🧵After October 7th, 2023, Israel accelerated its war against Islam, specifically by targeting institutions such as mosques and cemeteries in an attempt to subdue the Palestinian people not only in Gaza but across occupied Palestine. However, whether it be the targeting of mosques or restricting Palestinians from praying, none of these actions are new.

In these latest sets of slides, MintPress explores how over the years the Israeli occupation attacked Islamic holy sites. Israel has destroyed at least 800 mosques and 60 cemeteries since October 7, 2023.

🧵The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing what it labels a “scholasticide” in Gaza, condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.”

MintPress takes you through Israel’s war on education, by the numbers. 85% of Gazan schools have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli bombing.

🧵From annulling elections to banning political parties, Europe is in a state of deep political malaise.

In this series, MintPress highlights six signs that democracy in Europe is beginning to crumble, citing examples from Romania, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Romania’s top court has annulled the results of last month’s election, that saw anti-NATO outsider Călin Georgescu score a shock victory.

🧵Israel’s role in the Syrian war to secure its own interests

The Israeli military has been involved in backing at least a dozen Syrian opposition groups, including the Al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, which would later change its name to Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham. Israel steals Syrian resources from Golan Heights

🧵The CIA exists to carry out clandestine operations at the behest of the U.S. government. Over the decades, that has included political assassinations.

In this series, MintPress details nine well-known political figures the CIA is widely accused of attempting (and, in some cases, succeeding) to assassinate. Che Guevara

🧵A new MintPress News study has unearthed a network of former agents of Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200 working at TikTok, a company charged with supposedly being a Chinese-owned hub of anti-Semitic content. Amid claims it is an anti-Semitic platform, TikTok has actually hired numerous agents from Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200.

🧵Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his Borat character on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Many users on social media complained about the Anglo-Israeli’s use of tired stereotypes, but what few know, however, is his deep connections to both the US and Israeli national security states.

A MintPress News investigation from @AlanRMacLeod delves into this murky relationship. Cohen once casually revealed that his movie, Brüno, was made with the help of the CIA.

🧵Activision Blizzard’s new video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has some seriously problematic aspects, not least the dehumanization of Arabs. It is set in Iraq, where players kill Iraqi combat forces and pursue Saddam Hussein. Previous Call of Duty games have glorified the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

This targeting of America’s enemies is no coincidence. The game’s developer, Activision Blizzard, work closely with the US military and the US national security state to create the games. Furthermore, top Activision Blizzard executives are former CIA operatives. Saddam Hussein

🧵Journalists in the United Kingdom have suffered an increasing number of attacks from the British state. Earlier this month, Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley was detained by police in a dawn raid on his home. Ten counter-terrorism police stormed his house and stole his electronic devices, presumably in an attempt to monitor his communications.

Winstanley is the latest in a series of prominent pro-Palestine figures detained by police, including Richard Medhurst, Sarah Wilkinson, Craig Murray and Julian Assange.

MintPress fills you in on the details of this worrying development. Asa Winstanley

🧵A new MintPress News investigation reveals that a number of the most influential journalists in the United States were previously operatives of Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200. Barak Ravid.

🧵The twelve-month Israeli attack on Gaza could not be sustained without the unwavering support of corporate media in the West.

Since October 7, Western media have pulled out all the stops to ensure the public does not see the reality of what is happening in Gaza.

In this series of slides, MintPress explains nine common tactics big media outlets use to manufacture public consent for Israeli actions against its neighbors, highlighting some egregious examples on the way. Using the passive voice when describing Israeli attacks.

The Israeli national security state is known the world over for its ethically questionable practices. But few people know that many of the world’s top companies were actually started by alumni of Israeli intelligence services—the same services that surveil and oppress the Palestinian population.

MintPress lays out eight companies with extremely close ties to Israeli intelligence. Waze.

🧵With three billion monthly users, Facebook is the world’s largest media platform. This gives whoever controls it enormous power to shape narratives worldwide. The US government has consistently used this power to influence Facebook and censor and delete viewpoints it does not like.

🧵Tommy Robinson has been deeply linked to Israel since the very beginning of his political activity in 2009.

MintPress outlines what we know so far: Tommy Robinson founded the English Defence League with Paul Ray in 2009. Ray previously infiltrated and spied on the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

🧵Meet CIA asset Mohammed Dahlan, who has been handpicked by the US, Israel, and Gulf Arab states to govern Gaza 'after the war'. Mohammed Dahlan is a CIA asset who worked with the US.

🧵The BBC’s reporting on Gaza has been called out repeatedly by both the viewing public and internally from staffers, which leaked internal emails have now provided further information on. From sanitised and misleading headlines to outright double standards, the British national broadcaster has consistently presented a narrative favourable to Israel. Leaked internal BBC emails presented “evidence of a collapse in the application of basic standards and norms of journalism that seems aligned with Israel’s propaganda strategy.”

🧵Following the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, political leaders have joined a chorus of denunciations, all agreeing that political violence has no place in America. Yet the U.S. itself has constantly used assassinations and other forms of political violence against its enemies all over the world. This includes Donald Trump himself, who ordered the assassination of Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani. Qassem Soleimani

🧵The images of a defiant Trump, surrounded by bodyguards, his arm raised in the air, have gone viral, with many supporters claiming that they represent the most iconic, powerful pictures of all time.

But this assertion was strongly challenged by many on social media, who suggested their own, more powerful political images – ones with a far more progressive, radical or revolutionary undertone to them.

For your viewing pleasure, MintPress has collated some of the best ones here. Gloria Richardson, 1963.

🧵Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance, is funded and backed by Peter Thiel, a key pro-Israel figure in the deep state apparatus whose famous consonant company Palantir contracts with US intelligence agencies and Israel's Mossad. JD Vance is backed by Peter Thiel who was on Trump’s Transition team in 2016.

Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian man who was detained in 2002 by US agents without any charge or trial. Before arriving in Guantanamo in 2006, Abu Zubaydah was transported to different countries, including Thailand, Poland, Afghanistan, Morocco, and then later Cuba. Abu Zubaydah claims that before arriving in Guantanamo, Cuba, he was subjected to extreme sleep deprivation, confinement inside boxes, beatings, death threats, starvation, denial of medical care, and no access to sanitation.

🧵Germany announced a new citizenship law requiring applicants to declare Israel's right to exist. This move, part of a broader citizenship overhaul, underscores Germany’s commitment to its values, including its historical responsibility towards Judaism.