
Linda Russell
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Linda Russell
@rutter80747
Sr. Scientist, Environment, Health, and Safety, Cornell U. Alumnus USA/UK Citizen 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Supporter of Israel 🇮🇱



There’s a point where “disagreement” stops being an honest clash of views and becomes something darker: a refusal to see reality even when it’s placed directly in front of your eyes. That’s where we are now. The latest data coming out of Gaza - showing obesity rates significantly higher than in Israel across every age group - should have forced even the most ideological observer to pause. If you claim a population is starving and then discover the clinical profile of a welfare state rather than a famine zone, the rational response is reassessment. But brainwashing doesn’t allow reassessment. It demands loyalty. The same pattern appears everywhere. Hamas itself released a video this week showing injured children and describing them - proudly - as its “protective armor”. Not Israel. Not the IDF. Hamas. The people Western activists call “resistance fighters” literally boast on camera that children are their human shields. And yet, the very people who scream “stop killing children” can’t bring themselves to direct that sentence at the men who openly use children as tactical assets. It’s the same pathology that allowed October 7th - the rapes, torture, mutilation, the gleeful filming of it - to be dismissed or inverted. The killers wore GoPros. They narrated their crimes. They called their parents to brag. They said, explicitly, “We will do this again and again”. They uploaded their own atrocities as propaganda. And still, Westerners chant that Israel is committing genocide. They don’t even bother to argue the facts; for a cult, facts are irrelevant when the narrative gives meaning. This isn’t a case of “both sides say different things.” It’s a case where both sides say the same things - Hamas says it, Israel says it, the footage shows it, the data confirms it - and yet the West’s useful idiots insist on repeating antisemitic blood libels that have been disproven a thousand times. When reality and ideology collide, a normal person updates. A brainwashed person doubles down. That’s the diagnostic sign. Demoralization operations work exactly this way. They don’t need to persuade you of a specific lie. They only need to break your relationship to the truth. Media, universities, NGOs - the entire progressive ecosystem - use the same conditioning sequence: generate a powerful emotional response, corrode your trust in facts, invert victim and aggressor, then create social pressure so intense that dissent feels like exile. Once you’ve internalized the emotional script, evidence becomes an inconvenience. The message matters more than the material world. That’s why pro-Palestinian activism looks, sounds, and behaves like a cult. Every hallmark is there. A sacred narrative that must not be questioned. A demonized out-group used to explain all suffering. A sense of holy mission. A new vocabulary designed to sever you from previous moral frameworks. Public shaming rituals for anyone who deviates. Purity tests. Promise of identity and purpose. And above all: the insistence that if facts contradict the doctrine, the facts are wrong. When you see college students chanting slogans they can’t define, sobbing on camera because someone questioned their worldview, parroting talking points that collapse the moment a basic question is asked - that’s not political activism. That’s cult behavior. You break someone out of this cult by reconnecting them to reality, and letting the truth speak for itself. And the truth is now flooding in: Gaza’s own health data, Hamas admissions, and even footage of Hamas executing Palestinians who refuse to comply. Reality is piling up faster than propaganda can bury it. The tragedy is that so many in the West have been trained not to see what’s right in front of them - but fix the media, force these facts back into public view, and once people finally see the truth, they won’t be able to unsee it. x.com/destinationXIX…




#ZohranMamdani Mayor #Mamdani’s office released a map of #NewYorkCity Immigrant Enclaves to highlight tourist spots and diverse cultures. It features many newer international neighborhoods, including Little Palestine, Little Bangladesh, Little Egypt, Little Pakistan, and Little Yemen. However, it leaves out some of NYC’s biggest and oldest ethnic and religious communities such as historic Little Italy, Irish neighborhoods, and major Orthodox Jewish areas like Borough Park. Critics argue the choices appear to reflect priorities that elevate non-white and newer immigrant narratives while minimizing traditional white ethnic communities. It is marketed as a simple guide, but the selective focus has drawn accusations of bias.









Labour’s initial response to the treatment of Gaza caused huge hurt. We got it wrong and I am sorry for that.








🇨🇦 Fmr. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is now bouncing around in the background of girlfriend Katy Perry's new music video like an 18-year-old backup dancer. From running a G7 country to B-roll. Writer: Julie


How do you rescue four hostages from the heart of Gaza in broad daylight? On today's FDD Morning Brief, @jconricus fills in for @JSchanzer & speaks w/ @DEFCON_Blonde about her documentary "Operation Arnon," which details the IDF's daring Nuseirat mission. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…









