Edwin Koopman

This is the official end to democracy in Türkiye. The main opposition party, the founding party of the Turkish Republic, is taken over by the regime, and the new puppet “leader” is installed by Erdogan. If European leaders continue their dealings with Erdogan as if it is still business as usual, they will be partners in crime and will bear the burden of shame.

Nobelprijswinnaar Krugman noemt Trump de meest openlijke corrupte leider. "We weten dat Putin zich met miljarden heeft verrijkt, dat haalde hij niet direct uit de schatkist. Er was altijd verhulling. Zelfs dictators uit derdewereldlanden proberen hun diefstal te verdoezelen."

The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians” on May 11, 2026, after interviewing 14 survivors who described sexual assault by Israeli soldiers, settlers, prison guards and Shin Bet interrogators

Venezuela The humiliation continues. The US army is freely doing military drills in Caracas.

WOW A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves. One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did. An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY. Link: genocide.live Direct Link: #zoom_to_selection=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">experience.arcgis.com/experience/3fb…

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Getuigenissen van verkrachting en marteling van Nederlanders door het Israëlische leger Kun je nagaan wat die Israëlische ratten doen met Palestijnen. Maar hé, we moeten "in gesprek blijven" toch, want "bondgenoot".

@Heidi__Matthews @GazaFFlotilla @CanadaBoatGaza @gbsumudflotilla Peaceful activists experienced in mere hours. Imagine what Palestinians face daily in Israeli prisons and under occupation for decades.

@Heidi__Matthews @Ibrahem1957 @GazaFFlotilla @CanadaBoatGaza @gbsumudflotilla This is what they do infront of the camera, imagine what they do behind the scenes...Scum of the earth

On peut le dire clairement maintenant : nous nous dirigeons vers l’un des événements thermiques les plus spectaculaires jamais observés en France tout mois confondus, totalement hors du champ statistique de ce qui a été connu jusqu’à présent en mai. C’est absolument délirant : ➡️Le record national de chaleur pour un mois de mai pourrait être battu, avec plus de 36-37°C attendus en France pendant PLUSIEURS JOURS. ➡️Les 35°C pourraient remonter jusqu’à la moitié nord du pays, tandis que la Bretagne vivrait une situation totalement hors normes (il ne serait pas étonnant d'y approcher les 34°C !!). Nous sommes à +15°C au-dessus des normes sur la façade Atlantique ! ➡️Lundi, mardi et mercredi pourraient devenir, de très loin, les journées les plus chaudes jamais observées en France en mai, avec plus de 30°C sur la quasi-totalité du territoire. ➡️Des records mensuels pourraient tomber plusieurs jours de suite, y compris sur des stations centenaires, tant l’épisode s’annonce intense et durable : jusqu’à 10 jours possibles. ➡️On est vraiment à la limite des seuils de canicules et de vague de chaleur : nous sommes en mai, au printemps !

Het kan niet beter gezegd worden dan door Volkskrant-columnist Jarl van der Ploeg: “De daadwerkelijke boodschap richting Israël is daarmee duidelijk: wat ons betreft, wat Nederland betreft, kunnen jullie je werkelijk alles permitteren. Je mag Gaza systematisch kapot bombarderen, hele steden platwalsen als pure Filistijnen, ziekenhuizen doelbewust aanvallen. Je mag kinderen laten executeren door scherpschutters, andere kinderen martelen in gevangenissen, of uithongeren in vluchtelingenkampen. Je mag de grenzen rondom je land iedere dag verder opschuiven, tegenspartelende Palestijnen uitmoorden, net als journalisten en hulpverleners, en als vervolgens een groep bezorgde burgers uit andere landen medicijnen en babyvoeding probeert te bezorgen bij de overlevenden, mag je die overal ter wereld ongestraft ontvoeren, bedreigen en laten knielen voor een sardonisch lachende minister die ondertussen in een camera zegt: 'Ze kwamen hier vol trots als grote helden naartoe. En kijk ze nu eens.' Israël is compleet losgeslagen van zijn morele anker en wat doet Nederland? Nederland blijft voorlopig de grootste investeerder in Israël ter wereld.”

Readers offered questions and pushback about my investigation into sexual assaults against Palestinians by Israelis. So here are our answers: nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi…

🇮🇱Israel at 7:00 PM — “Israeli Minister Ben Gvir humiliating members of the international flotilla.” 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez at 8:00 PM –– 🔥 “We are not letting anyone mistreat Spanish citizens. I already banned this criminal Israeli minister from Spain back in September. Now I’m taking it to Brussels to get him banned across all of Europe.” That’s what a real leader looks like. Sánchez is Europe's backbone👏🔥

“As a mother and a doctor and an Irish citizen, this barbaric cruel regime must be disbanded” Margaret Connolly

It is difficult to fathom how people can commit truly evil acts, such as genocide and the murder of children. What is even more difficult to comprehend, is others ENJOYING and CELEBRATING images of those evil acts. But that is what you get in Israel now, with parties of people watching and cheering videos of Israel blowing up villages in Southern Lebanon.

The moment Zionists massacred a team of rescue workers in a double tap. First they killed a father and his daughter, then bombed a medical team that arrived on the scene with their ambulance

De New York Times publiceerde een stuk over de verkrachting van Palestijnen in Israëlische gevangenkampen. Dat zorgde voor de nodige ophef. rightsforum.org/new-york-times…

Israel has faced more criticism in the past few hours for the mistreatment of activists than it has over the months of massacres of civilians in Gaza

Donderdag spreekt Fatou Bensouda, voormalig hoofdaanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof, in Amare in Den Haag over de Israëlische intimidatie van het Hof en over de Nederlandse verantwoordelijkheid voor dat Hof. rightsforum.org/ondanks-israel…

Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi: “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine. It’s the same thing... Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying “Putin is building a security buffer zone in Mariupol”? No. We’ve always called it what it is: a military occupation. Yet when Israeli troops do the exact same thing in southern Lebanon, but we call it a “security buffer zone.” That framing clearly shapes perception. We are talking about the same dynamics, the same methods, the same displacement of civilians, the same destruction. And yet, on one side it is widely seen as a war crime; on the other, as a legitimate security operation. So why the difference? Because in recent years there has been a gradual erosion in how international law is perceived and applied. And it has its convenient enemies. Putin is an easy one: no one would seriously argue that the Russian Federation is a democracy. Israel, on the other hand, continues to be described, and accepted, as a democracy, even when that label is increasingly contested. Why? Because this implicates us. While we no longer feel allied, morally or politically, with Russia, many in the West still see themselves as morally and militarily aligned with Israel.”