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Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia. Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.

Spanish footballer Lamine Yamal waved the Palestinian flag. An Israeli minister accused him of “inciting hatred”. The Spanish prime minister defended him. Imagine that happening here!

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Israeli police say a 36-year-old Jewish man has been arrested over this assault on a French nun in occupied East Jerusalem. Video shows her being shoved to the ground and kicked, renewing concern over violence against Israel’s religious minorities.

The most common pro-war talking point about Iran is that they massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January of this year — but what's funny is that they never cite the same number. Because it's a completely fictional story, they can just make up any number they want. In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I’ve been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred thousand. They really do seem to just throw out whatever number feels believable in a given moment. I recently saw an exasperated Glenn Greenwald ask an interlocutor on Twitter, “How do you decide when to claim that Iran killed 30,000 protesters, or 45,000, or 70,000? Does it depend on the day of the week or lyrical flow or something else?” Iranian regime change muppet Reza Pahlavi claimed in January that 50,000 protesters had been massacred by the Iranian government that month. Notorious Korean propagandist Yeonmi Park put the number at 40,000. In February, President Trump said it was 32,000. By April he had inflated that number to 45,000, and then later climbed it up to 60,000. Last month I saw The Australian’s Cameron Stewart swelling the number to 80,000. In February there was a viral tweet by a propaganda account called The Persian Jewess asserting that “90,000 protesters have been killed to date,” while right wing influencer Nicholas Lissack said it was actually 100,000. The other day someone commented on a post of mine telling me “Iran killed over 40k protesters standing up for freedom,” and when I dismissed that claim another empire apologist came in and adjusted the number to 30,000. The reason they can’t settle on a number is because it’s all made up. Nobody denies that thousands of people were killed in the January unrest; the Iranian government itself has stated that 3,117 people were killed in the violent clashes, including large numbers of security forces. Given that the US Treasury Secretary has repeatedly admitted that the US deliberately fomented the unrest in Iran, and given that Trump has admitted to sending weapons into the country with the goal of arming the protesters, and given that Trump’s previous secretary of state has suggested that Mossad was intimately involved in the so-called “peaceful protests”, it was inevitable that people were going to be killed. But the war propagandists couldn’t be content with a few thousand deaths. They needed something more spectacular. Something sensational. So they started circulating thinly-sourced reports by shady individuals claiming the body count was much higher than acknowledged, and then further inflating the numbers in those reports. And when they did this it made it clear that they’ve been lying about the whole thing, because anyone can see the numbers going all over the place depending on who happens to be speaking and what kind of mood they happen to be in. They made a classic blunder in fiction writing, as explained in a viral post that was doing the rounds on Tumblr a few months ago: “speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don’t say numbers. don’t give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it’s secondhand. “the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don’t let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD. “you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it’s no fun anymore.” If you’re going to write fiction, it’s important not to disrupt the illusion and snap the reader out of the imaginary world you are creating for them. The narrative about tens of thousands of dead Iranian protesters is fiction, and everyone’s waking up to the lies.

“I am not asking for the luxuries of life – I am asking for a limb so I regain my humanity.” Israel is blocking access to prosthetics for Palestinians in Gaza who suffered amputations due to Israeli attacks.

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The Number Of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It's A Fictional Story In online discourse with empire apologists these past few months I’ve been told that the number of dead protesters is thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand, sixty thousand, seventy thousand, eighty thousand, ninety thousand, and a hundred thousand.

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BREAKING: Israeli troops ram UN peacekeeper vehicles with tank, destroy cameras and obstruct view of UN outposts in south Lebanon, UNIFIL says 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x545rk?update=…

And our government won't even sanction Israel

They will tell you their soldiers "served." Served what, exactly? In Vietnam, served a policy their own government's classified documents show was known to be unwinnable and based on fabricated pretexts. In Iraq, served a war launched on manufactured intelligence that the people who manufactured it knew was false. In Afghanistan, served a twenty-year occupation that ended with the exact outcome that was predictable on day one. The soldiers were real. The sacrifice was real. The pain was real. The cause was a lie from the beginning, designed by people who would never go themselves, would never send their children, and have faced no legal or political consequence for any of it. The word "served" is doing an enormous amount of work in that sentence. It is carrying the weight of things no one wants to say out loud.

@MaxBlumenthal @shaunking PA threatens what Westminster really values: arms sales.

UK media is forbidden from reporting these shocking facts: Palestine Action is being deceptively tried for “terrorism,” with jurors being told it’s a mere criminal trial PA’s lawyer faces contempt of court for mounting an effective defense The British state is so desperate to crush these antiwar activists and preserve Israeli death factories on its soil that it is resorting to crude anti-democratic tactics and corrupting the entire jury system

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Israel did this to them

In 2004, photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq became public. American soldiers had been systematically abusing, humiliating, and torturing Iraqi detainees. The photographs showed prisoners in stress positions, on leashes, in forced sexual poses, with injuries. Some detainees had died in custody. The American response, at the official level, was to prosecute a handful of low-ranking soldiers. Lynndie England. Charles Graner. A few others. The architects of the policy, the lawyers who wrote the "torture memos" defining waterboarding and stress positions as legally permissible, the officials who approved "enhanced interrogation" as official doctrine, and the senior military commanders who oversaw facilities where these practices were standard, faced no criminal accountability. John Yoo, who wrote the memo legally authorizing torture, is a tenured professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. He teaches law. At Berkeley. Jay Bybee, who co-authored the torture memos, was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he served as a federal judge. He judged people. For crimes. Think about the message that sends. Not to Americans, who largely moved on within a news cycle. To the people in the region. To the Iraqis who were in that prison. To the Arab and Muslim world watching a country that had invaded their region on false pretenses, occupied and destabilized it, and then when photographs of systematic torture emerged, promoted the people responsible and prosecuted the people who took the photographs. Chelsea Manning, who leaked evidence of war crimes including the killing of civilians and journalists, went to prison. The people who exposed the crimes were punished. The people who enabled the crimes were promoted. This is not a system that malfunctioned. This is a system that functioned exactly as designed.

Despise Israel AND The Entire Western Empire Oppose Israel, and also oppose the entire murderous western power structure. The abusiveness of the former is not meaningfully separate or separable from the abusiveness of the latter.

Israeli forces are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, as it plans to take 8.1 acres of land in a village in Nablus for illegal settlements.