Has The Israeli Goverment BecomeThe Monster?

[Katheryne Helendale]

Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water

amas calls it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Sunday’s announcement came a week after Israel suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million people.

apnews.com

Thank God we didn't let Kamala Harris take the US presidency and instead elected someone who would stand up to these atrocities, right Aeon Jiminy ?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The ceasefire ended, Israel is attacking Gaza strip again and killed about 342 Palestines.

 

[detrius]

I sometimes think another solution would be for all 5 million Palestinians to emigrate to the US, assimilate into NYC, start a "Reform Muslim" movement, americanize their names to things like "Miller" or "Mason" or Thomas. Build summer resorts in the Catskills, become influential in various ways in US culture, finance, law and government. Hey, have a Palestinian play a 1950's "hoodlum" in Milwaukee or a Mexican Bandit in a Western.......and basically take advantage of the US system the way Likud's allies in the US do.

Looking at this from a future where America is once again building concentration camps and ICE thugs are rounding up green card holders.


If I had a time machine...

 

[Ellie]

"Bibi Bombs Gaza to Escape Corruption Trial" said no headline, ever.

Well, slap me with a wet mackerel.

Did Netanyahu Reignite Genocide in Gaza to Avoid Corruption Trial?

Israel launched multiple inhumane attacks on sleeping Palestinians, terminating the ceasefire deal and curiously preventing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from testifying in his corruption trial.

White House secretary, Caroline Leavitt, confirmed that Israel had even consulted US President Donald Trump prior to the attacks and that he had authorized them, threatening all those he deemed “terrorists” in the Middle East.

“As president Trump has made it clear, Hamas, the Houthis, Iran, all those who seek to terrorize not just Israel but also the United States of America, will see a price to pay, all hell will break loose,” said Leavitt, proudly.

Not enough rusty screwdrivers in the world.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Wow, it's a counterexample to Betteridges Law.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The antisemitism conference

Next week the Israeli government will host an International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, with speakers and delegates from across the world gathering “to raise awareness about the key drivers of modern antisemitism and to address the critical challenges posed by the evolving...

everydayhate.substack.com

Next week the Israeli government will host an International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem, with speakers and delegates from across the world gathering “to raise awareness about the key drivers of modern antisemitism and to address the critical challenges posed by the evolving realities since October 7, both for the State of Israel and for Jewish communities worldwide.” This ought to be welcome: such a conference is long overdue, and there is much to discuss. But instead, the decision of the Israeli government to invite politicians from some of Europe’s far right and populist right wing parties has led several other participants to withdraw. It has caused unnecessary division at exactly the time when efforts to combat antisemitism ought to be unified, and points to the potential for further disagreements ahead.

The problems have been widely reported. The far right politicians billed to attend the conference include leading figures from National Rally in France, Vox in Spain, Sweden Democrats, and Hungary’s Fidesz. Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter will be there. These are parties with dubious pasts rooted in far right, and at times openly Nazi, politics, and while some of them have more recently condemned antisemitism and supported Israel, their ranks still include old-school antisemites and Holocaust deniers. In contrast, those who have pulled out include some of the most forthright and committed people in the fight against anti-Jewish hatred and the delegitimisation and demonisation of Israel. Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Bernard-Henri Levy, ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt, the UK government’s Independent Advisor on Antisemitism Lord Mann, his German counterpart Felix Klein, and antisemitism expert Professor David Hirsh: these are not cowards who are scared to stand up to the enemies of Israel and the Jewish people.

 

[Ellie]

Nasser’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham posted on X: “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/24/oscar-winning-palestinian-director-attacked-by-israeli-settlers-and-arrested

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Truth, lies and genocide: how Netanayhu and Trump pervert the fight against antisemitism

The far-right is running riot

nickcohen.substack.com

Evernote Link

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Netanyahu ordered Mossad to find countries willing to receive large numbers of displaced Palestinians. So far Somalia, South Sudan and Indonesia are being talked to. 90% of the Gaza strip population has already been displaced by the war.

Netanyahu's office declined to comment.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/israel-move-palestinians-gaza-indonesia-somalia

 

[Ellie]

"Most moral army" my arse.

A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html


Human shields

The procedure is simple. Innocent Palestinians are forced to enter houses in Gaza and "clear" them, to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives.

It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.

In other words, we forced Palestinians to act as human shields not because it was safer for IDF troops, but because it was faster. That's why we risked the lives of Palestinians who were suspected of nothing other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

https://archive.ph/pheTI

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

Evernote Link to Haaretz Article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

It's important to remember that the accusations come from an activist group who have provided the Metropolitan Police with a dossier they say supports the allegations.

It's now up to the Met to carry out their own investigation, and then for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide, on the basis of the Met's findings, whether criminal charges are appropriate.

 

[Ellie]

"We're astounded at the unprecedented step taken by the Israeli authorities...." Seriously?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The IDF approved guided tours inside Syrias military zone, which were not open for the public before. The tours will include access to the Roked Stream, the El-Hama Bridge on the Yarmouk River, a tunnel from the historic Hejaz Railway and a lookout near the Mount Dov site associated with the biblical “Covenant Between the Pieces.”

The area is occupied by Israel and has been off-limits to the public until now.

IDF approves guided tours inside Syria military zone during Passover

Unprecedented trips will include access to Roked Stream, El-Hama Bridge on the Yarmouk River, tunnel from historic Hejaz Railway and lookout near site associated with the biblical 'Covenant Between the Pieces'

www.ynetnews.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Time to reflect

This week the Jewish world emerges from Passover and goes straight into a series of days of significance: Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, beginning on Tuesday evening; followed next week by Yom HaZikaron - Israel’s equivalent of Remembrance Sunday - and then Yom...

everydayhate.substack.com

 

[Ellie]

TENS of thousands of hours of video evidence from over 18-months of genocide was ignored by the UK’s counter-terrorism police this week as they turned their resources to investigating footage from a Kneecap concert which took place in November of last year, WWN reports.

“Look, it’s easier to criminalize a rap group than to confront a genocide, especially when the bombs bear your own flag.”

18-Months Of Genocide Footage Not Under Investigation By UK Counter-Terror Police

 

[Ellie]

This violent fascist thug and convicted terrorist group supporter was allowed to visit the US, enjoy dinner with the president, and even address a meeting at a Yale University Jewish society, while the US gov. investigates and deports non-violent protesters, clearly the real threat to society.

"Ben-Gvir is a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, whose "political background lies in Kahanism - a violently racist movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands". He has a long history of anti-Arab activism leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now illegal political party Kach). As a lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism on trial in Israel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

The protest was one of several in recent days against Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist settler leader who is embarking on his first U.S. state visit since joining Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet three years ago.

Previously convicted in Israel of racist incitement and support for a terrorist group, he has called on his supporters to confront Palestinians and assert “Jewish Power.”

Mob chased Brooklyn woman after mistaking her for protester at speech by Israeli security minister

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Ellie]

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux explains why he returned to the occupied West Bank to meet some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled there.

BBC Two - Louis Theroux, The Settlers, Why I Made 'Louis Theroux: The Settlers'

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

The IDF approved guided tours inside Syrias military zone, which were not open for the public before. The tours will include access to the Roked Stream, the El-Hama Bridge on the Yarmouk River, a tunnel from the historic Hejaz Railway and a lookout near the Mount Dov site associated with the biblical “Covenant Between the Pieces.”

The area is occupied by Israel and has been off-limits to the public until now.

IDF approves guided tours inside Syria military zone during Passover

Unprecedented trips will include access to Roked Stream, El-Hama Bridge on the Yarmouk River, tunnel from historic Hejaz Railway and lookout near site associated with the biblical 'Covenant Between the Pieces'

www.ynetnews.com

The fact that basically no one in the West acknowledges Syria's and Lebanon's rights to sovereignty, territorial safety and security, and - of course - their right to self-defence (regardless of what we rightly thought of Assad) speaks volumes of the endemic and systemic racism and colonialism in Western (or, more accurately, Global North) thinking: the Lebanese and Syrians are viewed as Untermenschen, and so do basically all Arabs, Muslims, and Africans. They are viewed as savages that we, the Whites, have every right to conquer and oppress in order to "bring them to civilisation" and punish them in the most violent and disgusting manners if they dare so much as utter a word of protest.