Jewish author here, and for years I've used my social media to teach folks about the history of "antisemitism," but I will not be using that term anymore. And to fully explain why, we need to get clear on the history of the word. 🧵
10 minutes ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
🚨🚨 MUST LISTEN 🎤💧 @RutgersU (3 videos total, sorry to those who don't have X, can't unroll this one)
2 hours ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Here's what Biden would do if he were serious about ending the war in Gaza - A former Israeli peace negotiator says the president’s response has “failed to meet even the lowest of low expectations.”
4 hours ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from motherjones.com
The new comic by @elivalley brilliantly summarizes where things are today - a parable in 6 panels.
5 hours ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor issues warning against intimidation, admitting Court and personal are currently being threatened with retaliation:
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Reporter: Have the protests forced you to reconsider any of the policies with regard to the region? Biden: No
19 hours ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Genocide Joe really does bring people together
22 hours ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
On empathy and other liberal Zionist canards - As an effective propaganda tool, Liberal Zionism promotes a normalization which colonizes the mind.
1 day ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from aljazeera.com
Today's a do or die moment for Senator Sanders. He's the only person who can stop Republicans from intro'ing a Senate bill under "unanimous consent" (to bypass votes) and codify a false definition of criticism of Israel being antisemitic. Which will lead to criminalization of speech.
1 day ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
We need everyone to understand that when an Israel supporter claims to be very sincerely concerned about "antisemitism", this is the "antisemitism" they're talking about:
CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment - “Again, what you just saw is 2024 in Los Angeles. Hearkening back to the 1930s in Europe, and I do not say that lightly. The fear among Jews in this country is palpable right now.” - Dana Bash
2 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
This photo is posted to the official account of NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell, who recently accused student protesters of being “anti-Semitic” against police. The NYPD doesn’t protect the rights of Americans. It’s loyal to a foreign apartheid state committing genocide.
Re: The softening and backtracking by many Zionists who are calling out the situation in Gaza “sickening, horrifying, unthinkable” now and disassociating from an “extremist government” that they apparently never supported. As though we don’t have receipts (lol).
"If Palestine dies, humanity dies. We are not going to let it die." – President and Progressive International Council member Gustavo Petro announces that, from tomorrow, Colombia will break all diplomatic relations with Israel.
From $61 billion will save the day to $61 billion is not enough — in just one week. Shameless.
Interesting and important exchange where Secretary of Defense Austin admits that there is a real possibility that US soldiers can end up engaging in a shooting war with Palestinians in Gaza as a result of the pier the US is now building:
3 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
White House running it's mouth about the jurisdiction of a court the US doesn’t even recognize.
Today is the Anniversary of Vietnam’s heroic defeat of Western Imperialism. Congratulations Vietnam! 🇻🇳 May there be many such victories to come!
Norway Broadcasting Corporation’s Yama Wolasmal, interviews Israeli spokesperson, David Mencer. This should be taught in all journalism schools. I spoke at the Norwegian Journalism Institute last year @Pressenshus in Oslo & was so impressed with the rigour of their work.
Afroman - Hunter Got High (He shoulda let Hillary bleach his whole hard drive! 🤣🤣🤣)
3 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/LeftistHumor from youtube.com
Columbia Student Coalition statement: “Students take over Hamilton Hall after Columbia’s persistent refusal to divest, complicity in genocide, & continued violence against its students. They will remain in Hamilton until the University divests from death."
Germany no longer recognizes Palestinian as a nationality. When Germany renders people stateless it usually proceeds in a very dark direction. Germany kicked off the Holocaust by rendering all Jewish Germans stateless.
"Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. The majority of the people aren't imperialists, but the government is, the structure is, the power faction is." - Malcolm X
3 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Happening right now:❤️ After Columbia refused to listen to its students, students took over Hamilton Hall on campus and renamed it Hind's Hall.
Biden does not care whether he gets re-elected, and neither do his empire manager handlers. What matters to them is advancing imperial interests in the middle east, not winning some pretend political puppet show that only exists to entertain and distract the common riff raff.
A letter from 60 journalism professors to the New York Times calls on the paper to independently review its "Screams Without Words" article
4 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
An American citizen from Los Angeles, Sammy Ben, who is not even Israeli, talks about his enlistment with the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza. The soldier regularly documented himself humiliating Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on his social media groups and Instagram page
Biden Wanted To Sanction An Israeli Battalion But He Didn’t Because Israel Said No
5 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Corporate needs you to find the difference
People trying very hard to be unsafe at student encampments throughout the US, but failing miserably... A thread 🧵 (more in the comments on X)
5 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Just as protests are about to seriously disrupt life and become a major factor, suddenly the promise of a functioning international system is dangled before our eyes. This arrest warrants joke should be treated as a coordinated effort to sabotage the growing movement at a critical time.
There have been verified reports that Meron air base has *finally* been completely destroyed by Hezbollah. This radar controls all northern traffic and also is responsible for detection of small missiles and drones. Hezbollah has blinded Israel.
"Snipers on university roofs aiming at students and faculty protesting genocide our country is supporting" feels like it should be a wake up call. The societal equivalent of waking up drenched in vomit after a night of heavy drinking and being like "wow, I need to change".
A joint submission from four bureaus raised "serious concern over non-compliance" w/international humanitarian law in Israel's conduct of the Gaza war. The assessment said Israel's assurances were "neither credible nor reliable." To be sure: Blinken and Biden have both seen them.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that during a cabinet meeting earlier this week, Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, suggested killing some Palestinian detainees as a solution to the problem of overcrowded jails.
6 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Just a reminder that hasbara trolls get paid per engagement and more for replies and replies to replies. This is an old payment list, the money has probably quadrupled since. So if you engage instead of block, you're helping them make money
BREAKING: World mourns as Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, 47, found alive
Israeli medical sources: Minister of National Security Ben Gvir was taken to the hospital after his car overturned and he sustained moderate injuries. 🔻Pray for him.
These are the antisemitic protests, not students wanting their institutions to divest from active war crimes. Yet Zionists don’t seem to be bothered about these because we all know half of these people stand with Israel and have done for decades.
They’re gaslighting us
Many right-wing accounts criticize the student protesters because they're leftists who wear masks and fell for COVID propaganda. But Palestinians overwhelmingly rejected the jab. The vast majority of Israelis repeatedly took the jab as part of what a Pfizer exec called "a sort of laboratory".
More protest advice
7 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Advice for student protesters
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel. In Israel, death has no dominion over them… they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”
My law firm will represent anyone seriously injured or killed by police brutality during these revolutionary times. I have an army of lawyers ready to fight, and I will personally fund the litigation to hold these abusers accountable. You have a first amendment right to free speech and expression.
Holocaust Survivor's POWERFUL Message to Gaza Protesters
7 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from youtube.com
Amnesty International head Agnes Callamard says flagrant war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza are part of a pattern of powerful countries running roughshod over international law. "The only conclusion we can reach is that the international system is collapsing," she says.
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry says it is very concerned about the U.S. government's crackdown on peaceful protesters and asks the U.S. not to undermine democracy.
Israel lies pathologically! A🧵of dozens of conclusively debunked Israeli gov lies since Oct 7, off the top of my head. (Never a bad time to review the lies of the ZioSlime. This list is far from complete; if you have X, there are many more in the comments)
8 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Many Jews and Israelis (including my own relatives) defend Israeli actions no matter the evidence of massacres and horrendous violence. Why? For one simple reason: ultra nationalism. That ultra nationalism has a name: Zionism. Even “liberal” Zionists think of the “Jewish state” as an end in itself.
Georgia Police SHOOTING At Students And University Professors Students and professors at Emory University are being shot at with rubber bullets in America, for standing against Israel. This a foreign governments interference into universities.
8 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
The claim that there is widespread antisemitism & safety concerns on university campuses is a coordinated effort lead by StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice to create a false narrative to support criminalizing free speech.
Zionists and the media class are going insane with deranged smears of the mass student and faculty protests at colleges across the West because it's a movement that has united Jews, Palestinians, whites, blacks, people of all backgrounds against the ongoing Gaza genocide. They have to sow division.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zio uni students... more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel “unsafe” on campus... than whatever you’re pretending to believe “From the river to the sea...” means.
9 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
LIVE From Encampment: Jewish Columbia Student NOT Afraid
9 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from youtube.com
We all know why Israel can't provide evidence. The allegations were made up, after @CIJ_ICJ ruling, to distract & derail. This is what Israel does: lies. But always taken seriously by the West! Because it's not about credibility. It's about complicity.
We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Klein | ‘Zionism has brought us to our present moment of cataclysm and it is time that we said clearly: it has always been leading us here.’
9 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from theguardian.com
Columbia’s own website has a page about how the last time they called for a mass arrest of student protesters, they were in the wrong and fucked up their reputation for decades
Khamas is “the only beneficiary” of Israel’s assault on Gaza. But Israel is not going to stop. And Khamas should surrender to stop it. 🤡🤡🤡
How an 'anti-disinformation' account can actually contribute to the spread of disinformation... or how ZioScum ZioLie about the Al Ahli hospital hospital mass graves, and everything you need to slap back those ZioLies.
10 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Brig. Gen. Shlomit Landes is the head of Israel's elite police investigative unit Lahav 433, which is leading the "sexual violence" investigations. She claimed they found evidence of sexual violence and rape on October 7 bodies. Haaretz has confirmed she lied.
The audacity of a foreign agency, Mossad, threatening US students and citizens shows exactly who is in charge in this toxic relationship. Thankfully for the rest of the world the influence of America is deteriorating and Israel is an illegitimate nation who very few take seriously anymore.
10 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Zionists are organizing on Wikipedia to launder their genocidal atrocity propaganda lies. If you want to help counter that with facts and are an editor and know how Wikipedia works, email me. I will ensure your anonymity: zei.squirrel@gmail.com
Why is a student movement from one college campus receiving so much media attention? Why are politicians, even the PRESIDENT, commenting on this movement? It’s because the Zionists are about to suffer a major defeat that will dismantle their occupation and apartheid in Palestine.
Students at Columbia have overwhelmingly voted in favour of divestment from Israel! • 77% in favor of financial divestment • 68% in favor of the cancellation of Tel Aviv Global Centre • 66% in favor of ending the Dual Degree Program with Tel Aviv University - This is what solidarity looks like!
🔻🔻🔻 ZioScum fvcks around, ZioScum finds out! 🔻🔻🔻
10 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from youtube.com
UNDERSTANDING THE FURY ABOUT SHAI DAVIDAI. People outside of uni communities might not understand why there is such a strong reaction to what he’s doing – that is, why so many of us find his narcissistic grandstanding to be especially worthy of peer-group scorn. A thread.
Old news? No, different mass gave, different hospital, different kids tied up and executed. Boy I sure hope those Zionist Ivy League students are feeling safe today!
11 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Some of the 400 bodies discovered in mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Gaza. According to reporting, these bodies include children with their hands tied behind their backs — murdered while in captivity, a direct breach of the Geneva Convention.
Shafik has ignored 50 charges of harassment against Shai Davidai, it is her pattern to protect dangerous predatory faculty. At LSE 2 years ago she refused to fully suspend a professor who sexually harassed marginalized women and stalked his targets online. She then reinstated him in his job.
If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy. Of course if you go back to Ukraine to renew it, you’ll automatically be conscripted into the war to go into Biden and Zelensy’s meat grinder.
Consider the full crazy of someone in a high office stating that a holy book obliges his country to limitlessly support another country. But the reasoning he gives is even more insane: Israel is the only stable democracy in a region otherwise ruled by religious fanatics.
A short 🧵 on Minouche Shafik and white supremacy on campus... Shafik was the director at lSE when I did my masters and Peter Cvjetanovic, the poster boy for the 'Unite the Right' Charlottesville white supremacist and anti-Semitic rally was also doing his masters there. Free speech, can't do nuthin!
12 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
The REAL story: 6 months of peace marches have been SO peaceful, SO dignified, SO trouble free, Zionists have tried EVERYTHING to provoke them & totally failed. In desperation, Mr Falter and his film crew followed one for hours trying to provoke a reaction and FAILED again
12 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Everyone in positions of power are sleeping on the fact tens of thousands of women and children are being murdered and instead launching witch hunts against those who want this to stop. There has never been a clearer moment of clarity on how disgusting those who control our society are.
US regime change activist Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR. Her tenure at Wikipedia saw the “people’s encyclopedia” transform into a bulletin board for the CIA and MI6.
"Once again, a proud nation - a proud people, the German people - are being dragged into yet another genocide in their name, with their complicity. As if the genocide of the Palestinians, rivers of Palestinian blood, can wash off their guilt over the Holocaust."
13 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
BREAKING: Heavy bombing by Israel is reported at Rafah refugee's camp. Does Israel not want to leave any Gaza claimant alive?
So the same Israeli Knesset and its politicians and media that can't stop crying hysterically about their own fabricated "mass rape" hoax for Western audiences in the New York Times, BBC and Guardian, is giving honorary awards to a pedophile gang rapist. It's just utter insanity.
13 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has built an EV-battery colossus in the scrublands of Nevada. He spent the day giving me the first look at everything @redwoodmat has been building. It starts with *30 acres* of old batteries headed for recycling 🧵
14 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
"Why is the Middle East so unstable?" Well, mostly because the US and Western Europe established a violent settler colonial regime there, armed to the teeth, which steals land, attacks regional progressive movements, arms reactionary extremists, and routinely bombs neighbouring countries.
14 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
The US regime supports a Palestinian state. Just not until it allows the US to midwife a “state” with no military, in which Israel controls its borders, airspace, maritime territory, and political leadership... not until Palestine signs away its sovereignty and national struggle.
On why Israel had to strike back: Israel’s core military strategic doctrine is founded upon achieving maximum deterrence by convincing its adversaries that they will pay a disproportionately high price if they challenge it. To achieve this deterrence, Israel focuses on 4 key pillars:
Part of me thought Genocide Joe Biden mass slaughtering, raping and starving Palestinian babies, children, men and women would get Mehdi to stop doing these four-yearly "WE HAVE TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS" routines. But no, he and scum like AOC will stop at nothing, not even genocide.
A short(ish) 🧵 on reports that Netanyahu and his government are in emergency talks over credible "information" they have received that the #ICC plans to issue warrants against senior figures in the Israeli government, including Netanyahu.
Did ISRAEL even commit this attack on IRAN? ❌American media reported within SECONDS that ISRAEL was responsible. ❌ISRAELI media cited American media when making initial reports on the attack. ❌ISRAELI officials have not *yet at the time of this post* taken credit for the attack.
15 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Johnson admitting what the West really fears. That the defeat of Ukraine will indeed be the end of Western hegemony. Only the failure of the West was to engineer the Maidan in the first place in 2014. Maidan will be seen as the final nail in the coffin lid for US hegemony and the USD as the WRC.
Ralph Nader wrote back in early March that the real Gaza death count is probably more like 200,000. There's no good reason to discount this. It's certainly more likely than the number just continuing to sit around thirty thousand for no reason.
Google is firing anti-genocide activists and NYC is criminalizing and dispersing the beautiful protests at Columbia University. These two events represent major PR wins for the anti-war movement in a single day. And it is sure to bring American establishments many things; Quiet isn't one of them.
'The Qatari newspaper "Al-Arabi Al-Jadid" reported today (Thursday) that the United States agreed to Israeli action in Rafah, in return for not carrying out a large-scale attack against Iran.
15 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
One input to Israel's dystopian "Lavender AI", which selects targets to be killed by the IDF, is "whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas". Which means that Meta is sharing this data with the IDF, making it directly complicit. Meta sells WhatsApp as privacy messaging.
“A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses." Biden knew and still sold them weapons.
Israel's allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate, but Iran's not allowed to strike back. NATO's allowed to expand to Russia's doorstep and amass proxy forces on its border, but the last time Moscow placed a credible threat anywhere near the US, it responded so aggressively that the world almost ended.
16 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
Reuters with a very important piece of journalism: The US is reimposing partially lifted sanctions on Venezuela "because it cares so much about democracy and free elections". The same US propping up fascist dictatorships in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE...
16 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from threadreaderapp.com
Sandra Ifrah only admitted she lied because the 67 DNA claim was found to be from a far right conspiracy about refugees. If she said 53 or 81 DNA she wouldn't have admitted it, and Jeffrey Gettlman and Lucy Manning would have their NYT and BBC headlines.(shades of those 40 beheaded incubator babies)
Iran is definitely Israel's mightiest military threat, but the truth of that matter is Israel doesn't have a viable way to deal with Hizbullah militarily. Hizbullah can escalate from 0-100 in two minutes... thousands of rockets, missiles, and drones will make their way to Israel within minutes.
What empire does is make you so arrogant that you think you can say anything and squash anyone that opposes you. It becomes a game to see what you can say that's so outrageous but so authoritative that you can get away with it. And so, the British are the most hypocritical country in modern times.
The US contacted Iran, asking it to allow Israel a symbolic strike to save face, an Iranian official told the Cradle
17 days ago by FreedomUltd to /s/AskALeftist from twitter.com
HR 883 has passed. Pro-Israel lawmakers are laying the groundwork for designating certain speech as hate speech in anticipation of the upcoming Define to Defeat Act. This act aims to criminalize criticism of Israel by incorporating the IHRA definition of antisemitism into civil rights legislation.
After Iran's attack on Israel, the price of one-way tickets from Tel Aviv to the capitals of European countries increased more than 10 times. Tickets from Tel Aviv to London and Berlin, which previously cost 68 and 110 euros, are now on sale for 550 and 2,900 euros on the cheapest flights.