Links - 2nd April 2026 (1 - Iran War)

Caitlin Johnstone | Facebook - ""It's possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH." Sure you can. But you shouldn't. You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagandist in the middle of a US war of immense consequence. You should not do the hasbarists' job for them. Make them do their own job themselves. This war already has a huge number of propagandists screaming "REGIME BAD" at the top of their lungs in order to ensure that the slaughter continues. You don't need to add your voice to the chorus, and you shouldn't. You should not help them manufacture consent for more human butchery. You should be using your voice solely and exclusively to end the butchery your government and its allies are inflicting on human beings. All your "REGIME BAD" sloganeering accomplished was paving the way to the carnage you see before you today. Your self-righteous denunciations of the Iranian government failed to expand the rights of a single Iranian woman or LGBTQ individual. All you accomplished was helping to grease the wheels for a war of unfathomable horror, ensuring that all Iranians now live under more fear and misery than ever before. If you live under the western empire, you have an ethical obligation to use your voice responsibly in that context. You don't get to just irresponsibly feed into an active war propaganda campaign by regurgitating the same regime change narratives about an empire-targeted government as the US and Israeli governments, and then pretend this doesn't make you culpable for the consequences of your actions. If your words help grease the wheels of the war machine, then you bear partial moral responsibility for what the war machine does with your assistance. You don't get to just pretend that responsibility doesn't exist. The families who are being torn apart with the help of your pro bono war propaganda efforts do not care about your anarchist or Trotskyist "all tyranny is equally bad" political philosophy or how good your virtuous purity posturing makes you feel about yourself. All they experience is the consequences of your actions. As a westerner, your one and only duty is to oppose the depravity of the western empire. That's your only job. Don't lean out the window of the Empire of Perpetual Bloodlust to wag your finger at empire-targeted countries in the global south. It's obnoxious. Curb the murderousness of your own government and its allies. THAT'S your job. If you get your job done, THEN come talk to me about how bad and wrong some random government in west Asia looks to you. Until then, shut the fuck up and do your job."
When left wingers admit that they just hate the West.

Thread by @TrentTelenko on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The Mullah Regime of Iran is in very deep trouble. Any critical thinker can see that.  What I find remarkable is how many people who should know better are so blinded by their hostility to Netanyahu and Trump that they ignore the military context and the domestic context inside Iran.
The outcome of this war was decided before it began. The January 2026 uprisings occurred because the Iranian currency had collapsed and the economy was collapsing.  This was due to a massive increase in American economic warfare starting right at the beginning of the second Trump administration. Inflation was over 100% a year in January 2026.  The war has made this much worse. Hyper-inflation has now set in and that has only one ending. IMO Iran’s economy and mullah regime will totally collapse in 4-5 months, even if the war ends immediately.  Even if oil exports last until then, hyperinflation means the oil industry workers will go out on strike and the regime protection forces must seek other jobs to feed their families. The latter has already started to happen.
On the military front, these recent Iranian missile/drone launch depletion curves, using AI collected empirical data, shows TELs and munitions may still be squirreled away in dispersal sites, and some blocked tunnels may have been excavated.  The volume has been knocked back over 90%. Only drones are a sustaining asset.
Nowhere is the Mullah Regime's plight underlined more than with Iranian threats against Gulf power to desalination plants.  These threats are genocidal in nature. The lack of understanding of that point just blows my mind.
The inept reactions we see from those who should know better demonstrate how few people understand what happens when the potable water supply is gone in a desert.  Pres. Trump will use graphite weapons against Iranian power plants to show he follows through on his threats and the IRGC will respond with more lethal force against the Gulf infrastructure. It’s likely Iran will hit this target set no matter what Trump does or does not do as they will seek to do as much damage as they can as they go down.  The IRGC are looking for leverage, and their faction of the Mullah regime doesn't care about the consequences, as this is a survival issue for them.  This is the full 1945 German NSDAP "Sampson option" protocol.
How is Iran "winning" when they are shattering their relationships with every Iran appeaser globally?  Additionally, the bottom 40% of Iran has been using barter to obtain food since Nov 2025, and that is what kicked off the failed Jan 2026 rebellion.  Yet otherwise, smart people still say Iran is 'winning' because they hate Trump. Even the ones who acknowledge Mullah regime security forces are not getting paid.  This is madness.
Iranian food insecurity cannot be anything but chronic, and yet some of these people say Iran has food supplies via using the Yuan to buy it across land borders and not by sea via Bandar Abbas.  Which is a dollar-denominated trade and is the cheapest food source due to the lower transportation costs of sea and connected railroads. This is maritime supply chain logistics 101.  Iran as an example of the "irrational regime hypothesis" is less and less a hypothesis and more and more a horror story.
Given Iran's controlling IRGC faction is executing the 1945 German NSDAP end of regime protocol.  We are at the end of an age.  The IRGC-dominated Mullah regime will try to do what it can to bring down the West and the Arab world.  Whether is because the IRGC/Mullah faction hates the Arabs as they are Sunnis, more than they hate the West as secular / Christian, or they hate the Jews is an open question.  [I think "Yes" covers it.]  For the IRGC faction of Iran's Mullah Regime, the concerns of the "internal power game" control, with external reality merely as props for that struggle.  Which is the "Irrational Regime hypothesis" in a nutshell.
Again, we are at the end of an age.  The damage Iran’s Mullah regime does to the world on its inevitable way out guarantees it."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: An Iranian missile struck a Muslim village in Northern Israel on the last night of Ramadan. Ilhan Omar has yet to condemn the repeated attack by Iran against Muslims during Ramadan."

Mario Nawfal on X - "🇮🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 Iran just proved its missiles can reach far beyond the Middle East  Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK military base sitting 4,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean.  Neither hit the base, but the message landed harder than any warhead could.  Tehran has always publicly claimed its missile range tops out at 2,000 km.   This strike attempt doubles that number overnight.   The Khorramshahr-4 that likely carried out the attack can also deliver cluster warheads, the same munitions that have been devastating Israeli cities for three weeks.  Look at the map.  A 4,000 km range from Tehran draws a circle that reaches Paris, London, and most of Europe.  Every NATO capital that thought this war was a distant Middle Eastern problem just realized Iranian missiles could theoretically reach their doorstep.  Source: @sentdefender  WSJ"
Piers Morgan on X - "So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying."
Saul Sadka on X - "The IRGC can definitely hit the UK with a missile that can hit Diego Garcia, the distance is the same, and if it hadn’t been for the efforts of the United States and Israel, all of Europe would have been under a permanent jihadi nuclear cloud, since just as they were lying about the missile range, they were lying about building the nukes to put on the end of those missiles: nukes to destroy London, Paris, and Madrid, and bring about the Armageddon they are religiously bound to crave.  No need to thank Israel and the United States for literally saving the world, but history will know what they did, and how the childish leaders of Europe stood on the sidelines and whined as the adults saved them from their own stupidity."
The cope is that it was an Israeli/American false flag

The Spectator Index on X - "BREAKING: Palestinian Interior Minister has condemned Iranian attacks on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states"
Clearly, Palestine is controlled by "Zionists" and must be destroyed

Meme - Carl Zha: "I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father."
The Love Life Of An Asian Guy: "I will always be fascinated with the way propagandized, pro-war, islamaphobic Americans shamelessly consume movies, tv shows, and books that center around marginalized people rising up to fight the authoritarian elites, blissfully unaware that the main protagonist they love so much would probably beat their ass if they met in person."
Scott Laviolette: "Paul Muadib is the bad guy in Dune lol"
"Media literacy" doesn't mean understanding what a cultural work is about. "Media literacy" means pushing the left wing agenda

Meme - "I JUST CAN'T SUPPORT THE MONEY SPENT ON AN ENDLESS WAR WITH IRAN. THIS NEEDS TO BE OVER IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS!"
"COOL STORY, NOW DO UKRAINE!"

Lebanon expels Iranian envoy, becomes third Gulf nation to act against Tehran
Damn Zionists!

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "It’s amazing how our Government can’t seem to find 700 IRGC individuals living in Canada, but could immediately find out who donated 5 bucks to the Freedom Convoy"

Moral Clarity Is Not Optional - "I’ve been listening to Democrats and the No War in Iran crowd demand ridiculous things. They want public announcements of timelines, strategic plans, budgets, manpower, reports on readiness, and briefings that will be immediately leaked. They want down to the minute accounts of what Trump knew and when he knew it and what he plans to do and what he will rule out, all the while knowing that releasing all this information would mean disaster for any military move.  I recognize all of it is just an attempt to stop American leadership from ending a half-century of threats, the funding of death around the world, and a risk of nuclear war... I’ve studied some of great Western leaders – Reagan, Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, even FDR and Truman’s wartime leadership—and it appears to me that great leadership requires many traits—competence, discipline, patience—but above all, it requires moral clarity. Even our American Founding Fathers chose moral clarity in separating from England to form a new nation.  A nation that cannot distinguish between right and wrong, friend and foe, truth and deception, will eventually succumb to a do-nothing paralytic—this is especially true in foreign affairs, where the stakes are not theoretical but existential. While strategy, diplomacy, and calculation all matter, they must rest on a foundation of moral certitude. Without that foundation, leadership becomes reactive, inconsistent, and ultimately ineffective... The great failures of leadership have often stemmed not from excessive moral clarity, but from its absence—from an unwillingness to call things what they are. When leaders refuse to recognize aggression, duplicity, or ideological hostility for what they are, they do not create peace; they invite exploitation.  At the same time, it is important to recognize that foreign policy is not a courtroom. Nations are not judges issuing verdicts from a position of detached authority. Foreign policy is far closer to a chessboard—dynamic, adversarial, and unforgiving. Every move invites a counter-move. Every decision carries second- and third-order consequences. The objective is not merely to be right, but to prevail.  Yet even on a chessboard, there are rules and more importantly, an objective: to win.  That is where moral clarity and strategic thinking must intersect"

Israel: Jerusalem holy sites closed to protect worshippers of all faiths - "Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem have been closed “for one reason: protecting worshippers,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, after official Palestinian Authority TV claimed that wartime restrictions were in place to facilitate a “Passover sacrifice.”  “The same safety measures apply to the Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” the ministry wrote in an X post.  “While the Iranian regime fires missiles at civilians of all religions—even toward Jerusalem’s holy sites during Ramadan—Israel protects the life and safety of all worshippers,” the Foreign Ministry added. The Israel Defense Forces’ Home Front Command instituted an across-the-board ban on all public gatherings of more than 50 people due to security concerns following the outbreak of the fighting with Iran... Dean Elsdunne, the police’s international spokesperson, said in a social media post on Friday that “an area such as the Temple Mount complex has no proper shelter for ballistic missiles—definitely not for tens of thousands of people.”  On Feb. 28, the first day of the war, an Iranian warhead impacted “just a few hundred meters” from Jerusalem’s Old City.  The bomb was neutralized by bomb disposal teams of the Israel Police, “who transferred it for further examination at explosives laboratories.”"
This doesn't stop terrorism supporters lying that they didn't close Jewish sites or that they're persecuting Christians and Muslims by closing their sites

Israeli police say new framework aims to ‘enable freedom of worship’ in Jerusalem - "Pizzaballa instead celebrated Mass in the nearby St. Savior’s Monastery, a soaring marble church which is located next to an underground music school that the Israeli military has deemed a safe shelter space."
Damn religious persecution, not letting Christians celebrate Mass!

KanekoaTheGreat on X - "🚨NEW: Steve Witkoff says Iran had 460kg of 60% enriched uranium. "There's no reason to be at 60% unless you're pursuing a weapon." "They have been testing for weaponization since 2003." "They could have easily taken the 60% and made a dirty bomb.""

M.A. Rothman on X - "𝐑𝐎 𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆. 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝟏𝟏 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐒' 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐔𝐌 𝐀𝐓 𝟔𝟎% 𝐄𝐍𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓.
Let's be precise about what Ro Khanna is actually arguing — because it deserves to be stated clearly before it is demolished.  Khanna's position: Iran was not an imminent threat. The JCPOA had enrichment down to 3.6%. We could have negotiated tougher terms through Oman. There were no ICBMs pointed at America. We should have kept talking.  Now here is the reality that Jacqui Heinrich delivered in a single sentence that Khanna had no answer for: Iran walked into negotiations and opened with the declaration that they had enough enriched material to build 𝟏𝟏 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬 and were two weeks from doing so.  That was their 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Not a leaked intelligence assessment. Not an American estimate. Iran said it themselves — at the table — as a statement of leverage. They were not hiding their nuclear capability. They were weaponizing it as a negotiating tool. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 "𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭."  Now let's talk about the JCPOA — Khanna's great fallback position. The 2015 deal that was supposed to hold Iran's enrichment at 3.6%. Let's examine what that win actually produced.  Weapons-grade uranium requires 90% enrichment. The JCPOA was supposed to cap Iran at 3.6%. When inspectors and intelligence agencies tracked what Iran was actually doing, they found enrichment at 𝟔𝟎% — nearly seventeen times the agreed limit, and two-thirds of the way to weapons-grade. Iran signed the deal, pocketed the sanctions relief — billions of dollars that funded H-z-b, H-m-s, and every proxy war across the region — and kept enriching the entire time.
That 3.6% Khanna is so proud of? 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭. They reached 60% while diplomats congratulated each other on the success of the framework. And then they walked into the next round of negotiations bragging about enough material for 11 bombs. That is not a negotiating success story. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞.  Khanna argues the JCPOA bought 15 years of delay. But even accepting that framing entirely — delay to what? At the end of those 15 years, sunset clauses expire, restrictions lift, and Iran is legally permitted to enrich to whatever level they choose. With a more advanced centrifuge program. A more sophisticated missile arsenal. A more entrenched regional proxy network. And 15 additional years of revenue funding all of it. The JCPOA did not solve the Iranian nuclear problem. 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭.  Even Democrats acknowledged this. Even JCPOA supporters conceded it was a delay mechanism, not a permanent solution. Khanna himself admits in the interview that you'd need tougher negotiations afterward. But Iran just told you at the table that they already have 60%-enriched material sufficient for 11 bombs and are two weeks from assembly. Explain exactly what leverage produces tougher terms from a country that has already crossed every red line, violated the existing deal, and is openly bragging about its nuclear capability.  𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Decades of diplomacy. Two nuclear deals. Billions in sanctions relief. And Iran arrives at the table at 60% enrichment, bragging about 11 bombs, two weeks from a weapon.  Khanna says we have now created a threat by acting. Let's look at what acting produced.
- The nuclear program is set back.
- The factories are rubble.
- The missile stockpile has drained 90% in ten days.
- The Supreme Leader is incapacitated.
- Kharg Island — 90% of Iran's oil export capacity — has been struck.
- And Iran's Foreign Minister is raging on camera because HIMARS rounds are landing from UAE soil.
 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞.   Ro Khanna's alternative was another round of talks with a regime that signed the last deal, violated it immediately, enriched to 60%, and then opened the next negotiation by announcing 11 bombs.  And here is the part that should keep every American up at night. This man — Ro Khanna — and the Democrats who think exactly like him were one election away from being in charge of this decision. They would have gone back to the table. They would have offered more sanctions relief. They would have accepted another framework with more sunset clauses and more loopholes and called it diplomacy. And Iran would have kept enriching and producing viable nuclear weapons.  Instead we have a president who looked at 60% enrichment, 11 bombs, and two weeks on the clock — and decided the negotiations were over.  The factories are rubble. The program is set back by years. The Supreme Leader is incapacitated. And the man who made that call is Donald Trump — not a career diplomat, not a think-tank consensus builder, not a president who measures success by the number of agreements signed rather than the number of centrifuges destroyed.  𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐨 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚."

Tahmineh Dehbozorgi on X - "This is an ILLEGAL war on Mordor.  We’re told Sauron “poses an existential threat,” yet somehow this involves sending hobbits 1,500 miles to a volcano.   Regime change in Mordor will only create a power vacuum filled by worse orcs.  Sauron is bad, sure. But is he “march to Mount Doom” bad?  Meanwhile second breakfast is underfunded.  Tell me again how this puts the Shire first?"

Apranik 🇮🇷🇮🇱 on X - "A reporter asked 50 EU politicians in Strasbourg (including the head of the Ecologist party) to simply point to Iran on a map.  NOT A SINGLE ONE got it right. They pointed to Bulgaria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia!   These exact people sit in cozy offices, dictating Middle East policy and appeasing the Islamic Republic, while lacking basic geography skills.  And YES, throughout their 47 years of appeasement, this terror regime has slaughtered our brightest stars!"
Time to mock Americans for being ignorant

Jill Stein on Iran / Iran & Terror Financing

Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein: "holy shit. if confirmed this changes everything."

Tayyaba Usmani @TUsmaniX: "Iranian officials have officially confirmed that a U.S. air operation in Tehran failed, & 173 American soldiers & officers from the U.S. military's elite unit known as "Delta Force" were captured."

Readers added context: "The second picture has the Gemini watermark on the bottom right showing it's a fake Al picture. Account is a free account as evidenced by Google's TOS...."

Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire: "When I was in the DoD, one of the things I worked on was understanding global terrorist financing

Every scheme somehow involved Iran and drugs in America

Delete the Islamic Regime and so many problems will simmer down:

- drug supply in America
- disinfo bots
- terror proxies"

"Money Laundering at Lebanese Bank
The chart below shows the intricate money-laundering system the Lebanese Canadian Bank used to divert money to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, according to United States officials.

According to American officials, the Lebanese Canadian Bank was the hub of an international drug money laundering operation with ties to Hezbollah. Used car and other consumer goods sales revenues had been used to mask the proceeds of illegal drug trade.

LEBANESE CANADIAN BANK

EXCHANGE HOUSES

MONEY
Some money is diverted to Hezbollah.

MONEY
Some money is returned to the U.S. to purchase more used cars.

*drugs from Africa to EUROPE, MONEY back to Africa*
Drugs are sold in Europe. Proceeds are mixed with legitimate used car sale profits in Africa and sent to the L.C.B. through exchange houses.

U.S
Used cars are shipped from the U.S. and sold in Africa.

Money from the L.C.B. is sent through U.S. accounts to pay Asian suppliers of consumer goods
*money to CHINA*

Cocaine is sent from Colombia to European markets via Africa.

COLOMBIA
MONEY from SOUTH AMERICA to Colombia

DRUGS from Colombia to Africa

CONSUMER GOODS from China to South America
Goods from Asia are shipped to consumer product dealers and sold in South America in a scheme to pay off cocaine suppliers."

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Links - 28th March 2026 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023 [including Francesca Albanese])

Meme - Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: "Remember UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, the one who implied that Israelis eat human flesh and that Israel is humanity's common enemy. She just retweeted Dyab Abou Jahjah, a former Hezbollah member who became a politician in Belgium, saying that "the Lebanese resistance is fighting to defend the country". A UN employee is openly siding with a Hezbollah member and defending the terrorist group. The fact that Albanese's contract has been renewed tells us everything we need to know about the UN's bias."
Francesca Albanese, UN Spe... @FranceskAlbs: "The New World isn't West vs the vast, North vs South. It's UP vs DOWN: filthy rich vs everyone else, with a cohort of cowards, racists & opportunists in between, sustaining an imperial war-driven system bombing ppl into submission. Time for an ethical course correction"
Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah: "The Lebanese resistance is fighting to defend the country. Resistance against occupation is a right recognized under international law. Israel has chosen to destroy Lebanese villages an..."
Since the Lebanese government has condemn Hezbollah, it's proof that they are controlled by "Zionists" and must be ignored!

Francesca Albanese in Her Own Words - "Holocaust Distortion, Trivialization and Comparisons to Nazis
Conspiracies about Jewish power
Demonization and Delegitimization of Israel
Denying or Diminishing the Oct. 7th Massacre
Justification of Violence
Albanese’s Antisemitism Prior to Her UN appointment...
In 2014, Albanese expressed excitement on Facebook that Hamas was removed from the list of terror organizations by the EU General Court: “Two good news one after another from the radio while I was taking a nap. Normalization in the relations usa cuba [sic] and removal of hamas [sic] from the list of terror organizations. Was i [sic] dreaming???” The EU’s decision to declassify Hamas as a terrorist organization was overturned by the European Court of Justice (EJC) in 2017.
In 2014, Albanese stated: “America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby, and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust.” When uncovered in 2022, Albanese’s comments were condemned by US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt as “blatantly antisemitic.” Albanese has since said that she regrets this remark."
Clearly, she meant the "Zionist" lobby and isn't anti-Semitic at all

France to call for Albanese's resignation at UN session - "Albanese’s antisemitic remarks at Saturday’s Al Jazeera Forum, where she spoke alongside a “representative of Hamas and a representative of the Iranian government while the repression continues.”... The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, claimed that Albanese branded Israel an "enemy of humanity," chastising her for using language that "undermines the impartiality and highest standards that the role of a UN representative requires."... Her comments, Barrot said, “target not the Israeli government, whose policies can be criticized, but Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable.” Barrot noted that Albanese’s words "add to a long list of scandalous positions, justifying October 7, the worst antisemitic massacre in our history since the Holocaust, mentioning the ‘Jewish Lobby’ and comparing Israel to the Third Reich.” “She presents herself as a UN independent expert, yet she is neither an expert nor independent — she is a political activist who stirs up hate speech and undermines the cause of the Palestinian people that she claims to defend.”"

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese : r/aussie - "Wtf you doing, Adelaide?"
"Supporting a genocide apparently."
"No, that would be if they invited her."
"Didn't Israel fund and support Hamas? Yep."
"Didn't Hamas get Netanyahu elected in the first place? Yep."

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese : r/aussie - "Banning a antisemetic consipracy theorist who supports Hamas, denies rapes and atrocities, calls Israel an "enemy of humanity' and claims Jews control the media. Imagine saying a single one of those things about any other minority and being invited to a festival."

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese : r/aussie - "So free speech means you have a right to support Hamas' atrocities and deny that they were antisemitic? By that standard, do you believe that hate speech isn't a valid reason to cancel someone's participation in an event?"
"please link to when and where francesca albanese supported hamas and claimed they weren’t antisemitic"
""So it is critical that you understand, that when you think of Hamas, you should not necessarily think of cut-throats, people armed to the teeth, or fighters. It's not like that."
"The narrative that has been spread including by European leaders is that 7th of October, the crimes that were committed on October 7 were because of antisemitism. This is so false. I do not exclude that there could be antisemitic sentiments among some Palestinians. Who am I to say that? But the motives were not antisemitic — because the attack was against Israel and Israelis,..."
"Look there are different views of what happened on October 7, but the thing is, the violence of that day which was brutal for the Israelis but that brutality there were also fabrications attacked to it, like the mass rape and other horror stories.”
"In the West, the mainstream media has replicated and amplified lies. We have heard, and sometimes I look at politicians and journalists who have repeated lies. But what’s the need to talk about mass rapes? There is no evidence of rape.
"The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism but in response to Israel’s oppression."
"There might have been people carrying out the attack who might have been motivated by hatred. But the attack itself, and this is the thing, there is something like intent at the level of the attack, and all the statements that were collected at the level of command have not pointed to aggression against the Jews""
"you’re upset because she’s right, aren’t you?"
""She didn't say it but if she did say it, she was right""
Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese : r/aussie - "Is she also right when she said "America and Europe have been subjugated by the Jewish lobby"?"
"Criticising Israel makes you unelectable in the US and almost certainly so in Europe. You tell me."
"Are you conflating Israel and Jews? I was told that was antisemitic... Sure, sure, just ask Zohran Mamdani. So you think she's right?"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres under fire after reports that 12 Palestinian aid workers were killed by Hamas and their bodies left in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. When asked to condemn Hamas over the killings, he declined."

The Lawfare Project on X - "UC Santa Barbara has a legal duty to protect its minority students, but when it comes to Jewish students, it is failing to uphold that duty. Tessa Veksler, a Jewish student leader, is suing the university for ignoring sustained antisemitic harassment and discrimination. She was called a “Zionist dog.” She was accused of supporting genocide. She was subjected to antisemitic tropes. She was targeted inside the Multicultural Center where her office was located. According to the complaint, the University failed to act; the abuse intensified with the full knowledge, consent, and even active participation of one of the University’s representatives. When universities fail to uphold the law, they must be held accountable."

Meme - Oren Barsky @orenbarsky: "The calls for genocide began in the first hours of Hamas’s attack inside Israel’s borders, as they slaughtered, raped, and burned Jewish families. Everything was planned in advance — including the influence campaign on social media and other platforms. Those responsible for this campaign and these posts are no less guilty than the Hamas terrorists who murdered Jews with their own hands. They should be held to the same standard of justice."
Refaat in Gaza @itranslate123: "Horror horrors. There are explosions almost everywhere second in Gaza. The whole house shakes and the little kids everywhere weep and shriek in fear. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing. 07 Oct 23"

Meme - Virag Gulyas @theviraggulyas: "It's tragically fascinating how countries are afraid to join Trump's peace committee, yet insist the UN should be responsible instead. Sure, fine. But how about acknowledging that the UN has failed at its job for decades? How about the fact that UNRWA has kept Palestinian Arabs in a perpetual refugee status, actively reinforcing the status quo? How about the UN's ongoing failure to clearly designate Hamas as a terrorist organization? So maybe, just maybe, it's worth giving a chance to this "crazy" committee idea, initiated by the very person responsible for the Abraham Accords. Otherwise, it's fair to assume that the countries refusing to join aren't really interested in peace."
"Vatican declines to join Trump's Gaza 'Board of Peace, calls for UN leadership. Cardinal Pietro Parolin cites 'critical points' and says UN should manage crisis situations instead"

Thread by @v_j_freeman on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Mothin Ali led an antisemitic campaign against a Rabbi working at Leeds University who had briefly served as a border guard in the IDF after 7/10 which led to his young family having to go into police protection as a result of credible death threats. This is simply fact. If you think this man was a legitimate target for Mothin Ali’s demonising campaign where he characterised the Rabbi as an “animal” who was an immediate threat to students, you’re part of the escalating violent threat to British Jews. It’s all part of ‘anti Zionist’ antisemitism. These risks also extend beyond Jews. Lee Rigby was murdered as a result of exactly the same sentiments expressed by Mothin Ali. All those who have served are put at risk if we accept Mothin Ali’s ‘logic’."

Seth Mandel on X - "The cautionary tale of Momodou Taal: he was vocally pro-Hamas, suspended twice for non-speech offenses, given special treatment *because* he was on a visa, sued *after* his visa was revoked, and fooled a lot of ppl into defending him by lying about his deportation:"
Naturally, left wingers are pretending he's being persecuted for his speech, not violence

John Spencer on X: "I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza" / X - "In his New York Times op-ed titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. As a professor of genocide studies, he should know better. Genocide is not defined by a few comments taken out of context, by estimates of casualties or destruction, or by how war looks in headlines or on social media. It is defined by specific intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group in whole or in part. That is a high legal bar. Bartov did not meet it. He did not even try... Bartov claims that five statements by Israeli leaders prove genocidal intent. He begins with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s comment on October 7 that Hamas would “pay a huge price.” That is not a call for genocide. It is what any leader would say after the worst terrorist attack in the nation’s history. He also cites Netanyahu’s statements that Hamas would be destroyed and that civilians should evacuate combat zones. That is not evidence of a desire to destroy a people. It is what professional militaries do when fighting an enemy that hides among civilians. Bartov presents Netanyahu’s reference to “remember Amalek” as a smoking gun. But this is a phrase from Jewish history and tradition. It is engraved at Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, and also appears on the Holocaust memorial in The Hague. In both places, it serves as a warning to remain vigilant against threats, not as a call for mass killing. He also highlights Defense Minister Gallant’s use of the term “human animals” to describe Hamas fighters. That is not a war crime. After the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of civilians on October 7, many would understand or even share that reaction. Unable to find intent among those actually directing the war, Bartov turns to far-right politicians like Bezalel Smotrich and Nissim Vaturi. These individuals do not command troops, issue orders, or shape battlefield decisions. I have studied the actual orders. They focus on destroying Hamas, rescuing hostages, and protecting civilians whenever possible. Their rhetoric is irrelevant to the legal case. Israel has taken extraordinary steps to limit civilian harm. It warns before attacks using text messages, phone calls, leaflets, and broadcasts. It opens safe corridors and pauses operations so civilians can leave combat areas. It tracks civilian presence down to the building level. I have seen missions delayed or canceled because children were nearby. I have seen Israeli troops come under fire and still be ordered not to shoot back because civilians might be harmed. Israel has delivered more humanitarian aid to Gaza than any military in history has provided to an enemy population during wartime. More than 94,000 trucks carrying over 1.8 million tons of aid have entered the territory. Israel has supported hospitals, repaired water pipelines, increased access to clean water, and enabled over 36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abroad. The IDF has coordinated millions of vaccine doses, supplied fuel for hospitals and infrastructure, and facilitated the flow of food and medicine through the UN, aid groups, and private partners. The U.S.–Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation alone has delivered more than 82 million meals—one to two million a day—while weakening Hamas’s control over aid. This is not genocide. It is responsible and historic mid-war humanitarian policy. Bartov cites death tolls from Hamas health authorities without question. He says 58,000 have been killed, including 17,000 children. But these numbers come from a terrorist organization. They mix civilians and fighters and count anyone under 18 as a child, even though Hamas uses teenagers and younger children as combatants. The figures are not independently verified and have been shown to contain false details, including names, ages, and sex. Civilian deaths are tragic, but in Gaza, they are also part of Hamas’s strategy. No military operation is judged solely by body counts or destruction figures. If we used Bartov’s logic, every major war would be called genocide. Two million civilians died in the Korean War, an average of 54,000 per month. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars killed hundreds of thousands. The fight against ISIS leveled multiple cities and killed tens of thousands. None of those wars were considered genocidal. Gaza is not either. War is evaluated based on the actions of commanders, the goals set by leaders, and how well the military follows the laws of war, not by statistics taken out of context. War is hell. It is inhumane, destructive, and ugly. But it is not automatically a crime. Nations must not target civilians. They must follow the rules of distinction, proportionality, and take all possible care to avoid civilian harm. Israel is doing that. I have seen it. In Rafah this summer, Israel spent weeks preparing evacuations. It opened new safe areas and waited until civilians had moved before striking Hamas targets. That operation killed Hamas’s top commander, recovered hostages, and kept civilian deaths very low. It was a clear example of Israel’s extraordinary intent and actions to protect civilians while targeting only Hamas, a part of the story ignored by those who reduce war to headlines and numbers... This is not a campaign of extermination. It is a war against Hamas, a terrorist army embedded in civilian areas by design. The law matters. So does precision. And above all, truth matters."

Arsen Ostrovsky on X - "There is no depths to the depravity of some pro-Palestinian activists. Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, who risked his life to save over 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, while he was stationed in Lithuania. Yesterday, his statue in Los Angeles was vandalized with red paint. Defacing the memory of a man who saved thousands of Jews isn’t activism, it’s moral bankruptcy and Holocaust distortion."

Shadi Hamid on X - "What Israel has done in Gaza clearly and easily meets the legal definition of genocide as described in the UN Genocide Convention. I lay out the case in detail here in @washingtonpost:"
David Bernstein on X - "I'm a law professor, and if this "case" was made by a student in a class, he'd fail. Let's start with the fact that you haven't made a case for genocidal intent, that many months after you claimed that starvation was imminent for many Gazans it never happened, that you rely on entirely unconfirmed statistics that Hamas itself doesn't claim to exaggerate the death toll, that you don't separate out combatants in the death toll, that you don't explain what precisely Israel did that was illicit--just people being killed doesn't make for a genocide--and instead try to define "genocide" so broadly (and clearly contrary to the intent of the language you cite) that almost any urban warfare could be deemed genocide."
🏳️‍🌈🇳🇫🇱🇰🇸🇨Jin🇻🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇺🇳 on X - "God I remember how I first started to drift away from the pro-palestine position It was when I started to get hit with the "Gaza was beautiful" posts and I remembered how they said it was an open air prison like a ghetto Oh also during the "48 hours before 10000 kids die""
old crank on X - "If its so clear, why wouldnt the IDF let journalists in to observe? Or dont law professors use evidence these days."
David Bernstein on X - "Allowing journalists to embed with armed forces, which Israel did, is common practice. Allowing journalists to wander around on their own in territory controlled by terrorists is not, and especially not when any time a journalist, pseudo-journalist, or terrorist moonlighting as a journalist sometimes, is killed, the usual suspects put all the blame on said armed forces. Anyway, there was no shortage of cell phone cameras in Gaza, and people routinely claim that Israel targeted and murderer children. when you ask them for video evidence, they give you pictures of blown up buildings, or pictures of bodies with no context. Where are the videos of soldiers doing all the things they are accused of."

Meme - Colin Wight @colwight: "It's worth remembering that in the Revised Disengagement Plan Main Principles," on Gaza, approved by the Israeli government on June 6, 2004. It states: "Israel hopes that the Palestinians will have the sense to take advantage of the disengagement move in order to exit the cycle of violence and rejoin the process of dialogue. The disengagement move has the potential to improve the fabric of Palestinian life and the Palestinian economy." Instead of taking those opportunities Gaza, under the leadership of Hamas, built a structure designed for war. If what's in this video has been destroyed, it's on Hamas. And no one should be surprised if, after the disengagement, and Israel can't see a way forward towards peace."

Meme - David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein: "I wonder if all the Western rubes who before 10/7 described Gaza as an open air prison, worse than the Warsaw Ghetto, even when saner voices pointed out that this was contrary to what one could easily observe on Gazans' social media are at all embarrassed by this, and have learned any lessons."
Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic: "Gaza was beautiful before Israel destroyed it completely. Don't look away"

Meme - Simone Rodan-Benzaquen @srodan: "This is what so-called "pro-Palestinians" did last night to the man who saved the free world.
*Winston Churchill statue*
"Zionist war criminal. Stop the genocide. Globalise the Intifada! *upside down red triangle*"

Hamas is reasserting control in Gaza despite its heavy losses fighting Israel - ""The taxes imposed by Hamas depend on the type and quantity of goods, but prices start at 20,000 shekels and above," he said. "If a trader refuses to pay, force is used and in some cases he is kidnapped or threatened. No one can avoid paying taxes on goods." He told us that traders used a code-word for Hamas when discussing tax payments, so that Israel wouldn't learn that money was being siphoned off to the group. "Hamas now has a database of all the traders who import goods into the Gaza Strip," said the activist Mohammed Diab. "The trader pays in cash, not through bank transfers, so that the flow of funds cannot be traced. It is gradually restoring the system that was in place in the past, but away from the spotlight so it can't be monitored.""
Hamza on X - "Today, after one month the BBC confirms what I reported here on Hamas's exploitation of Gaza merchants. Hope to hear something from the UN/Amnesty...etc."

Doctors Without Borders Says Gunmen Are Using a Gaza Hospital, Posing Risk to Patients and Staff - WSJ - "Doctors Without Borders suspended all noncritical services at one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, the group said, alleging that the facility was being used by armed men, some masked, to intimidate and arrest patients and potentially move weapons. The aid group, known by its French initials MSF, said it made the decision to pull services from the Nasser Hospital Complex in Khan Younis after its staff witnessed an uptick in what it called unacceptable acts that it said posed a threat to its team and patients... The Wall Street Journal spoke to two men who said they were detained and interrogated by Hamas at Nasser hospital in recent weeks... Hospitals were a flashpoint during two years of fighting between Israel and Hamas. Nasser hospital and others were sites of extended battles during the war and caused widespread damage to Gaza’s healthcare system. Many international organizations condemned Israel for attacking hospitals, citing their protected status in international law. Israel said Hamas used hospitals to hide senior militants, plan and launch attacks, a charge Hamas denies... A 45-year-old Palestinian man told The Wall Street Journal he was detained by a Hamas street patrol and brought to the orthopaedics department in Nasser hospital for an interrogation. Another Palestinian man said he was detained by Hamas at Nasser hospital for 12 hours. Medical facilities can lose their protective rights if used for hostile acts against enemy combatants, said Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics Law and Armed conflict. She said while isolated incidents involving armed individuals might not constitute militarization of a facility, it was the pattern of incidents that threatened the facility’s status. “The accumulation of them is what’s problematic and clearly what’s led MSF to say when you look at them as a whole, we are having here a militarization of parts of this hospital,” she said."
Clearly, they have been infiltrated by "Zionists" and can no longer be trusted!

COGAT on X - "After too long, MSF has finally admitted what Israel has been saying all along: Hamas abuses Nasser Hospital as a terror base. The obvious question is: where was MSF until now? If MSF now acknowledges Hamas’ deep presence in a hospital they work in, why has it repeatedly refused basic transparency—such as submitting staff lists—to ensure its organization has not been infiltrated by Hamas operatives? This is not accountability; it is a late admission after years of choosing to stay in the dark, during which Hamas systematically exploited humanitarian infrastructure."

How the Israeli President’s Visit to Australia Created a ‘Tinder Box’ - The New York Times
Arsen Ostrovsky on X - "President Herzog didn’t create any “tinderbox” by coming to support a grieving Jewish community after Bondi. That tinderbox was built over 2+ years by mobs harassing Jews, chanting “Globalise the Intifada,” and all the activists, politicians and media who enabled it."

Links - 25th March 2026 (2 - Iran War)

Praising Iran’s evil leadership marks a new low for the BBC’s John Simpson - "Sadly, I’ve never had the honour of meeting the BBC’s John Simpson, but I feel sure that he’s a very nice man. The sort of person who is capable of seeing the good in everyone.  That, at least, is all I can conclude from his extraordinary remarks about Ali Larijani, the de facto Iranian leader who was killed this week in an Israeli air strike.  “I’ve met Ali Larijani several times over the years,” revealed the BBC’s world affairs editor on social media. “Yes, he was a top figure in a nasty regime. But he always seemed clever and reasonable – the kind of person you might want to negotiate a peace deal with.”  Describing Larijani as “reasonable” is, I can’t help feeling, a touch on the generous side, even for a man as kind-hearted as Simpson. In the words of The New York Times, Larijani was “in charge of using lethal force to crush the recent protests demanding the end of Islamic rule”. This lethal force is reported to have killed as many as 40,000 protesters. Should those 40,000 victims simply have tried negotiating with dear old Ali? If only they’d known how tremendously reasonable he was. Anyway, Simpson has since deleted his post, because, he complained, it was “being interpreted wrongly”. Stupid public. Even so, this is hardly the first time he’s made puzzling remarks about Middle Eastern murderers.  In December 2024, for example, he argued that Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of Syria, was “weak rather than wicked… In person, I found him meek and anxious to please”... It may also be recalled that, on October 11, 2023, Simpson controversially defended the BBC’s refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists – because, he declared, “terrorism is a loaded word”, and it’s “simply not the BBC’s job” to tell us “who are the good guys and who are the bad guys”. Mind you, perhaps we should be grateful that the BBC doesn’t tell us who it thinks the “good guys” and “bad guys” were on October 7, because I fear we might not like the answer. Funnily enough, on the same day that Simpson described Larijani as “reasonable”, Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, described the BBC as “essential to the health of our democracy”. Which suggests that she’s even more generous – or more deluded – than he is."

Meme - "Carter: IRAN TOOK HOSTAGES
Reagan: THEY'RE EVIL!
George HW Bush: THEY'RE A REAL THREAT!
Clinton: THEY'RE SPONSORING TERRORISM!
George W Bush: THEY'RE KILLING AMERICANS!
Obama: THEY'RE BUILDING NUKES!
Biden: WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!!
Trump: OKAY!"
I saw some idiot claim Obama bombed Iran

Meme - "LIBERALS HOPING THAT IRAN WILL NUKE US SO TRUMP WILL LOOK BAD *blue-haired woman crossing fingers*"

Meme - "DEMOCRATS THEN: Biden doesn't control gas prices.
DEMOCRATS NOW: Trump caused higher gas prices."

Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 on X - "🔥 BREAKING 🔥 Another attack on Christianity. Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity. Holy Week and Easter services will be prohibited. Sunday masses and liturgies cancelled. A church that should be packed with hundreds of thousands these coming weeks is being forcibly shut and silenced.  Israel cites it is for ‘security concerns’ while Jewish Israelis are allowed to celebrate in mass gatherings. Alongside the forced closure of Al-Aqsa mosque, reports cite priests aggressively being turned away to perform daily services.   Throughout history, wars, tensions, or even the pandemic limited access to the sanctuary, but they had never prevented liturgical celebrations in this central place of Christian faith indefinitely."
Xed on X - "Actually In 1009 AD, the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ordered the complete destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (along with other non-Muslim sites). It was razed, with efforts to demolish even the foundational stones. Worship and access were impossible for decades. Reconstruction only began after negotiations, with a more modest rebuilding completed around 1048 AD under Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos. This was a total obliteration lasting nearly 40 years before partial restoration—not merely a closure, but far more extreme. The church has faced far more severe and prolonged closures/destructions in the pastIn The church has also been closed or heavily restricted at other times, such as: During the Persian (Sassanid) conquest in 614 CE, when it was burned and damaged. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it was closed to the public indefinitely (for months), with some reports calling it the first extended closure due to disease since the Black Death in the 14th century (around 1349). In 2018, church leaders themselves closed it for several days (though not indefinitely) in protest against Israeli municipal tax policies and land laws."
I saw a lot of gullible people lapping this up, of course

Lazar Berman on X - "Fragments of an Iranian missile strike meters away from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem"
HonestReporting on X - "The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is also near the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Western Wall. So instead of accusing Israel of curtailing Muslim worship on the Temple Mt, will the international media now understand exactly why there are safety restrictions in place to protect people all religions and none?"

International law is broken - The Globe and Mail - "Irwin Cotler understands the threat that the Islamic Republic of Iran poses far better than most.  He’s studied Iran’s aggressive actions and repressive domestic policies for decades, as a lawyer trained in international law, a law professor, a federal cabinet minister and now, as the international chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.  Oh, and Iran has plotted to murder him (a backhanded validation of the influence of his efforts). All of which is to say: Mr. Cotler’s analysis of the intersection of international law and the U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran carries some justifiable heft. The accepted wisdom of the legality of the attacks on Iran is straightforward: they are illegal, full stop. The United Nations Security Council did not authorize the military action (nor was it asked). Neither Israel nor the United States are responding in self-defence, and even fall short of the restrictive standard for preemptive action, that of imminent threat of attack.  So, the air campaign against Iran breaks international law, and nothing more need to be considered. The reality that Russia would veto any move against its ally in its war of aggression against Ukraine is irrelevant. The stated intent of Iran to wipe Israel off the map is irrelevant. Mr. Cotler rejects that view (as do we) as far too narrow. A broader perspective – one that takes into account the decades that Iran has spent fomenting war in the Middle East, terrorism across the globe and terror at home – leads to a very different conclusion, namely that it would be unjust and immoral to allow the Islamic Republic to use the letter of international law as a shield. “The UN charter is not a suicide pact,” he said in an interview, quoting his 1960s law professor.  He warns of a sevenfold threat from Iran: the pursuit of nuclear weapons; state-backed incitement of genocide against Israel’s Jews; the sponsorship of international terrorism; destabilization of the Middle East; targeting dissidents around the world; cyber warfare; and lastly, domestic repression.  Any one of the offences on that bill of indictment is serious. Together, they demonstrate that Iran has flouted international law for decades and has chosen to be a rogue regime. Now, the rogue, without shame, invokes the laws that it has mocked and debased. It didn’t take long for the newly born Islamic Republic to start down its path of violating international law – just over nine months. On Nov. 4, 1979, a mob stormed the United States embassy in Tehran, and took 66 Americans hostage.  For centuries, diplomats and embassies have been off limits, an acknowledgement that even adversaries need to communicate with each other. The 1961 Vienna Convention on International Relations is quite clear: Embassies are “inviolable.” Not only that, states have a positive obligation “to take all appropriate steps to protect” embassies and other diplomatic premises.  A 444-day hostage taking is somewhat out of step with those obligations. The hostage crisis would be the first, but far from the last, of Iran’s demonstrated contempt for international law... what would international law have to say if Iran gave Hezbollah or Hamas a nuclear weapon that was detonated in Tel Aviv? Condolences and an admonition not to launch reprisals against Tehran?  The legal conceit that Israel must pretend that it is not being attacked by Iran while that country funnels vast resources into a one-step-removed war makes a mockery of international law... This is the regime that international law must seemingly protect: one that seeks refuge behind diplomatic conventions and then reaches from behind that shield to murder, kidnap and harass citizens of other countries, and to terrorize its own... the prioritization of stability, above all else, can itself be destabilizing. It is the insistence of international law on stability that has allowed Iran to pursue manifestly destabilizing policies across the Middle East, and elsewhere in the world. It is the rigid view of stability that has allowed Iran to pursue nuclear weapons (defying, oddly enough, UN resolutions to the contrary).  It is a laudable goal to want to avoid war, and the misery it brings. But as Winston Churchill once presciently said in the wake of the 1938 Munich Agreement that dismembered Czechoslovakia for Nazi Germany, those who choose dishonour over war will get both. Less than a year later, his prophecy was proven correct, as the bloodiest war in history broke out.  Ignoring a threat does not make it disappear, and more often than not, allows it to grow.  The letter of international law is, unfortunately, clear. There is no legal basis to attack Iran merely because it murders and terrorizes its citizens and those of other countries, threatens Israel with annihilation, pursues nuclear arms and looks to destabilize the Middle East.  The law never perfectly overlaps with morality. But the law, even the series of conventions known as international law, cannot be a stranger to morality, either. If the verdict of international law is that Iran must be protected, then that law is unjust, and it cannot be allowed to stand."
Left wingers tell us that slavery was legal, so that means legality is no guide to morality, after all

Michael Tracey on X - "Joe Kent blamed the Oct. 7 attack on Biden's insufficiently hostile policy toward Iran, attacked his Dem opponent for failing to punish "anti-Semitism," and pledged that if elected, he would make sure to generously arm Israel. Now he blames Israel for corrupting US foreign policy"
The Girondin 🇺🇸 🌲 on X - "If you are looking for a clue, his new wife is a Palestinian activist."

Joe Kent on X - "After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.  It has been an honor serving under @POTUS  and @DNIGabbard  and leading the professionals at NCTC.   May God bless America."
Dustin Grage on X - "Looks like we dodged a bullet here. I, for one, think it’s a bad idea to have a Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who is upset that we took out the largest sponsor of terrorism in the world. You know, the same people who tried to assassinate the President who appointed you to the position."

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "Al Quds Day counterprotesters bang their heads to the provocative song, “You Can Stick Your Palestine Up Your Hole.” 📸 Mar 14, 2026 #Toronto #ProtestMania Support our work covering the good, bad, and ugly on Canadian streets:"

مازن عبد العظيم Facebook - "One interesting that I have found about the Iranian attacks on Oman and most of the gulf is most Muslims - especially in Oman - are not upset about the attacks.  The attacks on the UAE are seen as well-deserved, as the government there have proven themselves to be absolute and complete sellout traitor lapdogs for the Zionist occupiers. The attacks on Kuwait and others are seen as attacks on US installations, so there is no problem with them. And the attacks on Oman are almost unanimously (unanimously as far as those I've spoken to) perceived as false-flag attacks from either the UAE or the Zionists to push everyone in the region into the war against Iran.  Basically, everyone is very supportive of Iran because it is seen as Muslims against the Kuffar, and no matter what Fiqhi or sectarian differences we have with other Muslims, they are still our Muslim brothers and we are one Ummah to the exclusion of all others. It's a very positive situation that is bringing the hearts of the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims together - despite the efforts of those who just want to spread hate and division within our Ummah. And I want to be clear, this is not me changing directions regarding what I've said about Iran. The Iranian government is still fighting for nationalism, they are murderers of Muslims, and they do not represent our Ummah as they do not rule by Islam. But this is about the Muslims of Iran - Sunni and Shi'a - and the rest of the Middle East understanding that we are one Ummah against the enemies of Islam despite our disagreements. May Allah (swt) bring the hearts of all Muslims together united under a true Khilafah soon. Ameen."
Basically Muslims will almost always support other Muslims against non Muslims regardless of the cause and are prone to conspiracy theories

Majority of Iranians reject Islamic Republic, survey finds - "A survey conducted by a Netherlands-based institute found that the majority of Iranians would vote for either a regime change or a structural transition away from the Islamic Republic, highlighting growing demands for political change across Iran.  The Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN), which conducted the survey in June 2024, said it polled more than 77,000 respondents inside Iran, weighting the results to represent the literate adult population.  “A majority of the population opposes the Islamic Republic and supports changing or transforming the political system,” the report’s author Ammar Maleki said.  Only around 20 percent of respondents want the Islamic Republic to remain in power, according to the survey.  Support for the principles of the 1979 revolution and the Supreme Leader fell to 11 percent, down from 18 percent in 2022. By contrast, some 40 percent of participants said regime change was a precondition for reform, while another 24 percent favored a structural transition away from the current system... The survey found no single consensus on what system should replace the current order. A secular republic was backed by 26 percent of respondents, while 21 percent supported a monarchy. Another 22 percent said they lacked enough information to decide, and 11 percent said that the form of an alternative system was not important so long as change occurred... Asked about political parties, 37 percent of Iranians preferred platforms prioritizing individual freedoms and human rights. Social justice and workers’ rights drew 33 percent support, while 26 percent favored nationalist parties. Only 5 percent backed groups emphasizing traditional and religious values... Among Islamic Republic-affiliated figures, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad each polled at 9 percent. Among opposition figures, exiled prince Reza Pahlavi was the most popular with 31 percent, followed by rapper Toomaj Salehi at 6 percent and jailed Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi at 5 percent... While most Iranians reject religious and military rule, no single movement or figure yet represents the country’s diversity, the survey concluded.  “The demand for a democratic government is widespread among Iranians, though at the same time, a notable portion of society shows an inclination toward individual authoritarianism,” Maleki said."
From 2025

Michael Smith | Facebook - "It appears that in the time it took the WSJ to round up enough experts, writers and people to make a video for this article to explain how difficult it would be to secure the Hormuz Straight, including boots on the ground, titled: "Trump Wants to Secure Hormuz. Here’s What It Would Take. Securing the strait on Iran’s long flank would mean big commitments of warships or a sizable ground operation" Trump ordered the destruction of the military assets on Kharg Island from the air and Iran reopened the Straight."

Emerald Apple on X - "The reason the B52 is being used is because SEAD against Iranian regime mk military reached a metric where these slow defenseless bombers can unleash hell safely. Whatever that remains of the Iranian regime is going to face even more firepower than they ever faced, popping out guided bombs and missiles like a pez dispenser."

Ashley Rindsberg on X - "I think it’s safe to say that Qatar is an enemy of Israel—or at least was until about two minutes ago.  Doha has played—and continues to play—host to the leaders of Hamas, a genocidal antisemitic death cult whose crowning “achievement” was the gravest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. It has financed anti-Israel AND (for all you “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” folks) antisemitic propaganda.   But what a difference a war makes.   Here we have Al Jazeera—whose top executive is a member of the Qatari royal family—openly touting the “US-Israeli strategy” in the war. This is a more red-blooded take than most right-wing *American* outlets can muster at the moment.   And yes, it’s an oped. But this is Al Jazeera. It’s controlled by an autocratic government with deep political prerogatives. It does not say anything the government does not want said; and it does not leave unsaid anything the Qatari government demands to be said.  With Iranian missile strikes on Qatar, just like that, everything may have changed. This is not to say that Al Jazeera will necessarily stop spinning its anti-Israel narratives, or that it will immediately exile its genocidal jihadi guests, or that it will cease funding propaganda, or, for that matter, terrorism in the region.   But it’s a crack in the edifice, the slow beginning of a re-alignment produced by a mutual threat that is no longer hypothetical but fully realized.   Why? The one thing the Qataris cannot stand is a kinetic attack. It’s not because they can’t absorb these attacks, individually, or defend against them. It’s that such attacks pierce Qatar’s core geopolitical illusion, which is not that it’s invincible (that much is obvious). The illusion, rather, is that Qatar is not totally and completely naked on the strategic battlefield.   This is a nation with infinite wealth but no significant means of defending itself, beyond its generously provided American security umbrella, which it has only on lease. Qatar has a few hundred thousand citizens, many of whom are fantastically wealthy, few of whom are ready to risk it all on the battlefield—or take any of the thousands of daily, grinding steps necessary to prepare yourself for such an eventuality.   This is to say nothing of strategic depth, which, of course, is non-existent. There is no enterprising air force that can refit F-15s into medium-range bombers, or a submarine fleet prowling unknown seas.   It does, however, have influence. Qatar’s influence extends in direct proportion to its wealth, stretching deep into America and Europe’s institutional psyches. The brand is everywhere. The light musk of Qatari cash wafts across our most important cultural venues, filling our best athletes and entertainers with vigor, spurring on the bright lights of academia with chrome-plated university chairs.  But all that influence comes splashing down like the residue of a popped soap bubble once Doha’s enemies—and, just as critically, its friends—see visible proof that it is essentially, and fatally, helpless. In a flash, the enormous asset of its influence machine becomes a cratering liability.  That’s why what we might be seeing below is not a one-off but the beginning of a massive recalibration.  Qatar’s robe has fallen open. The world might start to gawk. Even a former enemy blocking your shame will do.  What a difference a war makes."

Iranian counterprotesters confront NYC Khamenei vigil - "In New York City’s Washington Square Park, a crowd of dozens gathered for a vigil organized by several left-wing groups to mourn the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader who was killed last week on the first day of the war between Iran, the U.S., and Israel."
This left winger claimed no one single person on the left mourned him. Naturally, the evidence made him double down

Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire - "Iran’s attacks on civilian merchant vessels are clear violations of the law of armed conflict — the principle of distinction between civilian and military objects is among the most foundational rules of IHL, and there is no plausible military justification for striking Thai, Japanese, or Marshallese-flagged commercial ships. If reports of mining are confirmed, that escalation compounds the violation: Hague VIII explicitly prohibits the use of mines to deny transit passage of international straits, and the obligation to protect neutral shipping from indiscriminate hazards is not suspended by armed conflict."
Too bad international law is only meant to be used to destroy the West, so the same people who keep talking about it also cheer on the closure

Bob Kostic on X - "The Iran war is costing a billion a day. Still cheaper than Somali learing centers."

Meme - "OUTRAGE: $22M SPENT ON CRAB AND LOBSTER FOR OUR TROOPS
SILENCE: $9B IN FRAUD IN MINNESOTA FOR ILLEGALS"

Surf And Turf Before The Storm | Military.com - "Across branches and generations, service members have circulated a widely recognized belief: when steak and lobster appear in the dining facility, something significant may be coming. Often described as a “surf and turf” meal, the combination has become embedded in military culture as a symbolic precursor to deployments, combat operations, or extended missions.  While experiences vary by unit and theatre, anecdotal accounts from servicemembers consistently reinforce the association between morale-boosting meals and periods of heightened operational tempo. The belief has become part of military folklore, shared in barracks conversations, deployment stories, and online veteran communities... Deployed dining operations have long included occasional premium meals as a morale measure. Larger bases and ships may serve steak or seafood during holidays, commemorations, or after intensive mission cycles. These meals can carry emotional and symbolic weight because they contrast sharply with routine field rations or austere dining conditions...  The topic has resurfaced in recent days following reports and social media posts claiming U.S. troops received surf-and-turf meals as force movements and tensions involving Iran increased. Images circulating online described menus including steak, lobster, crab legs, and dessert, which fueled speculation among military communities that the meals signaled impending operational activity."
Naturally, I saw left wingers deny that troops eat steak and lobster. But that's no surprise, because there're still left wingers who deny that there was fraud in Minnesota

Meme - "The mainstream media is melting down over the Pentagon providing our brave troops with steak and lobster-calling it an "outrageous" spending spree under Pete Hegseth. Meanwhile, they cheered when Michelle Obama served ribeyes to soldiers as part of a long-standing military tradition of surf and turf meals dating back to WWII."
"Here's a photo of Michelle Obama serving ribeyes to troops as part of a surf and turf meal that has been military tradition since WWII, but mainstream media has suddenly decided it's a "gotcha" and that our military has never been fed steak and lobster."

Meme - "Now wait a damn minute. You mean to tell me the people spending billions on feeding illegal immigrants are up in arms about spending millions to feed our troops steak and lobster! Your priorities are f'd!"

Meme - "Slam the military for lobster and steak while getting free food with your Government issued EBT CARD. HILARIOUS!"

Eric Matheny 🎙️ on X - "If you come here from Somalia and apply for a fraudulent $4 million grant for a daycare that doesn’t exist, that’s okay. If you are 22 years old, willing to die for your country, and you eat a ribeye, that’s outrageous. Did I get that right?"

Democrats Condemn Hegseth For Using Money To Feed Soldiers When It Could Have Gone To Somali Daycare | Babylon Bee
This is actually true. Left wingers demand unlimited social spending, preferably directed at "minorities"

Palestine and the Left Wing Agenda

This is a good example of how the left wing agenda is all connected (see also: The Left Wing Agenda: All Connected).

Left wingers openly proclaim that the Indigenous-Industrial complex is dedicated to destroying the USA (and by extension other Western countries, especially "settler" ones). Not just do left wingers hate their countries, but they want to destroy them. You can also see how many left wing checkboxes she ticks in under 7 minutes.

Melanie Yazzie: "We will never leave, we will never forget"

@amuse:

"GENOCIDE: When Democrats, like this Minnesota university professor say the United States must be “dismantled” and “decolonized” to save humanity, they are not speaking in metaphors. They mean it. This isn’t rhetorical flair. It’s a revolutionary premise rooted in postmodernism, Marxism, and racialized grievance politics, an explicit rejection of the American project and its founding ideals.

The Democrats want no America because America, at its best, represents the opposite of everything they believe: ordered liberty, personal responsibility, upward mobility, a colorblind justice system, and national sovereignty. These are not mere policy preferences, they are existential threats to the Marxist’s utopia.

We must reject the premise. America is not a colony. It is a nation born in revolution, tempered by civil war, expanded through hardship, and perfected, not by deconstruction, but by generation after generation striving toward its ideals. The Democrats who cry “decolonize” are not oppressed. They are pampered malcontents who drink lattes while posting manifestos from their iPhones, protected by rights they didn’t earn, in a country they detest but refuse to leave."

Full transcript:

"I just want to thank my comrades... For like Dene (Ed: Dene Tha'?) people they say that your words and your breath is sacred like it's a sacred wind that comes out and our words have power.

There's this Haudenosaunee feminist who wrote this line, a book about um the Six Nations land struggle. Um and the book came in in 2006 and she said you know with nothing more than words, indigenous people changed history on the international arena and Indigenous, it is true. Indigenous people are extremely oppressed in the United States. Our numbers were very small right compared to the settler population in the United States. But, what we can offer, right, what we can offer to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and for the struggle for liberation of all people is our words. It's our stories. It's our memory. And it's our refusal to relinquish who we are and the relationship, the original relationship we have with this land.

We will never be moved from that. We will never leave, right, and we will never forget and I think for me, that is, what we offer, right, to our Palestinian relatives um who are facing so much suffering. Extreme settler violence in this moment. We, we are the memory of a long struggle, and we are the embodiment of the future that our ancestors struggled for. And the dream of Liberation that all colonized and oppressed people share. And, we are here you know to remind the world that even after 500 years, right, that this is something that has not gone away and in fact it will never go away, no matter how much you suffered, and how much you lose. And I think that is is what we have to offer um our Palestinian relatives.

In addition to solidarity and the things that we might do, having the Moral Authority as the original people of these lands, um, to push back against the violent settler project that is the United States, um, and to help to lead that. To be the tip of the spear here of all Liberation struggles and movements that seek to, seek a world of justice, equality and peace. Um that seek to dismantle the United States. I hope you seek to dismantle the United States and if that isn't your politics *clapping from audience*

Okay. I speak as if everybody has this commitment um and the thing is is that you should you should listen to indigenous people when they're telling you that this is the goal, and that not only is this the goal but this is the starting point. Because I think Nick articulated this very clearly um a de decolonization is the only thing that is going to save us. As a species. It's the only thing that's going to save us as a planet, and everyone should just be on board with it no questions asked.

And I say this sometimes on the podcast, our Red Nation Podcast, on the co-host of Red Power Hour, you know like of the most oppressed ass people in Turtle Island, indigenous women are like on the top of that fucking list, okay. And incarcerated at higher numbers, murdered at higher numbers, missing at higher numbers. Higher levels of rape and all kinds of sexual violence and sexual harassment. I mean indigenous women struggle so hard under the settler regime that is the United States, and the way that heteropatriarchy ties so closely into that. And if an indigenous woman is telling you that decolonization is the solution and also that there is real hope.

And that Palestine offers us, we we said this in the speech. Palestine is the alternative path for native nations. And this is because we understand Palestine and the liberation of Palestine is the tip of the spear. Right? It is a righteous struggle and it is so powerful that it has literally, in 60 days, changed the entire world. The entire world has changed. I knew it, I knew it the moment that it happened that nothing, and I mean nothing for colonizers, or for any of the good humble people of the Earth would be the same ever again. And we need to lean into that. Lean into the fact that colonizers are scared. Lean in to scaring them *laughs devilishly* and making them feel uncomfortable, right?

It is because, it is because we have power. And sometimes being here in Minnesota, it, it's real different organizing here. And it's also very different being indigenous here than it is from where I came from in Albuquerque. I find sometimes people here feel like they don't have power especially native people and other folks. Like, we have have power. This is why millions of people are standing up for Palestine across the world. Like we have power.

If we didn't have power they wouldn't go so hard to silence the people. And Palestine, one of the things I have also been had the honor of going to Palestine in 2011 on a decolonial field school when I was working on my PhD at the University of New Mexico. Palestine not only reminded me of my own humanity, as a person living under occupation here, but Palestine taught me so much about the commitment to decolonization. And sumud, that steadfastness right, that word again and again.

What does it mean to be steadfast in your commitment for decolonization? And I think that that is something in my long path of political development and my journey since we started the Red Nation, that indigenous revolutionaries here have also taught me that steadfastness. And I encourage you all, you know, when we leave this event ,tonight have that steadfastness, carry it in your heart. Do not let it go because we will win, and we know this because we have been doing this for hundreds of years and even like I said we've lost so much, we still believe we're going to win. We still will have the relationship with the land, right? We really believe this.

And if indigenous people are telling you this and if Palestinians are telling you this, then you better damn believe it yourself *laughs devilishly*, we're going to win *laughs devilishly*"

Wait till she finds out who are the top people preying on "indigenous" women.

Related:

Haviv Rettig Gur:

"If you don’t understand how vile and sad this is, ignore for a moment the “dismantle America” bit and notice what she does to Palestinians. How she thrills to October 7 because “Palestine is the tip of the spear” for her own shtick. Because if Israelis can be scared, then all “colonizers are scared.” And then she herself is powerful, a soldier in a grand anti-colonial struggle, and not just one more anxious, uncomfortably safe dullard with nothing important to actually do or fight for in the empty, grinding treadmill of academia and consumerism.

What if Israelis are just people, and making them fear for their children’s lives is a great way to upend the Middle East and shatter the Palestinian cause for yet another generation? What if Hamas actually and explicitly seeks a genocide, brutally oppresses its own people, has disrupted every peace attempt in forty years, and eagerly and at a strategic scale sacrifices civilians on the altar of a supremacist religious vision? What if ordinary Palestinians don’t want to be the avatars of every ideological peccadillo on campus that promises to fill the echoing void of meaning that is the present-day culture of the West?

This professor thrills to the Gaza war because “Turtle Island” something something. Because her own life is a virtual existence, lived online and in inane academic gobbledygook, and so she assumes the rest of us are virtual too, NPCs in her roleplaying game.

Lonely people have a harder time feeling empathy. It’s hard to think of a sadder, emptier, lonelier person than this casually bloodthirsty little ideologue."

The Evidence Is Clear: Hamas Abused the Press Vest — 10 Indisputable Cases ("Journalists" in Gaza)

Aizenberg on X: "The Evidence Is Clear: Hamas Abused the Press Vest — 10 Indisputable Cases"

One of the most widely disseminated

narratives

about the war in Gaza is that more than

200 journalists

have been killed by the IDF in what could amount to a grave war crime. The figures most frequently cited come from the

Committee to Protect Journalists

(CPJ), whose

casualty list

is widely used by

media

outlets and

NGOs

. These claims have helped shape the

perception

that Israel has systematically targeted innocent reporters and media workers.

Israel has

consistently

disputed

this narrative, stating that many of the individuals described as journalists, and certainly all individuals

specifically

targeted

, were in fact

members of Hamas

, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), or other militant groups. These claims were consistently

dismissed

. Yet

independent analysis

, including research by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center,

has found

that 60% of those described as “journalists” or “media personnel” had documented ties to militant organizations. Additional cases have emerged in recent weeks.

In recent months, a growing body of information has begun to substantiate Israel’s claims. As militant groups and other organizations themselves have published

martyrdom notices

and

tributes

to fallen fighters, numerous individuals previously described as journalists have been openly acknowledged as members of Hamas, PIJ, or other armed factions. Importantly, these identifications come not from Israeli statements or evidence but from militant organizations and sources inside Gaza themselves. This article presents ten clear cases of individuals still listed by the CPJ as innocent journalists where the evidence shows otherwise.

This emerging evidence should prompt serious skepticism toward the prevailing narrative that Israel systematically targets innocent journalists and should compel the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to reassess its methodology in Gaza. Its heavy reliance on local sources, combined with the categorical dismissal of Israeli evidence, has repeatedly produced inaccurate classifications. These revelations should force a major reckoning. As militant groups themselves identify many of these supposed journalists as fighters and commanders, those who reflexively dismissed Israeli claims must now confront the possibility that the narrative they promoted was deeply flawed. A credible accounting of journalist fatalities requires correcting these errors.

Below are 10 of at least 35 documented cases in which individuals widely described as journalists were in fact combatants from Hamas and other groups. The evidence in these cases does not rely on Israeli claims, though accepting those claims would add dozens more. Instead, it comes from the militant organizations themselves and from local martyr notices and social media tributes, making these identifications difficult to dispute. Note: For simplicity the title refers to Hamas, but several of the cases documented below involve members of other militant groups.

Yacoup Al-Borsh يعقوب عبد الكريم مصطفى البرش (ID 803505668, Age 33) 

Yacoup Al-Borsh was killed on November 13, 2023, in an IDF airstrike on his family home in Jabalia. The

CPJ

, citing

local media

and family members, described Yacoup as a journalist for family-owned Namaa Radio and

Naama Sports Club

. However, extensive evidence shows a different picture. The Al-Borsh family has close ties to Hamas leadership. A relative, Dr. Muneer Al-Borsh, is

Director General

of Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Yacoup himself was a Hamas combatant. Numerous

social media

posts and

martyr notices

identify him as a fighter and “mujahid,” and photos and a

video

show him armed and in military uniform. Yacoup Al-Borsh is among the most extensively documented cases of a supposed “journalist” who was in fact a Hamas combatant.

 

Mahdi Al-Mamluk مهدي حسن محمد المملوك (ID 801389321, Age 38)

Mahdi Al-Mamluk was killed on November 11, 2024, in an airstrike near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

According to the CPJ

, Al-Mamluk worked as a broadcast engineer for PIJ-affiliated channel Al-Quds Al-Youm TV and had been reporting on the siege of the hospital. However, PIJ itself later revealed a different reality. In an official publication

listing 61

of its military commanders killed in the war, PIJ identified

Al-Mamluk

as one of its senior members. While CPJ cited colleagues who claimed he was merely “supervising coverage of the war and the people’s suffering,” PIJ’s own admission shows that this supposed civilian media worker was in fact a senior combatant. The case also exposes a recurring flaw in CPJ research: its routine reliance on family members and locals to establish civilian or journalistic status, despite the

widely known risk

Gazans face if they reveal that the dead were combatants. As this case demonstrates, such accounts often prove misleading once militant groups themselves publish their martyr lists.

Rizq Abu Shakian رزق باسم رزق أبو شكيان (ID 402921084, Age 26)

Rizq Abu Shakian was killed on July 6, 2024, in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

According to the CPJ

, Abu Shakian worked as a media worker for the "pro-Hamas Palestine Now Agency." CPJ cited comments from his wife and a colleague who claimed he was simply “dedicated to his work,” presenting him as an innocent journalist killed in his home. However, Hamas-affiliated Telegram channels later revealed a different reality. A

video

and memorial

posts

identify Abu Shakian as a fighter in Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades and commemorate him as a “mujahid.” As in other cases, the portrayal of Abu Shakian as an innocent journalist relied heavily on testimony from family members and local colleagues—sources that often prove unreliable once militant groups themselves publish their martyrdom records and internal acknowledgments.

Mustafa Bahr مصطفى خضر عبد بحر (ID 802817890, Age 32)

Mustafa Bahr was killed on March 31, 2024, in an apparent Israeli airstrike near the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City.

According to the CPJ

, Bahr was a reporter and co-founder of the Palestine Breaking News website. However,

social media posts

from the day of his death and in early 2026 identified him as a combatant, a “mujahid commander.” Various mourning posters and

social media

tributes confirmed that he had served as a special operations commander in

Liwa al-Tawhid

, part of the

Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades

. A

video

depicts him in uniform participating in military exercises. Despite the extensive

documentation

identifying his

combatant role

, CPJ has continued to include Bahr on its list of journalists killed in Gaza. Mustafa's brother Abdul Rahman Bahr, another so-called

journalist

, was likewise a combatant killed in action and profiled next.

Abdul Rahman Bahr عبد الرحمن خضر عبد بحر (ID 407866896, Age 22)

Abdul Rahman Bahr, the brother of Mustafa Bahr profiled previously, was killed on October 6, 2024, in an apparent drone strike in Gaza City. Bahr also worked for the Palestine Breaking News website. However,

social media

posts published the same day praised Bahr as a “mujahid” who was “advancing, not retreating,” and mourning posters identified him as a “mujahid martyr.” On February 15, 2025, the

Facebook page

of the Al-Omari Mosque in Jabalia issued a memorial poster referencing “Al-Aqsa Flood” and depicting Bahr as an armed "mujahid" fighter. While

CPJ

and others claim that Mustafa and Abdul Bahr were innocent brothers in the media business, it was really a cover for the primary family business: the military. They were both killed in action.

Amr Abu Odeh عمرو ناهض عبد الرحمن أبو عوده (ID 404320996, Age 25)

Amr Abu Odeh was killed on October 13, 2024, in an apparent drone strike in the Al-Shati area of Gaza City.

According to the CPJ

, Odeh worked as a freelance

photojournalist

for Andalou Agency and Reuters. However,

memorial posts

following his death describe him as a “mujahid,” “one of the heroes of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,” and a member of the Hanoun Battalion.

Several images

also show him armed and wearing military fatigues, indicating that the individual presented by the CPJ as an innocent media worker was killed in action as a Hamas terrorist.

Bilal Rajab بلال محمد رباح رجب (ID 403012818, Age 27)

Bilal Rajab was killed on November 1, 2024, in an apparent

airstrike

in the Al-Firas market area of Gaza City.

According to the CPJ

, Rajab worked as a camera operator for the PIJ–affiliated Al-Quds Al-Youm TV. However, a military

mourning poster

from a militant related Telegram channel and shared by his brother confirmed that Rajab was a member of Saraya al-Quds, the armed wing of PIJ, serving in the Shuja'iyya Battalion of the Gaza Brigade. Rajab is depicted in a

military uniform

indicating that yet another individual presented as an innocent media worker was in fact a combatant killed in action.

Ahmed Abu Sharia أحمد يوسف شحادة أبو شريعه (ID 803771385, Age 31)

Abu Sharia was killed on November 19, 2024, in an apparent IDF tank strike on his home. According to his father, Abu Sharia was killed together with a cousin in the same attack.

According to the CPJ

, Abu Sharia worked as a freelance photographer for outlets such as Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. The CPJ interviewed his father who said Ahmed worked "to convey the truth about what was happening in Gaza"—but not the truth about his status as a senior combatant. Three days after his death the Mujahideen Brigades acknowledged Abu Sharia on their

Telegram channel

as a field commander in the organization. Ahmed's 16-year-old cousin Omar Ahmed Attia Abu Sharia (ID 426301396) was killed alongside him and was similarly

identified as a member

of the Mujahideen Brigades. So according to the group's own admissions, the IDF did not target and kill a journalist and an innocent child but two combatants from a

terrorist organization

.

Jamal Al-Faqaawi جمال عارف سالم الفقعاوي (ID 402220396, Age 27)

Jamal Al-Faqaawi

was killed

on October 25, 2023, in an apparent IDF airstrike on his family home in Khan Younis.

According to the CPJ

, Al-Faqaawi worked as a freelancer for the PIJ–affiliated Mithaq Media Foundation. However,

social media posts

mourning his death described Al-Faqaawi as a “martyr fighter” and depicted him in military uniform.

Images circulated

on Telegram channels dedicated to PIJ / Saraya al-Quds military content also featured him alongside the inverted triangle symbol, a marker commonly used to denote attacks on Israeli forces. These records indicate that the individual presented as an

innocent media worker

was a PIJ

terrorist

.

Maisara Ahmed Salah ميسرة أحمد صلاح صلاح (ID 407934363, Age 22) 

Maisara Ahmed Salah

was killed

on November 30, 2024, in an apparent drone strike near the Awni al-Harthani School in Beit Lahia.

According to the CPJ

, Salah worked as a video editor and freelancer for Quds News Network. However, multiple martyr posters and

social media posts

indicate that Salah was also a Hamas operative. He is identified as a member of the Khulafa (Caliphs) Battalion in Jabalia, and reports indicate he joined an Al-Qassam Brigades “Saqr” unit that infiltrated Israel on October 7. Several images show Salah armed and wearing military fatigues, and one notice describes him as a “mujahid martyr” of the Khulafa Battalion. A eulogy posted by his brother on Instagram referred to him as “the heroic Qassami mujahid.”

This article is in large part based on the research and analysis by The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center,

@GabrielEpsteinX

@MiddleEastBuka

@GnasherJew

, and other sources.