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Last week, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents. This week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics. Not a word about it the New York Times, UN, or Cenk Uygur. Weird.

🔥Prince Reza Pahlavi just dropped a masterclass response🔥 German journalist tries to trap him:
“Are you an Israeli asset?” Prince Reza fires back without hesitation: “Of course not… but I am a friend to Israelis and the Jews.” Then he schools everyone: After reminding them about Cyrus the Great, he added:
“In modern history, Iran is the only country that harbored Jews escaping Hitler and his regime.” Mic. Dropped.🎤 It’s actually wild that a German journalist feels comfortable throwing shade on Jews and Israel. Prince Reza Pahlavi stays classy, stays truthful, and stays based.

Man fighting stage-4 cancer. Age 82. Lifelong stutter. Gives coherent answer on democracy. Every hesitation: “proof of dementia” Trump can’t name his Defense Secretary. Forgets what country he’s in. “Just Trump being Trump” Pick a standard. Any standard.

It’s now been 24 hours since the story broke. The UN? Silent. Amnesty International? Silent. The Red Cross? Silent. The EU? Silent.

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue. On April 21st, the left screen moved first. I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug. At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy. On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me. At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire. Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83. I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags. My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports. The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026: Reviewed. That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. Let me show you my flags. March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it. March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it. April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it. April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it. April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it. That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one. The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March. Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012. Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence. Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets. The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade. I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email. The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action. One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared. One account is a coincidence. But there were six. Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000. My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger. March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes. The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event. The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting." Then the White House sent the email again. I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread. I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated. But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed. Zero prosecutions. As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations. The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still. In my field, we call this price discovery.

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza. Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants. There was never a genocide. You have been lied to and manipulated.

Ich sollte an der Hertie School Berlin über Krieg, Frieden+Diplomatie im Nahen Osten diskutieren. Nun wurde ich ausgeladen, weil Studierendengruppen Störungen angekündigt hatten. Offenkundig ist meine Haltung zu Israel, jüdischem Leben und Antisemitismus nicht mehr tolerierbar.

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The oldest hatred is back, and I am absolutely done with this shit. Get angry and then get angrier. open.substack.com/pub/mrandrewfo…

Kudos to @DailyMail. This is what real journalism looks like. Testimony from Gaza exposing abuse -- even when it implicates those claiming to represent their own people, not curated narratives or selective outrage dressed up in Hamas press vests -- deserves global attention. So where are the headlines?

This is Ameneh Soleimani. A doctor. Sentenced to death by Islamic regime terrorists for treating wounded protesters. ⚠️ Make this go viral - now.

The Ayatollahs chanted “Death to Israel” - and now a so-called “mediator” is echoing the same language. You are not a mediator Mr. Asif, you are the problem. Even if it is to your dismay, Israel is here to stay. That’s not for negotiation.

So, (a) Iran provides Hezbollah with money, arms and direction, and (b) notwithstanding the "ceasefire," Hezbollah continues to fire missiles at Israel, but (c) Israel is supposed to be OK with that? Is that what the Prime Minister of Australia and other morons are saying?

Die Hisbollah verwendet Krankenwagen als sogenannte "battle taxis", d.h. sie bringt damit ihre Terroristen an die Front. Ein fortdauerndes Kriegsverbrechen, von dem ihr bei der @tagesschau noch nichts gehört habt, weil es nicht dazu geeignet ist Israel zu dämonisieren.

Eine französische Journalistin schleuste sich über ein ganzes Jahr hinweg in antiisraelische Gruppen ein und gab sich dabei als pro-palästinensische Aktivistin aus. Was sie dabei aufdeckte, zeigt, wie antisemitischer Hass heute immer öfter als politischer Aktivismus verpackt und an Universitäten sowie in progressiven Milieus gesellschaftlich salonfähig gemacht wird: 🗣️ „ Ich bin keine Jüdin, ich war noch nie in Israel, aber ich habe mich sehr intensiv mit dem Islamismus beschäftigt. Der Islamismus ist untrennbar mit dem Antisemitismus verbunden.“ „Ich habe festgestellt, dass die palästinensische Sache nichts anderes ist als ein trojanisches Pferd, ein echtes trojanisches Pferd, das dazu dient, islamistische Ideen unter dem Vorwand der Unterstützung Palästinas in die Gesellschaft einzuschleusen.“ Nora zeichnete Treffen auf und dokumentierte Reden. Was sie entdeckte, ging weit über Kritik an Israel hinaus. Weil sie darüber berichtet hat, erhielt sie Todesdrohungen. Ihre Erkenntnisse veröffentlichte sie in ihrem Buch „Die neuen Antisemiten“. „Mir wurde klar, dass die verdeckte Methode deutlich effektiver ist, um eine große Menge an unwiderlegbaren Beweisen und schlagkräftigen Argumenten zu sammeln. Es ist sehr wichtig, die Meinung der Menschen zu verändern. Es funktioniert viel besser, wenn man ihnen sagt: ,Hört zu, ich erzähle euch genau, was passiert ist.‘ Und genau das ist wortwörtlich das, was sie gesagt haben.“ Ihre Recherche zeigt, dass die Feindseligkeit gegenüber Juden nicht mehr offen zutage tritt, sondern sich zunehmend als Aktivismus tarnt. „Ich habe an Schulungen teilgenommen, in denen uns beigebracht wurde, wie man Wikipedia-Seiten manipuliert, etwa indem man den Begriff ,Genozid‘ hinzufügt oder das Wort ,Terrorist‘ von der Hamas-Seite entfernt. Mir ist aufgefallen, welche Verbindungen zwischen Professoren, studentischen Gruppen und Terroristen bestehen.“ „Zum Beispiel in Kolumbien ermöglichte die Organisation ,Students for Justice in Palestine‘ ihren Studenten, per Videoanruf direkt aus Gaza mit einem Terroristen der FPLP zu sprechen, der sie anschließend überschwänglich für ihren Aktivismus beglückwünschte.“ „Sie wollen die Botschaft ,Freies Palästina‘ in eine Botschaft der Unterstützung für den Widerstand umwandeln. Und dieser sogenannte Widerstand besteht aus Hamas, Hisbollah, FPLP, Islamischem Dschihad, den Huthi-Rebellen und anderen. In diesem Umfeld verschwimmt die Grenze zwischen politischer Kritik und Antisemitismus immer mehr.“ „Bei allen Demonstrationen und in allen Dialoggruppen, an denen ich teilgenommen habe, habe ich nie das Wort ,Frieden‘ gehört. Nie. Stattdessen gab es nur Aufrufe zur ,Überflutung der Al-Aqsa‘. Außerdem bestand immer das Risiko, Todesdrohungen zu erhalten, sobald das Buch veröffentlicht würde.“ „Genau das ist dann auch passiert. Meine Recherche konzentrierte sich auf wirklich gefährliche Gruppen. Als das Buch erschien, wurde die Situation extrem gewalttätig. Das ist kein pro-palästinensischer Diskurs. Das ist ein antisraelischer Diskurs.“

Dear @BBCNews If an Israeli politician says something extreme, you make it headline news. Pakistan's Defence Minister calls Israel "evil" and a "cancer" and you say nothing! Why don't you want the British public to see how toxic Pakistan's leaders are? Asking for a friend

For the Trump administration to understand: The Strait of Hormuz is NOT OPEN. The UAE does not and will NEVER accept the Islamic regime in Iran imposing CONDITIONS on access. The UAE is not Britain or the EU. It does not accept any terrorist actor restricting freedom of navigation. As for Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia negotiating to keep the regime afloat, understand this: no state has a legitimate right to decide who may pass and under what terms. That is international law, not a bargaining chip. Shame on United Kingdom, NATO, European Union, and anyone who tolerates this regime’s terrorism and piracy.

Hi Amnesty, for about 10 years the Iranian regime has displayed a clock in a central square in Tehran counting down to the “destruction of Israel”. How come we haven’t heard a word from you about it?

So it’s a violation of the Geneva Convention for Trump to post a tweet, but the entirety of Iranian parliament chanting “Death to America” while burning American flags isn’t? Weird.

The Iranian terror regime is resuming the execution of its citizens, protesters and political dissidents. Spain is reopening its embassy in Tehran. Hand in hand. With no shame. An eternal disgrace.