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It's well past time the Dems clean house. We cannot allow ghouls like this to define the party or hold any influence in our media and politics. There must be red lines. #Israel #Lebanon #Democrats

@DHSgov @ICEgov Israeli military courts have an over 97% conviction rate. They are notorious for using torture to force confessions and relying on secret evidence. Such a conviction should hold no legal weight decades later. This is simple racism from this lawless agency.

Today, @ICEgov arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces. He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton. This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

@jmj_brewcity @SarahforWI Israel's brutal military courts are not remotely fair and get most convictions through torture and "secret evidence".

@SarahforWI x.com/i/status/20398…

It is outrageous that ICE agents have detained Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour. He has been a legal resident of the Milwaukee community for 32 years. We know this wasn’t random, Mr. Sarsour was targeted for his advocacy and community organizing. He should be at home in Wisconsin with his 6 children and 9 grandchildren, not locked up in a detention center in Indiana.

Israel routinely dropped bombs twice that size on residential areas of Gaza. Glad you now agree that practice is wrong.

@RUSI_org This is deeply unprofessional. The RUSI article offers no actual references or verification. The accusation against the Pasteur Institute comes from the 'National Council of Resistance' aka the MEK.

@DanFmTo @viraameli @TheEconomist RUSI is also rather notorious for hiring a large number of overtly racist anti-Muslim figures. Some of their staffers posts are truly vile, the kind of stuff you'd expect from some fringe blog.

@viraameli @TheEconomist He deleted it but this is the source he was citing, what a shock that a few days after this extension of the US government wrote about this pasteur place as a "threat" the US bombs it, almost like someone wanted this cover story out there

The editor for @TheEconomist is making up lies without any shred evidence to whitewash the deliberate destruction of the oldest vaccine research centre in Iran. Iran was one of the only countries in the global south to produce - not one but several - domestic COVID vaccines, one of which was produced by the targeted Pasteur institute in collaboration with Cuba. Iran does not produce biological weapons. This is a deliberate attack on Iran’s scientific capability and no amount of lying will whitewash these crimes against humanity.

A federal board just ruled that immigration judges can be fired at will by the president, stripping the civil service protections meant to insulate them from political interference. This is a HUGE deal for asylum seekers and the courts.

See, as a journalist, this is a great example of how important it is to fact check. What Barak Ravid could have done upon hearing this claim from said US official, was some quick research to confirm whether said bridge was even operational. But no, he just regurgitated as told.

What kind of "civil rights attorney" glorifies war crimes? This strike was explicitly a war crime. No military objective, violates proportionately, illegal "double-tap" that hit first responders (violates distinction). It is indefensible on the merits.

@LowStudies @academic_la Camels are not widespread in the Levant until circa 700 BCE. They're important in the Assyrian trade.

@academic_la "The Book of Exodus mentions places like the city of Rameses and the land of Goshen, as well as the use of camels, which were not in existence or common at the time the events were supposed to have occurred." x.com/i/grok/share/9…

Here is why the Passover story of Egyptian Exodus is completely made up. Not only is there no evidence for it, but it is chronologically impossible. Not on the scale mentioned in the bible or on any scale at all: 1) Decades of intensive archaeological surveys in the Sinai Peninsula have failed to uncover any remains, such as pottery, encampments, or human waste, that would indicate a population of over two million people spent 40 years wandering the desert. Not one piece of pottery, one hearth, or one Hebrew inscription from that era has been found in the Sinai. 2) Ancient Egypt was a highly literate society with meticulous administrative records. Despite this, no Egyptian text from the Bronze Age mentions a mass slave revolt, the devastating plagues, or the loss of an entire army in the sea. 3) Modern archaeology suggests that the ancient Israelites were actually indigenous to Canaan. They appear to have emerged from local Canaanite populations during the Bronze Age collapse, rather than arriving as a conquering force from outside. 4) The biblical figure of 603,550 men (totaling roughly 2.5 million people including families) is logistically impossible for the time. A line of that many people, walking eight abreast, would have been hundreds of miles long, meaning the front would reach the destination while the back was still in Egypt. 5) The Book of Exodus mentions places like the city of Rameses and the land of Goshen, as well as the use of camels, which were not in existence or common at the time the events were supposed to have occurred. This suggests the story was written centuries later. Archaeology shows that at the time the conquest was supposed to happen, Jericho had no walls and was either a tiny village or completely uninhabited. 6) If 2.5 million people entered a land from Egypt, you would expect to see a sudden, massive shift in technology, diet, or burial customs. Instead, we see a slow, internal evolution. The people who became "Israelites" were likely local Canaanite farmers and nomadic herders who moved into the highlands to escape the collapse of the coastal city-states. 7) The Exodus is said to have took place well before there is evidence of Israelites existing. The bible has it at 1446 BCE. The first mention of Israelites is in 1208 by the Pharaoh Merneptah. He mentions them as a foreign people with no ties to Egypt. 8) The biggest hole in the story is that during the 13th century BCE (the time of Ramesses II), Canaan was an Egyptian province. Egypt had forts, tax collectors, and governors all over the "Promised Land."If the Israelites fled Egypt to go to Canaan, they were essentially "fleeing Egypt to go to Egypt." 9) The story appears to have been made up during the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BCE. They needed a story to give them hope: a story where their God defeats a superpower Egypt) and leads them back to their homeland. By creating a shared "escape" story, they turned a collection of local Canaanite tribes into a single, unified nation. So this is a beautiful story, but a complete myth. Its greatest value is that it has inspired many to pursue freedom, most famously African Americans who identified deeply with the story.

@solace_eternal @academic_la Gemini is grasping at straws, following apologetic literature not scholarship. There's not a shred of evidence the Hebrews would know about the Hyksos when the Exodus myth was composed. There were far more recent seasonal Canaanite migrations to work in the Nile delta.

@academic_la Gemini suggests the exodus story might be related to people from Levant who ruled in the North East Nile Delta in Avaris city b/w 1650 - 1550 BC, whom the Egyptians referred to as Hyskos and were later driven back to Canaan.

"In WWII we did X" is literally irrelevant. The entire modern system was created afterwards. This strike was illegal. There is no clear military objective and it blatantly violated proportionality (and allegedly distinction, as it was a "double-tap" strike).

Dubowitz, chief fraud of a notorious reactionary hate group, is apparently completely illiterate. The very reason we have modern international law is because of the widespread damage of WWII. The world chose those limits in response.

@PaladinJew @polphiloecon @mdubowitz You know absolutely nothing about IHL or the LOAC. This strike was categorically not legal. There is no legitimate military purpose and it clearly violates proportionality.

@polphiloecon @mdubowitz You use caps a lot, but you still don't know anything about war.

Clear evidence now that the U.S. and Israel are expanding strikes to economic assets that sustain the IRGC and the regime’s war machine. The administration should make clear these are military-linked or dual-use targets — revenue streams, logistics nodes, and infrastructure that finance repression, nukes, missiles, and terror — not civilian infrastructure for its own sake. That distinction matters strategically, legally, and politically.

@mdubowitz Again, FDD loves war crimes. Modern international law was created after WWII precisely to STOP the pointless destruction and harm to civilians you are shilling for.

In WWII, the U.S. routinely destroyed bridges to cut enemy supply lines and trap forces. In France before D-Day to the Rhine in 1945, bridges were military targets. Wars are won by targeting the enemy’s logistics, not by allowing the enemy to move its forces and weapons.

Firing senior officers for cause is one thing. Firing them repeatedly on this scale and with no explanation is unprecedented in our nation's history.

When Assad and Putin used “double tap” strikes to hit first responders, the world reacted in outrage When the IDF used “double tap” strikes to hit first responders, they were called the Most Moral Army in the World Don’t be surprised when we see it normalized

@fryehyid @alexskopic @NathanJRobinson Israeli military courts have a 97%+ conviction rate. They rely on "secret evidence" and torture. They are not credible convictions. Meanwhile Jewish terrorists commit murder on camera and face no consequences. Look in a mirror if you want to see scum.

@alexskopic @NathanJRobinson Death penalty for convicted terrorist murderers is a Jim Crow law apparently. All antizionists know how to do is lie and fucking lie and fucking lie some more. Scum of the earth.

NEW - Israel's new death penalty law is straight out of the Jim Crow South, and if it's allowed to go forward, will lead to mass lynchings of Palestinians. The U.S. should want nothing to do with a country whose leaders proudly wear nooses on their lapels. 🔗

The crisis of liberal expertise: caught between the chaos of irrationality and ridiculous conspiracy theories — and entirely incapable (and unwilling), either way, of analyzing the structural conflicts behind the wars.

IDF chief's response to CNN attack aims to silence criticism and advance the Judaization of the West Bank haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

@SKmacro @souljagoyteller Why are the villages being illegally demolished?

@souljagoyteller This is just bullshit. The Shia villages in the south which were completely weaponized by Hezbollah have an evacuation notice. If Israel wanted to kill all the people from these villages, there wouldn't be any evacuation notice.

Remember when Israel supporters did that whole “will you hide me?” campaign? Well, Israel supporters, would you hide a Shiite?