Six minutes of Iranian women who have been partly or fully blinded by police--for protesting. (English subtitles). What kind of monsters would deliberately aim at somebody's eyes, trying not to kill them but to blind them?

Nope. Because there’s no genocide in Gaza, there never has been, and you are a shameless liar.

Actually, about this: Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 - on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on. Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There's even one being actively probed right now in Sudan. UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people's money go to, and that's an understatement. The UN's response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports...which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to. So...the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP. Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.

Those idiots deserve what they got, but my greater contempt is reserved for the propaganda agents like Polanski, Owen Jones, Mehdi Hassan and all the others who pushed the Gaza genocide hoax for clicks and conned these people into throwing their futures away.

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If Platner's tattoo had been a Confederate flag, Democrats would have remembered what they claim to believe in. But it was just the symbol of a Nazi concentration camp guard, and it was mostly Jews who were upset, so he still gets to be the progressive hero this moment needs.

"Canceled" ou si vous préférez "effacé" par le gouvernement français en raison de mon combat contre l'antisémitisme, je ne pensais pas connaitre ça en 2026 ! Je devais faire une conférence ce matin devant une soixantaine de hauts dirigeants qui suivent le "cycle supérieur du développement durable" (CSDD) dirigé par Guillaume Leforestier qui dépend du Ministre de la transition écologique, Monique Barbut (aucun des deux n'a de compte X). Sujet: les résistances internes des institutions communautaires au détricotage du Green deal. Tout était calé depuis fin avril. Vendredi, je reçois un appel de l'une des responsables de la session de formation de ce mardi: une sous-directrice (je ne sais pas qui en dépit de mes demandes) lui a demandé d'annuler ma conférence à cause de la polémique initiée par LFI qui n'a pas supporté que je publie sur ma page FB personnelle, le 29 mai, le mural de @PalomboArtist représentant Hitler portant un keffieh et un brassard "hate". La fonctionnaire, "très peinée" selon mon interlocutrice, craignait que ma seule présence provoque une polémique parmi les étudiants (qui payent). Alors même que ce n'était absolument pas le sujet de la conférence: on me fait payer mes engagements. Autrement dit, le fait que je combatte l'antisémitisme devenu virulent depuis le 7/10 et que je déplaise à l'écosystème éléfiste est considéré par le gouvernement @SebLecornu comme un problème. Jusque-là la "canceled culture" touchait des évènements privés ou des universités qui expulsaient des juifs parce que juifs. Cette fois-ci, on franchit un seuil: c'est directement une formation gérée par un ministre de la République qui efface un supposé "complice des génocidaires", une expression chère à LFI. Autant pour la liberté d'expression garantie par la Constitution française. J'ai évidemment demandé que la fonctionnaire ayant pris cette décision m'envoie un mail confirmant cette annulation. Elle l'a envoyé, mais pas à moi directement. Les responsables de la formation me l'ont communiqué sans signature (les pauvres chéris n'assument pas) : "les raisons" de l'annulation, lit-on, sont "techniques". C'est tellement le cas que le mail indique : "je vous remercie d'assurer l'information auprès de Mr Quatremer, de gérer les suites et en gérant également la confidentialité liées aux agents de l'Etat". Quelqu'un a oublié que l'on ne pouvait contraindre au silence un journaliste (surtout moi). J'ai joint le cabinet de la ministre, Monique Barbut, et je n'ai eu aucun retour pour l'instant. Cet enchainement de petites lâchetés, de peurs, de volonté de complaire à l'idéologie supposé dominante du moment me rappelle une période historique, mais laquelle?

We have to shield democracy from disinformation, says @vonderleyen. In truth, her Orwellian "Democracy Shield" is about shielding the European Commission from democracy. And now, reveals @Pauline__Voss, the EU is financing "news" propaganda outfits to demand more censorship.

thejc.com/opinion/dont-rush-… You can detest Netanyahu and want him gone. But to hold him responsible for the onslaught on Israel and the Jewish people is cowardly and despicable. It’s propounded by the kind of British Jew who thinks it’s clever to protest “Jews don’t count” — but who is in fact saying, “Israelis don’t count”.

If you believe in Sharia, live in a country that applies Sharia. There's 57 of them. Don’t move to a secular state and then demand Sharia.

Afghanistan is the world's only country that forbids secondary and higher education to women and girls. This is a hideous (and erroneous) case of mansplaining.

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To the supporters of @AOC, @ZohranKMamdani, @Ilhan Omar, and those men from the Middle East who suddenly became concerned about Islamophobia: Just listen carefully and STOP helping the Islamic Republic silencing our voices.

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Easy. One can accept "that Jews constitute a people entitled to self-determination" while denying "the same principle to Palestinians" by understanding history, how international works, and dropping the false equivalency assumed by the question. Roth is quoting @JeremyBenAmi in a Substack article linked at the bottom of the QTd post. The article, in turn, is an attempt by the author to explain why @jstreetdotorg is "pro-Israel". In one particularly representative passage, the author says, of J Street, "We believe the national home of the Jewish people must be democratic. It must protect the rights of all its citizens. It must end the occupation. It must make peace with the Palestinian people and support the creation of a Palestinian state alongside it." Note the first two sentences look inward @Israel, while the second two focus on relations with #Palestine. I have made it a point to steer clear in public of discussions regarding internal Israeli politics because I am not adequately familiar with the subject to offer an informed opinion. Still, I am thoroughly familiar with issues of "occupation" & "peace with the Palestinian people" and self-determination in the context of statehood & international law. And this is where the historical revisionism, misrepresentation of international law, and false equivalencies occur. First of all, the ethnoreligious peoples known as Jews are not entitled to self-determination as a matter of international law. The State of Israel is, but that national entity did not emerge by accident. Ben-Ami suggests in his article that, "Modern Zionism emerged from the belief that Jews, like other peoples, deserved a national home in their ancestral homeland – and from the repeated failure of Jewish minority life in other societies to provide lasting safety and equality." True enough. But that national home known as Israel didn't materialize from thin air or over night. That process involved the gradual acquisition of land by zionists in the ancestral homeland, assignment of territory from the former British Mandate, defending that territory after declaring independence, and it culminated when the General Assembly, on advice of the Security Council, accepted Israel’s application for @UN membership in May 1949. As A/RES/273(III) indicated at the time, the Security Council determined "Israel is a peace-loving State and is able and willing to carry out the obligations contained in the Charter" (pic 1). The mention of "obligations" is important because it is reflected in the UN Charter as well. According to art. 2(2), all Members must "fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them" by the Charter in order to also "ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership" (also pic 2). Note also that one of the purposes of the UN Charter, according to art. 1(2), is to "develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples" (also pic 2). The bold text for "among nations" & "self-determination" is important because this is the actual source of the "right" to self-determination - among national entities, and in the UN Charter framework now among UN Member States. And that takes us back to the false equivalency assumed in the original question. Jews actually do NOT "constitute a people entitled to self-determination." Israel does, as a Jewish homeland but not exclusively for Jews. Zionists endured a long process to create the State of Israel, that national entity was accepted as a UN Member State, and now the people of ISRAEL are entitled to self-determination there. And...what of Palestinians? The last best chance for them to achieve statehood and the right of self-determination was after Disengagement in 2005. At the time, the Quartet suggested disengagement "should open a new chapter on the path to peace" in the region & similar idealistic platitudes (pic 3). But, the Quartet also encouraged Palestinian groups that had "engaged in terrorism to abandon this course and engage in the democratic process instead" (also pic 3). The second part happened for sure, and the democratic process resulted in ... #Hamas being elected by a "huge majority" in #Gaza (pic 4). Rather than "dismantling terrorist capabilities and infrastructure" as the Quartet demanded in 2005 (back to pic 3), Palestinians elected a terrorist group that funneled aid money contributed by bleeding hearts throughout the West to accelerate terrorist capabilities & infrastructure. Security measures imposed by Israel in the meantime were meant to protect national security interests while observing whether Palestinians would prove willing & able to comply with the obligations expected of every other UN Member State on the path to (actual) statehood and, thereby, achieve the right of self-determination. Instead, Israel experienced an enduring campaign of terror waged by Palestinians, a string of formal Intifadas, and eventually the unimaginable atrocities of 10/7. This is how one can deny the "principle" of "self-determination" to Palestinians while recognizing the same for "Jews." By first rejecting the false equivalency between "Jews" and "Palestinians." That is, it is Israel - and not Jews as an ethnoreligious group - that has achieved the right of self-determination pursuant to international law. And then by acknowledging that Palestinians have been exercising self-determination. Not as a right, but as an obligation first. And in doing so, they have failed to demonstrate they are willing and able to comply with the obligations expected of every other state in order to achieve the enduring right of self-determination. As someone who is neither Jewish nor Israeli nor progressive, this is the part I find most perplexing about the progressive zionist perspective. As much as you must hate to admit it, @netanyahu & his current government are in the process of creating a new status quo after the previous one established with Disengagement in 2005 failed on Oct 7. You have to live in a perpetual & self-induced state of delusion to believe - especially after 10/7 - that tranquility can be achieved simply by "ending the occupation" (which actually ended in 2005, if it ever actually existed at all) & "making peace with the Palestinian people and supporting the creation of a Palestinian state alongside" Israel. To believe that - especially after 10/7 - you have to completely ignore, or revise, every development - including 10/7 - that has occurred since Disengagement in 2005, because these are the exact same idealistic talking points that circulated back then. Above all, you have to deny the Arab Muslim group known as Palestinians the agency they have exercised since Disengagement in 2005 (and before, for that matter) that culminated in the atrocities of October 7 & the large-scale armed conflict deliberately provoked thereby. In the process, you also have to ignore the committed expressed by Hamas leadership to commit 10/7 over & over & over again if permitted to do so. It just goes to show that the delusion of the progressive movement knows no bounds, whether in Israel or America or really everywhere else throughout the West. Our "anti-zionist" progressives support terrorist strategic objectives by believing an arms embargo & BDS are the path to peace in the Middle East. It would seem zionist Israeli progressives believe the same involves ending the "occupation" & simply gifting "statehood" while ignoring or revising historical events - especially 10/7 - and pursuing peace with a group that has demonstrated time & again it is more interested in terrorism & war. The path to true & enduring peace starts by acknowledging self-determination is achieved through actual statehood. And actual statehood, achieved by being accepted as a UN Member State, involves obligations as well as rights. Just like any group, Palestinians must demonstrate willingness & capacity to fulfill the obligations of actual statehood. Only then will they achieve the enduring right of self-determination.

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We had a black mayor over fifty years ago and he was mayor for twenty years 73 to 93. Can you get past the race hustler and start judging people on performance

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan. George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British. Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events. And we all know why. During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way. They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin. And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his. This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin. This needs to stop.

اجازه ندهیم جهان، قتل عام ایرانیان را زیر سایه مذاکرات هسته‌ای دفن کند. بیش از دو هزار نفر از جمله رهبران و فعالان بین‌المللی در واشنگتن برای بررسی چالش‌های جهان گرد هم آمدند. موضوع ایران یکی از مهمترین محورهای مورد بحث این اجلاس بود. AJC Global Forum 2026 / Washington DC #Iran