devan pillay

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devan pillay

devan pillay

@devanp52

Believes in informed discourse - more light, less heat. Low tolerance for conspiracy theorists, racists, patriarchs, homophobes & bigots of all stripes. 🧘🏽‍♂️

Left/ Centre-Left depending 👀 Katılım Ocak 2013
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Peace 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇳🇮 🇻🇪 🇾🇪 🇮🇷#StopGenocide
This brutality was carried out by the RIOT UNIT (black uniforms) of the Ertzaintza. This RIOT UNIT was trained in Israel. The rest of the Ertzaintza (a very different uniform) owes its allegiance to the Basque people, who are overwhelmingly supportive of the Palestinians. There is no contradiction with the policy of the Spanish government against the genocide-Zionists. Personally I found the Ertzaintza to be quite friendly, in contrast to the Guardia Civil (GC). The GC wanted to throw me in prison (for taking a photo of them), but hesitated once they realised I was obviously English, with a British passport. The Guardia Civil are widely loathed because of their murderous behaviour in the Franco era.
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Suppressed News.
Suppressed News.@SuppressedNws1·
Massive demonstrations erupted in Bilbao, SPAIN, after Basque police ATTACKED activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla at Bilboa Airport yesterday. Protesters say the mobilization was called to denounce the “REPRESSIVE FORCE” used by Basque security forces.
Suppressed News.@SuppressedNws1

Basque police (Ertzaintza) ATTACKED and ARRESTED Flotilla activists at Bilbao Airport in SPAIN as they returned from ISRAEL. They were still in prison clothes when police moved in BEFORE they could even reunite with their families and friends.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
Shame on the Basque police @ertzaintzaEJGV for brutalising Flotilla members returning home after being abducted, unlawfully detained and ill-treated by Israel. May those responsible be held accountable. We must resist the Israelisation of our societies.
Thiago Ávila@thiagoavilabr

OUTRAGEOUS! In front of their families and the entire Basque press, our Flotilla volunteers were attacked by the airport police in Bilbao, Basque Country-Spain, upon returning to their home country.

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
"The most soulless people in the universe." Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, and organisers allege abuse, sexual assaults and beatings that put some detainees in hospital. 🔗: aje.news/qwc3k3
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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand·
This is utterly ridiculous clickbait. What actually happened: the Pope released a 235-page encyclical saying AI needs to be "disarmed" and should NOT be used to "secure geopolitical or commercial dominance" (#Artificial_intelligence" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">vatican.va/content/leo-xi…). Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei explicitly advocates using AI to establish "robust military superiority" of the West and publicly dreams of an "eternal 1991" of Western dominance enabled by AI (darioamodei.com/essay/machines…). Anthropic also has $200M in Pentagon contracts in partnership with Palantir, and Claude AI was notably used by the Pentagon to kidnap Maduro (axios.com/2026/02/13/ant…). In other words, Anthropic is doing the exact opposite of what the Pope advocates. Furthermore, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah - who wasn't there as a partner but as one of six speakers alongside cardinals and theologians - told the room that AI decisions "should not be left to people in the industry," and that even well-intentioned researchers operate inside incentives that "can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing" (aleteia.org/2026/05/25/wha…) So he too is saying, essentially, "don't trust us on finding the way." Which is the exact opposite of "working together to find the way for humanity." In other words this is the perfect example of taking a quote out of context to make it say the exact opposite of what was meant. The Pope said AI companies like Anthropic are going the wrong way. Anthropic's own co-founder said "don't let us define the way." Disclose.tv says: "they're announcing they're working together to find the way for humanity." 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
Disclose.tv@disclosetv

NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence."

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Daniel Lambert
Daniel Lambert@dlLambo·
A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel. The ambulance crew arrives to try help. Israel then hits them with a missile. All on camera. Proven. War crimes. Yet our leaders still arm them & support them. Why?
Sky News@SkyNews

An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed. Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports trib.al/B9TiHnU

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Sarah Wilkinson
Sarah Wilkinson@swilkinsonbc·
Israelis rioted for the right to rape, ministers defended it, rapists are celebrated, Peter Oborne explains: it isn’t just Ben-Gvir: ‘this is israel’
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
Senator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen·
This is how National Security Minister Ben-Gvir treats detainees when he knows the cameras are rolling — to say nothing of what happens to Palestinians behind closed doors. This conduct is abhorrent. He should've been sanctioned by the U.S. long ago.
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released a video showing detained participants of the intercepted Gaza-bound flotilla being bound and dragged in Israel's Ashdod Port, writing, "That's how we welcome the terror supporters. Welcome to Israel." Read more here: haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
If you want to understand why so many people - leftists, Arabs, Muslims, antiwar folks - like and promote Tucker Carlson right now - despite his reprehensible views on plenty of other issues - it’s because he says stuff like this, which most others in the US media refuse to.
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Redi Tlhabi
Redi Tlhabi@RediTlhabi·
Fellow South Africans, I keep telling you that the Pro-Israel lobby's intentions to influence US politics is not a secret in the US. It is spoken and written about openly. They design fancy campaign graphics, endorse their candidates and state openly why there are supporting that person. They OPENLY throw money behind their chosen candidates and state how much was raises. So quoting them verbatim and stating that their intentions is to fill Congress with pro-Israel voices, using multiple methods, including financial patronage, IS NOT ANTISEMITIC.
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Redi Tlhabi
Redi Tlhabi@RediTlhabi·
Firstly, thank you for leaning forward and acknowledging the moment. I appreciate that you support non-aligned community initiatives. That's what I always thought until a significant shareholder and son of the founder implied otherwise. However, you are not condemning Mark's attacks on me, including using a misogynistic term (bitch), repeatedly, prior to this moment. Dischem cannot place the two of us on the same footing or treat our statements as equivalents. He initiated the attack with his misogyny and a blatant lie that maligned me personally and professionally. I also note your safe avoidance of mentioning him by name and referencing the significant words that were an activator of my response: I.e that I received money from his mommy and you as an institution. Until you make it clear that this is false, and that a significant shareholder calling me a bitch is unacceptable, then your words below are.....okay, I guess, but lack moral conviction and steadfastness.
Dis-Chem@Dischem

We note recent X posts relating to the company and the Dis-Chem Foundation and we unequivocally distance ourselves from the comments and sentiments that have been expressed. These views are not endorsed by Dis-Chem and do not reflect the position of the board or management. We are a proudly South African, apolitical and non-partisan company with the primary focus of improving access to affordable healthcare and delivering better health outcomes for all South Africans. The Dis-Chem Foundation has, since its establishment in 2006, consistently supported non-aligned community initiatives focused on healthcare access, nutrition, education and community upliftment. We are, and will remain committed to respectful engagement, sound governance and constructive relationships with all our stakeholders, especially our customers and partners.

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Redi Tlhabi
Redi Tlhabi@RediTlhabi·
Hello. Some of you mean well and I always appreciate and reflect on your counsel. But not always. For months, @Dischem 's Mark Saltzman (who has now deleted his account ( called me a bitch. I did nothing. I assumed he was another angry troll. I didn't know who he was until he outed himself and talked about his mommy's money. Last week someone accused me of taking CR17 money. They retracted and apologized. Previously it's CIA, Stellenbosch Mafia, USAID and mysterious "handlers." I let it go so many times. So when you advise me to be restrained you must know I HAVE BEEN restrained. But there are days when things must be addressed. Today is one of them. Presumably @Dischem is familiar with Mark's vocabulary and they know that he exercises his freedom of speech by calling people who disagree with him "BITCHES" for opposing Israel. I do hope that unlike Mark, they don't demand that their philanthropic interventions are conditional to South Africans supporting Israel. We don't have to. But I can live with the son of the founder of @Dischem and a major shareholder calling me a bitch. Repeatedly. But don't accuse of taking any money that I have not earned. I have also lent my name, time and access to worthy courses. Including for the some of the people who now call me antisemitic. The difference between me and them is that I don't think contributing to OUR South Africa must be transactional and conditional on them bending to my will. In conclusion, please do call me a bitch any time you want. But do not lie about serious things. I won't play along.
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Nathan J Robinson
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson·
Most interesting thing here is that the Israeli Foreign Ministry now acknowledges the Nakba happened. They just think it was justified. A shift from the long history of Nakba denial that said Arabs fled of their own volition because their leaders told them to.
Israel Foreign Ministry@IsraelMFA

To the Nakba glorifiers: The Nakba was the result of the Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan & decision to launch war to annihilate the State of Israel. You can't start war, openly vow to “throw the Jews into the sea,” and then pretend being the victim of the conflict you started. The real forgotten victims are the 850,000 Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries at the same time.

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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
The interim decision by the US judge gives me respite but the battle is not over. ICC judges and Palestinian NGOs remain sanctioned with no recourse to justice. The stakes are incredibly high. Please sign and share the petition: DEFEND THE DEFENDERS! petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-deman…
Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror@profbensaul

I welcome the decision of a US judge to block the unlawful US sanctions on my colleague Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on Palestine, and call on the US to stop any further reprisals against human rights defenders ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…

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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!@democracynow·
Hear from @mollycrabapple about her new book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund," chronicling the 20th-century socialist revolutionary party that fought antisemitism in Europe and opposed the formation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine.
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib@RepRashida·
The Nakba never ended. The Israeli apartheid regime is still committing genocide in Gaza and violently erasing entire communities across Palestine and Lebanon. I'm leading a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian refugees' right of return.
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Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣
זו הסיבה שאנחנו חייבים להיות היום בירושלים, שאנחנו חייבים לעשות את העבודה שבמדינה מתוקנת המשטרה היתה עושה. פעילים שלנו עמדו היום שוב ושוב בין משפחות ועסקים פלסטינים, לבין מתנחלים אלימים שבאו מחוץ לירושלים כדי לפגוע בירושלמים, רק כי הם פלסטינים.
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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Videos show Israeli troops shielding settlers as they steal Palestinian farmers’ livestock. When families tried to retrieve their sheep, soldiers opened fire, killing teen Yusef Ali Kaabnah. Residents say this action is an attempt to ethnically cleanse the occupied West Bank.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon@JLMelenchon·
Les services de renseignement de notre pays soupçonnent l'entreprise israélienne BlackCore d'ingérences contre nous pendant la campagne municipale. 3 candidats LFI ont été visés : Sébastien Delogu, François Piquemal et David Guiraud. Résultat : des milliers de messages diffusés pour mentir, les traîner dans la boue. Nous demandons au gouvernement une loi permettant de combattre les ingérences étrangères.
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