Gazans stoke ‘revolution’ against Hamas - "Gazans are preparing for public protests against Hamas in what is being touted as a grassroots “revolution” against the terror group. The movement, which appears to have been started by Gazans in exile, is calling for surviving residents in the enclave to gather en masse. “You will not break our spirits, nor will our resolve falter,” the group’s Facebook page says, reportedly referring to Hamas, which still governs the streets of Gaza. “We are coming, we are coming, today or the day after tomorrow, and you are destined to fall and depart, gathered in the depths of hell and its darkness.”... a UN investigation reported that Hamas and police units in Gaza had beaten, maimed and publicly executed dozens of Palestinians in the Strip in the last two years... Frustration and anger among Gaza’s two million population have been rising steadily over the failure of Israel and Hamas to agree on terms for phase two of Donald Trump’s September 2025 peace plan – the outline of which was agreed by all parties at the outset. Phase two would see Hamas disarm, Israel withdraw from the Strip, a new technocratic Palestinian government put in place and the start of Gaza’s reconstruction."
Damn Mossad!
Anti-Hamas ‘revolution’ faces brutal crackdown - "In advance of the protests, a fatwa was issued by the Association of Palestinian Scholars, an influential Palestinian group, warning that demonstrators would be accused of collaboration with Israel, a crime punishable by death under Hamas rule... He claimed friends had been summoned to Al Ahli Arab Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital, where they were questioned by Hamas security officials about suspected involvement in the demonstrations. “They were told explicitly by al-Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protesters, they will be executed under ‘revolutionary conditions’ and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death,” he wrote on X this week. He alleged that some were subsequently interrogated, threatened and placed under house arrest inside the hospital itself. He said: “That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.”... Last year, protesters against Hamas took to the streets for several days in a row, with the Iran-backed terror group accused of beating a man to death and leaving him on his family’s doorstep in a warning against any further protests against its rule in Gaza. Uday Al Rabbay was kidnapped shortly after taking part in the protest. His body, covered in blood, was returned to his family’s home days later."
Damn Zionists forcing Hamas to kill protesters! They're also spreading the myth that Hamas uses hospitals, which makes them legitimate military targets
BBC sacked me after I criticised Hamas coverage - "A former BBC presenter sacked for criticising its coverage of Hamas has accused the corporation of making him a “scapegoat” to stop others speaking out against bias. Sean McGinty, 61, claimed bosses had “made an example” of him after he publicly condemned the BBC for not calling the group “terrorists” in the wake of the Oct 7 attacks on Israel. The corporation, which does not refer to Hamas as a terror group despite them being proscribed in Britain, dismissed him for gross misconduct in 2024 after finding he had broken its social media policy, which bars staff from posting anything that undermines its impartiality or reputation. Mr McGinty, who stands by his comments and earlier this year lost a tribunal claim for unfair dismissal, has accused the BBC of having a “metropolitan” bias and a “toxic culture”. He also alleged that his sacking showed the corporation had a “two-tier” approach to discipline because six BBC Arabic journalists who appeared to justify or celebrate the Oct 7 attacks were not dismissed... In 2024, a report by Trevor Asserson, a lawyer, found the BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war. Last year, Michael Prescott, a former standards adviser to the BBC’s board, set out multiple failures on the part of the broadcaster to uphold standards of accuracy and impartiality in a dossier which contributed to the departure of Tim Davie, the then director-general, in March... Mr McGinty said the BBC’s role as a public service broadcaster was being undermined by “metropolitan bias”, which included one instance when a producer refused to let a caller who had concerns about the impact of migration on public services to go on air in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum because she was “racist”."
Jews are no longer safe in Britain, so I left - "my sense of British identity has been chipped away over many years, crisis after crisis, wave after wave of anti-Jewish hate. For many British Jews, the Corbyn years were deeply destabilising and traumatic. The reaction to October 7, particularly the willingness of so many people to excuse, minimise, or even celebrate anti-Jewish violence, only intensified that feeling. You begin to realise that you no longer feel fully at home in the country you were born into, and that your acceptance was never quite as secure as you were led to believe. This is not a political debate, as many seem to think. A friend of mine was physically attacked for being visibly Jewish. I was verbally accosted in the street in Islington for wearing a Star of David necklace. For more than a year and a half, I watched demonstrations where flags and symbols associated with organisations that openly advocate the murder of Jews were displayed on the streets of British cities. Reports of assaults, stabbings, arson attacks, and other acts of anti-Jewish violence became distressingly familiar. Each new incident reinforced the same uncomfortable reality: Jews were being targeted because they were Jewish. As a visibly Jewish person, I found myself questioning my safety whenever I left the house. At the same time, I found myself feeling increasingly isolated. I began noticing the subtle but unmistakable looks people would give me when they realised I was Jewish. Conversations with friends often left me feeling misunderstood. Questions about Israel and Zionism were framed with suspicion. I was being asked to justify my identity rather than explain it. It was exhausting. This atmosphere seeped into everyday life. I encountered anti-Jewish abuse on dating apps and social media, including death threats, for identifying myself as a Jewish Zionist. I watched the BBC and others repeatedly frame Jewish fears as matters for debate rather than realities to be understood. I saw celebrities I had once admired spread anti-Jewish messages that left many Jews feeling isolated and unsafe. I watched a Jewish event at the British Museum postponed because organisers feared protests. Gradually, the sense of comfort and belonging I had once felt as a British Jew was eroded. What disturbed me most was the unwillingness of so many British institutions to confront Jew-hate. Too many politicians, universities, media organisations, and cultural figures responded with a mixture of cowardice, indifference, and, in some cases, the legitimisation of anti-Jewish racism. I watched Jewish concerns minimised or treated as matters for debate. My existence and lived experience are not up for debate. British Jews are both Jewish and British. Yet increasingly, we are expected to prove our loyalty, justify our existence, and defend our right to belong. I do not want to fight for my right to be British when I was born and raised in Britain. Secure minorities do not have to continually prove that they belong. That is conditional acceptance."
It is racist and Islamophobic to expect Muslims to denounce Islamist terrorism, but Jews who don't denounce "Zionism" are guilty of abetting "genocide"
Where are the world's most war-damaged cities? - "the German capital Berlin was hit by 67,607 tonnes of TNT over five years of bombing. This, coupled with intense street fighting in the closing stages of the war, destroyed 80% of the city centre...But Berlin was a spread-out city, built mostly of stone and brick. As a result, Britain’s RAF Bomber Command failed to inflict the damage intended because the concentration of flammable buildings was not as great as it was in the German city of Dresden. That crowded, baroque city, with its high tally of wooden buildings, was incinerated on the night of 13 February 1944 in a man-made firestorm that destroyed 90% of the city centre. Perhaps surprisingly, though, the city that suffered the most war damage – in terms of the percentage of buildings destroyed – is the German city of Jülich. Built on a crossing of the River Rur in what is now the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jülich was considered one of the main obstacles to the Allies’ plan to occupy the Rhineland. Not wishing to take any risks, the Allies bombed the city on 16 November 1944 and destroyed 97% of it. The remaining 3% was smashed during three months of fighting that ended on 23 February 1945, when the Allies finally managed to cross the Rur."
Terrorism supporter logic: the Nazis were the victims in World War II and the Allies committed genocide
The Logic of Third-Worldism - "There is a circulation of ideas, a movement of currents across the Atlantic, and the Western Left is absorbing them in parallel... Some believe that I overestimate the return of Third-Worldism as an ideology, and they insist that voters care about material issues such as wages, jobs, and housing. They are not wrong... however, the political energy that is now forming is not purely economic. It blends genuine social grievances with an ideological reflex rooted in post-colonial and anti-imperial narratives. This matters for anyone working in foreign policy. Mass movements often reshape the strategic environment long before institutions notice. Public moods travel across borders, and narratives migrate faster than officials can respond. Foreign policy is forced to operate inside a new cultural atmosphere that emerges from social perception rather than elite decision-making. Ortega y Gasset helps clarify what is unfolding. His revolt against the masses was not about class conflict but about a psychological orientation seeking a permanent sense of historical mission. This is precisely the structure that animates most populist movements, but even more so the contemporary Western Left. Social democrats can govern through economic policy, but that technocratic mode does not generate the symbolic energy needed to sustain a movement. The activist Left, therefore, seeks a new revolutionary cause. This is why the post–October 7 moment has been so significant. The anti-Israel mobilization has given the contemporary Left a fresh revolution. It provides a straightforward narrative and a sense of participating in a global struggle, which restores the immediacy and certainty that Ortega described. I joked on X that CBS tried to set up a debate between Ben Shapiro and Hasan Piker on capitalism, and Hasan reportedly refused unless the topic became Israel. The episode looks absurd, but for many activists, Israel is not a separate issue. It has become the central lens through which economic critiques are interpreted. It is, in fact, the narrative par excellence that anchors their worldview. As I said before, the contemporary Left is being absorbed by a new wave of Third-Worldism that treats anti-Israel politics as the core axis of moral meaning. Gaza has become the central symbol because it fuses every theme the activist Left needs: victimhood, colonial injustice, racial hierarchy, and global resistance. This is why figures like Greta Thunberg shifted from climate justice to Gaza without hesitation. Climate politics offered urgency but not a revolutionary antagonist. Gaza provides both. Jeremy Corbyn’s return through “Your Party” also makes this shift unmistakable. He appears vindicated because the worldview he always represented has moved from the margins to the emotional core of the Western Left. Britain and the United States, despite their differences, show the same dynamic. Both cultures carry a frontier spirit and impulse, a desire for moral purpose and transformative struggle, and contemporary Third-Worldism channels that impulse differently by offering a global narrative of oppressor and oppressed. Traditional social-democratic politics, which depends on institutional work and economic programs, cannot compete with that kind of moral immediacy. What rises in its place is a movement drawn toward distant conflicts that promise symbolic redemption. But at the end of the day, the transformation is not essentially about Israel. It is about identity. The Left is rebuilding its sense of self around moral purity, a very common theme. Gaza becomes the arena where this identity is enacted and affirmed. Class politics and policy commitments demand continuity and discipline, but identification with global victims delivers instant “meaning” or “sense of history”. In Europe, where the political tradition differs from the United States and the American Right still carries its own sense of historical revolt, the deeper force animating the Left is its persistent need for a cause that promises transformation. Marcuse already saw that once the Western working class ceased to be the historical agent of change, the revolutionary imagination would migrate toward groups and struggles outside the West. Anti-colonial movements, students, and racial minorities became the new carriers of world-historical meaning. That trend continues today. When domestic politics feels exhausted, the Left looks outward for a struggle that can restore transcendence. This pattern has deep historical roots. Figures such as Ho Chi Minh, Messali Hadj, and Nguyen An Ninh were radicalized not in Hanoi, Algiers, or Saigon but in Paris, where they entered a revolutionary milieu. The French Communist Party and its orbiting organizations reframed global liberation as an extension of European ideological battles, turning anti-imperialism into a reflective surface for Western moral aspiration. But this is where I see the significant and great rupture, it is one thing for anticolonial leaders to fight for independence within their own historical conditions, and quite another for Western activists to adopt those struggles as lenses through which they interpret their own societies. In the former case, grievance arises from lived experience and political necessity. In the latter, it becomes a way of reimagining the West from within, using foreign conflicts to supply meaning where domestic political narratives have faded. The logic of Third-Worldism is then to lift an external struggle out of its own setting and elevate it into the central source of political purpose. The distant battlefield becomes a metaphysical stage where the self is purified. This allows the Western activist to assume the posture of righteous witness while remaining detached from the institutional, economic, and cultural demands that anchor political responsibility in their own world."
As Richard Dawkins observed, the retreat of Christianity has opened the way to worse
Daniel Sugarman on X - "Israel's brief detention of Sumud flotilla influencers led to international headlines and state condemnations. 3 weeks ago, ten members of the Sumud Land Convoy were captured & imprisoned in Libya while on their way to Gaza. They're still there. No headlines. Little outrage."
Max ✡︎𓂆🇮🇱🇨🇦🏳️🌈 ⚣🤍 on X - "I love that absolutely nobody cares that Libya is doing to the gaza sex and drugs flotilla crew exactly what the Global Sumud Flotilla org lied about Israel doing. They’ve been kidnapped, beaten, and held in a Libyan jail for three weeks and nobody gives a shit"
Juliet Moses on X - "It really is extraordinary that after the Gaza Flotilla members cosplayed at being “kidnapped” by Israel, and they achieved their objective of getting attention through sensationalist international headlines, 10 members from Spain, Poland, the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia and Italy really have been kidnapped by the Libyan Arab Armed Forces and detained for weeks in apparently very poor conditions and no one cares."
Heidi Bachram on X - "The remaining Flotilla members held for a month by Libyan militias have been released. They were held at black sites cut off from contact. This militia is notorious for torture, forced confessions, executions and hostage taking. Yet no 24 hour coverage or enquiries. We know why."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "It’s insane that flotilla members were held in Libya for over a month and there was not a word said about them. They were held in Israel for less than 72 hours and it was nonstop coverage."
NizNellie3 on X - "🚨 Well, well, well. Looks like University of Chicago's professor Eman Abdelhadi, who publicly celebrated the October 7th massacres by Hamas, who calls for student uprisings in the name of Palestinian resistance, and who was recently charged with two counts of aggravated battery against a government employee at an ICE facility, along with two misdemeanor counts of resisting or obstructing an officer... is the sister of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. This is the same genius professor who after the October 7th terrorist attacks stated, "I hope nothing is ever the same. Let PALESTINE break this country wide open. Let it be reborn or crumble under the weight of its own contradictions. Long live the student intifada." The University of Chicago was given $530 MILLION in federal funding last year. She's still employed. "F*** the University of Chicago. I work at one of the biggest employers in Chicago. A place with thousands of people I could potentially organize. This is where I need to build power." Radicalism runs in the family. H/T and all the praise @TradeUnionJake for the incredible work. 🫡"
Meme - Nazi Hunters: "UNRWA: "Over 660,000 children in Gaza are getting back to school!" So, let me get this s
traight... Before the war, there were only 625,000 school-age kids in Gaza. And yet, after supposedly being wiped out so hard by an Israeli child- targeting genocide, it somehow resulted with additional tens of thousands more kids?!? Truly fascinating shit! Gaza is the only place on earth where genocide always comes with perks like population growth."
Save the Children: "All schools in Gaza have been closed for 625,000 students for 6 months."
UNRWA: "Over 660,000 children in #Gaza have been out of school for more than two years. All they want is to get back to the classroom - even if that's just a tent. UNRWA team members are working non-stop to provide learning, play and counselling for children, scaling up operations every day."
Meme - *Flashy sign "Stop the Genocide!"*
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Crying white hipster man donating money to crying white man at booth with Palestine flag*
*Crying white man at booth passing money to smug hijab woman with one leg in air with handbag full of money*
Jonah Platt on X - "This is legit INSANE. Israel offers 1000s of work permits to provide economic opportunity to Palestinians (whose own gov doesnt)—thousands then massacre Israelis (incl their very employers!) on 10/7 starting a 2-yr war, & the complaint is Israel isn’t giving them jobs??"
LoLNothingMatters on X - "It's a well-observed feature of every genocide through history that victims were extremely upset at being denied the opportunity to work for people trying to murder them."
Meme - *Oct 7*
Arab Man: "Filthy Jews, they deserve it."
*Mumbai Terror Attack*
Arab Man: "Filthy Hindus, they deserve it."
*ISISI* (sic - it should be ISIS)
Arab Man: "Filthy Christians, they deserve it"
*Gaza*
Arab Man: "You don't have to be a Muslim to support *Palestine* just be a human"
Nova Festival survivors face torrent of abuse - "Survivors of the Nova festival massacre on October 7 are facing a torrent of online abuse from bots believed to be manned by Iran... They pointed to social media posts calling for the death of survivors, denying their experiences and labelling them with racist, sexist and other highly offensive slurs. Conspiracy theories have abounded ever since the massacre, suggesting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on its own citizens to justify a ground assault on Gaza. “The phenomenon ranges from complete denial – claiming the attack was a staged event involving ‘crisis actors’ and fake blood – to posts and comments that shift blame onto the IDF,” the report states. The organisation believes Tehran is behind the campaign of abuse... What may have been initially promoted by bots has now become widespread and peddled by real users."
Meme - "I knew Israel was genocidal when they paused war to facilitate 1.6 million polio vaccines to Gazan children last September."
Meme - "ISRAEL IS EXPECTED TO:
- Stop a war they didn't start
- Free hostages they didn't take
- Aid those who want to kill them
- Make peace with those who don't want it
- Be the perfect victim and never fight back"
Corey Walker 🇺🇸 on X - "It's not surprising at all, but I'm happy that leftists are outright moving the Overton's Window and proclaiming they believe Oct. 7 was both good and justified. Now, we can stop pretending they do not support Jihadist terrorism. Moreover, it is quite insane to argue that Oct. 7 is justified as an act of war, but Israel responding is unjustified. Hamas has stated they would do Oct. 7 again and again. Leftists are now on the record of saying they believe repeating those attacks would be morally justified. Further, those killed on Oct. 7 were disproportionately those who lived in left-wing kibbutzes. They invited Palestinians into their homes, and in return those same Palestinians drew maps detailing their homes and helped Hamas locate hiding spots to kill more Jews. Leftists routinely now say that Sept. 11th was justified, so we cannot be surprised they are not trying to recast Oct. 7 as a "liberation" effort."
Trisha Posner on X - "Incredible: Jew-hatred with a license. The American Psychological Association is now pathologizing Zionism as a “mental illness” via their “Decolonizing Therapy” racket — while glorifying Hamas, whitewashing Oct 7 as strikes on “military targets,” and letting members call Jews “psychotic.” HHS is investigating — and every decent person should demand they shut this poison down. Jewish therapists harassed? Reports buried? Enough. The APA is the same organization that has given a greenlight to pediatric “gender affirming care” so I guess I’m not surprised that they are on the radical progressive side of any Israel or Jewish matter. #Antisemitism #APA #JewHatred"
Meme - "I have the exact same amount of empathy for Palestinians that they had for the Oct 7 victims.
Now should this be offensive? You wouldn't think so since it's an exact equivalence, but this could actually get you fired some places."
Meme - "ISRAEL KEEPS GETTING WHAT IT WISHES FOR GAZA *Propserous beachfront*
AND GAZA KEEPS GETTING WHAT IT WISHES FOR ISRAEL *ruined bombed out Gaza beachfront*"
Israel's mental health time bomb - "The study found post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the general population had increased by 70 per cent in the wake of the October 7 attacks and subsequent conflict. The underlying rate of diagnosis is running at “three to four times” the level it was before the pandemic in 2018 and is showing no sign of slowing, according to Clalit’s data, which stretches to June this year... Clalit’s data, like that of the other Israeli health care providers, does not include active military personnel. Those cases are treated within the military and data on them is restricted. Nevertheless, last year a study published by the National Center for Traumatic Stress and Resilience at Tel Aviv University which tracked individuals serving in combat roles over six years, found that approximately 12 per cent of those who witnessed combat reported severe PTSD symptoms, rendering them unfit for duty."
Rafael Medoff | Facebook - "THE SLOW WHEELS OF JUSTICE
One of the most troubling episodes from the pro-Hamas protests in the autumn of 2023 occurred when several hundred extremists blocked traffic on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. It was a classic case of how innocent people can be harmed when fanatics decide that their cause is more important than anything else in the world—including the lives of innocent bystanders. Among the vehicles impeded were three trucks connected to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) health system, transporting organs that needed to be delivered within thirty minutes because they were due to be transplanted later that day. The four-hour traffic delay forced postponement of those operations. Seventy-eight Hamas supporters were arrested on the bridge. Despite the fact their actions endangered lives, the San Francisco district attorney charged them only with misdemeanors. As a result, they were all able to perform community service instead of jail time. They were not required to pay compensation to the motorists whose lives they harmed in various ways. To make matters worse, instructors in UCSF’s mandatory six- week unit on “Justice and Advocacy in Medicine” subsequently pointed to that outrageous protest as something medical students should admire. Medical students in that required first-year course were taught that the blocking of the bridge by the Hamas supporters was an example of “direct action,” comparable to “civil disobedience in protest of unjust laws and practices,” which is intended to interrupt “business as usual” in order to “pressure targeted decision-makers.” It took nearly three years, but thanks to reporting by the Washington Free Beacon, the House Committee on Education and Workforce last week held a hearing on the imposition of radical views on University of California medical students. “These classes are filled with propaganda,” said committee chair Tim Walberg (R-Michigan). “They do not prepare medical students to become qualified, skilled physicians. They are focused on topics that have nothing to do with medical science—because they seek to make medical students not into competent doctors, but into far-left activists.” Forced into the hot seat, UC San Francisco chancellor Sam Hawgood announced at the hearings that the “Justice and Advocacy in Medicine” was being canceled because some parts of it “did not meet our standards for relevance and scholarship.” It’s a shame that it took years of pressure by journalists and Congress to reach that outcome. Still, as the old saying goes, “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”"
