Blinken's son wearing a Zelensky costume for Halloween and then begging Biden for treats is unintentionally one of the funniest things I've seen. America is so fucked lmao, this country isn't serious anymore

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One of the Jewish groups at my university just sent a campus wide email about how all the Palestinian groups on campus support terrorism and are making Jewish students feel unsafe. This was directly in response to a statement a Palestinian group made that did, in fact, condemn Hammas, but then said blatantly anti-Semitic things like cutting off water to Gaza was bad, and bombing densely populated areas of Gaza is bad and should be stopped.

When my Lib/Reddit brained colleague went into FULL Russophobia last year, I thought I saw the high water mark of Lib overreaction IRL. But here we are.

It still fucks me up that the US participated in the genocidal murder of hundreds of thousands of Yemeni people to near complete global indifference.

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Israel’s UN ambassador wears yellow star during Security Council meeting

Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan has worn a yellow Star of David with the words “Never Again” while addressing the UN Security Council.

“From this day on, each time you look at me, you will remember what staying silent in the face of evil means,” Erdan told the meeting.

“Just like my grandparents and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on, my team and I will wear yellow stars,” he added.

hoooooly shit I fucking hate these people so much. could they get any more psychotic?

On the bus (and we've got 3 full busses) and the first sign I saw someone writing in the parking lot gave me hope

The sign said "Genocide Joe"

Iron Dome interceptors are now under extreme rationing. Most rockets fired from Gaza are now hitting Tel Aviv.

Very likely they're now shitting themselves about Hezbollah and having wasted almost all of the Dome's stockpiles on Gaza's fertiliser rockets instead of on the real missiles they might be dealing with soon.

Tiananmen tank man stands in front of tank, tank drives around

"What a cruel display of authoritarianism! Literally George Foreman 1989!"

Rachel Corrie stands in front of a bulldozer and gets crushed to death

"A shining beacon of democracy in the Middle East! Uncritical support to the freedom-loving Israelis!"

wake up

read news

warcrimes are happening and people are being genocided

brush teeth

go to work

The feeling in my stomach is very weird. I'm oddly calm considering that tomorrow may bring a level of death and destruction that is unprecedented. You news mega regulars know that Mr LargePenis here is Syrian-Lebanese with family in both Beirut and Damascus. Despite that, I'm not scared, don't really know why tbh. Feeling some sort of insane optimism that I have never felt when it comes to Palestine, Lebanon and the general state of the Middle East. My brain is telling me that this is irrational, but deep inside I feel like I fully trust Nasrallah, Iran and the Palestinian resistance. I just want tomorrow to come quick, my brain is all scrambled and I'm finding it hard to focus on anything.

yo Iran if you’re openly stating Israel has crossed your red lines and you’re not doing anything don’t call it a red line

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The world has voted nearly unanimously for the 31st time at an annual UN vote for a resolution calling to end the US blockade on Cuba

Against 2: Israel, US

Abstention 1: Ukraine

For 187: Everyone else

Belgian unions are refusing to load and unload weapons and other related materials going to Israel.

The UK government and media rhetoric around anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian is getting more and more dangerous.

At first the protests were 'upsetting' and 'insensitive'. But they continued to grow.

Then they escalated to being inherently anti-semetic, with anything as mild as displaying a Palestinian flag being called anti-semitism, as well as hyperfixating on the phrase "from the river to the sea". Police have begun harassing people flying Palestinian flags in public, in their own homes, and 'detaining' people with clothing featuring it at public events.

The Home Secretary wrote to police forces saying "I would encourage police to consider whether chants such as: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world. Behaviours that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism.”

The needle on the 76% of people who support an immediate ceasefire didn't move, so the state and media escalated again.

Then the allegations became that they were inherently pro-Hamas, with numerous journalists and political guests stating without a shred of evidence that Hamas was present in the protests and were "handing out Hamas leaflets". This tactic isn't just a smear for publicity, because Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK it's an attempt to create a framework to apply terror charges to peaceful protesters. Numerous labour politicians have openly called for all Palestinian solidarity protests to be banned outright.

Still, it hasn't swayed opinion and the protests have continued and are growing.

So now the new framing is that the protests and protesters are being controlled by Iran. Half a million people at the London protest alone, apparently being directed by Iran. This isn't just cranks on the extreme right channels like GBNews, this has been the framing from Sky News and the BBC this morning. This has been coming from people affiliated with the government, who are today holding an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss 'the rising threat of terrorism' associated with the reaction to the state's support of genocide.

The head of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley went on television and said “When you’ve got state threats from Iran, you’ve got terrorism being accelerated by the events and hate crime in communities. For Jewish communities, it’s now about a 14-fold increase in antisemitism in London, and for Muslim communities it’s nearly threefold. So this is really precarious. In the middle of it, we’ve got these big protests.” Both the BBC and Sky News matched government and police accusations of Iranian control and terror concerns with images of the peaceful marches.

The police have announced that 5 people have been charged with offences during this weekend's marches. 5 out of what some are saying was 500,000 in London. And they haven't released what those offences were apart from "assaulting a police officer" which is the go to bullshit charge for anyone suffering police aggression and "carrying an illegal placard" which is worth remembering that police also arrested people for holding up blank placards to protest the King's coronation.

Obviously this is incredibly dangerous, but it's also disgustingly Islamophobic, just as it would be to state that all British Jews are secretly controlled by Israel, while completely erasing the numerous Jewish peace activists and groups at the centre of these protests. And of course, it's going completely unchallenged.

The good news is that it doesn't seem to be working. The bad news is that they're getting ever more desperate and so a much worse crackdown seems inevitable.