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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, met today with American social media influencers and told them that TikTok is the “most important” “weapon” in the fight to secure Israel’s base on the right.
“Weapons change over time… the most important ones are on social media,” Netanyahu said, before quizzing the group on what’s the most important one that is being “purchased” right now. One influencer guessed “bots.” Netanyahu corrected them: “TikTok.” He added that the other key platform is X, stressing Elon Musk is “not an enemy” and must be engaged.
He urged the content creators to help secure support on the right for the Israeli apartheid state.
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In honor of Jon Stewart's impending return to the Daily Show, some of his best hits on Palestine:
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.@bbc presenter: why did the Houthis got involved when you are not located near Gaza?
Al-Houthi: “So Biden and Netanyahu live in the same apartment? And the French president lives on the same floor? And the UK prime minister lives in the same building? Or are they thousands of miles away from Israel?”
middleeastmonitor.com/202401… via @middleeastmnt
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“No more business as usual.”
Protesters in over 300 cities protested in unison against pro-Israel corporations and institutions in a global day of action.
BT’s @KeiPritsker tracked the different protests in NYC and around the world.
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"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Martin Luther King Junior 16 April 1963
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We should ask ourselves; why were people in Lebanon afraid of ISIS in 2014? What would have ISIS done? Violently attack LGBTQ persons? Go after comedians? Punish religious clerics who disagree with it? Take over banks and steal people's deposits? We're already here.
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The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @Amnesty just demolished it:
Amnesty International categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project, and that the data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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Israel just intentionally destroyed press offices in Gaza, giving only one hour's warning. Associated Press President "horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy news organizations in Gaza."
Imagine this was your home:
apnews.com/article/israel-mi…
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مستوطن يشتم حماس والمقاومة ويقول للمستوطنين لا تخافوا منهم..
ورد اسرع من المتوقع
ملاحظة:العمود قطع قدامو🤣
#تل_أبيب
#فلسطين_تنتصر
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If you’re writing obituaries of multibillionaire Trump/GOP donor Sheldon Adelson, who has died aged 87, please don’t just airbrush out his long history of anti-Arab racism, his funding of the Islamophobia industry, or his support for *nuking* Iran. Thanks.
nytimes.com/2021/01/12/busin…
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Looking back at the last four years, Trump basically imported the US's foreign policy to the US
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The Guardians—Jamal Khashoggi, the Capital Gazette, Maria Ressa, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo—are TIME's Person of the Year 2018 #TIMEPOY bit.ly/2EmStYV
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Israel has given Palestinians a choice: accept the humiliation of life in an open air prison or we shoot you. Go on, make that choice.
