Friday, April 26, 2024
U.S.C. Cancels Its Main Graduation Ceremony, Citing Security Concerns
(Little back-stabbing weasel pieces of shit got USC to cancel main-stage graduation ceremony this year and blame it on the students who are demonstrating for an end to the genocide in Gaza. But a bunch of fucking cowardly little sycophants sucking up to the Zionist influence in America. They are trying to make OTHER STUDENTS hate their classmates who want an end to GENOCIDE!!! This is sickening!!! A friend told me his nephew is graduating this year. These people who do this shit are scum-bags. They are the WORST PEOPLE on the planet. Godless miserable rat-faced cowards.)
from the New York Times
The University of Southern California announced on Thursday that it has canceled its main-stage graduation ceremony for students, a move that follows campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and a controversy over its selection of a class valedictorian.
The university said that it could not host the ceremony, which was scheduled for May 10, because of new safety measures that would have increased the amount of time needed on the day to process the 65,000 students and guests who usually attend.
This week, the university has been rocked by turmoil by pro-Palestinian protesters, resulting in the arrests of more than 90 people.
It was the continuation of controversy on the Los Angeles campus that began in early April, when the university selected a Muslim valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, a biomedical engineering major from Chino Hills, Calif...read more here
Turkish universities back Gaza war protests sweeping US colleges
(We have been told recently that natural immunity doesn't exist or at least it didn't when it came to Covid-19. That was a lie. Now we see the human condition's natural response to the vile evil that is zionism. It's us. We are the anti-bodies humanity has formed to fight off the scourge of zionism as it threatens our species one last time. Viruses spread but so to do the body's natural immune response to the unnatural. This is what we see happening all across the world. And it's beautiful.)
from Daily Sabah
Numerous universities in Türkiye have strongly condemned the disproportionate use of force by police against students participating in Gaza protests in the United States.
As protests in support of Gaza, which started at Columbia University a few days ago and have spread to various states, continue in the U.S., universities in Türkiye have issued a joint statement expressing support for the student protesters.
The statement published in Turkish and English on the universities' official social media accounts said: "For over six months, peaceful students protesting the brutality aimed at innocent people in Gaza have been subjected to violence. Protesters from Columbia University to Yale, from New York University to Harvard are calling on their universities to support cease-fire efforts in Gaza and sever ties with companies linked to Israel."
"Students are being detained during protests, and universities are transitioning to remote learning to halt the demonstrations. We consider the disproportionate response to the peaceful reaction of university students as a blow to basic human rights and academic freedom, and we deeply regret and strongly condemn it," it added...
read more here
After US, French students defy police for pro-Palestinian demo
(Remember that asshole who said 'make them hurt to shut them down'? I said it doesn't work that way unless you're a coward as that man is apparently. You attack some of us, you attack all of us and more and more people are stepping up as a result of their 'hurt them' policy. That's always how it is. It takes courage to stand up for what is right. That's why that asswipe doesn't understand. Because he never has.)
from Daily Sabah
A group of students at one of France's most prestigious universities defied police Friday to protest Israel's brutal war on the Gaza Strip.
The students at Sciences Po occupied an academic building and demonstrated on campus after police broke up a pro-Palestinian solidarity demonstration earlier Wednesday night.
The protests come as Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has sparked a wave of anger across college campuses in the United States.
Sciences Po students have accused management of calling in police to break up a pro-Palestinian protest by dozens of students gathered on a central Paris campus earlier Wednesday.
"The director has crossed a red line by deciding to send in the police," Ines Fontenelle, a member of the Student Union at Sciences Po, told AFP as some 150 students gathered Thursday.
"Management must take steps to restore a climate of trust."...
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US State Dept's Middle East spox resigns over Gaza policy
from Daily Sabah
The U.S. State Department's spokeswoman for Middle East and North Africa announced her resignation on Thursday, in protest of Washington's policies regarding the Gaza Strip, amid Israel's atrocities.
"I resigned April 2024 after 18 years of distinguished service in opposition to the United States’ Gaza policy. Diplomacy, not arms. Be a force for peace and unity,” Hala Rharrit wrote in a LinkedIn post, according to Al Arabiya.
Rharrit has worked in various roles at the State Department since 2005, and was a spokesperson for the Middle East and North Africa since August 2022, according to her LinkedIn page.
State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said he has seen reports that Asked about Rharrit’s resignation but he is not going to talk about a "personal matter” and refused to "delve into the specifics”.
Noting that there are channels at the State Department where employees can share their views when they disagree with a certain policy, he said the option of dissent channel remains in place...
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China describes Iran as ‘strategic partner' in West Asia
from PressTV
China's special envoy to the Middle East says Iran is a “special partner” of Beijing in West Asia, appreciating Tehran’s measures in the region.
Zhai Jun made the remarks on Friday during a meeting with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani in Moscow, on the sidelines of the Consultations of Deputy Foreign Ministers/Special Envoys of the BRICS group of emerging economies on the Middle East Affairs.
Zhai condemned the Israeli regime’s recent terrorist attack against the Iranian diplomatic premises in Syria and thanked Tehran for its actions in defense of the Palestinians’ rights, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
China is Iran’s largest trade partner. Both countries are subject to different levels of illegal sanctions imposed by the US...
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Iran calls on BRICS to play role in stopping Israeli crimes
(Here we go. Been saying this for a while. The FreeMarketeers of the Unipolar NWO (Great Reset) are scared this thing in Gaza is going to harm their efforts at world dominance. Once the banksters understand Bibi and the Likudniks are harming their bottom line, it's done.)
from PressTV
Iran has called on the BRICS group of emerging economies to play a role in putting an immediate stop to Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
The call by Iran's deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani in Moscow on Thursday came as his counterparts and special representatives of BRICs nations met to discuss the latest developments in the West Asia and North Africa region.
"The manner and quality of role-playing of individual countries and international organizations in relation to the Israeli regime's crisis mongering and the position they adopt in this regard is effective and will be recorded in history," he said.
"Therefore, the members of the BRICS organization should show their political and practical will to completely stop attacks on people and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip," he said.
Bagheri Kani called on the BRICS nations to help with the quick sending of humanitarian aid, especially food, medical equipment and medicine to the Gaza Strip and the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces and the reconstruction of the besieged territory.
"At the moment, our focus should be on achieving a complete and permanent halt to the attacks of the Zionist regime in order to reduce the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, expand the sending of international humanitarian aid to Gaza, and provide firm support to the activities of humanitarian organizations, especially UNRWA," he said...
read more here
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Opposing Bibi's Genocide in Israel Makes Us 'the Freak Left' in Trump Country
by Scott Creighton
What more can you say?
Remember Netanyahu saying we had to stop these demonstrations on university campuses? Well, of course, Mossad-linked Steve Bannon steps up to the moment to try to help Bibi out. But of course he does.
“I am not a moderate, I’m a fighter,” Bannon said. “And that’s why I’m proud to stand with the state of Israel. That’s why I’m proud to be a Christian Zionist.” Steve Bannon 2017This is a pic of Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.
Abbott is a Catholic seen here praying to the god of more campaign finance donations.
But the writing is on the wall. The end for the zionist wet dream is nigh. And they know it.
Let the hate flow. Let them water the olive trees with their tears. The time for the zionists' dream is coming to an end and everyone knows it.
Stick to your guns. Ignore their threats. Endure like a Palestinian.
We are about to witness history.
May you live in interesting times, indeed.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
YouTube Turned Off Comments on My Latest Video
by Scott Creighton
(UPDATE: They keep turning comments off and I keep turning them back on. Still not one single notification from YouTube that they are doing this or any explanation as to why. However, they have not turned off comments on the previous two videos I restored them. Odd. I guess they finished the review of those two.)
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They didn't turn off the comments on the video I made about them turning off comments on my previous two videos but then, late this afternoon, YouTube turned off comments on my most recent video.
I did not turn off comments on that video, YouTube did. Immediately.
So I turned em back on.
Get this: apparently YouTube doesn't want folks sharing information about how Jewish people across the world are standing up against zionism and genocide.
How is that possibly good for Jewish people? It's not. But it is good for zionists like Netanyahu, the Likud party and the Israeli developers who can't wait to steal more Palestinian land.
Yes Virginia: Jews Do Stand in Solidarity with Palestine
Yes Virginia: Jews Do Stand in Solidarity with Palestine
US split over whether Netanyahu capable of accepting Palestinian component of Saudi deal
from Times of Israel
Despite the Gaza war’s evisceration of Israel’s image throughout the Arab world, Saudi Arabia has continued holding high-level discussions with the White House in recent weeks aimed at brokering a normalization agreement with Jerusalem, three US officials told The Times of Israel.
Significant obstacles remain, and any possible deal would hinge on securing a temporary truce in Gaza through a long-elusive hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, the officials clarified.
Still, they all asserted that the gaps between Washington and Riyadh are bridgeable.
Where the US officials said the administration is more divided is on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be prepared to advance the cause of Palestinian statehood to get the Saudis on board.
The details of what the Palestinian element of the deal will be are still being finalized, but it will require Israel to take concrete steps aimed at establishing a pathway to an eventual Palestinian state, the officials said.
Over much of his years in power, Netanyahu has spoken of his ability to
thwart international efforts to promote a two-state solution. Since
October 7, those boasts have only grown...
read more here
Israel's Netanyahu says 'more has to be done' to stop pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses
(The Zionists are in a panic state. They do not want their actions to reflect badly on Israel's public image so they, once again, lie.)
from Yahoo News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday "more has to be done" to stop pro-Palestinian protests that have spread across U.S. campuses in recent weeks.
"What's happening in America's college campuses is horrific," he said in a recorded statement, accusing "antisemitic mobs" of taking over leading universities.
"It's unconscionable. It has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally," he said. "The response of several university presidents was shameful. Now, fortunately, state, local, federal officials, many of them have responded differently but there has to be more. More has to be done."
Protests over Israel's actions in Gaza have intensified across U.S. campuses in recent weeks with the Gaza war now in its seventh month.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have called for a ceasefire and for their universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel. Dozens of students have been doxxed, suspended by the university and arrested by police...
read more here
Nancy Pelosi says Israel's Netanyahu 'should resign' as prime minister
from NBC
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, adding another influential voice to Democratic criticism of the Israeli leader.
In an interview published Monday, Rep. Pelosi cited the recent resignation of the intelligence chief of the Israel Defense Forces over failures surrounding the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack, before pointing the finger back at Netanyahu.
"We recognize Israel's right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu — terrible. What could be worse than what he has done in response?" Pelosi, D-Calif., told Irish broadcaster RTÉ's Six One News.
"He should resign. He's ultimately responsible," she added.
Asked whether she viewed Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace, Pelosi responded: "I don't know whether he's afraid of peace, incapable of peace, or just doesn't want peace. But he has been an obstacle to the two-state solution."...
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Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose "False Idol of Zionism"
' Hundreds of protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday when Jewish New Yorkers and allies gathered for what they called a "Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel" on the second night of Passover. The demonstration, held one block away from the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, came just hours before the Senate overwhelmingly approved a $95 billion foreign aid package that includes about $17 billion in arms and security funding to Israel. "Too many of our people are worshiping a false idol," said award-winning author and activist Naomi Klein, one of several speakers at Tuesday's rally. "They are enraptured by it. They are drunk on it. They are profaned by it. And that false idol is called Zionism." '
someone asked:
Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years
from Mondoweiss
“Unprecedented terror” continues to haunt Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, two days after the Israeli army concluded its 52-hour-long invasion of the camp, in which it killed 14 Palestinians, nine of whom at least were unarmed civilians, according to residents.
On Thursday night, April 18, the Israeli army announced that it had launched “a large operation” in Nur Shams, the two-square-kilometer camp adjacent to the city of Tulkarem, in the northwest of the occupied West Bank. The invasion was to target the ‘Tulkarem Brigade’, which has operated in the camp since 2022.
“This isn’t the first time that the occupation has raided Nur Shams, but this time it was different because the occupation forces used unprecedented violence during the raid,” Baraa al-Ghoul, a resident of Nur Shams, told Mondoweiss. “In previous raids, if an armored vehicle reached a dead-end in the camp’s alleys, it made a U-turn and looked for a different way through. This time they just demolished whatever they found in front of them,” he said...
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Daily life in Rafah’s desert camp
from Electronic Intifada
Our new camp in Rafah, after our third displacement, is located in a graveyard near the Egyptian border. Each day the tents of new arrivals – of those forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks – creep closer to the graves.
After every Israeli massacre, both graveyard and camp expand, crawling toward the outer edges of the desert.
We’ve been here since December 2023. Nine of us share a tent that is 16 square meters.
We are in the desert, but sometimes it does not feel that way because of the density and the near-constant sounds of Israeli explosions and drones.
There are so many people in the camp, all of us in tents that do not protect from heat or cold...
read more here
Of Bad Knees and YouTube Comment Sections
Yeah. Gotta date in the AM with the bone breakers and I got my comment section turned off on a couple videos. These are the chains I forged in life. So I may be dumping the knees and I did turn comments back on. Let's see how it goes. It's all a roll of the dice anyway.
Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk
from the NYT
The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to give final approval to a $95.3 billion package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending it to President Biden and ending months of uncertainty about whether the United States would continue to back Kyiv in its fight against Russian aggression.
The vote reflected resounding bipartisan support for the measure, which passed the House on Saturday by lopsided margins after a tortured journey on Capitol Hill, where it was nearly derailed by right-wing resistance. The Senate’s action, on a vote of 79 to 18, provided a victory for the president, who had urged lawmakers to move quickly so he could sign it into law.
And it capped an extraordinary political saga that raised questions about whether the United States would continue to play a leading role in upholding the international order and projecting its values globally...
read more here
Jamaica officially recognizes state of Palestine
from PressTV
Jamaica says it has decided to officially recognize Palestine as a state amid prolonged concerns over Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and the dire humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory.
Jamaica’s Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith confirmed the decision in a press statement on Wednesday, stressing that the move is aligned with her country’s “strong commitment” to the principles of the United Nations Charter, which seek to promote mutual respect, peaceful co-existence, and the right to self-determination.
“By recognizing the State of Palestine, Jamaica strengthens its advocacy towards a peaceful solution,” she said.
Smith went on to say that Jamaica continues to support the so-called two-state solution as the only viable option to resolve the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
read more here
Pro-Gaza protesters in NY's Columbia University stay put despite intimidation, crackdown
from PressTV
Pro-Gaza US protesters in New York's Columbia University say they will stay put despite the university's harassment and police crackdown.
The protesters said they refuse to concede to "cowardly threats and blatant intimidation" by university administration, asserting that they will continue to peacefully protest.
Columbia University threatened the students with the national guard after refusing to bargain in good faith.
The university announced a midnight deadline for talks regarding the removal of pro-Palestine encampments on the varsity campus, warning that their campsite will be forcefully cleared by police if no agreement is reached.
The university campus is being used as a campsite for hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters and other activists, who have gathered and set up numerous tents...
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Germany to resume working with UNRWA following review
(Yet another IDF lie bites the dust)
from Daily Sabah
Germany has followed the footsteps of several other Western donors to resume support to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
The decision Wednesday comes after a review found Israel had not yet provided evidence that hundreds of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff were members of Palestinian resistance groups.
Israel alleged in January that some UNRWA employees may have participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.
In the weeks that followed, numerous donor states, including Germany, suspended or paused some $450 million in funding.
Many, including Sweden, Canada and Japan had since resumed funding...
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South Asian state plans to join BRICS
from RT
Sri Lanka intends to formally seek membership of the BRICS group of nations, the South Asian country’s ambassador to Russia announced on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters, Janitha Abeywickrema Liyanage confirmed that “Sri Lanka is planning to join BRICS+” and expressed hope that accession would provide “an opportunity to ensure both transport and food security.”
The
BRICS group of non-Western economies – which previously comprised
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – has recently seen a
major wave of expansion. Earlier this year, four nations – Ethiopia,
Iran, Egypt and the UAE – became members, and more are expected in the
future...
read more here
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
I am NOT shutting down comments on YouTube
by Scott Creighton
It was brought to my attention that comments were turned off on at least my last two videos on YouTube.
I did not do that.
If you check the 'learn more' button the last option they list is that they themselves will shut off comments 'for safety concerns'
That is what they did and they provided me no notification.
Sorry about that but I have no recourse to change it.
Just so you know, it was not me. I don't do that.
Clearly they are trying to keep us from talking about the growing opposition to genocidal Zionism.
Once again YouTube positions themselves on the wrong side of history.
Analyzing Zionist Efforts to Disrupt Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations
Analyzing Zionist Efforts to Disrupt Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations
Sponsor of TikTok Ban & Iran-Palestine Sanctions Gets 1,400% Bump in AIPAC Donations
from Aletho News
The
21st Century Peace through Strength Act passed the US House of
Representatives on Saturday, as part of a package of bills that also
included military aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific.
US
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), who sponsored the 21st Century Peace
through Strength Act that passed the US House of Representatives,
saw contributions to his campaign from the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC) increase an incredible 1,413% during the 2024
election cycle when compared to the 2022 cycle.
The
21st Century Peace through Strength Act includes the REPO Act, which
enables Biden to seize Russian assets frozen in US banks and send them
to Ukraine, a provision that will essentially ban TikTok from the US,
sanctions against Palestinian resistance groups..
read more here
Statement by NYU Spokesperson on Gould Plaza Protest
(Gould Plaza is on W 4th st. in New York City. It is open to civilian traffic and NOT on a closed road belonging to NYU so they had no right to try to close the street because of 50 random kids holding a demonstration.)
from NYU
“Today’s events did not need to lead to this outcome.
“This morning, some 50 protesters began a demonstration on the plaza in front of the business school. This occurred without notice to the University, and without authorization. The University closed access to the plaza, put barriers in place, and made clear that we were not going to allow additional protesters to join because the protests were already considerably disruptive of classes and other operations in schools around the plaza.
“Nonetheless we made no move to clear the plaza at that point because high among the University's aims was to avoid any escalation or violence. So, the University was deeply disturbed when, early this afternoon, additional protesters, many of whom we believe were not affiliated with NYU, suddenly breached the barriers that had been put in place at the north side of the plaza and joined the others already on the plaza. This breach was in violation of directions from Campus Safety Officers and in violation of multiple University rules.
“This development dramatically changed the situation. We witnessed disorderly, disruptive, and antagonizing behavior that has interfered with the safety and security of our community, and that demonstrated how quickly a demonstration can get out of control or people can get hurt. At one point, we explained to the protesters that they needed to disband in an hour, and there would be no adverse consequences.
“Nevertheless, many refused to leave. We also learned that there were intimidating chants and several antisemitic incidents reported. Given the foregoing and the safety issues raised by the breach, we asked for assistance from the NYPD. The police urged those on the plaza to leave peacefully, but ultimately made a number of arrests.
“We will continue to support individuals’ right to freedom of expression, and, as we have said since October, the safety of our students and maintaining an equitable learning environment remain paramount.”
- NYU spokesperson John Beckman
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More than 150 arrests made during pro-Palestinian protests at NYU in Greenwich Village
from ABC
A huge turnout of pro-Palestinian protestors demonstrating at NYU in Greenwich Village have been arrested.
They defied a 4 p.m. deadline on Monday to disperse from Gould Plaza in front of the School of Business.
A mix of students and outsiders, more than 150 people, were arrested.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said that they received a letter from NYU, with a request to clear out Gould Plaza after "individuals" refused to comply with the repeated requests to disperse...
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Another pro-Palestinian protest dispersed in New York
from RT
Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters have gathered at New York University, with the rally later broken up by police who made a number of arrests, according to local officials and media reports.
NYU spokesman John Beckman said the demonstration kicked off on Monday morning on Could Plaza in front of the Stern School of Business and some 50 people took part, adding that this happened “without authorization.”
The officials at the institution put barriers in place to prevent anyone else from joining in “because the protests were already considerably disruptive of classes and other operations in schools around the plaza,” Beckman said...
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Columbia, NYU, Yale on the boil over Israel’s war on Gaza: What’s going on?
from al Jazeera
Top United States university campuses, including those of Yale, New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, are on edge amid arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Monday and mounting tension between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters over the war in Gaza.
On Sunday, a prominent rabbi linked to New York’s Columbia University and its affiliated Barnard College, Elie Buechler, urged Jewish students at the institution to stay home due to “extreme anti-Semitism” on the campus.
Columbia’s President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik announced in an official statement that all classes will be held virtually on Monday and that faculty and staff who can work remotely should do so. Monday marks Passover, a major Jewish holiday.
“Over the past days, there have been too many examples of intimidating and harassing behavior on our campus. Anti-Semitic language, like any other language that is used to hurt and frighten people, is unacceptable and appropriate action will be taken,” Shafik said in a statement...
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Monday, April 22, 2024
Condescending Prick Calls for 'Hurting' Anti-Zionists
Yes. The desperation is palpable. They have figured out they can't hasbara us into submission anymore so now this prick is just calling for causing us harm. I'm sure that will age well.
'Let's Just Hurt the Antisemites Cus We Can't Win Arguments While We Kill Children to Steal Land' says a Jew
by Scott Creighton
He's not calling for direct violent action against activists (like Tom Cotton did this weekend) but instead he is suggesting Jewish people do whatever backhanded, backstabbing, dirty little deeds they can manage to make folks pay for having the audacity to suggest Israel stop committing genocide in Palestine.
How's that for a stereotype?
Same shit Michael Rapaport was preaching a couple months ago. Don't you love how the makers of Fallout TV show type cast him so well?
I don't know who this clown is and don't really care. He's a prick who can see the writing on the wall. Or perhaps the writing on Twitter.
Twitter replies to this American's video declaration of Holy War against all those who think killing 13k children so you can steal their land is a morally bankrupt course of action:
“We need to stop trying to educate people on the virtues of murdering children. It hasn’t worked!”
“OH NO, IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! QUICK, GET THEM FIRED, SUE THEM AND TAKE THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS! WHY ARE WE SO HATED?!”
"The goyim aren't listening, it's time to threaten them with violence."
And here's another Twitter response:
Zionism must be exposed and discredited
from Mondoweiss
You could not get a better picture of Zionism than from two recent events. Israel bombed a consulate in a foreign country – Syria – killing top Iranian military officers, among others, and Israel supporters in the U.S. forced the cancelation of the valedictorian address at the University of Southern California because the speaker opposes Israeli genocide in Gaza.
These actions are consistent. They are expressions of a maximalist ideology that operates on a global level to support the Israeli regime. That ideology, of course, is Zionism, the belief that Jews need a state in order to be safe. Today Zionism threatens political freedom in the United States and international order. It threatens the political tradition of liberalism in the United States by compelling Democratic politicians to pay for more bombs to advance a genocide.
After 150 years of struggle and practice, it is plain that Zionism is dedicated to the neverending subjugation of Palestinians, who resist their persecution...
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US senator recommends ripping skin off Gaza protesters
from Electronic Intifada
Tom Cotton, the bellicose US senator from Arkansas, is not satisfied with pushing to employ the US military against Black Lives Matter and antifa protesters. He’s now encouraging vigilante violence against Gaza genocide activists.
On Monday, he proposed throwing protesters in American cities off bridges. He urged people stuck in traffic related to Gaza genocide protests to take violent action.
“I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way.”
Protesters for Palestinian freedom are “pro-Hamas mobs” to Cotton, a man who inveighs against over-taxing but on the American tax day promotes bodily harm against those protesting US tax money fueling war crimes and genocide..
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At Least 180 Bodies Discovered in Mass Grave at Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Yunis – Reports
from Sputnik News
The bodies of 180 people have been found by Palestinian emergency services in a mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gazan city of Khan Yunis, Al Jazeera broadcaster has reported.
The
bodies, including those of elderly women and children, were discovered
in the hospital courtyard over the weekend, the report read.
On
April 7, the Israeli troops have withdrawn from the city with Israeli
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying that the Israel Defense Forces
eliminated Palestinian movement Hamas as a military structure in the
city...
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62,000 Israeli settlers flee northern Palestine amid Hezbollah strikes: Report
from PressTV
Some 62,000 Israeli settlers have fled areas in the northern sector of the 1948 Israeli-occupied lands amid fear of strikes by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement in retaliation for the bloody onslaught on Gaza, latest reports have revealed.
Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing Israeli media outlets, reported on Sunday evening that the number of settlers that have evacuated the area as a result of Hezbollah’s operations now stands at a staggering 62,000.
The report noted that 30,000 of the settlers have evacuated northern occupied Palestine on their own as fears are mounting among the residents that Hezbollah fighters continue to carry out daily operations with no signs that they are deterred by any action the Israeli army is taking.
Israeli media outlets further noted that 40% of the evacuees are considering no return to the region...
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Hezbollah unleashes missile strike on Israeli forces in fresh pro-Palestinian op.
from PressTV
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has carried out a missile strike against a gathering of the Israeli regime’s forces in southern Lebanon.
The movement announced the development in a statement, saying it had targeted the forces near the town of al-Dhahira in the country’s Tyre District on Monday.
The missile strike set off missile sirens in Galilee in the northern part of the occupied territories, Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network reported.
Hezbollah said it had conducted the Monday operation “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance.”...
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Biden asks Americans to choose between freedom and democracy
from RT
US President Joe Biden has implored his supporters to choose “freedom over democracy,” in the latest of a long series of gaffes and verbal blunders. Conservative pundits have viewed the incident as more proof that the 81-year-old is unfit for office.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, Biden rattled off a string of buzzwords as he asked voters whether they would choose him over former President Donald Trump in November’s presidential election.
“Are you ready to choose unity over division? Dignity over demolition? Truth over lies? Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy? Because that’s America,” he exclaimed.
Biden’s “freedom over democracy” line drew a mix of laughs and applause from the crowd...read more here
White House slams ‘anti-Semitic’ protests at college campuses
from RT
The White House denounced an “alarming surge of anti-Semitism” at US college campuses in a statement on Sunday, against the backdrop of an escalating pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University in New York.
More than 100 people have been arrested on or near the campus at Columbia since student demonstrations began on Wednesday. Protesters have set up scores of tents in front of the university, demanding that it boycott Israel-linked companies and publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The death toll in the Palestinian enclave since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7 has topped 34,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
In a press release on Sunday, the White House condemned the alleged calls for violence against Jews in schools, communities, and online. “This blatant anti-Semitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in the country,” the statement said.
The
New York City Police Department has arrested 108 people for trespassing
after they refused to leave the makeshift encampment at Columbia.
Students were among those arrested, and received suspension notices from
the university, Fox News reported...
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Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 22, mostly children as US pushes aid
from Daily Sabah
Overnight airstrikes by Israel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah claimed the lives of 22 people, including 18 children, according to health officials on Sunday.
Concurrently, the U.S. is poised to approve billions of dollars in additional military aid to its ally.
Rafah has been a frequent target of Israeli air raids, with over half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents seeking shelter there from ongoing conflicts elsewhere.
Despite global appeals for restraint, including from the U.S., Israel has expressed intentions to escalate its ground operations into the border city adjacent to Egypt.
On Saturday, the House of Representatives passed a $26 billion aid package, earmarking approximately $9 billion for humanitarian efforts in Gaza...
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Israel military intel chief resigns over Oct. 7 Hamas incursion
from Daily Sabah
Israel's military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva's resigned Monday over the failures surrounding the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion of southern Israel.
The decision makes Haliva the first senior figure to step down over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel's history and could set the stage for more resignations among Israel's top security brass, over the incursion that saw members of the Palestinian resistance group blast through Israel's border defenses and causing the deaths of around 1,200 people, while taking roughly 250 hostages into Gaza. That attack triggered Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, now in its seventh month.
"The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. I carry that black day with me ever since, day after day, night after night. I will carry the horrible pain of the war with me forever," Haliva wrote in his resignation letter, which was provided by the military.
Haliva, as well as other military and security leaders, were widely expected to resign in response to the glaring failures that led up to Oct. 7 and the scale of its ferocity...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
So I Become Chauncey the Gardener
'As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.'
Distracted by Burning Man We Hardly Notice Congress Selling Us Out Bigly
by Scott Creighton
Yesterday all the social media and video sharing websites seem to have violated their own rules about showing violence or attempts at suicide when they, each one of them, allowed multiple posts of videos showing Max Azzarello's self emulation in a New York city park that happened early Friday afternoon.
Mr. Azzarello, say what you will about him and his... message... would typically have been banned from all social media and MSM platforms due to their strict adherence to policies that prevent folks from garnering attention and clout by posting his death.
But yesterday the 'interwebs' were full of stories and videos featuring Max's last painful moments.
Why is that you think?
Oh yeah... there's this:
Secret Garden
by Scott Creighton
'Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.'
A little peek at the secret garden I have been helping with. It's not mine. Just helping a neighbor and wrecking my knees. All in good fun.
Started with just taking spare pavers and laying out this little patio in the midst of the random junk in an unused side yard.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Resist Congressional efforts to silence free speech on Palestine
(This genocidal effort by the zionists in Israel has soured the youth against Israel by exposing them for what they are and their propagandists fully understand the implications of such a heel-turn. So, rather than stopping their actions, instead they turn to their hasbara teams to put pressure on school administrators via threats of labeling them as anti-Semites in order to get them to impose strict free speech violations on these very same young people. As if stopping campus demonstrations thru coercion will somehow fix the problem rather than making it worse. Fucking stupid.)
from Mondoweiss
U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter on March 27 to officials at Rutgers University castigating “senior administrators, faculty, staff, academic departments and centers, and student organizations” for creating “a pervasive climate of antisemitism,” and an alleged “failure to protect Jewish students.”
This letter is a small part of a larger assault on progressive pedagogy and activism at college campuses which is currently sweeping the country. The House Committee, aiming to silence campus supporters of Palestine, has already targeted some of the nation’s most high-profile private universities and is now turning its attention to public institutions, starting with Rutgers University.
The Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapter emphatically rejects this transparent attempt to defame growing support for Palestinian rights at Rutgers and across the country as anti-Jewish. We affirm, moreover, our steadfast support for the Rutgers faculty and students who have been maliciously targeted by Foxx in her letter — including Professors Noura Erakat and Sahar Aziz, the Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and others — and call on all Rutgers faculty, staff and alumni, and, above all, administrators to resist this blatant attempt to silence free speech and curtail academic freedom at New Jersey’s flagship university...
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Joseph Massad responds to fabrications and lies about him in Congress
(This coward, Shafik, doesn't want to be the next Ivy League president to lose their job over Israel's zionist genocide in Gaza so she throws her staff under the bus and loudly declares her allegiance to Nazis. Comfort doth make cowards of them all)
from Electronic Intifada
On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.
Three professors were singled out for vitriol and smears: Katherine Franke, Mohamed Abdou and world-renowned scholar Joseph Massad.
Instead of defending the academic freedom of her faculty from what the American Association of University Professors is calling “a new strain of McCarthyism in the US,” Shafik threw them under the bus.
A particular focus of the attacks on Massad, who teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history, was an article he wrote for The Electronic Intifada on 8 October 2023, titled “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?”
For months, Israel supporters have misquoted and misrepresented the article in an attempt to smear Massad and by extension Columbia, and Wednesday’s hearing was no exception.
However, instead of defending Massad’s right to free speech and correcting lawmakers’ lies, Shafik joined the attacks.
“I do condemn his statement. I am appalled by what he said,” Shafik said in response to a question from Representative Tim Walberg. “He has been spoken to.”...
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Iran Has No Plan for Immediate Response After Friday Attack - Reports
from Sputnik News
Iran is not planning an immediate retaliatory strike after Friday's attack and it is not yet clear who exactly is behind it, Reuters reported, citing a high-ranked Iranian official.
"The
foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed. We have not
received any external attack, and the discussion leans more towards
infiltration than attack," the official was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in turn reported that a strike on Iran was delivered in such a way that the leadership in Tehran could "tolerate" it and refrain from new rounds of escalation with Israel.
Whoever
carried out this attack, its target was an Iranian Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps air force facility or facilities in order to
avoid a new round of exchange of attacks, the newspaper said without
specifying who was behind the attack...
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Three drones downed after explosions heard in Iran’s Isfahan: State media
(Seems like a couple drones were shot down and since Genocide Joe's admin needed press cover for vetoing Palestinian statehood in UNSC, looks like they tried to make it into some kind of earth shattering news.)
from al Jazeera
Iran’s air defences brought down three small drones over the central city of Isfahan, state media reported, hours after US broadcasters, quoting senior United States officials, said Israeli missiles had hit an Iranian site.
Iranian state television reported explosions in Isfahan as air defences were activated and flights across several areas, including the capital Tehran and Isfahan, were suspended.
Airspace was reopened about four and a half hours after the incident and there were no reports of casualties.
Second Brigadier General Siavash Mihandoust, the top military official in Isfahan, told state media that air defence batteries hit “a suspicious object” and there was no damage...
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Google fires anti-Israel employees
from RT
Google has fired 28 workers who protested against the company’s ties with the Israeli government amid the war in Gaza. The US tech giant claimed that defiant employees were disrupting the normal work process.
“Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to the media on Wednesday. “After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety.”
According to tech publication the Verge, a group of employees occupied the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday, while another group staged a nearly eight-hour sit-in in the common area of the company’s office in New York. Disgruntled workers also demonstrated outside several Google campuses.
The activist group behind the demonstrations – No Tech for Apartheid – described the firings as illegal and “retaliatory...”read more here
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