RT @AmiraElghawaby: Important clarification regarding Government of Canada’s position via @nccm

Yup... #FreePalestine

The question “Does Israel have the right to exist?” is meant as a trap – and one directed at what the media like to call the “hard” or “far” left (very much in scare quotes). It requires that the interviewee concede at the start of the conversation the very ground they are trying to challenge. This is what the BBC’s Nick Robinson was up to in demanding that Zack Polanski affirm “Israel’s right to exist” in an interview with the Green party leader last week. It was a classic of the genre. Note Robinson’s heavy framing of the question: “What we’re talking about is whether a state created by the United Nations, in the aftermath of pogroms and Holocaust, the worst act of racism in the history of the planet, has a right to exist or not. This is a question you have always dodged.” That’s very much in the “How many times a day do you beat your wife?” tradition of interviewing. In a post on X, Robinson again challenged Polanski: “Why is this a difficult question to answer?” Both, let us note in passing, are Jewish. But only one is assumed to accrue moral standing in the exchange from their views about Israel. We could easily turn the question around against Robinson: “Do you think the state of Israel – as a state illegally occupying and oppressing Palestinians for decades and committing the crime of apartheid, as determined by the world's highest court, and one deemed to be committing genocide according to a consensus of legal and human rights authorities as well as genocide scholars – has a right to exist? “Did apartheid South Africa have a right exist?” The answer to Robinson’s question is very simple. States come and go. They don’t have a right to exist, peoples do. And importantly, according to international law, people enjoy the same, universal rights. Which is exactly why Israel as a state committing the crime of apartheid – as ruled by the International Court of Justice in 2024 – has no right to exist as it is currently constituted. Polanski responded with the entirely reasonable assertion: “Israelis and Palestinians should have equal rights in a democracy.” Which was the solution accepted by the international community for black and white South Africans, post-apartheid. And yet Robinson keeps interrupting Polanski, treating his sensible, moral position – one in line with his party’s new official policy that “Zionism is racism”, as determined by its members – as though it is proof of extremism, of antisemitism. As if Polanski is being slippery by refusing to accept what is, in fact, Robinson’s extreme premise. Robinson is arguing that, even after Israel has been judged to be an apartheid state by the world’s highest court and to be committing genocide according to leading authorities on the subject, it should have an inviolable right to carry on exactly as it is. Robinson’s implied position is that Palestinians and their supporters should simply shut up and live with the fact that Israel has been slaughtering and maiming hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s people. Nothing to see here, is Robinson’s message. So who is the real extremist, who the real racist: Zack Polanski or Nick Robinson? This is an extract from my latest article How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

YES. It absolutely is

There is a fundamental problem, a wilfully dishonest problem, with the argument that Zionism means different things to different people or that it simply means supporting a Jewish homeland. The problem is that Zionism, as an ideology, has never manifested as anything other than an ethno-nationalist, colonising movement that has forcibly displaced, massacred and subjugated another people. It doesn't matter what your personal definition is: that is the reality, and no other reality has ever existed. Zionism has never meant anything other than that, has never been anything other than that. It has, in the real world, always acted as a racist doctrine. It's very clear that opposing it is not antisemitic. It is pro-freedom.

THIS IS CRAZY

Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual. motherjones.com/politics/202…

Lavrov at the UN: "The Western minority dominated 500 years on others' resources -- still trying to hold onto its privileges, imposing its rules on everyone. ... As President Putin of Russia defined it, I quote: the dictatorship of one hegemon has run amok and is simply dangerous to those around it." "the US invasion of Venezuela ended with the seizure of President Maduro and his wife -- held in an American prison without trial. ... We insist on the swift release of the leader and his wife." "We regard as an unacceptable act of force-diktat the killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of his family and the military and political leadership of the Islamic Republic. It is especially alarming that the US-Israeli aggression begun last June, targeted not only civilian infrastructure but peaceful nuclear sites under IAEA safeguards. This has done irreparable damage... to the entire nuclear non-proliferation system." "Erasing Nazi Germany's guilt for the Soviet genocide, unashamed of Germany, main sponsor of the Nazi regime in Kiev, Chancellor Merz says Germany must once again become the leading military power in Europe. Do they understand in Berlin what 'again' means? Do they see where this may lead? Did World War II teach them nothing?" "No other country on Earth but Ukraine bans a language by law. In Ukraine Russian is banned -- using it can mean prison. But the EU, which brags about European values, stays silent." "One can only conclude that Nazism itself, and the flagrant violations of speech, information and faith, are the very essence of European values."

בגלל העניין והחשיבות הציבורית אני ורחלי החלטנו ביחד עם הגרדיאן שהסרט נז״א יהיה נגיש באינטרנט בחינם, ללא הגבלת זמן, כדי שכל אדם יוכל לצפות בו ובעדויות החיילים. זה יקרה בעוד כמה שבועות, בנובמבר, במועד הכי מוקדם שהצלחנו לקבוע. עד אז פנינו לבתי קולנוע בישראל והצענו להם את הסרט ללא עלות, בתקווה שיוקרן בארץ כבר עכשיו, במקביל להפצתו בבתי קולנוע בעולם. הצגתו תהיה החלטה אמיצה אל מול אלימות גדולה שמכוונת להסתרתו. אני יודע שיש ביקוש אדיר לצפות בסרט ואני מקווה שבאופן הזה כולם בקרוב יוכלו לראות אותו: בין אם בבתי הקולנוע ובין אם באינטרנט בעוד כמה שבועות. הרבה דברים לא נכונים נאמרו עלינו ועל הסרט בשבוע החולף. הסרט מבוסס על תחקיר עיתונאי מקיף של שלוש שנים והפרטים בו מאומתים ומוצלבים. הוא ידבר בעד עצמו והאמת סופה להתבהר. עשינו את הסרט כדי לעורר דיון ציבורי לגבי המעשים של הממשלה בעזה, ההרג של יותר מ73,000 בני אדם, רובם אזרחים, הנרמול של מלחמת השמדה, של התפיסה ש״אין בלתי מעורבים״. עשרים וארבעה חיילים וחיילות עשו צעד ודיברו מול מצלמה על מה שחברה שלמה לא רוצה לדבר עליו. ההכרה בזוועות בעזה לא מפחיתה לרגע מהטבח הנפשע של השבעה באוקטובר, שחמאס אחראי עליו, שחיילים מדברים עליו בסרט, ושאין לו שום הצדקה. להפך. הרי ההתעלמות ממה שקורה בעזה היא מהגורמים שסללו את הדרך לשבת הנוראה ההיא. וההתעלמות הזו נמשכת. עיתונות היא לא בגידה. ביקורת היא לא בגידה. זו חובה של כל אזרח שממשלתו מבצעת פשעים לדעת ושל כל חייל שהיה עד להם לספר. מסתובבים כאן אלפי חיילים כאלה, שיצפו בסרט ויזהו את מה שמתואר בו באופן אישי: את ההרג של אנשים לא חמושים שחוצים קו מדומיין, את אישורי הנז״א במאות, את התקיפות המערכתיות בבתי משפחות, את השריפה וההשמדה הפיזית של עזה, רצח וירי על אנשים רעבים במרכזי מזון ופשעים נוספים שאין להם הצדקה. גם אם זה מפחיד, זו חובתכם למצוא את הדרך להעיד על מה שראיתם. יגידו לכם שכדאי להסתיר את האמת למען הסברה בחו״ל, אבל זה קשקוש. שם יודעים כבר הכל. פשעים לא מסבירים אלא עוצרים. הסתרת האמת קודם כל מרעילה את החברה שלנו ומעל הכל מאפשרת לפגיעה בבני אדם בעזה להימשך. ובנימה אישית: אני כותב על מדיניות האש של הצבא בעזה בעברית ב״שיחה מקומית״ כבר שלוש שנים. התחקירים זכו להתעלמות בישראל. עכשיו בפעם הראשונה משהו נסדק במסך ההתעלמות - וזה דבר חיובי. זה דבר בריא. כן, זה מגיע עם מחיר אישי גדול. היה שבוע קשה. אבל בתוכו גם יש המון תמיכה, והרבה נדיבות. מה שבטוח: האיומים לא יעזרו. זה לא מרתיע אותנו. אני ורחלי נחזור לארץ ונמשיך להיאבק על עתיד המקום הזה ביחד עם שותפים רבים.

When Carney gave his now-famous speech in Davos, many of us - perhaps naively - were excited that Canada would emerge as a global leader to reinforce international law and its principles. Ever since, Carney has worked hard, it appears, to disappoint us. Here, for instance, he downplays Trump's language of annihilation as mere "war talk" and goes on to repeat the Israeli line that Iran constitutes an existential threat to Israel. Carney's key point in Davos was that Western states applied international law "with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim." And that is exactly what Carney did here. He downplayed Trump's horrific language (would he have done it if Pezeshkian had uttered those words?) and then went on to indirectly justify the illegal war by repeating Israeli propaganda re Iran's threat to Israel. Deep inside, I knew he would disappoint. Just not this fast and not this embarrassingly.

RT @Libertymama888: @Israel Turns out translating what Israelis say in Hebrew has been absolutely devastating for Israel’s PR. “I don’t kno…

And now Netanyahu is flying over Canada, while @markjcarney and @AnitaAnand are at the UN pretending to care about international law and human rights.

Update: We have released the Gaza Node Map v2, which now includes a built-in AI assistant called Iris. It can help users navigate the map, search for specific people, strikes, locations, etc + many bug fixes. The map includes: - 131,620 clips, each with a SHA-256 you can verify - 224,223 links - either established or a lead to check - Ability to accept voice commands - Fully searchable index - Evidence packages - every clip, checksum, original post & date in one file, with verification steps - Ability to generate report for nodes & node groups - Persistent Notes feature + 4200 new video locations identified - Citations in Chicago, BibTeX & CSL-JSON It can be accessed here: archivegenocide.com/nodes/ Re-share, quote tweet & comment on this post to help it break out of the algorithm prison. We are training Iris on hundreds of thousands of videos, images and reports of the Gaza genocide, with the end goal of it being a leading world foresnic expert on Gaza- with perfect memory recall + facial recognition. For now Iris has very limited search capabilities for users, mainly for security reasons - we will ramp them in the coming weeks as we finish testing. If you want to submit footage or give feedback / report a bug, join our telegram (linked in bio). This is a beta so expect bugs & errors, especially on mobile devices - we suggest you use a PC. Follow our backups @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr God bless.

RT @DavideMastracci: Incredible stuff. I published a list of Canadians who signed an open letter denying the Gaza genocide. This Israeli or…

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Ed Sheeran tried to do just enough to give people who don’t care about Palestine permission to listen to his music. This is my favorite take on sheeran’s speech tonight and it’s from @willztalkz who is huge on other platforms and needs more followers here.

If I was Ed Sheeran I’d go into hiding at this point This video’s already got almost 600k likes in 7 hours on TikTok 😂

Tehran held a 10-kilometer women only marathon in Velayat Park. They surely look very oppressed…

@kinsellawarren is a deranged psychopath. Of course, this doesn’t deter Canada’s corporate media from treating Kinsella like a sane commentator.