Why Is Iran Not Crushed? Despite a decade of crippling sanctions and months of war, there is no sign at all of regime change in Iran ... Why not? #Iran #sanctions #IRGC

It’s all very sad but bear in mind the ‘Nakbha’ comes in at 15 or 16th on a list of numbers affected in displacement events in the aftermath of WWII and decolonisation. It would be quite a bit further down the list if you went back to the formation of modern Turkey. It was kept alive not due to being especially horrible or unique but because of geopolitical interests, proximity to Suez and control of oil supplies making it a central pivot of the Cold War. Western academics, flattered by Said, later took it up and forced into their relativist post-colonial theorising. None of this has helped the Palestinians, who free of constructed history would be a peaceful and prosperous society.

Where’s @macklemore when you need him?

“That’s it. This is where I die. Right here, exactly where I’m standing now.” ​On the morning of October 7th, Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda, Commander of the Caracal Battalion, looked up to see a nightmare unfolding: hundreds of terrorists charging over sand dunes in pickup trucks and motorcycles. Behind her stood just 12 of her fighters. Outnumbered, outgunned, and staring directly into the abyss. ​Most people would freeze. Or Ben Yehuda turned to her soldiers, looked death in the face, and smiled. ​“Come on, let’s tear them apart.” ​What followed was hours of pure, relentless valor. Firing until the barrels burned. Taking out trucks with anti-tank missiles. Killing a terrorist leaping at her from point-blank range with a split-second trigger pull. Guiding a lone tank with hand signals through thick smoke, coordinating rescue choppers under fire, and shielding the kibbutzim behind them with nothing but pure grit and unyielding willpower. ​When the smoke finally settled, she walked slowly down the line of fallen soldiers—angels and lions who gave everything so others could live—gently stroking their faces, whispering apologies, and softly closing their eyes. ​Between an overwhelming horde of terror and thousands of sleeping civilians stood twelve fighters led by a woman who refused to yield an inch of ground. ​Remember this face. Remember this name. Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda. A warrior who looked into the dark and answered it with fire. ​. . . #Heroism #IronSwords #Caracal #TrueBravery #Inspiration #Leadership #Unbroken #HonorTheFallen

That would be a lovely idea if the people of Palestine were free to express their views, but instead they’re repressed by the foul entities, the genocidal fantasists that you support 🤷‍♂️

We can’t afford to prepare for war but we can afford to keep sending money to Palestinians: This is how much of our money has been publicly committed to the Palestinians after they started their latest war: - £241 million in total UK Official Development Assistance to the Occupied Palestinian Territories over the two years to September 2025, including £154 million in humanitarian funding. - Separate announcement of £70 million in additional fhumanitarian funding for Gaza since October 2023 by May 2024. - In June 2026, the Government announced another £23 million for UNRWA, supporting Palestinian refugees across the region and civilians in Gaza. - In June 2026, the Foreign Secretary also said the UK had provided over £80 million of humanitarian and early-recovery funding in the previous year, with funding protected for the following year. - In September 2026 he pledged another £88m to Gaza.

For Miliband to give credibility to an IRGC stooge is just flabbergasting… what possible benefit accrues to the UK?

He’s a comedian… just not a very funny one 🫪

Take note: Francesca Albanese in this interview is not explaining antisemitism; she is completely rewriting its meaning, and in the process distorting the history of the Holocaust. Her remarks reveal astonishing ignorance, and malice. First, Antisemitism was not coined to describe hatred of “Semitic peoples,” or of Middle Easterners whom Europeans regarded as foreign. When Wilhelm Marr introduced the term in 1879, he meant hostility to Jews, expressed it in the racial language of his time. “Semitic” denotes a family of languages. It does not make antisemitism a general category of prejudice that can be reassigned to other peoples. Second, the Nazis likewise targeted Jews as Jews. They did not begin, as Albanese suggests, with a broad campaign against “the non-white, the impure, the non-Christian” that later happened to “crystallize” into hatred of Jews. Her account takes a campaign of extermination directed at Jews and makes its victims sound interchangeable. Third, Albanese's claim about Jews being called “Muslims” as they were taken to the gas chambers is especially grotesque. Primo Levi, who survived Auschwitz, explained that Muselmann was camp slang for “the irreversibly exhausted, worn-out prisoner, close to death.” It described a prisoner’s condition. It did not mean the Nazis regarded Jews as Muslims, or sent them to the gas chambers under that identity. Indeed, Albanese’s theory cannot explain why Hitler welcomed and collaborated with Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. The two met in Berlin in 1941, and the Nazi regime financed the Mufti’s antisemitic broadcasts to Muslim audiences. The SS enlisted the Mufti to help recruit Bosnian Muslims into its Handschar division. Addressing the division’s imams, he called Nazi Germany their ally and identified “World Jewry” as a common enemy. That is the historical record Albanese’s theory cannot accommodate: Nazi leaders recruited Muslims to their cause while pursuing the extermination of Jews. Criticism of Israeli policy requires none of these falsehoods. Albanese first stretches antisemitism until it ceases to identify hatred of Jews, then claims that invoking it is a device to “silence debate.” Her argument depends on stripping the word of its meaning before dismissing those who use it. This is the same Francesca Albanese who wrote in an open letter to her family priest that America was “subjugated by the Jewish lobby.” Only when later confronted, she called her words “infelicitous, analytically inaccurate and unintendedly offensive.” Yet now she offers a definition under which antisemitism is no longer specifically hatred of Jews. How convenient. These remarks distorting the Holocaust and the meaning of Jew hatred are appalling from anyone. From a United Nations human rights mandate holder, they demand a public answer. We are calling on all UN member states to denounce Albanese’s distortion of antisemitism and the Holocaust. In particular, we are calling on the member nations of the Human Rights Council, including France, the Netherlands, Italy, Czechia, Estonia, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom. The Council must not allow someone speaking under its authority to erase the identity of the Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Except it’s all bollocks. @zeteo_news isn’t a source for anything other than ragebait and claptrap … seems you’ve been suckered, bro … happens to all of us…

"Collateral damage. For 505 days, that’s what I was.” Former hostage Omer Shem Tov has written an Op Ed to the filmmakers of "NAZA", educating them on what transpired during his captivity. “Hamas knew where I was and left me to die. Israel didn’t know my location, but it knew where my captor’s mother was and called to make sure she wasn’t killed accidentally.” “There I was — kidnapped, starved and tortured by her son — while my army was trying to keep his mother alive.” It is no secret that there have been issues with Israel's military, as it is the case with many nations. Omer's story is one that people won't talk about or, worse, ignore.

I think the Haganah had been shelling Arab neighbourhoods for at least a couple of days prior to the evacuation. So while it’s true that civil authorities and unions begged the Arabs to stay, they had good reason to feel threatened. The question is not who was right or wrong 78 years ago but how can people alive now and in the future be settled peacefully and prosperously.

RT @HenMazzig: I guess they just love being humiliated in public, so if yesterday wasn’t enough— round 2. Glenn Greenwald and Norman Finke…

On @PiersUncensored Norman Finkelstein acted abominably effectively accusing @HenMazzig of being a Nazi and a “child killer” when Hen was literally a humanitarian soldier in the IDF tasked with coordinating with humanitarian organisations and NGOs. Finkelstein knows nothing about Hen yet makes obscene generalizations to the point even Piers Morgan pushes back against his hypocrisy. This man is utterly filled with hatred.

As islamic Republic of Iran’s officials take the stage at the UN, Ali Zarei sits in solitary confinement in Qezel Hesar prison under a death sentence. He is 27. A gas station worker. A young Iranian protesters wounded during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. First the IRGC took his eye. Now they want to take his life. Be his voice before it is too late. #AliZarei #StopExecutionsInIran

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, has downplayed and denied Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, including sexual violence, while receiving awards from European universities, including Ghent University in Belgium. Yet when it comes to Ukraine, she blames NATO, not Russia, for prolonging the war and calls for Kyiv to disarm. The result? The aggressor remains armed, the victim is asked to disarm, and NATO is blamed if the war continues. It’s a deeply conspiratorial, anti-Western narrative that closely mirrors Russian propaganda. And yet she is celebrated by the very Western institutions she appears to condemn. Coming from a UN Special Rapporteur, that deserves far more scrutiny.

The killers get the microphone at the United Nations. This brave woman got a bullet in her eyes. Another protester blinded just like her is about to be executed in Iran. Two blinded protesters. One voice from Iran. She asked me to send this message to the world. Today on CBS I'll say what no one at the UN will: the negotiations have a regime on one side and Washington on the other. Where are 80 million Iranians? Our innocent people are in prison, not at the table. The voice of dissidents is missing. A deal over our heads will never bring peace. @kosareftekharii

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.” According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists. During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia. 377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization. 150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced. Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine. You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.

But you don’t need to imagine it … Ahmadinejad was always very clear about his intention to annihilate the Zionist entity… you know that, surely?

Finkelstein used to be someone to listen to, a harsh but pointed critic… but somewhere on the way he lost his moorings and sank into a grotesque political dementia… I no longer give him the time of day and certainly wouldn’t waste energy taking offence at his jabbering … he needs medication…

South Africa has had to ask the ICJ for an 18 month extension to go and find evidence… so why was it bringing a case for which it had no evidence in the first place? But it makes no difference. This frivolous and vexatious case is constantly cited as ‘proof’ of ‘genocide’ …