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Huge news! For 3 years @SohanDsouza & I have investigated a covert paid ad campaign pushing anti-Muslim, anti-migrant & anti-Qatar hate speech across Europe, Lebanon & the US.
Today we publish Manufacturing the “Great Replacement”: 533M recorded exposures in 30 countries.
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🚨There’s shocking new video footage from inside Israel’s police command room as they decided to slaughter their own people on October 7th. The video was aired on Israel’s Channel 12.
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Do I have this right?
In the lead up to October 7th:
- The Israeli government funds Hamas to the tune of billions of dollars.
- The Israeli government ignores warnings from IDF spotters up to 2 years in advance of Oct 7.
- The Israeli government ignores the entire Jericho Wall blueprint for the Al Aqsa Flood operation they acquired at least a year in advance.
- The Israeli government ignores Qatar’s warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores Egypt’s warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores the US intelligence warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores the public postings showing Hamas training for the attack.
- The Israeli government moves the IDF away from the Gaza wall in the days leading up to Oct 7.
- Once the attack begins, the Israeli government does not send the military in for several hours despite the IDF having military bases nearby and being “one of the most advanced militaries in the world.”
- Once they send the IDF in, the Israeli government orders the military to kill everyone including innocent Israelis (a mass Hannibal Directive). Of the roughly 1,200 Israelis killed, most were likely killed by Israel.
- When Hamas offers to free all civilian hostages on the first day following the attack with nothing in return, the Israeli government refuses to accept the hostages.
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JUST IN: Deadly train crash in Spain after a critical safety failure.
Netanyahu previously warned Spain it would “pay a price” for standing against Israel.
@grok, did an Israeli cyber firm recruit Spain’s former railway infrastructure chief?
Start with YES NO
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Deadly train crash in Spain after a critical safety failure.
@grok, did Spain’s state railway operator award THREE SECURITY CONTRACTS to an ISRAELI-LINKED firm responsible for guarding-controlling trains and railway infrastructure?
Start with YES or NO
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For once, the community note is actually useful. Millions of people did indeed die under Mao's reign. It was a tragedy.
But, for some reason, the Western mind seems incapable of grasping the complex impact of Mao. In the West, we refuse to acknowledge that Mao is actually respected and admired in China.
I've listed a few reasons in my original post. Unity and sovereignty are big ones. After a century of being carved up and subjected to imperialism, Mao unified China into a single central state. He removed foreign influence. He stood up to the US.
China’s status as a major power today rests on foundations built by Mao.
Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons.
Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.
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Mao's Great Leap Forward and related policies caused an estimated 30-45 million famine deaths in 1959-1961 alone, with total excess deaths under his rule often estimated at 40 million or higher.
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كثيرون يتساءلون كيف يستطيع بعض الفلسطينيين داخل فلسطين المحتلة التصويت في الانتخابات الإسرائيلية، بينما لا يستطيع آخرون ذلك؟
سأشرح لكم المشهد حتى تفهموا طبيعة نظام الفصل العنصري في فلسطين المحتلة.
أولاً، يجب أن تفهموا أن فلسطين كلها، من البحر إلى النهر، تخضع لسيطرة حكومة واحدة، وهي حكومة إسرائيل. ولكن هذه الحكومة تقسم الفلسطينيين إلى فئات مختلفة، وتمنح كل فئة حقوقاً مختلفة بحسب المنطقة الجغرافية التي تعيش فيها وتاريخ احتلال أرضها.
الفلسطينيون الذين يعيشون في فلسطين التاريخية مقسمون إلى أربع فئات رئيسية:
أولاً، عرب الـ48: هؤلاء الفلسطينيون الذين بقوا في مدنهم وقراهم بعد نكبة عام 1948، مثل الناصرة وحيفا وعكا وأم الفحم، وأبناؤهم وأحفادهم. يحملون الجنسية الإسرائيلية، ولذلك يستطيعون التصويت في انتخابات الكنيست والترشح له، رغم التمييز الذي يتعرضون له.
وهنا يجب أن تفهموا أن عرب الـ48 مُنحوا الجنسية الإسرائيلية وحق التصويت لأن ذلك كان أحد الشروط التي فرضتها الأمم المتحدة على إسرائيل عام 1949 مقابل الاعتراف بها وقبولها عضواً فيها. بمعنى آخر، إسرائيل لم تمنح الفلسطينيين الذين بقوا في أرضهم بعد النكبة الجنسية وحقوق المواطنة لأنها تقبّلت وجودهم أو اعترفت بحقوقهم، وإنما لأنها كانت مضطرة إلى ذلك للحصول على الاعتراف الدولي والقبول في الأمم المتحدة.
ثانياً، أهل الضفة الغربية: هؤلاء يعيشون في الأراضي التي احتلتها إسرائيل عام 1967. لا يحملون الجنسية الإسرائيلية، بل هويات فلسطينية، ويخضعون للاحتلال العسكري الإسرائيلي. لا يستطيعون التصويت للكنيست، وحتى دخولهم إلى إسرائيل للعمل يحتاج إلى تصاريح خاصة. والمفارقة أن المستوطن الإسرائيلي الذي يعيش بجانبهم في الضفة يستطيع التصويت، بينما الفلسطيني صاحب الأرض لا يستطيع!
ثالثاً، أهل القدس الشرقية: هؤلاء أيضاً احتُلت أراضيهم عام 1967، لكن إسرائيل منحت معظمهم وضع الإقامة الدائمة بدلاً من الجنسية. ولذلك يستطيعون العيش والعمل داخل إسرائيل، لكنهم لا يستطيعون التصويت للكنيست، وإنما للانتخابات البلدية فقط، باستثناء من حصل منهم على الجنسية الإسرائيلية.
رابعاً، أهل قطاع غزة: هؤلاء أيضاً احتُلت أرضهم عام 1967، ولا يحملون الجنسية الإسرائيلية ولا يستطيعون التصويت للكنيست. ويعيشون تحت قيود شديدة على الحركة والدخول والخروج، فضلاً عن الحروب والقتل والدمار الذي تعرضوا له.
والآن افهموا المفارقة: كل هؤلاء فلسطينيون يعيشون على أرض فلسطين التاريخية، لكن إسرائيل تفرض عليهم أنظمة قانونية مختلفة بحسب مكان وجودهم.
فلسطيني في الناصرة يستطيع التصويت، وفلسطيني في القدس لا يستطيع التصويت للكنيست، وفلسطيني في رام الله يعيش تحت الحكم العسكري، وفلسطيني في غزة محاصر.
ومع أن هناك سلطة فلسطينية تدير شؤوناً محدودة في الضفة، فإن إسرائيل تحتفظ بالسيطرة على الجوانب الأساسية من حياة الفلسطينيين، بدرجات وأشكال مختلفة من منطقة إلى أخرى.
وهذا بالضبط ما أعنيه بنظام الفصل العنصري: شعب واحد، على أرض واحدة، لكن حقوقه تختلف بحسب الحدود الجغرافية التي رسمها الاحتلال وتاريخ خضوع أرضه للسيطرة الإسرائيلية.
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Fun fact: 400,000 native Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are defined by Israeli law as neither Palestinian citizens, nor Israeli. As a result, they don't have political representation anywhere and vote nowhere - not even in the fake occupation instrument called 'the Palestinian Authority'.
With the knowledge, blessing and approval of almost every country in the world, and every international institution, on top of every other atrocity and crime against humanity documented, Israel holds 400,000 people under full ,formal denial of every political right given to any other human being on this planet.
No vote. No parliament. No representation. Transparent subjects.
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Israelis voted today between two different tactical approaches to ethnic cleansing and genocide:
- One is openly messianic, supremacist, and celebratory of mass murder.
- The other repeats liberal platitudes about human rights while carrying out the same mass murder.
A Jewish person who had never set foot in the region could move to Israel today and vote. Millions of Palestinians living under the Israeli state's control cannot vote.
This is the famed "only democracy in the Middle East."
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The main candidates in Israeli election all far right or more far right. None have promised to dismantle 🇮🇱’s apartheid, end the occupation or stop the genocide.
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This is a map of voting sites in Jerusalem. As you can see, they are completely absent from most of East Jerusalem, where the majority is Palestinian. This is how apartheid works. You give a small and harmless minority of Palestinians the right to vote, take pictures of them and talk about how you have democracy. Then you don't let them into the coalition and make sure only Jews have power.
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Don't fall for the theater they are putting on with the elections in Israel. They will try to pin all the blame on Netanyahu, but the truth is that the entire nation is involved in this genocide.
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The most immoral army continues to slaughter children. Nearly daily.
UN bodies and human rights groups have documented the pattern in detail. Anyone who denies it should read these reports.
We keep receipts and there will be accountability.
#PalestineTrials
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Shabana Mahmood disgracefully equates neo-Nazi skinheads with pensioners protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
She claims to be part of the pro-Palestinian movement. She is nothing of the sort. She is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Shame on her. Hope the ministerial car was worth it.
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I still cannot believe UK Lawyers for Israel pressured Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to remove artwork created by Palestinian children in Gaza.
Shame on the NHS for allowing it.
Their artwork was not a threat.
Imagine, adults bullying children. Revolting really.
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This is fucking awesome and gets better by the minute. Worth watching. Norman Finkelstein explains why there were only 100 thousand Holocaust survivors in 1946 and why the numbers got inflated to the “level of absurdity” by the mid-1980s.
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A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it."
The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours."
"Or we will kill them," she adds
Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority?
They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time.
Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
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The Butcher of Beirut – Israel’s alternative to Netanyahu.
Peter Oborne – just returned from almost a month in the Occupied Territories – came into the Double Down Newswatch studio to talk about the Israeli election, Britain’s feeble surrender to the Israelis over the consulate in East Jerusalem and the ongoing horror in the West Bank and Israeli prisons.
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