What's a good solution to when academics blatantly lie to the public? It's a major problem that I've never seen a *real* solution to.

This is literally just the JCPOA. They literally have an MOU to negotiate the same deal Trump ripped up.

A reason to be presumptively dismissive of these claims of exceptional performance by X group in Y country is that despite being invoked as a mic drop argument on twitter, nobody ever follows up on what the education policy world is doing to replicate this astonishing success in solving one of the most persistent political and economic issues of our time. If it were actually the case that Somalis in the UK were outperforming SES-comparable whites in math then this would demand intense study as the most important finding of a generation. Teachers would make the pilgrimage to study these miracle schools and replicate their methods and curriculum for the betterment of millions of long-suffering American blacks. Billions of dollars of economic benefit and life improvement would ensue. But after so many years, one never hears of this in any capacity, and there has been no replication of this claimed success anywhere else. It only exists to be an exceptional anecdote, the idea that as long as there's one high-performing group of blacks out there, then pervasive group differences observed everywhere else in the world don't count or something. You can't even say "the policy lesson is to equalize SES/school spending" because the argument being made is this group is performing well despite low SES, seemingly undermining the usual left-liberal upshot of social science citations that if we implemented egalitarianism that this will close race gaps. If you were in an argument about health/wellness online, and someone just casually dropped in how there's a town in France where they've cut cancer rates in half, you should basically stop whatever conversation you were having about secondhand smoke or vaccines or whatever and assess what the medical community is doing to replicate this miracle. If the answer is "they're doing nothing and this town is never discussed" then you should assume the phenomenon isn't real and only exists as a meme to be brought up in internet arguments.

Antisemitism is not caused by Israel’s actions. Antisemitism is caused by antisemitism. Always remember, protests in the West AGAINST Israel began on Oct 8th. BEFORE Israel had even responded. Protests AGAINST Israel began BEFORE any Israeli response. Never forget that.👇

Can you even fucking imagine what Turkey would do to the Kurds if they pulled an October 7th? They would actually exterminate every Kurd and leftists would be more hesitant to call that a genocide than Israel’s horrible but far less extreme actions in Gaza

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones: 1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack. 2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

Mehdi Hasan is lying again. Even according to the *Gaza Ministry of Health* (which is Hamas), approximately *72K* Palestinians have been killed since Oct 7. Of these, based on multiple estimates, between *30K and 40K* were Hamas terrorists. That means roughly *half* weren’t civilians. For comparison: even the *UN* - a distinctly anti-Israeli organization - states that in modern warfare, the average ratio is *1 combatant to 9 civilians*. In Gaza, the ratio is approximately *1:1*. Stop this trash propaganda, Medhi.

Latest footage from Gaza’s markets: stocked stalls, food on display, crowded streets. Is this what “genocide” looks like?