Tim Watson

ISRAEL has murdered 850 Lebanese in under two weeks, displaced one million people, and begun an illegal ground invasion. Is Merz on glue?

Between 2023 and 2025, Israel killed 1,221 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 263 minors. The vast majority were killed by military fire, with 31 shot by settler militias. Since the beginning of the year, Israel has killed 24 Palestinians in the West Bank. Of these, 18 were shot by Israeli military forces and 6 by settler militias. Under Israel’s apartheid regime, Palestinian lives continue to be treated as entirely expendable.

"They tried to beat Mustafa and I stood in front of him so they beat me instead." Khaled is 11 years old. Mustafa is 8. These are children like yours and mine.

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

Look at this headline and subheading. They *murdered* a family, including two children aged 5 and 7, but the language is convoluted enough to obscure that fact. Why does NYT have such a difficult time saying Israel KILLED Palestinians?

🚨LEAK🚨 Israel’s foreign minister lets slip that Australia’s crackdown on free speech is not about ‘antisemitism’, but is about preventing criticism of Israel. “I want to praise the change in legislation in Queensland designating some anti-Israeli slogans as criminal.” Sa’ar urged on the Zionists Federation of Australia: “I think it is crucially important and to the extent that you can influence other districts or states in Australia to do the same, that would be blessed.” michaelwest.com.au/israel-ministe…

The phrase “look like Gaza” is used as a threat. Think about that. Genocide has been normalized as intimidation.

I don't have "deep insights" about Americans as a species. I have memory. And I have pattern recognition sharpened by what it means to live under the consequences of decisions Americans call "foreign policy." You grow up Vietnamese, you learn early that there are two parallel realities: The one you live through. And the one narrated about you on American television, in speeches, in films, in history books. My family lived through the moment when American abstractions like "credibility" and "containing communism" stopped sounding strategic and became physical: Bomb craters. Refugee boats. Bodies. You watch villages renamed "collateral." You watch coups renamed "restoring democracy." You watch blockades renamed "pressure for reform." You watch your dead filed away as "tragedy" so that no one has to call them what they were: crimes. After a while, you stop getting angry at every sentence. You start studying the grammar. Who gets to remain human in the story. Who gets turned into an adjective. Whose violence is "regrettable," and whose resistance is "terrorism." Which lives are allowed complexity, and which lives are flattened into body counts, talking points, and background noise. Then you hear Americans speak about entirely different places, entirely different wars, entirely different enemies, and the same grammar is still there: "Intervention" instead of invasion. "Stability" instead of control. "Responsibility" instead of domination. "Sanctions" instead of siege. If you grow up with that long enough, you learn that what empire calls "responsibility" usually means someone far away is about to bleed. That's where my "insight" comes from. From watching the same software run on different hardware. From listening closely to the metaphors they don't even notice they're using anymore. From realizing that, for a lot of good, ordinary people, this isn't malice. It's the water they were raised in. The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater. So when I write about American exceptionalism, I'm not claiming mystical access to "your people." I am describing the hallucination I've been forced to survive under since I was born. And once you see the pattern from outside the blast radius, it becomes almost impossible not to see it everywhere.

Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the inevitable result of the destruction of a centuries-old system of private property rights and its replacement by race-based state ownership. Since 1947, property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells, and only leases land to one racial group. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere. In 1945, the British mandate government surveyed land ownership in Palestine and found that Jews owned 5.67% of the total land, while Muslims, Christians & other denominations owned 48.31% of the land. The remaining 46.02% was public land, mainly in the sparsely inhabited desert in the south, most of which was de facto owned by the Bedouins who herded there. Among the privately-owned lands, only 10.5% was owned by Jews, while 89.5% was owned by non-Jews. There was not a single district in Palestine in which Jews owned a majority of the land, as this illustration makes clear.[1] In 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was issued, the Jewish population ranged from 4% to 13%. In 1945, the population of Palestine was 1,764,520, of which 69% were Muslim and Christian, and 31% were Jewish.[2] The majority of the Jewish population was recent immigrants from Europe, many illegal. Even after decades of legal and illegal immigration, land purchases financed by European benefactors, and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and British forces, the Zionist movement had less than a third of the population of Palestine, and owned less than 6% of its land when it established its ethnostate. To establish an ethnostate on a land in which the right ethnicity was less than a third of the population, and owned less than a twelfth of the land, Zionist terrorists engaged in a premeditated and systematic campaign of terrorism, murder, and violent expulsion, meticulously planned from the 1930s, ruthlessly executed against a largely unarmed population, and practically continuing until this day, explaining the conflict’s longevity. This has been extensively documented by Palestinian historians, such as Walid Khalidi and Rashid Khalidi, as well as by Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris.[3] [Continues in next tweet]

Please note that this is an Israeli newspaper calling it 'Jewish' terrorism. You might wonder what kind of reaction there would be here in UK, if someone negatively described action taken by Israelis as 'Jewish'.

This is — unbelievably — Sky News third attempt at this tweet and still they still can’t say: “Israel has killed 400 people in Lebanon” Shocking. These three iterations of the same tweet tell us so much.

#Infographic| Israel continues to commit scholasticide in the Gaza Strip, 28 months after its military attack through systematic and deliberate policies aimed at preventing the population from restoring education. More than 780,000 students have been deprived of regular education across 3 academic years. The Israeli military assault has killed 18,911 school pupils and 1,362 university students, while 2,931 university students were injured. Additionally, 794 teachers and 246 university faculty members were killed, with 3,261 faculty injured and 1,491 others hurt. The attacks left 668 school buildings bombed, 179 completely destroyed, and 118 severely damaged; 100 UNRWA schools were bombed. At least 63 university buildings were completely destroyed, with the remaining institutions severely damaged. In total, 95% of schools suffered material damage, with over 90% requiring full reconstruction.

We've reached a point where Israeli attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and now Iran have become so normalized they are reported in western media as if they are part of the natural order of the universe.

@BBCWorld Israel killing 41 people, including children, is not a “special forces raid.” The word you’re looking for is massacre.

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.

In 2026, an Australian university is so frightened and enfeebled that it cannot host a speech by a senior official of the UN.

This image of the mass funeral of 165 girls killed by the US / Israel attack on their school should be the front page of every news outlet If your go-to news source is ignoring it, they aren't reporting the news - they're filtering it

Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved.

Grown up educated adults still thinking hegemonic powers drop bombs and incite civil wars out of the goodness of their hearts for humanitarian reasons to save people living right next to all the other countries they destroyed frustrate me

If you like people who deconstruct propaganda and media bias, I'd recommend following all of these accounts: @Lowkey0nline @AssalRad @MediaLens @LeftiBlog @KennardMatt @WideAsleepNima @SanaSaeed @caitoz @ProjectCensored @adamjohnsonCHI This is very much a non-exhaustive list, so comment below on other accounts we should follow.