Still seeing things

@KevinMKruse @edburmila @Trillburne @lionel_trolling I don't think "hyperbole" means what you think it means. "I said '2k immediately', but I knew it would take a week or two" = hyperbole. "I meant 1400 and I'll decide to wait months even for that" = (1) lying and(2) deliberate breach of commitment

Pay zero attention to genocide-denying apologists who don't call out Israel and the US refusal to let journalists or independent observers into Gaza.

@B_O_Coonasssa @Aizenberg55 LOL - Months into the "ceasefire", independent journalists and observers have greater access to Iran - mid-war - than to Gaza. Israel prevents access because it can't confront what it has done. That is all we need to know.

@Aizenberg55 I wonder what he would have said about American government rhetoric towards the Japanese after Pearl Harbour surprise attack? Was that proof of genocide? the guy is a schmuck or as they say in arabic, Omer ya hmar!

Omer Bartov is constantly cited as a credible “scholar” claiming Gaza is a genocide. His main argument for “genocidal intent” relies on five quotes from Israeli leaders—and he grossly misrepresents every single one. His entire argument fails upfront. See below:

@HKirshenba74891 @AviMayer If you contend the analogy is not apt, explain why. I'll hear you out.

@waitwhywhen @AviMayer Interesting hypothetical, but it compares in no way to the history of Israel or "Palestine". Both sides like falafel so your analogy needs some work

Yes, because Jews were famously beloved before 1948.

@HKirshenba74891 @AviMayer Let me explain it to you. If tomorrow a bunch of Swedes killed your grandmother, and seized your family's home for generations, and claimed they had the right to do so because of their Swedishness, you'd be forgiven if you weren't crazy about meatballs

@AviMayer Blaming israel for antisemitism reverses cause and effect, but when their heads are up their anal orifices it's no wonder they see things backwards.

@Jusrangers (3) Israel has shown the world what Hamas - the organization Israel funded right up to October 6 - is fighting. Don't blame Hasan because the world has seen what you do

@Jusrangers (1) the Orthodox Jewish community's endogamous nature, resulting in a higher prevalence of certain autosomal recessive genetic disorders, is a fact. (2) "liberal Nazi", to describe a "liberal" supporter of an genocidal ethnostate reliant on apartheid is a kindness.(3) (cont)

“He has referred to ultra-Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred,’ compared liberal Zionists to ‘liberal Nazis,’ and said ‘Hamas is a thousand times better’ than the Israeli state. Yet leading Presidential Democratic Contenders like Newsom and Khanna engage with him. wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

@NadavPollak No, you’re right, you don’t understand. You think folks by your professed concern for “innocents” three years into a genocide you’re denying? We see you

I truly don’t understand these people. You claim to advocate for human rights but you’re defending a man that was in charge of killing 30,000 innocent civilians. You’re pathetic

@KathrynPaisner That’s silliness. Empty posturing that doesn’t suggest you understand what the words “strong” and “pragmatic” mean and do not mean.

If I ever lose my moral compass or my grip on reality, in this way, please slap me. You do not describe a man who orchestrated the murder of tens of thousands of peaceful protesters as “strong and pragmatic” after equating overzealous ICE enforcement with Tiananmen Square.

@knish_of_death You managed to not understand what Zaid is saying and simultaneously display the problem he identifies

You wouldn't say this about any other marginalized group, and if you did, the vast majority of the left would ostracize the absolute fuck out of you. There's the antisemitism in case you were wondering.

Not content with having cheerlead the Iraq War, the resulting hundreds of thousands dead, trillions wasted, and regional disruption, David Frum is now recommending - wait for it - that Democrats back Trump's illegal war on Iran. Peter principle on display

@ArmsControlWonk AIPAC didn't. the ADL didn't. Israel didn't. "if you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region". Netanyahu, before Congress, 2002

The Joe Kent nonsense is an excellent opportunity for your semi-regular reminder that Jewish Americans opposed the Iraq war more than any other religious group, something that will be obvious if you stop mainlining online brain poison. news.gallup.com/poll/26677/amo…

@gerardtbaker Netanyahu: On September 12, 2002, testifying before a House committee: "if you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region".

The canard that the US went to war in Iraq because of Israel is the giveaway here. Anyone who knows anything about that time knows that is not the case. In fact Israeli security officials were skeptical about the Iraq war in part because they thought Iran was the bigger danger

@AdamMossoff I think wishcasting fantasist chickenhawks like you should have to sit on the US aircraft carrier with no toilets and no laudry, the one that had to move 600 miles away to avoid being blown up.

The NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, CBS 60 Minutes, etc. all make it sound like the war against the Islamic regime of Iran is floundering, at best, or is a failure, at worst. This is so wrong that I'm gobsmacked that the media has misled so many people. Here's the facts: As of this morning, U.S. and Israel have completely decapitated the Islamic regime (see image below). Its navy sits on the bottom of the sea with over a 100 ships sunk. It is no longer able to fire more than 1-2 ballistic missiles per day, and soon it will be zero. The Basijii thugs who slaughtered 1000s of innocent Iranians two months ago are themselves being wiped out and are running away at the faintest sound of a drone (these are hilarious videos). Islamic regime foreign diplomats are requesting asylum in mutiple countries. There are reports of regime troops refusing to show up for duty in Iran. The war is succeeding in the goals of its phases. It will ultimately remove the greatest source of global terrorism and an imminent nuclear threat to all Western countries, including the U.S. and Israel. What comes next? Hopefully something better. The future is never 100% certain. But the Allies had no idea in WW2 what would come next after the surrender of the Nazis and Imperial Japan, and today these countries are some of the closest allies of the U.S. There are significant signs from the Shah and Iranians themselves that they could do the same. Let us hope, but whatever happens, the elimination of the 47-year holy war against the West is a good thing. And just about anything is better than a nuclear-armed religious regime that explicitly seeks an apocalypse with the U.S. and Israel.

@stephenfhayes @AudreyFahlberg You folks are so transparent. These smears are going to backfire

With Donald Trump's early endorsement, Joe Kent was once a big player in Trump's GOP-on-GOP impeachment-revenge scheme. But his campaign turmoil, flirtation with white nationalists and Putin-friendly rhetoric have complicated those plans. @AudreyFahlberg thedispatch.com/p/staff-disput…

@alexplitsas What we absolutely must not do is allow AIPAC and its adherents to browbeat Americans with the specter of antisemitism, in order to obstruct efforts to deal with the threat AIPAC presents to the country.

Invoking the Israeli lobby or influence in U.S. decision-making is a historic trope that feeds historic antisemitic narratives. That comes at a time of a significant rise in antisemitism and violence against people of Jewish faith. We must not fan those flames. It’s dangerous.

@Boxy_FT Nope, it's just as colonial as Herzl said it was, back before it wasn't ok to admit it

Israel as the colonial outpost seems to have died out even among the lefties/tankies, the more right-coded "ZOG rules American policy" has won out completely

@jaredpretender @moseshessstan Try again. Let me give you a hint: Include the parts you've read but are omitting, those inconvenient but plainly applicable parts. Don't waste our time

@waitwhywhen @moseshessstan Except the actual definition inscribed in the law Ie, a deliberate program to systematically eradicate an identifiable population group

B'Tselem is not credible; Amnesty and HRW both wrote new definitions of apartheid to apply it to Israel

@TrinityMustache Cool. Now do Israeli propaganda and education dehumanizing Palestinians

When I visited Dachau, I think the most horrifying thing there was not the torture cells or the ovens but the walls of years of propaganda in German media about Jews that led to every single other horror that would later be perpetrated against them. It’s happening again now.

Here's a lecture by Graham Smith at the National Press Club on U.S. policy towards Israel’s nuclear weapons program U.S. employees and contractors are barred from acknowledging Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and successive U.S. presidents have been coerced by Israeli officials into signing secret letters committing the United States to that policy of silence. Under the Symington and Glenn Amendments, U.S. law prohibits military aid to countries with undeclared nuclear weapons programs outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel fits that definition, meaning U.S. aid to Israel violates U.S. law.

.@JGreenblattADL helps Bibi make Israel and Judaism synonymous (they aren’t), then calls it antisemitism to blame 🇮🇱 for wars he’s tried to start for 40 years Calling @hasanthehun @RoKhanna @ChrisVanHollen antisemitic isn’t just wrong, it runs cover for actual antisemitism