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In her book @mollycrabapple.bsky.social mentions Israeli torture camps. @wsj.com called this a “specious” smear in their review. Published on the same day as that review, a WSJ report that Israel's prison conditions may indeed violate torture conventions. Incoherent. Unsustainable.
Took my kids on a steam train. Ended up in Sheringham, Norfolk. This astonishingly racist Golliwog caricature stands in the entrance of Carousel Amusements, clearly visible from the street. Absolutely shameful.
If your place of worship is used to market the proceeds of war crimes, the moral response is to oppose that - not attack those who do. Pollock’s appeal to childhood nostalgia speaks to the arrested development at the stale heart of the Zionist project.
A striking example of the portability of antisemitism in the Zionist worldview: Tapp isn’t Jewish, yet claims antisemitism. Polanski, a Jewish man targeted by Tapp for opposing genocide, is denied both victimhood and even his Jewishness. The world turned upside down.
Useful idiot Mike Tapp helpfully illustrates the chilling effect of proscription. His argument isn’t meant to be coherent; it’s pure authority: “Fuck you, we’re in charge.”
Pictonico is a new Nintendo game that pulls from your camera roll. If you forget to exclude your screenshots folder you get random jumpscares.
Zionism, only a few years ago, relied on the NYT. Now they've traded-up, enjoying the support of a smaller but meaner set of publications and politicians. Ethnostates are defined by shrinking in-groups and growing out groups. So are their media strategies.
Chris Curtis, a Labour MP and Wes Streeting ally, gets very tetchy when you suggest he might be right-wing.
Israel is raping Palestinians with dogs, this is Eve Barlow's reaction. I cannot imagine typing this without having an "Are we the bad guys?" realisation. You’d be hard-pressed to find a clearer example of the complete moral degradation at the heart of her political project.
If Labour actually cared about antisemitism they wouldn’t habitually conflate a genocidal pariah state with all Jews, endangering the latter to shield the former from criticism.
4. It lets Starmer frame “globalise the intifada” as criminal speech without noting the CPS has said the phrase does not meet the threshold for prosecution.
2. It draws a link between pro-Palestinian marches and the Golders Green stabbings. No evidence is presented to support this assertion because none exists.
1. It wrongly claims pro-Palestinian marches harm “the Jewish community,” when they target UK policy - not Jewis - and include many Jewish participants. It also treats that community as a monolith opposed to Palestine, flattening a diverse range of views and monstering Jews.
🧵This is the BBC’s top story today. It uses four highly misleading framing choices that distort the audience’s understanding.
I wrote about the predictably cynical response to the Golders Green stabbings possibilityspace.substack.com/p/the-instru...
As MPs and pundits embarrass themselves claiming they can work drunk, remember that a Labour MP is currently being strong-armed by whips over his own inebriated behaviour. A system that plies you with booze then leverages the resulting scandals to secure votes isn’t healthy.
Anthropic must be thrilled that the credulous morons at the BBC gave them an advert on the front page of BBC News today.
“They’re defensive strikes” “How do you know that? Do you check?” “Can’t tell you, top secret 😤”
In 2023 Israel killed Awni Eldous, a 13-year-old twitch streamer. If you'd like to build a better future for dreamers like him, #GazaSkyGeeks are seeking mentors across programming, design, art, animation, UI/UX, production, QA, publishing, and career pathways. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deeply frustrating to have spent a week polishing this draft, only for OpenAI to fold before I hit publish.
Israel has been operating fake “fact check” accounts in an attempt to discredit reports about their ongoing genocide. www.972mag.com/inside-israe...
Only in Israel do you have to specify that it’s a “double-sided ceasefire”. As opposed to the usual Israeli usage which means: “you cease, we fire”.