Nick

Liberals will lose the election excuse for ignoring Palestine, but they'll gain the "fuck you activists and Muslims and Arab Americans you cost us the election" revenge excuse instead 👍

No amount of evidence will move hardcore Israel backers. When "No Other Land" came out, Israel supporters decried it as fake, antisemitic "Pallywood" after it won an Oscar, unpersuaded by all the footage. After a settler killed one of the filmmakers, they still said it was fake!

RT @AliAbunimah: A hard lesson that @NickKristof is going to learn: Repeating the lies about rapes on October 7, in order to assuage the fa…

The circumstances described here are fucking insane and take fifteen seconds to read

After I wrote that I use "Gazan" myself often, a European diplomat whose integrity I fully trust warned me "we should be conscient that some countries are replacing Palestinian by Gazan & Palestine by Gaza in order to willingly or inconsciently erase Palestinian identity &/or deepen fragmentation. So if we use it, we make sure to use both Gazan and Palestine, for example, to make it clear that it is meant to be more specific, not to replace". Important for AOC to keep in mind for next time.

HONDURASGATE 🇭🇳 Leaked recordings reveal a sweeping Israeli operation to destabilise democracy in Latin America — with the help of Trump, Milei, Bukele, and more. Read the investigation now — and see for yourself the Reactionary International in action.buff.ly/Oog5Mjw

Are Israeli rape deniers pretending they didn't see the literal footage of their soldiers raping a Palestinian hostage until they exploded his intestines? Are they that dumb or do they think we are? Haven't they seen their elected leaders storming a military base to free the IDF rapists? or the Rabbis who blessed the IDF rapists? or the IDF rapists being hosted like heroes on national TV? Haven't they seen the poll showing 65% of Israelis supported the IDF rapists & opposed any criminal prosecution of them? or Israel's own medical report that showed how the rape victim was hospitalized with severe bleeding, a ruptured rectum & exploded intestines from the assault? Haven't they seen how the Israeli military prosecutor that tried to investigate the soldiers was fired from her job & placed under house arrest? or how the rapists were all let free, reinstated in the IDF & widely celebrated by their government? Haven't they read Israel's founding father, David Ben Gurion, or Israel's top historian, Benny Morris, openly admit the IDF raped Palestinians systematically? Those rape deniers are the most shameless, despicable & malevolent of propagandists. They've seen with their own eyes an indisputable mountain of evidence. They know the world have seen it too. Yet, they lie in your face so obviously. If they lie about something as well documented as their systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, imagine what else they have they been lying about?

The Kristof article needs to be understood as a reactionary move to gain moral authority in public discourse. It's not about the dismantlement of zionism, but about NYT brand management. Again, a criticism of Israel, by itself, does not constitute an anti-zionist position.

Kristof deserves no credit for this; this is how he and the NYT continue their clean up job of manufacturing the case for genocide. Not only did he spend much of the past two years spreading pro-genocide propaganda - even urging us to consider why the Israelis would want to kill everyone - but he even slips in here the still unproven Israeli claim that women were raped on Oct 7. Imagine sharing a piece in which you share actual testimonies from Palestinians about the sexual violence they’ve experienced at the hands of their occupiers, their genocidaires, and you still propagate a pro-genocide claim without any evidence.

NYT ran the fraudulent “Screams Without Words” Hamas Oct. 7 rape story as front-page News. Meanwhile, an article with actual evidence of unspeakable Israeli rape and sexual violence against Palestinians is relegated to the “Opinion” section:

Palestinian victims: They rape us Video: Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian Israeli officials: Rape is legitimate B’Tselem: Pattern of sexual violence in Israeli prisons UN: Israel’s systematic use of sexual violence NYT: Palestinians are raped 🇮🇱: No evidence! BLOOD LIBEL

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

Everything is a blood libel. The ICJ ruling, a libel. The ICC warrants, a libel. The UN reports, libel. Amnesty, HRW, B'Tselem, libel. Survivors' testimony, libel. Your own soldiers charged at Sde Teiman, a libel. Chants at protests, libel. The only entity on Earth that never lies, apparently, is the one currently on trial for genocide.

"The two papers operate as twin jaws of the same imperial trap. The Free Press criminalizes her to frighten the public; the Globe pathologizes her to comfort the elite. Both narratives serve the exact same function: to prevent the American people from confronting the subject of her protest."

Tinotoo naman.

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Too bad that @NickKristof can't give space to Palestinian victims of systematic Israeli rapes without first regurgitating the Oct 7 hoax in which @nytimes is deeply complicit. To this date, not a single victim of an alleged October 7 rape, living or dead, has been identified.

White NYTimes man says Israelis indeed rape Palestinians. You can believe it now 🙏🏽

This is a litmus test for your understanding of American politics. What's the difference, and why does it matter to people? Just, on a factual level, you should be able to articulate that.

So grateful Lebanese paramedics are wearing body cams. They are documenting, in real time, the war crimes they endure. No more doubting them, no more “where is the proof?” Another double-tap attack today caught on camera: as rescuers of the Civil Defence of the Islamic Health Authority inspected the site of a previously targeted building, Israeli jets struck the location again directly, injuring two paramedics.

Mahmoud and his family are going through a very difficult time as the conditions continue deteriorating in Gaza. Help Mahmoud and his family alleviate their pain.