Emma-Kate Symons

“I hope he wins and I hope he wins big,” Trump released another video endorsing Hungary’s corrupt, autocratic leader, Viktor Orban, ahead of the April 12 election. Orban is firmly anti-Ukraine, which is why Trump and Putin are working overtime to help him win.

In Margate. My cheeks are red. I am shaking. I popped into an exhibition that turned out to be the insane fever dream of an artist called Matthew Collins: ‘Drawings Against Genocide.’ The exhibition is described as ‘drawings… raising consciousness about hell…. Israel is the pure encapsulation of it. Zionism is this terror state’s ruling ideology.’ Shocked by the use of Nazi imagery - the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood, to say nothing of blonde yummy mummies wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ shirts, I spoke to the artist to share my reaction as a Jewish person. He was instantly aggressive. As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying. Anytime I tried to speak (calmly) he said: ‘you don’t mean any of what you said, you’re just repeating ‘hasbarah talking points’ because ‘you’re defending a genocide’. On and on he yelled, in my face. I said: ‘if I was a Black person…’ but couldn’t finish the sentence because: ‘you’re not are you?’ On the Nazi ideology point he said: ‘yeah. Why do you think it’s there. Israel are the Nazis’. His breath was disgusting. The crowd began booing and closing in around me, making to shoe me out. I said: ‘fine, get the Jew out’ and he yelled more across the room at me, ‘repeatedly jeering ‘call the police, go ahead, call the police’. I said I would, and the community security trust, which features as a devil in his exhibition. This was met with even more jeering. ‘Yeah, call the CST’ was the last I heard before leaving. Someone snapped pictures of me while I was being shouted at. Short video shows the artist. The longer video, of our final almost surreally disgusting exchange, didn’t record.

In its latest issue, it features an extensive interview with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić. Title: "It will be difficult to avoid the third world war". The interview is at times friendly to the point of servility, but it does contain some interesting passages.

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers are attacking the village of Fandaqumiya in the West Bank, setting homes on fire and attempting to burn families alive. Two families are trapped inside their home as the flames spread, while residents are pleading desperately for help.

אלו לא תמונות של נוח׳בות חמאס, אלא של טרוריסטים יהודים בגדה המערבית, בדרכם לבצע פוגרומים בפלסטינים חפים מפשע

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are now burning down Palestinian homes in the village of Silat ad-Dhahr in the West Bank and attempting to burn families alive. People are pleading for help to put out the fires, as many families remain trapped inside their homes.