š¬š§š®š± Tommy Robinson was reinstated to X at a time when Zionists are trying to win support for Israel among the political right in the West.
Let's take a look at who has funded Robinson in the past šš§µ
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2/8 An investigation by the Guardian reported a number of groups that funded Robinson's legal fees and helped support his activism: Middle East Forum, Robert Shillman, Australian Liberty Alliance, Rebel Media, Gatestone Institute and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
3/8 The Middle East Forum is a pro-Israel think tank founded by Jewį»sh Zionist Daniel Pipes.
It is headed by a former employee of the Israeli ministry of military affairs, Greg Roman.
4/8 Tommy Robinson benefited from a "Shillman fellowship", a program run by tech billionaire Robert Shillman.
Shillman is a board member of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
5/8 The Gatestone Institute is another pro-Israel think tank, formerly headed by John Bolton.
Its founder is Nina Rosenwald - an ultra Zionist who has spent her life working for Zionist causes. She also serves on the board of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies.
6/8 The David Horowitz Freedom Center was created by Jewį»sh neoconservative David Horowitz, author of "Why Israel is the Victim"
7/8 Under his Shillman fellowship, Robinson was employed by Ezra Levant at Rebel Media.
Rebel has encouraged trips to Israel for its staff, and Lauren Southern revealed recently that she left the company because of how aggressively they insisted she push pro-Israel messaging.
8/8 While working at Rebel, Tommy became a regular collaborator with Avi Yemeni, who began to describe himself as Tommy's "official spokesperson."
Yemeni is an Israeli based in Australia who previously served in the IDF.
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One in four American Christians say they believe it is their biblical responsibility to support the nation of Israel.
But why are there so many Christian Zionists in America?
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2/13 What is Christian Zionism?
Christian Zionists believe that the Jewish people have a biblically-mandated right to a homeland in Palestine, and that Christians should be active in advancing this.
This belief is rooted in a traditional heresy known as "dispensationalism".
3/13 Dispensationalists believe that the nation of Israel is distinct from the Christian Church, and that God has yet to fulfil his promises to the national Israel.
Adherents believe the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 was a necessary fulfilment of prophecy.
Today, we are witnessing the creation of atrocity propaganda in real-time.
What is atrocity propaganda, and how has it been used to win support for war? A thread:
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2/12: An atrocity tale is designed to shock a mass audience by showing a violation of a fundamental cultural value which authorises force to stop the perpetrator.
They are directed at groups rather than individuals. The ultimate goal is to dehumanise an enemy.
3/12: One of the earliest examples of atrocity propaganda was during the Irish rebellion of 1641.
Reports were sent to England of massacres of the innocent by the rebels, and there were later used to justify Cromwell's slaughter of captured Irish rebels.
It has become popular to blame White people for slavery, to the point that many actually believe slavery was invented by or exclusively practiced by Europeans.
But the history of slavery outside the West is far more brutal.
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2/15 The Arab slave trade emerged in the 7th century, 10 centuries before the Atlantic slave trade
Arabs sold Africans to the Middle East for a variety of jobs such as domestic work or harem guards - castrating male slaves was common, causing over half of males to bleed to death
3/15 The Arab slave trade was particularly brutal: it's estimated that 3/4 captured slaves died before they reached the market for sale
Historians estimate that between 10 and 18 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders, including women and children taken as concubines
2/8 Walsh mentions Magnus Hirschfeld as his example of a Nazi scientist. Hirschfeld was actually Jewish and gay, and fled Germany on the Nazis taking power.
His sex research institute oversaw the first trans surgery, and he created the first ever LGBT advocacy organisations.
3/8 Walsh also mentions the Nazi scientist Erwin Gohrbandt, who helped perform the first transgender surgery.
But for this surgery Gohrbandt was assistant to a more prominent LGBT rights campaigner called Ludwig Levy-Lenz, who Walsh for some reason omits from his list.
Some interesting research came out recently on the relationship between people with left-wing authoritarian politics, narcissism and psycopathy.
Interestingly, it seems to vindicate many earlier thinkers who theorised about the connection between leftism and pathology.
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2/10 The research found a strong correlation between left authoritarianism and dark triad traits. It did not find greater altruism or commitment to social justice.
They conclude that for these people their left-wing views are simply a way for them to express power over others.
3/10 In 1906, a socialist named John Spargo wrote on the pathologies he believed had informed the Bolshevik Revolution.
Spargo had first hand contact with leading Bolsheviks. He was shocked by the ease with which they could hold contradictory views on issues like free speech.
It is difficult to overstate how much everything since 1945 is shaped by the spectre of the Holocaust.
The period since is the story of the religious underpinning of the West shifting from Christianity to a new foundation built on a single commandment: "never again":
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2/25 Take Karl Popper, the intellectual godfather of neoliberalism:
Popper was compelled to write The Open Society and Its Enemies during WW2, motivated by rebuilding Western civilization as an open society to ensure those horrors would not be seen again