Gawd knows what is going to transpire from this.......
I’m willing to bet that Netanyahu calls it antisemitism. Probably Starmer will say the same thing.
The more Netanyahu repeats the word “antisemitism” then the less effective it becomes
Ironically if there is one person in the world above all others who has done more to ramp up anti-semitism it is Benjamin Netanyahu.
Not only has Netanyahu provided so much ammunition to anti-semites with his barbaric and criminal policies but by claiming, as he does, that the genocide in Gaza is in the name of all Jews he is repeating exactly the same lie as anti-semites make. The genocide is a feature of the zionist state and is profoundly opposed by many Jews globally.
I'd like to consider that is possible, along with removing every single settler (by force if necessary) but I doubt that will happen in my lifetime.
I wouldn't be so sure. I reckon the zionist project under certain circumstances could unravel quite quickly, it took South African apartheid approximately 4 years to unravel.
Sure, despite being incomparably less brutal than Israeli apartheid South African apartheid didn't enjoy the level of Western support which Israel currently enjoys but things could change reasonably quickly.
And never forget that Israel is primarily acting as it is now because it is in a catastrophic crisis, easily the worst crisis in its entire history. Add to that international sanctions, growing regional hostility, an undefeated resistance movement, negative net migration, economic collapse, and the 700k illegal colonial settlers could pack their bags and leave pretty sharpish.
Thousands of Israelis have joined a state-funded march through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem, where large groups chanted racist slogans including “Gaza is ours”, “death to the Arabs” and “may their villages burn”.
The annual march, paid for and promoted by the Jerusalem city government, celebrates Israel’s capture and occupation of East Jerusalem and its holy sites in the war of 1967. The Israeli takeover is not recognised internationally.
It sounds like a scene from Germany in the 1930s in which the Brown Shirts are marching through a Jewish quarter to intimidate Jews, or Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts marching through the East End of London.
It isn't though, this is 2025 in a city illegally occupied by a far-right government which is supported by Western powers.
I am Israel - written by Professor Norman Finkelstein.
'I am Israel. I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 400 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history.
I am Israel. Some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 women and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
I am Israel. Carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose families lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship.
I am Israel. In 1967, I swallowed the remaining lands of Palestine - East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - and placed their inhabitants under an oppressive military rule, controlling and humiliating every aspect of their daily lives. Eventually, they should get the message that they are not welcome to stay, and join the millions of Palestinian refugees in the shanty camps of Lebanon and Jordan.
I am Israel. I have the power to control American policy. My American Israel Public Affairs Committee can make or break any politician of its choosing, and as you see, they all compete to please me. All the forces of the world are powerless against me, including the UN as I have the American veto to block any condemnation of my war crimes. As Sharon so eloquently phrased it, “We control America”.
I am Israel. I influence American mainstream media too, and you will always find the news tailored to my favor. I have invested millions of dollars into PR representation, and CNN, New York Times, and others have been doing an excellent job of promoting my propaganda. Look at other international news sources and you will see the difference.
I am Israel. You Palestinians want to negotiate “peace!?” But you are not as smart as me; I will negotiate, but will only let you have your municipalities while I control your borders, your water, your airspace and anything else of importance. While we “negotiate,” I will swallow your hilltops and fill them with settlements, populated by the most extremist of my extremists, armed to the teeth. These settlements will be connected with roads you cannot use, and you will be imprisoned in your little Bantustans between them, surrounded by checkpoints in every direction.
I am Israel. I have the fourth strongest army in the world, possessing nuclear weapons. How dare your children confront my oppression with stones, don’t you know my soldiers won’t hesitate to blow their heads off? In 17 months, I have killed 50000 of you and injured 17,000, mostly civilians, and have the mandate to continue since the international community remains silent. Ignore, as I do, the hundreds of Israeli reserve officers who are now refusing to carry out my control over your lands and people; their voices of conscience will not protect you.
I am Israel. You want freedom? I have bullets, tanks, missiles, Apaches and F-16s to obliterate you. I have placed your towns under siege, confiscated your lands, uprooted your trees, demolished your homes, and you still demand freedom? Don’t you get the message? You will never have peace or freedom, because I am Israel.'
- written by Professor Norman Finkelstein.
Nicely summed by the British Embassy in Israel :
witnessing 🇬🇧–🇮🇱 cooperation at every stop
Publicly condemning a far-right government for committing war crimes and the mass murder of children whilst quietly cooperating with them as much as possible.
Sir Keir Starmer has certainly changed the DNA of the Labour Party, as he claims to have done.
I see the expose of the aid distribution is becoming apparent, Israel are attempting to greenwash genocide now……..
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927207320615878773
And here is the aid lines, it reminds me of laying out feeding areas for problematic wildlife to gather them together before dispatching of them,
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1927390088511504531
Here’s a good article by Chris Hedges (Pulitzer prize winner/New York Times journalist) on how the absurd antisemitism jibe has been weaponised by the trump regime to aid them with their attacks on universities
https://chrishedges.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web
There’s nothing “humanitarian” about the scheme, if it’s not designed to further “dehumanise” the population (I think it is), then it is designed and delivered by an “agency” that seems to not understand what it is to be human, and has chosen to not listen to those who do understand how to help people in a humane way.
As usual Francesca Albanese hits the nail on the head
Last week in a joint statement the governments of the UK, France, and Canada, claimed that they would "not hesitate" to take "concrete action" against Israel if it did not lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians.
It turns out that all three governments were lying. All three governments are very clearly still hesitating in taking "concrete action" against Israel as it continues to starve Palestinians.
The world will never forget this, both how Israel was responsible for a genocide and how Western governments helped and supported them. Not only will Israel's standing in the world be forever affected but also the West's moral authority.
Bulletin from Gaza
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Hello, I'm Mohammed. You may or may not remember me. But what I'm about to tell you doesn't require any prior knowledge - just a listening heart.
Two days ago, I had an appointment with a man from whom I was to exchange $200 of PayPal donations for some shekels in cash. The place we agreed to meet is near Shuja'iyya, the neighborhood where I was born and where I lived up until Oct 2023.
I went to Shuja’iyya with my friend, one who I went to school with. On the way, we met a third friend who was carrying a bag of lentils and pasta! We were surprised because the prices of these items are currently sky-high. So I asked him in astonishment, "Where did you get this?" He replied with a faint smile, "From my house." But his house is in Shuja'iyya, and the place is isolated; no one enters or leaves.
My friend whispered to me, "We also have some flour and sugar at home. Let's go.”
When we arrived near my friend’s house, everything was silent, like a cemetery. We crept in, step by step, as if we were thieves in our own homes. We opened the door, but once inside we found everything had been stolen. No flour, no sugar, just… a packet of cigarettes. We laughed bitterly, took the cigarettes, and left.
For three hours, under the scorching sun, we waited for the man with whom I’d agreed to exchange money. Finally, he came, we took the money, and headed for the market. I hadn’t eaten for a while and my body began to fail me. I bought some crab soup, sat on a stone, and drank it slowly, as if it were a sea saviour rescuing me from starvation.
At the market, I saw something amazing: humanitarian aid was being sold, stolen by those who do not fear God. We bought vegetable oil, chickpeas, and a nutritional supplement, then we returned home as the sun began to set.
That evening, I broke my fast with lentils and lentil bread. Then I fell asleep, not from fullness, but from exhaustion.
I woke up the next day hungrier than I could describe. I went to the market to try and find vegetable oil for my grandmother. While there, I met another friend, and we went looking for the vegetable oil together.
But soon we discovered that the market was upside down. There was chaos, theft, and panic. Vendors fled with their goods, and people were swarming around like locusts.
We managed to buy the oil then left. On the way home, I passed the Saraya intersection. It was full of people: some waiting for aid, some waiting to steal it, and some just watching.
Later I heard the Arrow Unit arrived there, Palestinian police who tried to restore order. But they were targeted by Israeli drones. My father happened to be there, carrying some firewood. He lay prone amidst the dust and destruction, before returning home, exhausted.
Later, my father and mother went out to the market. They wanted to buy something… anything they could find to eat. On the way there, near Shuja'iyya, they saw a quadcopter drone firing at a group of people. One person was killed, and the others fled.
They returned home with nothing.
As the sun set, we heard news of an imminent truce. But the bombing didn't stop, the anxiety didn't subside, and sleep didn't come.
We slept... or rather, we didn't sleep, waiting for morning, waiting for news... waiting for life, or waiting for our turn.
Mohammed Al-Batniji (17 years old, in Gaza)
Israel … ^……has turned totally and absolutely rogue in nature and action, it wouldn’t surprise me to see them go all in on attacking Iran next just to continue Netanyahu’s rule,
How long before we/the western world send in a peacekeeping force?……ha…ha…yeah, that’s never going to happen is it?, dead Palestinian kids = handwringing, dead Israeli kids = full throated support and here you go…..a weapons bonanza
This is very clever, very simple, and I found very powerful.
At the market, I saw something amazing: humanitarian aid was being sold, stolen by those who do not fear God.
On a video I saw flour that was labelled as aid was selling at $30 a bag and a whole tinned chicken, also aid and labelled not for sale, was $85.
This is apparently aid that had been hijacked and should be free, not sold. The Israelis are complaining because the amount of aid they say that has been delivered should have been enough for still another couple of months, but it has been hijacked like this and is for sale - but at those prices it is not surprising people are malnourished when it is unaffordable.
This is apparently aid that had been hijacked and should be free, not sold.
Of course. The police should be stopping the hijacks. Oh. The police have all been systematically killed by the Israelis.
The Israelis are complaining
Liars gonna lie
At the market, I saw something amazing: humanitarian aid was being sold, stolen by those who do not fear God.On a video I saw flour that was labelled as aid was selling at $30 a bag and a whole tinned chicken, also aid and labelled not for sale, was $85.
This is apparently aid that had been hijacked and should be free, not sold. The Israelis are complaining because the amount of aid they say that has been delivered should have been enough for still another couple of months, but it has been hijacked like this and is for sale - but at those prices it is not surprising people are malnourished when it is unaffordable.
We haven't had a shill for a while 🙄
On a video I saw flour that was labelled as aid was selling at $30 a bag and a whole tinned chicken, also aid and labelled not for sale, was $85.
Well it's great that prices are clearly displayed for everyone to see but why are the prices in Dollars when the currency is the Israeli Shekel ?
The thing which distinguishes the Holocaust - in my head, anyway - from other genocides such as Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Armenia etc - is the degree of "industrialisation" involved - the "scientific" death camps. It seems that the Israelis are re-enacting the industrial genocide, with specialist input from the US: the sadism of the Israelis and the inhumanity of the US. We are truly witnessing an appalling historical event.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-856125
“Ben & Jerry’s believes in human rights and advocates for peace, and we join with those around the world who denounce the genocide in Gaza,” the board said in the statements. “We stand with all who raise their voices against genocide in Gaza — from petition-signers to street marchers to those risking arrest.”
Well it's great that prices are clearly displayed for everyone to see but why are the prices in Dollars when the currency is the Israeli Shekel ?
Because whoever was presenting the video translated the amounts for the viewers, they were commenting on another video from a women who was at the markets.
Because whoever was presenting the video translated the amounts for the viewers
So we only have the word of "whoever" was presenting this video, which you have seen but none of us have, that this aid was being sold at those prices. Okay.
Which begs the very obvious question...... everyone agrees that Gaza has been reduced to rubble by the IDF, the Palestinian people there have no homes, no schools, no hospitals, no furniture, no food, no medicines, no books, no shops, but wait..... despite not having any of those things they do apparently have cash (either Israeli Shekels or US dollars) to maintain a thriving black market in stolen aid, how is this possible?
Obviously what you are suggesting gravedigger is complete bollocks, even the Israeli government which is renowned for talking complete bollocks isn't coming out with nonsense like that.
In fact the Israeli government is saying very loudly and very clearly that Palestinian men, women, and children, are starving because they are stopping humanitarian from entering Gaza.
The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said: “Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza"
The Israeli government is known to lie, lie, and lie again, but on this score I think we can safely assume that they are telling the truth. The are being completely open that they are committing war crimes.
Not to mention, the small fact that if there were no shortage of food, no one could make a profit selling food at inflated prices Nobody can sell me cooking oil for £100 as long as I can go to Sainsbury’s and buy it for £2. So the black market is purely a result of the Israeli starvation blockade.
There were American soldiers present but apparently none of them felt the need to open fire at a crowd of starving civilians, only the Israelis did.
Could there be more proof that the IDF considers Palestinians to be subhuman in a similar way that the Nazis considered Jews to be subhuman?
If the IDF spoke Arabic instead of Hebrew they would have been classed as a terrorist organisation a very long time ago.
This guy below is an international human rights lawyer according to his Twitter bio, along stating he is a “Proud Zionist”.
His Twitter posts are full of bile and outright hatred, what we know expect from such a belief system
https://twitter.com/Ostrov_A/status/1929029784681525515
What kind of sick person does this (has a bbq next to Gaza, in case the link doesn’t work). What level of sadism to Israelis reach?
if/when the wheel of history turns, and the boot is on the other foot, who is going to save them from the gas chambers, and who is going to shrug and say “whatever”.
It is difficult to know the context of that ^^ photo, ie when and exactly where it was taken, but what is absolutely certain is that many Israelis do like to use the backdrop of IDF slaughtering Palestinians for a fun festive day which involves food and drink.
As this completely verifiable example which is over ten years proves.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing
People drink, snack and pose for selfies against a background of explosions as Palestinian death toll mounts in ongoing offensive
When the Nazi oppressed, become the Nazi oppressor
When the Nazi oppressed, become the Nazi oppressor
That's a great line.
As always, I think care needs to be taken that we don't lump all Israelis into the same homogenous grouping. Like all populations, the support for their government actions will range from full on moronic murder lust to absolute disgust and horror.
As always, I think care needs to be taken that we don't lump all Israelis into the same homogenous grouping. Like all populations, the support for their government actions will range from full on moronic murder lust to absolute disgust and horror.
True, of course, but as detailed above, a majority come down on the “depraved psychopath” side of the equation.
care needs to be taken that we don't lump all Israelis into the same homogenous grouping
Of course, this analysis earlier this week of Israeli public opinion in Israel's oldest newspaper makes that point very clearly :
Edit : The article can be read by pasting the URL here:
French prosecutors are investigating whether French-Israeli activists are complicit in genocide and responsible for crimes against humanity after they were accused of trying to block aid trucks from entering Gaza.
France’s National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement to POLITICO Friday that the probes were triggered after two nongovernmental organizations lodged complaints in November.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-protests-gaza-palestine-aid-israel-investigation-genocide/
No idea what the other non-governmental organisation is but I found this interesting :
A spokesperson for the French Jewish Union for Peace, one of the organizations whose complaint sparked the investigation, said it would also work to have French-Israeli soldiers who took part in the military campaign in Gaza prosecuted.
So yet another example of Jews at the very forefront of the fight against genocidal zionists.
The shame never ends, really, does it?
Memo to Israel - keep on killing
Good to see the Israeli propaganda machine being exposed for what it is, the kickback online against the influencers will hopefully destroy them
The FT has a report on how Gaza’s “supposed” food distribution zones are turned into kill zones with Israel’s use of drones, Soldiers/Snipers firing on those queuing for food.
I guess the reporting in the FT is antisemitic now?, after all the IDF are the most moral army in the world……..
"The casualties were heaviest on two days. Israeli forces killed 27 people and injured 161 waiting for aid on Tuesday morning"
Can you imagine the outcry if Palestinians under occupation managed to kill 27 Israelis before lunchtime? Can you imagine the headlines?
The IDF has declared the aid distribution centres as combat zones so it gives them the opportunity to freely kill Palestinian civilians out in the open.
And why would they do that? Well firstly because they don't believe that there are any innocent people in Gaza so they are all legitimate targets. Secondly the IDF has always fought a psychological war based on terror to break the Palestinian people.
Bombing schools and hospitals is part of Israel's terror campaign, it sends a clear message that absolutely nowhere, including areas under the authority of the United Nations, is safe for them. Killing starving civilians is part of that terror campaign designed to drive home the message that the Palestinians are powerless and the situation is hopeless for them.
Genocide is as much about destroying the will of a people as it is destroying their homes, hospitals, schools, places of worship, etc
BBC News getting clearer in their coverage
BBC News - Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r1xl5wgnko
There’s just been an absolute lunatic on Radio 4, an advisor to Ben Gvir, ranting (and I do mean ranting) about the UK ‘sucking up to Hamas’ because it has been ‘taken over by Jihadists’.
He sounded absolutely unhinged!
Its worth a listen just as an indication of the totally insane extremism of the settlers and their supporters.
This was followed by Andrew Mitchell reiterating the complete support for these ultra-violent nutters by the Tory party
^ The entire settler movement (700,000+) including every single person who lives in settler encampments/towns/villages etc need sanctioned, along with 85% of the Israeli government.
Shut the Israeli state down by economic sanctions,
Whatever measures are taken now, it's 58 years too late.
