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Oct 14, 2024 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Israel will be studied for decades as an example of a nation overwhelmed with genocidal mania.

An Israeli peace activist shares a video of Palestinian children burning alive after an Israeli missile hits a hospital.

Let's see responses from Israelis and hit 'Translate post'. Image
This is Yair Oriel, former director of digital at Israeli TV Channel 14.

(Always bear in mind these are responses to someone sharing footage of Palestinian children being burned alive by an Israeli missile) Image
This is Dr. Rafi Kishon.

According to his bio, he is a 'multidisciplinary lecturer.'

He lists his interests as including "animals and smiles". Image
This is Lilach Leibovic. She claims to be addressed as "Her Highness". Image
Here's Ezra Yousef, a VP in Business Development. Here's an Israeli who now lives in San Francisco. Image
Their bio is "superhero". Image
Her bio is "full time mom". Image
Their bio is "absolute victory". Image
Her bio is "Mother and wife, secular and a proud Jew from the center of the country, loves Israel. I know that Kahane was not wrong." Image
According to their profile, they're a psychologist. Image
They claim to live somewhere in the "Holy Land". Image
This man claims to be "social-democratic left". Image
"Because as long as Hamas remains the ruler of Gaza, there is a moral obligation to continue the war, even at the cost of dead Palestinian children. This is clear and obvious to everyone." Image
You get the gist. Image

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Nov 6
We said - all along - that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of THEIR hooliganism.

And we were right.

You have been lied to your government.

You have been lied to by your media.

This should be a national scandal. Image
The government and media spread the disgusting lie that Maccabi fans were banned for being Jewish.

In doing so, they:

- Smeared Birmingham

- Whipped up anti-Muslim bile

All to protect some racist football hooligans from a foreign genocidal state!
In a rational world, both @Keir_Starmer and @lisanandy should resign.

They whipped up a national firestorm to protect some racist football hooligans from a genocidal state.

They smeared those who told the froth as antisemites.

Utterly disgusting.
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Nov 3
Where is the Western media outrage?

A Palestinian man was gang raped by Israeli soldiers.

That triggered PRO-RAPE riots in Tel Aviv (not an exaggeration!)

While the IDF's chief lawyer is under arrest for leaking the video OF THE RAPE.
The original BBC headline framed the scandal as being over the video of the rape being leaked.

Rather than the ACTUAL GANG RAPE. Image
After uproar, the BBC updated the headline.

But it still doesn't include the word 'rape'.

In fact nowhere in the article does it refer to the detainee being raped. Allegedly or otherwise.

Why? For what reason?

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…Image
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Oct 28
Because British political journalists and columnists

a) are politically hostile to the left

b) don’t see the left as legitimate political actors

c) think “legitimate concerns” includes backlash at migrants, but not economic injustice

d) don’t understand the left
Political journalism isn’t about allowing voters to make informed decisions, thus enhancing democracy.

It’s about setting and policing the parameters of political debate - determining everything from what’s considered extreme, to what’s considered scandalous.
In practise, most British political journalism reduces politics to a character driven Westminster soap opera, based on who is up or down.

But this is itself highly ideological, because it’s based on embedding what’s seen as “serious” and politically acceptable.
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Aug 5
55.6% of Jewish Israelis say they are "not at all troubled" by the "reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza".

Another 23.4% are "not so troubled".

Only 13.5% say "somewhat troubled".

Just 6.7% say "very troubled".

This is genocidal mania.
Genocidal mania has three components:

1) Ethnic chauvinism

2) Victimhood

3) Impunity

Mix those three factors together and you will have catastrophic consequences, as we can all see.
Serb nationalism in the 1990s had ethnic chauvinism and victimhood.

The Serbs were victims of genocide at the hands of Croatian Nazi collaborators in World War II, and suffered atrocities in the Balkans wars.

Serb nationalism simultaneously preached ethnic superiority.
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Jul 6
I've got ADHD, Joanne.

It comes with the territory.

Now we've cleared that up:

What's the explanation for The World's Number One Women's Rights Defender™ saying zero, zilch, nada about the impact of Israel's genocide on Palestinian women?

Here's a thread on what JK won't say Image
70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.

@jk_rowling says nothing. Image
In the first year, Israel's genocide exterminated more women and children in Gaza than in any comparable conflict in the 21st century.

@jk_rowling says nothing. Image
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Jun 30
Cindy McCain says there's no evidence that Hamas is stealing aid.

But what does she know.

She's only the director of the World Food Programme, and widow of the hawkishly pro-Israel Republican Senator John McCain.

Then there's David Satterfield, the diplomat who served Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, former US Ambassador, former Special Envoy for Humanitarian Issues.

He says Israel has never offered privately alleged or offered evidence of Hamas stealing aid.

According to 110 aid looting incidents recorded by the Israeli army, not one was perpetrated by Hamas.

So what @MrTCHarris is doing here - retweeted by @dpjhodges - is peddling a lie which is being used to justify the mass starvation of a people. Image
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