What is Vranyo? It’s a Russian cultural concept of strategic lying. The speaker lies, the listener knows it’s a lie, the speaker knows the listener knows—but the lie is maintained to project dominance over the truth itself. In the digital age, this has evolved into Narrative Inversion. We see this increasingly in the coverage of Israel by outlets like the @nytimes and @AlJazeera. It’s not just "bias"—it’s a systematic flip of reality designed to delegitimize a nation's right to exist.

In Russian culture, there is a distinction between a common lie (lozh) and vranyo. Vranyo is a form of "strategic lying" where the speaker knows they are lying, the listener knows they are lying & the speaker knows the listener knows but the lie is maintained as dominance In geopolitical context, vranyo is used to flood the information space with contradictory or extreme narratives so the concept of objective truth is eroded. This tactic aims to make the most "audacious" claims against Jews, i.e. blood libels—socially or journalistically debatable

The Long Brief: The Wrong Words - Israeli politics runs on three independent grammars at once. The American mono-axis read collapses all three and loses the plot. open.substack.com/pub/israelbrie… “Right-wing” in Israel is not a single dial. It barely exists in the way an American can understand it. The coalition has four parties that disagree with each other on three different axes, and the only thing the parties agree on is the coalition arithmetic that put them together

the New School started in 1933 as a primary refuge for European scholars fleeing fascist regimes, saving >300 individuals & creating the "University in Exile" (later Graduate Faculty) focused on progressive thought & intellectual freedom, created a welcoming environment for Jews

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Founded in 1919 & famous in 1933, the New School's Original Mission: It served as a primary refuge for European scholars—mostly Jewish—fleeing fascist and Nazi regimes.

Israel has won the Eurovision Song Contest four times: 1978, 1979, 1998, and 2018. Their winning entries include "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" (1978), "Hallelujah" (1979), "Diva" (1998), and "Toy" (2018), marking significant successes in the competition Israel wins Eurovision in 1978 with A-Ba-Ni-Bi and full orchestra

We are seeing global "narrative inversion." Historical Jewish trauma is being systematically erased & replaced by "Gazology": a framework that appropriates the vocabulary of the Holocaust to dehumanize the very people who survived it. 🧵 History shows that dehumanization is the "psychological lubricant" for state-sponsored violence. By stripping Jews of their indigeneity and status as victims of a 10/7 atrocity, the world is clearing the moral path for the next phase: the rise of the "Totalitarian Reformer."

The NYPD’s Criminal Group Database (CGD), commonly called the NYC “gang database,” is an internal intelligence tool (operational since 2013) that centralizes information on alleged street gangs/criminal groups and their members. nyc.gov The Criminal Gang Database is not a criminal record or automatic basis for stops/arrests. It aggregates lawfully obtained data (e.g., group names, linked incidents, geographic hotspots, rivalries/dynamics, photos, aliases, addresses, and associations)

Jews are a quantitatively Oppressed Minority: In the United States, FBI data consistently shows that Jewish people are the targets of the majority of religiously motivated hate crimes, despite making up only about 2% of the population. Erasure of Jewish Struggle: Concept of "Jewish privilege" in modern DEI frameworks is a deception that ignores thousands of years of systemic persecution, including the Holocaust, and the current reality of being a primary target for extremist groups on both far-right & far-left

On Oct 8, 2023, 24 hours after the Hamas massacre, Hezbollah launched unprovoked barrage of rockets & artillery at Israel. Not in "defense" of Lebanon; they actively openned a second front in solidarity with terrorists. For nearly 20 years, the border was largely stable. That ended because Hezbollah decided to intervene. Their Oct 8 rocket attacks on the Shebaa Farms were the initial spark that forced Israel to act to protect its northern citizens. Israel didn't seek this war; Hezbollah did

It’s historically illiterate to call Jews "colonizers" in Judea while ignoring the 7th-century Arab conquests. Through the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates, Arabian armies colonized the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain, erasing indigenous cultures and languages by force. If you want to talk about "settler colonialism," look at North Africa. The indigenous Amazigh (Berber) people were conquered and suppressed for centuries by Arab imperialists. Their land was renamed the "Arab Maghreb."

65,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11...no pattern - just coincidence instagram.com/reel/DSTPKQVku… Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide 1979-2024 fondapol.org/en/study/islam…

Lobbying by foreign governments and entities is tracked under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Liberia spends the most lobbying the United States, with over $235 million in 2023—far more than any other country. Historically, Saudi Arabia has been one of the most consistent and visible foreign lobbyists in Washington, often focusing on defense, energy, and regional security issues ~+$100million annually

Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), funded by Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Group, trains & funds candidates for useful school board races, identifies English as easiest subject to insert material on Palestine, recommending Rethinking Schools as a teacher resource The ADC runs ArabCon. This year’s ArabCon had participation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CodePink, congressman Ro Khanna, and Linda Sarsour.
It also had a panel on “teaching truth” in K-12 in the face of “well-funded Zionist networks.”

Before Israel, there was the British Mandate - not a Palestinian State: British Mandate of Palestine (1920–1948): Administered by Britain under League of Nations.
Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Empire (1517–1917 CE): Longest continuous rule Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt - not a Palestinian State. Mamluk Sultanate (1291–1517 CE): Egyptian Islamic rule.
Before the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Empire- not a Palestinian State.

The early Zionist movement famously insisted on Hebrew labor (avodah ivrit), seeking to avoid exactly the kind of exploitative native labor relations that characterized European colonialism. And it is precisely this refusal to exploit Arab labor that becomes the new “crime.”

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the addition of the word “settler” to “colonialism” doesn’t clarify the charge—it transforms it. It pivots away from historical power relations and towards a symbolic structure in which Jewish collective life itself is deemed illegitimate.

There never was a Palestinian leadership ready to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish nation-state. That is a constant fact of life in the conflict. The Arab side has rejected any and all partition plans tabletmag.com/sections/israe… Palestinians were never patient enough to even temporarily put a stop to terrorism or defer their demand for return until they could muster better-organized forces. It seems that the cult of death and the worship of martyrs make for an addiction to terror

The Real Reason The Left Hates Israel forward.com/opinion/428549… relationship betw left-leaning groups & anti-Israel activists traces to late 1960’s w alliances around shared post-modernist, anti-colonialist perspective of world which developed half-political, half-philosophical matrix w radical Palestinians despite inherent contradictions

The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become in recent decades a …
Source: Center for Strategic Studies search.app/F1TUv7U5FPCsR6… Yasser Arafat, brought to Gaza & West Bank for 1993 Oslo Accords to establish Palestinian Authority (PA), grasped the immense potential of reincarnating the Nakba as a symbol of Palestinian victimhood rather than a self-inflicted disaster.

An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth tabletmag.com/sections/israe… Hamas charter calls not just for Israel’s destruction but for murder of Jews & blames Jews for engineering French & Russian revolutions & both world wars; charter was never mentioned even when Hamas won Palestinian national election and became region’s most important player

Left-wing dark money groups fuel violent DC protest backing Hamas, Watergate domestic terrorism, anti-US, anti-Netanyahu burnings coloradopolitics.com/familiar-faces… These organizations share ties to terrorist factions, some of the largest and most influential philanthropy networks funded by left-wing billionaires, touted on how they were behind the demonstration and sought to gin up support for the event in the lead-up to Netanyahu's arrival

Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brethren or The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun) has a political approach to Islam, founded in Egypt 1928 by cleric Hassan al-Banna after collapse of Ottoman Empire, promotes Islamic terrorism. According to founder al-Banna, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” bit.ly/brothermus