The abuse of Helen Mirren shows how deranged the anti-Zionists have become - "A video has emerged on social media of Dame Helen being assailed one night in London by a passer-by. “It’s Helen Mirren, the avowed Zionist,” shouts the man to the video he has clearly decided to film as he sees her. Addressing the viewers of the video he knows he is going to post, he continued: “She said, ‘Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust.’ And she was very happy the Palestinians’ houses were gone… You’re an evil Zionist bitch.” Then the man turns to her husband, Taylor Hackford: “And you and all. F––k you and all.” Dame Helen remains composed throughout this verbal assault, which would have been frightening for anyone, let alone for someone aged 80. Her husband, meanwhile – also in his 80s – responds with a restrained but clear: “F––k off.”"
Damn Zionists harassing "pro-Palestine" activists! They need to be jailed for violating their freedom of speech!
Left wingers love to claim that rights are not like cake - more for one doesn't mean less for another. Yet, they hate Zionism so much. Ironic.
Slovenia embroiled in Palestine flag wars - "Slovenia’s new pro-Israel prime minister has prompted a flag war with his country’s president by taking down his predecessor’s Palestinian flag. Minutes after taking office on Thursday, Janez Janša, a Donald Trump-admiring nationalist and Eurosceptic, removed the flag from the government palace in Ljubljana, where it flew alongside the Slovenian, EU and Ukrainian flags, to signal a “new chapter” in relations with Israel. The next day, Nataša Pirc Musar, Slovenia’s president, announced the Palestinian banner would be raised outside her palace for a week."
He didn't even fly the Israeli flag. To terrorism supporters, if you are not for them, you are against them
RC on X - "#BREAKING: This is a 14-year-old Palestinian Terrorist who tried to stab IDF soldiers. Pro Hamas edited the video to make it look like they killed him for no reason. This is the full true unedited version. @HamasAtrocities @Ahmad4ISRL @IDF @Israel"
Terrorism supporters just keep lying
The Telegraph on X - "Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, has signed an open letter demanding that a database be created of 2,000 dual British-Israeli nationals called up for service since the terror attacks by Hamas on October 7 2023 🔗:"
Sebastian Milbank on X - "Incredible how quickly Zack becomes enthusiastic for government databases of migrants, border controls and “you wouldn’t want to live next to em’” rhetoric as soon as Israelis are involved"
Zack Polanski wants a Jew register. What could be more sinister than that? - "You will notice one obvious element to this demand. There are wars on every continent. There are accusations of war crimes in all those conflicts. But Polanski has said not a word about British dual citizens – or even those of sole UK nationality – who have fought in any of those wars, either ongoing or historic. I wait, for example, for Polanski to demand a list of dual-nationality Britons who fought in one of the most brutal post-1945 conflicts, the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence. The nine-month conflict led to the death of up to three million Bengalis and the displacement of 10 million refugees into India. This is not merely historic. War crime investigations are still going on. But no Israelis were involved (let’s be honest: no Jews). So Polanski is silent – not least because many new Green voters are drawn from those communities. By signing the letter, Polanski doesn’t only demand that Britons who have fought in Gaza be put on a database. He goes far beyond that. The letter calls says “travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv airport” should be subject to “potential secondary screenings at ports of entry”. For Polanski then, any Israeli should be marked out for special screening. As for the allegation of genocide against Israel, it is, at the very least, hotly contested. But there is a well-founded allegation of genocide against the Chinese in its treatment of the Uyghurs. Does Polanski demand that any Chinese national arriving in the UK is deemed a suspected war criminal? Of course he doesn’t. If Jews aren’t involved, neither Polanski nor any of his fellow Greens could give a damn. Polanski may be Jewish, but his party’s strategy could hardly be clearer"
Ahmed Al-Khalidi on X - "People love pretending Arab anti-Zionism is some ancient, organic, authentic movement. It’s not. It’s a Frankenstein ideology built from Soviet lies, Arab dictators’ excuses, and Islamist slogans. And It collapses the moment you actually examine it. The Soviet Union needed a Middle Eastern villain after Israel leaned West. So Moscow manufactured a narrative and sold it to the world:
Zionism = racism
Israel = colonial white settlers
Jews returning to their homeland = “imperialism”
Palestinians = anti-imperialist revolutionaries
None of this was honest. It was Cold War propaganda weaponized to gain influence in the Arab world. And the slogans you hear today? Still the exact same Soviet talking points. Arab regimes loved the Soviet framing because it did one thing perfectly: It erased their responsibility.
Corruption? Not the leaders’ fault. It's Zionism. Economic collapse? Not decades of incompetence. It's imperialism. Lack of innovation, education, freedom, justice, or progress? Of course not. It's always the same magical enemy. “Israel is the reason your leaders keep failing.”
It’s the biggest political scam in the region’s history, repeated for 70+ years. Here’s where it becomes truly ridiculous.
Communism is atheist. Arab ideology is religious. Communism hates nationalism. Arab ideology is obsessed with nationalism. Communism demands class revolution. Arab regimes protected elites and dictators. These worldviews should be enemies. Instead, they all chant the same slogan: “Down with Zionism.” That tells you everything. The ideology isn’t honest. It’s useful. Useful for regimes that need a distraction. Useful for militants who need recruits. Useful for activists who need a villain for their worldview. From the USSR came ready-made intellectual garbage:
“Zionism is racism.”
“Israel is apartheid.”
“Israel is a colonial settler project.”
“Palestinians are liberation fighters.”
Arab leaders copy–pasted these slogans because they were loud, emotional, and required zero self-critique. They replaced genuine introspection with a propaganda script. If communists, Islamists, Arab dictators, monarchs, Western radicals, campus Marxists, tribal elites, and corrupt militias all magically agree on the same anti-Zionist narrative… that alone should make every rational person suspicious. These people agree on NOTHING except this one convenient lie. Why? Because blaming Israel is the easiest way to avoid admitting the truth: The region’s wounds are mostly self-inflicted, not Zionist-made. Anti-Zionism became the perfect political anesthesia: It numbs the pain while killing the patient."
Committee to fight Jewish hate includes former defender of Hezbollah and Yasser Arafat : r/OntarioNews - "Yasser Arafat who referred to Jews as "dogs, filth, dirt"? This will go well, I'm sure."
"Says someone who probably complains about them immigrants taking over except if they take your home with a gun to your head and say it’s there home now you’ll love them right?"
"Do you genuinely believe that anyone advocating against hatred toward Jews is a bigot? Wth"
Committee to fight Jewish hate includes former defender of Hezbollah and Yasser Arafat : r/OntarioNews - "It is like having members of the KKK on a committee to address black racism."
"Or as having an israeli on a anti islamophobia board."
"Not really. Israel isn’t Islamophobic. There are plenty of Muslim Israelis and Israel has normal diplomatic relations with plenty of Muslim-majority countries."
"How? Did they accept that they lost a war, agree on a boarder and not lob rockets over it?"
"In Egypt’s case, that’s (in the most simplified explanation) almost exactly what happened."
Hezbollah rejects ceasefire plan declared in Washington, Israel keeps up strikes
Damn peace-hating Zionists!
Jewish guests faced with ‘anti-Semitic message’ on Travelodge TV screen - "Two visibly Jewish guests reportedly checked in to Travelodge Manor House in north London to find the words “Free Palestine” displayed on their television... In the video circulating online, a man turns the screen on to show a pitch which said “Welcome Guest” and “Free Palestine”. “This behaviour bears all the hallmarks of targeted anti-Semitism,” Somrim said, adding: “We urge Travelodge to investigate.” The neighbourhood watch said the guest had alleged “hostile treatment” by a member of staff. It has been alleged that a staff member at the hotel refused to look at the Jewish man or properly serve him."
Left wingers will claim that this is anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. But they also claim that not all Jews are Zionists, so you can't say anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. Yet, assuming that Jews must be Zionists and so targeting them with a "Free Palestine" message is anti-Semitic. There's really no way to claim this wasn't anti-Semitic (unless the guests, for some reason, made it clear that they supported Israel, in which case this would just be grossly inappropriate for non-racial/religious reasons instead).
Abdul El Sayed 'struggles' with the Jewish state's right to exist - "Abdul El Sayed, a progressive Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, told an audience that he “struggles” to answer questions about whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. My first reaction to people who question whether Israel has “a right to exist” is usually, “Go pound sand.” Israel is a nuclear power with one of the most advanced militaries, economies, and technological infrastructures in the world. And yet, for some reason, and it’s not difficult to guess what that reason is, people are constantly pondering whether a Jewish state should exist. They exist because they fought to exist. But El Sayed’s reasoning exposes a confused and warped worldview. “The question becomes,” he goes on, “how do you sustain democracy if you don’t have a Jewish majority? And then to say it’s Jewish by power, are there particular offices that have to be held by Jewish people? If so, what kind of Jewish people?” First of all, El Sayed has it backward. Israel sustains a democracy because it’s a Jewish state. I’ll tell you how you don’t “sustain a democracy”: by giving the Palestinians a state or any “right of return” to Israel proper. That would destroy any semblance of “liberal values,” tout de suite. Forget the nihilistic tyranny of Hamas, the regime that took power after Israel gave Gaza autonomy in 2006. Someone should ask El Sayed if he struggles with the fact that Fatah, the “moderate” wing of Palestinian politics, hasn’t put on an election in the “West Bank” for nearly 20 years. It has good reasons, of course. It knows extremists would win. El Sayed can’t explicitly say that he opposes the notion of a Jewish state because he believes that a Palestinian ethnostate should take its place. Dissolving and creating a regional non-ethnostate ruled by a Palestinian majority is a sure way to create an authoritarian theocracy or fascist state. Ask the Middle East’s Christians how that kind of arrangement works out. Then again, there isn’t a single genuine liberal democracy anywhere in the Islamic world. Has anyone asked El Sayed if he believes that Islamic nations that ban nonbelievers from entering cities, whip breakers of blasphemy laws, and function under the medieval diktats of sharia law are consistent “with any form of liberal values that we say we believe in here in the United States?” Why not? Most Arab nations are artificial constructs of 20th-century French and British colonial rulers, who had little regard for any ethnic or denominational continuity or history, much less “liberal values.” Do they have a right to exist? By any measure, the one Middle Eastern state that has laws and rights that align with American liberalism is Israel — a free press, rule of law, an independent judiciary, open elections, pluralism, and protections for the minority. By any measure, Israel has the most diverse and safest religious minority populations in the Middle East. It’s true that Israel is an “ethnonationalist” state like, I guess, virtually every nation in Europe, for instance. It is primarily concerned with protecting people of Jewish ethnicity and culture. Not only is this important because the rest of the world has repeatedly tried to extinguish that ethnicity and culture, but also because the Islamists with whom El Sayed allies himself want to destroy it right now. The biggest problem with El Sayed isn’t that he believes that people of Jewish descent shouldn’t be able to defend themselves, and their liberalism, in their ancient homeland, but that he doesn’t seem to think much of their safety here in the U.S., either. El Sayed campaigns with Hasan “America deserved 9/11” Piker, whose string of violent rhetoric aimed at Jews and others is well known. When a Hezbollah fan rammed his car into a Jewish daycare center in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with the intent of massacring the children inside, El Sayed rationalized the act by contending that “hurt people hurt people.” This is an abnormal reaction in a healthy liberal society. It’s no coincidence that El Sayed is supported by Amani Barakat, chairwoman of Al Awda, a group that celebrates Hamas, calls for the destruction of Israel, and targets Jewish institutions in the U.S."
Glenn Greenwald on X - "Note that the UK Government just banned entry of two American citizens -- @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun -- not because they criticized or worked against the interests of the UK. It was solely because they criticize and oppose the one country deemed sacred and off-limits in the UK and so many other wester countires: Israel. The UK under Labour is also regularly arresting its own citizens for peacefully protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza (including old British ladies and countless Jewish activists at these protests, though they remain free to protest *in favor* of Israel or against any other country). This is all driven by the same dynamic that caused the Trump Admin -- as one of its very earliest top priorities last year -- to force US universities to expel American students protesting Israel, to deport others who merely criticized Israel, and to implement aggressive speech codes to protect Israel from common criticisms (even though one is free to say all the same things about any other country, including the US). Why does this one small country command such special, elevated, supreme status and attention in so many western countries? It's way past time to give that question the attention it deserves and to finally put and end to it."
Eitan Fischberger on X - "Glenn is being a dishonest hack, as usual.
1) Piker wasn't banned — he just had his Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) revoked. He can still apply for a visa like the citizens of 100+ countries do when they visit the UK.
2) Outspoken pro-Israel, pro-West activist @ezralevant was denied entry to the UK just two weeks ago. So the idea that the UK is canceling ETA's just because someone is critical of Israel is complete nonsense.
3) The British Home Secretary who "banned" them is Shabana Mahmood, who is staunchly anti-Israel."
Haviv Rettig Gur on X - "This is a lie. I mean, it's Glenn, so of course it's a lie. The UK government hates this Israeli government, and in fact has also banned members of this Israeli government from entering the UK. It also just banned speakers who were meant to speak at Tommy Robinson's rally from entering the country. This isn't about Israel. This is a British government that has become awfully trigger-happy with its "do not enter" powers. It's getting to the point where anyone controversial is persona non grata. That's Britain's right, I suppose, though it's a bad policy and a slippery slope and all the rest. But it's not about Israel. Unless literally everything everywhere is always and forever about Israel. In which case yes, it's about Israel."
Left wingers aren't against censorship and violating human rights - they just want to do it to their enemies
Melissa Chen on X - "It's funny and revealing, isn't it? If you're a leftist seething over your own guys Piker and Cenk getting banned from the UK, the logical move would be to hammer the government's broader censorious bullshit on speech. After all, they've pulled the same crap on conservative, right-wing voices not that long ago. Free speech is either for everyone or it's selective tyranny. Easy target, right? But nah. You didn't go there. Instead, you sprinted straight to the conspiracy, that it's all "at the behest of Israel." That's Piker's line, and plenty of others are parroting it. Greenwald too. Are you guys actually dumb, or just so deep in the fever swamp you can't see how this looks to normal people? Even if you believe it's true, tactically, it's political suicide because anyone normal with EYES can see that:
- Antisemitism and hardcore anti-Zionism aren't just tolerated in the UK right now - they're celebrated in the streets, week after week.
- Jews are getting stabbed in broad daylight, like the recent Golders Green attack. Synagogues and Jewish sites are targeted
- Labour just banned a bunch of conservative, pro-Israel American and European activists and speakers from entering the UK for Tommy Robinson's march
- The Home Secretary behind these decisions, Shabana Mahmood, is a Muslim critic of Israel, hardly a Zionist puppet. She's the one issuing these bans
- The UK has sanctioned far-right Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, threatened to arrest Netanyahu if he shows up, restricted arms sales to Israel, and pushed toward recognizing the State of Palestine.
Yet according to Cenk, Piker, and the usual crew, this Labour government is somehow beholden to Israel? Give me a break. This is clearly a mind virus at work, a toxic fungus that reduces every issue to one agenda item - that Israel controls everything; that Israel is behind everything. Everything defaults to this one script, even in the face of overwhelming counter evidence. Overplaying your hand this hard just exposes the infection to everyone watching. Normal people see the contradiction immediately. You can't gaslight observable reality forever - it only makes the rest of your movement look completely unhinged. If you actually cared about free speech, you'd call out the UK's pattern across the board. But you can't because the mind virus won't let you."
Terrorism supporters want to make enough people anti-Semitic too that their lies don't matter
Terrorism supporters believe that Israel and "Zionists" are behind everything wrong with the world, after all. Conspiracy theories stop you from actually solving your problems
Arsonist targets Golders Green flats - "Police investigate pram fire on estate where many Jewish families live "
▶ The Story Behind the Latest Gaza Flotilla - "The Global Sumud flotilla partnered with IHH, the Turkish NGO behind the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident. When Israeli naval forces intercepted that flotilla, they were met by organized violence on board. Nine passengers were killed in the clash, and 11 Israeli soldiers were wounded. The UN’s Palmer Report later confirmed that the activists acted recklessly and that Israel’s naval blockade was legal under international law. That legal point is often left out. Israel’s blockade is designed to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas in Gaza. Egypt maintains restrictions on Gaza from its own border, though that rarely receives the same activist attention. The current flotilla also raises questions about who is involved. Some activists have reported ties to the PCPA, which Israel and the United States have designated as a terrorist organization linked to Hamas coordination and fundraising. If the goal were truly humanitarian aid, there are established land channels coordinated through COGAT to deliver supplies into Gaza. Sailing into a naval blockade is not the most effective way to help civilians. It is a confrontation strategy. And the media should report it that way."
IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) - Turkey - "IHH is a member of the Union of the Good, an umbrella of 50+ Islamic organizations, which was designated by the US government as “an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist organization.”
According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), during the IDF’s 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, the Union of the Good transferred money, via Hamas charities, to families of suicide bombers.
According to a December 2021 article by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), “The IHH transferred to the Hamas military wing, systematically and for years, funds that served to strengthen Hamas militarily” and “Mehmet Kaya, head of the IHH branch in Gaza, [] transferred to Hamas senior officials Ismail Haniyeh and Raed Saad cash that had come from Turkey and was designated for the Hamas military wing. These funds served, among other things, to build a naval-training facility at a Hamas base in Gaza and to purchase equipment and weapons.”
According to German media, the German branch of IHH had a close relationship with Milli Görüs (IGMG), a “pan-European organization, which the German domestic intelligence agency claims is responsible for promoting extremist ideas and propagating antisemitic conspiracy theories.”
According to a Danish research institute, the Turkish authorities investigated IHH in 1997 after receiving info that senior figures had purchased weapons from Islamic radicals. A police raid on an IHH building in Istanbul found weapons, explosives, and instructions for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
French counter-terrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere claimed that IHH maintained contact with Al-Qaeda in Milan and Algerian terrorists in Europe; recruited militants for fighting in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan; and played a “central role” in the Al Qaida bomb plot targeting LAX airport...
In 2010, IHH organized a six-ship flotilla, which set out carrying more than 700 passengers to “challenge” Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Israeli commandos boarded the largest ship, the “Mavi Marmara,” and were met with severe and extreme violence by forty IHH activists. The activists were “equipped with gas masks, night vision goggles, and life vests,” and the IDF said that “the passengers also seized a commando’s side arm.” The soldiers were attacked with chains, clubs, iron rods, “knives, broken glass bottles, and sling shots.” After this armed struggle, nine activists were dead and nine Israeli soldiers were injured, several critically. During searches of the ships following the operation, no humanitarian supplies were found aboard the Marmara and two other boats."
Liza Rosen on X - "Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts. There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced. After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel. During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control. Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself."
