Links - 19th June 2026 (2 [including JP Morgan Sexual Harassment, SNAP])

Gabriel on X - "Turns out the story of the year was just...made up. and it gets worse.
- John Doe is Chirayu Rana, 35, now a principal at Bregal Sagemount. he left JPMorgan and went straight to private equity.
- The whole "threaten his bonus" premise collapsed. Hajdini reported to a completely different managing director than Rana. she had no say over his compensation.
- JPMorgan pulled phone records, reviewed emails, interviewed the full team. found nothing. Rana even refused to participate in his own investigation.
- A colleague described Rana as "socially awkward" but someone who "met the requirements" to stay at the bank.
- Before any lawsuit, he tried to negotiate a payout in the "millions" to leave the bank quietly. they didn't bite.
- He filed court filing, then his lawyers retracted it for "corrections" and deleted it. But the Daily Mail already ran the whole thing and the rest twitter did its thing.
so he tried to get paid, didn't, then filed a now-retracted complaint against someone who couldn't touch his bonus. wild. feel terrible for her and her family."

Exclusive | Chirayu Rana — former JPMorgan banker at center of ‘completely fabricated’ ‘sex slave’ allegations against Lorna Hajdini — left new job 3 weeks ago - "Wall Street financier Chirayu Rana, the anonymous “John Doe” who filed a sensational — and fiercely disputed — sexual harassment lawsuit against a JPMorgan Chase executive has left investment firm Bregal Sagemount... he accused Lorna Hajdini, 37, of drugging him and keeping him as a “sex slave.” The Post exclusively unmasked Rana on Thursday evening, with allies of high-flying leveraged finance expert Hajdini branding his claims “a complete fabrication.”... The explosive court document, originally filed Monday in New York state court and then retracted for “corrections,” alleged Hajdini drugged Rana with Rohypnol and Viagra, threatened his bonus to extort sex, and stalked his Manhattan apartment. But the viral allegations are unraveling almost as quickly as they surfaced. The Post has confirmed that the pair reported to two different managing directors, meaning Hajdini had no way of influencing his annual compensation... An internal JPMorgan investigation that reviewed emails, phone records, and witness statements found “no evidence” to support the claims made by “John Doe,” according to a bank spokesperson... Rana had unsuccessfully tried to negotiate a payout from JPMorgan that ran into “millions.”"

Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "This JPMorgan saga proves every single Indian stereotype.
1. Scammer — fabricated a story to rake in some cash
2. Incompetent — failed at his job, likely lied about his credentials to get hired
3. Pervert — delusional sexual fantasies about white & Asian women #MePoo"

Meme - "KNOW THE WORK RULES
APPROPRIATE
Fish headed woman: LOOKING GOOD, RAJESH
Indian man: YOU'RE SWEET.
INAPPROPRIATE
Lorna Hajdini: CHECK OUT THESE CANNONS
Indian man: HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!"

Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana files wild new claims against Lorna Hajdini - "Rana apparently lied to the bank about his father dying so he could collect paid leave — and apparently used the time off to prepare the bombshell lawsuit against Hajdini and his employer. Despite sources saying he used time off for bereavement, The Post found Rana’s father alive and well on Sunday. In Rana’s new filing, one alleged witness — who appears to be a family friend of Rana’s — says he was staying at an apartment while visiting New York City and was woken up by Hajdini’s drunken antics in the middle of the night. He attempted to go back to sleep, but a “completely naked” Hajdini woke him up. Hajdini sat on the couch he was sleeping on, lit a cigarette and began begging him to “join them” in the bedroom, the document claims. Despite refusing several times, the mystery witness claims Hajdini told him “you know I own [redacted], so you better come join.” After she returned to the bedroom, he claims, he could hear Rana pleading, “No, no, no, you have to leave. I’m not going to do this. Please stop.” Hajdini left the apartment later in the night, and a stunned Rana emerged, sharing his story of how Hajdini “constantly harassed him and forced him to engage in sexual behavior with her on a number of occasions,” the docs say. Rana allegedly recalled that Hajdini threatened him with “trouble” if he didn’t comply, and “reiterated his concern that Ms. Hajdini was blackmailing him.” That affirmation also claims witnessing Hajdini be “handsy” with Rana at a concert for Norwegian DJ Kygo at Barclay’s Center earlier that month. The other anonymous affirmation — seemingly from the owner of the apartment where the family friend was staying — claims he saw Hajdini kissing Rana’s neck on the street sometime during the summer of 2024. And in September 2024, she overheard them entering her apartment building, recalling that Hajdini said something that sounded like, “I own you, Brownie.” Both affirmations were signed last July, records show. Other exhibits include an affirmation from Rana, who argues he should proceed anonymously because the alleged events have left him with PTSD. A letter from Johnathan Alpert, an executive psychotherapist, claims to confirm his PTSD diagnosis. Rana cites a June 2025 email to Alpert claiming that he had “not slept in weeks” and was “unable to eat,” was hearing Hajdini’s voice in his head, and “I feared for my own safety” and for his family’s."

JP Morgan executive sues junior colleague over sex slave allegations - "The suit also alleges Rana made “eerily similar” claims in a previous workplace – specifically that he was sexually assaulted, drugged and raped by a supervisor there... Mr Rana was initially seeking a payout of $22m (£17m), sources told the Wall Street Journal. The bank tried to mediate with him, later offering him $1m (£743,000) to settle. Instead, he went public with his allegations. JP Morgan described its former offer as a bid “to avoid the time and expense of litigation and to support an employee who was being threatened with the very reputational harm now unfolding.”"

Meme - Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com: "A reminder that the largest demographic of Americans on food aid are white MAGA voters. By far. No other demographic is even a close second. This is the Trump regime's cruelty to distract from its own failures by punishing those who didn't vote for him."
SNAP food aid: "The Trump administration said that it will move to withhold food aid from most Democratic-controlled states unless they provide recipient records."
"SNAP benefits should be held if the states refuse to turn over the requested records. Checks and balances. But the Democratic cities don't want to do it because they know it will show mass amounts of fraud. Specifically illegals getting these benefits."
Left wingers don't understand per capita as usual. And they hate reducing fraud, because fraud is the point

FOX 9 on X - "Nearly 4.3 million Americans stopped receiving SNAP benefits from January 2025 through January 2026. Experts say it's because of changes that make the program harder to access."
Jason Robertson on X - "These totals keep getting worse and it shows why socialism won’t work  The new requirements are able bodied adults over 18 without kids under 14 need to work, go to school or volunteer 20 hours/week  We now are finding out that there are 4.3 Million Americans who fall in this category (10% of the SNAP total)  4.3 million Able bodied Americans refuse to even volunteer to help their communities in exchange for their food…"

Wall Street Apes on X - "The soda isle at the popular grocery store chain H-E-B in Texas is completely full after the state implemented new Food Stamps restrictions  Now that EBT can’t be used for soda the isles are stocked and the sodas are all on sale….  Imagine that….  Just in 2025 the 3 major soda companies, Coca-Cola Co, PepsiCo Inc and the American Beverage Association spent a combined $13 billion dollars on lobbying  Roughly 25% of all soda sales in America are EBT purchases"
Meanwhile, left wingers think that SNAP lowers grocery prices for everyone because boosting demand definitely doesn't increases prices

Wall Street Mav on X - "They can't get their SBA loans renewed. They can't get H-1B workers any more. EBT cards no longer work for most of their junk food. 7-11 closing 645 stores this year."
Is ending SNAP and racially-based loans racist against Indians?

Heart & Soil on X - "*No more EBT for Soda or Candy*
*7-Eleven begins aggressively closing stores*
*Realize 7-Eleven was subsidized*"

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: Woman says she will start eating white people if EBT is taken away, says EBT recipients will build their own nation & grow their own food. "We are going to eat regardless, even if we have to hunt you animals down & roast & eat you, the delectable crackers & cheese."   "We will make it happen if we have to, trust & believe me."  Video: @EBTofTikTok"
Basically SNAP is blackmail. But since left wingers keep going on about "eating the 'rich'" even with SNAP, it should be abolished anyway

Governor Tim Walz on X - "Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity. It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry."
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "SNAP is the greatest investment of all time. Every dollar invested into SNAP doubles. The Chinese are trying to harness our SNAP technology but they can't figure it out. If we were smart we'd spend $100T on SNAP, growing our GDP by $180T and making us all filthy rich."

Meme - Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom: "Donald Trump hosted a Great Gatsby party while SNAP benefits were about to disappear for 42 million Americans. He does not give a damn about you."
AnOmaly @LegendaryEnergy: "Didn't you dine at the French Laundry while you were treating your constituents like locked up cattle?"

Warren on X - "As of today, Florida SNAP recipients can’t buy soda or candy because God forbid we allow a single mom and her kids a few moments of happiness at the end of the day. 😡"
Jeffery Mead on X - "Wasn’t aware that soda and candy are the only ways to have happiness. She can still have that happiness, she just needs to pay for that happiness herself. It’s Supplemental NUTRITION Assistance Program."
William Sperry on X - "My fav is watching legacy news showing a family that had ‘lost everything’ and needed financial assistance and there’s the mom with fancy nails and holding a Starbucks coffee. How about priorities of eating and maintaining your home before holding out your hand because you can’t manage money."
Left wing logic - if something isn't free people arent being allowed to have it

Pablo Antonio on X - "Here’s how you can sell your food stamps to buy fentanyl in San Francisco. My friends and I from SF10x did some investigative journalism."
Sebastian Caliri on X - "SNAP money is supposed to buy food. But in San Francisco you can use SNAP to buy drugs.  How does it work? You can convert SNAP dollars to paper vouchers at farmer's markets. Then sell those vouchers at a discount for cash.  Because we don't seem to arrest drug dealers in the Tenderloin, you can then buy drugs with the cash.  California does not look after federal dollars meant for welfare and this poor level of stewardship is insulting to taxpayers. We will see all kinds of schemes affecting Medicaid in California in the months ahead."

How drug dealers are abusing Ohio's food assistance program - "Sussi recently spent time with three drug dealers and addicts in Circleville. They said food assistance benefits are sold and traded for drugs “all the time.”   One 31-year-old heroin addict and drug dealer said many of her customers are on welfare and have children. “I just got a phone call earlier somebody wanting to sell $30 worth of food stamps for a berry.”   A “berry” is one hit of Mexican black tar heroin, enough to fill up a syringe. It goes for about $15 bucks on the streets.   Sussi asked her, “In a given week how many calls will you get from people wanting to sell their food stamps  so they can buy dope?” She said, “You probably get four or five calls at least a week.”   “These people are buying heroin from food debt cards or money they’ve gotten rather from selling food debt cards,” said Rep. Schaffer. “And it’s worsening the crisis for Ohio families.”"

The B in EBT stands for Bentley - "In one red state alone, more than 14,000 people with EBTs (food stamp recipients) own luxury cars... States approve their applications through the BBCE—Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility—loophole, which allows states to ignore restrictions on eligibility such as income (you can now have an income twice the federal poverty level), eliminate limits on cars, yachts and savings, and states can also waive these limits. 43 states and DC use the loophole to line their pockets. You’ve heard of 10% going back to the big guy. 10.4% of the program’s benefits go back to the state governments. Hence, up to 6 million people—14% of EBT recipients—should be ineligible. EBT costs taxpayers $100 billion a year. Closing the BBCE could save taxpayers $14 billion a year. Think about that the next time Congress complains about feeding soldiers one surf-and-turf on a special occasion. That costs $23 million—or $0.023 billion. So while Senator John Kennedy was complaining about troops getting a nice meal before a heavy assignment, he ignored Rolls Royce drivers getting the same meal using EBT. The FGA report noted, “Critically, these were newer vehicles, manufactured in just the last handful of years—not an old Porsche from 1978 or a Lamborghini from 1997. Moreover, the list is not of all new vehicles—just typical luxury vehicles that were newly manufactured.” 1978 Porsches and 1997 Lambos are classic automobiles, not used cars."
If you object to luxury car owners being on SNAP and want to reduce SNAP fraud, you're a heartless, cruel person who just doesn't want poor people to eat, and should be going after billionaires instead

From Luxury Vehicles to Fake Emails: Why Food Stamp Program Integrity Is More Important Now Than Ever - "Foreign fraudsters are signing up for welfare from overseas using IP addresses traced back to China, Mexico, Canada, and more. And resources meant for the truly needy are instead siphoned off by people who have no business being on welfare in the first place. This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s happening right now, in state after state, because the systems designed to prevent it are failing or simply don’t exist at all. Officially, more than one in every $10 spent on food stamps is in error—and even that excludes a significant amount of fraud. This amounts to nearly $10.4 billion in improper spending each year—a sevenfold increase over erroneous spending 20 years ago. This figure significantly understates the real waste, fraud, and abuse in the program, as the official rate ignores most erroneous payments; many instances of fraud and improper payments go unnoticed or uninvestigated; and the official rate does not account for food stamp trafficking, intentional program violations, and known fraud. But thanks to the 2025 federal reconciliation law, states will now have skin in the food stamp program for the first time ever. Historically, food stamp benefits have been entirely federally funded, but this legislation now requires states to share in the cost of food stamp benefits based on their error rate—the higher the error rate, the more the state is on the hook for... more than one in five food stamp enrollees did not have their identity successfully matched with the address listed on their application for benefits. Countless others had addresses that were marked as undeliverable or registered with a business rather than a residence. Shockingly, hundreds of thousands of enrollees had their most recent verifiable address listed as being in another state—of which tens of thousands had no record of ever living in the state in which they were receiving benefits. It’s not just residency records. Thousands of food stamp enrollees listed Social Security numbers (SSNs) on their application that were unable to be successfully verified, while hundreds had SSNs that were issued before their date of birth. These are clear signs of identify fraud—using both stolen identities and synthetic identities—used to game the system and improperly acquire benefits. A significant number of cases of identity theft in major welfare programs are attributable to illegal aliens using stolen IDs, which, when coupled with the use of synthetic identities, can pose a major threat to resources intended for the truly needy. Yet, despite these obvious signs of fraud, these individuals were able to sign up for and obtain food stamp benefits. Commonsense program integrity provisions like regular data cross-checks against available data sources, shortened recertification periods, and adopting “change reporting” rather than “simplified reporting” would help reduce these instances of blatant fraud. Many individuals were successfully approved for food stamps while using an IP address linked to a foreign country, from China to Mexico to Canada. Even more concerning is foreign emails: More than 5,000 email addresses that were used to sign up for food stamps were from domains based in foreign countries. Others listed email accounts that were disposable, commonly used by individuals or entities engaging in identity theft, phishing attempts, or spam. In total, more than 20,000 email accounts were flagged as either “high” or “very high” risk for fraudulent activity."

Video resurfaces of Ilhan Omar saying ‘World War Eleven’ in embarrassing blunder - "A resurfaced video of Ilhan Omar has sparked online ridicule after she mistakenly referred to World War II as “World War Eleven.” Although Omar quickly corrected herself, the clip still received mockery across social media platforms. The video has been widely circulated by political accounts across X, with the verbal blunder leading many to question the Minnesota congresswoman’s intelligence."

Tokyo’s city hall changes dress code, workers now allowed to wear shorts[Videos] - "For a very long time, the baseline attitude in Japan has been that if you’re working in an office, you should be wearing formal business attire. However, while people in Japan may place great value on traditions, climate change, by its very nature, is unconcerned with conforming to the status quo. With Japan Meteorological Agency data showing the country has experienced its hottest summer on record for three years in a row, the Tokyo metropolitan government decided to rethink the dress code at Tocho, Tokyo’s city hall complex, and now allows workers to wear attire that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: shorts... The new policy isn’t coming without public blowback about the breezy wardrobe choices. Shorts, especially when worn by men, have long been seen as decidedly casual attire in Japan, and some online commenters have grumbled about the idea of government employees dressing in such a laid-back style. The until-now rarity of uncovered male legs in the workplace also raises grooming-related business etiquette questions, as in many Japanese offices stubbly facial hair is discouraged or banned, causing some to wonder if men choosing to wear shorts at Tocho should then also be willing to shave their legs or otherwise remove lower body hair. Despite complaints from those who perceive the new dress code as representing a loss of professional decorum, the above videos appear to imply that shorts are being allowed for workers in internal/back office positions, not necessarily for those in roles which involve directly interacting with residents and other members of the public coming to Tocho to take care of administrative issues. And with Japan’s summers becoming so hot that the country is needing to create new words to describe the heat, it’s nice to see Tocho taking some sort of countermeasures before the end of spring."

No laughing matter: Why it’s time to cancel Facebook’s haha reaction - "The haha emoji is poisoning Facebook. Created 11 years ago to express laughter, the emoji – officially dubbed Grinning Squinting Face – has become the emoji of ridicule. Every time I see that little yellow ball of derision sitting at the bottom of news stories and posts, cackling at the pandemic, climate change, inequality – actually anything where someone is trying to make the world a better place – my faith in humanity slips a little further. While I’m training myself not to click on Facebook’s comments section – and that addictive rush of outrage of reading the horrendous views of strangers – the haha emoji is unavoidable. It takes just one person to click that avatar of vitriol and the post and my newsfeed is tainted forever. Even on stories where the comments are turned off, you’ll still find that little androgynous face of scorn. My experience of social media is now like being followed everywhere by Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons – like every earnest view I hold is a source of belittlement for the world. In a way it has become the emoji of the moment. The emoji of Brexit, Donald Trump and the anti-vaxxers. A weapon of the trolls in the time of the culture wars. So how did the emoji of joy become the emoji of hate?... In 2016, Guardian columnist Abi Wilkinson called it an “obnoxious, chortling little yellow dickhead”... An Irish Times columnist called Tears of Joy “more beastly than any other [emoji]” and a “sobbing cretin popular with right-wing bullies and those with no imagination”... bullies were gifted a new and more powerful tool. As people were given more ways to express their views on Facebook, it soon became clear that, as journalist Daniel Walters wrote, the haha emoji is “an A-hole”. Walters said, rather than laughter, the emoji had been “pressed into service for a more sinister purpose: Derisive mockery of sincere statements”."
Weird. We are told that authoritarians cannot stand being made fun of, but laugh reacts always trigger left wingers
Once again, "hate" is anything that threatens the left wing agenda

Facebook - "WATCHING DIRTY DANCING AS A PARENT IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE. Baby's dad wasn't the bad guy - she was 17, sneaking around with a Catskills dance instructor who looked like he was pushing 40 and had the emotional stability of a wasp in a soda can. And honestly, Baby, you do belong in a corner. That's called a time out, sweetheart."
Clearly, he's a toxic parent who will be cut off and ignored to die alone in a nursing home

Rob Moore on X - "Proof that London and the UK is way out of control. I just went into Pret-a-Manger to buy my breakfast. Handed over a tenner & the server took 30 seconds to check it for being fake. It was a I said to him, “do you get a lot of fake money here”? And he said, “you would be shocked… Not only do we get a lot of fake money, but people start fights with us when we check it. So now we have to wear body cams” He showed me his body cam. Body cams in fucking Pret-a-Manger for buying toasties & coffee. This is the real state of London and the UK. This is not doom mongering, this is for real"

Altus on X - "Breasts feed and nurture life. They are the bedrock of civilization. The ass expels waste and can only destroy. The boob man is a creator, the butt man worships chaos."

Erick Erickson on X - "The fundamental problem for this nation is that the Democrats have internalized that only they are virtuous and all power exercised outside of their control is illegitimate. Historically, when groups do that, it ends badly for everyone. From Hitler to Mao to Pol Pot, when a party cannot love its nation and people unless it rules them, it ends badly for everyone. The Democrats are headed in that trajectory. Again, you can say the GOP provokes violence or Trump says awful things, but the bullets are all going from left to right."

Japan survey finds 1 in 6 men groped on Tokyo public transport, defying gender assumptions | South China Morning Post - "Several comments noted that the assailants were female. One victim recalled: “A woman who looked like an office worker started touching my hair, ears and neck, and I was left confused. Looking back, it wasn’t until I entered university that I realised that it was molestation.” A Cabinet Office survey published last year found that 44.1 per cent of male victims identified their attacker as male, while 42.5 per cent said it was a woman and the rest were unsure."

Thread by @arctotherium42 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Most Spanish South American countries had very liberal constitutions on independence, guaranteeing property, liberal freedoms like speech and contract, and abolishing the fueros and legal caste/race distinctions, often inspired by but going further than the United States. Many people claim the US was founded as a [classical] liberal state without racial or ethnic content. This is mostly not true; the US was founded by Whigs (the word liberal was coined around 1800) and had explicit race laws. But it *is* true of most of Latin America. Spanish-American liberals were within the Spanish liberal tradition, much like the Founding Fathers were Whigs. 19th Hispanic century liberalism, politically very successful, is overlooked vs Britain or France. Liberalism won but failed in both Spain and America. I suspect liberalism's failure in Spain and Spanish America is overlooked by many because most interested in 19th century liberalism are sympathetic towards it (if leftist, as a precursor of socialism and derivatives, otherwise, in and of itself); the failure is embarrassing. Couple more differences between Spanish America and the US: most of Spanish America abolished slavery without much fuss on independence, and just about every major independence leader from Iturbide to Bolivar to San Martin died in exile, like if Washington had fled to Russia."
Garett Jones on X - "Nobel Laureate Douglass North said the same in this interview with Timur Kuran: Latin American countries copied America's excellent formal institutions but couldn't copy the cultural norms that made the institutions work. Libertarians and academics alike forgot North's lesson."
Clearly, Latin America is lagging behind because of US intervention

Winona Ryder and Jamiroquai "Breasts Too Big, Too Much Sex" Breakup Story - "The Winona Ryder and Jamiroquai "Breasts Too Big, Too Much Sex" Breakup Story refers to a viral story about Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay breaking up with actress Winona Ryder because her breasts were too big and she always wanted to have sex with him. Jay Kay purportedly made the claim to FHM Magazine in 2005 and was quoted in an article as saying, "She did have this habit of constantly wanting to play hide the sausage. It was exhausting." The story resurfaced and went viral on social media in April 2026, inspiring reactions and memes, including many references to the My Steak Is Too Juicy / My Lobster Is Too Buttery meme...
'Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay says sexy Winona Ryder wore him out with her non-stop demands for sex. The 35-year-old singer said, although he enjoyed his brief relationship with the Hollywood star, he was left shattered trying to keep up with her. He confessed: "She has these enormous breasts – bigger than they look on film […] She did have this habit of constantly wanting to play hide the sausage. It was exhausting."'"

My sister is pregnant for the fourth time in four years and I’m worried for her. : r/self - "She’s 23 and currently expecting baby #4. She got married at 19 in 2022, got pregnant pretty much right away, their first daughter was born just over nine months after the wedding. They had a second daughter in March 2024, she was pregnant again by the fall and they had a son in June of last year. I figured (and hoped) they would at the very least take a break after that. I thought maybe they had just been trying for a boy secretly and now that they had one, she’d get some rest. They had. She seems really happy on the outside and I haven’t noticed any major issues, mental or physical, but I know it isn’t really a wise idea. She’s in good shape which probably helps but still not all that reassuring. She’s pregnant yet again and due in July. I know it’s not my place to bring it up to her but I’ve read up on it and read some horror stories about woman who’ve died from having too many children in rapid succession. I’m terrified they are going to get pregnant yet again after this one, as their track record isn’t very encouraging."
Anti-natalists are wild

Losing control of the narrative (Migrants in the UK and Government Messaging)

Losing control of the narrative | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration  

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” As Southampton simmers and Belfast erupts in fire, Gramsci’s words weigh heavily. We are in an interregnum, a chaotic gap between a dying social order, and a new Britain that has yet to emerge. 

The clearest sign of this was not in the horrors visited upon Henry Nowak and Stephen Ogilvie on the nation’s streets, which are sadly far from new, but in the way British society has reacted. There are protests, many of them violent. There is a populist political party set to win potentially hundreds of seats openly linking the violence to immigration. Millions witnessed a dying Nowak being handcuffed by police officers, and millions watched Ogilvie being brutalised by an asylum seeker, as shocking videos spread across social media. 

Something has changed. Once, not long ago, this wasn’t how society reacted, with the British government maintaining strict narrative control over media and public responses to violent acts by immigrants. 

In 2014, as news broke that hundreds of British Muslims were fighting for Islamic State in the Middle East, and with videos circulating of a British aid workers being executed, an image of a Muslim woman in a Union Jack headscarf appeared on the cover of the Sun, with the headline, “United Against I.S.” When a Libyan immigrant conducted the Manchester Arena Bombing in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children, Manchester crowds sang “Don’t Look Back in Anger”, and Muslim religious leaders joined the local bishop at a vigil. These were not simply spontaneous outpourings of public sentiment, but rather what government contingency planners call “controlled spontaneity”. Real stories are mixed with stage-managed events, and carefully tailored to create a narrative that channels public sentiment away from politically charged anger or civil disorder. 

It later emerged that the Sun cover was sourced from a PR firm called “Breakthrough Media”, an organisation that works closely with RICU, the Home Office’s Research, Information and Communications Unit, a crucial element in the British state’s counter-extremism. The Sun cover was the product of a Prevent PR campaign, and in the words of Breakthrough Media, “the UK authorities wanted to challenge ultraconservative and misogynistic interpretations of Islam – particularly those around women – in order to promote the true face of Islam among vulnerable UK communities”. 

There is a now widely understood sense that, whether explicitly or implicitly, the British state carefully manipulates and shapes the political narrative around shocking acts of violence involving immigrant communities. Yet this fact, although made public in regards to the 2014 Sun cover, is little explored or investigated by the media. Part of the reason for this is that, as the Sun example showed, many in the press feel they have an ethical or political reason to reinforce government spin in emergency contexts. Part of this is that as many of these efforts happen under the aegis of a state security apparatus, there is little transparency or way to access firm information about what is being done. Freedom of information requests about the work of RICU have been routinely denied on the grounds of national security.

In other words we know little about how extensively RICU and government PR firms have been at work behind the scenes attempting to dampen tensions and guide public debates over terrorism, immigration and integration in the past decade. In the wake of Southampton and Belfast, the families of both victims released press statements asking his death not be used to increase “division, hatred or tension”. There was widespread speculation that these statements had come about through government or police prompting or intervention, especially in relation to the Belfast statement, which was delivered by a local MP rather than the family, and included lines about “peaceful protest” being “the only way forward”, as well as the idea that, “we have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare system and hospitality sector, and we depend on them to make our country work.” With so little transparency around government counterterrorism work, suspicion and paranoia have become rampant. Many found it implausible that a family in the throes of tragedy’s first thoughts would be for the importance of migration for the hospitality sector, but there is of course no evidence either way. 

Regardless of whether the statements were examples of true or “controlled” spontaneity, the political establishment was swift to use them to condemn anyone who tried to link the killings in Southampton and Belfast to migration policy. In parliament, Farage was booed when he asked if Nowak’s treatment by officers was an example of “two-tier policing”, the Prime Minister accused Farage of sewing division and dishonouring the wishes of the victim’s family. 

The mood in parliament when Farage stood up was ugly. MPs hissed, murmured and jeered. He had expressed “pure, cold rage”. He had not called for calm, he had expressed outrage and demanded change. 

The grip of the British state on the press and public was being fatally weakened. A big part of the story was social media, especially Elon Musk’s X, where millions had viewed and shared the shocking body cam footage of a dying Henry Nowak’s handcuffing by police. This echoed the bruising events of last year, in which Musk and X had kicked up a storm of public anger over grooming gangs. 

Grooming gangs had been reported on again and again, but without result. In 2004 a Channel 4 documentary was planned on grooming gangs in Bradford. It was delayed by police who warned that it would inflame racial tensions, and did little to change public debate. When Andrew Norfolk exposed the Rotherham grooming gangs in 2011, he was subjected to death threats and accusations of racism. Social media has changed the media landscape. When Musk attacked the British government for refusing to launch a national inquiry, they were forced to commission a national audit authored by Baroness Casey, an audit which found that across multiple public services, fears of being perceived as racist, or causing racial division, had led to grooming gangs being ignored, data on ethnicity uncollected, and victims left to their abusers. 

Between new forms of media, and new outlets like GB News, the information ecosystem once united in depoliticising migration and crime is now divided. The public debate is moving very quickly, with politicians sprinting to catch up with a shifting Overton window. Only a week ago, Kemi Badenoch was attacking Farage for calling for “rage”. Yesterday in Parliament, reacting to Belfast, she condemned rioting, but said, “people have the right to be angry, and I am angry”.

Where once migration was firmly delinked from instances of public violence, now people are speaking openly about it. The head of the DUP talked directly of an attack on “British values” and demanded answers of how the Sudanese knifeman had been allowed to enter Northern Ireland, and why he had been granted leave to remain. The government has again been forced to act, with the Home Office promising to “ramp up” action against illegal migrants in Northern Ireland.

Those in the political centre find the ground shifting beneath their feet, and are desperate to reassert control. Many in the press and politics pointed the finger at social media, with Lib Dem leader Ed Davey blaming the Belfast violence on “social media barons like Elon Musk, and their divisive algorithms”, saying that online rhetoric “is not free speech” , and calling on the Prime Minister to “crack down on platforms like X”.

The government seems set to do just that, with Technology Secretary Liz Kendall laying out plans to control online content “during times of crisis”. Many in the British establishment would desperately like to put the genii back in the bottle, and return to “normality”. 

At one level, you can fully understand and even agree with the aims of the authorities in wishing to prevent violence and rioting. Anyone who reads about the harrowing stories coming out of Belfast of people left homeless by arson, of whole families forced to flee in terror from their homes by mobs, can see why politicians and police have good reason to want to curb popular rage. 

The problem is that the government’s approach is not simply to appeal to people’s decency, or counter the spread of harmful misinformation. In fact, its strategy has historically been to create propagandistic narratives or to suppress inflammatory truths, even where this has meant failing to prevent or punish terrible crimes, as with the mass rape of white working class children by Pakistani grooming gangs. Even if this works to suppress tensions in the short term, like putting a lid on a boiling saucepan, it only builds up more tension in the long term. 

Once you pass a certain point of public awareness and anger over migration, integration and criminality, the tactics that once worked to suppress rage, will increasingly achieve the opposite of their intentions. There is some sign that authorities are starting to learn this lesson, and the rapid confirmation of the details of the Belfast case, including the ethnicity and migration status of the attacker, was indicative of an understanding that failing to disclose details, especially in the context of a widely shared and horrific video, was only going to fuel further speculation, paranoia and rage. 

Yet in large part the mainstream conversation remains hopelessly behind public opinion and an emerging debate occurring on social media and the right wing press, with many marooned by the whirlwind pace of discursive norms. In Parliament, Reform, Farage and Musk sometimes seem to generate more ire than the terrible violence inflicted on British streets, which is instead spoken of more in sorrow than in anger. On X, Owen Jones wrote a thread listing decapitations by white killers. Lewis Goodall, penning a Substack post from the Basque Country, suggested that concern over Henry Nowak reflected the “endless unreality” of the culture wars, and called suggestions that police anti-racism had any bearing on their decision to treat a prone and dying white suspect as a possible racist on the word of his killer as “fanciful stuff”. The Economist described right wing leaders as in the grips of “violent fantasy”, and members of the public who support them as “bastards”. At a certain point these kinds of responses from press and politicians are themselves dangerous provocations, creating a sense that mainstream debate and democracy are no longer paths to political change. 

There has not been a single leader in the past 15 years who has become Prime Minister without promising to lower migration and take control of our borders, yet in that same time both legal and illegal migration have risen to extraordinary, demographically transformative heights. The sense of political powerlessness and cultural alienation this has created is a recipe for civil unrest of the sort we saw in Southport in 2024, and Ballymena in 2025. 

Regaining public trust means taking meaningful action on migration, but it also means frank, uncomfortable public conversations about crime, integration and the impact of mass migration on British society. People feel, really profoundly, that politicians are not on their side, don’t listen, and don’t take action. 

A young man spent his last moments falsely arrested for racism, disbelieved and manhandled by police as his killer loomed over his dying body. Another man is currently in hospital, an eye gouged out of his head, covered in wounds inflicted in a frenzied attack perpetrated by a man with no connection to Britain or Ireland, no visa, no right or business whatsoever being in our country. It is time our leaders stopped blaming angry words for civil disorder — these crimes, and the policies that let them happen, are the reason British streets are burning.

 

 

 

Links - 19th June 2026 (1 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

Meme - "Hi Mary, I couldn't help but notice the israeli flag in your bio; if you were familiar with Kid Sister you would know that we are a pro Palestinian company and are vocal advocates against the ongoing genocide. Please remove us from your mailing list. Christen"
Mary Sheridan: "To: Christen Lalonde
If you would actually cared to LOOK at my bio, you would see I am a proud Salvadoran Canadian indigenous woman who proudly stands with Palestine."
Terrorism supporters are so ignorant and hateful

Meme - "What Has Israel Provided to the World?
All of the following were developed in Israel:
Cell phone technology
Microsoft Windows NT® operating system
Instant Messenger software
Intel Pentium MMX® Chip
Heart Attack Blood Test Diagnoses By Phone
PC anti-virus software
"Gut cam" Ingestible pill video camera to diagnose cancer
USB Flash Drive Disk On Key
Radiation-free, breast cancer diagnostic test
FireWall® internet security software
Drip irrigation technology for farmers to conserve water
Large-scale solar electricity plant in Calif. Mojave desert
What Has Palestine Provided to the World?
All of the following were developed in Palestine:
Homemade rockets
Suicide Bombings
Terror Tunnels
Indoctrination of children
Subjugation of women
Commercial airline hijacking"

Jon Levine on X - "Wikipedia has a "Palestinian inventions" page and literally half the entries are various types of bombs"
A lot of left wingers quoted Mikhail Kalashnikov in his AK-47 designer capacity saying: "Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agricultural machinery." Given that the AK-47 was only introduced after World War II, that's a great example of left wingers' historical ignorance and grasping at straws

WikiBias on X - "While Israelis are known for their inventions and impressive Nobel Prize-winning rate, their enemies excel mainly at inventing lies and obscuring the truth. Here are just some of the many Israeli inventions deleted from Wikipedia, including Babylon, ICQ, OrCam, and Moovit."

WikiBias on X - "While many groundbreaking Israeli inventions and innovations have been deleted from Wikipedia as "unfit for inclusion," the Palestinian keffiyeh is fully recognized and listed under the category of “Palestinian inventions,” alongside Nabulsi cheese and Nabulsi soap. 😃"
WikiBias on X - "Stop using your computer, as it contains Israeli chips. Also, rely only on Palestinian "inventions"..."

Meme - Zachary Foster: "Why don't Palestinians embrace non-violent resistence? You've probably heard this question asked a lot over the past 2 weeks. A short response.
From late 1987-1988, Palestinians in Gaza rose up in a series of non-violent demonstrations, strikes, boycotts & protests. They killed 0 Israelis. They were unarmed. In response, Israel killed 142 Palestinians in Gaza. Source: Jean-Pierre Filiu, Gaza: A History (2014), 206."
"The first year of the intifada ended with an especially high toll of dead and wounded in the Gaza Strip. Whereas 142 Palestinians had died, not a single Israeli had been killed in the territory. Seventy-seven Palestinians fell to gunfire and thirty-seven died after inhaling teargas (most of whom were older people and very young children or infants who are especially vulnerable to this kind of attack). Seventeen lost their lives after being beaten by Israeli soldiers or police, nine were killed in traffic accidents that may have been deliberate and two died in detention, their bodies bearing the marks of torture. The Gaza Strip emerged from this period of twelve months scarred and impoverished. Never, on the other hand, had the ambition for ign Palestine appeared to be nearer to fulfilment."
Ohad Gertel: "These "non-violent demonstrations" were in fact:
suicide bombings in a Israeli city,
hijacking a civilian Israeli bus and murdering its passengers,
unprovoked murders of Israeli civilians by deliberately running them over with a car or stabbing them with a knife"
Terrorism supporters just keep on lying, as usual. Cherry picking the Gaza Strip and claiming that no Israelis died there is rich when Palestinian terrorists were killing Israelis elsewhere (not to mention a key reason why no Israelis died in the Gaza Strip was due to the "apartheid" that they keep bitching about)
One terrorism supporter claimed that this was expected as they were occupying Palestinian land. Terrorism supporters don't want peace - they want Jews to be ethnically cleansed from the Middle East. And of course, if that ever happens, they will still justify Jews being murdered in the rest of the world as being Israel's fault, just like decades after colonialism ended, they still mock Europe's problems with mass migration as being their just desserts from colonialism

Brianna Wu on X - "Free Palestine is not a peace movement. It is an anti-Jew pro-war movement. Just look at the slogans.    “Globalize the Intifada” means people all around the world must support efforts to destroy Israel, including violence.   “By any means necessary” means if Israeli civilians are killed, that is fine.   “Resistance until return” means the violence will continue until Palestinians control Israel. There is no scenario of that happening where 7 million Jews in Israel are not slaughtered and ethnicly cleansed.   I want peace. That is why I oppose the Free Palestine movement. If you don’t believe in a two state solution, you believe in endless war."
Meme - Brendan @BrendanMcinnis: ""From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Arab" Didn't test well with Western audiences for some reason. Doubt it's just that it doesn't rhyme in English"

Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "They signed a pledge from a group so openly hateful and extreme that it even attacked the anti-Israel filmakers behind the "No Other Land" documentary for violating "normalization standards""
Nerdeen Kiswani: "Today, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) officially published a statement in Arabic, confirming that No Other Land violates anti-normalization standards. This vindicates what many of us have been saying."
Nerdeen Kiswanl @Nerdee: "No Other Land winning an Oscar is being framed as a historic moment for Palestinians, but would the Academy have awarded it if it weren't framed as a joint project? Why did the speech stop a..."

Ms. Rachel cries on camera after liking post to 'free America from the Jews' : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "She says that she “accidentally liked the comment.” But then Palestinian News Network (PNN) left a comment saying “they (the Jews) probably left that comment themselves” to trick her. She responds “ooooooo”
EDIT: She’s insinuating that the jews themselves put the comment there and maybe its their fault and not hers"
"I’ve generally been a Ms. Rachel defender but I’m having a hard time explaining this one"

Meme - mssrachelforlittles: "Free Palestine"
alex_james.d: "Free America from the Jews"
"*heart* by author"
We all know he meant "Zionists", so this is just pretending that criticising Israel is anti-Semitic

Nation Starting To Wonder If People Who Spend Life Singing Songs To Toddlers On YouTube Might Not Be All There Mentally | Babylon Bee

Bari Weiss Listens to Shocking Palestinian Bomber Story - "VITTERT: Wafaa had been a woman in the West Bank-, a woman in Gaza. She had pulled a pot of boiling water over herself when she was like five or six years old The Israelis treat most of the people out of Gaza who have really horrific burns, catastrophic medical injuries. She goes back to Gaza after being treated for four or five years in Israel, but has a past to get in and out of Israel, which very few people in Gaza did at the time. So she gets recruited to be a suicide bomber. This is in the Second Intifada, so mid-2000s. And there’s the video of her coming to the checkpoint to get into Israel wearing her suicide vest And she’d been given three target options by the Al-Asqa Martyrs Brigade: a bus, a cafe, or the hospital that had treated her and saved her life. She chose the hospital that had treated her and saved her life. She gets to the checkpoint they discover that she has a bomb or they  think she does, she tries to detonate it, it doesn’t go off. She gets thrown in jail. Again, the Israelis treat her, they help her with her burns, they educate her, they give her a college degree. And now in the Gilad Shalit deal, she goes back to Gaza. So I go to Gaza to interview her thinking this is going to be a redemption story — it was before Christmas, right? That she is gonna say, “I am going to be the one to try and forge peace and I believe in peace, and I’ve seen that the Israelis are not evil that I don’t want to kill them anymore.” Fine. So I get into Gaza and I bring with me an iPad that has the video of her trying to blow herself up. So we’re sitting across from each other like this. She’s wearing a hijab in a very junkie Gazan apartment, it is an awful place in every sense of the word. And I show her the video and I said, “What are you thinking watching this?” She goes, “Oh, oh, oh.” Has all this reaction she goes, “Oh.” she goes, “I’m thinking I almost tasted paradise.” Okay. “Would you do it again?” “Absolutely in a minute. This is my calling in life.” I said, “Wait a second, these people treated you and all of your burns, they saved your life, you tried to blow them up, they still treated you, they educated you, and now you have a chance at life back here in Gaza and you’d want to blow him up?” And she goes, “Absolutely, they are the infidels. They are evil. They’re the enemy.” I can’t remember what the exact translation was and that’s when my mind was made up about sort of the moral clarity of the Israeli-Palestinian debate. are the Israelis perfect? No, but that’s what they’re up against."

The UN Has Been Evil For Longer Than You Think - "The Gaza war reminds me of the Vietnam war, but not in the way you think.  Israel is not America. It’s Vietnam. Gaza is not America either. It’s Cambodia.  Okay, so my first sentence was a bit misleading. I’m not talking about THE Vietnam war. I’m talking about the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. Arguably, the most justified war of the 20th century.  This little-known war stopped one of the worst genocides in human history and exposed the absolute worst of the UN almost 50 years before October 7... In just four years, this insane far left government had killed as many 2.8 million of its own people. It was only the Vietnamese military intervention and subsequent facilitation of international food aid that ended the genocide and saved millions of lives.  Now, this might seems like one of the most morally virtuous wars in history. In response to a series of beastly massacres, an nation invades a barbaric neighbor engaged in one of the worst genocides in history, topples its deranged dictator and ends the slaughter.  You’d think the world would celebrate this crusade against evil. Nah, you wouldn’t think that. You’re not an idiot. You see, international law cares about borders, not motives. Even though the Khmer Rouge was pure evil, even though they started the war through a series of senseless massacres, the West was unhappy Vietnam took the battle to their enemies instead of just pushing the enemy away from the border.  “Okay,” you may ask, this is the First World, “but what about the Second World?”  Well, China and ASEAN saw this as Soviet-aligned invasion because the Soviet Union supported Vietnam. “Sure, Pol Pot made Dracula look like a saint, but we can’t have Soviet allies expanding Soviet influence by killing monsters, can we now?”  As a result, the UN condemned Vietnam for the invasion. Almost the entire world condemned Vietnam for the invasion. What’s even more disgusting is that it let the Khmer Rouge keep Cambodia’s UN seat for years. Again, we’re talking about a regime which murdered 25% of its own population and then brought the same level of brutality to its neighbors.  Cambodia attacked first. Cambodia committed genocide. Vietnam stopped it. The world condemned Vietnam.  The hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy already stink, but let’s make it worse.  Let’s talk about Gaza and Kosovo.  Just like the Khmer Rouge carried out cross-border massacres, Hamas carried out a massive invasion from Gaza, committing untold atrocities in Israeli border towns.  Just like Vietnam, Israel responded with a large-scale military action to remove this threat to its citizens. Just like Vietnam, most of the world focused on the response instead of the initial attack.  People acknowledged the horror but refused to let the horror shape policy. Pressure, sanctions threats, and legal action focused overwhelmingly on Israel despite the Jewish state being the victim of aggression from an entity which promised endless war and genocide, not just against the Jews but against everyone who didn’t share its Islamist ideology.  Both Vietnam and Israel crossed an ostensible international taboo: they aimed to remove the threat not just deter it. The international system relies on states to stop horrors it does nothing to stop itself… then condemns them for doing exactly that."

Hen Mazzig on X - ""The stated mission of the boycott is to end apartheid, and I keep saying, what apartheid? My products are made by Israeli-Arabs, not Jewish Israelis."  Seed + Mill, which makes sesame-based foods, is one of the brands that might be impacted by the new boycott of Israeli goods by the Park Slope Food Coop.   The Coop voted this week to boycott all Israeli goods in a contentious vote.   Another example of how these boycotts often end up harming the exact people they were meant to help."
If you don't give people from another country the same rights as your own citizens, that's "apartheid". Similar logic is behind how Western countries which don't have open borders are authoritarian, fascist regimes

Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ on X - "I think the pigheaded ignorance of the BDS movement is really illuminated best by what they did to SodaStream.  An Israeli company, SodaStream was one of BDS's earliest boycotts, leading to the closure of its West Bank facility in 2015. At the time, the company was the largest private employers of Palestinians in the area, and 600 Palestinians were immediately laid off. Their Palestinian employees received the same benefits, wages, and conditions of Israelis, and all of that was lost due to BDS, who hilariously (and wrongly) claimed that SodaStream was "exploiting" Palestinians.  SodaStream then moved into Israel proper and to a new plant in Lehavim, which is close to Rahat, a large Bedouin town in the Negev. The facility, like the West Bank one, employs the locals: hundreds of Bedouins, particularly Bedouin women, who otherwise lack economic opportunities.  Did this satisfy BDS? Nope. They continue to boycott SodaStream entirely, claiming the factory is part of the Israeli government's plans to ethnically cleanse the Bedouins, which are Israeli citizens of Arab descent. BDS, of course, did not ask the Bedouins, who receive the same wages as Jews, guaranteed by equal rights laws that BDS pretends do not exist in Israel. Those wages are significantly higher than the average income in nearby Arab towns, and SodaStream provides benefits that are rare outside of the urban areas of Israel, like a healthcare plan, pension contributions, and daily transportation. Job satisfaction is very high.  In short, these boycotts just make rich white WASP Westerners feel good. They do nothing for Palestinians or Israeli minorities."

Thread by @EFischberger on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The UN just "blacklisted" Israel for sexual violence. So I read the report.  Not only does it fail spectacularly at proving systematic sexual violence against Palestinians, it actually makes a far more compelling case for the UN's own systematic dishonesty and incompetence 🧵
Of the 31 "verified" cases, 18 are from 2023–2024, not from 2025, the actual reporting period.  Meaning the UN is recycling prior-period cases to bulk up their numbers, because the actual numbers don't support their premise. Of those 31 cases, only 9 involve rape or gang rape allegations. The rest are threats of rape, forced nudity, unwanted touching, and strip searches. Still awful — but not rape.  Yet the UN acts like this is enough to justify placing Israel on the same blacklist as Hamas and ISIS. The UN blames Israel for "denying access" to freed hostages as the reason it couldn't verify their allegations.  But these are free people living in Israel who've already given public statements and media interviews.  The freed hostages can speak to whomever they want — and do. The report explains the low volume of testimony by citing "explicit threats made by Israeli not to report abuse."  In other words, the absence of evidence is pre-explained by "Israeli intimidation."  The UN is creating an unfalsifiable thesis and calling it evidence.
Next, the report lists specific facilities where violations allegedly occurred.  Among them is "an unidentified base."  They're claiming to have verified cases at a location they cannot name..... How exactly, then, is that verified?
Now onto Sde Teiman.  Israel's own courts charged the soldiers with severe physical assault, not rape.  Then in March 2026 all charges were dropped.  The report frames the dropped charges as proof of "a climate of impunity."  i.e. an acquittal is now confirmation of guilt."

Eitan Fischberger on X - "Amazing how the UN can just deem a country guilty of committing sexual violence at a level akin to ISIS based on, what, Euro-Med and B'Tselem saying so?"
Alex Gandler on X - "Watch how the cycle works:
1. An allegation is made.
2. Journalists report the allegation.
3. NGOs cite the reporting.
4. The UN cites the NGOs.
5. A strongly worded report is issued.
6. Everyone cites the UN report.
By the end, an unverified claim has been transformed into an accepted "fact" through repetition rather than evidence."

Regavim on X - "BREAKING: The EU just revealed why it sanctioned Regavim.  Our “crime”? Petitioning Israeli courts against an illegal EU-built structure near Herodium, on the edge of the Judean Desert Nature Reserve, after a professional engineering assessment found it posed a safety hazard to the children and staff inside.  So now it’s official: the EU builds illegally, Israel enforces the law, and Regavim gets sanctioned for exposing it."

New Memo Reveals Biden-Harris Administration Misused Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Radical Anti-Israel Protests and Terrorist-linked NGOs

Thread by @mishtal on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Last week I was sent an image of a pro-Palestine stall at Cambridge Market Square.  Not angry students. Not masked radicals. Rather elderly white women encouraging strangers to boycott Israel.  So yesterday I went to Cambridge to hear what they were selling.  Thread ⬇️⬇️
The stall was bigger yesterday - but the same women were also there. I looked over the material and listened for a while - as one activist tried to explain to people how the Arabs had always considered themselves Palestinians -  Newsflash - this was a big fat lie. Eventually the same woman came over to me. I did not want to confront her - I did not seek an argument.  I just wanted to understand what it was she was selling - so I played as someone there to be educated.  We spoke for about twenty minutes. Everything I was told was false. I was told the Arab armies in 1948 only entered the areas allocated to the proposed Arab state. This is false.  I was told the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 were “completely disarmed” passive victims. This is false. She called Israel an Apartheid state because of "65 discriminatory laws". I asked for an example. She stuttered and could not give me a single one.  They do not exist, of course. It is empty propaganda where Jewish holidays and state emblems are seen as signs of Apartheid. By the same token - the UK would be apartheid because of Christmas day and the crosses in the flag and emblems. But that is really not the point. This is the activists' reason for boycott. The point of her activism - and she did not have a single concrete example.
Their literature was no better.  A newspaper on the stall was still promoting the false claim that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza - despite it becoming clear years ago that the explosion was caused by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket. I was told Hamas was “created by Israel.” More lies. This is how propaganda works.  Israel maintained ties with Islamic organisations in Gaza after 1967. Hamas did not exist.  That understandable reality later became twisted into conspiracy mythology to smear Israel.   The conversation became darker:  I heard Holocaust revisionism, conspiracies about Iraqi and Yemenite Jews, claims that “Zionists” hated weak and brown-skinned Jews, and repeated attempts to portray Israelis as alien European colonists with no authentic connection to the region. Eventually the mask slipped completely.  She compared Israeli Jews to white Europeans in Africa - told me they were foreign colonists - and implied they deserved whatever comes to them when forced to take down their walls.  The reality behind all their slogans.
This is what Palestinianism is: History must be distorted. Violence erased. Jihadism excused. Conspiracies created. Jews transformed into demonic outsiders.
This is what was on sale at Market Square in Cambridge. Elderly grandmothers spreading lies about the Jewish state, demanding its boycott, and pressuring it to surrender to people who openly call for its destruction. Rarely has antisemitism dressed so sweetly. Rarely has it been so dangerous."

Meme - Kosher @KosherCockney: "Awkward. Bella Hadid is such a clown. Just proves "Palestinians" don't even know their history."
"Bella Hadid posted a photo of the 1939 Palestine football team... Palestine Vs. Australia 1939 ...who were all Jewish as Palestine was - and is - Israel."

Meme - Vicki @vickikolomensky: "An organization called "end Jew hatred" is responded to with "may allah condemn you to jahannam (hell)" by a sitting Brooklyn city council member Remarkable."
Shahana Hanif @ShahanaFromBK: "May Allah condemn you to Jahannam."
Anila Ali @anilaali: "We are on our way to join @endjewhatred to stand with the Jewish people and protest @NYCMayor's refusal to stop religious freedom violations against the Jewish people, their intimidation and harassment under his leadership."
Clearly, this is just anti-Zionism and a religious curse is not religious in nature unless it is Christian

Meme - Eyal Yakoby: "BREAKING: Hezbollah just accidentally exposed themselves to international media. They posted a video claiming the IDF struck a civilian home in Lebanon. But they accidentally filmed the rocket launcher in the background Suddenly, the media isn't reporting the story."

Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 on X - "Israel in the early 70s did a "build your own home" program to move people out of the refugee favelas and into new towns and neighborhoods. More than 11,000 Palestinians took the offer. The PLO threatened violence against participants and the UN passed two resolutions against"
Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 on X - "In 1977 there were at most 5,000 Israeli Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. So Israel by 1977 financed and subsidized the building of more than twice as many houses for Palestinian refugees as it did Jews. Dayan mentioned in 1977 there were more Palestinians illegally residing in Israel than there were Jewish settlers too."

'Shoot Him in the Neck Like Charlie Kirk': Chant at London Protest Sparks Outrage - "London saw two massive and competing demonstrations on Saturday, but one moment cut through everything else. Video circulating online captured a group of protesters chanting that Tommy Robinson should be shot in the neck "like Charlie Kirk," a reference to the assassination of the American conservative commentator. The group could be seen waving Palestinian flags as they chanted. “Shoot him in the neck like Charlie Kirk!” they chanted"
Time to jail Tommy Robinson for inciting violence

Meme - "Everything I don't like is A GENOCIDE. A book for losers that got nowhere in life and blame Jews"
"This engine is a genocide"

Jonathan Eric Lewis on X - "A Lebanese Sunni professional colleague of mine -- mind you, he could hardly be called a "Zionist" -- spoke to me about "anti-Zionist Jews".  He told me how they are perceived in the Arab world; namely, as far worse than "Zionists".  Why? Because "they have no honor," as my friend said. They refuse to stand up for their own people and are willing to sell them out to placate the worst political actors in the Arab world.  I think of this often"

Captain Allen on X - "Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh ) – Prominent Muslim Israeli Arab journalist:  "If Israel were an apartheid state, I would not be allowed to work for a Jewish newspaper or live in a Jewish neighborhood or own a home.   The real apartheid is in Lebanon, where there is a law that bans Palestinians from working in over 50 professions.   Can you imagine if the Knesset passed a law banning Arabs from working even in one profession? The law of Israel does not distinguish between a Jew and an Arab.”  Israel sucks at "apartheid.""

Texas sex therapist and Dem congressional hopeful vows to turn ICE facility into ‘prison for American Zionists’ - "A Democratic House candidate in Texas is facing fierce backlash, including from members of her own party, after posting that she would send “American Zionists” to a facility currently used to detain illegal immigrants. In an Instagram post last week, Maureen Galindo said she would turn the Karnes ICE Detention Center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists,” Galindo wrote, referring to herself in the third person. Galindo, a housing activist and sex therapist, is running in Texas’s newly redrawn 35th Congressional District and faces Johnny Garcia in a May 26 Democratic primary runoff... Galindo accused Garcia, a former hostage negotiator and public information officer for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, of wanting “Jews and Mexicans in warehouses.” She also claimed “billionaire Zionists” control San Antonio and South Texas trafficking networks. In another post, Galindo wrote: “WE MUST END ZIONISM TO PROTECT JEWS AND SEMITES & ALL OTHER VICTIMS OF THE ISRAEL AND EPSTEIN NETWORK OF TERROR. GLOBAL TERRORISM PAID FOR WITH OUR AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY.” Galindo has also targeted Caterpillar, a frequent focus of anti-Israel activists, accusing the company and the Holt family, owners of Holt Caterpillar and the San Antonio Spurs, of profiting from equipment she claimed is used against Palestinians. In another post, she claimed that Flock safety cameras are “Israeli spyware” and alleged that Israel controls the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. She also wrote that ICE is “a terrorist organization under DHS based in Tel Aviv Israel,” and claimed it is run by “Proud Boys and IDF soldiers.” Galindo has repeatedly argued that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, because "Zionist Jews" aren't real Jews, but has also described “Zionist Jews” as “genocidal European colonizer freaks” and claimed Zionists are “not real Jews.” In another post, she appeared to advocate making Zionism, rather than anti-Zionism, an antisemitic crime against humanity. She also criticized Christian Zionists... Even Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has frequently been accused of trafficking in anti-Israel and antisemitic tropes, condemned Galindo, writing on X, "This is absolutely disgusting. This bigoted garbage and antisemitism should be nowhere near our politics," and encouraged her followers to support Garcia."

Links - 18th June 2026 (3 - Iran War)

Throwback Iran on X - "Do people still buy the Minab school story?
First they told us all the kids died Now they tell us there are survivors
First they told us it was a US tomahawk Now they tell us it was actually drones
First they told us it was an all girls school Now they tell us it was mixed gender
First they told us they had a video of the tomahawk Now its just a bunch of he said she said and “trust me bro”
First they told us the school was nowhere near a military compound Now they say it was actually just on the corner of an IRGC base
The regime’s narrative is self contradictory and all over the place. Nothing adds up."

Mossad Commentary on X - "‼️🇮🇷 INTERESTING:  The Islamic Republic just contradicted itself on state TV over the Minab school bombing.  An IRGC officer admitted they saw drones, tried small arms, then set up a DShK and shot them down.  That directly clashes with the regime’s claim of a U.S. Tomahawk strike.  A Tomahawk hits within seconds—you don’t have time to set up heavy weapons, let alone engage.  And you’re not shooting down a cruise missile with small arms or a DShK.  The timeline only makes sense for drones, not missiles.  One of these stories is impossible.  (The Iran Watcher)"

Threads - "“Not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me a question about the 40,000 Iranians slaughtered on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th. When I told them that there were 20 political prisoners currently sentenced to death, not a single one of the 150 journalists asked me about them.” — Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on his press conferences in Berlin and Stockholm #kingrezapahlavi #iran #un #irgcterrorists #javidshah"

Tilo Jung on X - "I asked Reza Pahlavi today if he's an Israeli asset. "Of course not", the former crown prince of Iran replied. I also asked him why he does not exclude to restore a permament monarchy in Iran. Isn't that what a true democrat would do? He does not agree..."
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ on X - "Are you saying Sweden, Norway and Denmark aren't democracies, Tilo? Are republics the only form of democracy acceptable to you?"
Comment: "They’re literally blaming Israel for 40,000 slaughtered Iranians and not the regime who shot them dead."

Maral Salmassi on X - "Amnesty International reported that at least 2,707 people were executed across 17 countries in 2025.  The Islamic Regime occupying Iran carried out 2,159 of them — nearly 80% of all recorded executions worldwide.  And yet there are still moral imbeciles waving the flag of this Islamic Mafia through the streets of European cities, calling it “resistance.”"

Something Good? Something Bad? A Little of Both? - "Ironically, I was switching channels the day Operation Epic Fury began, looking for something to provide background noise while I worked, and I tuned in to the 1996 Independence Day movie at the exact moment the President was proposing that there could be a truce between the aliens and humans. The alien said there could be no peace and when the President asked what the aliens wanted humans to do, the alien answered with one word, “Die!”  Needless to say, I immediately saw a parallel between that movie dialog and the situation in Iran because that is essentially the same answer Iran and its proxies been giving America (and Israel) for almost 50 years.  This action brought out the pacificists, the magical thinkers who believed the Obama Iran deal was working, the anti-Americans who demand we must always believe the Mad Mullah regime, along with the lying political opportunists who never miss an opportunity to be wrong... When I look at both the Old and New Testaments, there seems a stark difference between the two. It almost seems like contemporary Christian belief is anchored in the New Testament while the world is reverting to Old Testament mode. That is an oversimplification and not entirely accurate, and I have been working through how best to phrase it. The root of the thought is that Christianity appears to be facing challenges that look far more like Old Testament conditions than those of the New Testament.  I do think many Christians fail to recognize the existential risk represented by more radical actors, such as those found in fundamentalist strands of Islam, because we are spiritually immersed and intellectually bound in New Testament thinking. There seems to be a pattern restarting, driven by a climate that feels far more Old than New Testament. Even that framing is not quite right. What I am sensing is not a simple return to Old Testament times, but a recurring dilemma. A belief system rooted in moral restraint must adapt when the surrounding environment becomes less predictable and less reciprocal. The real question is not which testament applies, it is how to hold onto New Testament principles while navigating realities that increasingly resemble those described in the Old Testament. This tension is not new, even if it feels newly urgent because Christianity itself was born into it. The teachings of Jesus Christ were delivered in a world where His followers had no power, no army, and no realistic path to either. The instruction to turn the other cheek was not only a moral command, but it also functioned as a survival posture within an empire that crushed rebellion without hesitation. The early Church did not conquer Rome through force. It endured, persuaded, and outlasted, relying on moral clarity rather than physical dominance.  The Old Testament reflects a completely different set of conditions. Faith was tied to a people, a land, and a lineage that could be extinguished. The threats were immediate and physical, not theoretical. Survival required not only belief, but defense. The world described in those pages does not assume reciprocity or shared norms. It assumes danger, instability, war, and the constant possibility of annihilation. The modern West, shaped heavily by New Testament ethics, has grown accustomed to a world where moral appeals carry weight, where rules are broadly accepted, and where even adversaries operate within some shared framework. That assumption has become so embedded that it often goes unnoticed. When actors enter the equation who do not share those assumptions, who reject reciprocity and operate without the same constraints, the gap between moral expectation and lived reality becomes more visible.  This is where the concept of “Just War” becomes relevant again, not as a rejection of Christian teaching, but as an effort to reconcile it with the world as it exists. Thinkers like Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas recognized that personal moral obligations do not erase the responsibility to confront real threats. Their work was an attempt to place boundaries on force rather than deny its necessity entirely, preserving moral accountability while acknowledging the existence of danger."

Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن on X - "Imagine the level of moral confusion it takes to wave IRGC flags, demand opponents be shot in the neck, and call it an anti-far right fascism protest."
The "anti-'far right'" and "anti 'fascism'" people just hate the West

Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران on X - "This relationship between Europe and Muslims from the 3rd World, whether it’s the Islamic regime occupying Iran, the Palestinians, the Syrians, is like a woman in marriage to a violent, narcissistic addict.  She is living in absolute hell. There is no future. Her children are in real danger every single day. Yet she refuses to leave him. No matter how much support she is given, no matter how many times she steps away, she always goes back to playing the long-suffering, self-sacrificing wife. She simply cannot let go of that role.  And he knows it. That’s why he never stops. Why would he? He gets whatever he wants. He beats her, cheats, abuses the children, steals from her, and forces her to go out and work just to pay for his next fix. There is no bottom for him, because she is always there to enable him.  On the surface, everyone sees him as the problem. But when you look closer, the real pathology is her, the wife.   She is the other side of the narcissistic coin. She is addicted to that warm glow of moral superiority she gets from her endless sacrifice and compassion. She can’t stop chasing it. She will never walk away from the very thing that gives her the sense of being the “good one.”  These kinds of relationships are disastrous. They don’t just destroy the woman, they poison the entire family, exhaust everyone around them, and create misery and chaos for all the people forced to live with the consequences. And far too often, the woman ends up beaten to death in one of his sudden rages.  Look at what Europe has actually done to Iran. You sent Khomeini from Paris, you created and fed this monster in Iran, you laundered its money, you dressed it up with endless talk of engagement and democracy, and you kept the Islamic regime alive for decades, at the direct cost of Iranian blood and lives.   You still pretend the regime has not slaughtered 40,000 of its own people. You pretend it is the victim of America and Israel. It’s your costume, you reward and cover savagery as long as they are Muslim from 3rd world. You pretend the men who raped women, mutilated children, and paraded hostages like savages on 7 October were not Palestinians. Yeah Israel were committing genocide, by blockading Gaza, as if Gaza never had a border with Egypt. You push for a Palestinian state anyway and keep calling them pure victims, while sweeping every obvious fact under the carpet and laundering lies and libels through your “human right“ activism.  You continued legitimising Assad after he butchered hundreds of thousands of his own people, destroyed Syria, and created millions of refugees, then opened your doors wide to his followers and others like them.  Then came the waves of refugees and migrants. They brought terror attack after terror attack, turned neighbourhoods into no-go zones, and left your daughters raped and assaulted in shocking numbers. Yet instead of drawing any line, you keep paying them more with your own taxpayers’ money while they grow ever more entitled and demanding.   You bow, you apologise, you make excuses, you strengthen your favourite muslim terrorists.   Go ahead. It’s your choice.  But we Iranians have learned the truth about your so-called human rights the hardest way possible.   We now know our real enemy is you.   We are no longer waiting for you. We will take our country back, with the help of America and Israel, with the leadership of our crown holder, the rightous ruler of our country, we will rebuild it, and we will push your destructive influence out of the way.  You can keep defending the terrorists of the Islamic regime occupying Iran. You can write glowing articles about them in your papers, and attack America and Israel while congratulating yourselves on your virtue.   You can celebrate the Pope who never said a word about the regime hanging innocent people from cranes, but made sure to condemn Trump for not respecting the “rights” of terrorists and murderers.  We don’t care anymore. We will push you away, we will not let your sick, corrupted virtue-signalling continue to enable the people who are killing us. We will cut you off.   But remember, you’ve earned every bit of what’s coming. And at this point, a lot of us have no sympathy left for you.  #JavidShah‌‌‌‌‌ #MIGA #ThankYouTrump‌ #ThankYouBiBi‌"

Bahar Akhavan on X - "This week was tough. I had dinner with my intelligent friends from European countries, people who have spent half their lives working within the United Nations. We were having a good time until the conversation turned to Donald Trump and Iran. Everyone, without exception, spoke badly of Trump: that he causes problems for everyone, that war is terrible, that it is illegal, and so on.  I stayed silent. When everyone finally became quiet, I asked only one question: who is actually going to collect and remove those more than 400 kilograms of uranium?  My French friend said: Trump is no better than the regime. On top of that, he has started an illegal war, and many countries have nuclear power plants why shouldn’t Iran have them too?  I exploded inside, but I remained silent at first. When I finally broke my silence, I said: was it illegal when the United States helped the French during the Second World War? Was it unnecessary?  Then silence returned.  I kept thinking about how to express everything happening inside me; how to explain the regime to a European-someone surrounded by left-wing ideology, enclosed within indirect forms of censorship, and always ready to say that war is terrible, yet surprised when I say many Iranians wanted it.  How do you explain to people who live in safety that some nations sometimes see outside pressure as the only remaining path when every internal path has been closed? How do you explain that they do not even speak in geopolitical terms, but judge only from a position of moral comfort, while others are speaking about survival?  Europeans who, despite democracy and free internet, still do not know what happened in Iran on January 8–9. Europeans who believe every conflict can be understood through the same moral template. Europeans who condemn all violence in theory, but have never had to live under a Islamic system where violence is part of everyday life.  And I sat there with the feeling that the distance between our realities was greater than the table around which we were sitting…"

∞ Decolonize ruzzia 😼 on X - "The "punch a nazi" crowd is literally defending a dictatorship run by Holocaust deniers. Let that sink in"
Left wingers only pretend to care about Jews when they can use that to shit on white people

Majid on X - "I am still shaking from a soul-crushing Uber ride today in Dublin. It started with "Where are you from?" I said Iran, and the driver's face lit up as he thought he'd found a partner in his hate. He looked at me and said, "It must be crushing what the f ing Israelis are doing to your country." The moment I pushed back, the moment I told him the truth, that I support Israel and want to see the regime in Iran fall, he erupted in pure rage.  He began screaming about his uncle's high rank in the IRA, glorifying terror as a "success story" to justify the total erasure of Israel. To be trapped in a car with that level of brainwashed vitriol, being shamed and attacked for defending the Jewish people, is a burden I can't describe.  Being Iranian is so incredibly taxing. You spend your life fighting the regime that destroyed your home, only to have strangers weaponise your identity to justify their antisemitism. To my Jewish friends: I see the hate you face. I will never stop standing with you, no matter how much it costs. 🇮🇱🦁☀️"

Aimen Dean on X - "If you’re looking for a polite take, this isn’t it.  I’ve said it repeatedly on the Conflicted podcast: Pakistan was never a neutral mediator between Washington and Tehran. Not for a second. What we’re watching now is not diplomacy, it’s pure manipulation dressed up as statecraft.  Let’s call things by their proper names. Under field marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan isn’t some balanced civilian democracy playing honest broker. It’s a military system with a democratic façade, pursuing its own interests with a level of cynicism that should surprise no one who has followed its behavior over the past two decades.  What did they sell to Donald Trump? A fantasy. A pipe dream. That the Islamic Republic can be reasoned with. That it is pragmatic, not ideological. That it is capable of compromise if only you flatter it enough and give it incentives. In short: that you can extract “the deal of the century” from a regime whose entire strategic doctrine is built on resisting precisely that outcome.  And Trump - obsessed with the optics of a deal - bought it.  Meanwhile, senior voices inside Pakistan weren’t even pretending neutrality. A defence minister pushing conspiratorial narratives, blaming the “Zionists,” portraying Iran as a victim, while 6,000 missiles and drones were raining down on GCC states that host millions of Pakistani workers. That alone should have been disqualifying.  If a country is willing to throw its own economic lifeline (the Gulf) under the bus for ideological or tactical alignment with Tehran, what exactly makes anyone think it would safeguard American interests?  And here’s the uncomfortable part: this isn’t new.  We’ve seen this movie before. The United States spent years, treasure, and blood in Afghanistan, only to discover that Osama bin Laden, and his network, were living comfortably in Pakistan all along - while Pakistan was simultaneously cashing in on US counterterrorism billions in funding. They didn’t fail to find the target. They bloody managed it.  Why end the hunt when the hunt itself pays and pays pretty well? Fast forward to today, and the pattern repeats, only this time the battlefield is Iran. At the very moment the regime was under maximum pressure (militarily strained, economically cornered, strategically exposed) Pakistan steps in, not to mediate, but to buy Tehran time. Time to regroup,  breathe, and ultimately survive.  That’s not mediation. That’s intervention - on one side.  From a cold, historical lens, this may well be remembered as the pivot point. The moment when pressure was lifted prematurely. When momentum was lost. When a winnable strategic position was traded for the illusion of a negotiated breakthrough that was never going to materialise, ever!  Five years from now, looking back, this could read like a familiar chapter: First Afghanistan - undermined from within. Now Iran - diluted from without.  In both cases, Pakistan didn’t just mislead Washington. It shaped the battlefield to its advantage, all while claiming partnership with a clueless US administration.  And Washington, once again, chose to believe what it wanted to hear."

Meme - "FLAG EXCHANGE: TRADE IN YOUR PALESTINIAN FLAGS FOR IRANIAN FLAGS!"
*Pink haired screaming woman with "Resist" t-shirt and rainbow badge*
*more normal woman with red beanie and ANTIFA t-shirt*
*Green haired pixie cut woman with BLM t-shirt and open mouth and choker*
*Blonde Boomer woman*
*Boomer man with pink pussy hat and "Feel the Bern" t-shirt*

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Since Trump entered the political sphere, he has been accused nonstop of being misogynistic and racist. Yet right now, he is quite literally the only world leader saying anything about 8 brown Iranian women being executed by the Islamic Republic. Weird."

Moral Inversion and the Iran War - "A recent poll found that among Democrats under 50, Iran is viewed more favorably than Israel—a data point that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, and one that demands explanation. The Iran war has revealed that a surprising contingent on both the left and right express sympathy—or even open support—for the Iranian regime. Even professors of anthropology, such as Alireza Doostdar at the University of Chicago, have intoned that “the best and only hope for peace is the power and durability of Iranian missiles.” The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) harbors explicit genocidal intentions against both Israel and the United States, famously branding these allies as the “Little Satan” and the “Great Satan.” It pursues nuclear weapons in service of those aims and presides over one of the world’s worst human-rights records. How is it possible that a regime defined by repression of freedoms at home—subjugating women, dissidents, LGBT, and others—and genocidal incitement abroad, could become an object of admiration among people who claim to advocate for human rights? A recent study we carried out at the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)—an organization that gathers data on how malicious narratives propagate in digital contexts—in collaboration with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab found that “participants who expressed greater agreement with anti-Israel ideology more strongly endorsed Soviet and Nazi propaganda that featured both generic antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel tropes, had more left-wing (“progressive”) authoritarian attitudes, and rated the human rights records of some of the world’s worst human rights violators more favorably than those who expressed lower levels of agreement. Anti-Zionism, a worldview that casts Israel as the pinnacle of injustice while presenting itself as moral resistance, predicts what we call Moral Inversion Syndrome: a pattern in which the perceived human-rights standing of Western democratic states declines relative to that of authoritarian regimes. The study asked a representative online sample of Americans to rate the human-rights records of various countries and correlated those ratings with traits measured by validated psychological scales. According to our data, the more one expresses essentialist prejudice against Israel, or Jews, the more distorted one’s moral judgment becomes in general. That distortion may show up first as a moral equivalence that many respondents draw between liberal and authoritarian states. Those with strongly anti-Zionist attitudes (as well as traditionally antisemitic ones; the two attitudes were correlated though not identical) often place oppressive regimes such as Iran, China, or North Korea on the same moral plane as liberal-democratic states like the United States or Australia. And Israel is seen as the worst of the worst. Since 1948, anti-Zionists have formulated their cause as an inversion of the moral and legal right of the Jewish people to self-determination, which was recognized by the United Nations at Israel’s founding. Beginning with early efforts by the Arab League to promote a Palestinian “right of return” for refugees displaced in Israel’s war of independence—not to a future Palestinian state alongside Israel, but inside of Israeli territory, so as to dismantle the Jewish state—Israel’s very essence has been cast as immoral, unjust, and opposed to the post–WWII international order... Time and again, movements proclaiming liberation have carried out terror, from the Rwandan genocide against Tutsi “colonizers” to the Cambodian genocide against urban elites and “pro-American imperialists.” Even the founding father of 19th- and 20th-century antisemitism, Wilhelm Marr, defended his anti-Jewish agitation as “no more than a cry of pain from one of the oppressed.” Across the archive of mass atrocity, totalizing ideologies have inverted moral reality, recasting victims as oppressors and oppressors as righteous victims. Recent work by scholars of antisemitism and anti-Zionism has emphasized how contemporary anti-Zionist libels often reproduce Soviet propaganda slogans—such as “Zionist colonialism” or “Zionists are Nazis”—disseminated globally after the 1967 war, when the Soviet Union sought to mobilize the third world against “international Zionism,” a canard that recast Jewish political rights as a global conspiracy against the rights of others. Consistent with this pattern, our study finds that when respondents were shown Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda images—depicting Israelis as Nazis or linking the Star of David with dollar signs and swastikas—those who more strongly endorsed the images were more likely to make morally inverted human-rights judgments... Unsurprisingly, our study also finds that anti-Zionism and moral inversion correlate with “left-wing authoritarianism”—attitudes aimed at dismantling established hierarchies and norms in order to impose ostensibly “progressive” ends. In the present day, the UN can hardly bring itself to condemn Iran’s targeting of Israeli civilians using cluster munitions, yet has no hesitation in establishing commissions to accuse Israel of genocide, collapsing the distinction between civilian casualties and the intentional destruction of a group... If anti-Zionism—whether in its left-wing form or in the increasingly visible right-wing variant promoted by figures such as Tucker Carlson—constructs Israel as an all-encompassing symbol of political evil in the contemporary order, then the Iran war takes on a more fundamental meaning. It begins to appear as a confrontation between the possibility of moral judgment and an ideology in which the very distinction between right and wrong has been turned upside down.”
"Humanity" just means hating Jews and the West. This is no surprise, really - we know that terrorist supporters and left wingers just hate Jews and the West rather than being motivated by other moral principles
More evidence that "anti-Zionism" is just a cover for anti-Semitism

The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 on X - "🚨 A devastated husband took his own life after regime agents raped his dead wife’s body and sent him the photos.  Islamic Republic security forces raided the home of Saleheh Akbari and her husband Ahmad Khodaei.  Saleheh, a 38-year-old nurse, operating room technician, and mountaineer, along with her husband, had opened their house to wounded protesters during the January 2026 uprising - people too terrified to go to hospitals because the regime was hunting them down. They treated the injured. They hid them. They saved lives.  A few days later, regime agents stormed in. They beat Ahmad. Saleheh threw herself between them to protect her husband. They shot her point-blank in the heart - right in front of him and their young child.  She died in his arms.  Then came the unspeakable: agents assaulted Saleheh’s lifeless body, took photos of the desecration, and sent them to Ahmad as psychological torture. The sexual harassment and horror he endured pushed him beyond any human limit.  Broken by grief, Ahmad posted a final goodbye letter to his wife on Instagram and took his own life.  Two kind, brave souls - a mother and father who only showed humanity in a regime that has none - are gone."

Iran International English on X - "Senior Iranian officials have grown frustrated with a plan to generate revenue from shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, with little money collected despite expectations of significant income, sources familiar with the matter told Iran International.  Iran moved early in the war to control traffic through the strait and charge tankers about $2 million for transit permits, setting up a committee led by Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.  But the effort has produced limited results, with only about 60 permits issued, payment requests sent for just eight shipments and no funds collected so far, the sources said, citing weak management of the process.  The outcome has triggered concern at high levels of government and within the office of Iran’s supreme leader, they added.  Discussions have taken place about removing Zolghadr from the role and shifting oversight of the file to President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to the sources. https://iranintl.com/en/202604162208"
Terrorism supporters were cheering the attempt. Tariffs are only bad when they hurt the left wing agenda