James MacDonald

Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on the Hezbollah inspired terrorist attack on Temple Israel: “I think it’s just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people...”

There is approximately a zero percent chance Israel will abide by a ceasefire.

Streamer and commentator Hasan Piker said that “if” Palestinian fighters carried out rapes and sexual violence on October 7, it does not justify genocide against 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. CNN’s Dana Bash finds his remarks deeply objectionable. No major human rights organization — including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, or the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory — has published findings confirming a single verified rape case from October 7. The narrative was nonetheless amplified aggressively by Western media. CNN played a central role, broadcasting accounts that were later found to be unsubstantiated or fabricated, helping construct the justification framework for what human rights experts, including UN investigators, have called a genocide in Gaza. The pattern employed by Bash has deep colonial roots. Allegations of sexual violence have repeatedly been weaponized to justify collective punishment, lynchings, and mass killing—from the U.S., where false claims were used to legitimize the lynching of Black men, to colonial contexts like Kenya under British rule and apartheid South Africa, where such accusations helped rationalize brutal repression against dehumanized populations seeking freedom and equal rights.

A Tel Aviv pub celebrates the flattening of 6 apartment blocks in Beirut. The sign of a sick and depraved society.

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones: 1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack. 2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

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Zelenskyy's credibility comes from moral leadership of democracy against dictatorship, not a mythical international rule of law that has turned into a one-way street exploited by authoritarians like Russia and the Islamic Republic and their terrorist catspaws like Hamas.