Just fyi the Rafah border may be opening this week- no one knows what the requirements will be to leave but you might see a lot of people fundraising again for it

"Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a harsh UN critic, was quick to join. He did so a day after bulldozing the emptied East Jerusalem headquarters of a UN agency set up in 1949 to feed, house and educate Palestinian refugees."

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

Russia invades Ukraine. Western response: condemnation of war crimes, arming Ukraine, sanctions on Russia USA invades Venezuela and kidnaps their president. Western response: Handwringing and forlock tugging Israel commits genocide. Western response: Outright support for the genocide.

Dr Assal Rad— "This seems like something news outlets should report. "Western headlines: 0"

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

beyond the moral ghoulish ness I just don't understand the basic contention of how this is supposed to work as a defense. if a whole population of people was starving en masse, would one expect people with "pre-existing conditions" to be over or underrepresented amongst those who die first?

The former head of Israel's military intelligence just praised the deaths of innocents as "necessary...as a message for future generations." If we do nothing, we will have to tell our children that we stood idly by as millions of people were sent to their graves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?) “International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

A retired U.S. soldier who worked at Gaza aid delivery sites said, “What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland. We, the United States, are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza.”

This clip...I have no words. Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

National security report in the Netherlands has, for the first time, identified Israel as a foreign threat, citing alleged disinformation campaigns and attempts to influence Dutch politics www.ynetnews.com/article/skk2...

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Americans' fear of #socialism is the greatest proof that if you want to destroy a country, all you have to do is destroy its education system. Then just sit back and watch the uneducated jerks destroy everything in a domino effect. #Mamdani has supporters all over Europe, yeah, he's that good! 💚

Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF

In addition to its expanding violence throughout the entire region, the Israeli military is still slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza — and it's counting on all of us to be too distracted to pay attention. We refuse to look away.

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social Reasons I won't vote (and will actively campaign against) Labor: • support for US bombing Iran • supporting Israel's #GazaGenocide • pro-fossil fuels • pro-gambling • anti-environment • failure to protect Indigenous sites 😢 #auspol

Nearly two million Palestinians, now forced into just 18% of the Gaza Strip, are enduring overcrowding, disease outbreaks and severe distress Growing hardship especially for women and girls. @nirhasson.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The UN, international rules based order is pretty much done. And Australia’s govt said not a word of compliant. Might is right. Albanese has not grasped that China, North Korea, Russia and anyone else can now claim the precedent of the Iran Bombing as justification for “pre-emptive” attacks.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

"The ease with which Israel was able to cut off virtually all movement in and out of Palestinian towns and cities, thanks to an apparatus of control that includes nearly 900 checkpoints and gates, highlights the extent of the occupation’s footprint in the West Bank." www.972mag.com/west-bank-lo...

Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/23/i... So we were involved in this US-Iran strike, why bother dancing around the bush when all other countries have confirmed their lack of involvement A lack of no just means 'yes, and you'll be upset if you knew the details' #auspol

A new justification for the war on Iran dropped today from the IDF: that Iran was aiming to produce 10k ballistic missiles "by the end of the decade". This only casts further doubts on the claim that Iran has been building nuclear weapons.

In 2025 alone, Israel has bombed: - Gaza - Syria - Lebanon - Yemen - The aid boat “Conscience” in international waters near Malta - Iran

They learned lessons from Iraq. These lessons were: - Don’t seek public consent - Enforce your version of events - Enforce it via media panics and physically by police, if required - Never admit an error, let alone anything worse - Instantly forget what you did: if possible, never refer to it again

does it ever disturb anyone how willing our governments are to drop bombs and murder indiscriminately

Netanyahu is parroting the Bush Iraq War playbook so much that Jon Stewart can see it, and STILL I see people On Here calling themselves progressives and supporting this war. You're failing an open book test AGAIN folks

any story on Israel saying Iran can never get the bomb should mention that Israel is itself a rogue nuclear state.

Left: Keir Starmer says we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons Right: Former British Ambassador to Iran Sir Richard John Dalton says that Iran was not on the brink of getting a nuclear weapon Why does this sound like the rhetoric leading up to the Gulf War?

They’re not even trying anymore with their lies.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Iranians speak Arabic, apparently.

The brain trust for Hasbara is malfunctioning I think

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

BREAKING: About 60 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on a housing complex in the Iranian capital, according to Iranian state TV. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4o4roe

Dr Assal Rad— "Are they just recycling headlines from the 2003 invasion of Iraq?"

Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising). We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Israeli government sources attempting the “Unlike our cruel foes, we only strike MILITARY targets” line after the past year and a half is frankly somewhat shocking to hear

He hasn’t posted here in a while but this is @filmthepolicela.bsky.social helping out LAPD with some riot control tonight. Pretty funny.

Rafah is gone. Razed to the ground. It's not the only city decimated by the Israeli army The scale of destruction wrought by Israel stands out even among the most extreme wartime cases in modern history www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

The footage no one will publish: Israeli air defense systems firing from densely populated areas in Tel Aviv to intercept Iranian missiles. Who is really using civilians as human shields?

Dr Assal Rad— "Look at the framing in U.S. media. "Israel “targets nuclear sites,” Iran “fires at Israel.” This language is deliberately used to justify Israel’s illegal attacks, while ignoring civilians killed and residential buildings targeted in Iran."

Per WSJ, U.S. negotiations with Iran were actually a cover to buy time for Israel's attack. Would you ever enter into negotiations with the U.S. knowing this?