good to know…

this is just nuts.

Also it should be noted that she’s talking about the day of Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath before Purim, which happened to be the same day that the US and Israel unilaterally began attacking Iran during negotiations.

CNN ran a story on the symbolic meaning of the date of the attack, fulfilling the “mitzvah” to remember Amalek: https://altmedia.house/post/210301

You said “they’re both bad” (though I think you edited your comment). I said one is less bad than the other.

the 30,000 number is propaganda slop fabricated by NED and the like. the fact that you’ve swallowed it shows you’re an uncritical thinker.

Yes Iran armed Hamas, because it arms resistance groups against Israel. Resistance that is totally merited by the character of the genocidal Jewish supremacist state. This is commendable. Genocide is not!

I don’t think he’s dead.

Iranian leaders are objectively more moral than those in the United States. Which one of the two countries recently sponsored a genocide? The US.

This is in addition to the Anthony Aguilar’s testimony

https://altmedia.house/post/61158

I still disagree. If he wasn’t an anti-Zionist the party would have explained it away and covered for him like they did with Biden for his “superpredator” rhetoric and everything else. The necessary and sufficient condition for this pressure was his anti-Zionism.

Important context: This was a case of a juvenile brown person “acting black”, not someone using the term derisively.

It’s a false pretext.

Related: https://altmedia.house/post/216033

Blackrock and now Morgan Stanley have been pausing redemption. This must be coming from large clients in the Gulf dumping these credit funds in order to free up cash.

agreed

The ADL condemns people who protest against the genocide they defend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine

Israel’s Dahiya doctrine is an official statement of their policy to bomb civilian areas to put political pressure on the opposition to do what Israel wants. It is the definition of terrorism.

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/2030078350707020259

According to local witnesses in Lebanon (this is not official info) - Summary of what happened in Nabi Sheet:

Ali Akbar Al-Burji The Islamic Resistance forces successfully repelled an Israeli landing in the town of Nabi Sheet. According to reports, Israeli forces landed in the town center after warplanes conducted a barrage of fire for over 10 consecutive hours. They first attempted the landing around 5:00 AM but failed. They tried again around 11:00 AM and failed. Their final attempt, around 12:30 AM, landed in the town center near the cemetery, where Resistance forces and residents of Nabi Sheet were waiting in a well-prepared ambush, despite all the airstrikes. A clash ensued with the Israeli force, and immediately, warplanes began launching heavy airstrikes on the town. However, the Resistance’s air defense forces engaged them, and we witnessed the deployment of flares as they attempted to flee the area. This occurred after more than half an hour of clashes.

[The fate of the Israeli force that landed in Nabi Sheet remains unknown.]

bank run?

Related: Trump’s Approval Rating Higher in Israel Than in the US

Read that again. The Sky News reporter only asks the Israeli politician about Israeli troops specifically after she asks him first whether there will be a need for ground troops. There are only two countries at war with Iran right now. That means she was asking an Israeli politician if American troops would be deployed, and his response was that he wouldn’t rule it out.

Having a foreign country’s politician commenting on whether or not he will have you and your countrymen sent to fight a foreign war is surreal and might only seem normal to someone who lived in an imperial colony in a bygone era. What makes it particularly bizarre here is that it’s the superpower in this situation, the United States, that is being treated as the colony.

This is almost certainly a cynical move on his part. But I think it’s still a very good development because it adds momentum to candidates in congressional elections who say this sincerely.

86 years old. He got a promotion - to martyr. Fresh blood will come into command, and hopefully be a little more ruthless.

I think it’s important to take note of the large number of Jewish anti-Zionists who devote their lives to opposing Zionism: the Jewish Voice for Peace, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pape, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, etc. I have great respect for these people. They need to be protected.

But I think it’s a little dishonest to say that Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. Zionism is Jewish nationalism. While a sizable minority of Jews are anti-Zionists, if a democratic vote was taken of Jews Zionism would win. All Jewish organizations in the United States that aren’t explicitly devoted to anti-Zionism are reflexively Zionist, and that is the vast majority of them. The American Jewish Committee, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (which is an umbrella group covering many many orgs), the ADL, the Jewish Federations of North America, and many others not only support Zionism, but promoting support for Israel and suppressing dissent are their top priorities. They are central to funding downstream organizations like AIPAC, JStreet, and the Zionist Organization of America. The Miami Platform of Reform Judaism mentions that the state of Israel is the “spiritual and cultural focal point of world Jewry”. More conservative denominations tend to be more Zionist, with some exceptions like Atmar and Torah Judaism—but they are outside the mainstream. This is not to deny the existence of Christian Zionists and their groups, like Christians United for Israel, and the fact that they are a powerful voting block in the US. But Zionism IS entangled with Judaism.