Ncole ✡︎ on X - "There was a time when common sense existed in that room.
🔴 1978 Oscars: Vanessa Redgrave used her acceptance speech to attack "Zionist hoodlums”. Minutes later, Paddy Chayefsky, WWII veteran wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, takes the stage after winning for Network. 👉 His message: “The Oscars are not a platform for antisemitic political propaganda”."
Alexandra Lavoie on X - "🚨TEASER: Excerpt from my report about Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian refugee who said “F*ck white people” while spitting on Halloween decorations. Don’t miss the full report here:"
Natasha Montreal on X - "Samar Alkhdour left Gaza in 2017 to study on a Fulbright scholarship in Ohio, then surfaced in Canada as a refugee claimant in 2019. Since then, she has been busy directing obscenities towards Westerners, the West, Canada, Québec, Israel, Halloween, the French language, the police, the English language, the patriarchy, peace, white supremacists (even if you're Indian she "doesn't give a F☭ck"), Alexa Lavoie, Guillaume Roy... Phew am I forgetting anyone? Ah yes, "F☭ck white people a million times." Quite the gratitude tour! Samar Alkhdour does have some warmth. It's reserved for Hamas-a terrorist organization which she calls "The Resistance." She also has enthusiasm about the massacre of October 7th. Watch Alexa's full report. 👇🏻"
Racism and violence were embedded in anti-Zionism from the start - "Soviet style anti-Zionism was created partly as a response to Israel turning towards the American sphere of influence in the Cold War era, and its success in the 1973 Yom Kippur war against the Soviet-armed Arab armies which had aimed to wipe it out. Blaming the Jew was the convenient excuse for the ills of a society which was meant to be a socialist utopia but which so many wanted to leave. Inside the Soviet Union, Jews who had been barred from their places of worship and learning Hebrew always knew what was truly meant by anti-Zionism: anti-Semitism in a different garb. It was the most convenient scapegoat imaginable, said Nathan Sharansky, the former chess champion who staged multiple hunger strikes after being imprisoned for daring to ask for a visa to migrate to Israel. In 1975, the Soviet Union – having tried and failed to get Israel thrown out of the United Nations – initiated the UN Resolution 3379, which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”... Thirty years after the death camps were liberated, the impact was immediate; in the UK, it led to the mass banning of Jewish societies on campuses and it is on universities that libel has remained deeply embedded, educating fruitful young minds in acceptable Jew hatred. To go alongside its victory at the UN, the Soviet Ministry for Propaganda created a “Zionology” unit which worked on merging old forms of anti-Semitism with new libels. One aim was to semantically divorce anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism because officially, communism was free from racism. Jewish ideologues working for the Zionology unit were to kosherise the lie that the Soviets weren’t actually like the Nazis who hated Jews; in fact, they insisted that it was the Zionists – many of whom were Holocaust survivors – who were the new Nazis. The unit spread its hatred across the global South and within Left-wing movements. In the Middle East, it took root and merged with Arab humiliation at the success of Israel in former Muslim lands. Although Resolution 3379 was rescinded by the UN in 1991 amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the hatred it perpetuated has flourished. Among self-proclaimed anti-racists, Zionism is the go-to reason for the ills of the world; opposing it is a unifying glue for otherwise unwieldy Leftist political coalitions. Just look at the career of MP Zarah Sultana, who proclaimed on her X feed a few days ago that “Zionism is one the greatest threats to humanity”. The pretence that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with anti-Semitism is becoming increasingly hard to maintain in this global war against Jews for being Jews."
Husam Zomlot on X - "There is a dangerous silence surrounding what is happening in Palestine right now. As international attention has shifted to Israel’s wars across the region, state-backed settler militias are intensifying their campaign of terror in the occupied West Bank — such systematic terror attacks are being almost entirely ignored by UK and global media. Last night, three Palestinians were murdered in Abu Falah. Days earlier, settlers killed two brothers — Mohammad Taha Maamar (52) and Faheem Taha Maamar (48) — in Qaryut. Let us be clear: these settler militias are acting in accordance with the policies of the government of Israel. Operating under cover of occupation forces, they are an arm of the Israeli state, advancing a single goal: the annexation of the West Bank and the systematic erasure of Palestinian national life. While regional wars dominate the headlines, Israel is accelerating its assault on Palestine — a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank — shielded by the deafening silence of the global media. History may not repeat. But it definitely rhymes. Demand your media covers Palestine. Demand your representatives act. Silence is complicity. #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/"
Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "Yes, we want to stay silent on Palestine because we have families sleeping on sidewalks in Lebanon and fighting endless wars because of Palestine. We have millions of Iranians suffering tyranny and war because of Palestine. We have millions of Arabs in the Gulf who haven’t left their homes in a week, sheltering not from Israeli but from pro-Palestine Iranian missiles. I have never seen a population so narcissistic, so self-centered, so oblivious to others’ pain, and so entitled as the Palestinians. Just take a hike already and figure it out for yourselves. The rest of the Arabs and the world have their own problems to deal with—most of them because Palestinians can’t even build a scouting club, let alone a government."
Tanmay 458 on X - "Pakistan declared Benjamin Netanyahu as terrorist . Qualifying him for the highest civilian award of Pakistan ."
Meme - "I just want to be clear-I love Irish people. I'm just against Irish nationalism. Irish people are great so long as they don't support the existence of Ireland. That's fascist! Ireland is a white supremicist, Celtic supremacist and Catholic supremacist theocratic ethnostate. It was born in a war in which more British people were killed than Irish people, and early in its history 40,000 Protestants were kicked out or fled. Their descendants are still refugees, and will continue to be refugees in perpetuity until the Irish state ceases to exist. Why can't there be one state in the British isles? Why do Irish Catholics need their own state that privileges Irish Catholics over other people? From the Ocean to the Sea, the British Isles will be FREE! Some people may think this is anti-Irish, but criticism of Irish nationalism is not anti-Celticism. People always say that criticism of Ireland is anti- Celtic. But why can't I criticize the Irish state?"
Meme - "Malaypartheid
LEGAL ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN: ISRAEL, MALAYSIA
EDUCATION NO. YES University quotas, scholarships
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYMENT NO. YES Employment quotas
LAND OWNERSHIP NO. YES Restrictions on Malay Reserved Land
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NO. YES Bumiputera preferences
HOUSING NO. YES Construction quotas, discounts, cheaper financing
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP NO. YES Share allocation, quotas in select sectors
BUSINESS FINANCING NO. YES Preferential conditions, lower costs"
أميرة ح | Amira H on X - "As grok pointed out, the majority of the Displaced Persons ('refugees') who were in Gaza in December 1949 were also from Gaza (Administrative District). The rest were mostly from neighbouring Lydda District Only about 1% were displaced from other areas of the Mandate that became Israel. The common impression that Gazans are a widely mixed group from all over what is now Israel is therefore utterly unfounded. As is often the case in losing a war (they started) the boundaries of rhe (Gaza Administrative) District were smaller in 1949 than in 1947. Around 600 of these displaced persons are still alive today. Not to negate the suffering of displacement (of all the peoples of the 1940s who were displaced in the many wars). But making every generation of Gazans suffer again and again to try and annihilate Israel just to expand Gaza Administrative District to its pre-War levels is a horrific waste of human life and so absurd, no one would apply the same idea to any other 1940s post-war boundary change without being laughed at."
NizNellie3 on X - "🚨 Dr. Ameer Hasan Loggins: This genius was fired from Stanford after he ordered Jewish students to stand in the corner of his classroom. "This is what Jews do to Palestinians!!" UC Berkeley immediately hired him. Our Dept of Education is about to hand this campus slightly over $600 million in federal funding for the 2026-2027 school year. It MUST be stopped. @EDSecMcMahon"
David Shor on X - "Jewish/Muslim segregation in Israel is unlike anything seen anywhere in the US within living memory. Israeli Jews are ~7x more likely to have zero Muslim neighbors than white Americans are to have zero Black neighbors — for Israeli Muslims vs Black Americans, it's ~78x."
Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "Why compare Israel to America and not to Lebanon to its north? In Lebanon, sects fight against selling real estate to other sects and try to maintain sectarian homogeneity in their towns. Syria and Iraq are similar. Different sects don’t just mix in the Middle East. Why expect Jews to open their doors in a region where the norm is the opposite? Spend time in the Middle East, learn the culture and habits, then judge Israel. Asking Jews to live like they’re in cosmopolitan, mixed NYC is asking them to concede to other Middle Easterners what no other Middle Easterners concede. Palestinians have objected to Jewish land purchases since 1882. Jews still can’t buy land in Areas A and B or Gaza."
أميرة ح | Amira H on X - "He almost discovers that Arab Muslims generally strongly prefer to live in their own villages and communities. Perhaps the biggest error is imagining 'Israeli Muslims' as a single category of people like African Americans. In fact, Bedouin mostly live in their own communities, Circassians live in theirs. Clans have neighbourhoods or villages, and tribes have designated sections of Rahat organised by the city council. Let's look at the Old City of Jerusalem as a prime example of the inherited model of communalism previously enforced by Muslim leaders and which Israel has inherited. Why is this area segregated? Because Arab Muslims won't sell homes to Jews so the Muslim Quarter is still less than 1% Jewish, hardly changing from decade to decade. The Arab Muslims there really don't want Jewish neighbours."
Ross Barkan on X - "Hard to think of a movement that has lost more steam so quickly than the pro-Israel side in the US. Absolutely dominated politics here the last 40 years. If you said "occupation" in 2017 or something, they'd cancel you hard. Now Gavin Newsom is calling Israel an apartheid state."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "Libs’ domestic agenda is completely dead: BLM done, ‘climate’ done, gender on life support, progressive NGO technocracy constantly under assault. Third worldist cheerleading is libs’ only animating cause. It’s a bizarre state of affairs. Total ideological exhaustion."
BBC News (World) on X - "Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains"
Ben Green on X - "❌ You have to get to paragraph 10 to realize much of the information in this article comes from Hezbollah, a proscribed terror organization.
❌ You have to reach paragraph 20 to know that the IDF called for these areas to be evacuated.
It is simply impossible to read the BBC and not see the raging bias against Israel."
Hen Mazzig on X - "Bella Hadid is suing Adidas for putting her in an ad glamorizing Palestinian terrorism. Next she will sue Instagram for letting her share stories spreading Hamas propaganda 🤦♂️ While I'm confused by how Adidas thinks anyone could believe it was unintentional, I'm more confused by Bella Hadid's reaction. She dislikes being associated with the 1972 massacre, but she’ll openly repeat Hamas propaganda and refuse to condemn the October 7th massacre and call for the release of the hostages? 11 dead Israeli athletes is violence that is "not consistent with her views" but 1,200 dead Israelis is revolution?… in what world is she living? She’s upset Adidas would associate anyone with the Munich Olympics. But either she didn’t do some basic research on the context of this campaign, or she happily agreed to partake in this dog whistle. There’s no good way for you to spin this one, Bella. You are guilty."
From 2024
Palestine’s draft constitution is a manifesto for permanent war - spiked - " When UK prime minister Keir Starmer first rushed to recognise a Palestinian state, he talked of promoting ‘regional stability’. How surprised he must have been to discover that the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority’s (PA) new draft constitution is not, in fact, a blueprint for a liberal, pluralistic democracy. On the contrary, it is an entrenchment of the very features that have fuelled conflict for decades, making any future treaty with Israel a constitutional impossibility. The document, published last month, makes several polite nods to ‘equality’. But it reveals its true face when it declares ‘the principles of Islamic Sharia the primary source for legislation’. So much for gender equality then. Under Sharia-based personal-status laws, women remain perpetual second-class citizens – handicapped in matters of marriage, divorce and inheritance. The draft constitution offers no meaningful firewall against such outcomes. Nor does it provide explicit protections for sexual orientation. In jurisdictions where Sharia heavily influences criminal or civil codes, same-sex relationships are forbidden, penalised or socially persecuted. You can have Sharia or you can have egalitarianism, but you cannot have both. The PA has chosen the former. Equally unconscionable is the document’s complete airbrushing of Jews from the landscape it concerns. Article 3 declares the whole of Jerusalem as the ‘capital of the State of Palestine’. It asserts that any measures to change the city’s character are ‘null and void’, a direct challenge to history, and to the current reality of a Jewish West Jerusalem and a Palestinian East. The constitution effectively rejects any Jewish connection to the Holy City. Despite promising to preserve Jerusalem’s ‘religious character’ and protect ‘its Islamic and Christian sanctities’, the word ‘Jewish’ is not mentioned once in the entire document. Then there is the constitutional entrenchment of the ‘pay for slay’ policy. Articles 24 and 44 commit the future state to ‘protection and care for the families of martyrs, wounded and prisoners’ – including those jailed for terrorism by Israel (referred to only as ‘the occupation’). This isn’t social welfare; it’s remunerating terrorists’ families for murdering Jews. The PA already spends hundreds of millions annually on this policy. Now it wants to write it into a Palestinian state’s founding document. In a sane world, human-rights organisations would be incandescent. A constitution that makes Sharia a primary legislative source, sidelines women’s genuine equality, erases gay rights and rewards terrorism ought to trigger every alarm bell. But these NGOs have long ago abandoned moral principles in favour of a hierarchy of oppression. To them, Palestinians are sacred victims and Israel is the eternal villain. They are blind to the authoritarianism and festering anti-Semitism of Palestinian society, reserving their outrage instead for the Jewish State, which dares to defend itself against this. Peace and human dignity come secondary to the goal of seeing the Middle East’s only democracy dismantled. Put simply, the PA’s constitution is a manifesto for permanent war. By codifying the total rejection of Israeli legitimacy, it has ensured that a peace deal based on mutual recognition is an impossibility. For any future Palestinian leader, recognising Israel would now be, quite literally, a violation of the state’s supreme law. The silence from the British government following the release of this document is a tacit endorsement of its principles. If Starmer is so determined to recognise Palestine, he should at least have the courage to tell the public what kind of state he is backing."
Meme - Boris Ryvkin @BRyvkin: "Notice how the numbers are basically the same in the few Arab states surveyed that have recognized Israel and ostensibly signed peace treaties with it. Arab regimes do not reflect Arab public opinion, which remains as implacably committed to modern Israel's destruction as a century ago."
"Fig 34. Country comparison of Arab opinion on their countries recognizing Israel"
Eylon Levy @EylonALevy: "The root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict is that Israel wants to keep existing and the vast majority of Arabs want it to stop existing. That's it. It's not actually that complicated."
Hen Mazzig on X - "BREAKING: On Thursday night, the kosher restaurant Kokoriko in Paris, France 🇫🇷 was sprayed with acid. When employees arrived Friday morning, they found the restaurant destroyed. The door had been forced, and both the ground floor and first floor were covered in acid: tables, walls, and floors alike. This kosher restaurant has already been vandalized multiple times recently, including a previous acid attack. The owner will file a complaint for the third time following this week’s assault. The last time Jewish-owned businesses in France were targeted and forced to close like this was in the 1940s. Antisemitism in France is completely out of control."
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "The purpose of the Palestine movement was A) to seize power from the establishment wing of the Democratic party, and B) to reduce the influence of Jews in the American left. It failed badly at the first, but succeeded at the second."
Crémieux on X - "Paraphrasing a Democratic operative who I won't name: The Democratic party is now less effective because the pro-Palestine movement was effective at marginalizing the party's Jews and the party promoted Black women to fill the empty spots."
Open Source Intel on X - "UN Secretary General: “The two-state solution is being stripped away in broad daylight. The international community cannot allow it to happen.”"
Yoni Leviatan on X - "The two-state solution already died three times:
1. In 2000 when Arafat rejected a state on 95% of the West Bank with equivalent land swaps for the other 5%, 100% of Gaza and a capital in East Jerusalem.
2. In 2008 when Abbas again rejected a state on even better terms.
3. On October 7.
The first two instances were because the offers of a Palestinian state by Israeli prime ministers Barak and Olmert, respectively, didn't include a right of return for five million Palestinians to live, not in a new Palestinian state, but in the existing state of Israel and destroy the world's only Jewish state. And the last instance because Israelis saw what the "right of return" they insisted on would look like in practice."
AP on X - "One of the most common arguments against Israel from the pro-Hamas crowd is “collective punishment” -- that Israel punished thousands of people for what some did. While that claim itself is deeply flawed and misunderstands how war works, the real problem with this argument is the hypocrisy behind it. Many of these same people have no issue with collective punishment when it comes to Jews. They harass Jews thousands of miles away over actions of the Israeli government, and they call for Israel to be boycotted from international events where the athletes and performers have absolutely nothing to do with the war. They don’t actually care about collective punishment. They don’t actually care about Palestinians. They care that it’s Jews who are the ones fighting back."
Adam Louis-Klein on X - "Antizionism is an entire complex of accusation in a mirror (AIM), a systematic structure of reversal. Every antizionist war—whether 1948, 1967, 1973, 1982, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2014, or 2023—is systematically narrated as Israeli aggression. Every attempt at the genocide of Israelis is recoded as evidence of Israel’s own genocidal essence. It is a propaganda complex geared toward the legitimization of racist violence. Antizionism is Genocide in a Mirror (GIM)."
CAMERA UK on X - "CAMERA UK has been unable to find any BBC News website coverage of the Ch. 4 News interview with Oxfam's former head Halima Begum where she accused the charity of having a “toxic antisemitic culture,” This is especially curious given the BBC’s long-standing practice of quoting and promoting Oxfam statements, reports and campaigns."
StopAntisemitism on X - "In the name of "building bridges," the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival selected Morehouse student Anwar Karim, acting president of the Morehouse Muslim Student Association, as a student juror at the Festival. The problem? Karim previously shared antisemitic content and participated in anti-Israel protests, easily found in minutes online. Now the Israeli Consulate has pulled its support, the community is up in arms, and the Festival issued a full apology. Many are calling on Executive Director Kenny Blank to step down."
Dr. Brian L. Cox on X - "More #journalisticmalpractice covering int'l law involving armed conflict, this time @Reuters by Pesha Magid (@PMagid , reporting) & Philippa Fletcher (editing). So much wrong in just news story, but let's start here: @hrw says under #LOAC "use of airburst white phosphorus over populated areas is unlawful." Two things to point out here. First, this is false. Use of white phosphorus is not unlawful pursuant to LOAC, even if it is "over populated areas." More about why that is below. Second, any time a news story starts a sentence with "Human Rights Watch says..." and doesn't immediately contradict what HRW said, you know you're being misled. Just like in this story. Ok. How do we know this "Willy Pete is unlawful" narrative is false? And that HRW is misleading the journalist, who is misleading the editor, who is misleading the audience? Easy. In fact, the answer is right there IN the article. Specifically, let's consider this passage from the story: "White phosphorus is considered an incendiary weapon under Protocol III of the Convention on the Prohibition of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons." Nope. But don't just take my word for it - and whatever you do don't take HRW word for it either. It's easy enough to find CCW, Protocol III on incendiary weapons with a simple Google search. If you do, you'll find that Article 1 contains definitions. What does - and does not - qualify as an incendiary weapon? As you can see from pic 1, it is a weapon or munition that is PRIMARILY DESIGNED to set fire to objects or cause burn injuries (red highlight). Para 1a then gives helpful examples. Uh oh. Then para 1b gives examples of what is NOT an incendiary weapon. For example, "Munitions which may have INCIDENTAL incendiary effects, such as illuminants, tracers, smoke or signalling systems." So why did I put PRIMARILY DESIGNED from 1a & INCIDENTAL from 1b in all caps? That's right! Because Willy Pete's incendiary effects are incidental & it's not primarily designed to set fire or cause burn injuries. As you can see from pic 2, DoD Law of War Manual reaches the same conclusion for the same reason. Ok, so what was that claim from our "trusted" news source again? WP "is considered an incendiary weapon under" Prot. III, CCW. Wrong. And the article actually points out that @Israel hasn't ratified Prot. III. So if @IDF is supposedly dropping Willy Pete, why are we even covering Prot. III of the CCW? It's not necessarily customary, so it doesn't represent "the" int'l law. It doesn't apply as a matter of conventional law if 🇮🇱 hasn't ratified. Even so, if we're going to cover text of a treaty (even if it's not directly relevant) - ffs AT LEAST we should report it correctly to begin with. Now let's circle back to what we get in this article from HRW. First is a statement from Lebanon researcher Ramzi Kaiss: "The incendiary effects of white phosphorus can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering," said @kaiss_ramzi . Sure can. When it's used against personnel, it can cause death, injuries or suffering. Just like any weapon. Then later we encounter HRW says under LOAC "use of airburst white phosphorus over populated areas is unlawful." Well there isn't a general prohibition to that effect, so maybe they're referring to Prot. III, CCW? It's not directly applicable, but let's check anyway. "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered INCENDIARY WEAPONS" (pic 3). Why all caps here? You betcha. WP doesn't qualify as an incendiary weapon. And it's not uncommon to use them against enemy personnel ON PURPOSE (pic 4). So remember. Whatever "HRW says" involving LOAC, you're safe to reflexively believe the opposite. And if it shows up like this in a news story? You're being misled - by the reporter(s), editor(s), AND the media outlet that uncritically ran #legaldisinformation from the likes of HRW."
On the perennial canard that Israel using white phosphorus is a war crime
