If fact, what happened in Iran is an attempt by the Israeli & American tag team to overthrow the government in Tehran and break apart Iran, much the way the US, Turkey, and Israel fractured Syria. The playbook in Iran is one we have seen before. It has four elements. First, the US has long been working to wreck the Iranian economy with sanctions. Indeed, President Trump redoubled those efforts after moving into the White House last January (2025). His aim was to bring “maximum pressure” to bear on Iran’s economy and he did just that. There is no question that Iran’s leaders mismanaged their economy in certain ways, but Western sanctions did far more damage than government ineptitude. The ultimate goal of the sanctions, of course, is to inflict so much pain and punishment on the Iranian people that they rise up and overthrow their government. Second, the tag team went to work in late December 2025 to foment and support violent protests that would precipitate a violent government response, which would hopefully set off a spiral of violence that the government could not control. To be more specific, there is clear evidence that Mossad agents were on the ground in Iran and surely there were CIA operatives working alongside them. They worked closely with local agitators — the rioters who were bent on destruction and assassination — to turn the peaceful protests into violent protests, which would then lead the government to turn to violence. There is abundant video footage of the agitators at work. Moreover, the tag team sent many thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran before the protests began. Should the government shut down the internet and the phone system – as expected – the Starlink terminals would allow the protestors to communicate among themselves and with the outside forces helping them. Unsurprisingly, Trump was cheering on the protestors, saying on 13 January 2026: “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!… HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” Trump’s first CIA director, Mike Pompeo, said on 2 January 2026: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also, to every Mossad agent walking beside them.” And just as the protests were beginning in late December 2025, Mossad sent a message in Farsi to Iranians saying: “Go out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” Third, the Western media played along with the tag team and purveyed the story that the protests were principally a response to the policies of an evil government in Tehran, not because of outside interference. Moreover, the protests were peaceful and it was the government that initiated the violence. Naturally, Israel and the US were portrayed as the good guys. This propaganda was not only designed to win over support for the protests in the West, but also to influence events inside Iran by fostering the narrative that the regime was brutal in the extreme, yet the protestors were destined to topple the government.

He’s running for his life, this older man, pursued by a large group of masked men brandishing metal rods. He trips and falls on his stomach. One of the pursuers kicks him, another smashes his back twice with a rod. The man gets to his knees, as if begging for his life. The first assailant kicks him again as he sprawls on the ground. The group circles its prey – a choreography of terror. He raises his arms to shield himself from the blows. But then, as the gang is about to leave, a second group of pogromists appears from another direction. Taking turns, they proceed to kick the man, all over his body; one especially brutal boot is aimed at his face. Before departing, after a few minutes, the thugs wallop him one more time with their clubs.

Each MLK Day, supporters of Israel invoke the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to draw a false parallel between the civil rights movement and Zionism. While MLK did sympathize with the state of Israel, he consistently supported nonviolence. During the Six-Day War, MLK supported a UN-mediated peace settlement that addressed the economic and security concerns of all parties. However, a letter attributed to King called ‘Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend’ has a starkly different tone. Unfortunately for the pro-Israel crowd, this letter is a forgery which reveals the willingness of some Israel supporters to use disinformation to influence public perception. Unsurprisingly, the forgery is deeply connected to the Anti-Defamation League and ideological neoconservatives. One theory for the creation of the letter was that it was inspired by statements made by King at a Cambridge, Massachusetts dinner party. Seymour Martin Lipset, one of the first neoconservatives, recorded King’s supposed statements in a work published by the ADL. According to this account, King responded to a young black activist who criticized Israel by saying “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.” However, even pro-Israel historians admit that “There’s plenty of room to debate the meaning of King’s words at the Cambridge dinner.” While Lipset’s testimony is technically possible, it is not a historical fact and should not be treated as such.

The case was initiated by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a fanatical pro-Israel lobby group that seeks to use abusive legal procedures to intimidate and silence critics of Israel. But more disturbing still, the case was taken up by the General Medical Council (GMC), the regulatory authority overseeing the medical profession. Had the case been successful, Abu Sittah would have been struck off on the entirely spurious basis that he is antisemitic and a supporter of terrorism. **Hundreds of patients who depend on his world-renowned reconstructive surgery skills would have been denied treatment from him as a result. ** The three-person panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which cleared him, dismissed all the allegations. It concluded that the UKLFI and the GMC had “cherrypicked” and misrepresented two posts on X and an article published in Arabic, and failed to provide accurate translations of Abu Sittah’s arguments. Ian Comfort, chair of the panel, said the tribunal could find nothing antisemitic or that supported terrorism or violence. Afterwards, Abu Sittah correctly described UKLFI’s goal as “trying to destroy my life”.

Bolding mine. For everyone “uncomfortable” about things people/governments are doing to infringe on rights of the “othered” du jour, but still support these people and governments, consider how many your tacit support is robbing from others.

Israel has blocked members of the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to administer Gaza from entering the besieged strip, Hebrew media outlets reported on 20 January. Israel is “refusing to allow” their entry, Palestinian sources told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The technocratic committee was supposed to enter Gaza this week via the Rafah border crossing and take over civil administration. However, Israel is refusing to open the crossing in violation of the ceasefire agreement and despite US calls to do so. According to Israeli reports, the committee members still do not know when or how they will begin their work in Gaza due to the rejection of their entry via the crossing.

I see Israelis shaking their heads self-righteously about the fact that no one knows the real number of victims among the protesters in Iran. Do they know the real number of victims of the Gaza holocaust? Do they even care?

The most striking feature is the constant, persistent cognitive dissonance. Germany prides itself in having overcome its genocidal past, but we see every day that this is an abject lie made to distract from the violence of its present. In the last two years, Arabs in Germany have watched laws being changed to better surveil, harass, and criminalize us. Phrases such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” were declared symbols of Hamas and are used as justifications for violent arrests. Berlin alone is investigating 10,000 court cases related to Palestine solidarity protesters. New police laws with expanded police powers have been introduced in multiple federal states. As described in Palestinian-German legal scholar Nahed Samour’s excellent essay, “The Arab in the Law of Berlin, or: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’” the Berlin police specifically invented a category of crime just to criminalize Arabs. Now, the city’s large Arab population – the largest Palestinian diaspora in Europe, plus lots of Syrians, Lebanese, and other Arab nationalities – is facing a new police law that allows police to covertly break into apartments and install surveillance technology. All of this is done under the guise of needing to “protect against terrorism.” In Berlin, the police have received carte blanche by politicians and civil society to brutalize Palestine solidarity protesters as much as they please, beating, choking, kicking, mass-surveilling, arresting, and imprisoning. The more Arab and more masculine you look, the more the black-clad fists of the ever-present riot cops are attracted to your face, stomach, or balls…

Hm, I’m not sure went why it’s not rendering properly. https://www.rsn.org/001/dnc-to-court-we-are-a-private-corporation-with-no-obligation-to-follow-our-rules.html This was after the Sanders debacle and Donna Brazille was replaced with DWS to silence the outcry. And it worked. And it was the first time Sanders rolled over. The second time convinced leftists he is also controlled opposition.

No problem, it’s probably for the best since I need sleep and instead I’m logged into several instances. I appreciate your hard work.

This DWS?

https://kbin.earth/m/news@lemmy.world/t/2328428/-/comment/10831371

They think they can scrub all information that the whole world who held money/power are directly complicit in the genocide of Semites. But information is never truly lost.

it is just a piece of metal now.

Always was.

Trump, for the record, has repeatedly admitted that he provided political favors to Israel at the urging of the Adelsons during his first term, saying he moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and legitimized the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights in order to please them. And please them he did. He must have, because Miriam Adelson donated another $100 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign to help him become president again. And now he’s spent the first year of his administration bombing Iran and Yemen, working to take control of Gaza, and aggressively stomping out criticism of Israel in the United States. Back in 2020, before all these blatant admissions, musician Roger Waters was smeared as an antisemite by the Anti-Defamation League and other Zionist groups for saying that Sheldon Adelson was using his wealth to exert influence over US politics…

Can’t see without an account, even with xcancel.

“By deception you shall do war”

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