a petition calling for her release and comparing her case to those of “the children of immigrants and communities of colour who face police brutality in the United States.”... “When the European people see my daughter, blonde and blue-eyed, they are shaken, because they saw their children in front of them. It broke the stereotyped image of the Palestinian in the international community,” Tamimi’s father, Bassem Tamimi, told Reuters. The images of Tamimi striking the soldier had also made an impact on Israelis, who debated whether the officer should have hit back. The army said the soldier “acted professionally” by showing restraint but right-wing politicians described his behaviour as humiliating."
TIL Rosa Parks attacked the bus driver. The comparison to "police brutality" in the US is more apt, since usually what happens is a thug attacks the police then pretends to be (or people pretend he is) a victim when the police defend themselves

Israel Defense Forces on X - "Yesterday, IDF soldiers identified a 4-year-old child moving towards a post in the security zone. The boy was returned to Gaza by IDF forces and in coordination with international organizations. In a conversation with the soldiers, the child said that he was sent to the post by the Hamas terrorist organization.  Hamas does not hesitate to use any means to cynically use and exploit civilians and children to advance its terrorism."

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